It was really great to meet my international friends again. Many old friends and many new. Many of them german but 15 different countries represent, 16 with Sweden which I stand for. After a bit of grilling we went to the new place for students from Mittuniversitetet where I study. New students and second graders that are their helpers got the first spots in there, third graders have to pay. As I'm working with introducing new students I'm an exception, I've got free entry as well.
So far I've been showing the way to the different events and answering questions about the university, Sundsvall and other stuff about Sweden. In four hours I'm gonna be a guide showing the way again. I find that it's a great way to make new friends as many of them got questions. I'm actually going to do it again in three hours, getting to know someone new or getting to know someone I already met better.
I also got time to play a chess game against a chess interested friend of mine. I'm quite a lot above his level but me playing blindfolded made it more of a challenge. He told me the moves he did and I told him mine without being allowed to look at the table. It's quite fun as I have to be 110% aggressive. The longer the game goes the harder it gets for me to keep track of the pieces and the worse I play. I had a good attack and got a great lead but he managed to sacrifice some pieces and dismantle my attack, then it was pretty much game over for me, there is no way I can keep track long enough to get a new attack going even while in the lead. Think I'm good? Well, a top world player played 50 such games at the same time against people at my level and won 40 of them and lost 2 or 3. That, is good.
I've also met my class of course, which was great fun too. At the parties I go a bit back and forth between class and internationals. Yesterday I went and saw the new Bourne movie at the cinema with a classmate. I have to say the action scenes were excellent but the plot a bit repetitive until the last 30 minutes, which were just great, it gets a 3.5/5 as a movie where the action is the main point.
What about the studies then? Well, I've had a few lessons but not much more than introduction yet. It might start on Tuesday, no lessons today. I also got some homework but that seems alright, just waiting for the book that I actually bought. I'm not a big fan of course literature that I have to pay for but this one seems like it helps a lot.
One thing about Stockholm: I had been intending to meet a good childhood friend of mine in Stockholm ever since I started my internship there in February but somehow we never managed to get it to fit. Last Sunday we did, the very last day I spent in Stockholm. Well, better late than never, huh?
And the last great thing, well great in my opinion. The e-sportsman in Counter strike Emli HeatoN Christenssen will be competing in Mästarnas Mästare next year, a program for Swedish retired sports profiles. Finally some attention for the e-sports community. And as the program host says: A sport like any other and we don't judge. I know most of you viewers disagree, or at least I got that impression last time I wrote about e-sports which was about one year ago. I still recommend you watch the career clip that they will be showing of him. I'm curious about how they'll do it and try to make those who arn't gamers or e-sporters understand but I think it's worth seeing, just 10 minutes and might give you a new impression ... who knows.
I should add that sports has a slightly different meaning in swedish than english. For example chess, horse dressage and shooting are sports. Pretty much any competition that means. Then we have the other thing that is "idrott". There you got athletic stuff like jogging, even if you don't compete and just do it on your own to stay in shape. And of course you got stuff like football, running and high jump that are both sport and idrott.
The picture is of me, the internationals and a few others working with them last wednesday at an event.