I'm on my way to Copenhagen with the final destination Brussels tonight. Cute location is one of the absolute benefits of Linkoping that I have to accept. Being 2 hours from Stockholm and 3-4 hours from Copenhagen gives a kind of freedom in selection of traveling routes. Sadly there is no comparison with Vaasa and its 8 trains to Helsinki per day. ( Read more... )

Our peaceful campus life was interrupted today... by military "representatives":

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My first lessons of Swedish language happened almost 2 months after our arrival to Sweden in... the sport hall. :-) There is group trainings as usual, i.e. coreball, pilates, yoga and so on. They are of course in Swedish. So when I'm bored with iron devices in the gym I go to such classes. Surprisingly, Swedish coaches talk a lot... in Swedish. It' ( Read more... )

Halloween in LiU! Let it go!

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10 weeks, many papers, group meetings. Everything is done! Well, except the exam, but these are details :-P Today we had the last last seminar. We were grouped for discussion and presentation. And people in my particular group divided in "easy-takers" and "don't carers". Everybody was so tired of all these non-stop assignments that we didn't even ( Read more... )

Every time I enter one of the university buildings, it's like "wow!" to see this plane undercarriage:

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I guess all normal exchange students spend their free-time partying or traveling. But two nerdy students from Vaasa prefer to benefit from it :-), for example going to excursion...
Today we participated in the excursion arranged by one of the LiU international associations. I'm not sure that we knew what the content of the excursion would be when we ( Read more... )

It seems to me Swedish payment system was created as a quest especially for foreigners ( Read more... )

Yesterday, very late we got the letter that we had won the qualification in that spontaneous Project Management competition. Now our team will represent the University of Vaasa in the final among 4 other Finnish Universities. It doesn't look like a big event but team attitudes are quite serious. Let's see, we have 10 days for preparation ( Read more... )

When I arrived to Finland, we were told that Finns are self-serving nation. So it is normal to pick youк dish in a student cafeteria and then bring back dirty dish and pay to the cashier. Great economy in terms of waiters :-)
However, Swedes have left behind Finns in this "self" perceptions. They are not only self-serving nation but also self- ( Read more... )