Marcus' Back-to-School Journal

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...