Hej friends,
to those of you who don't know what I am doing here in Sweden I am going to answer this question in this post. Currently I am doing my master's thesis and as it is in the field of Particle Physics it involves a lot of computing. Debugging my analysis code to look for a particle that is predicted but has yet to be discovered took the past 2 days. Meanwhile I was participating in yet another collaboration meeting that is held here in Uppsala on a fairly regular basis. During those "stategy sessions" we give status reports and discuss further plans of the research group associated with the experiment I'm working with. By today our group leader signed my official affiliation and I hope to contribute to this ASAP. That's why I am killing my time debugging...
Debugging is a highly time consuming issue and takes usually whole days. However, living needs such as food and drinks need to be satisfied and I just recently went to my nearest ICA. Yes, I hate the ICA because of the very limited overpriced variety of products. Moreover, I just figured out the ICA's with the shortest and with the longest opening hours. So my closest ICA opens at 9 and closes around 7 - way too early for me to get there. Hence I went to the next-to-nearest ICA, close to Rackarberget... and I saw this:
This poster annouces the store with Uppsala's best opening hours. Absolutely ridiculous and worth mentioning in my blog. So is the information paper for swedish TOEFL test takers. One might think that people who are in charge of offering the TOEFL are aware of the peculiarities of (Sw)english... those of you are proven wrong. After taking my test in a remote village outside of Stockholm (this is at least how it looked on a map) which turned out to be well connected via the T-bana, I realized that the test-center hand-outs contained 3 to 5 major flaws which were mainly related to (Sw)english, f.e. - what does this mean you may ask? f. e. is t. ex. or "till exempel", so for an example... just to give you one little example. But who dare I to criticize the Swedish people while still making stupid mistakes. Anyhow it was worth to mention here either.
Finally I have to admit that my corridor mates are really disgusting pigs. Not that I had to clean my part of the fridge and freeing it from 3 year-old overly disgusting mildew but when I came home two days ago, my whole stuff in the fridge was covered with a yeast-water-oil-something... yucks... Hopefully I won't stay here very long.
Recently friends from Humboldt University were here to visit Uppsala and I had offered to show them some of the town and the university. As a result I've been to "Taket", the V-Dala summer restaurant 3 times in less than 2 weeks and got some nice burger at both places, at Taket and at the summer-restaurant from Snerikes. Yeah for that! And yeah for the american-car festival being over. The grand finale was last saturday where plenty of old fuel-consuming vintage cars were holding a parade at Fyris. But look for yourself:
Meanwhile, choir has started again and it is good to have some known friends around. That was particularly true for Simon who managed to motivate me during my very first (sad) days in Sweden. We (=the rest of the choir and me) are going to perform during the "reccemotagning", the freshmen gathering next thursday and tuesday afterwards. I'll see how much I will get involved with choir activities. It is among with other things on my list but highest priority I give to my thesis and planning the future.
So now I have to go to bed...
hejdå
to those of you who don't know what I am doing here in Sweden I am going to answer this question in this post. Currently I am doing my master's thesis and as it is in the field of Particle Physics it involves a lot of computing. Debugging my analysis code to look for a particle that is predicted but has yet to be discovered took the past 2 days. Meanwhile I was participating in yet another collaboration meeting that is held here in Uppsala on a fairly regular basis. During those "stategy sessions" we give status reports and discuss further plans of the research group associated with the experiment I'm working with. By today our group leader signed my official affiliation and I hope to contribute to this ASAP. That's why I am killing my time debugging...
Debugging is a highly time consuming issue and takes usually whole days. However, living needs such as food and drinks need to be satisfied and I just recently went to my nearest ICA. Yes, I hate the ICA because of the very limited overpriced variety of products. Moreover, I just figured out the ICA's with the shortest and with the longest opening hours. So my closest ICA opens at 9 and closes around 7 - way too early for me to get there. Hence I went to the next-to-nearest ICA, close to Rackarberget... and I saw this:
This poster annouces the store with Uppsala's best opening hours. Absolutely ridiculous and worth mentioning in my blog. So is the information paper for swedish TOEFL test takers. One might think that people who are in charge of offering the TOEFL are aware of the peculiarities of (Sw)english... those of you are proven wrong. After taking my test in a remote village outside of Stockholm (this is at least how it looked on a map) which turned out to be well connected via the T-bana, I realized that the test-center hand-outs contained 3 to 5 major flaws which were mainly related to (Sw)english, f.e. - what does this mean you may ask? f. e. is t. ex. or "till exempel", so for an example... just to give you one little example. But who dare I to criticize the Swedish people while still making stupid mistakes. Anyhow it was worth to mention here either.
Finally I have to admit that my corridor mates are really disgusting pigs. Not that I had to clean my part of the fridge and freeing it from 3 year-old overly disgusting mildew but when I came home two days ago, my whole stuff in the fridge was covered with a yeast-water-oil-something... yucks... Hopefully I won't stay here very long.
Recently friends from Humboldt University were here to visit Uppsala and I had offered to show them some of the town and the university. As a result I've been to "Taket", the V-Dala summer restaurant 3 times in less than 2 weeks and got some nice burger at both places, at Taket and at the summer-restaurant from Snerikes. Yeah for that! And yeah for the american-car festival being over. The grand finale was last saturday where plenty of old fuel-consuming vintage cars were holding a parade at Fyris. But look for yourself:
Meanwhile, choir has started again and it is good to have some known friends around. That was particularly true for Simon who managed to motivate me during my very first (sad) days in Sweden. We (=the rest of the choir and me) are going to perform during the "reccemotagning", the freshmen gathering next thursday and tuesday afterwards. I'll see how much I will get involved with choir activities. It is among with other things on my list but highest priority I give to my thesis and planning the future.
So now I have to go to bed...
hejdå
2 comments:
Yes dear, who are you to criticize while making stupid mistakes? :P
/your little tiger
p.s.
We English speakers use the Latin, silly of us, to indicate an example
e.g. exempli gratis
Att bo med grisar låter väldigt bekant. Flogsta kanske? =)
Mvh. någon från hus 4 som googlade piglets + corridormates =D
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