At thursday I met my other colleagues as well as the ERASMUS-Coord. from Uppsala. The first important thing was that Carla Puglia is not any longer responsible for ERASMUS-students and another more serious thing was that all of my previously chosen courses have been deleted. But nonetheless it was almost the same to my colleagues. We are here at Uppsala with some guys from Poland which I don't really know as well as some spanish guys and Alexandre from Strasbourg. We have all taken the "Advanced Quantum Mechanics" course and that was a reason to know each other a bit better. While Enno has had decided to go home by bus me and Alex went through the other parts of the city in search for a bike. We have had some fun and i have visited him at his appartment in Flogsta. Those of you who might me familiar with the different housing-areas. Flogsta is used to be known as the "Party-Housing-Area". There is at least one party in one corridor each night. Another interesting and really fine thing is the sauna on the roof of each building in Flogsta. But that is another story...
On Friday i was appointed with Alex at the main square in downtown. There we have opened a bank account at a counter with a (nearly) pleasant servant.- Thereafter we went to universities main building to watch the welcomes ceremony. At that time we did not recognized that this event is not only for the foreigners, no it is for all first years students. So we went to the main building and then there was the welcome-event. When the vice-chancellor has began to speak i got some "goosebumps" - it was really impressive!!!
In addition to a number of things he and other guys have been mentioned there was one sentence which I especially remember: "Welcome to Uppsala. Feel free to contribute yourself. Uppsala belongs to all of you." We (Alex and me) were sitting in the very front and I was sitting next Anna and she is a first-years student there at Uppsala. Her father is german and we exchanged email-adresses and later on I will email her - if my swedish is better than now! After that we went to Studentkår, the studentunion to collect some additional informations especially about the nations. There we met to Agnieta, a lithuanian girl from Vilnius studying swedish at Uppsala. After little bit of talking (as well some phrases in lituanian as far as I could have remembered) she gave us really good advices for getting a bike. At each saturday and sunday there is a second hand market at Vaksalatorget. The guys might be strange, but if you are looking for a cheap second hand bike you would have luck there. That advice was really great. Without that I would never have got a bike. Later on I accompany Alex to Flogsta because he is really bad in orientation and I have decided to take a bus home to Kantorn. In the bus I met to an asian girl, Antia. We have exchanged our email-adresses and I promised her to help her getting a new bike. Hopefully at saturday I will get my bike there at Vaksalatorg.
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