Missing America a Tad

A huge blow happened today. Okay, so they've got a Subway here and it's the only restaurant in the whole of Sweden that I know of that offers free refills. I love free refills. It reminds me of America. But today I found out that because of the damn taxes in this country it costs more to have fountain drinks than to sell bottles of soda. So Subway is going the cheaper route. It sucks. Free refills is probably the biggest reason I go to that restaurant. My life crumbled today.

So I cut my goatee off. Yeah, there were a group of slightly drunk people in my room that were simultaneously chanting "Cut it off". I had no choice. Right there and then it came off. The result it mixed. Everyone at the party said I looked 2 times better, but they had to. If they said anything else they would look extremely cruel. Others say I look the same, where others say that I lost my identity. As for what I think...I'm not sure. I liked it there. I liked to stroke it when trying to look contemplative. But now I don't get toothpaste on it every day. I won't grow it back. It took too long to get it where I liked it and it would be pretty ugly up until that point.

There's a bunch new people on the floor. Mostly Americans, which makes it not so cool to be an American anymore. I liked being an ambassador of some sorts but now there's a bunch of undergrad aged students from Penn State here. Yeah, they came as a group, so they came with pre-made friends. So it's been about a month and we still haven't fully integrated friendships. There a girl, Lisa (she asked for a name drop on this blog), who's cool. she's sitting on my room mates bed right now. She's one of the few who've come over to the dark side. Everyone's nice, but still acquaintances.

Classes are pretty straight forward this term. Lots of reading; need to do more, but I've been watching the Office, the American one. You know how that is. We just downloaded it. It things like that made it super hard to do homework at home. Did I tell you we got a couch in our room? People are here all the time now. It's awesome. Really, it is, most of the time. I haven't slept much in the past few nights. But one of those reasons was because we watched the superbowl which is broadcast live, but it starts at midnight and ended at 4 in the morning. We went to a sports bar to watch it. But you know how Superbowl commercials are awesome? Well, they don't broadcast them here. Instead, in place of commercials they put on three Swedes pretty much explaining the slang terms of American announcers. And no, it wasn't Ed McMann (can't spell it), they were random dudes I've never heard of. One thing about this Superbowl was that I watched most of the playoff games. I finally found a way to watch American Football. There's this torrent community that's only for American Football. It was great. I rejoiced much when I found it.

Rock band 2 is here. It only took a little over a month for it too come. But we play it tons, and piss off lots of people on our floor as well as the floor beneath. It's awesome. We've got at least 200 songs on there. It's great.

That's it for now.