Adventure time! This time we decided to take a trip over to Cadbury World in Bournville, which is more or less a Willy Wonka Chocolate factory in real life. There is the expected chocolate tasting & free samples, a huge shop of all sorts of things made out of chocolate, like teapots and shoes....

Bournville itself was a really cute place, however the great weather might have contributed. Sometimes I feel like England is stunning in all cities and placed, apart from Wolverhampton. Sigh,

 
- We couldn't help but thinking about you Ashley. click to enlarge ;)-

There's also a very flat rollercoaster, singing cacao beans and of course the classical history behind the business bit. After this Leonie and I probably won't feel like chocolate anytime soon, but if I change my mind I have a 400g bar next to me ready to be consumed...

  

Hello everyone! As life is on top here in England, with a lot of exiting weekends ahead of me and a lot of free time it is anyway time to start thinking about the fall term. This fall I'll spend, for those who doesn't already know it, in Castellanza, Italy. My home university in Sweden is bombarding me with emails about different meetings they know I can't attend because I'm already here in the UK. But it's enough to catch your attention.

It feels nice to know that I'm not going alone this time, but I'll be going with, it seems, 2 other persons from Jönköping, which is always nice. This small town is located right outside Milan, and is claimed to be small but beautiful with good transportation and some heave industry. Doesn't really make sense to me, but I guess I'll notice when I get there. It feel good to already have done everything once, so I know what to expect in workload. I can just say I'm glad it is a EU country once more so I don't have to fight with vaccinations & visas this time either!

My biggest worry is actually the language. I don't know a word italian. I'll spend parts of the summer studying it on my own, but already now I'm having glossary tests with myself to at least know some basic words. The courses, which has to be in the area of economy, is also a bit more scary than the Human Resources I'm currently doing but I should manage!

So it's back to select courses, make sure I'm in the LIUC lists, find a new accommodation and then just enjoy 5 hopefully wonderful months in the South. I can already feel how much I'll miss my Wolverhampton gang, and keep on missing my JIBS people for another semester, but I usually adapt fast. Just wanted to give you a update on what's going on in my head right now, and I'll be back with stories of my exchange life in Wolverhampton soon!


- Uníversità Carlo Cattaneo School ground -

This is the troup that was heading off to Birmingham for the celebration of St Patricks day! During the entire I was, due to a bet, holding a beer in my hand, which resultet in about 14 hours of beer holding. We started the celebration around 11 AM and ended at 3 PM, heaps of hours longer than I thought it could be fun - but it was so awesome that I don't really know how to describe it!

I have been dancing in 4 different Irish pubs, drinking irish beer with irish persons, danced with old ladies and sung along to No Nay Never Nomore and Tell me Ma to start with. Instead of writing I'll simply add a few pictures here and give you the link to the video on youtube that I made :)

  

   

Challange video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUrEUktSF8&list=UUR34dpHrop-sS5mwmg-IFVQ&index=1&feature=plcp

Hello everyone, it's been a while! The reason for that is simply because really special has happened. We've had out 'midterm' assignments due to the past week and I've been messing around with them, hopefully it all went well... Have no idea where to find my results at the moment but it shouldn't be too hard to find :)

The other day Ashley, Femke and I went to Birmingham for purely materilistic reasons - shopping. Until we drop.
The day kicked off with the little train ride (which we managed to catch thanks to our awesome trainer Garry who have taught us how to run fast in stairs) followe by a Fika. You have NO IDEA how much I miss my regular swedish fika's. After that we headed off to a bookstore called "Waterstone's". It's somewhat like 'Bokia' back home. But this was the most beautiful place I've seen in ages - books everywhere, a mess of stairs and lavishly decorated halls... I was in a book-worms heaven! Later, after hours of stores on we managed to have a second fika - outdoors! Love the weather here! 

     

But there is something else I must mention that we did in Birmingham. And it involves rice, raw fish, seaweed,  chopsticks and awesomeness. I'm speaking Sushi. And not lame bento sushi. I'm talking movie sushi: all you can eat buffé, a rolling band with plates, wasabi, ginger and soya in masses. Delicious as crazy! I'll probably bring everyone of my upcoming visitors (Hanna & Ida that is) there, because something this epic can't anyone be forced to miss!

  

So to conclude I'm feeling fly and fantastic, have great days and always a smile on my face (DVS Mormor, jag mår finemang och känner mig som en liten prinsessa, du behöver inte vara orolig alls!)