Klunse

This week was not too exciting.  I last left you off with nice weather on Sunday.  The weather continued to be nice.  It was sunny and not too windy most of the week.  Today (Sunday) the nice weather disappeared, it became really windy.  I was sitting doing my maths (I may have been chatting with my roommates from Bates at the same time but I was mostly doing maths you can ask them) and you could hear the wind whistling through the window and see all the leaves being blown around.  I will not complain too much about the wind because later today I was glad there was a good breeze outside.  The story I am going to tell now is slightly embarrassing but I am going to face up to it and tell the whole internet about it. 

There is some information you need to know about me before I get into the story.  For quite some time now, I have eaten pasta for lunch and dinner.  I don’t mean like only one a week but every lunch and every dinner I would have some sort of pasta dish.  Since going to Bates the last two years I mostly had the same things on my pasta to but I have not gotten sick of it yet and don’t think I will any time soon.  Since coming here I have been eating the same thing mostly.  I would cook some mince and then add a jar of pasta sauce and some frozen veggies (corn, carets, peas, and beans) together and then I would cook a pot of pasta.  I would eat this for lunch and dinner for a couple of days and then I would cook the same thing again.  (If you are wondering I have been having portage for breakfast for the last week or so and will probably continue with that.) I have yet to get sick of this meal.  It is cheap, easy to make , healthy and yummy.  I decided this weekend that I should try something new.  I decided I would make myself caramelized garlic chicken breast and cheesy rice, two things I have never cooked before.  I was excited for my dinner.  I started the chicken and the rice.  Things were going well until the end.  I was getting ready to check to see if the chicken was done and I open the oven door and smoke came out.  It was not too bad, the sugar had burned but the chicken was still good.  I took the smaller pieces out and put the two bigger pieces back into the oven.  After that I opened the lid to the rice to see how it was doing and I noticed that it was looking a little dry and then I realized that I had burnt my rice too.  Ok so I take out the last of the chicken and by then the sugar was burnt but the chicken was still fine.    It was pretty smoky in the kitchen so we opened up the windows and the balcony door, this is why I was glad there was a breeze outside.  My chicken and rice ended up being really yummy but it was a pain to clean up.  I got all the burnt sugar of the pan, but right now, the pot is not as well off.  I did a good amount of burring of the rice in it but I am determined to get it clean.  To begin today I was making muffins and I burnt those also.  I should have realized that today was not meant to be a cooking day at that point and not tried to cook my dinner.  To top it all off I was trying to use boiling water to help clean the pot and it was working and then I accidently got my figure in it and burnt it too.  Today I ended up burning 4 different things.  I hope I have filled my burn quota for the year.  On a good note my food was still really yummy and I did not set off the smoke alarm.  So the point of this story is that since I burnt my food and made the kitchen and common room smoky I am glad there was a breeze outside to air out the room. 

The rest of my week has been much of the same.  I felt a couple of earthquakes here and there.  I am getting good at figuring out there magnitude.  I can guess within plus or minus .2 magnitudes, there is at least one thing I have learned here.  My geology class has continued to be interesting.  We are still learning about earthquakes.  In the last lecture, we learned about the location of aftershocks and why they happen. They happen where the there has been less slip in the ground compared to other locations in the rupture area.  In psychology, we have been learning about the nerves system, hormones, and stress.  We learned that it is good to stress in small periods of time but bad for your body in long doses like when studding for exams and such.  My maths class is getting more interesting as we are now learning about Turing Machines.  This week’s reading for my CHCH 101 class were on the topic of helping.  I am excited to continue with my papers this coming weeks.

So outside of my papers I have not been doing much.  On Tuesday I went to frisbee practice which was fun and good exercise.  On Wednesday I go to play indoor soccer again and this time we won and I even scored a goal.  Not much else happened during the week.  On Saturday the group of people form orientation (from now on I will refer to these people as the international people) and I went to a bar and watched the All Blacks vs. Wallabies.  The All Blacks won like they should and hopefully they ended up winning the whole try nations tournament.   I think I have learned the rules of rugby now.  While at the bar we learned a Danish bar game, Klunse.  To play each person is given two matches.  For each round, each person puts one fist into the middle with ether, 0, 1, or 2 matches in it.  After everyone’s fist is out each person makes a guess of how many matches are in the middle.  After everyone has guessed then people show how many are in their hand and who ever guessed that number gets to take one of their matches out.  The idea is not to be the last person with any matches.  If you are the last person with any matches, they you are suppose to by a round of drinks for everyone.  If you are paying attention during the game you could probably do a good job guessing on how many are out there based on what other guess and how many you put out, but this does not happen much.  It was really fun hanging out and watching the game.

Since this week did not have any pictures here are two, one from last week and one from today to show you the difference in weather.  

This coming week does not have too much exciting planed but should be nice. Until next week have fun and smile.