Palfrey's life

Having got the geeky thoughts written down, I'm just going to briefly mention the fun and games party of last night, at the household of Mattias (fellow Dutch course participant). Things of note:

• Party was advertised as 9-10. I turned up at 10:15 thinking myself to be late. No-one outside the house, not even the Swedish had turned up. No-one else did for another 1/2 hour. Does *no-one* listen to party start times anymore?


• I didn't know Delft had that large a Swedish population. There was at least a dozen of them there last night, maybe more (and one Norwegian girl, but given she spoke Swedish I think she was practically being counted as an honourary citizen).


• The word 'ombudsman' is the same in English, Dutch and Swedish


• A bizarre conversation about the existence of Eeyore (or whichever translated name someone's using) between myself, a cute Swedish girl with a 'Tigger' t-shirt (she doesn't bounce) and one of a pair of French twins. For some reason the French twin didn't think Eeyore existed. Anyways.


• I really should keep track of how many languages were being used at these things. We certainly had english, swedish, french, german, portugese, possibly some italian, *maybe* a smattering of bad dutch.


• Another cute german girl. Ho-hum.


• Apparently (according to a conversation with a group of French people) France doesn't have much in the way of regional accents for some reasons. Anyone got any insights on why?