I have just found an amaaaazing deal on a flight back to Vancouver ($580???), so I booked it! My housing contract here expires June 15, and my flight is on June 16.
Details:
Stockholm (ARN) to Frankfurt (Frankfurt Intl.)
16/06/12 9:10 AM - 11:25 AM
SAS 635
Frankfurt (Frankfurt Intl.) to Vancouver (Vancouver Intl.)
16/06/12 1:55 PM - 3:30 PM
Condor 6070
Love and hugs!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Semlor
Happy semlor day!!
This is a semla...
Basically a gigantic cream puff. But today, shrove Tuesday, is dedicated to these magnificent buns. Just like cinnamon bun day (back in October) many of my Swedish acquaintances make these themselves at home.
Also for the Finns, Shrove Tuesday means Laskiainen... no idea what exactly that is, but it involves sledding, hot drinks, and Minttu. But, I joined my Finnish friends at Uppsala castle this afternoon to enjoy some improvisational sledding! Apparently technology students compete to build the best sledge, and everybody dresses in strange costumes. This afternoon we had a snow bunny and a penguin, but there weren't many of us prepared. I brought a roll of garbage bags for sledding, lucky I did because we only had one real sled among about 25 of us! Lots of fun racing, but a very sore bum at the moment.
Here is the link to the web album : lalalala It also has some pictures of me and Sabrina, who I visited in Dusseldorf last year. She arrived last Wednesday and stayed with me 5 days :) loved it, and never wanted to leave!!
And here is a link to some video I took of us sledding!! :D yay
This is a semla...
Basically a gigantic cream puff. But today, shrove Tuesday, is dedicated to these magnificent buns. Just like cinnamon bun day (back in October) many of my Swedish acquaintances make these themselves at home.
Also for the Finns, Shrove Tuesday means Laskiainen... no idea what exactly that is, but it involves sledding, hot drinks, and Minttu. But, I joined my Finnish friends at Uppsala castle this afternoon to enjoy some improvisational sledding! Apparently technology students compete to build the best sledge, and everybody dresses in strange costumes. This afternoon we had a snow bunny and a penguin, but there weren't many of us prepared. I brought a roll of garbage bags for sledding, lucky I did because we only had one real sled among about 25 of us! Lots of fun racing, but a very sore bum at the moment.
Here is the link to the web album : lalalala It also has some pictures of me and Sabrina, who I visited in Dusseldorf last year. She arrived last Wednesday and stayed with me 5 days :) loved it, and never wanted to leave!!
And here is a link to some video I took of us sledding!! :D yay
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Reccegask part 2!
Hello dear family and friends :)
I have been very busy this month making new friends and going to lectures EVERYday. The fun started almost the day I got back, with a big group presentation, then right into the new classes. Had some fun switching around the courses, so I am now taking Geographic Information Systems and Land Use and Watershed Management with focus on eutrophication (mouthful I know). But, with this new combo of courses I have lectures basically every morning and afternoon. I don't mind so much as most of the lectures are really interesting :)
Said the last of the goodbyes to friends from last term, but there are plenty of new neighbours to hang out with. I haven't been up to much, just getting to know my new roommates (Rebecca & Elias, swedes of course), loads of Finnish neighbours, plenty of Canadians (including two Vancouverites!) and half the state of Colorado.
Temperature last week was between -15 C and -20 C... I have never felt snot freezing in my nose before (!)... it feels like inhaling little shards of ice. Which it probably is. Very uncomfortable. One day last week I made the mistake of walking one block back to my apartment carrying some wet clothes from the laundry... they were nearly solid when I got to the door!! What is this madness?? Luckily this week it's been around -5. The snow and ice are getting pretty nasty by this point. The one thing that is breathtaking still is the morning hoarfrost. It makes everything look like it's covered in little icy spikes... my classmate (not me!) took some amazing photos of it on his way to class the other day:
I have been very busy this month making new friends and going to lectures EVERYday. The fun started almost the day I got back, with a big group presentation, then right into the new classes. Had some fun switching around the courses, so I am now taking Geographic Information Systems and Land Use and Watershed Management with focus on eutrophication (mouthful I know). But, with this new combo of courses I have lectures basically every morning and afternoon. I don't mind so much as most of the lectures are really interesting :)
Said the last of the goodbyes to friends from last term, but there are plenty of new neighbours to hang out with. I haven't been up to much, just getting to know my new roommates (Rebecca & Elias, swedes of course), loads of Finnish neighbours, plenty of Canadians (including two Vancouverites!) and half the state of Colorado.
Temperature last week was between -15 C and -20 C... I have never felt snot freezing in my nose before (!)... it feels like inhaling little shards of ice. Which it probably is. Very uncomfortable. One day last week I made the mistake of walking one block back to my apartment carrying some wet clothes from the laundry... they were nearly solid when I got to the door!! What is this madness?? Luckily this week it's been around -5. The snow and ice are getting pretty nasty by this point. The one thing that is breathtaking still is the morning hoarfrost. It makes everything look like it's covered in little icy spikes... my classmate (not me!) took some amazing photos of it on his way to class the other day:
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