The first assignments

So my vacation has ended. This week we got the first 5 page assignment that is due next week, the first small test and I have a presentation on Monday. I am also trying to figure out what to write my thesis on. There are still much time, but the sooner I know the better. Luckily I have an idea.

I have also realized that the Winter Olympics is a small thing in South Africa (SA). A few days ago I spent hours looking through the sport channels at a pub here, they had 8 sport channels, but non that sent the Olympics. It has influenced my mood lately, combined with the fact that the first days of the OL we did not do well. I assume that all knows that when I say we I mean Norway. Luckily I did better yesterday (sometimes when I talk about sport I can use I, that is because I wish it was me) and we got two gold and one silver :) Still I have problems accepting that there are no channels here that sends it and South Africans do not care about it at all. It is in times like this I comes clear to me where I am from.

If the olympic thing was not enough someone stole my bicycle, it took two weeks. That kind of pist me off as well. Luckily it was a cheap bicycle and I had locked it and I have the receipt, so I guess the insurance will cover it.

I try to write a little sooner next time and maybe more about something besides the olympics.

School starts

The last weeks has been hectic with preparations for school, get familiar with a new University and getting the house ready.
We have painted much in the house, or by we I meen a chap the landlady sends our. He works for around 15kr an hour and is happy with that!!! Makes you feel shit in the way that he is my age or a few years older, but what he has experienced and will experience in the future is not anything I am jealous of. Still, this is the hard reality of life and he do at least have a job, there are enough that does not even have that. Anyway, the house starts to look better and is definitively cleaner. We will have a house warming party on friday and by then I hope most things are done. Besides the painting we need to buy some more things for the kitchen and the garden needs a lot of work.
The last few years there has been students living in the house and the house and the garden showed clear signs of that. Even if there is a gardener and a cleaning lady, they do not do more then they must. So when the previous tenants have not cared about telling them to garden or clean, things got a little worse than it could have been. This is a little annoying, but on the other side we can now put our mark and decide more how we wants things.

When it comes to school the next 3 months will be intense. All plans or visions of travelling in long weekends are temporarilly postponed. This is also partly my fault since I have signed up for both spanish and french classes in the evenings and besides that I really want to workout since the possibilities for this here are so good.

When I get internet home I will write more often, but until that it will not be so often. Hopfully, it be during this or next week, any later and I will be a little pist. Internet here is also quite expensive. For private use there is nothing like unlimitied use, here you pay pr mb you use. And we will pay 500ram, ca 400kr for 5gigabyte. So downloading, streaming or video skyping is not something that will be used regularily. It almost give the feeling that they do not want to develop, since much of the infrastructure for better access to internet is there, it is just owned by one company that do not fancy sharing. That is at least what I waas told.

last night it rained for the first time, besides that the summer is getting warmer for each passing day :P