November the 5th happened to fall within this week so I
decided to plan a movie night with my neighbors to watch V for Vendetta. There
are a number of quotable lines in the movie, but one in particular was the
reason for watching the movie on the 5th of November. "Remember, remember
the fifth of November the gun powder treason and plot. I see no reason why the
gunpowder treason should ever be forgot" said the character named V. With
it being fall it seemed fitting to make some caramel corn so I gathered all the
necessary ingredients, but not without some difficulty. The evening turned out
well and later I even had the opportunity to Skype with my parents. Wednesday I went
earlier than usual to DTU to work on the BCI project in lab. I joined the prayer
group soon after we finished and when the others had to go to their classes. I
followed my usual routine of working in the library for rest of the afternoon
and then biked off to my life group. A couple of things that were out of the
ordinary this week include setting up my PC to receive and make phone calls and
making anatomical slices of our tissue sample for medical imaging. We needed
the cross-sectional slices to compare to the medical images we had taken of the
same tissue sample earlier in the semester and that would be the topic of our
report for the whole semester. I enjoyed lunch with Josh on Friday and my
group's work with the BCI went well for a change. We had been running into
problem after problem for a while and were getting a little discouraged so this
work day helped us along. Often times I plan things well in advance, but Friday
night I didn't really have any plans so when one of my neighbors asked if
anyone wanted to watch a movie I decided a spontaneous decision would be good.
We ended up watching Despicable Me 2 which neither of us had seen and we both
enjoyed it. I also spontaneously planned to make cornmeal pancakes Saturday
morning for a few other neighbors and experimented with a grape syrup which
turned into something like jam when it was cool. Later this same day one of my
friends at a different, distant dormitory had an event planned called "swap
and trade". I had a few things to donate and ended up finding a few things
I could use so it worked out exactly as it was meant to. This same friend is
all for making things sustainable and part of that includes giving away things.
He also goes dumpster diving for food, but that's mainly because Denmark has
strict regulations on when to throw out food and often the food is still very
good. I had to bike back into a strong wind and some rain, but I made it
eventually back home. I was especially thankful to have a warm, dry apartment
to go back to. I spent the rest of the day actually learning about Java
programming which had been something of interest to me, but I had never had any
courses that ever touched on it. I ushered at the Christian center as usual,
but this week we had a guest speaker from Ireland. He had a humorous and
entertaining way of presenting his message, but toward the end it became more
serious when he drove the message home which I think was appropriate. To finish
off the week I returned home to Amalia, my Greek neighbor, and about five of
her Greek friends. They invited me to join them for dinner and I prepared a
fruit salad to contribute. We had a great time and among other things I learned
that Greeks really love their food.
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