Only three students showed up to my class yesterday, which went that much smoother for it. It made me see how crowded are those tutorials normally, and how fortunate I was (even though both universities are public). The staff to student ratio here is some ludicrous 1:30, though it's a lot better once you remove the freshman year from the equation. Anyway, we gave their homework a once-over, done the two-hour material during the first half of the tutorial and the other half was dedicated to answering their questions. I have office hours, but it's not like anyone bothers coming to those anyway. Maybe they'll get something out of it. Seems like that whole "most things we see can be boiled down to differential equations" sunk in for them, though maybe I'm reading too much into their amusement.

I made some elderly tourist's day with something as simple as "Jag talar lite svenska. Snälla, prata långsamt." and walking her up to the hotel. The map she was using was literally older than me, and something like 50 street names changed in the meantime. She spoke some English, but the accent was so impossibly thick I couldn't make the ends of it, so we met half-way with a mix of both languages.

Not a bad start to a year, though I didn't get nearly as much rest as I planned for over the last two weeks.