Survived both my midterms and Halloween.

I cannot say that Halloween is something that I’ve celebrated a lot in Sweden, but here it’s a big thing. Huge really, and lot of money and effort is put into it. We decided to invite some people over to our house on the day after the ”real” Halloween (which is celebrated on the 31st of October) as people hade midterms.

Turns out that preparing for a Halloween party and decorating your house is a really nice way of procrastinating studying for midterms, and I might have thrown myself into decorating with a little bit more enthusiasm than studying, but some black and white paper, a pair of scissors and some tape and glue sure did the trick.

We decided to dress up as the four characters from the movie ”Mean Girls”, hence all the pink (yes, the party was originally intended to be on a Wednesday, if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll get this reference), but we added some scare with fake blood, scars and open wounds, ghosts, spiderweb and a beer pong table in the basement.

”The ÅÄÖ Sorority” is what we call ourselves. Greek Life, that is, fraternities and sororities with a bunch of Geek letters for names that organises parties, is a big thing here, but we felt it was kind of pricey and also very geared towards first year students, hence we decided to run with our own Swedish sorority – ÅÄÖ (I mean, we already have a house, and I have to admit I find the name kind of clever…).

Apart from fake blood and frantic studies the week has also delivered some pretty cool views of San Diego covered in fog. Relatively speaking, it’s not very cold here, but the temperature difference between night and day, and between land and sea, is enough to produce some pretty impressive white masses (but there are no photos of that, since it’s all white…).

Next week a somewhat slower tempo hopefully awaits, and a trip to Memphis.

Stay tuned…