Markus i Sverige

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...

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 party on saturday was - compared to Sweden- really big. They played good music. A lot of ABBA, of course (they still haven't overcome that). A lot of early 80's music. And one time, they played Nena "99 Luftballons". All in all i had fun and enjoyed the evening. It's still disturbing when they switch on the lights on 2 o'clock. I still did not want to go home. We tried to get something to eat from Subways but they might have made the money of their life. It was completly overcrowded. So some of us decided to take the bus back to Nacksta. I think i had my "smörbröd" sooner eaten than the guys who stayed in the restaurant. See the pictures on Phil's page . Yesterday was monday. It was a Markus-monday. I stayed up at 6:45. At 7:45 i realized that my lesson would start just on 10:15. At 9:30 i rembered that 10:15 would not be an ordinary lesson but a test! And i haven't learned for it! *sigh* The test wasn't hard, but i calculated the e...