Hej Guys,
My address for my flat is:
Yvette Tam
Tallrisvagen 15E:1
702 34 Orebro
This address is for LETTERS/CARDS mail only, no packages here because if i'm not home and they send a package, they will have to bring it to the nearest post office store which is in downtown. I will give you the package address when I decide to get off my bum and look for it. So please, mail/letter only for this address.
Secondly, in Tallrisvagen, the 'a' in "vagen" has 2 dots on top of it. And also in "Orebro," there's 2 dots on the first 'O'.
So what's new?
There has been huge parties so far on campus. The night club has officially opened on campus. And I just got back from camp in Fiskeboda, where I played like 6 hours of ultimate! A couple of days back, our orientation group played dodge ball! It was sooo much fun! Today, I was only lucky enough to play basketball with Adam, Florian and his roommate: Tony, and his roommate's friends: Leon and Will. We had a fabulous game!
It's been pretty cold here in Sweden already, and all of us are thinking, "if we think it's cold now, we're pretty screwed for winter" So, peaceeeee me?
Tonight, i plan on spending the night with Kaddy, Adam and Florian. I think we have decided to just chill at someone's room and watch a movie. So it shall be relaxing. I hope you've seen all the pictures i've posted so far on facebook. Hope you like them, and i guess i could say "wish you were here"
8 New things I just found out:
1. Jumper = sweater
2. Hoover the room = vacuuming the room
3. Perogies are originally from Poland!
4. To pronounce Orebro, it's actually "a" as in a ball and the bro is actually like "brew" so ' a - re - brew'
5. Sweden students DO NOT pay tuitions, in fact they GET money for doing well in school!
6. In Sweden, you're not allow to Drink and Drive (duh!) but they also (recommend/require) you to not to drive the day after because you still have alcohol in your blood.
7. Boys are extremely strong. This is because, during Fiskeboda, we played a game where our group (there's 10 groups in total) had to stand on a tarp and pretend that global warming is making the ice that we're standing on melt. So we had to see how many times the tarp can be folded with all 10 of us standing on the tarp at all times even when we're folding the tarp in half. There was four guys who carried four girls on their shoulder (which one of the girls happen to me, so i am quite impressed). We managed to fold it 3 times.
8. When you're in new country, your google page changes from English to the the country's first language. In my case, it's all in Swedish!
Well until next time, take care.
Ytam.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Entry #2
Hej!
First thing to address: the title, i'm going to keep it boring now so you'll know which entries you have read or have not.
Second thing: HPo, yeah, i re-read everything again and I saw that mistake but i was like, mannnn i'm soo tired, i'm not going to bother with it. lol hahah so the tired/lazy side of me took the best of me.
And.... continue on!
So what has been going on in the past few days. I have met the greatest people from all over the place. But I am now living with a girl from Poland and another girl from Japan. And might I add, they have really hard names... and so does everyone else who is on exchange! I have made two really good friends, they're pretty much like my best friends now. They are Florian Blasl from Austria and Adam Engstrom from US.
The three of us walked to downtown to get some stuff, then we decided to just chilled and we walked around and came across the idea of .. let's get ice cream! I got cappuccino flavored, Flo got banana split and weinoughart or something like that. I had a taste and it was unique to say the least. Adam got a strawberry flavored one. Then we walked to the church and just went into to view it. By the very end of it, boy were we tired!
In Orebro, there's a group of people who are called the Fadders they are basically act like your "father/buddy" My fadders are Christoffer, Conner, and Michael. We just had a BBQ last night and we got to meet our fadder. Those three fadder takes care of 6-8 students. So my fadder group contains: Ulrike from Germany, Francisca from Spain, Yi Den from Shanghai, Jiri from Czech, Martin from France, Ann-Kristin from Finland but is studying in Germany. After the BBQ, we hung out one of our fadder's place and chilled. We even googled mapped our house so everyone knows where everyone went to school and where they live. My group is hilarious! Yi Den is very straight-forward when she answers her questions, Martin's last name is Champagne so they were like what do you want to drink? Beer? and now everyone goes... CHAMPAGNE!!! , Ulrike and I just laugh our butts off... good times!
12 Facts of the day:
1. In Orebro, there is a monopoly company where they sell alcohol.
2. Must be over 18 to drink in bars, but MUST be 20 to buy alcohol from monopoly company!
3. There is a night club on campus for us, grand opening this friday and we'll all be there!
4. We're going bowling tonight!
5. We're going camping on the weekend!
6. We're can choose to go to a swim park on Thursday
7. Punctuality is EXTREMELY important in Sweden. They get offended if you arrive even a minute late! "When we say 11, we mean 11, not 11:01"
8. THERE ARE HEDGEHOGS HERE!!!!
9. I have the greatest quilt cover ever! (wait for facebook pictures)
10. Everything is walking distance here in Orebro. 30 mintues to my flat from university, 45 minutes to Downtown.
11. EVERYONE BIKES HERE!
12. I have seen 2 Chinese restaurants here in Orebro!
I also rented a bike!! I will take pictures and post them on facebook soon enough. Since Dmitry named his bike, Sunshine or something, I've decided on Storms! :D
Everyone speaks English, however a lot of things are written in only Swedish. For example, we got sim cards from our orientation group and we had to put money in. They sent us swedish text to welcome you and tell you the call didn't work out or whatever but when that happens we just shove it to our leaders and to random store clerks!
I registered for my autumn courses, when i feel less lazy i will post my schedule for you guys but it's really confusing or weird to say the least.
And on a very last night, I think i might be the youngest exchange student here.
Til next time,
Ytam.
First thing to address: the title, i'm going to keep it boring now so you'll know which entries you have read or have not.
Second thing: HPo, yeah, i re-read everything again and I saw that mistake but i was like, mannnn i'm soo tired, i'm not going to bother with it. lol hahah so the tired/lazy side of me took the best of me.
And.... continue on!
So what has been going on in the past few days. I have met the greatest people from all over the place. But I am now living with a girl from Poland and another girl from Japan. And might I add, they have really hard names... and so does everyone else who is on exchange! I have made two really good friends, they're pretty much like my best friends now. They are Florian Blasl from Austria and Adam Engstrom from US.
The three of us walked to downtown to get some stuff, then we decided to just chilled and we walked around and came across the idea of .. let's get ice cream! I got cappuccino flavored, Flo got banana split and weinoughart or something like that. I had a taste and it was unique to say the least. Adam got a strawberry flavored one. Then we walked to the church and just went into to view it. By the very end of it, boy were we tired!
In Orebro, there's a group of people who are called the Fadders they are basically act like your "father/buddy" My fadders are Christoffer, Conner, and Michael. We just had a BBQ last night and we got to meet our fadder. Those three fadder takes care of 6-8 students. So my fadder group contains: Ulrike from Germany, Francisca from Spain, Yi Den from Shanghai, Jiri from Czech, Martin from France, Ann-Kristin from Finland but is studying in Germany. After the BBQ, we hung out one of our fadder's place and chilled. We even googled mapped our house so everyone knows where everyone went to school and where they live. My group is hilarious! Yi Den is very straight-forward when she answers her questions, Martin's last name is Champagne so they were like what do you want to drink? Beer? and now everyone goes... CHAMPAGNE!!! , Ulrike and I just laugh our butts off... good times!
12 Facts of the day:
1. In Orebro, there is a monopoly company where they sell alcohol.
2. Must be over 18 to drink in bars, but MUST be 20 to buy alcohol from monopoly company!
3. There is a night club on campus for us, grand opening this friday and we'll all be there!
4. We're going bowling tonight!
5. We're going camping on the weekend!
6. We're can choose to go to a swim park on Thursday
7. Punctuality is EXTREMELY important in Sweden. They get offended if you arrive even a minute late! "When we say 11, we mean 11, not 11:01"
8. THERE ARE HEDGEHOGS HERE!!!!
9. I have the greatest quilt cover ever! (wait for facebook pictures)
10. Everything is walking distance here in Orebro. 30 mintues to my flat from university, 45 minutes to Downtown.
11. EVERYONE BIKES HERE!
12. I have seen 2 Chinese restaurants here in Orebro!
I also rented a bike!! I will take pictures and post them on facebook soon enough. Since Dmitry named his bike, Sunshine or something, I've decided on Storms! :D
Everyone speaks English, however a lot of things are written in only Swedish. For example, we got sim cards from our orientation group and we had to put money in. They sent us swedish text to welcome you and tell you the call didn't work out or whatever but when that happens we just shove it to our leaders and to random store clerks!
I registered for my autumn courses, when i feel less lazy i will post my schedule for you guys but it's really confusing or weird to say the least.
And on a very last night, I think i might be the youngest exchange student here.
Til next time,
Ytam.
Monday, August 25, 2008
First Day!
Hi Guys!
So a lot of you have emailed me or has facebooked me. I'm sorry, but our time difference makes it hard to communicate and also, I've been really busy settling in and also making tons and tons of new friends!
I'm going to update you on my life so far, it may sound choppy but hey, it's almost 1am here and I have to get up in about 6 hours. But since you are all just so important to me, that i had to update you guys.
Let's start from the beginning, plane ride #1 (seat arrangements 3 4 3) from YVR to LHR was a loooong 9 hours. I got sick and thankfully recovered before the second flight departed. Sat in LHR for about 4 hours for lay over. Then I went from LHR to CPH (seat arrangments 3 3). Interesting airport I must say, and you all should be proud of me for navigating my way through that massive airport. Had to take like 3 trams to get from my arrival gate to my departing gate. But all went smooth. When I got to CPH, i was shocked. Everything first thing i saw was in dannish, even though english translation was right underneath it, but the dannish letters and words just pops up and it's frightening! But don't you worry, I got to where i needed to go. Let me start off to say, they (the dannishs) rely heavily on honesty because there's a sign that says... I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DECLARE and another sign that reads THERE IS SOMETHING THAT I NEED TO OR MIGHT HAVE TO DECLARE. And if you picked the first one, they don't even check to see if you're lying or not. It's truly amazing. Then I stayed in CPH for another 2.5 hours. My third and final flight was really cute. I got my boarding pass and usually they tell you where you're sitting but on this particular flight and on this particular boarding pass, underneath "SEAT" it read "FREE." So I was like what is going on??? I arrived to my gate and we (the other passengers too) were driven to the very small plane. As dumb as it sounds, i felt like a celebrity because we actually had to walk up the steps of the small plane and was greeted by ONE flight attendant. And boy, how'd you guess, she was blond! But after that flight which was approximately one hour and we had a total of 8 passengers! lol it was grand! (Seat arrangements 1 2) After stepping off the airplane, oh might i add, they actually had propellers!!!! But after stepping off the plane, we were greeting with cold cold air. You could see your breathe! But all 3 of us exchange students met and were greeted by our representative and she drove us to the university and we just chatted and got everything ready (keys, pillows, quilts, etc) Though my flight landed at 10, I didn't get to my flat until about 1 am. They drove me to my appartment and helped me carry my baggages up to the second floor. And it was bedtime for i had to wake up in about 7 hours.
So I fell asleep and woke up at 2.30, couldn't go back to sleep until 3.30. But that didn't last long either, i woke up at 5ish and just couldn't fall back asleep. So I've decided to just go for a walk at 6am! I explored my university and the area where i'm living. It takes a little more than 30 minutes to get from my flat to the university but nonetheless it's a nice walk. Met some locals who just started talking to me so that was nice....
But for now, i must end here. I have much more to tell you all after a good night's sleep. Give me a break! I'm living on like 3 hours of sleep!
I'll add another post tomorrow or whenever! Keep checking regularly i guess if you want to know about my life.
All i can say, after this long journey, i have finally enjoying it. It's amazing!
Love,
Ytam.
So a lot of you have emailed me or has facebooked me. I'm sorry, but our time difference makes it hard to communicate and also, I've been really busy settling in and also making tons and tons of new friends!
I'm going to update you on my life so far, it may sound choppy but hey, it's almost 1am here and I have to get up in about 6 hours. But since you are all just so important to me, that i had to update you guys.
Let's start from the beginning, plane ride #1 (seat arrangements 3 4 3) from YVR to LHR was a loooong 9 hours. I got sick and thankfully recovered before the second flight departed. Sat in LHR for about 4 hours for lay over. Then I went from LHR to CPH (seat arrangments 3 3). Interesting airport I must say, and you all should be proud of me for navigating my way through that massive airport. Had to take like 3 trams to get from my arrival gate to my departing gate. But all went smooth. When I got to CPH, i was shocked. Everything first thing i saw was in dannish, even though english translation was right underneath it, but the dannish letters and words just pops up and it's frightening! But don't you worry, I got to where i needed to go. Let me start off to say, they (the dannishs) rely heavily on honesty because there's a sign that says... I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DECLARE and another sign that reads THERE IS SOMETHING THAT I NEED TO OR MIGHT HAVE TO DECLARE. And if you picked the first one, they don't even check to see if you're lying or not. It's truly amazing. Then I stayed in CPH for another 2.5 hours. My third and final flight was really cute. I got my boarding pass and usually they tell you where you're sitting but on this particular flight and on this particular boarding pass, underneath "SEAT" it read "FREE." So I was like what is going on??? I arrived to my gate and we (the other passengers too) were driven to the very small plane. As dumb as it sounds, i felt like a celebrity because we actually had to walk up the steps of the small plane and was greeted by ONE flight attendant. And boy, how'd you guess, she was blond! But after that flight which was approximately one hour and we had a total of 8 passengers! lol it was grand! (Seat arrangements 1 2) After stepping off the airplane, oh might i add, they actually had propellers!!!! But after stepping off the plane, we were greeting with cold cold air. You could see your breathe! But all 3 of us exchange students met and were greeted by our representative and she drove us to the university and we just chatted and got everything ready (keys, pillows, quilts, etc) Though my flight landed at 10, I didn't get to my flat until about 1 am. They drove me to my appartment and helped me carry my baggages up to the second floor. And it was bedtime for i had to wake up in about 7 hours.
So I fell asleep and woke up at 2.30, couldn't go back to sleep until 3.30. But that didn't last long either, i woke up at 5ish and just couldn't fall back asleep. So I've decided to just go for a walk at 6am! I explored my university and the area where i'm living. It takes a little more than 30 minutes to get from my flat to the university but nonetheless it's a nice walk. Met some locals who just started talking to me so that was nice....
But for now, i must end here. I have much more to tell you all after a good night's sleep. Give me a break! I'm living on like 3 hours of sleep!
I'll add another post tomorrow or whenever! Keep checking regularly i guess if you want to know about my life.
All i can say, after this long journey, i have finally enjoying it. It's amazing!
Love,
Ytam.
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