"Say no to HARD drugs!" - main slogan of Christiania - hippy comunity in the center of Copenhagen. And yes, the main stress is on a word "hard" - hash is everywhere:)Don’t really know how to start as quite a lot of things have happened during last month and therefore as a real technician (I know it’s not true but can I at least pretend that the thing written in my diploma is correct :p) I’ll go straight to the point.
Few changes in my life:
1) Accommodation. I finally moved to student dorms: hello Lappis :DDD And right now I’m writing in my quite small, rather empty but still very nice room in the best dormitory area in Stockholm. Why the best? Because it’s international – meaning funJ and most of my friends live around what makes it much easier to drop by for a drink&chat (right now waiting one español to pass by for an evening coffee & ice cream and, of course, gossiping:). It’s less than 30 min from uni and job (see later). And it’s just student life as it is during my last 3 months of student “halara”.
However (this word is always inevitable unfortunately) there’re 2 disturbing moments. First, it’s my lack of furniture. My room was absolutely empty when I moved in. When I say absolutely, I really mean it. Nothing. Not even a bulb in the ceiling. They even took away the stick for curtains above the window:p Luckily Lappis is amazing place as I said. During the first day we managed to find me a bed (was laying just on the street), a table&chair (from one of the corridors) and a pillow. Later in the same way (foundraising J) were found table lamp, mattress, blanket, mesita (bed table:) and 1 hanger (still need at least 10 moreL ). As I said this dorm is incredible!:)
Another thing is my corridor. It’s incredibly quiet! By now I’ve seen just 3 Swedes and 1 strange Icelandic guy out of 9 neighbors. And all of them I’ve seen actually once or twice…… But at least nobody complained when we almost burned the kitchen making pancakes :PP
2) Job: I found new “shitty” job until the end of my main studies (June). So now I work as a waitress in a small Japanese restaurant downtown. Of course it’s tiring but kind of nice. Apart from the fact that “jag måste prata svenska där!:(“ (=I have to speak Swedish there). It’s not that big problem as it’s simple day-to-day language but still I’d prefer to speak English or..SpanishJ (need to practice more with normal ppl, not just with drunk Catalans).
Hmmm, this is it actually. So now basically my 3-months plan is to work, work, work. Pass last exams by the beginning of June. Go to Paris and Barcelona again before July (hopefully…). Entertain 20 crazy European students in the middle of June (we have our BEST Spring course in Sthlm). And then leave to great Russian trip at the end of June. I hope by that time to find a job in SPb or Moscow but before from 2 to 10th of July I plan to go to Ekb – hope that u all will be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And at the end to entertain u a bit here goes the story of my trip to Copenhagen during Easter weekend (7-9 April).
It started 2 weeks ago when we were having coffee with a friend of mine and suddenly I remembered that I’ll have 4 days free from work around Easter and Danilo had the same.
- What shall we do?..
- No money…
- YeahL
- Let’s hitchhike somewhere then..!
- Just 4 days, somewhere close then…
- Copenhagen! I still haven’t seen the Mermaid! (Tanya)
- Yeah, I wanted to visit a friend there for a long time! (Danilo)
- So let’s hitchhike to Copenhagen!!!
And so last Friday the adventure started. Started with 2,5 hours waiting (and freezing) on a petrol station in Södertälje (around 30-40 km south from Sthlm). After 2 hours Danilo already gave up and was ready to catch the train back to Sthlm to warm apartment. But I desperately wanted to get out of Stockholm, especially having 4 days weekend! Finally we got our first ride to Nyköping (50km down). And so it went, 50km, 80 km, another 100 km.
Then another dead point right in the middle of the way – Jönköping – 250 km from Sthlm, 300 km from Malmö. Middle of Sweden – middle of nowhere. 100 cars with stupid local youngsters, making stupid faces from the cars. 0 cars stopping. After imagining all possible options of sleeping somew
here in this middle of nowhere 2 cars packed with Swedish-Yugoslavian guys stopped. We got free beer, entertainment of drunk guys speaking skånska (a dialect from the south of Sweden, smth in between Swedish and Danish – imagine the pronunciation!!!!). One of the guys got extremely drunk somehow (Swedes cannot drink!!!! Just like babes!) and was sleeping on Danilo’s shoulder while Danilo was praying that the guy wouldn’t throw up on him :p
At the end we ended up in another (10th for that day I guess) petrol station about 20 km before Malmö, at 20.00 in the evening, in the dark with absolutely NO cars driving around. Another 40min imagining sleeping possibilities. And then a miracle: 2 muslim guys stopping and bringing us to the entrance of Malmö’s train station, meanwhile telling about their 2 years in prison and promoting that “Every man has to be in prison at least once in his life during 1 year!!” Danilo actively supported the thought just to stay alive until we run to the train to CopenhagenJ.
Easter weekend in Copenhagen: a loooooooot of walking (no money to pay 25 crones for public transport), free snaps in Nyhavn (Scandinavian people definitely have a lot to learn from Mediterraneans about how to make alcohol! Snaps is disgusting!!! But I couldn’t skip free drinkJ), Little Mermaid (with some stupid Russian 50 years old tourists trying to climb on her! Of course!! ), Easter breakfast in typical Danish family (lots of nice food, chocolate eggs and people speaking Danish = kind of Swedish but having “hot potato” in their mouth – freaky and absolutely not understandable).
Coming back… bus to Helsinborg in a naïve hope to catch the ride to Stockholm from there. Finally after freezing the ass for 2 hours in a petrol station in that bloody “town” (aka village) we took a bus to Stockholm paying more than I used to pay for the plane to Paris – bloody Sweden!
Conclusions: no more hitchhiking! EVER! And please, if I ever mention it again – remind me ex-cocain-addict driver in Nyköping, leaving my passport in Copenhagen (now I just hope for the safety of Scandinavian post to get it back) and frightened faces of people from passing cars!
Now, the most important part of the whole bullshit: people, COME TO STOCKHOLM!!!!! Now when I finally got my own accommodation I can host you with no problems. Also the best time to visit Stockholm is coming - May and June: warm but not hot weather, white nights, barbeques and student parties and of course me extremely happy to see you hereJ
For Russians, if you think fast (during a week or so) I could even make you an invitation for June from university and BEST. So hurry up!!!!
Few changes in my life:
1) Accommodation. I finally moved to student dorms: hello Lappis :DDD And right now I’m writing in my quite small, rather empty but still very nice room in the best dormitory area in Stockholm. Why the best? Because it’s international – meaning funJ and most of my friends live around what makes it much easier to drop by for a drink&chat (right now waiting one español to pass by for an evening coffee & ice cream and, of course, gossiping:). It’s less than 30 min from uni and job (see later). And it’s just student life as it is during my last 3 months of student “halara”.
However (this word is always inevitable unfortunately) there’re 2 disturbing moments. First, it’s my lack of furniture. My room was absolutely empty when I moved in. When I say absolutely, I really mean it. Nothing. Not even a bulb in the ceiling. They even took away the stick for curtains above the window:p Luckily Lappis is amazing place as I said. During the first day we managed to find me a bed (was laying just on the street), a table&chair (from one of the corridors) and a pillow. Later in the same way (foundraising J) were found table lamp, mattress, blanket, mesita (bed table:) and 1 hanger (still need at least 10 moreL ). As I said this dorm is incredible!:)
Another thing is my corridor. It’s incredibly quiet! By now I’ve seen just 3 Swedes and 1 strange Icelandic guy out of 9 neighbors. And all of them I’ve seen actually once or twice…… But at least nobody complained when we almost burned the kitchen making pancakes :PP
2) Job: I found new “shitty” job until the end of my main studies (June). So now I work as a waitress in a small Japanese restaurant downtown. Of course it’s tiring but kind of nice. Apart from the fact that “jag måste prata svenska där!:(“ (=I have to speak Swedish there). It’s not that big problem as it’s simple day-to-day language but still I’d prefer to speak English or..SpanishJ (need to practice more with normal ppl, not just with drunk Catalans).
Hmmm, this is it actually. So now basically my 3-months plan is to work, work, work. Pass last exams by the beginning of June. Go to Paris and Barcelona again before July (hopefully…). Entertain 20 crazy European students in the middle of June (we have our BEST Spring course in Sthlm). And then leave to great Russian trip at the end of June. I hope by that time to find a job in SPb or Moscow but before from 2 to 10th of July I plan to go to Ekb – hope that u all will be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And at the end to entertain u a bit here goes the story of my trip to Copenhagen during Easter weekend (7-9 April).
It started 2 weeks ago when we were having coffee with a friend of mine and suddenly I remembered that I’ll have 4 days free from work around Easter and Danilo had the same.
- What shall we do?..
- No money…
- YeahL
- Let’s hitchhike somewhere then..!
- Just 4 days, somewhere close then…
- Copenhagen! I still haven’t seen the Mermaid! (Tanya)
- Yeah, I wanted to visit a friend there for a long time! (Danilo)
- So let’s hitchhike to Copenhagen!!!
And so last Friday the adventure started. Started with 2,5 hours waiting (and freezing) on a petrol station in Södertälje (around 30-40 km south from Sthlm). After 2 hours Danilo already gave up and was ready to catch the train back to Sthlm to warm apartment. But I desperately wanted to get out of Stockholm, especially having 4 days weekend! Finally we got our first ride to Nyköping (50km down). And so it went, 50km, 80 km, another 100 km.
Then another dead point right in the middle of the way – Jönköping – 250 km from Sthlm, 300 km from Malmö. Middle of Sweden – middle of nowhere. 100 cars with stupid local youngsters, making stupid faces from the cars. 0 cars stopping. After imagining all possible options of sleeping somew
here in this middle of nowhere 2 cars packed with Swedish-Yugoslavian guys stopped. We got free beer, entertainment of drunk guys speaking skånska (a dialect from the south of Sweden, smth in between Swedish and Danish – imagine the pronunciation!!!!). One of the guys got extremely drunk somehow (Swedes cannot drink!!!! Just like babes!) and was sleeping on Danilo’s shoulder while Danilo was praying that the guy wouldn’t throw up on him :pAt the end we ended up in another (10th for that day I guess) petrol station about 20 km before Malmö, at 20.00 in the evening, in the dark with absolutely NO cars driving around. Another 40min imagining sleeping possibilities. And then a miracle: 2 muslim guys stopping and bringing us to the entrance of Malmö’s train station, meanwhile telling about their 2 years in prison and promoting that “Every man has to be in prison at least once in his life during 1 year!!” Danilo actively supported the thought just to stay alive until we run to the train to CopenhagenJ.
Easter weekend in Copenhagen: a loooooooot of walking (no money to pay 25 crones for public transport), free snaps in Nyhavn (Scandinavian people definitely have a lot to learn from Mediterraneans about how to make alcohol! Snaps is disgusting!!! But I couldn’t skip free drinkJ), Little Mermaid (with some stupid Russian 50 years old tourists trying to climb on her! Of course!! ), Easter breakfast in typical Danish family (lots of nice food, chocolate eggs and people speaking Danish = kind of Swedish but having “hot potato” in their mouth – freaky and absolutely not understandable).
Coming back… bus to Helsinborg in a naïve hope to catch the ride to Stockholm from there. Finally after freezing the ass for 2 hours in a petrol station in that bloody “town” (aka village) we took a bus to Stockholm paying more than I used to pay for the plane to Paris – bloody Sweden!
Conclusions: no more hitchhiking! EVER! And please, if I ever mention it again – remind me ex-cocain-addict driver in Nyköping, leaving my passport in Copenhagen (now I just hope for the safety of Scandinavian post to get it back) and frightened faces of people from passing cars!
Now, the most important part of the whole bullshit: people, COME TO STOCKHOLM!!!!! Now when I finally got my own accommodation I can host you with no problems. Also the best time to visit Stockholm is coming - May and June: warm but not hot weather, white nights, barbeques and student parties and of course me extremely happy to see you hereJ
For Russians, if you think fast (during a week or so) I could even make you an invitation for June from university and BEST. So hurry up!!!!
Stockholm is waiting for YOU!!!
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