Mar. 5 - Hollywood in Europe

Allow me to fill you in on the boring errands that I did today. Got my snowboard tuned. It was a million times heavier on the way up the stairs than on the way down. While I was waiting for it to be ready, I bought an entire line of Nivea face products at the new Coop department store in town. Also bought some rosti, which is like the hash brown that they serve at Denny’s. I looove that stuff.

Spent most of the day at home talking to my flatmates, which was nice. Then we all went to see Million Dollar Baby at the cinema, plus Till and Martina’s friend Olivia. I was expecting a Rocky-like movie, where girl follows dream and wins at end. Not even close. Anyways, I won’t spoil the movie, but I like it a lot and I can see why it won Oscars. Disgusting incidents to be expected in boxing movie that I didn’t watch because they’d be burned into my memory forever: two. Almost cried: once.

Now for my cultural observations haha. The movie theatre had just one screen, which isn’t really a big deal. However, I did have TONS of leg room, probably because everyone is a lot taller here lol. Plus, you can reserve your seats ahead of time, as long as you come early enough to pick up your tickets. But the biggie is that they usually stop the movie in the middle for an intermission-like break. I prefer it without the break, but it wasn’t really a big deal, we just chatted about the movie so far. I could see how it would really annoy some people. Also, I was entertained at how people in the theatre laughed at parts that I don’t think people in North America would laugh at. Well, partly this could be explained by the fact that many of them were reading subtitles. I think the other part is explained by differences in senses of humour. There was this one part that I thought was the funniest part of the movie because it reminded me of the dorky kid in Dodgeball, but hardly anyone else was laughing. Oh well.

I’m going snowboarding on Monday!