Hej again after a long time of not blogging. I could post now all the
reasons of not having blogged (and there are many of them, but i won't
do so. Instead i will use my time to write a bit about things that
have happened in my life - here in sweden and in general.
Right now i'm sitting in an airplane back home to spend the summer in
my hometown and hopefully to cut expenses. However, as i wrote 'to
spend the summer' you may wonder, how this works. This blog was
intended to be about my erasmus year in sweden. Time has changed and
with time i have changed my plans too: Right now I am applying to
become a fully accepted international student at Uppsala. Hence I have
started to write my masters thesis two weeks ago. I will finish this
hopefully by the end of this year but this depends also on how the
burocracy im Sweden works. Another almost more important change is the
following: for almost 4 months i'm now together with the girl of my
life. Since we have spent the past four month and she was more active
with blogging I refer to her blog: alchemy abroad. There you can find
a very extensive report about our beautiful easter vacations and about
spring here in Uppsala.
It would be rather boring just to repeat everything Hannah wrote,
therefore I will just post here some additional thoughts from my point
of view:
1) Our amazing trip through europe
Erasmus-life is hard especially in Sweden where living expenses are
about 1. 5 times higher than home. However, apparently we managed to
settle a trip to 5 different places in europe in less than two weeks.
Thanks to ryanair we had to skip Oslo. As a consequence I will never
fly with this airline again - except that there is no other available
for my destination. Beside, the trip was awesome- and Venice was
amazing. Think about that- a trip to Venice after being together for
just two month... Now you can imagine how wonderful my sweetheart is.
One can argue wheter it is a bit too early to make plans to live
together, or one can accept my answer: we are different. In my
mothertongue there exist an expression which i like to quote "zu jedem
Topf gibt es einen passenden Deckel". Friends who saw our pictures
said that we were looking happy. Yes, I asm the happiest man on earth-
and graceful to met my angel.
Back in Sweden I had to catch up with class and exercises which kept
me busy until the most important event during the summer term- Valborg.
2) Valborg
Although we might not have been drunk enough to be considered as 'successful', we had a great time. Sad that we have overslept the speech but we would not have understood it anyways. Additionally, sleeping in sun is really tempting. All in all we took rather the old traditional than the flat modern way of celebrating Valborg - including the breakfast with your love. The time after Valborg wss rather tight and dominated by studying. I managed however on my infinite amount of time to work at Kalmar during the prom or varbalen as a waiter. After 12 hours and maybe 200 SEK I have regretted my decision. Here comes now an important advice - if you want to work at a nation in Uppsala to socialise, feel free to do so, but if you want to earn money, never work there. During the past year I worked about 40 hours and my final loan was 600 SEK. Additionally they reduced this amount by 25%- the local tax here in Sweden. At the prom we had some choir performance which some of my friends believe was our best in the year. Honestly, I don't think so. The final cncert in june was much better - at least for me... Ah and there was the night before the prom.
An old tradition in Uppsala is the singing of serenades by the men to the choir's women. In return you should get some unsch. Firstly, less and less people remember this tradition, secondly you should not sing lovesongs not to the girl you love and thirdly guys in Uppsala remember this tradition rather than girls. However, when we finally got to Annas place we were welcomed with cookies, punsch and a red latern. Worth mentioning that the girls at kalmar recognized the tradition and we got our first punsch there. Unfortunately my girl was feeling really bad and a few days after we had to go to the ER of the hospital. As a non-eu citizen, Hannah had to pay 6000 SEK for a full treatment. In the result the medics did a cat-scan. Found nothing and sent her home, encouraging her to come back if her pain gets worse or is accompanied by other inconveniences. At this day i found out that we can be proud of our health care system. eventhough in Sweden it is almost for free the treatment is rather sloppy and you have to pass three pre-nurses
before you see a doctor and, get treatment. Now i'm back home and i will continue blogging later. Vi ses, kram!
reasons of not having blogged (and there are many of them, but i won't
do so. Instead i will use my time to write a bit about things that
have happened in my life - here in sweden and in general.
Right now i'm sitting in an airplane back home to spend the summer in
my hometown and hopefully to cut expenses. However, as i wrote 'to
spend the summer' you may wonder, how this works. This blog was
intended to be about my erasmus year in sweden. Time has changed and
with time i have changed my plans too: Right now I am applying to
become a fully accepted international student at Uppsala. Hence I have
started to write my masters thesis two weeks ago. I will finish this
hopefully by the end of this year but this depends also on how the
burocracy im Sweden works. Another almost more important change is the
following: for almost 4 months i'm now together with the girl of my
life. Since we have spent the past four month and she was more active
with blogging I refer to her blog: alchemy abroad. There you can find
a very extensive report about our beautiful easter vacations and about
spring here in Uppsala.
It would be rather boring just to repeat everything Hannah wrote,
therefore I will just post here some additional thoughts from my point
of view:
1) Our amazing trip through europe
Erasmus-life is hard especially in Sweden where living expenses are
about 1. 5 times higher than home. However, apparently we managed to
settle a trip to 5 different places in europe in less than two weeks.
Thanks to ryanair we had to skip Oslo. As a consequence I will never
fly with this airline again - except that there is no other available
for my destination. Beside, the trip was awesome- and Venice was
amazing. Think about that- a trip to Venice after being together for
just two month... Now you can imagine how wonderful my sweetheart is.
One can argue wheter it is a bit too early to make plans to live
together, or one can accept my answer: we are different. In my
mothertongue there exist an expression which i like to quote "zu jedem
Topf gibt es einen passenden Deckel". Friends who saw our pictures
said that we were looking happy. Yes, I asm the happiest man on earth-
and graceful to met my angel.
Back in Sweden I had to catch up with class and exercises which kept
me busy until the most important event during the summer term- Valborg.
2) Valborg
Although we might not have been drunk enough to be considered as 'successful', we had a great time. Sad that we have overslept the speech but we would not have understood it anyways. Additionally, sleeping in sun is really tempting. All in all we took rather the old traditional than the flat modern way of celebrating Valborg - including the breakfast with your love. The time after Valborg wss rather tight and dominated by studying. I managed however on my infinite amount of time to work at Kalmar during the prom or varbalen as a waiter. After 12 hours and maybe 200 SEK I have regretted my decision. Here comes now an important advice - if you want to work at a nation in Uppsala to socialise, feel free to do so, but if you want to earn money, never work there. During the past year I worked about 40 hours and my final loan was 600 SEK. Additionally they reduced this amount by 25%- the local tax here in Sweden. At the prom we had some choir performance which some of my friends believe was our best in the year. Honestly, I don't think so. The final cncert in june was much better - at least for me... Ah and there was the night before the prom.
An old tradition in Uppsala is the singing of serenades by the men to the choir's women. In return you should get some unsch. Firstly, less and less people remember this tradition, secondly you should not sing lovesongs not to the girl you love and thirdly guys in Uppsala remember this tradition rather than girls. However, when we finally got to Annas place we were welcomed with cookies, punsch and a red latern. Worth mentioning that the girls at kalmar recognized the tradition and we got our first punsch there. Unfortunately my girl was feeling really bad and a few days after we had to go to the ER of the hospital. As a non-eu citizen, Hannah had to pay 6000 SEK for a full treatment. In the result the medics did a cat-scan. Found nothing and sent her home, encouraging her to come back if her pain gets worse or is accompanied by other inconveniences. At this day i found out that we can be proud of our health care system. eventhough in Sweden it is almost for free the treatment is rather sloppy and you have to pass three pre-nurses
before you see a doctor and, get treatment. Now i'm back home and i will continue blogging later. Vi ses, kram!
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