"no, bruce! bruce lee!"

just a quick post to both update the blog and add a somewhat absurd and really quite funny thing that happened in a lecture two days ago. it's a small course named "urbanism and urbanisation" with a really experienced and knowledgable professor so i am glad i chose the course. right, anyway, the people taking the course are, as always, of different backgrounds. the university has lot's of oriental students and one of them is in my class. so the professor is trying to learn everyone's names based on a printout with all of our photos on it. he comes to me and pronounces my name quite perfectly, but just to make it easier i tell him he can just call me hal for short. then he comes to this chinese guy and this is what happened:

prof: blablaarigamoto?

chinese guy: yeah, but just call me BRUCE!

prof: sorry, what's that?

chinese guy: BRUCE! i go by bruce.

prof (obviously thinking that this is some chinese name too): oh, how do you spell that?

chinese guy: no! bruce.

random girl behind me: i think he means bruce like as in bruce springsteen...

prof: oh! i see!

chinese guy: NO! BRUCE LEE!

wait, wut!? needless to say, i lol'd both inside and outside. my good friend albin suggested it should become a meme.

the amount of work required here is massive, much more than any other educational institution i've had the pleasure/displeasure of attending. which i guess shows they mean serious business! basically, i'm in uni from monday-friday. how odd, right?

so this weekend seems quite packed with stuff. tomorrow there is an introduction for international exchange students. then, on saturday there is kind of a mini-tour of seattle, which includes a visit to the space needle (just to get that over with!), a tour of the pike place market (apparently america's oldest public market) and taking the light rail. should be fun, i will make sure to bring my camera so i can put up pictures here on the blog!

so for now, i will include a handy google maps image just so you can all see where i am living at the moment!



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