the new semester at UU

Hej,

on Monday, first of sebtember my study programme at UU (the akronym for Uppsala Universitet) began. Before listening to quantum mechanics I should have remembered to meet to Antia. We have met each other downtown later on and have checked out the bike stores a second time. Unfortunately the same answer as last week. Finally I gave Eric (the stranger with the bikes) a call but he didn't answered. So Antia decided to went alone to Stáhlens Cykel while I went to my lecture. I have explained her the way to that bike store and thereafter we have been visited the cathedral - the biggest and oldest (protestantic) church of Scandinavia. After visiting and taking some photos we went for some fika into a cafe supported by the church (so not so expensive) and have had a nice talk about some things). She studies computer sciences esp. the interaction between human and machines. Later on I have to leave her and went for myself to Ångströmlaboratoriet, to listen to my first lecture...

Ångström is a very, very modern building with many departments. Here you can find not only physics but also chemistry as well as astronomy or material-sciences. I have found the lectures room soon and after entering I have realized that the main part of my course were german guys. Very well :(. Nevertheless the lecture was really great and impressive. Okay I have to work for that course, but it is not so complicate as first guessed. Unfortunately I have to buy a very expensive book to follow the course. Later on I will do that, but now I have other things to do. One more word to the lecturer. He is a theoretical physicist from the department of particle and nuclear physics who works on the field of QCD and Phenomenology (like MMP at HU) and have spent a lot of his time at CERN and at DESY-HH. I relly like him, he allways explain you everything and he invented the "Räknastuga", some additional times, when you sit in a room doing your exercises and he is also inside that room - so you can allways ask him for advice. This is a really suitable method. Even much more better than our german systems with the exercise-sessions (once in a week). After that course I have visited the library, really small in comparison to Erwin-Schrödinger-Zentrum but quite nice and thereafter I went to Carlos de los Heros, the head of the local IceCube group, where I have asked him for any project work. At the moment I cannot take the astro-courses in that period because I haven't fullfilled the prerequisites yet. Therefore I just take Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and hopefully some project work at Ångström. I'm still waiting for some replies... And I have realized that for the diagnostic test for learners with previous knowledge of swedish I only have two days left. So I got to hurry up myself. Unfortunately I haven't brought each material with me so I have had asked my brother to scan it and send it to me. By the way. Great job you did there, thank you very much!!!

I decided not to go to the lecture on wednesday because I have had to prepare myself for the exam. I went there and the first people there were german guys as well. There I met Maja, she comes from Berlin as well but has studied yet with his friend at Würzburg. We just talked together until the test started. For me the test has sounded quite easy. After a c-test there was a really little grammar section and thereafter two texts, one about Visby, Gotland with some questions and another about the drink-habits of the swedes. For the last text we have to write something about our home-countries drink-habits and has to compare them to the swedes. The second text we have to write was about ourselves. Which drink we like to drink when and why. It was really a bit annoying, but on the other hand I succeeded and written down enough words. Hopefully enough for the second or even the third swedish course as well. But therefore I have to wait until friday. Maja told me some more about nations. On my way home I met Wassilij once more, a guy I have known from my first laundry-session. There we have played some geeky game named Fluxx. After he told me many many things about nations I checked out the webpages and evaluate them for myself and finally made a decision. I will be a member of KALMAR NATION!