Blogs from Sweden, Europe - page 138

I just realized that I should tell you about my room, my castle, the hole I live in or what ever you want to it. I am living on a student corridor like most students here in Umeå. The best thing is that most of the students live in one place so that at night there is always something going on here in Ålidhem. It is considered to life in a place far of if the walk to that place takes more than 5 minutes from Ålidhem centrum. My corridor is about 30 seconds away. So my corridor ,eh? I am living here with 4 swedes and 2 Koreans. one room is still unoccupied or so it seems. There is a shared kitchen for us and a community room with a couch and a teve. Most ... read more

Another rainy day. I've been cycling for weeks now in the constant worry of being forced to seek for solutions to stay reasonably dry. I drift through the immense Swedish forests of coniferous, that after the rain release a sweet and pungent smell that brings my mind back to Asian and Middle Eastern spice markets. Other journeys that today seem to belong to times so remote that could not be possibly mine. It's the traveller's dilation of time, where a day still lasts 24 hours, but the density of present events pushes the past ones in far-flung, almost unfathomable cells of memory. I'm cycling along the road 239, a hilly and desolate blade of tar that leads to the Norwegian border. The region is an endless of forests and lakes, the smaller ones not even marked ... read more

Orientation So the first impressions are made and I got to know some people. We've been partying a lot already and been around a bit. But first things first. When we came here it was rainy and grey as I said but today the weather is great. The sun is shining and its 10°C outside and I fear it wont get much warmer but still warm enough to go cycling around for we got ourselves bikes as fast as we could and everything is much easier now. So what have we been doing the whole time? Well one of the first things were to meet some people who also arrived early and had nothing much to do. Thomas and me went to Joe. Also a physics student but from Austria. He was posting about free ... read more

Trip to Stockholm... read more

Today was my first day of school at Vaxjo Universitet and I really liked it. At 1pm I left my corridor and walked about 10 minutes to my classroom. It was next to the room I had orientation in so I had no trouble finding it. When I got there the professor told me to come back at 3 because the first two hours were for Swedish students only. So I went back to my room and wrote down the books I needed to buy for class. I bought 3 books and a planner at the campus book store and then sat in the cafe and wrote in my journal and started reading. I was tempted to buy a latte but it would have cost me over $4 so I passed. Class only lasted a half ... read more