All Set to Go!

Already Saturday, so let me backtrack a little bit here. Wednesday: Pub Quiz! Absolutely neat! I don't know if they have this kind of thing in the US, but they do this every Wednesday night at the campus pub, John L's. Always in Swedish except for this Wednesday for the international students. Put on teams of 4, answer random questions in categories of science, addresses, movie quotes, and a few more and whoever got the most right won a prize.

Aside from that little game, we got to the pub around 5pm (quiz started at 7pm) and ordered .5L beers in huge glasses! Each started with Hoegaarden, then eventually got pitchers of Carlsberg and Falcon later on! If you know me, I don't drink beer, however, I really liked this beer a lot! Might be a change with tastes!

While at the pub, met a few more CIRC members, Jasmin, Pan Pan, and Guillermo who were so helpful in answering questions and just giving us information on things to do around Gothenburg.

By the end of the night, we came home with a few extra glasses. Couldn't steal the huge labeled ones, but we did grab a few 0.4L and 0.6L glasses with Falcon on them! Need to start adding to our collection!

Thursday came and went and all we had to do was go to a meeting with Panne to figure out our classes. Didn't resolve anything with my schedule, however, went home after the meeting and found some classes that could possibly be approved for tech electives at Minnesota. We'll see, but I now have a schedule which is so simple compared to what I'm used to!

The set up here is in a quarter system, so 2 quarters or periods in a semester. Each quarter, you take about 15 hec's, which is also about 2 classes and is considered full time. Schedule aren't nearly as packed and crazy as it is at Minnesota, so this will definitely be a nice change!

Friday got up and went to Chalmers to get our student id's, e-mail, password/username for the computers, and information about the student union. Every student at Chalmers is required to pay a fee to be a part of the student union. If you don't pay that fee, it effects your classes and won't be able to take the exams at the end of the quarter.

After an orientation later in the afternoon with information about organizations on campus to help us and other random stuff, we set out for the evening! Went home and changed, ate dinner and a few pre-party drinks, we set out for what we thought was going to be a fantastic evening with bar hopping!

Got to the main part of the city and wandered around, with finding only a few really popular pubs. Almost went into one, but we had to pay a cover charge of 100kr and no one seemed to want to do that. We think that if you get in before 11pm, you don't have to pay any charges to actually get in, so that will be the intention for Saturday night. Ended up getting home around 12 and headed off to bed.

Last weekend before school starts! Should be interesting on what Saturday night holds for us! I will definitely be putting up more pics once activities start to happen!