City Hall, Frantically Working, Exam #1

So, City Hall is impressive...well, it is imposing even from the outside, it is truly impressive and thoroughly gigantic on the inside. Fairly fancy, the upstairs ballroom thingy might even be best described as opulent...fun times. Even more fun afterwards going to watch the Barcelona vs. Celtic match, and then just plain "I don't really remember too much"-times at the Yellow House bar on the Stockholm University campus.

Thursday I woke up late, had to conduct and interview with another couple people at the office of VeriSign/inCode here in Stockholm. Weird right? yeah. weird. even weirder is that it is for my cross cultural management course, my group in that class is 6 people...myself the American, a Polish girl, and 4 Swedes (though 1 has only been here for about 5 years, he's Albanian). So the project requires that we do this interview...someone suggests "what about working as a consultant in multicultural teams" a bunch of people nod, I say "I just got hired by a consulting company...they even have an office in Stockholm...and I already met with the guy once". funny how the american has the connection in town. :P it went well, was fun, and actually very educational.

This morning was my first exam here in Stockholm, for The Chinese Challenge...which is a really interesting course. We had multiple choice for the first time in forever, I think I ended up getting 4/5 (maybe 5/5 depending on an interpretation matter, we'll see)...then 4 essays, of which I nailed two, did ok on another, and probably bombed the third one. Nothing I could do because I guess I missed the answer in all of the readings I did...which was all of them. People got bit in the ass apparently by the two essays I nailed because they were in relatively obscure readings and not even discussed in class at all. the professor was a little jerky about that it seems. anyhow...tonight is the Japan Lounge party, with Guitar Hero. I can't wait, I miss GH and rock band.