Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Non Math Comments

Coming out of class today I noticed that my head was wonderfully empty. All this math is tiring me out enough to make me stop thinking. ME! Surprising, right?

Anyway other than that brief period of nicety there are a few things to be said.

I did a head count in the problem session a few minutes ago, and there were 27 male participants and 6 female ones.

They have not been providing nearly enough nice drinking water, and the tap water here tastes like terrible chlorine.

I went swimming at the beach yesterday, and the water was really beautifully clear and calm; it was warmer than I'm used to (NorCal) but not hot, and still a bit cool to stay in for a long time.

The food was not terribly good at first (cold rice and sandwiches?!) but it has been getting better--today for lunch there was a pasta in alfredo and chicken (among other possibilities: bow ties in marinara, kebobs), and the chicken was covered in chicken broth that dripped onto the plate and was AMAZING for dipping the bread into.
There hasn't been a lot of variety of vegetation, I've mostly been eating salads because that's all that there is, except that the vegetarians are getting more variety there.

Tonight we're going on a historic guided tour of Alghero, and after that is "Alghero by night" which I believe means "going out on the town wooo" which hopefully will be fun?

Last night we had "Sardinian Suits testing" which confused a lot of people until they specified that it was actually meant to be "sweets testing" which was a bit better. There was a champagne-like beverage which tasted mostly like a light Chardonnay and some cheese filled things and a bunch of fruit cookies and flavored macaroons but overall it was not as much chocolate as I would have liked.

I'm going to head off toward the beach to get some sun and pick up some post cards.

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