Hey All,
So the past two weeks have flown by!! I rented a koia (small cabin) with a bunch of friends up in the mountains 3 weekends ago. We had perfect fall weather up there!! Only 7 of us went up on Friday and there were 3 other people renting spaces that night as well. Then, at about 11pm, the other 5 people in our group showed up. The cabin was built for about 10 people. So it was quite a cozy night. There were people sleeping everywhere. On Saturday a bunch of us went for a short hike while others went fishing. Unfortunately I had to spend a couple hours that afternoon studying for a midterm, but I still got to enjoy the hike. That night we played a sick game of capture the flag. We played in an empty field on some farmer’s land. There were clouds so there was absolutely no natural light. We made some oil lamps out of glass spaghetti sauce jars and biodiesel from Martin's car. We placed the 3 lanterns at the boundary line between both sides. We played from about 11:30-2am, and it was intense!! There were some awesome collisions and wipeouts! It made any Tower capture the flag game I've ever played seem like practice (and those were pretty intense). We didn't go to bed until 7am the next day, so Sunday was pretty slow. We did go hang out by the coast for awhile though.
I took a midterm the next Wednesday in my Separations class. It went ok.... I made a really stupid mistake that I'm still giving myself a hard time for. Let's just say that the part I was missing was starring me right in face.
The next weekend I spent here in 
Winter came last week. Thursday night it snowed about 5". Unlike some places, (...cough.. cough...
I haven't had to walk to school in the snow yet, because I got a free bus card that's good through the end of October. A friend's girlfriend bought a month-long card while she was here for 3 weeks. So he gave me the card to use for the rest of the month. I just had to put my picture on it and make it look like the company had stamped my picture. Works like a charm.
On Saturday I went rowing on Nidelva (the main river through town) with some other girls. We took out a 4 person boat. It was fun, but sort of slow because one of them had never 'sweep' rowed before. That night, I was supposed to go out with some of them, but I accidentally made myself sick. So, all the sauce here goes bad really, really fast. You're supposed to use spaghetti sauce within 3 days of opening the jar. I guess that just goes to show that they don't pack their food full of preservatives here. Anyways, I put some Uncle Ben's Tikkal sauce on some food. I didn't notice the mold on the rim of the jar until after I did so. There were no chunks of mold in my food though, so I ate it anyways. It had definitely gone bad. That's expected though since I opened the jar about 1.5 months ago. I got quite the stomach ache, so I just laid in bed and watched old O.C. re-runs.
Winter's not so bad yet. (The picture on the left was taken at 5:30pm on Sunday). I went for an amazing run today! Soren and I ran up on the ski trails in the woods behind the Dragvoll campus. We ran on a narrow path of packed snow that had been made by other skiers and runners. It was dark, but the trails are lightened in the winter time. There were still times that we were in the dark though. Thank goodness for trail runners with good traction! Running up snowy hills in anything else would not have been fun! It was picture perfect at times. I wish I had my camera.
Sunrise: 7:47am
Sunset: 4:16pm
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