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I have improved my RSA program, but the computer sill calculates with the old one, because the algorithm has not changed. But the window presents a few details about what the process. The old program is now running more than 24 hours. This means, only infinit amount of year minus ONE day left. Think positive. Another thing were I have to think positive. My professor told me today he would be responsible for my problem. Always the same thing. Now I have to find somebody who is responsible and cooperative. Yesterday night Phil and I visited Gema to congratulate to her yesterdays birthday. Luckily we made it 5 minutes before midnight so we were there in time. Phil has found his old provision baking a cake. After one hour was nothing more left than one small piece for Iman. She was very happy about this late suprise. This is what birthdays are for, don't you think? The weather was very interesting today. Because of my phone call with Aachen I missed my lecture. But because of this, I

Today, I have to annoy you with my little child: RSA. I finished the prototype of my RSA program!!! Thanks to Michael, who helped finding through my final frustration (how do I load an unkown amount of items from a stream?) . And now, ladies and gentleman: tadaaa! It looks great, doesn't it? No, I am kidding. The window does not have much sense; now. My window is the small one infront of the big good looking one (the good looking one is the tool I used to create the bad looking one). But because frequental backups are implemented, the computer can be turned of during his calculations, without losing too much time. At the moment, the backups are made every 60 minutes. Multithreading is also implemented, so everything is prepared for upgrades. The technical problem is, that I have to check in the worst case approximatly 2 to the power of 350 items. It cannot be that much, but until now it looks like, so I cannot contradict the pessimists now. I have my reasons why I think it cannot

As you can imagine, sunday was not my most active day of the week. I almost got dark when I stood up. After breakfast with Phil and Stephan we went to Kårhuset in the evening and watched "Pirates of the Caribean 2". It is an unnecessary but funny movie, I think. But it ends right in the middle of the story. "To be continued..." I found to funny pictures of myself. The differnce between these pictures are 2 month. The left is from Karoline's birthday in september the other from the recent carneval party. My hair is now much longer and I look more crazy. How will I look in two more month? Ulrich phoned today with our department from FH Aachen. We need to apply for a study brake in Germany for staying in Sweden. Everything is clear, but we need a letter from the department which is about "Yes, he is in Sweden". But nobody knows, how this letter has to look like, because nobody of our department seems to have ever applied for it. And the incredible answer

Today most people of Nacksta drove to Norway. And I am not with them. I slept very long on and programmed my RSA algorithm. Now the threads are implemented, but the backup is not implemented yet, so it takes some time, before I can test it. In the evening Ulrich, Phil, Stephan and I went out to the town. First we joined Anders and Andreas. On our way, we became totally wet and I was very angry about my situation. I thought of becoming a cold and probably missing the Salsa party in three days because of illness. But when we arrived at Petter, he gave us a very healthy Irish Coffee to become warm again. This was at perhaps 8pm. At 11pm we went to O'learys. First I thought O'Learys would be boring, but it was quite cool after a while. We stayed until 3am dancing all the time. But the last hour was the hardest for me. I was tired and drunken people pushed me all the time. But all in all it was worth becoming wet in the beginning of the evening. Check out Phil's galery . And no

This morning Basti and I had a Decision Analysis lesson. In this lesson it was the first time how a teacher used snus. Snus is a scandinavian drug. The people here use it instead of smoking. It is usual to use it, but I never saw a lectuerer using it during a lecture. I won't see Basti for a while, because he is in Östersund. But he is not the only one leaving Sundsvall this weekend. A lot of people will drive to the fjords in Norway. This must be beautiful. I love the rough nature of the norwegian landscape. But I won't attend to the trip this time. Hopefully we will repeat this in spring, when we have more light. I really would like to see the ocean. After university Solène visited me for her study. I had to play the famous prisoner's dilemma . Because it was a machine, I tried to cheat on it. But in the end I felt sorry and tried to cooperate. But at the last game, the player had a different personality and cheated all the time while I was trying to cooperate. If you wo

Yesterday was the "Good Bye"-dinner of the exchange students in Sundsvall. My second Good-Bye-dinner this week. But this time it was just a usual party. Nobody thought about seeing each other again. Just singing and drinking. But it was a good party. The meal was excellent. And the wine, too. Everybody had a secret task to absolve. My task was to speak as much swedish as possible. After the dinner we went at midnight to O'learys, but in the way Magnus told me it would cost entrance so I turned and went back home. Phil has the best pictures. This morning was very hard to get up. I had swedish lesson at 9:15. And I was the only one, so I had a nice talk with Ella talking about speed limits in Germany and Sweden and things like that. After that I attended the Swedish1-Course. In Swedish2 I always think of I am unable to say the easiest swedish sentences. But in Swedish1 I realized, that I already learned a lot. After more than 3 hours swedish I had predicate logic. And thi

The weekend was to short. During the first days I always have to remember Östersund. On monday I had a predicate logic lesson. Until now I can follow the lesson. The lecturer started to express everything in mathematical formulas, so can finally learn that, too. Yesterday we had swedish lesson. I like these lessons. Ella has prepared something, but we have everytime something else to question. Yesterday we brought a article about Anna from a magazine. During the lesson we read the article and discussed it. And because it was full of partizipels Ella taught us partizipels. Today Basti and I had our first Decision Analysis lesson. Because Jim became father another lecturer taughts the lessons. Aron makes his job fine, I think. He tries to involve the audience and explains everything in details and with funny examples. But one thing I don't like: as always at this university you need a course book. And as always there are just two copies at the library. And the bookstores have to orde

Saturday morning the last EILCs from Sundsvall, Phil, Dennis and I, started our trip to Östersund. At the centralstation of Sundsvall we met the remaining Härnösand fraction Klara, Jana and Katarina. All others already went to Östersund on friday or even thursday. The train takes 2.5 hours to Östersund. At the centralstation in Östersund the czech girls went into the city while Phil, Dennis and I went by bus to the camping zone, where our remaining friends live. First we visited Malgosia, before the coffee part y at Conny's cottage started. We had a lot of cake, tea and coffee and for some of the participants it was the first time I saw them again since the accomodation desaster in the beginning of september. It was very nice to start the revival. After the coffee I slept a while. Because of the movie night on friday in Sundsvall I still had a lack of sleep. Thanks to Nico, I found again a fine accomodation in Östersund. And the evening became an event, too. It was an EILC-party

Yesterday, Basti and I had just swedish lesson at 10:15. But we both slept until 9:55. Don't ask me how this could happen. We switched our alarmclocks off at 9:00 and forgot about it. No, we don't sleep in the same bed or room. But it was possible to reach the lesson at 10:20. At swedish we watched the movie "Kopps". It is almost with the same actor group like in "Jalla, Jalla!" which we had watched during the EILC. But "Kopps" is absurd. The crew must have had a lot of crazy ideas, appending them to a movie. Some were funny, but most the time it was absurd. Well, it was our fault. We wished this movie, because we heard from it. After the lessen we made an exkursion to Subway. Everytime when I am at Subway I try to order in swedish. Everything is alright until I reach the guy with the sauces and the guy at the cash desk. They always recognize me as "not-swedish" and talk english with me. Because of this, I asked Ella for practicing Subwa

I have not much to do right now. My only lessons are predicate logic and swedish. Until now logic is easy to follow. Phil and Ulrich joined me at this course. Logic has less lessons per week than last period so i have a few free days. Next week decision analysis will start. Then things will become harder, i guess. Today i had just laundray. And one of the damn laundrays did not wash. Look for the right machine, when you book room number 5 at Nacksta. Sometime the right machine stops after the beginning with an error-code. I washed twice. First it worked, the second round it did not. But luckily I did not have time to be angry about it, because Fabian visitied us at Nacksta. He was in Sundsvall to visit a german-lecture at school as a native speaker. After the lesson he visited us for a coffee. It was very nice to see him again. I am always happy to see one the EILC again. Yesterday and today I had a movieproject in the evening. Lines project is to make a movie for university. And they

Friday evening Basti and I joined a karaokee-party at Felix's and Sandra's flat. But this time my vocal chords struggled with my cold. On saturday Basti and I stayed in the living room, wasting time. I tried to cure my cold, because at the evenening should be a party. First there was a pot lock (look, luck?) party. We made filled champions. According to the others, they tasted very good. Good to know. I fear, when Joana was here, I has forgotten the onions. And this time I tried more spices. Short after the food party was a second party at 20B: a carneval party. It is not common in Sweden, so some germans got the idea to introduce the carneval to Sweden. At home, carneval is not my thing. It is just usual in some parts of Germany. At carneval everybody becomes drunk. The days in february are the worst/best (depends on which side you are). It is the end of carneval and daily life changes totally. People don't go to w ork and just celebrate. After having participated as teena

A boring week. Since tuesday I have a slight cold. I hope it will be gone tomorrow, because it is weekend and few cool events promise to bring fun. Yesterday I have not been to salsa, because I wanted to avoid to cough all the time. That's not polite during a dance. But I wished I had been there. It would have been so much fun. In the evening I tried the spanish birthday party, I wasn't able to stand longer than one hour. I sweat and I felt cold and hot at the same time. I went home, trieing to sleep, but that was not fine either. I hope, I will be fine tomorrow. There will be a pot lock party. I don't know what to bring. Afterwards will be a german carneval party. According to rumors with carneval karaokee. Cool. Today I visited the universtiy just for taking my exam home. In Sweden you are allowed to take your exam home. You have to sign for taking it and than you are allowed to do. I remember when I asked my chief of my department at the first year in Aachen for my exam

Today our beloved long term visitor Inga left Sundsvall going home to Östersund. But she sent me some pictures she made during her visit. She introduced the group learning in the living room. Because Basti and I had different courses the period before, we always stayed in our rooms studiing for our own. I don't know, why we did not have the idea before, but now we are at the living room all the time. My first lesson of the new period was swedish. As expected I passed the exam with mercy. But I passed an now we can start swedish2 next week... with three participants. Tomorrow there will be my first new math lecture: predicate logic. I already know a little bit about it from "Theoretical informatics" at home. But after Logic last period I am sure, there will be a lot of things I never heard of before although I have studied parts of the topic. And at the end of november the second lecture "decision analysis 1" will start and this time Basti is with me. Like at hom

I am free, now. No exams, no homework. YES! In finished my homework on friday night. I wasn't able to write 8 pages, because of the lack of time. But I think, I have structered my 5 pages in the right way (thesis, argument, conclusion), so I hope for a satisfied feedback. At least it was send in before the deadline ends, so even if it is not good enough I will have the opportunity to fix in a week. But the good thing is, it is finished and I can have my first weekend without thinking about exams or homeworks. After I sending in my homework I attended a party at the spanish girls flat. Almost everybody sent them his three most favorite songs. When they asked me I really felt unsure about my favorite songs. I almost never think about favorits. For all the people who asked me at that evening: I send them "Smashmouth - Shoes 'n' hats", "Smashmouth - Your man" and "Lostprophets - Last train home". As you can see at the picture, I was still influenc

Exams are over. And it were finally more than i thought. Yesterday evening Basti remind me of the swedish exam today. Just thinking of logic i had forgotten that thing. But anyway I was learning very relaxed. I am a little scared about myself. But I have not learned a tenth that intensive like I did at home. It's just, because you have 5 hours for each exam. And the questions are just for 90 minutes. Because the period is that short, I always can sit there, try two hours to remember examples from the lectures, try to proof something by my own and finally find the clue without having learned it at home. If I would have learned 2 hours yesterday intensivley i could have done the exam today in logic in one hour instead of three. But that's a difference of two hours, too. After the mathematics exam today i prepared one hour for swedish. But I was shocked how much I had forgotten since EILC. As I hoped I could remember many things, but I did not get the details. And when I received