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Super Bowl!

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My most recent best/worst idea was attending a Super Bowl party in the middle of the night before an 8-hour day of school on a Monday. In case you the reader are not American (or are an American living under a rock), the Super Bowl is the championship game in the NFL, the professional American football league. The Super Bowl is definitely the most popular annual sporting event in the US, but I never really considered the fact that people in Sweden would also be interested in watching the game. However, Sweden’s public television broadcasting service (SVT) provides a live feed of the game, so any person living in Sweden who is willing to stay up late is able to watch the Super Bowl. How cool is that? I didn’t have any plans for the big game until my friend Gustav thankfully bailed me out by inviting me to come along with him to hang out with some of his friends at a student-run pub at Chalmers.

Half the fun of any Super Bowl party is the extravagantly unhealthy menu (vegetarians with a weak stomach might want to stop reading here). The guys in charge of the pub wisely decided we should make some Roethlisburgers, which are essentially an amalgamation of all culinary goodness. Basically, we gathered up a bunch of hamburger, sausage, eggs, onion, and cheese and cooked them all up on the grill. Finally, add in some homemade potato chips in the deep fryer for a side dish and Budweiser to drink; we were officially ready for the big game.

Meat & Cheese (& Grease). Photo by Brett Seward

Gustav with the Roethlisburger. Photo by Brett Seward.

Since I had a 7:00 alarm set for the morning, I unfortunately only managed to watch half of the game before heading home at 3:00 to catch a few hours of sleep. Most of the rest of the guys stayed at the pub until 5:00 to watch the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers on the big screen (complete with a halftime interlude from Beyoncé and a lengthy power outage) – true fans!

The Watch Party. Photo by Brett Seward.

While this entry seems to be focused primarily on football, my main goal is to actually highlight the fact that Chalmers is home to 19 different pubs operated by various student organizations. These pubs periodically offer great food and drink specials throughout the school year and are a perfect place to hang out with friends. Whatever your interests may be, there is a great chance that the there is already a student organization at Chalmers that has other like-minded people interested in the same activities.

As for me, I can definitely assure you I’m not going to make a habit out of midnight parties on Sundays, but this opportunity was simply too good to pass up. Now it’s time for me to catch up on my sleep (and my homework)! Until next time…

Brett Seward - Student

February 4, 2013

  • http://www.transatlanticsketches.com Kate

    I love that Robyn-Daily Show clip. So crazy! This museum exhibit looks really interesting, but I’ve got to say, that photo of a typical under-sink organization set-up looks eerily like my own kitchen, down to the handle fixtures and white tiles behind the sink. Is there some school program that all Swedes go through at an early age teaching them a basic Swedish interior decorating scheme to use as a baseline, or what’s going on here?!

    • Anonymous

      You have a very good point there, Kate: Most Swedish kitchens are so similar that you could find what you need even with your eyes closed! This is no coincindende – they were actually standardised in 1930:s after studying how people moved and worked in kitchens!: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svensk_k%C3%B6ksstandard

  • Pol – Croatia

    I feel a little bit relieved now when i see i am not the only one who sorts the recycling materials in this way, although i keep the bags in a small room near the kitchen. The good thing of recycling, despite it is not solving all problems, is i think that people can at least take a part of a solution and when this turns to be successful and meaningful, then the next logical and emotional question will most likely be: What can i do next ?

    Our recycling container are a bit different then yours. They are like ordinary plastic garbage containers but have different covering in design and color (green for glass, yellow for metal, tetrapack and plastic and blue for paper and cardboard). The problem sometimes is that the opening are to small so some people (as well as those that scavenge for bottles) unlock the main cover and the containers for recycling are in some parts missing or are to far from home to make an effort. The batteries can be disposed in similar usually smaller red containers but only in schools and some other organisations. We can leave bigger things outside container (like furniture or used domestic machines) and the service truck then picks them up in a few days.

    Unfortunatly i still don’t know what to do with old and worn out clothing then to donate at least a better part to a Red Cross or similar organisation. The chemicals can be given directly to recycling organisation but they mostly ask money for it’s treatment. There where also some talk and actions about oil from cooking which is often simply thrown in the toilet, especially much of it in the restaurants (5-10 litres or even more in a day), and which can be reused as a fuel for instance, but this problem is i think still only partly solved. …

  • singel

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  • Recycle

    I love the suggestions you’ve written in this post. Thank you. Something else that’s related to recycling is this video I saw o YouTube: http://youtu.be/_-j74UKurr0. You should see it. 

  • Monica-USA

    The burgers looked good. :o )