Last Thursday I had my final midterm and then headed straight for St. Louis, Illinois. People say it´s a seven hour drive but I made it in 6 hours 45 minutes including a real long stop at the slowest gas pump in history, let´s just say I could count faster than the machine pumped. When I had driven about half way it started pouring and driving 80 mp/h but I finally made it just after 10 p.m. and went straight to bed, which seemed like a good idea at the time but after the 8 o´clock wakeup call, my back was locked. I could not twist my back at all, which was really bad news, cause I had to play in two hours. When I got to St. Clairs bowling center I found out that we were playing the Kegel "Boardwalk" oil pattern which is 35 fet with big volume of oil, and I went to the event with the idea in my head that we would be playing at least on a 40 ft. pattern, so in the first four games I could only use my total inferno until the 5th game the lanes were open enough to play 25-4. With my back so locked I couldn´t really open up and playing the gutter is hard, over these six games I had about 11 gutterballs and a lot of trouble with right hand spares and ended shooting 180 under. Scores were pretty high, the cut for top 4 was 1334 and Wichita had 1st and 4th spots so at least 2 men shockers will be representing.
I placed 99th which is not very good but considering the circumstances I´m okay with it. Good experience goes a long way. The following day I had a PBA Regional tournament, and I´m the first Icelander to partake in such tournament, which is kinda exciting. The tournament was held at a army air force base, and getting clearance for the weekend was a lot of waiting. Once I got the pass I was able get into the base and to the bowling center and check inn. Playing in a PBA tournament has a lot of requirements, such as a approved shirt with your name on it and only pba approved equipment and a PBA patch on your right hand shoulder. Once the practice began before the squad started my back really hurt but I was able to loosen it up but still was pretty bad. The pattern we played was the Viper, 37ft and your suppose to be able to play it from many angles but I had to open up the lane to play a lot of angle, I was fortunate to be playing with a very nice fellow called Jeffrey Gentry Jr. and playing with him was a blast, and he´s thinking about coming to Iceland so you could say that I managed to network. I started real bad with a 141 and after 4 games I had 642 ( which is really bad) however game 5 I had a 230 ( which dould have been a 240 but had a ringing 10 pin in the 10th and in game 7 I had a 240 ( which should have been a 250 if it weren´t for a stone 9 pin. I finished the round -100 which is all right, considering it was my first pba tournament and due to my back problem!
After the tournament I went back to St. Clair's bowl to watch the team event and it was really cool actually seeing it. However, I didn´t stay there for long cause I wanted to head home before dark. The drive home went real smooth cause over half the way and all the way to Kansas City ( which is not in the state of Kansas) I was driving along side of a black Camaro and we were driving together very synchronized and it was fun, both time and miles just went flying by and I made the drive in record time without exceeding the speed limit to much. The important thing is I got "home" safe and sound.
Returning "home" was a treat as this week is spring break or as known Easter break so a lot of sleeping and relaxing; however, the cafeteria is closed so I´ve been living on cereal and campbell´s soup with a couple of exceptions including Hooters, Chili´s and McDonald's and I have stay on that "great" diet until Monday when the cafeteria reopens.
I think I´m not gonna keep this any longer, finally got my microphone working so I´m able to talk to family and friends online...
That´s all folks
Stefán
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Midterms
This week is going to be one of the most boring weeks of this semester because it´s already half way through the semester which means only one thing Midterm Exams
Before I go better into that, being a college student in a foreign country with limited funds, you´re living on a budget and you try to save as much as you can,
That brings me to the other day when I only had $40 on me and I needed a haircut, and when I had to use 20 of those dollars and had only 20 left for a haircut, and the only place you can get a haircut for less than 20 dollar is SUPERCUTS :S
So I had to swallow my pride and walk into Supercuts where I got a haircut for $12.99 ! Although I have to say it didn´t look bad but you get what your paying for, bad service, probably internet certified stylists that dropped out of dental school and after they cut your hair, they don´t even blow all the loose hair of your head and really is 12 dollars worth!!!
Back to the midterms, tomorrow I have an exam in human communication, it shouldn´t be to hard but I got a -B on my first exam so I´m trying to improve that. Then on Wednesday I´ve got two exams, the first exam of the day will be Public Speaking, probably not hard but I have to cover a lot of material- then the second exam is in the Art of Dance, now that exam will be real easy cause the teacher told us what´s gonna be on it, it can´t fail!
It ends on Thursday with an Astronomy test which is gonna be tough, I´m gonna go to the SI session the day before, so I can pull my sad 2,4 GPA up.
After the test on Thursday I´ll be heading down ( or more like up) to St.Louis Illinois, to play the Intercollegiate Singles Sectional Qualifiers, basically 7 hour drive to play 6 games. I decided to stay the weekend ( or at least through Saturday ) and play a PBA Regional tournament, which is a tough tournament, and it depends on weather I qualify if I stay until Sunday but starting on Friday SPRINGBREAK!!! which means a lot of sleeping, napping and maybe dose of a little bit.
Until next time
Later
Before I go better into that, being a college student in a foreign country with limited funds, you´re living on a budget and you try to save as much as you can,
That brings me to the other day when I only had $40 on me and I needed a haircut, and when I had to use 20 of those dollars and had only 20 left for a haircut, and the only place you can get a haircut for less than 20 dollar is SUPERCUTS :S
So I had to swallow my pride and walk into Supercuts where I got a haircut for $12.99 ! Although I have to say it didn´t look bad but you get what your paying for, bad service, probably internet certified stylists that dropped out of dental school and after they cut your hair, they don´t even blow all the loose hair of your head and really is 12 dollars worth!!!
Back to the midterms, tomorrow I have an exam in human communication, it shouldn´t be to hard but I got a -B on my first exam so I´m trying to improve that. Then on Wednesday I´ve got two exams, the first exam of the day will be Public Speaking, probably not hard but I have to cover a lot of material- then the second exam is in the Art of Dance, now that exam will be real easy cause the teacher told us what´s gonna be on it, it can´t fail!
It ends on Thursday with an Astronomy test which is gonna be tough, I´m gonna go to the SI session the day before, so I can pull my sad 2,4 GPA up.
After the test on Thursday I´ll be heading down ( or more like up) to St.Louis Illinois, to play the Intercollegiate Singles Sectional Qualifiers, basically 7 hour drive to play 6 games. I decided to stay the weekend ( or at least through Saturday ) and play a PBA Regional tournament, which is a tough tournament, and it depends on weather I qualify if I stay until Sunday but starting on Friday SPRINGBREAK!!! which means a lot of sleeping, napping and maybe dose of a little bit.
Until next time
Later
Saturday, March 1, 2008
At the Gay bar!!!
Like Electric Six sang about in their song, titled Gay bar!!!
Last Saturday I got a call from Izi and he tells me he´s going out with some friends, to this club called Fantasies, little did I know that it was a gay bar. The reason we we´re going there is that the age limit is only 18 to enter, so we we´re just going to have some fun, Izi and his friend Marco picked me up and then we were off, when we got there things didn´t look to good but once we met Izi´s friends it was much better, because three straight guy´s going in to a gay bar, doesn´t really look good, from a straight perspective. To make a long story short, a couple of guy´s groped my rear in the wrong way ( not that there´s a right way to grope someone´s ass) but not a pleasant experience and just let´s say that I´m not going there again.
This week was busy for me, a couple of papers, and a lot of bowling. I´ve been working very hard on my spares and it´s really starting to show, also been working on my timing... it´s not rogressing as good as my spares; however, it´s in the right direction
Couple of good grades this week, two -B in Astronomy and Human Communication, so I´m starting quite good, although next week I´ve got 2 exams so that´s gonna be a pain. I´m just gonna study hard and improve those grades...
I managed to register for the Inter Collegiate Singles Championship Sectional Qualifiers, the tournament is in St. Louis, which means a 7 hour drive, I´m gonna miss a day of school ( which is the last day of school before spring break, so it doesn´t really matter). The drive´s gonna be really boring and also visiting a state I´ve never been in, so also exciting. It´s also my first tournament representing Wichita State University, so I´m gonna bring it, watch out Fairview Heights, IL.
Well that´s it for now,,,
Until next time,
Good Night and Good Luck
Last Saturday I got a call from Izi and he tells me he´s going out with some friends, to this club called Fantasies, little did I know that it was a gay bar. The reason we we´re going there is that the age limit is only 18 to enter, so we we´re just going to have some fun, Izi and his friend Marco picked me up and then we were off, when we got there things didn´t look to good but once we met Izi´s friends it was much better, because three straight guy´s going in to a gay bar, doesn´t really look good, from a straight perspective. To make a long story short, a couple of guy´s groped my rear in the wrong way ( not that there´s a right way to grope someone´s ass) but not a pleasant experience and just let´s say that I´m not going there again.
This week was busy for me, a couple of papers, and a lot of bowling. I´ve been working very hard on my spares and it´s really starting to show, also been working on my timing... it´s not rogressing as good as my spares; however, it´s in the right direction
Couple of good grades this week, two -B in Astronomy and Human Communication, so I´m starting quite good, although next week I´ve got 2 exams so that´s gonna be a pain. I´m just gonna study hard and improve those grades...
I managed to register for the Inter Collegiate Singles Championship Sectional Qualifiers, the tournament is in St. Louis, which means a 7 hour drive, I´m gonna miss a day of school ( which is the last day of school before spring break, so it doesn´t really matter). The drive´s gonna be really boring and also visiting a state I´ve never been in, so also exciting. It´s also my first tournament representing Wichita State University, so I´m gonna bring it, watch out Fairview Heights, IL.
Well that´s it for now,,,
Until next time,
Good Night and Good Luck
Monday, February 18, 2008
A very busy man
Sorry but I´ve been very busy this last week,
two tests, one report, one paper and one showcase.
First I had to do a discussion question in Astronomy and the question was:
Then I had to take an Astronomy quiz, which was kinda unfair because we were being quizzed out of 4 chapter and then quiz was made of 10 multi choice questions and 3 short answers ... I think I did alright, but not to good though ....
Then it was time for the Human Communication quiz, it was made out of 40 multi choice and roughly 10 true and false questions. The teacher claimed that she wouldn´t trick us and she was right on in that department, however some of the questions were a little misleading, but overall I think I did pretty well... so from there I had to hand in my English composition paper on a sports event, I managed to squeeze out 500 words on that ( it was only a first draft) so I have more time to work on it.
And then we had the "showcase" for a course I´m taking called The Art of dance, and we were split in to groups of 3 and we had to create a minute long routine, and I was in group with Lea and Rebecka, and we did more of a performance ( storytelling) than dancing, we used the song "Pussy Liquor" by Rob Zombie and I think we had the best act of all. The teacher really loved it, and I´m using this course to pull up my GPA, but I´m also enjoying it because it´s a lot of fun.
Also last week I drilled up a couple of balls, an Ultra Zone, Pepsi Spare ball and today a Rapid Fire. I drilled the Ultra Zone with the pin below my ring finger with the CG a quarter inch kicked out, and the ball picks up real early and rolls good, the Pepsi spare ball looks real cool and for the Rapid Fire, we´ll find out tomorrow how good it is!
I didn´t get to bowl all that much last week, so this week i´m gonna try to get at least 12 hours
Today I bought a "32 VIZIO HDTV :)
So finally I don´t have to watch tv anymore in the common room
But anyways that´s all for now...
Later
two tests, one report, one paper and one showcase.
First I had to do a discussion question in Astronomy and the question was:
Einstein´s discovery that energy and mass are equivalent has led to technological developments that are both beneficial and dangerous
Then I had to take an Astronomy quiz, which was kinda unfair because we were being quizzed out of 4 chapter and then quiz was made of 10 multi choice questions and 3 short answers ... I think I did alright, but not to good though ....
Then it was time for the Human Communication quiz, it was made out of 40 multi choice and roughly 10 true and false questions. The teacher claimed that she wouldn´t trick us and she was right on in that department, however some of the questions were a little misleading, but overall I think I did pretty well... so from there I had to hand in my English composition paper on a sports event, I managed to squeeze out 500 words on that ( it was only a first draft) so I have more time to work on it.
And then we had the "showcase" for a course I´m taking called The Art of dance, and we were split in to groups of 3 and we had to create a minute long routine, and I was in group with Lea and Rebecka, and we did more of a performance ( storytelling) than dancing, we used the song "Pussy Liquor" by Rob Zombie and I think we had the best act of all. The teacher really loved it, and I´m using this course to pull up my GPA, but I´m also enjoying it because it´s a lot of fun.
Also last week I drilled up a couple of balls, an Ultra Zone, Pepsi Spare ball and today a Rapid Fire. I drilled the Ultra Zone with the pin below my ring finger with the CG a quarter inch kicked out, and the ball picks up real early and rolls good, the Pepsi spare ball looks real cool and for the Rapid Fire, we´ll find out tomorrow how good it is!
I didn´t get to bowl all that much last week, so this week i´m gonna try to get at least 12 hours
Today I bought a "32 VIZIO HDTV :)
So finally I don´t have to watch tv anymore in the common room
But anyways that´s all for now...
Later
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Number 4
Yeah that´s right, number 4 out of 31 !!!
But before I tell you the story of number 4, let me take you back to Wednesday. School as usual except I dropped my World Music, and why you might ask? Well it just basically stunk ass! So instead I enrolled in a class called the Art of Dance, which is kinda exciting and the teacher is just great, funny and full of life. But then after 2 hours of bowling my journey took me to the Wal-mart super center to purchase a mini refrigerator. And after I found a good looking, fine working fridge I purchased it, however I though it would fit inside the passengers door on my Mustang, but I was wrong. So later I got Hallie to drive me in her SUV and I decided to carry the fridge from the store to her SUV and I didn´t find it to heavy, but again I was wrong, 55 pounds don´t really seem a lot of weight, however again I was wrong but I managed.
Thursday was a remarkable day : SNOWDAY!!!! well kinda.
On Wednesday evening I got an e-mail from my English Comp. teacher saying that because of terrible weather forecast class would be canceled, so because of that message and people were talking I thought that my Human Comm. class was also so I decided to sleep in, however I found out later in the day that some classes were taught, and my HC class was one of them. But it was fine cause the teacher told us if the weather would be bad that we shouldn´t have to come.
And now to the blockbuster story of 2008. 2nd and 3rd floor LASER TAG!!!
yeah you heard me LASER TAG, every month the floor CA´s get money to do something fun for the floors and this month it was LASER TAG. So when we got down there our first mission was to pick nicknames that would appear on the results, I had no doubt in choosing my name : Flonkerton ( The Office U.S. humor) and we got in to the huge dome and everybody went crazy and people were shooting right and left, I thought I did really good but as usual wrong again and I was ranked 19th. out of 32 !!! So when it came to round 2 I was certain that I´d found a good place to camp ( hang around one specific place and not move around to much) but It wasen´t so I was pretty screwed, but as I decided to just run around like crazy I came upon a spot that was just perfect, isolated yet had many angles to shoot people, so after I literally went nuts there, and when the score was posted, I was ranked 4th. out of 31 people and nobody on my floor was above me ... it was all Indian exchange students that probably are in the Indian national Laser Tag Team, so technically I was ranked nr. 1 ;) in theory
so that concludes this week´s story ...
I´m out for now... Saturday night fever ... get my groove on so LATER!!!
Stefán
But before I tell you the story of number 4, let me take you back to Wednesday. School as usual except I dropped my World Music, and why you might ask? Well it just basically stunk ass! So instead I enrolled in a class called the Art of Dance, which is kinda exciting and the teacher is just great, funny and full of life. But then after 2 hours of bowling my journey took me to the Wal-mart super center to purchase a mini refrigerator. And after I found a good looking, fine working fridge I purchased it, however I though it would fit inside the passengers door on my Mustang, but I was wrong. So later I got Hallie to drive me in her SUV and I decided to carry the fridge from the store to her SUV and I didn´t find it to heavy, but again I was wrong, 55 pounds don´t really seem a lot of weight, however again I was wrong but I managed.
Thursday was a remarkable day : SNOWDAY!!!! well kinda.
On Wednesday evening I got an e-mail from my English Comp. teacher saying that because of terrible weather forecast class would be canceled, so because of that message and people were talking I thought that my Human Comm. class was also so I decided to sleep in, however I found out later in the day that some classes were taught, and my HC class was one of them. But it was fine cause the teacher told us if the weather would be bad that we shouldn´t have to come.
And now to the blockbuster story of 2008. 2nd and 3rd floor LASER TAG!!!
yeah you heard me LASER TAG, every month the floor CA´s get money to do something fun for the floors and this month it was LASER TAG. So when we got down there our first mission was to pick nicknames that would appear on the results, I had no doubt in choosing my name : Flonkerton ( The Office U.S. humor) and we got in to the huge dome and everybody went crazy and people were shooting right and left, I thought I did really good but as usual wrong again and I was ranked 19th. out of 32 !!! So when it came to round 2 I was certain that I´d found a good place to camp ( hang around one specific place and not move around to much) but It wasen´t so I was pretty screwed, but as I decided to just run around like crazy I came upon a spot that was just perfect, isolated yet had many angles to shoot people, so after I literally went nuts there, and when the score was posted, I was ranked 4th. out of 31 people and nobody on my floor was above me ... it was all Indian exchange students that probably are in the Indian national Laser Tag Team, so technically I was ranked nr. 1 ;) in theory
so that concludes this week´s story ...
I´m out for now... Saturday night fever ... get my groove on so LATER!!!
Stefán
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Americanized
After a long weekend of sleeping and basically doing nothing, where as I had almost no homework, and my bowling balls were grounded in the Rhatigan Student Center. On Friday I went with Matt and Hallie to Matt´s friend´s place, but the reason why we took Matt´s car is so that he could take gas, but no we didn´t get very far cause after about 3/4 of a mile the car ran out of gas. However Taylor was nice enough to pick Hallie up to go to her car to pick up her gas can then to get her to the gas station to get back to Matt´s car. We hung out at Tyler´s until like 3:30 in the morning so I slept in on Saturday, woke up around 4 in the day, and spent most of it in bed... kinda slow day.
Yesterday I managed to buy a microwave so I can microwave some noodles and soup and possibly some popcorn, also I bought a pre payed cell phone from Verizon Wireless and it´s called something like Chocolate or something ( which I found really weird, but it had touch keypad with censors and it´s super cool ! (not)) However my new phone number is :
(316) 213-3830
And yesterday I got a call from my good friend Stephen Pierron in Allen, Texas and I got the phone number just in the nick of time, he had been having a tough week so it was good to hear from him. I´m considering if school is going good and also if bowling is going great then I´m thinking about participating in the 65.th U.S. Open but it´s highly unlikely that I´ll be doing that so I´m probably gonna visit Stephen down in Allen, TX.
Otherwise I´ve just been bowling and working out a lot. But tomorrow I need to see my insurance guy, to finish one little thing, and also buy a mini fridge for my dorm room, on Friday I´m going to request for a room transfer, I would like to have a single room, because my room is really small, I share a bathroom that I cannot lock with 3 other people and my roommate comes from the planet Blargon 7 and I kinda sense a clashing of cultures, I don´t really know what language they speak over there on Blargon 7, and just their rituals are just bizarre.
How ever I´m gonna stop here in leave you with the words of Dwight K. Schrute :
Dwight's Speech:Blood alone moves the wheels of history! Have you ever asked yourselves in an hour of meditation, which everyone finds during the day, how long we have been striving for greatness? Not only the years we’ve been at war … the war of work. But from the moment, as a child, we realized that the world could be conquered. It has been a lifetime struggle, a never-ending fight, I say to you. And you will understand that it is a privilege to fight! We are warriors! Salesmen of Northeastern Pennsylvania, I ask you, once more rise and be worthy of this historical hour! Maniacal laughter Yes! Yes!
No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself! Some people will tell you “salesman” is a bad word. They’ll conjure up images of used car dealers and door-to-door charlatans. This is our duty to change their perception. I say, salesmen … and women … of the world, unite! We must never acquiesce, for it is together, together, that we prevail! We must never cede control of the motherland for it is…
TOGETHER THAT WE PREVAIL!
p.o. for now
Yesterday I managed to buy a microwave so I can microwave some noodles and soup and possibly some popcorn, also I bought a pre payed cell phone from Verizon Wireless and it´s called something like Chocolate or something ( which I found really weird, but it had touch keypad with censors and it´s super cool ! (not)) However my new phone number is :
(316) 213-3830
And yesterday I got a call from my good friend Stephen Pierron in Allen, Texas and I got the phone number just in the nick of time, he had been having a tough week so it was good to hear from him. I´m considering if school is going good and also if bowling is going great then I´m thinking about participating in the 65.th U.S. Open but it´s highly unlikely that I´ll be doing that so I´m probably gonna visit Stephen down in Allen, TX.
Otherwise I´ve just been bowling and working out a lot. But tomorrow I need to see my insurance guy, to finish one little thing, and also buy a mini fridge for my dorm room, on Friday I´m going to request for a room transfer, I would like to have a single room, because my room is really small, I share a bathroom that I cannot lock with 3 other people and my roommate comes from the planet Blargon 7 and I kinda sense a clashing of cultures, I don´t really know what language they speak over there on Blargon 7, and just their rituals are just bizarre.
How ever I´m gonna stop here in leave you with the words of Dwight K. Schrute :
Dwight's Speech:Blood alone moves the wheels of history! Have you ever asked yourselves in an hour of meditation, which everyone finds during the day, how long we have been striving for greatness? Not only the years we’ve been at war … the war of work. But from the moment, as a child, we realized that the world could be conquered. It has been a lifetime struggle, a never-ending fight, I say to you. And you will understand that it is a privilege to fight! We are warriors! Salesmen of Northeastern Pennsylvania, I ask you, once more rise and be worthy of this historical hour! Maniacal laughter Yes! Yes!
No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself! Some people will tell you “salesman” is a bad word. They’ll conjure up images of used car dealers and door-to-door charlatans. This is our duty to change their perception. I say, salesmen … and women … of the world, unite! We must never acquiesce, for it is together, together, that we prevail! We must never cede control of the motherland for it is…
TOGETHER THAT WE PREVAIL!
p.o. for now
Thursday, January 24, 2008
No longer a ghost town
Yesterday my journey here in America officially began, school started and it´s never been this hard finding a parking spot on campus. So I´ve decided to go 30 minutes before classes start to get a parking spot ( that´s when I´m in classes on the other side of campus) All my classes except World music sound exciting, my Astronomy teacher is real funny, although he´s actually kinda nerdy. But it´s gonna be interesting to see how the class is going to be.
The last two days I´ve been bowling a lot, which is not so good news for my fingers because they are messed up, ripped to pieces. But today when practicing, around my 14th game I got some help from Chris Drewes, he´s a real nice guy, one of the key player in WSU´s successful team. Also Mr. Sienicki stopped by and said hi. And after my two hour long practice I decided to hit Chili´s and get some of those famous baby back ribs.
Besides a lot of homework now a days ... and giving my fingers some rest from bowling there´s a basketball game on Saturday, otherwise I´d just probably hangout with Taylor and Matt.
Well for now it´s bye bye
so until next time
Good Night & Good Luck
Stefán
The last two days I´ve been bowling a lot, which is not so good news for my fingers because they are messed up, ripped to pieces. But today when practicing, around my 14th game I got some help from Chris Drewes, he´s a real nice guy, one of the key player in WSU´s successful team. Also Mr. Sienicki stopped by and said hi. And after my two hour long practice I decided to hit Chili´s and get some of those famous baby back ribs.
Besides a lot of homework now a days ... and giving my fingers some rest from bowling there´s a basketball game on Saturday, otherwise I´d just probably hangout with Taylor and Matt.
Well for now it´s bye bye
so until next time
Good Night & Good Luck
Stefán
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