Grillfest

Hi everybody :)

Well, as I wrote in my last entry, spring arrived in Karlstad. Spring means - the days are getting longer and swedish people come out of their houses, wear summer clothes (IF they wear any clothes), lie in the sun...and make BBQs!

Alex, a Swede in my corridor, invited some working colleagues over for a huge grilling party. Of course our corridor was invited too - everybody prepared something, they bought the meat and in the end there were about 30-40 people outside our kitchen, eating, talking and having fun. It was a relaxed and nice atmosphere, the food was delicious - some mexican starters, salad, meat-on-sticks (no idea what the english word for that is?!), potatoes casserole...and brownies, chocolate cake, ice cream and cookies for dessert. It was de-li-cious!
Afterwards we played SingStar, talked, danced,...and had a good time. It was really nice. I hope we'll do something like that again. Sofia and I decided to have at least 1 more corridor-dinner before everyone's leaving. It was some kind of tradition last term - we cooked together at least once 1 month, but this term it's different.

Anyway, today I have to do some reading for a course, drive downtown to check if I can find the new Portishead CD..and in the evening we'll probably have another BBQ at Jonathan's place.
The interesting thing is that I totally adapted to the swedish temperatures. Although it's just about 10 - 15 degrees it feels warm enough to run around in a t-shirt. I love it :)

On Wednesday Jonathan had his birthday-party - well, kind of. Hong, Sofia and I went to his place to hang out and afterwards we met some more people in a sports bar downtown. We watched the Manchester United game there (Jonathan is a huge supporter ;) ). It was nice, though football is not my favourite thing. The Liverpool match in tuesday, ManU on wednesday...it was a football overdose, really ;)

So, maybe I'll write again tomorrow...
manuel

PS: pictures can be found HERE