ASPM EXAM

Yeah ... now I have finished my last exam this learning period. It was a great effort to learn the whole stuff consisting of project management, leadership and motivation theories.

And now I look forward to Saturday: Dani's arrival for a whole month in Sweden. We will visit Stockholm, Copenhagen and maybe if there is enough time Goeteborg.

GSE EXAM

I just came home from my first examination in Sweden. It was about important factors and risks of outsourcing of SE tasks. It was funny to compare the exam rules to that of Austria. Here this process is a very formal one - you have to show your ID card two times, an every table there is a instruction paper, etc.
I think I have done a good job and now I concentrate on studying for the Wednesday exam on advanced software project management :(

TRIP TO POLAND - THE RETURN

This morning we came back from a very long trip to poland (1 night, 1 day, 1 night) ;)

We were in the Gdinia, Sopor and Gdansk. It was a nice trip but I was wondering about the poornes of some of the habitants but I plan to come back to Gdansk because it has such a nice old town.

The pictures of the trip you can find here.

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GOOD START INTO THE DAY

Todays start into the day was very hard. I woke up at about 5 minutes to 6 o'clock. Because I decided yesterday to train my mental strenght, I got up and had some breakfast. After that I took my swimming stuff, jumped on the bike and drove to the indoor swimming pool of Ronneby. There you have to possibility to do some morning sport (opening hours in the morning: 06:30 - 08:00). So started to swim a slalom between all the retirees and had two sauna sessions (in Swedish: Bastu). After doing sport for 1,5 hours I went shopping and sit now working on my assignments.

Have a nice day, too :)

BIKE TOUR TO ASPÖ

Today I decided to visit Aspö again. So i picked my bike and took the train to Karlskrona and afterwards the ferry to Aspö. I drove a whole round on the island. It was very interessting especially because I found a museum of the coast artellery division.

The pictures of the trip you can find here.

ALEX AND ROBERTS VISIT

My sister Alex and her boyfriend Robert stayed in my flat for about 5 nights. They left today after getting a clue what my life in Sweden looks like. I think they enjoyed their stay and will remember it.

Here you can see many of the pictures of their trip.

TWO DAYS IN COPENHAGEN

Today I picked up Alex and Robert from the airport in Copenhagen. Afterwards we drove directly to the youth hostel "sleeping-in-heaven" which we found immediately after search a whole hour :) It is a very lovely place to stay which I can recommend to everyone who wants to visit Copenhagen. We started our pleasent stay with a bunch of beer directly from the hostels office desk (cheap price: about € 3). Then we walked around in the city and enjoyed the evening in a sushi restaurant - very delicious.
The next day we had some sight-seeing and afterwards we drove back to Ronneby.
The pictures from the trip you can find here.

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.

LECTURE NOTES - EN1115

Here you can find a link to the lecture notes of todays academical writing session.

DAY IN COPENHAGEN

Tomorrow I will visit Copenhagen to pick up my sister Alex and her boyfriend Robert from the airpart. We will have a snugly afternoon and evening. On the day after we will have some sight-seeing thru the city and in the afternoon we will go back to Ronneby.

We will sleep at the "Sleep in heaven" hostel. When I booked the accomodation I made the mistake to book over www.hostels.com so I had to pay a fee which wouldn't be necessary if I had booked directly thru the hostels web page. So guys don't do the same mistake too.

ELECTION RESULTS

Today we had the election in Austria. Here you can see the results without the votes from the absentee ballot - as you can see there is a huge empower of the FPÖ and BZÖ:

SPÖ	29,71%
ÖVP	25,61%
GRÜNE	9,79%
FPÖ	18,01%
BZÖ	10,98%
FRITZ	1,76%
DC	0,63%
KPÖ	0,77%
LIF	1,91%
RETTÖ	0,72%
LINKET	0,01%
KHK	0,01%
LINKE	0,04%
STARK	0,01%
TRP	0,04%

TOUR TO HÄRSTORPSSJÖN

Today we have beautiful weather here in Sweden so I decided to take my bicycle and go on tour :) At first I visited the jumble sale which takes place nearly every sunday here at Brunnspark. Afterwards I continued to the west side of Ronenby namley to the Härstorpssjön lake. It is a lake with a diameter of about two kilometers. I gave my bike a little break and walked by feet to a wonderful and very silent place on the other side of the lake which could only be reached by feet. There I stayed nearly one hour and enjoyed the great nature. I took some pictures and read in the book Hourgame from David Baldacci. Here you can see some impressions of the tour:

7 DAYS LEFT

Well, I'm back in Austria again but one thing has remained the same: I am still working on my diploma thesis all day (and night) long. Next Thursday, 2nd October, I will finally hand in "my baby". It's really funny but somehow I have fallen in love with my diploma thesis. There is so much heart and soul in these 300 (!!!) pages. I also think it's the right time to say THANK YOU to my personal mental and love coach Joe ;) who gave me the necessary power and energy to finish my work so efficiently. This makes me remember our holidays in July: We were definitely spending two great weeks in Kreta, but there was one hard day for me: We decided to "walk" thru the Samaria canyon which is 16km long and has a really high difference in altitude to overcome. I had some moments of simply wanting to give up and just lie down and wait for some donkeys to carry me down ;). Fortunately Joe was strict enough to motivate me to take the strains. Right now it's the best time to think back to this situation and keep in mind "Just struggle through as the goal is so near!" Thank you Schatzi!

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).


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ELECTION CAMPAIN

Because I am in Sweden and don't have the chance to follow the converge of the different parties for the up-coming election at sunday I had to think of a plan B. At that page (ORF) you can find every debate of the top candidates:

1. Faymann vs. Molterer
2. Molterer vs. Van der Bellen
3. Faymann vs. Strache
4. Faymann vs. Haider
5. Van der Bellen vs. Strache
6. Van der Bellen vs. Haider
7. Molterer vs. Strache
8. Molterer vs. Haider
9. Faymann vs. Van der Bellen
10. Strache vs. Haider

Have fun and enjoy it ;)

ADVERTISEMENT FOR KARLSKRONA

Yesterday at the erasmus meeting we were shown a nice advertisement video of the telecom city Karlskrona and also the BTH - Karlskrona is one of the three placed were the BTH is located.




Locations of the BTH:


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DEBATE

Today I had to deliver my first assignment this semester. It was a debate about the topic "global software engineering tools replace the personal contact" and not an easy job because we had to argument that these gse tools are equal or maybe better than having personal contact. But we found some arguments to support or line and had a very emotional debate on that topic. I was very happy to hear that both groups (the affirmatives and the negatives) were graded with an A.

VISIT OF ASPÖ

At the last sunday of Dani's September visit to Sweden, we decided to go to the island Aspö near to Karlskrona. But before we had to wait for the ferry on which you can have a trip for free with both bike and car. So we went to the Maritime Museum of Karlskrona for a hot cup of tea. Here you can see Dani's reaction when I bantered her a little bit:


Her reaction was to pop up the weapons of the women :)

Half an hour later, the ferry to Aspö finally arrived. We had a convenient voyage which takes about 25 minutes.


After arriving at the island we walked around some time and found very lovely places. But as you can see the weather was not as good as it was at the previous trips.


This is a lighthouse on the island which is for rent. We decided to book a whole level for us at Dani's next visit in November.

TRIUMPH CONVENTION

Today we had perfect weather and so we enjoyed the TRIUPMH convention in Brunnspark:

As you can see there were many cars from Sweden, Danmark and also many German guys with their old and beautiful maintained cars.

KAISERSCHMARREN

To bring some Austrian feeling into our Swedish life, we decided to cook one of the most typical Austrian meals ... the Kaiserschmarren. After an extended shopping tour to get all of the credentials we started to cook. Here you can see the result: