Posted in personal on Jan 12th, 2010
Last week I went on an awesome trip through Swedish and Finish Lapland. It is easy to say that this was one of the best trips of my life. Together with two Chinese students I visited Santa Claus’ home at the border of the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland, the Ice Hotel near Kiruna, and [...]
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Posted in personal on Oct 12th, 2009
On the weekend of the 2nd to the 4th of October I went on a trip to the Laponian Mountains. Umeå University’s International Office together with IKSU frilufts had organized this trip for about 50 international students to give us the opportunity of getting to know the wonderful Swedish mountains before the winter sets in. [...]
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Posted in personal on Sep 13th, 2009
On Monday I will have arrived in Umeå three weeks ago. This sounds like a long time considering that courses have already started and I left my familiar surroundings for the (yet) longest time of my life. But in this case these 21 days seem like nothing to me. Here in Umeå time seems to [...]
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Posted in personal on Aug 29th, 2009
It’s already been five days that I left beloved Marburg for my journey to Sweden. While I still don’t realize that I am going to stay 2000 kilometres from my home city for the next ten months, I am already getting quite used to my surroundings. But let me tell you step by step about [...]
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