A few words about the events from the past few months.

I hate it but I have to admit that I was not able to keep my blog here as updated as I tried to. The latest post was about a short interruption of my studies in order to attend at some assessment meeting in Bonn hosted by DAAD. After coming back I had to catch up with courses on the one, my project (which is still not done yet) on the second and with the choir on the third side. This was one cause of my inability to publish new posts on my blog.
Right after I was done with the courses I was back at work within the Icecube employment I was on since January and after 3 days of hard work the supervisor eventually showed up and told me that they replaced us students by a full-time worker in order to hold the deadline. This was really bad to hear but honestly I tried to take care for too many things besides my study – and now there is a new things…
February marked the ending point for the ERASMUS & exchange students staying only for autumn and has indicated also the starting point for the new people arriving from all over the world. Therefore this time was dominated by welcome and good-bye parties – I attended at a few but not really regularly. And I have not been to Värmlands at Friday YET… but this is going to change.
The choir kept me also kind of busy during the last weeks since although I haven’t been accepted for the third Swedish course I had to face negotiating in Swedish – a real hard situation. Summing up everything regarding those issues we had to get money back from the nation since It does not belong to them but the relation between us (the choir) and them (the nation) was never officially stated and so things went terribly wrong during that time. I don’t want to reveal any classified informations here but finally we managed to get our money back and the relation is much better those days. Anyways – this thing took 3 additional meetings (one at Annas place, where I had the unique opportunity to try the Wii  something really exciting.
After singing the famous german “Ode an die Freude” to the strange Kroppkaka in a completely weird Swedish text (about the way the cake tastes) I learned also a few really traditional songs and they are really fancy….
Things have finally settled now to the state that I am trying to stay in Sweden for the next year in order to finish my master-degree. After having a closer look it could be done after the next term already… but I have to figure things out.
My project in which I am involved in latest research in order to find the the magic and not yet seen Higgs-particle came very recently now to a point, where I just need to produce a few more plots and can then start to put everything together into a final report. I should be done right before the meeting in beginning of May. My master-thesis has also been proposed very recently which will be definitely very interesting and worth to invest a lot of time in it – without bothering you with the details.
Ah ya… my bike was working, then it broke, I repair and its broken again. When you ever consider to come to Sweden, don’t be afraid about paying much more for a decent bike than for a crappy one. Which reminds me that I should have send my report about my ERASMUS stay as soon as possible- I prepared everything yesterday and now I wait for a bit more money from HU.
And finally… since Friday 13th (which also was the day of my exam – which took me the full 5 hours – crazy Swedes) I had my really first date… After a hard time of nights and days without sleep, getting hungry and completely screwing other issues I will not talk much longer about “me” but more about “us”. Her name is Hannah and she comes from Uninversity of Purdue in Indianapolis where she studies chemistry with drama as minor. Since she dominates my life from this time, I will dedicate the next post to her.
Hejda allihoppas