Web Design is good, although I already know most of the stuff we're doing right now - but I think this will change as soon as we start working with Photoshop CS 3 and Java Script. This is my main course and I have it 4 days a week...which is quite much, compared to the other courses. But I hope we won't get many assignments to do at home...
Swedish as a foreign language - well, we didn't learn much yet, because we were split into 4 different groups - that's all we did. Tomorrow I have my first real Swedish class.
Aspects of Sweden - hm, well...what shall I say...we talked about politics in Sweden, which is quite interesting, but it was a bit too long and I was too tired to follow every word the teacher said...But this course will be finished in 4 weeks, so it won't be that long...
The University is cool - a lot of buildings, a huge library and 3 cafeterias that serve delicious coffee and good food. You can also bring your own food and put it in the fridge and warm it in the microwave - I've never seen this before in a university, but I think it's a cool idea. All in all the food there is quite healthy, compared to other universities I know.
On Wednesday my "Survival Package" from Austria arrived - When I packed my suitcase, I went out of space (obviously) so I bought a big cardboard box where I put all the things in, that I need in Sweden, but didn't fit in the suitcase.
After I've arrived in Sweden I told my father to send it to me. It contains all the important stuff I need to survive, like winter jacket, a second blanket, a flat iron(!!), pictures...and my running shoes (I have some resolutions to become more sportive...).Jonathan (the canadian guy, remember?) moved into his new apartment on Wednesday and invited Elisabeth, me and a friend over for dinner. We ate Köttbullar & Potatis (meat balls with potatoes), a typical swedish dish. It was really tasty :) Afterwards we went to a small party at a host student's apartment, where we met some other exchange students. Some people went to a nightclub later, but I decided to go home, because I was tired and had classes the next day. Nevertheless, it was a really nice evening...
The rest of the week was quite calm - except for Saturday:
We went to the "Värmland Trip" - it's part of the Orientation week. We drove to a beautiful lake in Hagfors. There we were able to make some activities like Mountainbiking, Canoeing, walking...or just sitting there and relax. In the morning I went canoeing - it was really funny and exhausting (who would have thought that it is so hard to move a small boat through the water?!). The weather was just perfect for this... In the afternoon it started to rain (thank god Eva helped me out with a
shelter*g*), nevertheless I joined some people on a "GPS Tour" - we got a small GPS device and had to search coordinates. It was like a scavenger hunt - if we found a coordinate, there was a paper telling us the next coordinate and so on... Absolutely no sense, but it was fun, though.Back home I was so tired that I wanted to go to bed immediately. Since it was too early to go to bed I joined Sophia and some other guys from my corridor in the kitchen, where we watched Oceans 13 and Dirty Dancing (*lol*)...
Well, that's it, this was my week...thanks for reading ;) some pics will follow soon.
Manuel
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