Welcome on bord in "the love boat" but without the Captain Merrill, Isaac, Gopher and all the others but with Xavier, Juan, Aciere, ...

The last week end, with 23 students I've been to Helsinki. We took that we called "the love boat" like in the famous American show. This boat is just a ferry from Viking Line that makes a trip from Stockholm to Helsinki. We traveled by night from 6pm to 11am (+1H in Finland) so it is a 16 hours trip. But guess what, and it is not surprising, we didn't sleep that amount of hours.

So we got rooms for 4 people in which you can just fit 3 people standing up, that's crazy. Just have a look a the pics, you will understand. The people in the bedrooms have been determined randomly by mixing all the cards, so then I was with 3 spanish people, 2 men and one girl. It was really funny to be with them, even if one of them is a snoker !!! be quite Aciere.

Once arrived, we've been to see the departure with a special Octoberfest beer in the hand (special glass with 1L of german beer)

Then, we bought alcohol at the duty free for preparing the night.

At 8, it was time for the Vinking Buffet, you get food and drinks (beer and wine also) illimited. So just help yourself and take as much as you can. And it is what we did. After 2h30 of enjoying meals and deserts we were the last people in the restaurant, everybody was gone and they had to switch off the lights 3 times and asked us to go before we left.

As I told you before, the cabins were too small to fit everybody or even half of the group in it. So we just seat in the corridor with our glasses full of alcohol. The problem is that you are not allowed to drink downstairs and someone called the security so we almost got troubles. That guy wanted to take all our bottles, but we escaped from him, and he got nothing. I mean he got nothing that night because on the way back to Stockholm he got some. rrrr

Finaly we finished to party in smaller groups of 6 people, in the cabins, doors closen, before going to the night club on the eighth floor.

Party was over at 3 am.

Back to the cabin, and time to sleep, but after 1 hour, 3 of us were woke up by Aciere who snorked strongly. rrrrrrrrr !!! Even pushing, squizing his nose and hitting him was not enough to make him stop.

Same day at 11am, the boat acoast and we've been visiting Helsinki during 6 hours in small groups. We really enjoyed all the day even if we were really tired. Helsinki is a quiet nice city, with many parks, monuments and lot of shopping centers. It was really good to relax there and profit of the sun.

At 5am, we were back to the boat, for an other crazy night, with less sleep than the day before and a lot of spanish people sick of drinking. Thanksfully, I have not lost my night because they learnt me "the spanish de puta madre" :-)

Thanks to all the people who came to "the love boat" and made this trip a really good souvenir.

See u for an other trip

Math

Here we go for the first trip in Sweden out of Borlänge.

 

This week end, I've been to Göteborg with 12 exchange students and one Swed.

More than 500 km separate Borlänge to Göteborg, and after a 7 hour trip, we finaly reached the first stage, which was the hostel.

Thanks to Ron's GPS that brought us somewhere else in the campagn instead of to the right direction, and it took 40 min to find it !!! 

 

At 22:30 we were downtown, and reday to have a good diner. We have been in an Indish restaurant where almost everybody ordered pizzas !!! Crazy no ?

After that, most of them were tired and went back to sleep but, with Ron, Thomas and Nicolaï we decided to go in a night club (park Lane), which was by chance the most famous in Göteborg. We danced and drinked untill 4h00 in the mourning.

To me, It was really a good night.

 

5 hours later that means only 4 hours of sleep ... we got up for a huge breakfast.

Then, the group splited into 2 groups, one to visit Göteborg, the city and the museums and the other one direction Lieseberg, a famous park.

Utta, Jula, Franzy, Jan, Ron, Marcus and I have been there and it was a great day. We did attractions like balder and canonen in which your are propulsed very fast and do loops and flips. It has been a long time that I did not go to that kind of park and I really enjoyed it. Thanks to Ron that convainced me to go there.

The night is very quiete, I was so tired that I was just able to drink one beer before going to bed !!!

 

On Sunday, we decided to ride up the cost and visit cities and landscapes along there. It is really amazing to see all the houses painted in red or yellow. We also drove accross huge forests and lackes during hundreds kilometers. It is the same as Canada.

 

See u for an other trip

 

Math

 

Here are the first news of my journey in Sweden.

 

I have been arrived for about 10 days now and I have a great time here. All the exchange students party each single night, drinking beers and hanging out in the bars or nightclubs downtown. The biggest problem is that, there are not a lot of activities to do and we get bored very quick during the day !!!! And much more since my flatmate, Federico went back to Italy (and will never come back). I am living in that so big appartement alone since he left. It looks like empty right now. Hopefuly I got a bike and I can go cycling around the city but it is not that big, so I know almost all the streets here after one week. Never mind, with some students we start planing trips to Upsala, Stockholm, and even Göteborg and Helsinki.

 

Get ready for coming here coc, fred and my couz.

Off course you are all welcomed to visit me here in Sweden !!!!

 

See u or Vi ses in Swedish

Math