2nd day or Orientation & the first Wednesday

The second day of orientation was far less exciting. Since this part was exclusive to graduate students, more focus on proper faculty welcomes were present, as well as the imtimidating promises of huge workloads. Not the best spent hours of my time here so far.
 
Sammy The Seahawk!
 
However at campus they were handing out free t-shirts (and plenty of other free stuff), and there was another lovely BBQ, but this time the weather was on our side. I also managed to find the Business Administration building, where I'll be spending my lectures this semester, got my campus card fixed and finalized all the formal enrollments. I also paid the bloody insurance of $206, which I hope they don't dare complain about (because they still haven't removed the tution fee from my mandatory charges, which should have been done way back, and the payment was taken from that cost..oh well, if there'll be an issue I know I've done what they asked me to).
 
    
BBQ in the sunny sun!
 
When I got back home Eva invited me to join her for a Zumba class the Uni offers at the gym (the gym is free of charge for all students - awesomeness.), and I said yes. And then I accicentily locked myself out of my room, due to a key mix-up when the landlady got them made. So I got help from Caitlyn to contact the landlady, and the door were soon opened, and by now I have a new, very canadian key. But I missed the Zumba of course, so instead I was invited to join Caitlyn for her Yoga class, which was really good compare to the few I've been to back in Jönköping. Seriously, how sweet aren't the housemates of mine? <3 On Wednesday evening we also did a little tour to Walmart, which are about as American a food store gets in Canada, and Dominion, which also is a food store but with better fresh products. The three of us squeeze into Caitlyn's car, to the so called "Box-store" area (Kanadensiskt ord för citygross/ICA Maxi/ÖB-områden), shop 'til we drop and drives back with a full car, and with an unmotivated proudness of ourselves (or, at least that was my feeling). I know I keep saying that my housemates are awesome, but it just keeps surprising me how quickly and easily the strangers-to-friends adjustment has gone by! 
 
 My Very Canadian Key
 
Additionally I've now started three of my five courses and so far I've found out this:
  • Crazy expensive books. Like, one book for $174 (approx. 1100 SEK). I'll be broke if they all cost like this.
  • A lot of assignments, such as cases, reports, smaller quizzes, plenty of readings.
  • No big final exam so far in any of these three courses! Sweet!
  • It doesn't seem to be a challange to find friends for the course work - for example, after my first class I had a lovely coffee break with a German girl named Anna (by the way, they sell 9 different kinds of flavoured coffee in the cafeteria, like hazelnut, French vanilla and so on), and after my Marketing Communications Management classa guy named Phil welcomed me on behalf of the gradute student association and made sure I knew about the graduate-meetings during the upcoming week. Nice people breeds more nice people indeed, and so far I have yet to meet an unfriendly person.
Our bush outside the house is currently blooming <3


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