Andreilla que te como la orejilla and Paul

In this video appear Andrea (Italy) and Paul (France). They are two of my very special friends here... We had a terrible fright with Paul's accident in Goteborg but now it's obvious that he's recovering perfectly (we're going to Poland Paul!!!!!!)
I'm uploading our private foam party... hehe Everybody went to Platª except for us three, Ali and Lena and this is what we got :P despite it has no sound, I believe it is a very cute vid... enjoy!!
leyre from the library... I have my Project Management exam on Saturday...

CiAO GUAPO!!!!

Saturday held one of the biggest parties ever in Linköping: Luca Dotti's Farewell party, most commonly known as "Last Party (here)". We had so much fun!
I must admit that despite not having been a close friend here, the goodbye to Luca was very moving... he certainly embodies the true Erasmus in all senses. Sweden and Linköping will deeply miss him, we will miss u too!
Ciao Guapo! and for sure we will be visiting u in Modena ;)
btw... today we had the first frost of the year, everything was covered by a light ice layer this morning although right now he have a wonderful sunshine and almost 8ºC ;)

ciaoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

cazzo! qué frío!!!

Today we went downtown (Lena, Laurita, Giulio and me) to buy somethings for Luca's farewell party (if u want to join, u'r still on time and very welcomed! 3rd floor above Flamman tonight). I visited System Bolaget for the first time despite having been here for more than two months... For foreigners: in Sweden, normal supermarkets aren't allowed to sell alcoholic drinks so if you want some, even if it's just some wine of normal beer (over 3.2º...?¿?¿?¿) you must go to System Bolaget. I don't really know how many of them there are here in Linköping but we've been in the one next to the White Church (I still don't know the name!!). Some Cava and some wine, for tonight's dinner at as a gift for Luca.
Btw, the town looked really nice today: all of the shops were opened, there were many ppl in the streets, it was a very sunny day but... it was amazingly cold! right now we're just over 6ºC but it feels pretty cold... In order to make my room seem warmer I decided to change my desktop photo from the one of the Absolut Icebar in Stockholm to the lovely landscape of Tuscany... I love this pic sooooooooo much!!!

bumping into Happiness...

Today while reading the blog of an old friend I met some lovely lines about "la felicidad", which is actually the same as happiness, but in Spanish sounds so much nicer ;) After having read it, I couldn't help it looking up in wikipedia.com (it's becoming one of my daily tools here) the definition of "felicidad"... situación involuntaria en la que los factores internos y externos interactuan activando el sistema límbico (does anybody know what this means?), que estimulado adecuadamente, informará de este estado anímico. I found this too technical so I kept on searching. I didn't actually find the definition but something rather more interesting: Satisfaction with Life Index: the average self-reported happiness in different nations, using direct measures of happiness as an alternative to traditional measures of policy success. Surprinsingly (or maybe not so surprinsingly) Sweden is amongst the list of the most "happy" countries in the World...

from the most happy to the less happy: green>blue>purple>orange>red

I'm finishing this brief thought about "la felicidad" with an interesting sentence from Henry Van Dyke: "La felicidad es interior, no exterior; por lo tanto, no depende de lo que tenemos, sino de lo que somos." TOTALLY AGREE. Happiness is born in our minds...

What makes me happy right now? To think about sunny lovely weather, just as the one we're having here this week despite the low temperatures (2.3ºC right now in Ryd, 23.44)...

Looking foward to tomorrow,

Have a good night ;)

de la polenta to panna cotta y from pastone erasmus al pastone erasmus vegetariano...

partying, partying, partying... but also a lot of work! I am currently taking two courses: Project Management which is full-time and Linear Statistical Models. I must say I am quite happy with my work groups, on one side Thai, Derya and Bastien, and on the other Bilal. Keep it up pals!
Yesterday we (Laurita, Lena, Steffi and Ali) visited Uppsala for the day though we actually only spent 5 hours there... Sigtuna will have to wait for a future trip!
Days are getting not gradually but actually quite fast colder and colder as well as shorter... it's totally dark by 7pm.... Välkommen till Sverige!

Notes: Planned trips coming up soon...
1/ Poland: 28th-30th October
2/ Russia: 12th-21st November
3/ Bratislava-Prague-Vienna: 29th Novermber- 4th December

Football match (clasificatoria para Eurocopa): SPAIN vs SVERIGE 17th October!

Courses, exams, preparting and partying!

Last night, of course, HG... ended in Nacho's corridor in a kind of after party (?¿) thought I'd lost my cell phone but I was finally at Mike's corridor, SOOOOOOOOO HAPPY TO HAVE FOUND IT! Laura and I are planing to visit Uppsala on Saturday, maybe visiting Gavle too but we still have to decide...
I'm posting a photo from Giulio's bday on Friday evening (auguri caro!), enjoy!

UPDATING!

After not having writen anything at all ever since I got here, I have finally decided to make a new post.. It's not that I've been lazy but I've had soooooooooooo many things to do! From now onwards, I'll try to post a photo every 3-4 days and tell how things are going here... Promise!
Right now... well today we've had a really sunny day! the weather here has been like a cold February in Madrid so I can say that I haven't had any Summertime this year... Swedes say it's been the worst Summer in the past 50 years so I guess the Winter that's coming will be just as bad... but anyway, it's also part of the experience!
Yesterday I had my first exam here... not my best I must tell, not great expectations about it... but at least it's done! Tomorrow I'll be starting my next course, promise to work harder from the begining for this one! ;)