Tired but airconditioned

Yetserday was yet another glorious day in school. We had the very interesting course 'Sustainability & Development', basically about how a business impacts the environment and how this factor should become more important in firm´s decisions and way of thinking. This is one of those courses that has the potential of actually affecting you and to challenge your concepts of life and work. Take for instance the fact that the US has around 6 percent of the world´s oil reserves but uses 25 percent of the oil produced in the world. Or the fact that 4 billion people in the world live off less than 2 dollars a day. And here I go complaining about not getting a desk to my room (which I have gotten) or that the airconditioning is not working properly (which it does now since the janitor stopped by). Interesting class as you might understand, but it made me feel like bad person for my way of consuming, spending, not recycling and my affluent way of living in general. Naturally I had to do some retail-threapy in order to feel better about myself :)

I also went for a run yesterday - the first one since I got here. I went down to Téc stadium and used their tracks. It was not my best run - 4k in 21:34, but atleast it was nice to start. had Saana as company and we are planning to become sporty spices from now on. Might also take up tennis with Allan and Frederic, let´s see about that...

Today I have been in school despite not having any classes, working on our case project in Service Management. We have to prepare 1 1/2 hour lecture based on Service management in bottom of the pyramid-markets until tuesday. A little bit stressed seeing as how it is alot and we only have three days left. But I am sure it will be just fine.

Tonight we went again to Téc staduim, not for a run, but to watch American Football. I have never seen it before and it was quite difficult to understand. The guys line up; throw the ball backwards (!) and then crash into oneanother. Sometimes someone really fast gets the ball, breaks left or right and runs like Forrest Gump. As I said; complicated. But the experience was fun and the cheerleaders and team mascot was even more fun!

Since it is back to projectwork tomorrow, no partying tonight. Off to bed and a (fairly) early start! God natt /J