WHAT A DAY
SOIRÉE NORVÉGIENNE
As I said earlier I cleaned my apartment, then I tried to do some school, but I couldn't make anything out of it. Then I went to CSH to tell them that I'm not going to do the law part of the Gestion course (Management).
After class (18h30) I went to the information meeting of Club Ski INSA with Synnøve and we decided to join on Club Ski's 7 day trip to Vars-Risoul in April! It's gonna be great, 7 days of alpine skiing for just 295€!
Unfortunately INSA isn't completely happy about the guard incident I talked about on Saturday, so Santiago, Joao and I need to have a meeting with the International department tomorrow to sort things out. Apparently we had a disturbing attitude (attitude pertubatrice) towards the guard (we wanted to get some kind of confirmation that he took our student cards. I don't think it's too serious, we'll see.
I after meeting with Santiago and the others, to see if our conception of the event was similar I helped out on making ready the Soirée norvégienne. We had a hard time making the Norwegian flags stick on the walls. Special for the night is the serving of Tyrkershots, Gellyshots and gløgg (vin chaud in French, don't know the English word). The gløgg is always a hit.
Back in the apartment it has a weird smell. It took me about 15 seconds to remember that I'd forgotten to put the camenbert cheese I bought earlier (between the meeting and the helping out at P'tit Kawa) in the fridge. D'oh.
I am airing the room big time, hoping the smell away :)
Good night to you all!
BEER OLYMPICS 2008
Friday:
The kick off was in the middle of Place de la Capitole in centre ville at 16h. The beer walk was the first event starting with the filling of "the holy beer grail".
We passed important locations in Toulouse, Place St. Pierre being the most important one. Back again at INSA Beer Pong was next on the schedule (Hit the opponents beer glasses with a ping pong ball. First to clear the opponent's table has won). After intense battles with plenty of fun and beer Tom and I ended up winning the event!
Saturday:
A hard morning, but at 17h everyone was ready for the second event: "Beer relay". Two teams of four have to complete a round and drink a beer before the next contestant can start. It was a close shave, but my team (with Tiago, Joao and Tom) won the best of three contest (2-0). Juha, Zaid, Geir and Roberto came on a good second.
Third event was Dizzy Bat - a really difficult game. Drink the beer in the "baseball bat" as fast as possible, spin around your own axis the same amount of time as you needed to drink the beer - THEN hit the ball that someone throws at you. If you can't hit the ball you have to do the whole thing over again (Maximum three times and you can forfeit after the second). Tom won this competition as well with his time of 20 seconds. Personally I ended up with 15 minutes 20 seconds due to strict judges (I didn't finish my beer completely so 15 minutes penalty was added).
Fourth event was Flip Flop, a kind of relay as well. Four persons in each team, the first drinks his/her beer and have to flip the empty cup from upright position to bottoms-up position. The next person can then continue. First team who finishes wins.
Beer Olympics ended in centre ville after us being thrown out by the security guard (who took our Student cards and called the police, but we managed to discuss the cards back to our posession).
Sunday:
Clean up day. I went to Roberto's and he told me about the mess we had made in the kitchen in R1. It was horrible, a complete mess. Santiago, Tom, Roberto and I cleaned up the mess, leaving the fourth floor kitchen in R1 the cleanest in the entire building.
R1 kitchen before and after cleaning
Monday:
A new week is here and I really need to work. I'm now going to clean my appartment before I'm going to work at Bib'INSA. Oh, and tonight it's "Soirée Norvégienne", Norwegian party!
BEAUJOLAIS VS. BEER OLYMPICS
Beaujolais what? Beaujolais nouveau is the release of this year's new Beaujolais wine! How to make this release a big thing? You make a huge party on the biggest party place in Toulouse in order to sell more.
You see, the "Beaujolais nouveau" was invented by wine makers some 32 years ago (and is therefore a commercial tradition), but it's very popular among the French (and many Erasmus are going so it's popular amongst us as well). I'm hoping I've already bought myself a good wine, I'm really excited!
The title of this post is Beaujolais vs. Beer Olympics, but I'm not going to put them up against each other. Beer Olympics? Yes. I guess it can be called drinking games put in system but it's still Beer Olympics. To enter you need to qualify (by paying an entrance fee of 10€). This allows you to join up on all the games during the week-end. The Beer Olympics opening ceremony is Friday! Right before I bought my first bottle of Beaujolais wine we bought eighteen 24 packs of beer at Lidl. By backpack actually broke on the way out of the shop. It was a bit broken from earlier, but the beer killed it.
Now I'm off to celebrate Luisa's birthday, more later!
The BEEr trip (18x24 beers on Lidl)
MULTITASKING
Iceland is of course not full of terrorists! As far as I know, they are really intelligent (I'm supposed to get somewhere with this post, please read on).
Yesterday, before we went out to Bar Populaire in Toulouse we were at Cate's and Geir impressed me (maybe all of us) with his superb multitasking skills (true multitasking is really hard). I'm using the picture above as proof of Geir's intelligence. And since Geir is Icelandic - well - the proof MUST apply Icelandic people in general ...
Let me explain the picture. You can see Geir is eating a fahjita (soft taco) and drinking a beer WHILE talking on Skype in a foreign language (he additionally had a conversation with us in the room if you're still not impressed)! Also notice the napkin suggesting good manners.
I know this is a stupid post, but the point is that Icelandic people aren't terrorists - but considering their mental capacities - I bet they could be if they wanted!
PS. This is my 16th post, now I have two pages! Wohoo ...