DIVERSITY TRAINING 101! Yep, I am officially getting culturefied! So, I live with 7 others in a flat (a.k.a. apartment). There is a locked door to get in the apartment and then I share a suite (another locked door) with a very nice Chinese woman who is studying Economics. Just the two of us share a bathroom and she is clean, thank goodness! Then, there is yet another locked door to enter my humble abode, a simple bedroom with a nice picture window and a bed, bookcase, table and chair. I am working to spice it up and those laminated photos sure are helping! I am quite impressed with the living quarters here...the room is very clean and the furniture is much nicer than the furniture at CU. I also live with 2 African men, one is a botanist PhD candidate from Zimbabwe and the other is a Biology PhD candidate from Ethiopia. Last night I said, "In America, we would call you 'smart cookies'" and they got the biggest kick out of that. I also live with a Norwegian punk rocker. No joke! He is too cool for words and will be moving out this week to pursue his rockstar lifestyle. He even gave me a CD...insert video of Leasa dancing around to some Norge punk music...SWEET! Then, we have the 2 Polish men. There is an older gentleman (50's) and his nephew (20's). I think they are living in Krinsja student village illegally because neither of them go to the Uni and we are only allowed to have 1 person per room. I am still trying to figure them out. They are one big tornado in the kitchen and cook up some very interesting hot-plates without cleaning up after themselves. Yes, the kitchen is where all of our worlds collide into one big mess, including crumbs on the floor, week-old dishes in the sink and piles of trash. Good thing I like challenges...we are having a flat-meeting this week!