Monday, May 31, 2010

The farewell Gasque was a real success, with the weather shining brilliantly despite a bleak forcast. Turned out that the rain came a day late, and we all did appreciate the blessing. Everyone was happy and expressed much gratitude for us to organize the dinner party, and it lasted pretty much the whole night at my home student nation, whereby four different bars were in operation and we had four bands playing.

Chris was a great toast master, he entertained the guests throughout the night with his quirky jokes and boyish charm and people were pleased. I especially liked the part where he summed up the whole academic year with a mention of series of events that had taken place, and threw in a few anecdotes here and there for the laughter effect. SooJeong made a great video of us asking what we live for in life, and it was all very meaningful.

My two German couchsurfers were with us that night, joining us for the afterparty. I was kept busy bringing them around introducing them while trying to also socialize at the same time. It was all good and they found the student life in Uppsala amusing.

Brought them to play soccer with some classmates yesterday and we had a bbq at Lise's later on. We also managed to catch the cultural carnival that was happening at the city park and saw some very good performances from talented musicians.

Will have my final presentation tomorrow for my paper and then we're done for the year. Should start my summer internship pretty much right after and it does not involve too much workload, I will be a researcher, so that means I can still do a little bit of traveling from time to time, i manage my own time!

Summer is looking up to be really good, everyone will be going away but there are still a few of us that will stay back in Uppsala and will continue to hangout as per usual. Won't be seeing some of the other classmates for a long long time but we'll find each other at some other part of the world, at some point.

Until then...

Javi

Sandstrom and Corina

Jenni Nylander

Appetizer is served

The Organizing Committee with Chris as the toastmaster

The award winners

After Party

Official Class photo (not everyone is in it)

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Uppsala


Wow, it sure has been a long while since I last posted. Was I busy? Well not so much, just generally spending way too much time watching online TV, and as you have already guessed, Summer is here! So lotsa outdoor activities and drinking-in-the-park.

Year one is rapidly coming to an end, and the lunch committees (including me) are, as the name implies, spending time planning for class activities over lunch. We have so far organized everything from baseball tourney to poker nights, movie nights, pub crawl and such. And the most anticipated event of the year is none other than the farewell gasque which will take place next friday, it's gonna be spectacular to say the least!

And because I'm so good with the international students, I've been elected to be the International Secretary of Uplands Nation! I look forward to the new term this fall, and will have lotsa new students under my wing. I love doing that, getting to know new people and help them find their bearing in town. My swedish is getting better too (I hope), will be taking the exam next month and hopefully get certified.

Summer will be awesome in Sweden. I haven't made any travel plans yet simply because I'm doing the summer internship stint here in Uppsala. I have however been invited to at least two mid summer parties in the swedish countryside. It'd be nice to get out in the woods and do some horseback riding!

simply lovely...

Sunday brunch at Luna's

Traveling on ferry over melting ice in Stockholm

Jenny and Cecilia

Lunch time at the campus

Poker night in session

Fika@Uplands

Fika@Sana's

Mich and Me

Blizzard on the first day of spring

Uppsala twilight

egg painting on Easter

Camila on Shisha night

Sunday brunch at Flogsta

Branboll tourney

Boat race on Valborg

hanging out with classmates

Massive festival of Valborg

BBQ in session

Bon Fire at night