Calling, Cars & Cooking ... (updated)

When I came home from university last Monday, I saw that Chantale (my friend of Switzerland who stays in Middlesbrough, UK) was online and thus it was a good opportunity to call her by Skype. We had so much to tell each other and time flies on ... I think that was my longest phone call ever ... and I really enjoyed it :)

On Tuesday, I went through another hundreds of car ads (always the same), called my parents and spent some time on my report. I have to write a report for Introduction to Management and Organization Theory; in the report I have to compare chapters of the text book to a company I worked for. As you could guess I chose Credit Suisse. Unfortunately, they are not very cooperative, for they even refused to hand me out an organization chart of the company.

Wednesday was my second last Swimming class, we especially focused on breast stroking; it was cool to learn a new technique on how to move the hands. At night I cooked a little bit - beef and broccoli - with a sauce mix you can buy for less than $1 ... and it was really good!

Thursday I should have prepared for my exam the next day. However, I preferred doing anything else; hence, I started preparing pretty late (9 pm) and was a bit stressed out at night. However, the exam worked well so I don't have to mind about ... :)

Yesterday, I invited some friends for dinner at my house. In a cooking marathon (haha) I prepared Lasagne and "mousse au chocolat" (sounds delicious in French, isn't it?). The lasagna was pretty good and I love the mousse ... for sure it wasn't the last one.

Canadian Swiss Italian Lasagna, mmhhh :)

I got some help from Chrissie and her boyfriend, who saved my mousse (the whipped cream was almost butter) and helped preparing the garlic bread. Yes, that was a sophisticated meal!!!

My kitchen staff :)

Our French gourmet Sylvain

Mark, our kitchen manager
(everything will be clean for sure)

And the cook himself

Mark brought two movies that we enjoyed watching after dinner. The first one was a North Korean Documentary of BBC with the title "A State of Mind". The movie is about the North Korean regime and focuses on the Mass games (a pretty impressive gym event) and the daily life within this special country.

North Korean Mass Games

Later on we saw "Hable con ella / Talk to her" of the director Pedro Almodovar. The story is about a orderly ("Krankenpfleger") who takes care about a female patient, who is in a (permanent) coma. At the time he makes a new friend, whose wife also is in a coma, he gets more and more addicted by his patient ...