90's sittning

sittnings are a swedish, and as i heard yesterday, also a finish tradition.
you start your evening with a 3 course dinner at a student nation, of course in companion with some bottles of wines. afterwards theres a nightclub.
the sittning yesterday was actually the first one i went to, and it was a 90's theme party.
so everyone dressed up and we sang some of the stupidest songs of our "youth".
the club after the dinner was basically empty, but the music was great for once, and we really had a good time...

Valborg!

from wiki: "In Sweden, Walpurgis (Swedish: Valborgsmässoafton or Valborg) is one of the de facto public holidays during the year. Sir James George Frazer in The Golden Bough writes that "The first of May is a great popular festival in the more midland and southern parts of Sweden. On the eve of the festival, huge bonfires, which should be lighted by striking two flints together, blaze on all the hills and knolls". The tradition which is most widespread throughout the country is probably singing songs of spring. Most of the songs are from the 19th century and were spread by students' spring festivities. The strongest and most traditional spring festivities are also found in the old university cities, like Uppsala and Lund where both current and graduated students gather at events that take up most of the day from early morning to late night on April 30, or "sista april" ("The last day of April") as it is called in Uppsala."

Helsingör & Louisiana Museum

the last week i was visited by my Dad, and we spend some nice days in and around lund.
here you can see some pics of the ferry ride from helsingborg to helsingör, and from the very beautiful louisiana modern art museum in denmark. the weather was just amazing the last couple of weeks, and its supposed to be that also the next month :) .

crazy "corridor" party!

1 live band, 5 student houses, bars in the living room, 1000 people. that was just crazy :O

Beautiful Ystad

xxx

Trip to Stockholm

beginning last saturday, i spent 3 days in the swedish capital stockholm with my classmate wesley from US/taiwan. as you can see, we were very lucky with the weather, as stockholm greeted us with beautiful sunshine and warm 15°c . we walked a lot on saturday, trying to explore the city by foot and avoiding expensive ferry rides.


we spotted this hot ride on the way to our hostel, which is situated in an old renovated prison.


the swedish kebab - called tunnbrödsrullar - filled with a spicy sousage, mashed potatoes, roasted onions and some ketchup and mustard on top. it was quite unusual but tasty nonetheless.



us in front of our hostel. i think swedish hostel are quite nice in general, and so was ours.
our "cell" was in the museum section, which included a lot of interesting stories about life in the former prison and famous inhabitants, but also some creepy models of guillotines and execution axes...