HOLIDAYS... NOOOOT!!!

My task for this week: pass my exam on Friday! I don't really feel like studying, but a woman's got to do, what a woman's got to do! 621 pages of interesting reading material to go through and hopefully remember something along the way! Apparently my short-term memory can only store 5 to 7 items... So, why even bother? :D Luckily the exam only counts for 25 percent of the grade!

We can cook! Hooray! We have an oven, but that one obviously doesn't work. We are not that lucky you know :) However, thanks to my wonderful cooking talent we figured out how to bake pizza in a pan... I just attempted to make my spaghetti sauce à la mama... it turned out to be delicious, of course :)

The past week we had approximately 7 times ticket control. We managed, knowing our luck, to get a fine! Another 2LVL down the drain... The real controllers don't really look at the back of your ticket (where you have to fill out your name and student number) and they are already satisfied if you show your ticket and your student card. The not so real ones always have to look at the back of your ticket (I guess it's a way to earn more money... which they did in our case). We didn't fill in our student number, so bad luck! Payé! The controller himself wasn't too smart, because he was pointing at the wrong number on our student card... He wanted us to fill in the start date of our student card :O I don't speak Latvian, but I could at least figure out immediately which number he actually meant... I eventually just pushed the 2LVL into his hands, so he would stop talking (he kept trying to explain things in Latvian although he knew that we didn't speak a word of his beautiful language)

We had a nice weekend. On Saturday there was something going on in town… it was some sort of festival to celebrate autumn. There were several food and souvenir stalls and there was Latvian folk dancing. It surprised me that so many handsome boys were dancing ;) I can’t imagine Andy hopping around like that :D Saskia, Nadia and I definitely enjoyed ourselves there for a couple of hours. On Sunday we went to another opera: Madame Butterfly. The beginning was a bit lame, but the end nearly moved me to tears. It was actually a sad story… If you want to know the story, Google it ;)

A peculiarity: Finding herbs and grated cheese in a supermarket is difficult, but finding alcohol is no problem at all. In every supermarket there are at least 3 rows filled with all sorts of alcholol.

That’s it for now! So long…