lunes, 11 de febrero de 2008

one more week

- saturday 19: i woke just on time to have lunch with andrea, that had prepared a very nice meal for both. so we spent the (day) afternoon at home, watching a movie, talking with people that came around... and at night was maurice's goodbye party. we went a bit late because we were busy at maite's, but then the party was fine. many more people than i expected! in fact we were outside in the corridor for a while, but a policeman came so we had to go in again, and it was pretty crowded... but we were ok :)

- sunday 20: we organised a really good sunday-breakfast, even with pankakes! because we needed energy to go to millesgården, a park-museum in lidingö (north-east of stockholm). we spent half the day there, we saw about 1000 pieces from carl mille's (sculptor) work, we realised that lidingö must be a rich area (such big houses!)...
we came back to sundby, most of us, and we decided to have late lunch/early dinner all together in our flat. and it also was a "sunday meal", staying there talking until nearly 8 pm... and after a short "break", we went to see a film to lukas' flat.
and in between victor came to say hello, he had just arrived :) and anthony had arrived too, though we hadn't seen him yet, but we are all here now!
well, not all exactly, but at least the ones that are supposed to be...

- monday 21: we went to university quite "scared" because they were going to tell us how the rest of our year was going to be like... and it wasn't bad! it seems we're going to work a lot, but i think we can also have a good time. we are only 12 in class (all girls but diego!), and they are all very nice. and we have managed to be andrea, diego, maite and me in the same group, so much easier to take!
after lunch we went to the roma culture centre in the south of stockholm, and we were there about 3 hours talking with some people there. but it wasn't a lecture, we were just sitting around and having a coffee, nice...

- tuesday 22: we had a lecture, and then we went shopping (it's worth going bargain hunting here!). we had dinner near the centre and then to the jam session in gamla stan. we were really a lot of people there, specially from sundbyberg, because it was maurice's last night... half of them left in the middle, but they missed the best part... a swedish girl came on stage with a nykelharpa (see video) and improvised over a blues, and then she started playing a swedish polka and the band little by little found out the chords and started playing, first following her and then improvising as well. it was really amazing, how they did it, how it sounded, everyone's faces...

we came back to sundbyberg singing our national anthemns for maurice (i don't know why he wanted so, but it was really funny), and went to roberto's room to wake him up and sing happy birthday...



- wednesday 23: we met at 7:00 at diego's room to go all together then to maurice's... we went there all together, "petit soleil style", and singing petit soleil in fact! we stayed there a while, eating
kanelbullar that jana and diego had prepared, and then we all left... bye bye maurice! :(

back to bed, of course, and then a "sunday lunch" and to our first swedish 3 lesson... all in swedish! what a headache :$ the first half wasn't so bad, i was quite happy because i understood more or less what she was saying, but when we started with exercises and texts, impossible! so i guess we are going to work a lot...
and after that, just dinner and dawson in the chill out corner :)

- thursday 24: lecture in the morning, and in the afternoon we went with our class to visit tensta, a neigbourhood quite near sundbyberg.
we then came back to prepare friday's presentation, and at night we went to sturecompagniet, in the centre, because there was a simple plan party. there was nothing special about them finally, but at least we had an excuse to go out, and the place was really nice...

- friday 25: the presentation had two parts. first we had to show one of our old projects. i explained one from last year and i think they really liked it, they were surprised by the amount of work (but you know, that's what you are expected to do in spain, you can't just pass with a nice model). the second part wasn't so well prepared, but anyway they just liked the discussion we raised, so perfect.
at night, roberto's birthday, with 80 eggs in spanish omelettes :)

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