Benjamin in Stockholm

A good start… (Plus : Happy birthday mum !)

swedishben — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:48:38 +0000

If you can’t read French, it’s high time you learnt, cause I’m likely to lack time to keep writing in both languages. Follow the link for the French post : link.

Helsinki (Finland)

swedishben — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:10:14 +0000

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My friends and I went to Helsinki for a day. As for Tallinn, we went there by an overnight boat. There’s nothing exciting to say about Helsinki, it’s not very touristic a city. But if you go there, avoid Hessburger, the local McDonald-like fastfood. Their burgers taste like shit.

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Buffet at City Hall

swedishben — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:23:32 +0000

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Hej ! The foreign students in Stockholm were invited last Wedenesday at an awesome buffet in the City Hall (where the Nobel prices ceromony takes place). In normal circumstances, this place is to be visited. We had dinner there ! That was great.

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Hej Hej !

swedishben — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:05:36 +0000

Nynäshamn Gallery

Skansen Gallery

Just a few words to tell evrything’s still going ok here, the weather’s being wonderful, we visit the whereabouts of Sthlm, walk by the sea… we’ve also been to Skansen open-air museum. My courses, in fact my single course, is getting interesting (second part). I had an exam on Saturday, on the first (boring) part of that course, but it went well. Here are some pictures, before I work out the courage to write the pages I promised long ago (“Swedish culture”, “My friends”…).

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Skansen Gallery

Still there

swedishben — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:11:06 +0000

Hehehej ! I’ve no been dead till now, just a bit busy with some school stuff : Swedish exam, and then my new courses. Well, I mean my single new course. I’m still learning Swedish, now in level 3 (Intermediate). And for the technical part, I only have one “big” course (15 ECTS). In fact, it’s very few hours at school, but some homework for seminars. I had to write an article and prepare a presentation about some subject, studied in relation with the concepts learnt in class. Same for next week. Pretty abstract stuff for the moment. If you’re interested to know more about my courses, jump to the corresponding page (when it exists).Not much to say more, cause I’m still doing very well, still climbing quite a lot, like 4 times a week. I’m thinking of buying the newly-released year card, might save me crowns in the long term. Big up yourselves !

Tallinn (Estonia)

swedishben — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:18:42 +0000

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Hej again ! Last week, we all (many foreign students, maybe 50) went to Tallinn for one day. We made it there by boat : departure on Thursday 6pm, arrival on Friday 10pm (partying on the boat all night). We then visited Tallinn all day, mainly the old city, really fantastic, though turist-crowded. We went back to Sthlm on Saturday morning, after another boat journey, during wich I won 300 SEK (30 €) in the casino !

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Scandinavian Superjam

swedishben — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:05:29 +0000

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Hej ! Last week we went to an open-air Superjam. Russian, Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian break-dancers battled like three hours long. Really cool ! On top, I never had seen a battle before.

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Party at Osqvik

swedishben — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:34:02 +0000

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This week’s been busy with parties and BBQs, and ended with Saturday’s party at Osqvik. The Student Union owns a marvellous cottage in the southern countryside of Stockholm. So we spent the evening there, in the house that stands in the forest and has a sauna just by the sea. The crowded-bus journey lasted a hour and a half but really was worth it.

The weather’s still better than in France, so the sauna experience was just fantastic. Just so cool diving into the 15°C Baltic sea at night, without feeling the cold, thanks to the sauna heat (and alcohol).

On Friday we had a BBQ at Sundbyberg with the other residents of the building. Det var roligt.

On Thursday we watched a hilarious Swedish movie (with english subtitles) entitled “Tillsammans”. That means “together”. It’s really good fun.

The Swedish courses are still being boring.

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Comments + Gallery update + Gaypride parade

swedishben — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:04:54 +0000

Gaypride parade photo gallery

A short post to tell I allowed the comments, I updated some galleries (Frescati) and I added the gaypride gallery. The gaypride parade was on Saturday ; thousands of people in the streets of Stockholm all afternoon, loud music, peacocking funny gay, lesbian and trans people parading, etc. Quite fun !

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Yet another month starting

swedishben — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:43:57 +0000

Well, ok, this new month isn’t only slightly different from July, but is in many ways. We were maybe 40 exchange students ; now we’re about 600 (800 on the whole year, that’s 10% of the students in KTH). It was “hot” and sunny everyday ; now it’s alternatively windy-rainy and not-so-bad, but hardly warm. My Swedish teacher would be interesting, dynamic, even funny ; now, for Level 2, my (new) teacher is so boring you would never want to spend a hour with her, I can tell you that. And eventually, my “flickvän” Anne-Sophie’s arrived on Tuesday. Kul ! This migtht be the only new thing among those that I’m happy with. But I’m still doing very well here, I’m not complaining though it looks so.

And meeting new people isn’t that much of a pain in the ass. You just needa work the motivation to speak to ‘em, and admit your other friends are maybe not for life so you can still make others.

I’m not spending much time on my blog these days, cause I gotta help Anne-Sophie through forms, bank, Ikea, school meetings, etc. And I also ain’t got that much time myself, cause all the student’s parties, meetings, bbq’s, etc are starting in August. There’re so many chances to enjoy this month, still ! And that’s what evrybody’s about ! See ya.