the beginning of the end

This Friday will be the beginning of the end. Even now, at this very moment, is the beginning of the end. Our last week in Gothenburg. It's weird - ok maybe not weird, maybe this is how fate works - how most of us didn't choose Gothenburg and yet got posted here, here love this place to bits. This place where I've never even heard before (over the phone I thought I got posted to Luxembourg lol) --- I've come to grow so fond of this place and of its people. Not that I know many, but those whom I've come across, course mates, strangers etc, they were really nice.

Like today we were trying to figure out how the printing works in the library, was really baffled by it 'cos our documents didn't seem to get sent to the printing terminal, so we asked this guy who showed us, as in not just flippantly but could tell that he was quite sincere/helpful about it. And the other day at the examination venue, we are supposed to tear off part of the front page which had our serial number on it, so I brought my paper to the submission table where I thought I could borrow a ruler or scissors to tear it off, then the kind old man there thought I didn't know how to do it so he showed me by folding the paper into half and even gave a verbal demonstration, like "if you fold it hard enough you can actually tear it off pretty nicely" then he did it and smiled at me :):) As in, I know it's just a small gesture, but he could've just told me to fold along the line and just yank it off, but he did it so nicely. And then there was the lady at the supermarket a while ago, we asked her whether chocolate milk was sold 'cos we only found the plain milk, then she said no, she seldom sees chocolate milk and usually they buy plain milk and add cocoa themselves. Then she left, and we went on searching, then after a while she came back to us telling us that she found it at another area, which I thought was really nice of her to inform us.

Anyway, that was not meant to be the point of this entry. Hahaha. There is no point to this entry, actually, but just to document the little thoughts and feelings of every day of this last week.

Went to the library after class to photocopy the textbook which would be tested this Friday. It's impossible to borrow it since there are like 10 people in queue :X and I'm definitely not going to buy a book just to use it for 2 weeks. My friend E managed to borrow the book but she has to return it on Wednesday (some textbooks are not renewable, and definitely not with 10 people in queue) so she's really nice to offer to photocopy with me, then swap tomorrow so that she'll have the photocopied chapters and I'll have the textbook, so we don't have to photocopy all the required chapters, which would be really expensive (20c for one side). Yeah but that means I'll have to finish two chapters within tonight and tomorrow morning!! You know I photocopied like 5 sets of notes today plus the textbook plus the compendium (SGD20.00 for a whole stack of notes i.e. course pack TWENTY freaking SING DOLLARS /rant) I don't even think I'll have time to finish them all :X

Still haven't heard from my professor from whom I'm supposed to receive back the first examination task for another module and I'm starting to get worried :S

First snowfall in Gothenburg <3