I’m back and finally I found the chance to put myself here to update the blog a little.
This week has been quite not interesting, due to the weather and to the fact that my team and I took a week of vacation from the school project, I have not done much.
In fact lately here in Göteborg it has been raining and, sometimes, snowing quite a lot. With the omnipresent wind helping out, going out, even to just catch a bus, is a though adventure.
About me: I am quite good physically, even if emotionally is a whole another story.
Last week I finally started searching for information about a trip I’ve longed to plan and, of course, to do: go to see the Northern Lights (For whom who are not aware of them, or simply do not know what they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)). They are also called Aurora, and since we are in the northern hemisphere they are called ‘Aurora Borealis’ (from Greek).
how is it going? Have you seen? I managed to write another article, this time without waiting for weeks, WOHOHOOO!
Just some news from Sweden and myself: I finally found a part-time job as web developer, just for a project now, but hopefully everything will work out fine; if so, it is very likely to become a permanent position.
Here it is getting colder, but I am still looking forward to something more; I really miss the Canadian winter. Even though I have been reassured that there will not be much snow, I have been told by many people that ‘it will get f*$%ing cold here’.
I guess I will need to wait and see it myself.
For the rest, I have been working on a school project lately and with some work I am on my way to accomplish my task.
Oh, right! I was forgetting, next week there will be the first meeting of the photography group I am going to join, and on the 25th of November I will, if everything stays like this, going to take pictures of an event for a magazine! Yay!
I have been lazy lately, concerning photography in an artistic way, so I am looking forward to have a place and thus a determined period of the week for focusing on this. And also having the chance to take pictures for a magazine will give me, first of all, experience in people photography.
Yesterday, there has been the Halloween Party at Chalmers (the other University in Göteborg). The party itself was alright but the people made it great.
You perhaps might be wondering about my costume, well… My first plan was to make (sew and so on) my own Super Mario costume (yeah I know, you might be thinking: ‘what’s cool about that’, but I liked the idea to be the only Super Mario to be able to say ‘Mamma mia’ with the right accent ), but due to problems during the way (mostly because the result of the hat did not satisfied me), I opted for the easy and quick way: the ’undead/zombie/vampire/whatever costume’. It came out nicer that I thought, thanks to a friend who made my make-up last-minute. Taaack again! [Tack in Swedish means 'Thanks', Ed.]
I will conclude this short and pictureless with the now usual Extra section.
Extras:
This video is a live performance of Jake Newton’s “Terrible Dream”.
I have discovered him quite randomly on the website ‘pledgemusic.com’ and after having listened to some of his tracks I was convinced he was someone to support, and so I did, I pledged and helped him to make his record. [In which he succeeded, for more info: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/jakenewton-lets-make-a-record]
I like this song for its simplicity and the whole picture created by the lyrics.
I really like how J.N. describes what he feels for the partner while he is in the world of the dreams; a place where, supposedly, only the pure essence of the self comes out of the armor and says what he really believes. In fact, there are many statements that can be considered somehow ‘extreme’ (“Without your love the world is void of everything”) and sometimes such feelings can be expressed just in our own dreams.
And the song ends in a gloomy and bitter finale where he just woke up next to, we can assume, her and she is, indeed, not aware of what just happened and gives only an apparently cold comment about him talking during his sleep. I used the word gloomy and bitter because I can imagine that probably he will not (or cannot) completely tell his dream and therefore she will never know.
This week I have had the chance to see a very interesting interview of Tiziano Terzani, an Italian author and journalist.
I liked a sentence he said; here it is, of course the translated version: “There is a nice word in Italian, that suits more than the word ‘happy’, and it is accontentarsi (to able to be content). Only a man who is content of what he has can truly be happy. Because this system founded on the pursuit of a desire: that there is always a desire that for you is unreachable, makes everybody unhappy”.
how are you keeping?
Finally I found some time and will to start writing again. I have been quite busy, mostly because of the university (which involves parties of course), but also quite lazy. My laziness increased when I noticed that all the links to my pictures, I published on the blog, were broken…
Today I was ready to upload them all again (this time on flickr), but I gladly found out that they were *magically* back. Nevertheless I wanted to back them up, and so I did.
Well, I shall talk about Sweden.
Right now I live in Sweden and more precisely in Göteborg.
For those who do not know where it is, here is the map:
I am attending an IT bachelor degree at the Goteborgs Universitet.
Lately I have stayed mainly in the city, but last week I went to Ireland to meet a friend I really missed.
I have found an accommodation and maybe soon a job as well.
I am looking forward to start working on the photography group of the university, I have not been practicing a lot lately. But I have many projects I want to attempt.
This post does not contain as many interesting pictures as the others, but I wanted to catch up with what happened so far.
As usual I will end the post with a nice song I have found out lately, no aphorism today :
[ Björn Olsson - Låt i H moll]
I found this song in a funny video and it got stuck in my head for its apparent simpleness. The author is ‘Björn Olsson’, he is Swedish and from Goteborg!
Check him out, you wont regret it: http://www.bjornolssonmusic.com/
on this solitary sunny day I am going to add a new location to my experiences and travels around Ireland.
Today Galway is the destination.
The City of Galway (or Cathair na Gaillimhe in Irish), located in County Galway, is a very active and gorgeous city on the west coast of Ireland.
Some friends, also colleagues, and me were long planning to go there for having some fun as well as visiting the city; we ended up going for St.Paddy’s weekend and my birthday.
once again back to tell and show bits of the places I visit.
Today’s destination is ‘Limerick’.
Some facts from Wikipedia.org:
Limerick, in Irish ‘Luimneach‘, is the third largest city in Ireland (The republic) and the second largest city in the county of Munster (mid and southwest of Ireland).
The day I planned to visit Limerick I felt sick, a painful headache and cold, but, as I had already bought the bus tickets, I was almost forced to go there anyway.
For this post I mostly tell the trip using the pictures I have taken as not much really happened, also maybe because of my temporary impaired health conditions.
Today, as usual, it rained for a while throughout the whole day, for this reason I found enough time to upload the last pictures from my camera and update my journey around Ireland.
In this post, as written in the title, I will be showing some pictures of Ennis, a town not far from Shannon, which is, in my honest opinion, a very beautiful town. It is very colourful and active village.
Below you will be able to find pictures of the town as well as a video of a musician I found in the town center.
[Old Ground Hotel, on the way to the center. I loved the tree; a beautiful and huge tree]
[Another picture of the Hotel, it looked so good that I couldn't not take a picture of it]
I arrived almost 3 months ago in this wonderful and friendly country also known as Ireland. I had the time to settle, find a good and nice place, get used to the new workplace, meet new people and make new friends. I know I should have updated the blog before, but I was either lazy or busy, but today, since I woke up at 8am, I decided to start writing about Ireland.
I will start then with Shannon, the place I live at the moment in.
On the 6th of January I arrived in Ireland, after the Christmas break in Italy.
Dublin welcomed me with a nice rainy day.
After having waited few hours at the airport for getting a bus going to Limerick, I finally reached Shannon with the help of the taxi hired by the company.
The first week I stayed in a B&B, very nice and comfortable.
During that week I looked for a place and luckily after only few days I found a nice apartment right in the city center, 20 mins away from the workplace by walk.
The only way to quickly show and describe the town is to show you the pictures I have taken.
So, here are some pictures. Enjoy:
[Main Street, next to the Sky Court (the Mall in the city center)]
I finally figured out how to view the pics on FB in the old way, so I take the good news and update once again the blog with a previous trip I did.
The word ‘trip’ is maybe incorrect, maybe pit stop would suit it better, since I stayed there half a day, but I still could see a good part of the city centre of Paris.
I basically planned to pick two flights far from each other in order to have the time to visit Paris.
I did not realize that the airport in Paris was so far from the city itself. So, I stayed something like 4 hours in total.
I expected Paris to be waaay better, you know the ‘city of love’, so romantic and wonderful. I can’t say it was ugly, but all those rumors and reviews gave me different eyes. I can say that it was pretty crowded and full of life, way more than in Rome, but I would not say it is the best city in Europe. In fact, the city centre was filled of people trying to sell souvenirs of the Eiffel Tower and France. Every 50m you could see someone with at least a hundred of these little towers.
I just leave you with some pics of the capital of France, Paris!
I know I know, I am ashamed of myself… 4 months of delay… But I have been quite busy lately, but I will try to catch up and explain the reasons why it took me ages to write something again.
The third part of my holiday is located in Sweden, and it lasted 7 days, from Oct 4 to Oct 11.
I chose Sweden for many reasons: for visiting a dear friend, who lives there, visiting the country, and checking out the universities and the campuses, since one of my plans is to start studying in Sweden.
My first stop: Stockholm.
[View of Stockholm]
After landing in Nyköping and a couple of hours, I managed to reach my first destination: Stockholm.
I have been gladly impressed by the city. It is a wonderful city, well kept and the people I met were open and friendly and with an extremely good English.
[Stockholm Downtown]
I wandered around Stockholm and I first went to visit my first University, the Stockholm University, where I got some depliants and some general info about studying in Sweden. I also met a wonderful
person while going around the University, we spent only few hours together but we became quickly friends, and we still are in touch. She is a very pretty, smart and funny movie director and she studies and lives in Stockholm. She came with me around Stockholm looking for a hidden University, when we found it, it was closed :O.
), but due to problems during the way (mostly because the result of the hat did not satisfied me), I opted for the easy and quick way: the ’undead/zombie/vampire/whatever costume’. It came out nicer that I thought, thanks to a friend who made my make-up last-minute. Taaack again! 
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