In just over a week I will be gone.   I received an email from my home uni about paperwork to be done before I leave, but I still don’t think it’s sinking in.   LiU are also saying goodbye, yesterday we had our farewell seminar where we learnt all sorts of interesting facts (who knew you [...]

Global sustainable energy. Last paper in at 12:25 last night – hurrah! Time for a celebratory fika before I re-read it in the light of day and see all the mistakes  

One can say that since the beginning of May, the weather is really nice here in Linköping. Sometimes, the thermometer passes the 20°C! Not everybody can say from his own country (cf: in France). Anyway, with these conditions, everybody started to hang out outside. One cannot avoid the smell of grilled sausages from the barbecues during the [...]

The neighborhood where I live, in the suburbs of Linköping but right next to the university is called Ryd. To get to the city center, you have to cross a forest … or just follow the road. Obviously, the woods seem more interesting, it’s nice for Sunday walks, to play disc-golf (huge hobby in Sweden) [...]

The most important and big event on this trip was to see the Northern Lights which is also known as “Aurora“. The Aurora often appears around 10PM. We have started observing Aurora around 9PMto make sure our equipment such as camera, tripod has set. Our observation team had waited more than two to three hours [...]

There was a lot of free time prior to the next event in Lapland so we have decided to walk around the hostel. In fact, there were plenty of spot to visit around Kiruna.   When we walk past the little forest, there was a beautiful landscape which contains mountain, snow and sunlight. Since it [...]

I had booked my time, I tried to translate my CV in Swedish by myself, prepared a few copies, got to the Career Centrum and guess what? I had spent almost two hours there re-writing it, re-organising it, receiving tips about how to find a job in the city, how should I approach people and [...]

“Excellent memory; strong math aptitude; excellent memory; effective management skills; and very good at math.”   Every time I needed at the beginning, the University was there to help. Seriously. Let’s say that you have just moved to Italy and you are looking for a job. Let’s say that you come from Iceland and you [...]