Stuffed...

Great dinner today. Simply great.

Went home early yesterday since the lab was closed at 1600 for some reason. And I didn't have anything else to do, so my weekend started early. Too bad this early weekend is pretty uneventful. I had a rather slow day today, until I went to church for this meeting at 1630.

In the begining, all I heard was 'the movement', repeated over and over again. Oh god... What did I get myself into? A cult like thing? At the end of the session, I finally asked Eleanor what 'the movement' is, and found out that it's a catholic movement founded in the middle of the 1900s and the aim is to share personal witnesses of Christ. Oh... I... See...

What's with 'the movement' here and there. So cult-ish like.

Most of them are Italians, so imagine Marlo Brando in the Godfather movies (the accent) going, "The. Movement." and you'll know how I felt during the meeting not knowing what 'The Movement' was.

But the dinner after that was simply excellent! Two types of pasta (one meat, one vegetarian), two types of pies (both vegetarian), tons of delicious salad, bread and beer. For dessert, there were fruits and strawberry-and-cream strudel, and almond biscotti with coffee and tea.

Man, oh man... I'm stuffed. This was one great dinner. Up there on my list of good meals I've had so far in Uppsala.

I want more...

Good food, good company. What more can a guy ask?

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Coincidently, Mikael and Robert both have the same mistake of pronouncing my Chinese name. Somehow, they failed to grasp the four different intonations, and usually end up sounding without any of the 4. Eleanor and Maru, on the other hand, had the intonation right, but with the wrong pronunciation.

All however, had a very good laugh at me learning Swedish. Vowels are pronounced in a different way (There are 9; a, e, i, o, u, ä, å, ö, y). Yes, 'y' is a vowel. And the most difficult one to pronounce is 'u'. Absolute torture. Then there're the hard and light vowels, that will affect how the consonants sound, consonants like 'k'. And there are also the long and short vowel sounds depending on whether they are after two consonants or otherwise. These are the least of the problems I tell you. I tell you ah, headache ah. Give me two years, and I still won't be good at this.

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Great dinner. I'm stuffed.