SEK 3800 a night

not me, but the suite

Me and my Blog

My name is Ralf, I was a German ERASMUS-student in Umeå/Sweden. I used this blog to record my thoughts and experiences as an international student. The range of topics covers my travels, campus life, international atmosphere, the blogosphere and other Umeå-related stuff.

Archives

Caldendar

January 2005
S M T W T F S
    Feb »
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  

Weather in Umeå

Blogroll

Contact

Meta

2005-1-25

Swimming in the Crowd

Published in  @ 5:10 pm, -5.1°C

Yes, I survived the weekend. I drank a lot of vodka on Saturday (lost to often while playing Mario Kart). Afterwards we went to NH. I couldn’t believe that enormous queue in front of Corona. Even -10°C cannot prevent these people from waiting so long. What is so special about Corona??

It’s pretty amazing to experience the huge differences in temperature: At first, you lap in the pool at about 25°C, then you hang out in the sauna at about 90°C, and finally you have to cycle home at -12°C. I can hardly recommend the IKSU pool on a Sunday evening – 3 lanes were occupied by this funny vattengympa thingy, another one was used to show little kids how to swim. That remains two lanes for the public. Mostly people who prefer to keep their hair dry while swimming. Not really encouraging.

Yesterday I was at the farewell party of Mark, Sandra, Wiebke and Emre. This kind of corridor party I enjoy so much here in Umea. I hope you guys have a nice time back home! Trevlig resa!

1 Comment

  1. Comment by Wiener Bazi | 2005-1-27 @ 10:42 pm

    it’s really a good question why people stand in line at -10°C in a 80 meter queue when it’s already 00:30 and the place closes at 02:00.
    some suggestions:

    a) swedes love to touch each other but are t0o shy to say it (at least as long they are not totally drunk)
    b) the coldness shrinks the swede’s brain to Homer’s brain size
    c) an extremly weird form of fetish

    cu in the queue,
    das wiener bazi

Leave a comment

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.