Here's some updates:

The boat trip was a real success, everybody let themselves go and partied immensely as planned. It was real quality time that we spent together, a total of 40 hours, including the six hours sojourn in Riga where we did the obligatory city tour under thick snow and ongoing blizzard. All in all, no complaints! except perhaps there was slightly too much alcohol consumption, but hey, it was duty free, so that has to be done!

Coming back to Uppsala we laid low for a while, attending schools and get the group project going. My team will be conducting research on Vancouver City and its sustainability pledges, and how the Olympic Games have failed in several occasions to honour that pledge, truth is the games aren't as green as claimed in the media.

Nevertheless I have been keeping myself busy with some of the winter games and last night we saw the final event of Ice Hockey whereby Canada beat USA 3-2, way to go Canada!

Luna also invited everybody to her beautiful home for Fika on Saturday, it was a really nice gesture on her part, as our time together as a class is numbered and come Summer it's everyone on their own. It is a saddening thought but life moves on, we will be doing our own thing and realize our own plans, and it's hardly the end.

Luna cooked us some scrumptious taiwanese food, among them the fish and vegetable soup, which is totally good for this weather, and everyone brought sweets and puddings so it was a real Fika!

The last couple of days have seen the weather gone for the worst, snow storm aplenty and some of our scheduled excursions are canceled. Temperature increases slightly when the sky is overcast and drops drastically when the sky is clear and blue, and the cold gets into your skin and bites mercilessly. That happened last weekend when we were stranded in Stockholm for a good four hours because the train wont go on icy tracks, for obvious reason.

I would like to go away somewhere for Easter but the prospect of only traveling for a week doesn't appeal to me at all, I normally go for a one month travel at least if I'm backpacking, but we'll see if I could hook myself up with cheap flights.

As you know there weren't much celebration for the Chinese New Year, we celebrated on the first day and that's it, even then it wasn't real traditional kind. I contributed by wrapping dumplings and I cooked the chow mein which got back positive reviews. I didn't hangout with the chinese as these days I spent more time at the nation and it's only popular with the swedes.

next item on the calendar: St.Patrick's!

 

My Couchsurfer from Austria

 

Cooking for CNY

 

Wrapping dumplings

 

My Chow Mein

 

Excursion for nature appreciation

 

glorious view

 

I joined the kids for some sledging

 

Beautiful day

 

Christian making a snow angel

 

Happy

 

Eco-Village

 

The Professor's home