Depression - Weather hates me

That's what Sweden looks like the last days. Enjoy.

Stuff I bought in Uppsala

Well, I'm nearly equiped with everything you need when you live in Uppsala

First, I want to introduce you to my new bike. It's name is Mr. bike. I put some cat-stickers on Mr. bike to make it more unique, and maybe a bit more unattractive to bike lifters. Mr. Bike must feel kind of alternative that heavily tatooed.



What else do you need?? Well...I think you need this cool keytoy from moshi moshi kawai. I bought it at coop for 20 krones, but it's worth every öre. Makes life better every time I open the door.

serious stuff

Today was my first day at university. Well, it does not differ that much from my university in Aachen. Maybe some more people, and a cafeteria for students which has microwaves to warm up your food. The Mensa is quite expensive...so I'll go with the microwave system.

One thing that I didn't think of is the practical part of my new course. It's mostly about toxicating rats subcutane and intravenous.....But that's what toxicologists actually do....;_/)(E=/§

After a lot of lazy days, orientation week finally began.


This is what swedish military service did to my friend Fredrik. He well...had to look kind of silly.

Homesick

I felt a bit homesick today. No german television programm, I somehow miss my friends and my family. So Fredrik took me to a place that should warm up my heart


supplied with german food I can barricade myself in Uppsala again...haha

30°C

I finally found my university building. It takes me about 30 minutes from the appartment to get there. Since Uppsala is a very bike-friendly city, I don't care that much about the distance. But wait for the winter..... Here's a picture of my university building.




Since I arrived two weeks ago, the weather changes between very good and excellent. We had around 28°C, that's what I consider as very nice :)

My Place 1

Let me tell you about the place I live.

I share a flat with my very best swedish friends Fredrik in a place called Årsta. It`s situated a bit outside of Uppsala, but still I like it very much.

Here`s a picture of the tennis court that belongs to the appartments (ours included).

evil mosquitos of deadly hell

...i stopped counting

You should always know where your towel is

I bought a new one today

"... a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with." (Hitchhikers guide to galaxy)

Swedish candy 1

I found this nice swedish candy at ICA

Welcome to sweden

One thing that was kind of weird, is the huge chinese castle, build in the nowhere of sweden.

"The whole thing is financed by Chinese businessman and billionare Jingchun Li, owner of the world’s largest mosquito repellent manufacturers. There's been a lot of critic against the project especially for the bad working conditions for the Chinese workers. The responsible construction company Latep was later fined 1,1 million SEK." (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=541480 --> who wants to know more"

More Urkult Stf

Love, Peace, Veganfood, music circles....we had a great time anyway :D

Urkult Festival - too friendly to be true

Hejsan!!

We spend the last days at a friendly hippi-festival in Näsåker, ca. 500 km north from Uppsala










The 1st picture is made at 2 a.m. It doesn't get really dark at all during summer.
On the other pic you can see the river at day, where the festival people used to take a refreshing bath in the morning.

Swedes like to make fun of the german enthusiasm for moose. To conform their expectation, we visited mooseman and his fosterchildren on a farm.










Beside being cuddly they also served our toiletpaper.