Gala!

Hey you!

Since it's easier to look at images than to read I'm now supplying you with a nice web album with pictures from the "Gala" my school had this weekend. The girls were pretty, the guys were handsome and the wine was flowing. I had a really nice time.

Gala in Grenoble

Just click the photo and you'll be taken to the album. Captions (bildtexter) might be written later on. (And yes mother, the blog entry about studying will be published :-)

Le Parcour

Parcourir means "travel through". It's not really what these guys are doing. Crazy...

WEI not?

Spent a nice Weekend d'Integration with my school somewhere southwest of Grenoble called Ardeche. It might have been here. It's a bit embarassing but I'm not too sure exactly where we were. Anyway, there were canoeing in more-rapid-than-calm waters (quite cool for a beginner like me). I've no pictures of that I'm sad to say. Would have been good to have a shell for the camera now... There were also quite a lot of partying and dancing and people from the second and last year who threw up our furniture on the roofs of our mobile homes/bungalows. The WEI seems to be an important tradition in my school and quite a lof of people went there from all three "years" and even some alumnis.

School's been kinda slow this week since the third year don't have any classes since they're presenting internships they've done, but all of a sudden someone tells me I need to hand in stuff next wednesday. I still don't know what I need to do exactly. Ah, well. I'll be allright.

Louis XIV really knows how to get you in a party mode!

Yesterday (Thursday) was spent i Lyon. A partnership organisation for the Grandes Écoles in the Rhône-Alps region (AGERA) gaves us, the foreign students a free bus ride to Lyon, a guided tour of the old town including a traditional silk and velvet weaving mill (sidenväveri). I think you would have liked that Lisbet. The velvet with gold threads was a €500/m. and the silk was a €1000... In the 1500-1600s about 20% or 30 000 of Lyon's population worked with it.

I guess the goal of the day was to integrate students from different areas. It didn't work to well I must say. We didn't have to much time to integrate. Lyon was cool anyway and I think I'll return.

Und jetzt c'est le week-end!

Local games

(I Wrote this monday two weeks ago, then I couldn't upload it right away, so the time references are a bit outdated)

Gravity vs My Neighbours : 5-6-7... a lot – 0

There's a family who lives a couple of stories above me. They seem to be doing the laundry quite a lot. Nothing strange there. It's just that, every other or third day there is laundry on the ground in the little inside yard of our house. I'm trying to figure out why they don't buy more clothespins. Maybe they just really like to get their clothes dirty without wearing them.

Erik vs French Food : 0-1

I had a lovely baguette this saturday before I went out for the BDS rally. It might've a been a bit too crispy though cuz one of my my fillings (lagningar) broke. Now I'll have to spend a couple of days looking like Cletus from the Simpssons. It doesn't really hurt, it just looks silly, as you can see.

Yesterday, Sunday the 17th, I also had the opportunity to go to the birthday party of one of my new friends. It was around 25 people there and I'm happy to say I knew quite a lot of them. It's easy to make friends here. It remains to be seen how easy these friendships are to sustain but I hope to make at least a couple of friends that I'll stay in touch with. My friend Daniel is 24 years old now which means that he's old, at least compared to the other French students. Most of the engineering students are around 20-22 years old. Having gap years (sabbatsår) doesn't seem to be so common here in France. Anyhow, I'm used to spend time with younger people in Linköping. When in university, you don't really think of the age differences the same way one used to do before.

Tonight, theres another rally but this time it's being arranged by the people who lives in different ”collocs”, that is a flat where people live together (kollektiv). Should be interesting (and it was :-), I survived the Absinthe...)

Wierd Al, don't know how he keeps doing it...

(I can add that my teeth are doing fine now. I went to this private dental clinic with only blond nurses and a young dentist. I got it recommended by a [female] friend and they did a good job. Not to expensive either.)