miércoles, 15 de agosto de 2007

Hej Linköping!

Right now I’m in my own room J Ryd Allé 15.115. For those of you who have heard they call the Ryd Allé “Beverly Ryd”, I must say there’s not much difference between my room and Ivan’s ( a Spanish guy I met at the airport in Copenhagen, actually, he found me and he’s helping me a lot! Cause he knows all the stuff we have to here the 1st days… and plus! Last night I slept in the sofa of his corridor cause when we arrived here in Linköping at 21h55 the renting company office was already closed… so, thx Iván!). He lives in Rydsvaggen, 2 minutes away from where I live.
Btw, I didn’t get my suitcase L I hope they lost it in Copenhagen, otherwise I think it’s going to take a while to get here to Linköping…
My room, well… it’s on the ground floor so that means less intimacy, that means much less: from my window I can even touch the bikes which are parked outside my building! Anyway… we’ve been doing some academical stuff such as getting our coordinators here to sign our arrival, paying the student fee (240kr ≈ 25€),… Today we’re having lovely weather! It’s approximately 25ºC and veeeeeeeeeeery sunny. Whenever Ivan comes, we’re going to set up the Internet connection and we’ll be going to the centre of town to buy a bike and some clothes for me, he loss of my suitcase is the perfect excuse to go shopping J

Hasta pronto Madrid...

Right now I’m on my flight, destination Copenhagen J The time is 3:55pm and the temperature in Madrid was 20ºC J I’ll be posting this whenever I get to Linköping. Leaving Madrid wasn’t actually too sad, I mean I didn’t cry I guess it’s because I know I’ll be back in September to take a couple of exams and plus, my cousins have their tickets already booked for the 13th of September, even before I come back for my exams. Closing the suitcase was a total odyssey basically because of the fear of the overweight fee :S In the end I managed to have a suitcase of only 26 kg but I’m also taking a very heavy hand luggage despite last night I took many things from the big suitcase… I hope it will arrive to Linköping at the same time as me! It seems as if most of the ppl on the flight are Scandinavian, well they certainly are, they’re more tanned than I am!!!!!!! This is REALLY depressing… anyway, can’t wait to get to Linköping! I’ll watch the movie they’re playing right now, didn’t get to hear the title :P
Good bye Madrid!
Ps.- I hope that nice Miguel Adrian, one of the Mexicans who’s already in Linköping will have got my key from the Studentbostader office, otherwise I hope some nice student will lend me their sofa to sleep on it tonight… fingers crossed!

It’s now 6:20 pm, just about to reach Copenhagen! We’re 1946km away from Madrid and the temperature outside the plane is -36ºC!! That’s the temperature expected in Linköping in Winter-time… :S Now I’ll have to board for the flight to Linköping (at 8:20pm) from Copenhagen… I hope I won’t get lost in the airport… I’ll be writing again on the final flight! :D

Arrival to Copenhagen: 18h55, 20ºC… I’ll be boarding to Linköping in about an hour and a half, at 20h25 J I think I’m going to eat the lovely Spanish ham chapatti my mother prepared for me and then just wait at the boarding gate. Btw! Nice airport the one here in Copenhagen!

miércoles, 8 de agosto de 2007

Mi casa en Linköping




In Sweden, the most common thing for University students is to live in corridor rooms. In Linköping the biggest reantal company is Studentbostader. If you want to get an accomodation what u should do is apply through their website. Anyway, the procces is more or less easy but despite having been on their list for almost 3 months, I just got their response in mid-July. You can imagine the wiating wasn't precisely calm :S


You can decide in which area of Linköping you want to live. Amongst the exchange students, the most popular area is Ryd. My peer student, Daniel, advice me to take Ryd Allé cause it's just next to Ryd, well it's actually Ryd, but it's the newest part. I finally got Ryd Allé! So I'm actually quite happy about it :)




domingo, 5 de agosto de 2007

The Stereotypes...

This is not the 1st time I stop to think about stereotypes... Actually, I thought quite a lot about it before going to the IW Milan in April this year cause the topic of the week was "Fight against stereotypes". I guess it's something that always comes up to you whenever meeting foreign ppl, what's the idea they have aboutSpanish ppl? About Sweden... I believe it to be a very cold place, I thought the ppl were cold too but having had the opportunity to meet quite a few Swedes this year (wonderful IW's!), I think the stereotype I had was wrong. At first they can seem closed and distant but give them the chance and u'll see they are very nice ppl :D A fact: in Spain it is said that ALL Swedish girls are hot. True or false?
I've been speaking lately to 3 young nice Swedish guys (who will from now onwards be Mr. X, Mr. Y and Mr. Z) about the Spanish stereotype. I'll base this post on what they said. Hope the conclusions will be positive!
Well, according to Mr. X ( I promised to keep his identity hidden), Spanish ppl are darked haired and loud. Mmm, yes, that's true, we're quite loud, I should say noisy... but how are u supposed to be heared in a crowded bar plus high volume of music if u don't shout?
Mr. Z spoke about the warm character of Spaniards: "u like partying and drinking". Is that positive? The partying definitively,though the drinking not so sure if it's in terms of alcoholism. Anyway, who doesn't enjoy a lovely warm afternoon drinking a couple of beers with some friends or even better, with some tasty sangria? Come on! Nobody could ever resist! But he added somthing else, he believes Spanish ppl to be very friendly. That's nice Mr. Z! Thanks!
Mr. X added some other facts such as the language. He answered "yes" whenever I asked him if Spanish sounded sweet to him. :D Does Swedish sound sweet too?
Mr. Y knows too much about Spain. And more he'll get to know whenever his Erasmus here starts ;) To sum up all of his information, he thinks Spanish girls are nice.
So... I feel they didn't have a negative view on Spanish ppl, hope that all Swedes think the same!


viernes, 3 de agosto de 2007

Countdown to Linköping!

Hola a todos!
Primera entrada en mi blog Erasmus... todavia estoy ultimando los papeles de la universidad, la Carlos III no es muy eficiente que digamos... tengo hasta el día 13 para asegurarme de que todo está bien! Fingers crossed!!