Archive for the 'Sweden' Category

Basketball tournament

« 11 May 2008 | 11:47 | Sweden | 1 Comment »

Last Satruday there was a basketball tournament at the local gym. A few friends and I decided to enter a team with the sole purpose of not coming last. We were up against some stiff competition, but nothing I couldn’t handle with my superior height advantage over the Swedes:

It was an epic battle. We played […]



Marian got a REAL job

« 11 March 2008 | 9:39 | Sweden | 2 Comments »

Hi-ho!
That’s right! I no longer sit on the couch all day playing Nintendo and surfing the Internet, and occasionally teaching! I now work at Opera Software as a test monkey. Not sure how much I can tell you about the job without first reading their blogging policy, but I can tell you that it’s a […]



What I’ve been doing and stuff

« 11 February 2008 | 6:38 | Sweden | 3 Comments »

Hi Kids!
Well, I’ve been here a while now. Aside from wondering why it hasn’t snowed yet, I’ve been keeping myself busy with lots and lots of stuff.
Somehow I scored a job as a teacher at the International English School here, substituting their PE teacher who went on parternity leave. Having only worked with year 1’s […]



Skiing in Salen

« 31 December 2007 | 1:34 | Sweden | 4 Comments »

Hot Chocolate #1, 11:30am
Well here I am sitting in McDonalds in some random ski slope in Sweden. My aim for today is to not get kicked out of McDonalds, without buying any food. I don’t like McDonalds, but there isn’t anywhere else here that’s warm and nice enough to sit down in. Every time an […]



Pre-christmas cooking

« 25 December 2007 | 6:36 | Sweden | 1 Comment »

Oh my god! David has finished his exams, so let’s have some cake!
  
Let’s also celebrate with some home made sushi!

… and no Christmas would be complete without a gingerbread igloo- complete with penguins (to scale of course) 

 



Christmas in Sweden

« 25 December 2007 | 5:16 | Sweden | No Comments »

Hello loyal readers.
Well today is the 25th of December. Merry Christmas, you say? No. In Sweden we celebrate on the 24th, so really, I’m feeling a little ripped off. Santa did not come on the 25th, as he has done every other year. I’m beginning to think that he might have forgotten that I celebrate […]



Christmas Tree Pictures

« 17 December 2007 | 4:03 | Sweden | 2 Comments »



The story thus far

« 7 December 2007 | 12:21 | Sweden | 2 Comments »

The last week has been insanely hectic, hence this page has been a little neglected. So sit down and prepare yourself for a very long recount of the past week.
Last time I wrote we were just about to head to Malaysia. It took a few hours to get to Melaka, and on the way I […]



Life bumbles along

« 12 October 2006 | 22:37 | Sweden | No Comments »

Yes, I know I never update this. No time like the present!
Anywho, I’ve been in Sweden for… a while now. I am way out of my league in the Networking course I’m taking at the moment, but am studying databases externally with UniSA which I am enjoying. Hopefully my lovely program director back home can […]



Oh my god, an update!

« 12 July 2006 | 22:36 | Sweden | No Comments »

I leave Adelaide for Sweden again this morning. My flights this time are actually really good I go direct to KL and then amsterdam, so I don’t have to put up with any of that weird hand luggage bollox.
I’ll be back until december… don’t hold your breath for a blog, because it probably won’t […]



Dubrovnik and Croatia - a small update

« 12 June 2006 | 22:35 | Sweden | No Comments »

Wow, I am so lazy.
So much that you’re going to get an update… in dot point form! – Went to Budapest, it was nice. – Went to Dubrovnik in Croatia, it was even nicer. – Finished all my school work in Sweden for the Semester. – Got sunburned. – Decided to stay in Sweden until […]



The last 2 weeks

« 30 March 2006 | 22:26 | Sweden | No Comments »

Sorry it’s been so long- thought you should all get an update!
2 weeks ago David took me to his parents’ house in a little town called Västerås, which was awesome. Great food, friendly family, nice weather. It was really nice to have a change of scenery.
I can’t really remember what happened in the 2 weeks […]



My week in Kiruna

« 14 March 2006 | 22:23 | Sweden | No Comments »

It’s not every day that you’re woken up on a train by an announcement that you’re about to cross the arctic circle. It was at that moment that I thought to myself (in a half-asleep daze) “Shit. It’s going to be cold”.
And I was right. It was cold.
Our first stop was the ice hotel (pictures […]



Sweden chapter 4

« 1 March 2006 | 22:20 | Sweden | Comments Off »

Greetings!
This week has been pretty busy, but the business is all relative to not doing much hard work for the past few months. Oh how I long for a timetable where there’s something nasty due every week so I get used to working hard again!
If nothing else, this week has served the purpose of being […]



More excitement in Sweden

« 14 February 2006 | 22:19 | Sweden | No Comments »

Greetings once again!
So! I’ve decided to try and make blogging a weekly thing on Sundays… so hopefully I’ll stick to that.
This week has been great! Yesterday we had a BBQ in the snow, where I thought my feet were going to freeze! It’s pretty cold here at the moment, but i’ve only managed to have […]



Life in Sweden

« 3 February 2006 | 22:17 | Sweden | No Comments »

Hiyo!
Sorry it’s been so long! My life for the past month has been a combination of busy, busy and busy. Not hectic busy- more too entertained doing things other than blogging here!
Considering way too much has happened here over the past month to even begin telling you all of it, i’ll summarise the past month […]