Hotell Oskar Lund

... still it is considered by some swedes as being more danish that actually swedish. the local dialect apparently has a danish sound to it as well. there are actually two universities: lund university and an affiliated technological institute. there is also a centre for industries related to the university. a lot of famous stuff is from the area: (sony) ericsson, astra zeneca, tetrapak. i think saab is from nearby as well. sugata was ...

... in Swedish history b/c it's the day that Sweden won some major battle against the Russian army under Peter the Great, and also on the same day a few years later, the King of Sweden who won that battle died. According to this one kid out on the terrace w/ us - the Nazis like that King and that's why they always choose this day to do some crazy demoonstrations. So, forget about school work...for the next few hours I watched hundreds of ...

... I went home to check up on the time change, and sure enough, class had been changed from Thurs. @ 11am to Fri@ 11 am, different room. Cool, no big deal I thought, I'll get some other stuff done instead, like sign up for swedish classes and get a cell phone. So I sleep in (of course) until around 1, and about an hour later someone rang my apt. doorbell. It was my two group project partners (S. from Gambia and N. from Ethiopia, two very cool ...

... today...or at least that is what I will blame my lack of picture taking talent on this time around.) The rest of the written entry shall consist of things that I have noticed about Lund/Sweden/Lund University/my ingrained "American-ness clashing with the way things are done over here - that I find either quaint, annoying, or super cool by turns. *the heat of ovens is in celsius. 200 degrees celsius is REALLY hot, like ...

... in the middle of the day and waking up raring to go at around 3 or 4 in the morning. Lame. Anyway, tonight my corridor had a family dinner together. We had five bottles of red wine, and a bottle of Martini to drink. Yes, that's right - Martini is actually a liquor (vermouth) that the drink is named after as it is the signature ingredient. (a side note: I have met my people - dinner with five bottles of red wine ...

... me, got in before me. I was debating whether or not to go to Tivoli, but was glad I did - it's pretty cool, with lots of included entertainment. Pantomime theatre, a symphony, a big band, a laser show at night - there was tons to keep me occupied. It's a great place to walk around and have some junk food, even if you don't go on any rides. I hung around until 10:00 and had an hour to kill before the ...

... with a free drink. They give you fuzzy coats with mittens at the front door in case you left your parka at home. The bar, seats, tables, glasses, wall decorations, literally everything is made of ice and the bar is kept at a cool -5 degrees Celsius. The bar isn't that big, but it's fun to be in and take pictures for a short while until your bum goes numb. Craving something south of the (American) border, we checked out the Mexican food restaurant I saw yesterday down by the train ...

... Sain't Alban's church is one of those that København tourist guides largely overlook. I suppose that somewhere, on some expert, hierarchical list of cultural and historical city sights it simply isn't high enough to make it from all the bunch of churches and other monuments among selected ones to get recommended to an average tourist. That's the only explanation I have, for aesthetically, both in terms of architecture and setting, I would rate it as one of the prettiest in K ...

... downtown. I enjoyed wandering the streets on Jes's bicycle, going to the Carlsberg brewery (but getting awfully cold and wet in the process), and taking a canal boat trip through the city. We had a nice dinner in the hippie island of Christiana . Jes and Patrick also took me to the Hamlet ...

... Stacey, Reky and I separated, and stopped at a bakery that Reky had been to the day before. At the bakery we had a sandwich, and I was excited to see some pain au chocolate (hands down my favourite food in the world...and something that Canadians cannot make correctly!!!) I got one for myself, and convinced Reky to get one as well. The last pain au chocolate I had eaten was seven years earlier... so I was very excited, and not let down in the least! While ...