Hi there again!
Well, what happened the last days? … most of the time I was searching some resources for writing my paper for conference management which I have to turn in tomorrow – think it worked out quite well and should get a good mark 
On Friday I went to the movies with Stephanie K. and Marc, where we watched Role Models – pretty funny comedy with Seann William Scott & Paul Rudd. The next day Natascha and Berni returned my car which I had lent them for going to Seattle.
The highlight of the weekend for sure was, when my friends arrived on Sunday evening. My brother Willi, my cousin Hias, and my best friend Hari took a flight over to Canada and are driving around B.C. and Alberta for 2 weeks. It was really glad to see someone from home, when they arrived on Sunday. It was a feeling a bit like at home – we were sitting together, playing cards, having some Schladminger beer – oooooh yeah – and talked shit all the evening long … I really enjoyed that for the first time in 3 months.
Hari, Hias and Schladminger beer
My brother Weili
My brother also supplied me with my skiing equipment and so just some new skis are missing to hit Canada’s backcountry. And my mom cared for me as well – she enclosed my favourite cookies for me as well as some MILKA chocolate – mmmmmh & Stephanie’s mom got her some “Mozartkugeln” – yummy. But the best thing of all (besides Schladminger beer of course) was the special Styrian cheese my mum sent me – it’s the best thing ever!!!
Sunday evening we also went out for dinner at the Mexican restaurant next door to my apartment, which we better had not done 
it’s not to be recommended at all. After this culinary “adventure” we had some more beer and had great fun. The next day we went downtown to Starbucks for coffee after which the boys left towards Banff National Park. The rest of my day I dedicated doing the paper for conference management as Monday was off due to Canadian National Remembrance Day on Tuesday.
Tuesday morning Brent came by and we went up to Sun Peaks, where Brent tries to get a job for the winter season. There’s already some snow up there and on our way back we picked up some girls hitchhiking to Kamloops. Back in Kamloops I did some studying for todays Spanish quiz and went to the movies again to see Angelina Jolie & John Malkovich in “Changeling”, a movie based on a real-life story of the late 20s and early 30s of the last century.
The story is about the young mother Christine Collins (Jolie) whos son Matthew is kidnapped. The police of Los Angeles brings back a boy 5 months later, trying to “convince” her that it is her son, although he is not. The only person believing her seems to be the presbyterian priest Gustav Briegleb. Corrupt L.A. police tries to silence Christine by institutionalizing her into a psychiatric hospital. Briegleb manages to get her out of there while an honest police officer discoveres the crime scene of a mass murder on kids. It turns out that Matthew could have been one of the victims of the killer …
I liked the movie a lot, Angelina Jolie reaching almost her peak performance of Girl Interrupted. John Malkovich, brilliant like always (but maybe with a role that could be more extensive), and Jeffery Donovan (Police captain Jones) with a shuddering good performance make the movie a 4.5 out of 5 stars, I’d say – watch it if you got the chance!
In the meanwhile the boys already got stopped by the mounties once for speeding, but didn’t get fined – lucky them they are in Calgary at the moment, and ’cause world’s so small they already met some girl from at home there. I went to classes today and studied Spanish together with Stephanie in the afternoon. That’s also when she told me that we missed to return some kind of form at the border check-point when we left the US coming back from Seattle a month ago – this could make it a bit difficult to enter the US again … hope it works out!
Well, then … that’s it so far
Hope you are all fine at home and all the best for my mum (she needed surgery for her meniscus)!
Feel hugged, be blessed and walk on the lightened path 
Gergi
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