Another rainy day in Linköping

Despite the lovely sun which woke us up this morning, another cloudy afternoon... and it looks as if it's going to be like this for a while...

ps.- "don't look back into the sun, now u know the time is come and they said it would never come for u, oh-oh-oh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

From Beauvais with love

hej hej everyone around... it's been quite a long time ever since I last wrote the latest blog post here...

the last 15 days I have been studying "seriously" for my exams back in Spain. By seriously I mean not partying 4 times a week here in Linköping but whenever everybody went to HG, Plata, etc I went home in order to be rested for the next studying day... So that has been my routine here the last 2-3 weeks.

I flew to Madrid last Saturday from Skavsta to Beauvais and then to Madrid. The price of the ticket and the nearness of Skavsta (only 1h30) by direct bus from Linköping were the reasons to choose this route but know I have "sufferer" the "auto-transfer" experience I am seriously questioning the posibility of repeating it... On my way to Madrid I would have to wait in Beauvais 6 hours but that was something I was already prepared for so it was boring boring booooooooooring but at least I knew about. But coming back to Sweden has been an exhausting travel! After having slept for 4 hours in the last 48h in Madrid (an exam, meeting friends, going out for dinner) I was really looking foward to sleep on the planes (Madrid- Beauvais, Beauvais-Skavsta) and getting early in the afternoon to Linköping and then sleep for the rest of the afternoon to be ready for the Plata reentré night (also known as the Long Island Iced tea night). I landed in Beauvais on time (8am) but the flight to Skavsta at 9.30 am as well as all of the flights departuring from Beauvais were cancelled because of the densed fog. We were told we would be rearrenged in the flight at 12.30pm but that flight didn't take place either... I was terribly tired, unable to find a place where to take a nap, having to carry around my hand luggage which was now incredibly heavy due to the 4bottles (2gin, 1tequila,1rum) I had just bought in the dutty-free...

I had already tested all of the creams, stared at all of the Paris souvenirs, gone to the toilet, read magasins,... Beauvais is too small for more than 2h!!!!!! and more over, the boarding hall is toooooooo small to hold all of the passangers from 5 cancelled flights (Pisa, Rome, Oslo, Varsovia, Skavsta)... and still more ppl coming in! :S

They finally decided to "evacuate" the boarding hall and we were all in the checking area which is still too small for the amount of ppl we were... I finally got a new boarding pass for the flight to Skavsta which was departuring at 3.30pm... that means a delay of 6h!!!! I managed to sleep during the second period in the boarding hall and then again on the flight...
but the best was still to come: we arrived at Skavsta at 5.40pm whenever the shuttle to Linköping had left 10min ago, W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L having to wait 2h for the bus to come was just what I needed...

the best part of the day: having lovely friends who cook and are capable of saving a warm dish for you whenever you're hungry, too tired to prepare anything to cook :)))) and the best, the comforting chat u have after a couple of days away, I LOVE PARMIGIANO REGGIANO CORRIDOR!

ps.- please don't leave...

while queueing for the Lapland trip...

¿Oye, cuál es tu concepción de la vida?

Pienso que cada uno de nosotros tiene muchas cosas dentro y que, entonces, la vida sirve para hacer salir todas estas cosas fuera. Lo que quiero decir que al final de mi vida seré feliz si todo lo que tenía en mí he podido hacerlo crecer y vivir. Luego pienso que estaremos muertos durante bastantes años, así que me parece importante aprovechar la vida a tope, disfrutando de todas las cosas bonitas que nos ofrece.

From the book "Las Voces del Deseo"...

What is ur own conception about life?

I'm writing this while Giulio is sleeping, Laura just gave up with her intent of falling asleep, the Aussies are beign quite noisy and the Spanish crew is just on the other side of the hall being very quiet... ;)

ps.- still 7h30 till the ticket selling starts... will we be able to see the Northen Lights once we're there?

I love Parmigiano Reggiano Corridor!

Everybody is going back home for Xmas... for some it's also the end of their exchange here: David, Pascal, Fabi, Mike,... It's been a wonderful semester I must say, thanx ORI for the mistake during the asigning procedure :P For my closest friends, most of us will be coming back after Xmas so tragedy is still to come... although Ali has been deeply missed ever since she left early December :( Anyway... our Parmigiano Reggiano Corridor (wonderful lasagne, amazing arrosto, delicious risotto and those "Family" Sunday lunches) would have never had existed if it wasn't for you....

Now we know where bullshit city lies on the Worldwide map,

now we now who Kings of Party (should I say farting??) are,

now we understand most of the things we had never understood (before we had listened to ur coherent explanations...),

now we know the meaning of "eres más puta que las gallinas [thx Alex!] (porque aprendieron a nadar para fol..... a los patos...)",

now we know that our Erasmus without u would had NEVER been the same ;)

GRACIAS POR TODOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GIULIOOOOOOOOOO!!

p.s.- ((((pero qué feo que eres!!!! """noooooooo, soy muy bonitooooooooooooo!!!"""))))

Se acerca la Navidad!

I know... my frequency of updates is soooooooo terrible!!!! In my defense I can just say I've had a lot to do in the last month and PLUS! I haven't been in Linköping that much! Making a brief review this is how my last month went along...
from the 1st-6th November my parents visited me :) 4 days here in Linköping and then the MUST in Sweden: visiting beautiful Stockholm (my third time there btw...)
On the 9th we had the first big snow, so exciting!


Laura turned 21 on the next day... we had a wonderful party with special guests: her mother and her sister. A couple of Spanish omelettes and two delicious quiches as starters and then...
risotto!!! yummmmmmmmmyyyyyy!!! :D



Just 2days after, that's on the 9th, we departured to... Russiaaaaaaaaa!! a 9-day- road trip which lead us to Moscow droping by in Helsinki and St. Petesburg, amazing!

Without even time to go back to lessons, Tyler came over for a long w/e ;) by chance it was the same w/e as Kings of Party (Italy). We spent altoghether a couple of days here- incredible dinner at Stefano's!- and then to Stockholm once again ;)

On the 27th I had the exam of my last full-time course (Entrepreneurship and new Business development) but without any hope to pass it of course... but miracles sometimes exist and I did pass it! :) (just got to know 2days ago)...


Time goes by very quickly and farewells already started... the first to leave were Alice and Paolo. As we were going to Bratislava-Prague and Vienna for a 6-day-trip we decided to make the big party on the 28th... Strange feelings that night I must say...
(Stephanie Good also left pretty early, only two days ago- back in the US!)

So now... coming closer to today... our trip to Eastern Europe! Erasmus religion ihas very much to do with travelling around all of the countries that are close your host country but with Ryanair everything seems to be so close! & so cheap! :D Nobody said a trip with 9 ppl would be easy but it was nice to travel around (specially b/c of u Lauri) and discover new cities! The experience of taking a night train of 5h30 between Bratislava and Prague: highly advisable specially if ur suitcase is full of still not dryed clothes from last nights laundry! :P





Prague: amazingly beautiful- we had a wonderful bright sun the two days we spent there so we were able to enjoy all of the beauty of the city (and it's beer!). Don't miss the restaurant-pub "Il Provaznice" if u ever go...
Vienna: full of Xmas markets, we only missed the snow. I've never had so much warm wine in my life (Punsch!)
Bratislava: Small but nevertheless charming- mandatory visit to the Slovak pub! delicious pirogis!

Now back home... all the snow melt away... soon ppl who will not be here on the 2nd semester will have their farewell parties... can't imagine how this will be like without some of them in January... :S

TONIGHT! LUCIAKRABALLEN! said to be the best one though I've never been a great fan of them... looking foward to a good party!

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!!!

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! ;)