Showing posts with label BBQ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBQ. Show all posts

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Barbecuing!

I'm sorry for not posting yesterday, but I really did not have anything to tell. I was just getting up for uni, had class until lunch time and had lunch together with one of my class mates in the cafeteria. The I came home, was not doing anything special and went then for an evening walk through the woods, which was really nice. The evening I stayed home, I didn't feel like going to a 70's party.

Anyways, today I slept long, had lazy breakfast and then fixed myself to go to the shops. I walked with my big travel backpack through Bad Honnef to Aldi to do my weekly grocery shopping. It was still kinda fresh outside, which was good, since I wasn't sweating; The walk to Aldi is always downhill with an empty backpack, the way back, though, is always uphill with a full backpack.

After I had stored all the groceries at home I was sitting around at home and talked to A. for a while. Then I started cooking. The problem really is, that it is hard to cook for one or even two persons; the cans and portions are just too big. Let's take chopped tomatoes for example, they come in 400g cans; for a tomato sauce you need maximum 100g chopped tomatoes per person. Since you wont keep a half full tin (for what else, but tomato sauce would you use it), you can either throw it away of make sauce for 4 persons.

Anyways, I'm getting carried away. So, since it is so hard to cook small portions I made a huge portion of casserole for me. I did that also in Norway quite often, that I was cooking on Saturday a lot and then ate the whole weekend from it. Not very diversified, but what can you do as a virtually single guy with a gourmet cook and connoisseur as flatmate.
In the afternoon one of my colleagues from university invited for the evening to her place for barbecuing. We had been grilling at her place in the earlier semesters quite often. She is living in a house directly at the Rhein with a terrace literally at the Rhein. I had been walking past the house before and saw, that they were reconstructing the terrace, now that she invited I though the terrace was done and this would be kind of and inauguration barbecuing.
I wanted to walk to the house, which is on the other side of Bad Honnef, about half an hour by foot away. So I packed my things in my backpack and made my way through the town. I was stopping by the shop to get some meat and beer for the barbecue and then walked along the Rhein to the house. When I arrived the terrace at the Rhein was still under construction and I found the guys sitting directly at the house, which was also nice!
 
We spent the evening grilling, drinking and talking. It was nice to be there again, like so many times before. It didn't really matter, that we were not sitting directly above the water, we were enjoying the sun anyways, the meat and beer tasted anyways good and we anyways had a lot of fun talking.
~M~

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Stormy Spring

It is incredible windy here in Helsinki. It feels more like October than April. Even tho the day started off nice it got worse. It was raining and just disgusting weather.

Therefore I stayed in basically the whole day. I just went over to the other building to bring my laundry, to get it out and put it into the dryer and get it out of the dryer. Around 1 o'clock I went to Pasila with S., E. and M. We were asked to give a small presentation of our experiences as exchange students to the new tutors. It was really nice, since we could give them advices and recommendations what they could do different in the future. The organizers actually said, that our short speeches were the best part of the whole day and were giving the most information!

It was also nice to meet new people. Since we just know our tutors it was good to see other Finnish people. We also invited them directly to our BBQ afternoon tomorrow here in Kannelmäki.

A. is now packing all her stuff again. After two weeks here in Hesa she is going back to Turku for one week. I am pretty happy that she has been here, since I like her ;-) and she was helping with my Swedish presentation. I wrote my text and have the presentation half way ready. I really love this language and my text had just few (like 3 or 4) mistakes in it. I am so proud!

~M~

Monday, April 5, 2010

BBQ-time

Today we had a barbecue here in Kannelmäki. Even tho there is still a lot of snow we met with about 30 people in the park between the houses and grilled some stuff. It was basically just a nice get-together with the other ERASMUS students and I really enjoyed talking to people.

Now I just got back from the city. I went with A. to grab a burger and buy some bread. Then we walked back from the central station to Pasila and took the train from there. It was a nice walk at a nice spring-like evening. The temperatures were still mild (for Helsinki) and the birds were singing.

This was a really good Easter Monday. I am actually now supposed to read some stuff for the group meeting tomorrow, but actually I dont feel like it. Will do it tomorrow shortly before the meeting! Like always, shortly before deadline!

~M~