Bored, but I have to work

I've had a three hour class with a group of A students (first course is called A and takes 20 weeks=30 points in the Bologna system). It was alright, and not particularly draining. Still I have trouble getting something done on my lecture on "Marriage and family". And ideally it should be finished today, since I have two more lectures to make before the 20th and quite a lot of teaching to be done in the mean time.

whee!

Marriage and family done, now there's "only" Plague and destruction, Europe in the later Middle Ages and The age of the Kalmar union (the Nordic countries in about the same time) left to do.

Stuff I didn't write about my weekend

...because I was so busy experiencing them. My friend Sara came down from Stockholm, where she lives temporarily, working at the finnish institute. Usually she lives in Umeå, which is much farther away. She had suggested that she'd come down and we'd go watch Håkan Hellström, a very popular swedish pop singer and composer. It was a sort of free concert, since it was at Liseberg the amusement park within spitting distance from where I live. So all you paid was the entrance fee (60 SEK, roughly 8,5 $ or a little over 4 quid). That may be one of the reason for the turn-out, they estimate the audience to 17 000. Of course we couldn't see much, but it was still great. And really fun to do something like that with Sara.

Saturday we spent watching Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets as well as visiting the amusement park again. The day before Sara had bought a book of tickets, but after the concert we didn't feel much like staying, we wanted to go home and drink a beer and talk about the concert instead. So we went back on Saturday, and brought Maja with us. This was her first time and she liked it, despite the long queues, which she handled admirably.

In the evening she went to a pub with another friend and hubby, Maja and a friend of ours watched football on the telly. And then she caught the train back in the morning.

It was really nice seeing her.