What else I can do? I have experienced so many nice things around, but still, one of the best is when the clouds are gone, and sun starts to shine! I am writing this cause it is happening right now! :)So i d like to to exploit the situation-> even bigger smile on my face:)
Preliminary we expected our group as to be fifty-fifty considering swedish-foreigners proportion...well it turned out to be totally different..we are altogether 30, from 19 nations including 5 swedes! U can imagine my face during the introduction session, the smile was getting bigger and bigger and even much bigger!
let me explain, from west to east: Columbia-Mexico-Brasil-Dominica-Spain-England-France-Germany-Sweden-Finland-Hungary-Macedonia-Greece-Russia-Iran-Afganistan-Pakistan-China-Indonesia
hm, what else could be more international than us? :))
This already draws up the first question: how can we deal with this diversity of the cultures? the answer is not that difficult: as i have noticed so far, the difference between Latino-America and Europe is less more significant compared to Europe vs. Asia... in addition, these poor guys are having ramadan nowadays, so they must wake up every day around 3AM to fill up their stomach... and it also hinders them getting a more friendly relation to us...
But as far as i heard, other groups dont really have this team spirit like we do, as they contain more swedish...and we went together for after work on Friday which is a usual kinda happy-hour here, you pay the drinks and you can eat as much as you can from the provided pasta, chicken and salads ;)
Anyway, first real >study day< at Branno we were sligthly:) enforced to wake up damn early, catch the ferry at 8:02 :) So the island is perfect place if you want to just relax, get rid of all the comealongs of a city, and to feel the flavour of the sea:) anyway, amongst the 19 country, there are only 3 without any seacoast, so there are obviously few people who can understand what I feel standing on a seaside :)
We tried also football, since I bought the ball last Sunday, I did not just want it to be unused :) here u need to get used to that that u cannot depend on weather, whether it is raining or not, the game is not to be postponed ... well, i went to ikea in the morning, and coming back, i saw it was raining dogs and catz.... later on, the football turned out to be as some kind of special waterpolo :) Thing is, that the British guy called off the event for himself saying that he is not afraid of the rain, but the slippery afterwards... hm, the others were quite surprised - he would be rather the last one from whom i expect such texts... anyway, it was awesome, since here u these artificial grass type of fields are free of charge! (including no slippery at all :) this is part of the Swedish government`s avoiding-immigrants-being-a-criminal programme :) and we can also profit from it, either would like to play football, tennis, basketball , cause the neighbourhood is full of them :) i mean, not immigrants, but with sport fields ;) well, actually, here are plenty of immigrants :D wouldnt call them expats :D
back to ikea, check out how they are collecting the left-behind shopping carts:
sorry for the bad quality, but i had with me only my cell. well thats it, what else than collecting carts? :)other: 4 times per year, here is a so-called pub-crawl, when each faculty arranges its own club, so the whole campus is covered with 13 parties, you can imagine! this is something i can never imagine for instance at home...
anyway, it was communicated to our direction in a pretty wrong way, since everyone thought that its gonna be some kind of pub-like event, so sitting and having a beer along with a conversation, but noooo, it was plenty of parties around, though we arrived a bit too early, so could enter the building without any waiting in a cue. even though it was getting more and more crowded the others wanted to leave and go to an other place. i was the only one out of 8 who wanted to stay.... bence went for the restroom- 20people cue- letsgo to the nature- yes, thats it- wow there are 500 people waiting outside- this fucker just doesnt allow me to back, so i started to call others to hurry up with leaving since it was quite freezy outside :) so it happened that i was the final reason to leave - the only one who wanted to stay.. dont need to emphasize that turned out to be a great event.. :)
lets go back to chalmers: the uni has its own cinema, a separate building only for the student union and for several associations - as best- with swimming pool, sauna, pool whatever...
lastly, a pic from this morning, definitely not unusual
here:yep it is what it seems: a bike, on the street, without any locks, and no wonder it s not being stolen :D
1 comment:
excellent story, as u always write actually :)
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