Writing from Berlin now, but no, I’m not going to write in German ;)
I really have to get used to the new place, changing my habits. I already can’t count the times I’ve said “tack” (thanks in Swedish) and “hej”.. Here “guten Morgen” is more used by “the local people” :)
Apparently, the Germans don’t really [...]

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In the second-last week we had the presentations of the last course, an open research project. It was quite interesting, what kind of research questions people had came up with, and nice to present my own results.
One research was investigating the (Hofstede’s) culture dimensions (like individualism – collectivism, femininity – masculinity, long-term – short-term orientation) [...]

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Dark Swedish forests all around me. I’m on a bus as there are no trains this week, real accident.. ( sent when I got near a gsm tower again :) )

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No train going to Eskilstuna anymore. So I’ll be sleeping on a university bench tonight..

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For my course I have to read some extra literature next to the required ones, literature I choose myself. After some search in old patterns (education, virtual reality) I got the idea to search for time, how we experience time and how that influences our behavior. We already had some of this in the lectures [...]

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At Friday I was looking around at Wikipedia to see what this ‘hiking’ was about. I learned about the ‘Ten Essentials’; a list of items you should always bring with you when hiking. Most of it I didn’t have but that wouldn’t be so much of a problem. The path we would be walking was [...]

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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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The last things on friday went as I expected unconsciously. I had to leave out one third of the things I wanted to pack. I didn’t had the time to visit some of the people I wanted to bring a visit. And I got on the train on time.
I said goodbye to the cats and [...]

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