The weekend and revenge on the squirrel population :)

From left to right: 1. My books on their bookshelves and my noteboard! Spot your card! 2. My room, hard to take a picture of it!

Another weekend passed by, so lots of things to reminisce about! I posted some pictures on Saturday, so now you can picture me, hanging around somewhere on the other end of the ocean, 6059 km away, a bit better. Photos of my room are bound to follow, upon general request!

So, the weekend started somewhere Friday afternoon for me! I met up with Kate, a great girl from Denver, Colorado, whom I met having lunch at the ISC cafe earlier that week. We went to Kensington Market for grocery shopping, headed to China Town afterwards for a complete cultural turnaround. You just cannot imagine what it is like unless you've been there, unless you're actually surrounded by Asian people. And when I say surrounded, I mean surrounded: Kate and me were about the only 2 Western people in a whole street, provided a lost European here and there. EVERYTHING is written in Chinese, there are wooden dragons at entrances, you only hear Chinese, or a language I think sounds like Chinese. We bought different sorts of vegetables, some soya sauce, tofu, and other very non-European products. After that, we cooked a de-li-cious meal at Kate's place, a chicken and broccoli stir-fry, rice and eggplants (or aubergine like the English call it) with ginger and sesame-oil. I am eager to impress my family with my new cooking skills! She lives quite far away from campus, but the cosiness of her little appartment makes up for that! We had a long and very interesting chat and it was a genuinely lovely evening. We'll have another dinner at my place next week, I'm definitely looking forward to the new dishes she'll impress me with!

On Saturday, I spent three quarters of my day reading a book called Moi, Tituba, sorcière... for my French class. Very violent at times, tender at others and generally not a bad book. But of course, there is no comparison between the 'big French classics' (e.g. Les Liaisons Dangereuses; without a doubt my N°1 in French literature! Read it, you'll love it!) and the African counterpart. At 6, when Bram knocked at my door, I had nearly forgotten there was something like the the life surrounding me! We cooked a good meal and had a nice evening watching 'Alles kan Beter' clips and chatting. We had some good laughs!
Sunday was laundry day, which took quite some time, but turned out to be ok. Nothing changed colour, everything kept its size and Bram even found all of his socks, which apparently shouldn't be taken for granted!

I am also thrilled to tell you that the squirrels are revenged! The evil side of me managed to scare one of the little creatures, so we're even! I saw one eating a nut on the grass on my way to Emmanuel College, which is pretty much all they do during the day, I noticed that the nut took all its attention and that Mr. Squirrel here wasn't really taking notice of anything around him. So, my squirrel encounter of last week in mind, I decided to get back at the whole squirrel population through this specimen. I gently approached it, as close as I thought fit and then I simply said 'Booh'. The little thing just jumped up, dropped its nut and ran to the closest tree he could find. I couldn't help smiling. Mission accomplished.

I am going to post some pictures of my room here and hope you all enjoyed a good weekend yourselves. Another week started over here, with some more assignments to complete, but also some very good moments to look forward to!