Week 3 prior to the cruise

Monday

Went to Blasenhus, the building where most of my classes are, at noon to meet up with my group to work on our presentation before we presented at 2:45. One member didn’t even show up and missed our entire presentation and another member took up half of our allotted time with an introduction so needless to say it wasn’t the best presentation on climate change, but at least it is over now. Had a lecture in Actors and Strategies about social movements, which was fairly interesting.

Tuesday

Our guest lecturer for Climate Change Leadership was an older Swede who is an astrophysicist and sounded a lot like the English narrator for Planet Earth. It was pretty interesting lecture on the history of climate change science. Nick and I went to Franzi’s room to meet up with her, Laurie, Anneloes, Giulia, and Julian before going to Snerikes very early to avoid the line. The club was very fun as usual and Nick and I decided to leave our debit cards at home so we were limited to a handful of beers with the cash we had.

Wednesday

Went to CCL and Sustainable Design. Sustainable Design has been rather disappointing so far as we’ve only met 4 times and it is less organized than the other two classes, only up side so far has been very little work. Our lecturer Wednesday night said he wasn’t aware he would be doing the whole presentation in English so the whole Powerpoint was in Swedish and his English wasn’t too good. It could have been an interesting talk on industrial design, but instead was quite a bore.

Thursday

Met up with a group to discuss travel plans at Norrlands Nation and had lunch at the Nation, a very filling chickpea soup with crepes and jams. We discussed plans for going on the cruise Tallinn on Friday as well as the upcoming trip to Berlin. I had a meeting with a group for Actors and Strategies as we had signed up to be the first group to lead a class next Monday by preparing an interview for our guest speaker, Mr. Brian Palmer (same name as one of my favorite high school teachers funny enough!). Mr. Palmer is a former Harvard professor who was both popular and controversial and he is now teaching social anthropology at Uppsala. The meeting went much better than my previous group work and we were able to do everything we needed in one 2 hour meeting. Went out to Stockholms Nation for their club with Nick, also meet up with other friends including our corridor-mate Louisa.