Sweden is more beautiful everyday. This natural landscape that has been touched only slightly still preserving the forest, clean water, beautiful people, and cold cold weather.
Modern Tourism Course
Today i finished my first class from my first period. It was only a month and one week long with 2 essays, one presentation, four seminars, and a free trip to the museum that included coffee and pastry on a boat hostel. It was a really fast pace class time wise, but the content wasn’t so hard. We don’t have exams for this class and even if we did, the Swedish and some other European school systems gives the students 2 or 3 more chances to retake the exam.
The presentation was a fun ride. I wasn’t used to the pace of the Swedish school system and one month went by and now I’m rushing to finish my assignments. It usually takes me a month just to start some course work in San Jose. The day that we had to turn in our second assignment, my partner and I didn’t know that we had to turn it in on the day we started the essay. Shit it’s going to be an interesting first class. I woke up at 10 and found out at 11 that the essay was due at 12 the same day. We are screwed. We panicked and spent 5 hours doing the project. I then spent the whole night until sunrise on the 10 page essay and she spent all day doing the powerpoint presentation. In the end, we were exhausted. Especially for my partner because she had to write her bachelor thesis while taking this course. She was more stressed than I was. I panicked for about 10 minutes and then calmed down. The professors don’t give off this impression that they are organized with what they are teaching and so during our presentations in class the prefessor was giving the same answers and response to each tnd every presationtion.
“Oh that was very interesting, this is a good topic that you chose. You can take this topic further and use it as a bachelor thesis.”
And next is the Phenomenon of Online Booking
“Oh that was very interesting, this is a good topic that you chose. You can take this topic further and use it as a bachelor thesis.”
We were getting tired in the end listening to so many presentations in 3 hours that we all dozed off during some parts. As you look towards the professors, she was also dozing off and not realizing that we only had 3 hours for 10 presentations. She spent 15 minutes reviewing the first few presentations and then each time was less and less because she was worried about the time. Then by the last presentation, she said,
“Oh that was very interesting, this is a good topic that you chose. You can take this topic further and use it as a bachelor thesis.”
Next time you guys should keep your presentation in the correct time frame because making a presentation also includes time management.” She didn’t manage the time herself. Blahhh. Teachers.
To celebrate, I agreed with Kristina, my partner, that we would celebrate together or that I wanted to joing her i went with my other friends instead because i felt more comfortable. I feel like I lost this little bit of connection with her or anyone if I say I want to do soemthing, but don’t follow through in the end.
I went out to a pub with three other girls and had some girl talk. I like talking and sitting in a cozy and nice atmosphere than dancing in a club. It depends on who I’m with and what I’m feeling. I had a wonderful time and i would like to do it again.
A quick list of what’s happening in my life:
Money? I don’t know how to manage it.
Temperature? Equivalent to San Jose’s coldest days.
Computer? Dropped it on the floor and now the hardrive is a little dumb.
Sleep? 9 hours within 2 days.
Mom and sister? I miss them and mom’s food.
Lazyness level? high
Romania for new years? going
Lappland trip? I would love to go.
Result? Problem.
Excited? for snow. for Sweden. for Ireland and England. For my life.
Milk? I might be lactose intolerant because I have so much bubbles in my stomach.
Deeper feelings
I’m a really big flake in Sweden. Okay, not that I agree with someone to go somewhere to meet at a certain place or time and then completely ditch them, but I do agree on a lot of things and in the end I end up doing something that I initially felt like doing in the first place. I know what I want, but I want to hang out with people and get to know them. I say yes at first because I tend to answer people really fast without thinking or I think about it too much and not answer at all. It bothers me when I catch myself doing the act and I can’t stop myslef from agreeing with someone. It happens when i am not sure or don’t want to do something. I’m in the hospitality industry, I like pleasing people and my level of please people is not so balanced yet. Right now it feels like it’s on the extreme level where I’m pleasing people and feeling like I don’t have an opinion. I’m working on it. This slight problem that has blown in my face since I’ve came here.
Enjoy the pictures,
Dandelion Traveler
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| Metro Station in Sweden |
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| Flemingsberg Station near Sodertorn Hogskola |
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| Sodertorn Hogskola after Swedish Class |
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| Pizza Dinner made by my friends |
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| Honza taking my computer apart |
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| I was scared for my life. |
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