Free Day

I have no class today because my teacher is away at a conference. Unfortunately that means we have time to read the 2 books we have to finish by the end of next week. I'm almost done the first, so hopefully I'll be OK. I have a test in Marketing tomorrow, so I have to study for that.
Two nights ago I came into contact with the biggest cultural difference since I've been here. The funny thing was that it had nothing to do w/ Bulgaria at all. We had a BBQ and we all brought our own stuff to grill. To my surprise I found my steak on the same grill as hamburgers and hot dogs. I almost felt ashamed. I marinated my steak in what I thought was normal wine, but it was so crappy that it just tasted like grape juice. I cooked my steaks after I finally convinced everyone that I knew what I was doing. I cooked mine and Kiro's but because they cooked so many different things, I had to keep my food warm in the oven. The oven was way too hot so by the time it came to eat the steaks, they had gone from med-rare to almost well done. And this was on top of the fact that steak here is nowhere near as tender as it is back home. So the steak wasn't so great, but I was in need of real beef so I ate the whole thing w/ my hands. Kiro's steak was worse than mine because he wanted it more cooked, which ended up being a piece of leather. We had other food that the girls had cooked, ie mashed potatoes w/ cheese and some other things. The dinner was good and everyone was very loud. At the end we appointed two guys who hadn't done anything towards the dinner to clean up. We left them to do the work, only to find out that they had just rinsed the dishes and clogged up the sink. Needless to say, those of us who had already done work and had to clean up after them were not too happy. One girl, Oksana, who had told them to do it and had done a lot of work got really mad and eventually told them that they weren't allowed to eat with us again.
The concert is getting closer, but the only thing that bothers me is that Tiesto has been sick since Sept. 19, and there has been no update as to whether he will be playing or not. I really hope that he gets better because this is the only chance I have to see him for a long time, and I don't want to think about how hard it is going to be to get my money back from the Romanian ticket office.
I'm going on a trip on saturday to a bear reserve and some other places on a school sponsored trip. It sounds like fun and hopefully there's some interesting things to see. So far the only person I know that is also going on the trip is Rasika, my other roommate and RA. I probably know some other people, but it is impossible to recognize people just by their names here.
I am trying to start my involvement in Qlique again, but it is proving very difficult because it refuses to run properly on my computer and it's going to be hard to find 50 people to recruit with no face to face contact. Everything is just working against me right now, w/ the required time to sign on being b/w 4 and 8am my time, along with some other complications. At least I got my letter of Achievement for my previous work. Well, I need to get back to reading and maybe even planning out my trip for fall break, whose plans have changed again.