Oxford in July

The day after arrival we all had a placement test. The new classmates we got after that were Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Finnish, Italian, Danish, French and Latvian. It's usually just a few Swedes in each class, but we meet each other every lunch and in the afternoons and at the evening acitivites.

Mostly we talk to people from other nationalities in class, which "forces" us to use our English. The four of us writing this blog post like our teachers and classes (the others are in Stratford-upon-Avon now and can't be asked right now :) ). Students from different nationalities have different strengths. Swedes are good at talking and understanding, the Chinese are good at writing and reading and some of the Spanish students are really good at grammar. As you can see we can help each other out. The afternoon project in school right now is creating a newspaper or a magazine. Most of the magazines are about food, sports, entertainment and fashion. In the picture above one of our Swedish students work together with her magazine group. A funny detail in one of the food articles is that Chinese people have a traditional day called "Moon Cake Day", which is about the theory that rabbits are making cakes on the moon. :)

We've recently been at our first disco, called "Super Power Party". The disco was in a very nice local. It looks like a night club with two floors, good music, so much people (but not too much) and the temperature on the dance floor was very hot. About 40 degrees or someting. If you didn't want to dance, there were chairs and couches. You could also go outside for a while to cool down. Some of us thought there were very nice boys on the dance floor. In the end of the disco they played the Swedish "sommarplaga": "Vill du ligga med mig da?" and some of the Chinese students even sang along. :)

So long!