on burnaby campus - new home, new address, new people

so i moved out of masoud's flat leaving daina behind. no, it wasn't the fact i didn't like it. quite opposite - i loved it. originally i was supposed to move in to the campus residence on 29th august and i was fully prepared for that. however, yesterday i went out together with bartek and we had a pint of beer each towntown. we talked a lot about how it is to study at sfu, how to make the transition smooth etc. then he told me that he heard the early, early move-ins possible. i was right up to check it out, cause, believe me, it is hard to live on your backpack in a stranger's flat. the guy at sfu told me he was ready to check me in. i was really happy as i felt a bit limited and isolated in masoud's flat. i packed my stuff up and i took the millenium line of sky train to the production road station and then further bus no. 145 all the way to sfu, burnaby campus.

and i am here in the residence hall called "tower b", room 53 sitting and writing this entry. quite improbable that a week ago i was still in gliwice drinking beer for not more than a dollar... anyway. the room is not big, but the space is smartly solved, so it seems spacious. i have everything i need, really. a desk, a chair, two massive drawers, a shelf, a hanger, a bed with a mattress and... a fridge. yes, i have got it equipped with a six-pack of molson canadian (which is quite a brand here) and obligatory with polish żubrówka i have already written about. the showers and washrooms are on the corridor. each floor of this residence has got a common room with a microwave, tvset and a sink. downstairs we have laudry facilities. evrything one needs, really.

the new address is as follows, so please write me a lot, i repeat, a LOT:

Grzegorz Wieclaw
Tower B, Room B2053
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
CANADA

i am meeting a lot of new people. that's quite understandable. mostly international exchange students. from all over. i feel like in the uwc again. my former gang at uwc might be interested in jamie who comes from the west staines (no kidding). respect for that jamie. others are cool as well. today we bought massive amounts of beer and pizza and we just sat in front of the residence houses and consumed it. it was awesome. just talking crap, talking deep stuff. teaching people how to pronounce my name. yes, that's always fun. apart from that me and jamie, the guy from west staines massive, made a deal we'll never start calling football soccer. that's just the way it has to be. there's many of swedes too. one dane. when i told them: "skål for helvette!" they all bursted out laughing. and telling the story about uwc is quite improbable and complicated. i quited around midnight. i am still having a jetlag, can't get used to the time zone. whateva. tommorow i am going to the ikea again with a bunch of people to get like other things i need - a lamp, some mugs and perhaps one more set of linens.

for now i say "goodnight" to everyone around here and "good morning" to the europeans...