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This monday I had my first lesson of the new courses that I did not miss. It was a lab and I had to finish two exercises. This is a C-course now and a I see the differences between A,B and C. At A course I could hand in exercises when I wanted. At the B course I could hand them in, when ever I wanted, but it were a lot of exercises. And at the C course we have a lot of exercises but we have to hand them in to close deadlines. In the evening we had a summer party . It was the second during my time at Nacksta, but the first I were able to participate. I missed the first because of the EILC-Good-bye-Party once in Östersund. And this time it was so nice. It was a good opportunity to meet the new exchange students. This was a monday-party. During the last 5 month we received one warning (that means one visit from the police). This night we received two!!! We started at Solène's flat, moving to Urlich's after the first warning. When he received one, we moved on to 16D where the par

This day happened nothing special, so it does not earn a title. The whole day I set at university solving the missing exercises for decision analysis. I hope it was worth the time. In the evening there was the welcome dinner for the new and old students. The dinner was nice. I set next to Alex who is a boy from EILC 2005 and Lene who is a girl which knows Nico from their swedish language course in Bremen. The world is quite small here in Sweden. The dinner was not that well as the good bye dinner almost two month ago. The food was little and it took very long. The drinks were also not free. And the party afterwards was also not satisfiing. Most of the time we were standin at the corridor, because every dancing room played bad music; even worse than the music we know very well from the Kårhuset. And almost no swedish people have been there. Nevertheless I was the first leaving at quarter past 1. I hungered the whole day long because of the dinner and it was not that much. Now a self de

A week has passed since the last post appeared. Since last friday a week of skiing has passed. A week of joy, a week of celebtrating and the last days with a few of my closest friends. But first of all, it were holidays. Friday, 2007-01-19 In the evening we had Basti's Good Bye Dinner with the EILC people. Dennis cooked very tasty fish. As always, very deligious. Later in the evening Marlena arrived. She is Ulrich's fellow-student and just arrived at Sundsvall. As far as I know she was the first of the new students. The remaining night Basti and I worked on our assignments for Decision analysis. We were not able to complete it, but we hoped for receiving a "passed" for our already done work. Saturday, 2007-01-20 This was the first very cold day at Sundsvall since my arrival. Philipp phoned me, telling me, I should take very warm clothes, because it were -15°C. During the ski-week it were every morning that cold. So, early in the morning Basti and I started our last c

What a day. I worked 7 hours nonstop at decision analysis. Because the first two homework sessions were easy I thought I could do it in shorter time. But, the exercises became worse and do not build on stuff learned during the lesson, but in things you have to read in the books. That's new for me. Without the help of Afser, Rueben, Basti and (look, you are mentioned!) Atta I would have been lost. And perhaps I am. I still need 4 exercises to finish, and I don't have the exercises anymore. Perhaps I try to get something during this night. And there is still this assignment... perhaps I should beg for mercy. I just want pass, nothing else. Perhaps the work I have done is enough? I rather would like to hibernate and wait until a solution is found for me. But I may not hibernate, because tomorrow I will go to Östersund!!! Shall the world go to hell, I don't care, haha, because I will go to Östersund. If you are scared from me, calm down. 7 hours decision analysis melt your brai

Perhaps you have already noticed some differences between men and women. During their evolution, which seems to be totally different to evolution of men, they evolved skills no man can every imagine. One of these skills is to find weaknesses. Do you know these situations? You have cleaned your room and your mother or girlfriend enters and finds immidiatly the only place you forgot to clean (behind the cupboard, on the doorframe etc.). Even if they don't search, they find these places in seconds. By doing this, they can show you places you have never known them to exist before! And today I saw a job where you can use this ability perfectly: the inspector. Because Basti had his inspection today, he cleaned the whole flat yesterday night. I was thinking he is too serious, because Dennis and I are still living here and I thought Basti would have just had to clean his own room. But he cleaned everything, and the flat shines in light like never seen before. It was not that clean when we

Yesterday I was sitting with Basti in the living room waiting with a can of beer for my birthday. At midnight he and Ulrich, Philipp, Anna and Line suprised me with a cake, tart and presents. I was very happy they suprised me. We were sitting until half past one at the living room and talking. One new topic is the coming ski-week. Suddenly I got the opportunity to get a place and I took it (Thanks to Inga who thought about me!). I expect to meet a few EILC-people there, too. Because of this skiweek there won't be any blog entries from me from saturday until at least thursday next week. Today I finished my bureaucraty stuff. And I went to town preparing me for the skiweek. Now I have ski trousers which I found at the second hand shop Myrorna . And I found some good gloves since I lost my old ones on saturday at the university. They would have been to thick anyway... Tomorrow will be Basti's last day in his room. Because he will come back for just one or two days after the skiw

Today I had a special swedish lesson. First, the location was special. The room where Anna, Line and I had to go was in the top of the library tower of the campus. It was more like a small office, with 5 chairs, on table and a big tv with equipment. Second, the tv-equipment was special. A camera, which you can control with remote control, was standing at the television looking in our direction while sitting at the table. On the table lied a microphone waiting for us to talk. And third, Ella has not been at Sundsvall, but in Härnösand. She was sitting in a class room with a similar equipment as we had. But it was not my lesson. Not because of the equipment. First I were not able to head the words Ella said, because the modification of her voice through the television was unfamiliar to me. But even later, when I understood the words, I did not know what they meant. Terrible. Just 3 weeks out of Sweden and I feel like starting from Zero again. I've been really disappointed about mysel

We made it! This morning we had our logic exam. And it went fine for me. After two hours I finished it. The good thing with logic seem to be, that it is... well, logical. I cannot remember really the lessons, so I don't really know the way we were taught how to solve the problems, so I likley made many formal mistakes, even if my solution would be correct. But I should have at least passed. Now there is "just" a lot of work for Decision Analysis left which I must have done next sunday. For the rest of the day I watched movies. And at night we went sleding down the Nacksta hill. Down the hill was a ramp and one time I hit it and flew!! Now I can hardly sit, but it was fun at all. Sleding in the snow Tomorrow I will have swedish via Internet. I will sit in a conference room while Ella is teaching us from Härnösand.

In summer 2005 I mentioned a sentenced I waited for all my life: "Never a math exam again". Well, never say never. Tomorrow at 8am I will have my (hopefully) last math exam (again): Predicate Logic. Before christmas I thought it is something I can handle. But now I can just say "Okay, fine, but should I know that?". I am so glad exams at this university are not under a real time limit. I have 5 hours to solve the questions. Enough time to be creative, I hope. But for sure, I will try a few exercises later this evenig. Because of the exam Phil and Ulrich visited me today again and we learned a few hours. Their way to my building was not easy, because we had a snow storm outside. Snow was falling from the right to the left instead from top to down and streetworkers cleaned the roads all the time. Now, it is quiet and we have a lot of snow. I will test the snow while going to the supermarket to buy some things for tomorrow's breakfast.

More than three weeks have passed since my last post. As noticed I was at Germany over christmas, but most of the three weeks I was working for university. As result my Organisational Decision Making course is now finished and I passed it with distinction. My journey home started on thursday afternoon, where a storm in middle Europe made flying difficult. People were only allowed to go in small groups to the plane, so nobody fell from the stairs while waiting for the one infront of him or her. Sitting in the standing plane was also interesting. The plane, essecially its wings, were shaking a lot. And while speeding up the plane felt like making two short jumps to the right hit by the storm. After this very interesting flight we landed at Skavsta where it was suprisingly snowing. As the rest of Europe Sweden also has a far to warm winter. At Skavsta were 4 degres, but it was snowing. Because I have bought my retur-ticket for the shuttle bus last year on my way to Germany I was lucky to