http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/SwedishVanessa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from SwedishVanessa en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:45:25 +0000 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:45:25 +0000 While I refuse to delete entries based on regret I do have to say that its become much better in the days since the last one. The sun is shining I'm working at home today and yesterday I worked at our customer's office which was fantastic I actually woke up early to do some work before I left so I was extra ready. The culprit it seems is passion. ldquoPassion it lies in all of us sleeping.. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-457642.html If the plane ride and weather greeting us in Rome was a sign it would have indicated how turbulent a time its been to get to Rome. The second plane ride had endless turbulence and it was an insane thunder and lightening storm the first night in Rome. Dzl has been working like a crazy person to prepare for Florence working all hours of the day to get his other work done and get ready for the fe http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-445510.html Its either all gone terribly wrong or its all making perfect sense. Deciding between the two is the very difficult part. I've gone from devastated to calm tonight. I found a perfect recipe here httpblog.fatfreevegan.com200602frenchlentilandportabellastew.html I love this blog and recommend it to everyone. She's completely incredible. As I was waiting for the soup to simmer I poured myse http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-456538.html Here I will write something about how horrible Florence was but how awesome the people at Festival Della Creativita that we met were. Shout outs to Mike from Vancouver and Peter and Abby from the NL. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-456537.html I'm writing this on a train ride to Florence from Rome where we've just had a beautiful vacation for the weekend that I'll write about...after this. We visited Canada for a quick 10 days but well worth it considering the visit to family and friends in the beautiful Vancouver summer. We started out after a relatively painfree flight by going home and having a great night of sushi and gyoza fulfill http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/blog-445041.html I actually have to go through my facebook photos to remember what the heck I've been doing for the past two months. Okay albums are Cocktail party June Random Midsummer and July So Far... so there we have it. We came back from Vegas and Tenerife moved in had a fantastic cocktail party with all our friends and a lot of homemade high style sushi an then got settled into summer. I mean I do r http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-423165.html I wanted to wait a bit to write the next one since I thought putting one after the other Scotland then TenerifeVegas would be too much to read but of course that ended up being ridiculous since now its a month later and I finally have one morning to writeWe had one week of chaos between Scotland and Tenerife. We left for Tenerife desperate for a vacation and ensured that our three days th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Canary-Islands/Tenerife/blog-411370.html As I write this I'm in the air to Tenerife but let's start with last week. We went to Scotland Dundee in particular to the HCIED 2009 conference. This is the same conference I went to last year in Rome and is comprised of the educators of HCI so its a very interesting conference with a lot of people who are passionate about pushing HCI forward and exploring how it can be taught. Dzl and I were http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Dundee/blog-401724.html So the time has finally come. I finished the last sentences of my thesis and felt like I could breathe for the first time in a long time. There's still loads of editing to do but at least its written. That was Sunday. Thursday I found out I was getting a Visa to Denmark to live and work here for at least a year at which point I must renew. By the following Tuesday I had a social security number http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-388562.html Hmmm I wrote a huge entry here about my travels at Christmas and now its gone I can't seem to find it anywhere and that makes me a bit sad.In short I went to Canada and visited my family and friends for Christmas which was great I loved being home at Christmas time I came back home to Scandinavia and immediately headed off to Madrid and Leon in Spain for an installation that Dzl was working http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-379213.html No exciting trips abroad this time unless you count the daily cross country tour to get to work. The trains here have an interesting game they like to play with me its called go go stop. Canceled delayed move you confidently forward one stop then canceled. Its all a head game and one has to outsmart them to survive. Find a job which is awesome and doesn't mind when you come in and lets yo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-351514.html Before I start I was just SO inspired by this guy's blog httpwww.travelblog.orgBloggersaspiringnomad check it out he and his wife and now their new baby have been everywhere and seen everything. Its incredible. Soooo let's see its not been HORRIBLY long just...over a month. Since Berlin which was a great trip again this time with Dzl so it was fun to go around to all the cafes w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Kowloon/blog-336423.html Its been a looong time since I updated this. The short version. Half Machine was getting ready for Roskilde festival I finished school with an A on the last project no less and went to Canada for thre weeks. Visited family and friends went to Vegas with my mom won at the PENNY slots haha and had a great time in both Canada and Vegas. Came back home to Denmark spent a day with my thenvery http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-322287.html Letrsquos see how to explain this my month of May was so busy that I actually didnrsquot write a thing this is a problem since SO MUCH happened. 1Submarine Party httphalfmachine.dkposts158We launched the worldrsquos largest privately built submarine the UC3 Nautilus it was an inspiring and beautiful day followed by a perfect and fun party at the MS Half Machine. People were wea http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-285258.html Short entry but fun make sure to check out the Italian entry that's the latest one. This past weekend which started on Thursday we spent in the sunshine on the barge in the beautiful Copenhagen harbour. I met with some people to arrange for them to rent the boat for a Pecha Kucha night httpwww.pechakucha.org it sounds like its going to be a brilliant event with a marketplace in th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-270835.html I'm not in Rome anymore and in fact I think that was two weeks...three weeks Some weeks ago. Nonetheless I'm finally sitting down to write this so we'll start with Rome as a side note I'm sitting down to write this in my bathing suit on my balcony suntanning. P I hear you still have snow in Vancouver How's that going for you Its apparently 11 degrees but it feels more like 15 or so... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-268289.html Irsquom finally sitting down in one place for more than a day WITH my laptop so now I can write in my blog again hurray. Okay fun facts to sum up the below spent a week in Berlin chilling working drinking a lot of mojitos came to Sweden for three days had my computer completely die on me gave up trying to fix it and went to Dublin for a week for St. Patrickrsquos Day partied it up w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/blog-259247.html Irsquom tempted to call this the preBerlin blog. Yep I know that was the title two blogs ago then you saw the blog about Berlin. But Irsquom going back March 18th...so perhaps it is the preBerlin blog. 61514 Again. So SINCE last Berlin trip its been an absolute whirlwind of madness. I think my todo lists are secretly mating and producing offspring as I seem to have about 5 sheets of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Lund/blog-247735.html Its all about the balcony. For instance I am sitting on my balcony in Lund wrapped up in a blanket writing this blog entry on a beautiful sunny February day. I have just returned from my second trip to Berlin since Irsquove been here but this trip was definitely not of the tourist variety. Transmediale is an arts festival that happens annually in Berlin and as a class we had planned to g http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-243789.html Before heading to Berlin I thought I better make a quick postnewyearspost. I got back from the UK and Germany and ended up getting straight to work on the final two weeks of our toiletsignswitching project that I discussed before. Wersquove officially named it the Ladies and Mens Room Mixup LMRM and spent the first week back finalizing the prototype and testing it out at the club. It wen http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Lund/blog-239143.html