Less visitors & boring stuff

Hi - tonight I was looking again my statistics of my blog and I saw that the number of visitors was fast decreasing - from 15-20 a day to less than 5. I know, the reason is because my blog is not updated every day and perhaps the news I told you are a bit boring. Finally perhaps you will asking yourself why I'm looking at these statistics - it is because I'm missing a feedback (feel free to write more comments) and finally it's not the idea to write posts only for my own amusement. So I will try to do a better job and hope you will like my blog soon!

The weather here begin to be colder and the leaves are changing their colour. Even two weeks ago we had over 28° Celsius, now sometimes it starts to be below 15° C. But that does not change the mind of the canadians, they even wear t-shirts and flip flops! Temperature doesn't matter :)

For my accounting book I was looking for a solution manual because I don't have a printer and it's exhausting to correct all my exercises in front of my computer. I was thinking that I could find the solution book in the library, but they do not have it! So I was asking in the bookshop for the solution manual, but at this time they cannot order it. So finally I went to the library again and print out every page of the online solutions I need! Why I'm writing that, is that I think they have not the solution manual to not violate the copyright laws and to prevent students of not buying the books (even if they are not available). Also on the copy machines there is a big label that we should not violate the copyright laws (I've never seen that in Switzerland). But as I read on a website, it looks like downloading of MP3 (but not of movies!) is legal for private purposes.

In the last days we followed the news regarding the hurricane Rita in Florida. At CNN you could see long cutouts of representatives talking to the population - it looks like they try hard to do it better that after hurricane Katrina (amazing - someone wrote a long entry to Katrina in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina). A rummy news contribution on this topic: On Monday and Tuesday there are no school buses running at all! Why? The States are trying to save fuel/gasoline! (shown on CNN)

Yesterday after playing Badminton we had again a party in a residence room (you will read that many times soon!) of one of my friends. After chinese noodles and pizza, some played poker and also "Ar***löchle" - the french know this game too! Some of the international students are from Minnesota and they decided to study in Winnipeg because it's cheaper than in Minneapolis (also I had to pay the tuition fee myself if I would stay in Minneapolis for my exchange year) . Perhaps another reason - some students are saying that in Winter there is nothing better to do than to study (naturally I don't hope so!). At two o'clock in the morning I decided to go home - it was raining and on my bycicle I get wet - but it was worth the trouble (I also saved money for the taxi :)).

Tonight I met two canadians, for dinner we had burgers and hot dogs - the hot dog was amazing (I've never seen a so big hot dog before). Afterwards we went to a pub and I tried two other beer brands - the Keiths (famous here) and the Sleeman, I like them more than the beers I had last time, whether the Sleeman is a bit a darker beer.

Now I'm really interested what's going on in Switzerland - I mean if people are voting for or against the "Personenfreizügigkeit" (I try to translate it in English: extension of the personal freedom of movement of european and swiss citizien - or just see that page in english http://www.nzz.ch/2005/09/25/eng/article6097741.html), I will see the results when I get off! Good vote!