I'm still alive!

Life here has been a bit crazy, but I'm still alive. Since I last wrote I have taken part in the culture night in town, gotten my new passport, dealt with the internet dying multiple times, and had the cable stop working. I've attended several classes and worked a bunch on a paper. I've read books and studied and played way too much X-Box when I didn't want to do anything else.

Culture night was fun, even if it was overrun by drunk 12-16 year olds. Keeping in mind that the drinking age here is 18 to even buy people's beer with a lower alcohol content. I ran into a bunch of classmates that night. I got to want Tong perform at the center for Chinese Swedish something or other. She danced this really pretty dance. We ate dinner at Norrlands then pretty much aimlessly wandered from one place to another before heading home. I got to spend some time with Helena, which is always a promise for a fun evening.

My passport arrived on Monday and David spent 20 minutes today getting frusterated with migrationsverket before giving up on them ever answering their phones. I need to get ahold of them eventually so I can figure out what paperwork I need to fill out, what things I need, and if I can just mail everything in.

The internet (which usually means our router) seems to be dying a lot lately. Although part of it last week was really due to someone screwing up their router and it shutting down the whole grid in the area. The cable stopped working today because they digitalized Uppsala and we didn't get a new digital box. David figured that one out after 20 minutes on hold with the cable people. They say we'll have a new box in two days and we'll have cable again then.

On Friday night I will be going out with my classmates for a nice dinner. On Saturday night I'll be going with David to a gasque. oy oy oy! It's going to be a rough weekend! But since I won't have anything at all to do over the weekend in terms of school work, I can afford to party a bit. It should make up for the fact that I'm working quite hard this week to get my paper done by Friday.

I'll have to remember to let you people know how this coming weekend goes. I'll try to update more often, internet connection and free time willing.