Markus i Sverige

I am facing the last night in my room. My books and clothes are already packed. And I started the cleaning. I still have to wash dishes and to wipe the flat. I phoned a long time with Basti last night. I told me to watch the pictures I made during his cleaning session four weeks ago for having a reference what to care all about. Although I just move two buildings further, it feels like ending an epoch. A lot of memories are connected with this flat. With the living room. With the sofa. With the view out of the windows. But there will be another living room, another sofa and another amazing view. There I will experience the rising of the summer and the end of erasmus. Because my window will lead to northwest I will have direct sunshine in my room after midnight in a few month. Hard to imagine looking at the current weather. Tomorrow at 3pm will be my inspection. At thursday I will receive my new keys. After the unpredictable changes during the last 6 month I cannot assume, how long I w

As the week before I did not find much motivation for writing further on my seminar. I still have a few pages to write, but it so boring, that I am really really slow. Tomorrow will be the last day. And I have to call the inspector for an inspection this week, so that I can move to 16B on thursday. Until thursday the moving, cleaning, inspection and seminar-presentation has to be done. I would like to go on with artificial intelligence, but because of my economical seminar I don't have time for it. And my eyes start to become tired from all-the-time-at-the-screen-looking. Friday was a party at 16D. Nice, but I was tired from my seminar, so I took the opportunity to go home when Hendrik arrived. He and Timo had their thesis presentation this week. In one year I still hope to do the same. On saturday I stood up earlier for the seminar. At 5pm I went to a private Salsa course with Julia, Linda and Göran near the carlsberg brewery (haha, i know the source now, skål!). The best course I

I don't know what's up. During the day I am absolutely tired and not movitvated to do anything. I had an appointment at Mitthem this morning. I had to wait an half an hour, but I was thankful for that, because I were not able to speak one complete sentence in english, because I was unable to conzentrate. The result of my appointment is that I will move to 16B in a few days. The biggest advantages are the cheaper rent and the shorter way to Philipp. I am looking forward to the environmental change, because I guess it is this every day life that makes me so sleepy. Nevertheless, I tried to work on my seminar. But with less success. The topic is arbitrary complex and after I set up a simple example I just reached more than 2 pages. For stretching it to 10 I need to learn the complex stuff, too. And again, reading economical texts. At least the book I have now provides better guidline and definitions. I will be glad when this is over.

Yesterday evening we had good-bye. Again. This time it is Ulli's good-bye dinner. Again. Sometimes student life is sad. The dinner was very good. At half past 4am I changed the appartment for going to bed, because I still wanted to go to the AI lab. The swedish test I had already skipped in my mind. On 7am the doorbell ringed and woke me up. It was Markus from downstairs waking up Mathieu asking for cigarrettes, because nobody at the dinner had anymore. Sometimes, student life is great. I decided to skip the AI-lab aswell. I can do the same work after the decision analysis seminar. The lab is just a time were you can do it, but my presence is not compulsory. Instead I staid at home working on my paper. After almost two pages, I have almost everything said what I wanted to say. It is not ordered and has a few pictures. I think, after structuring it, I will have 3 pages. But I need 10. So, my poor friends from the course will have to read wisdom gathered from the book. The important

Today I had decision analysis. It was about the progress of our paper. First I wanted to go there, because I had some basic definition question. That's why I have no progress until now. But when I waited for the lesson I started reading the book I borrowed yesterday from the library. And it is really good answering all my questions. So, the only thing I would have been able to tell would have been "I have no progress". To avoid this embarresment I decided to go to swedish class, although I did no homework, had no books and nothing. After the lesson I heard, that the deadline for my papers has been moved to monday. 4 more days. Now I will make it. Live in Nacksta is evolving. Mathieu celebrates often movienights at our flat. This night there were 15 people here at our living room! I don't know, if there ever have been more at a movie night at Kåren.

No time, a lot of work. Perhaps I should think about a different career. Writer. Storyteller. Whatever. But at the moment I have to speak about an economic topic. And it is definitely not my thing. They use technical terms to explain technical terms. No definitions, no help, no guideline. Until thursday my 10-pages-paper has to be handed in. I don't want it. At least, I have written the title and read a paper about my topic.

A week has passed and I did not write any new entry. That's because, i don't know really what to tell. I've been to university almost every day programming. I sent in my robot, but I did not receive a feedback. And I started reading for my seminar of the C-course. 4 days left, no material collected and 10 pages to write. Tough week. On wednesday, Philipp and I tried to attend Innebandy-training, but we did not find the place. So, we will try it on monday again. It will be my first sport since I skipped tennis a few years ago. After not-finding-the-training I joined the pub-crew (Markus, Jonny, Ulrich and Ulli) for a trip to town. First we spent time at Kåren, because of the cheap drinks and went on to the irish pub afterwards ending up at Markus' appartment with good-night-drinks and pizza. Pictures will follow as soon as Ulli and Markus have uploaded them (HINT!!!). On thursday I had my first salsa lesson this year. I felt terrible tired, because of the former long nig

I slept long on saturday, so I met Mathieu after two o'clock in the kitchen for breakfast. After that I walked to university checking some things. In the evening Phil and I went out to town first meeting with Julia at her flat and going to Skeppsbrokällaren afterwards. There we met Ulrich, Markus, Ulli and Jonny who have been on a pub crawl. But we stayed almost all the time at Skeppsbrokällaren before we left to Bishops, another place I've never been before. We took a taxi home and had some kind of an afterparty at my flat . But I was not able to follow it for long... Philipp took pictures of the evening , too. I made an new invention: beer for licking. Because the fridge was full on thusday I placed my beer at the balconey. When I checked it yesterday I realized one can had exploded covering the other cans and my balconey with smart beer ice. The other cans were complete, but totally frozen. I placed them in the fridge for heating them. Today we did not anything more than wa

Wednesday and thursday where only university days. My robot can walk now from A to B and reacts properly to simple obstacles. But he has a problem with bigger obstacles. Those, who are interested in it: I covered the pathfinding algorithm from the algorithm for Bresenham-lines and added some simple reactions to obstacles. But I think I have to redesign it, because of the big-obstacle-problem. He needs a memory where he has already been on his path and he needs to calculate the path before he starts to walk on it. On friday I did nothing special. I phoned StuBo for moving to 16B, I could only speak on a recorder. Better luck next time. I also contacted my home university for some bureucracy stuff. I guess this will never end until I would leave Germany. Not that I plan to do it (I hear the rumors arising again). But I hate this German behaviour first to think about rising for denying service. For my financial support from the state, I need two applications from the university. But the d

live, live, LIVE!!!! Har-har-har-har-har-har! Pinky, the world will be ours *nag-nag-nag-nag*

It is getting tough now. I think about skipping one of my courses, because I have two more than necessary. And they all need my effort. First of all, there is the Decision Analysis2. It is the main course of my program and is compulsory. At todays lecture we had laboratory.After a short night of sleep I expected us as always in a computer room working on an assignment. But we were sitting in a small class room where we got 30 minutes to prepare a presenation about the results of our former assignments. Suprise! I assumed something like that, but I thought having access to my written assignments. I was not sufficiently prepared. But it was ok. After the presentation we received seminar-topics. Aron and Jim chosed a buisiness-topic for me. I have to read up to 8 papers describing the "Real Options"-method. I think, it won't be that interesting, but I did not ask for another topic, because I do not know which could be better. Perhaps it will become more interesting while st

On monday morning at quarter past 12am Basti's taxi left. Until than we were sitting in the kitchen. After he had finished his luggage Dennis, Basti and me emptied the wodka we started the night before our biathlon-adventure in november. This was how the old community ended. In good company. This morning I went only to university for buying a book from another student: "Algorithms in C++". It's a bible for algorithms and datastructures. After that I went back home, sleeping and working on the assignment for Artificial Intelligence. The first assignment is funny. I have to implement a robot that clean efficiently a room. It has a sensor for detecting walls infront of him and a sensor for detecting dirt under itself. When I read this I had to remember my beginnings of programming from now on 10 years ago. It was my 8th class at school and my first computer science lessons. We learned PASCAL with " Niki, the robot " (at that time as a DOS-application). And t

I know, I know. No new post since tuesday, although the week was interesting. But most of the time I spent at university, working on assignments and having lessons. The first week of the new semester went fine. On friday afternoon Conny arrived for a visit. In the evening we ate spaghetti at Ulli's place, because she received so much pasta from people who went back to their homecountry. On saturday we went to the city after a long breakfast. We used the opportunity for going to Lidl buying some stuff for me. In sweden, Lidl is much better than ICA, but it is at the other end of town, so we can only reach it by a 45-minute-walk or by bus. Conny and I visited the museum of the Kulturmagazinet, too. I've been in Sundsvall since September and I somehow never went there. But it is really nice. It is about art, but also about world- and swedish geology as for skandinavian- and Sundsvall's history. If you visit Sundsvall, you should go there. The entry is free and it is really w