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Published: September 6th 2007
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hello my loves it has been awhile.
i've been BUSY BUSY BUSY.
classes began for me this monday. i only have class about 6 hours a week so i get a lot of free time and yet i feel as though i have no time. i am taking media and society right now and i take only that class for a month. next month in my media policy class we will take a trip to Berlin to see a radiohouse, newspaper corportation, and do some general tours of Germany. we have to book our own flights, accomidation, and we just all meet a certain day to take some tours then we can leave when we want. the most independent field trip i've ever heard of. they're like "oh yeah its just germany, everyone meet up at say 9 am, just hitch a ride there or something. " i am pretty excited though. my class is rather boring. it is very simple and things i learned two years ago. we spent a whole class talking about how maps are like theories. i sat in the back with some other californians and we discussed beat literature and read dharma bums to each other
and laughed about how trippy it is. i tried listening to the lecture but really it was such obvious stuff so i zoned out for almost the whole class. i tuned in to hear my professor ask "what do birds sing about?" and a student raised his and said perfectly serious" Love." good grief...
the world is my oyster right now. all of europe is open to me and so close and yet requires so much money. although MUCH less than traveling from california. i am hoping to go to Malmo and Copenhagen in the beg. of October and Basel, Switzerland two weekends after. We also want to go to Dublin quite badly. And I am still working on Amsterdam. And we want to see David Guetta there! i am listening to so much house and techno music right now mostly because i go clubbing about 3 times a week. it is so cheesy and lame but damn it makes me dance.
i joined Kalmar Nation and am TRYING to join the choir, photography club, newspaper, and work in the pub. trying is the key word, i won't have time for all of that but i am going
to see what i can get into. it is small nation but it is cozy and charming plus it has many live acts come and play which is exciting. i guess you could call it an "alternative" nation. we have a gasque(fancy dinner and dance) on the 14th and then the next friday i have an international student gasque so i am just counting down the days till that.
the dutch girls made dinner for us americans and some aussies and it was delicious. cauilflower with a cheese sauce, potatoes, freash bread and...fish sticks...haha. karin was cooking them and the breading came off so she said " their coats fell off!". i love the dutch girls and their mixed up english. we started talking about holidays and i came to learn off a holiday known which involves Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet. Sinterklaas is exactly like Santa Claus, brings presents to children, old and jolly, the whole shabang, so i figured he was thier version of Santa but oh no they have Santa too. Apparently Sinterklaas comes to Holland on a boat from Spain with his Zwarte Piet or as the girls explained "his black friends". Man it is so
racist I swear. We watched a video of it and there is these white people wearing black face who take care of horses, drive the boat, and..write poetry? but i guess they are black because they go down the chimmney but still..it is a bit un PC. He goes into classrooms and reads to children from a book which tells them what they have done wrong or well that year. Parents help out with the ideas for this. Karin said Sinterklaas once told her she needed to eat better. The local news even does a program that is like Sinterklaas Watch and tells everyone what he is up to at the moment. it is hilarious. this occurs on december 5th and we are going to celebrate it and it should be awesome.
last night we had a corridor party a couple floors below me. the theme was Bad Taste, therefore everyone looked like idiots and dressed like fools. I got a real ugly big blue sweater at a secondhand store and i wore purple tights, mocasins, and headband. One guy wore a bobsled suit, many other boys dressed as girls. everyone just looked insane. when i came to the
Kalmar Orientation
tons of cous cous! party there was only like 10 people and i was like wow this is going to be sad but in the time of about an hour and a half this had accumulated to about 40 or 50. you could hardly move there was smashed people everywhere, throwing things off the roof and running around being drunk hooligans. of course i took no part in this..😊 it was a very fun night and i am staying in tonight and still recovering. i suppose i will do some reading out of my banal book for class. i'd rather read the last king of scotland which i just started and it is so good so far.
oh i forgot! i went to stockholm this week with ellie and we took the train which was the cleanest i've seen yet. we got there and we were lost right away but we had a blast. then it started POURING like no other. we were soaked and the water in the streets was up to my ankles. it was just horrible but we were laughing like crazy. we also saw a drug bust! this guy was screaming on the ground and these undercover cops were
Ellie in Stockholm
can you see the drug lord being taken away? holding him down to arrest him. at first i thought he was having a seizure...well we went shopping to get ourselves out of the rain. on one street within a 50 ft strech there was 3 H&M's! unbelievable....
well i guess i should study...
next week is the kalmar gasque and the C party for Chris's Birthday!
today was Hannah's birthday and we suprised her and went out for peasoup and waffles with jam. it was sooooooooooooooo good.
ok hej da.
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Mom
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WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTT????
Hannah don't you remember putting your shoes out on Dec 5 for Saint Nicklaus? Soot and ashes for you!!!!! Love, Dad Black Peter??? Grandma did a puppet show with me - strange traditions are part of your heritage! love, Mom