So.. Where to go from now? What do I want to do? Do I still want to continue with HKU? I’m not thát sure anymore. Although it might not be bad for me and also give me a nice few projects again. (Something practical finally! I’m quite done with the theory here..) I found the [...]

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Last week I went to sit in Hubert’s chair (Hubert is the president of the international comity) and he told me about a project portraying the international students here around Mälardalens högskola. The idea is to show the Swedes around here who these students are. Swedes (sorry for the generalization again) are rather reserved and [...]

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In my current course, Leadership Development and Communication, we had to work in a group to make a change (yes, we can) inside an organization. After wanting to change the world via different UN bodies we came up with the idea to bring small bags of chips – common in the UK – to the [...]

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I said to blog more about the statues and interaction design of Stockholm. There’s always a risk though in saying so, will you.. Well yes, but not as I planned. Anyway there are a few things I’d like to tell. First is Järnpojke (Järn = iron, pojke = boy). First of all because I think [...]

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The last days I’ve been reading the blog of the Dutch crown prince, Willem-Alexander, also Prince of Orange. Willem-Alexander blogged about the trip to Antarctica he and Máxima made. In his first post, after they started in the beautiful Torres del Paine park in Chili, he writes: (…) Al hoewel het niet mijn bedoeling is [...]

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Not a blue/yellow, but a red truck arrived. IKEA hires another company for the ‘hemtransport’. It all fits in the small elevator: Nikki helpt with following the IKEA manuals and creating a bed, table, chairs and a closet out of the seperate parts. Now I also now a little bit more what Your van ‘t [...]

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So.. I got a Swedish mobile number, a Swedish bank account, I paid the first rent for my Swedish apartment and a Swedish bus card. IKEA is coming tomorrow to deliver some Swedish designed furniture :) I still need a Swedish bike though, I’ll try tomorrow. Until now the intro week and getting basic things [...]

Continue reading about Get a life! (A Swedish one)

At the end of today we got a lecture about the Swedes and the Swedish culture. This was after two introduction days and our own adventures in the cities Eskilstuna and Västerås of the last days. The lecturer was Jonas Stier, also my teacher for the first course starting tomorrow morning. He’s a great guy, [...]

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