Hej,
sorry, but the time was running really fast. Now I'm almost one month here in Uppsala. As i told you in my last post, I have decided to join Kalmar. (www.kalmarnation.se). One reason was that I know some people from Kalmar, the other was the internationality of that nation. But before I'm going to write about my experiences within the nation, I should write a bit about the nations itselves. So first of all, what is a nation? Since the University was found in 1477, it was a privilege for the students to study there. To unite the students from the different regions they found the nations. Each nation belongs to one region / county in Sweden. The nations were responsible for the whole student-life. So as today... it is really hard to express, what a nation is, when you have nothing to compare with. They are more then just activities, parties, common sense.
As international student you are free to choose which nation you want to belong to. Normally the swedes choose there nation depending on their origin. That is one reason, why Norrlands is one of the biggest nations - Norrlands is the biggest county in Sweden. Each nation has a certain kind of profile. One is more a party nation, the other is more interested in cultural activities - so it might be hard to choose depending on your personal wishes and attitudes. But this is not a real problem. As member of one nation, you are free to join almost all activities (excepting reccentiors-activities) of the others as well.
Kalmar stands for musicious and cultural as well as for international for me. They have a really nice little pub downstairs there nations-building where even ABBA has played before there became famous. Beside the parties and other activities there are some other things which are important to know about. First of all the gasques and especially "Reccentiorsgasquen". A gasque is a kind of formal dinner, where you chat a lot, drink a lot and SING a lot. At Reccegasquen you get your personal song-book, because that gasque is the welcomes event for the new members. It was really incredible. Dressed in suits and smokings we meet all together at the nationsbuilding and then march up to the main universities building. There was then a certain speech from the chancellor of the university inside the main building and from other important people as well. After that we've walked downwards to our nations-building and have taken our prepared seats. I've been seated next to very nice chatting-partners and it was a really great evening. Normally you have not enough time to really enjoy the food due to the fact that whenever there is a speech or something like this, you have to sing and thank for the speaker - and of course to skål for the speaker as well.
Ah, ja the girls on that picture from left to right: Judith (Swizerland), Miriam (Germany), and Liza (France) (some of my friends at Kalmar :D).
After that dinner there is an afterparty where we went to Göteborgs. That afterparty was indeed nothing in comparison to the previous. So no further comments. I disliked the music as well as the place. It was more like a party at "Tegeler See-Terrassen" in a bad way... :)
Presently I have joined the choir as well as the fotogroup. But I think i can only do one of these things and singing is A LOT of fun.
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