After 2 weeks of no writing any posts and not having Internet here comes the boom as Mr. Mallon likes to say :lol: .

I shall start first of all with more culturally things and then end with less culturally attractions :smile: .

One place in Stockholm which is quoted with 5 stars in all the guides is Vasa Museet. The Vasa Museum is Scandinavia’s most visited museum. The Museum is so famous because of the warship Vasa - the only remaining, intact 17th century ship in the world.

Finally during this weekend I’ve managed to see changing of the guards at the Royal Palace, quite a funny thing:

Some other pictures I find interesting:

1 strange sign and 2 boys:

guess what’s this :roll:

Combining university life with my new job resulted in 3-4 hours of sleeping per day (more detailes about the new job in the new post). In order to shorten this long time I decided to do a short visit to Älmhult. Actually the visit wasn’t so short, since this place is about 500km far from Stockholm. The best solution was to take a X2000, which is kind of Swedish Maglev Train:

The number 2000 is not average speed, it’s in fact the number of seconds after the train broke :lol: . This really happened after about 300 km far from Stockholm. Since I was close to miss my interview I asked the train conductor how far was Älmhult. He was so kind and answered that actually they don’t plan to stop there, since it’s a very small and unimportant village. Then he remembered that SJ (Swedish railways) is obliged to cover all the expanses for passengers in case of delays. I was really pleasant surprised when he said they will stop in Älmhult only because of me :cool:

Älmhult is a small village with about 8,518 people (including me :cool: ), which is famous because here for the first time Ingvar Kamprad opened his first IKEA store and since then here it’s located IKEA’a headquarter. I decided to visit Älmhult not only because of my interview with the company mentioned before, but also to see how looks a typical Swedish village.

Another boom was a nice trip to Swedish Faroe Islands :lol: .
Ratana (Switzerland), Thomas (Germany) and Henneke (Netherlands) decided to celebrate their birthday together somewhere out Stockholm and they made a good decision. We went to a cabin in Saltsjobaden which is property of the Student Association at SSE
The cabin is not so far from Stockhom, but when you arrive there the only thing which comes to your mind is WoW :shock: :

People living there really enjoy their lives. Everything is so natural and untouched by people, silence all around and just the breeze of the sea.
But when the exchange students are coming :twisted: , the atmosphere and the magic silence is being replaced by ….hm.. let’s say international workshops :razz: and of course the music of nature by the music from the modern Ipods:

…encouraging and supporting for better results :lol:

…singing the Swedish anthem :roll: :

…making a family picture:

…building peace:

…receiving the most desired gift :wink: :

…even though it’s not much ball space :lol: :

and in case you forgot how do I look like, here is a fresh photo :oops:

to be continued….