BODY LANGUAGE

Today we had two interessting hours organized from the international office. It was about body language - how the swedish people communication thru their gesture and mimic. But the whole thing tended more and more into the direction of a discussion on different cultures which was very interessting. We all acted some situations about our lifes in our home countries like how we greet in the different situations, etc.

I hope to get some nice pictures of today to share them with you.

TRIP TO POLAND

We are affered a nice trip to our friends in Poland from 12th - 14th Oktober. We will visit the northern part of that big country, especially Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot. I am looking forward to the photos and the impressions I will get.
The price will be 400 Kronas (~40 Euro).


Größere Kartenansicht

BLEKINGE MUSEUM

So, now I've finished my course selection. The courses which I've choosen for the winter semester 08/09 are the following:

• Global Software Engineering (PA2411)
• Advanced Project Management (PA2414)
• Software Quality Management (PA2408)
• Software Productline Architecture (PA2410)
• Swedish for exchange students (already done)

I also managed the problem about the injection for my pollen imunization. The very friendly nurse at the BTH Ronneby will make an appointment with a doctor who can give me the injection. I am fascinated how friendly and helpful all the people are.
After that I went to Karlskrona with the train. There I visited the Blekinge museum, which was nice but not very dazzling:

Finally I delivered the filled form for the swedish resident permit. Hopefully I will get the permit :)

The other pictures from the day you can find here.

CRAYFISH PARTY

Yesterday evening we had the last event organized by Lina. She was responisble for all the trips and events we had during the three weeks of the EICL language course. Lina did a real great job and so we had a crayfish party at the clubhouse of the rowing club in Karlskrona.

I haven't eaten lobster before. But if you don't look him into the eyes, it's a very delicious meal.

From the club house we had an amazing view to the seaside:

LUNCH WITH THE EICL COURSE

Yesterday we had a traditional Swedish lunch organized by the teachers of the EICL language course. It consists of different kinds of bread like crispbread, many different juices and kaviar out of the tube:

MARITIME MUSEUM

Today we had the last lesson of our Erasmus language course. From now on we are able to speak Swedish perfectly.
To celebrate it, we visited the naval museum in Karlskrona. It is a very interessting place with many impressive objects. For example you can see the original muzzle from James Bond's intro :)

The Maritime Museum houses a collection of carved figureheads from 17th century vessels and original ship models:

At the end of the trip, we were invited by Lina to the biggest ice cream cone I've ever seen:

Other images can be found here.

TRIP TO THE SCHÄREN-GARDEN

On August, 15th 2008 we visited the „Schären“-garden around Karlskrona. A „Schäre“ is a small island, which results from the ice ages, when continental ice sheets of Scandinavia and Canada have verflowed and grinded away the rock masses underneath. That’s how their flat shape has been formed. We started from the harbour in Karskrona and took the "Wittus" to Utlängan.

We were passing the whole “Schären”-garden with its islands Tjurkö, Sturkö, Senoren, Ytterön and Inlängan before we finally rrived in Utlängan one hour later.

We were spending the whole afternoon there, exploring the island and even jumping in the approximately 18 degrees warm Baltic Sea.

At about 5 pm the Wittus brought us back to Karskrona and we had a very nice and informative talk with a Swedish lady.

Further pictures to this trip can be found here.

VISIT TO CAMPUS KARLSHAMN

On august 11th, 2008 our language course visited the BTH campus in Karlshamn. There we had an excursion through the new building and saw what a real great campus looks like:


After the excursion, we had some time to visit the great city square of Karlshamn. At about six o'clock, we watched a Pippi Langstrumpf performance. It was a very good act but it was in swedish and so we did not understand everything.

The rest of the pictures you can find here.