El Dorado

When I asked Raven if she would celebrate Easter, she looked perplexed: "No, do you? Are you religious?" Religious, me? HAHAHAHA. Apparently, the holiest week of the year is more celebrated in the world's most secular country. It has to do with Sweden's homogeneous population of Lutherans. Usually Pesach, Catholic and Lutheran Easter aren't the same week, so it's natural that there isn't any "Easter break" here.

Instead I enjoyed me first week of classes. I got back from Florida Tuesday morning and had to crash courses. Crashing is stressful because I'll loose my visa status if I'm not enrolled in 12 units by next week. Now I've settled for history: western civilization after 1750, robot mechanics and adv numerical analysis. I only have classes three days a week, actually I discarded all courses with Monday or Friday lectures. I especially like my history class. Ironically, it's taught by a Japanese professor. The first lecture he quoted Rudy Giuliani: "There has been no domestic terror attacks under Bush". Note that Mr Giuliani was mayor in New York City Jan 1 1994- Dec 31 2001. My homework for this week is to read Candide. It's one of the funniest books I've ever read, Voltaire is hilarious.

The first weeks of the quarter are always relaxed. Welcome-back bbqs, free movie screenings and lots of parties. One of my housemates, Sho turned 21 this week, which resulted in the usual multiday celebrations. But my liver has not yet recovered from the spring break madness, so I stay kinda sober (it might have to do with increased alcohol tolerance too after Florida :-/). The weather is lovely, people are friendly, classes are great. Life is good in the best of worlds.