Eating together – Lasagne night, b-day and Thanksgiving dinner

These last days have been all about eating together. For a long time everyone in my unit has been cooking on their own (even though we most of the time cook at the same time). But last week Lars, Pil, Kirstine and I decided to get together and make lasagne

 

Then Friday it was Kirstines birthday. To make her forget a little bit about that she is getting older and to give her a good start, Pil and I got up and made a totally delicious brunch for her.

We also had cake later And in the evening we went out to an absolutely fantastic Vietnamese restaurant called Hanoi 3 Seasons. Wonderful service and everybody had a good time. I think we were around 20 people there, us and a lot of the other international students.

Last but definately not least, it was Thanksgiving this weekend so Sunday night we had invited Katharina from Austria, Stefan and Hendrik from Germany (now, they didn’t come all the way from Europe to eat with us, they’re also staying at Neill Wycik) and Arndis and Gretar to come and join me, Kirstine, Emilie and Pil for stuffed turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. It was soooo great! And tonight we enjoyed the leftovers

Arndis and Gretar cutting the turkey breast

 

Stefan and Hendrik getting ready to eat

We felt really stuffed after the great feast!

I really enjoyed all the eating together and I think we’ll definately do that more often from now on…

Moved in at Neill-Wycik, my new home

Tuesday this week was move-in day for me, Lars, Pil, Kirstine and Emilie. Emilie joined us on Monday when she arrived from Copenhagen. Besides from her, Arndis who is the last of the four girls taking undergraduate courses on exchange also joined us. She’s not staying at Neill-Wycik since her boyfriend is also in Toronto taking an internship. They’re staying at the Kensington Market. Last but not least our friend from Aalborg, Casper, was also moving in at the Primrose Hotel not far from Neill-Wycik.

Except for Arndis we all met up at NW in the morning to get signed in, get our keys and move our luggage up to the unit and our rooms. It was nice to see how well organized everything was. There were about 750 people moving in but it all went very smoothly.

This was our first look at our new home. We live in a 5-person unit on the 11th floor and we share the kitchen, bathroom and toilet. And I got the big room (also paid for it, but still). 

We each have a great view from the window in our room, this is mine:

 

We were actually suprised in very good way of the condition of the rooms since we have heard that it would be dirty and in bad condition. Everything has so far worked perfectly! Well, besides from the stove and the fact that we have a little mouse in the kitchen, of course

This is my room:

 All good

I actaully only packed out all my cloths today, we have been so busy doing shopping for all sorts of things!

Sheets, bedlines and pans, pots and other stuff for the kitchen was bought in Ikea. Hans and Clare were soooo kind to drive us there Tuesday!!

Today I’ve also truly experienced the drugstores they have over here. They have a chain of drugstores called Shoppers Drugmart or something like that and these shops are huge! I think I was in there for an hour just walking down the different aisles trying to choose some hair products. Great! Absolutely fabolous!

Tomorrow the Ryerson Orientation for all inbound students starts at 10 a.m. so I will go to bed now.

I hope that I can soon upload some more pictures but the internet they offer at NW is veeery slow (like 512 Kps for G** sake!). We’re probably going to change to another subscription for October. And this makes it very time consuming to upload pictures (also gives me some problems on Skype).

Hope everybody at home has had a nice week too and that you have a nice weekend