Thursday, 19 November 2009

The whole and truly true truth on KTH

Now, let's discuss her university. Its location give it the charm of Poudlard, as it is surrounded by a great forest, but the architect didn't bother too much, did he ? Not even tried to add a window !


For his defense, he didn't forget to build a very convenient torture room (top of the tower to the left)


This following picture wasn't taken in the torture room, as you might think, but in one of the classrooms : at least the physics students have the opportunity to work on the newest machines


As well as the latest publications.


And the most serious magazines (Bellow : Physician reading an issue of Physics and snowboarding).



Elsa

The whole and truly true truth on the residence

Diane's articles make you dream of Sweden ? Haha ! She is not telling you everything !

First of all, you have to walk past this guy to get into her residence :


Then, you know how she's talking about cooking all the time ? Would you imagine all this time the preparation of these delicious meals was taking place on a ... couch ?


But the worst comes when night falls (at around 4 in the afternoon...) : the poor swedish student actualy have to light themselves with candles !

Elsa

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Пиковая дама Queen of spades


The week I spend with Elsa and Chloé , we went with Anastasia to the Opera in Stockholm.


It was the Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky and it was wonderful!


Well, as only Anastasia has Russian language skills, I did have to read the story on wikipedia but the swedish overhead subtitles did partially help understanding
what was going on...


We are going again this friday,
and the good news is that it's
cheap for students,
and the seats we get are
pretty good !

The place was really beautiful
so i'm putting up a few pictures
from my sister.







Kanebullar !

One of the best pastries I've ever had ...

It's full of cinnamon and delicious. and it's all over sweden ! They even have a day for it, kanelsbullars dag.

And the best part is that I have learned to make it,
considering they are not that hard to make if someone translates the swedish recipe , hence the many many pictures of it.











Kayaking in Stockholm

Back then when the night didn't fall at 15:30, I did a really fun activity.
After kayaking in the archipelago during the summer, I kayaked on a windy october day in the center of city!

The red line on the map shows our traveling.(KTH is my school and Lappis is the place I live)


We had to stop when we got in the center because there was so much wind and waves it was not possible to go farther...

It was great fun to kayak in stormy weather and with the city streets and buildings right next to us !

You can see the place we stopped, right next to the Stadshuset (the green and red building), of course not in the same weather ...