Friday evening

Yesterday evening I had dinner with Agnes and Steffanie. We met at the Indian restaurant Curry Nam Nam and ate really good Indian food and of course talked a lot! A really nice evening!

Cidade de Deus

This evening we went to Sturebiografen to see a movie. Janne won tickets, otherwise this is probably not the kind of movie we would have choosen to see. The movie was "Cidade de Deus" ("Guds stad" in Swedish) which is about the most dangerous favela in Rio de Janeiro. Lot's of violence and lot's of drugs, but also very interesting since it is based on a true story. And I suppose it shows what life is like there, which is good to see, because as a tourist, maybe you think that Rio is only beaches and beautiful sights, and don't really know about this. I thought the movie was very good, and I'm glad we won the tickets so I got to see it.



Yesterday evening I looked at an apartment in Skarpnäck. I was offered this apartment by Stockholms bostadsförmedling (housing department in Stockholm) but was number 16 in line for it, so I guess the chances to really get it wasn't very big anyway. It was a two-room apartment, twice the size I have now, and with a huge balcony. But - it was too expensive for me, 4500:- (about $ 585) and the area is probably not the nicest, but then what could be worse than Flemingsberg where I live now? Well, I turned it down because of the rent, but will look at another one in the same area on Monday.

The rest of this week I've mostly been studying and studying and studying... we have to write assignments before almost every lecture so that's keeping me busy.

Want to see more of the world!

Yesterday evening, when people from Kilroy talked about Cambodia and Vietnam, was very interesting. It made me really want to go there, and as soon as possible. Sure wish I had some money! They had hundreds of pictures to show and it looks like such interesting and beautiful countries. I would especially like to see Angkor Wat and the Mekong Delta. Maybe one day I will....

Studying

Monday was the first day of my new class in "Nordic Politics" at Södertörn University. The class is in English so there are many exchange students from all over the world which makes it more interesting since everyone has different backgrounds and different views of politics in general and especially of politics here in Scandinavia.
There will be a lot of hard work because we are supposed to write short essays before almost every lecture, but I think it'll be fun because the subject is interesting and I just love studying Political Science.

I was without Internet for about 24 hours Monday - Tuesday. It was horrible!! We had a big power failure here Monday evening. It lasted for 7½ hours and when the electricity finally came back my broadband didn't work. I called my ISP but they didn't want to admit that it was because of them, they kept telling me that it was something wrong with my computer. Well, the second time I called I finally got to talk to a guy who agreed to report the problem, and ten minutes later I had access to the Internet again. It is really annoying when those support people don't think that they did something wrong (in this case they probably had to restart something because of the power failure) and instead persist that it is something wrong with your computer.

This evening we are going to a lecture held by people from Kilroy travels . It is about travelling in Vietnam and Cambodia. I would like to go there one day so it'll be interesting to hear what they have to say, and to see pictures from these countries.