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Monday, October 6, 2008

Min första gång

Början allt var så lite. Nu få jag ändå långsam tvivel. Ännu en timme. Jag är ivrig! Ännu gå till dusch och klä på mig. Nagåt förlorad? Portmonnä, Nyckel? Jag ska akta mig. Nagåt som med mitt nyckel ska inte hända igen. Vad stod på meddelande? Svart byxner och svart skoer, allt andra finns här.

Ännu 20 minuter. Igen titta på spegel - allt okej. Osäkerhet - kan jag gör det verkligt? När du tittar på andra personer, allt är så lite. Aldrig gör feler! Men jag ska gå nu. Kanske de väntar redan. Antlingen mitt cykel hållar idag? Det hoppar jag. Stopp! Inte förlora yuppie-nalle. Det är viktigt. Men, nu jag ska skynda mig. 15 minuter till klockan 3.

V
anan jag vet. Der finns det gata, då tunneln. Nu övergångställe och över ditt bro - ännu 5 minuter. Det vil göra perfekt. Innan jag går in, ska titta på nylle. 3 minuter i klockan 3. Jag är där. Är alltid punklig! Var finns ingång? Källare - stängt, Huvuddörr - också stängt... aha, der finns klocka. "Ring". Nu blir seriös.

"Välkommer och tusen tack för att komma!" hälsninger hon mig. Är jag första? Nej men int
e också hålla. Här finns festsalen. Alltså här jag blir till klockan 1. "Är det Toni?" fragade andra arbetare "Nej, Toni kommer ännu. Det är Stephan" svarade hon. Då hon förgårade. Är det din första gång? Eller här du gjort det före? fragade jag och han svarade det han gjort kursen. Samma sak för mig.

Minuter senare. "Eftersom inte allt personer talar bra på svenska, jag vill forsätta på engelska. Jag ska först att ni berätta oss och lära känna oss." Det var Toni. Toni är hovmästare och han gör det redan hel. Med hans hjälp och talent för organization framför denne kväll, var överhuvud problem för oss att följa. Och lönen? En jätteroligt kväll, ny vänskåper och mycket, mycket erfarenheter och bredvid 300 kronor för hela kvällen. Jättebra! :)

Ahja... Här finns få fotos. Första är Anna. Hon kommer från Lund / Skoner. Andra är Josefin. Hon kommer från Småland. Och hålla foto är från Toni.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Third of October - a special date - not here in Uppsala

Hej,
before my clock shows that the 3rd of October is already over, I have at least to write that comment. Here in Uppsala it is nothing special. Indeed it was a somehow strange feeling to go to the class (at 8.00) and listen 4 hours to quantum mechanics, especially when almost all of the colleagues are from germany... Well. Now the clock shows 0:00, too late you may emphasize. Or maybe better late than never? Who knows. Well this "day of national holiday" is not so well known as we would consider. But after that day I have at least to comment on upcoming events in Germany, esp. in Bavaria as well as to send some warm greetings to friends and relatives of mine. Happy birthday to you (the recipients will know...). Hopefully you all have had enjoyed to celebrate your birthday party as well as a kind of reuninion party of the two different german states!

Back to Germany, esp. to german politics. I have been watching at least once a time per week the "tagesthemen" and it was quite funny. Well, here in Sweden the most important think (on the titlepage of the largest local newspaper) was an article about the "many" people who are missing in Sweden (at the moment 2-3 per year). And in Germany? We have had a lot of stuff about the "Georgian crisis", well and for my personal opinion this journalistic activities have had been a bit too one-sided. When now looking for recent news about this you have to look a lot, the happenings in the U. S. are much more important. And the self-made finance crisis and the congressmen who denied their vote until today (I mean yesterday :D) Even "Thumb-boy" G. W. have had not be treated in that way. Of course, it is important, in german media there was no news-ticker without some informations about safety-packages for the local financial sectors. Here in Sweden, a country with a TAX of about 25 % (haha, I'm still laughing about the argue in Germany when we had changed our tax from 16 till 19 %) there is no information about this at all. Maybe because it darkens right now much more faster than two weaks ago. But the best thing, which I really enjoy to listen and watch about is the "unmounting" of the heads of the several parties. Nearly one month ago, there was such a trouble in the SPD and the CDU had said, "well, SPD is in really big trouble and this might be a problem for our coalition". That time our "beloved" minister of finance told the journalists, that the party should treat their leaders better in the future. As it has been said, there was this new crisis. In the "musterländle", Bavaria there was the REVOLUTION. After 50 years continuous dictatorship (sorry i mean government by the CSU) they lost their majority. This was the "worst event in Stoibers political life". So there was only one conclusion: "sacrifice the leaders!". In this context we should say, "the party should treat their leaders better", no matter if "Partei und Land gehört in eine Hand" are really valid. I am not going to judge this comment, but it is so funny watching the self-laceration of these nice parties. And Ms. Ypsilanti - well in Hessen there might be a by-left-party tolerated minority government, just to get rid of Roland "the hardliner against youth criminals" Koch. But this might be enough politics - for today and maybe for this blog as well. Hejdå

Welcome to my very first blog...

... I'll send you a warm and nice hello and welcome to my very first blog. I want to invite you to explore "my world" while reading and / or posting. The title may not as clear to everybody as it should. This blog is about the time I'm going to spend in Sweden. I will be there from September this year up to June next year. And, in this blog I see a way to write down my experiences.

I will try to write only in english, allthough my mother tongue is german. But of course in Sweden I want to learn Swedish so, from time to time, I will post something in swedish too.

Please, let me know, how you like this blog and what are you interested in while reading.

So far...