Saturday - February 19th
It was absolutely frigid today so I stayed inside and relaxed. At night Nick and I braved the -20 C (-5 F) cold to walk the mile or so to Flogsta to go to Giulia’s corridor to have a pizza night. We have decided that our group of friends who come from many different countries should all have a dinner themed for their country. Later in the spring Nick and I are going to host a good ol’ American BBQ. We are also going to have a Dutch food night, a German food night, and maybe more depending on who is interested. Giulia (from Italy) with the help of some of the others baked us several delicious Italian style pizzas as well as amazing tiramisu for dessert. Upon arriving back to Rackarberget we found the corridor below us was having a party (which was the first time we had heard any partying going on in our stairwell). The party lasted until about 3 AM, but I didn’t join, I know it lasted that long because the music was clearly audible until then even in our corridor.
Sunday
Nothing much happened and the cold streak was still going strong so I stayed in the corridor and did some homework before the coming school week.
Monday
Had class and heard from an interesting speaker, Örjan Bartholdson, that used to head SwedWatch, which is a organization that oversees Swedish companies’ activities abroad to make sure they are living up to ethical and environmental standards. Also heard from Cristian Alarcon, who is originally from Chile about the relation of forestry and climate change.
Tuesday
Andreas Malm spoke to our class about the pros and cons of globalization and how it is so heavily dependent on fossil fuels. It was a very captivating presentation and he even tied in the cycle of revolution that is occurring in the Middle East in places like Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and more and how rising fuel prices causes rising food prices, which causes political instability. At night several of us went out for the Snerikes Pub Crawl. We were divided into groups of 15 or so and got to meet international students as well as Swedes that are also part of Snerikes. We went to 7 different nation’s pubs (didn’t drink at all of them though) before heading back to Snerikes for our club night. We got to skip the line as we had stamps from being part of the Pub Crawl, and this was fortunate, because it was still very cold out.
Had seminar/recitation for Climate Change Leadership. We were asked a lot of opinion questions and then were to stand in a line based on whether we strongly agreed, agreed, were neutral, disagreed, or strongly disagreed with the statement. It was interesting to see such a variety of opinions from our very diverse class. At night I had to catch the bus to SLU to go to a workshop for Sustainable Design. SD has been a rather disappointing and unguided class thus far and we really haven’t had to do any work for it. In the workshop we split up into groups based on having similar ideas for a project. My group is going to work on designing a small sustainable urban community. After the workshop I joined Nick, Julian, Franzi, and Anneloes at Stockholms nation to watch a Champions League match between Bayern Munich and Inter Milan. Stockholms has great couches and tables set up facing a large projector screen so it was a great venue to see the game. The match was very exciting and Bayern Munich scored in the 89th minute to win the match much to the delight of the German’s Julian and Franzi.
Thursday
Did some grocery shopping during the day and then went to Stockholms Nation early to avoid the line for their club and paying an entrance fee. Nick, Laurie, Anneloes and I had a light dinner at the nation and waited around in their lounge area for the club to start. The club was fun as always.
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