Vylety - Trip to bardejov and Tommy Salo
I spend a great day yesterday with my EILC class. I got picked up at the bus station in Presov with a mini bus and then we drove to a area which is known for their special wooden churhes. It was nice to have a look at one and then we went to the main attraction, Bardejov.
When I entered the main square as a pedistrian it was like walking into a postcard, I felt blown away by the buildings and the Bazilika. The whole city belongs to world heritage list. The whole day was full of cultural activities and when we were heading back I decided to follow my class back to Kosice.
I had a chance to see the dorm where I also slept. It was very nice of the guys to let me sleep there because the connections between Kosice and Presov is quite bad in weekends, last train goes at 23:10. So this meant I had the opportunity to enjoy the nightlife in Kosice, we went to three bars.
A funny thing was that when me and Martin came back in the night to the dorm, he had forgot the key for the entrance to the dorm. We climbed over a high fence and knock at the girls windows to wake them up so they could open the main entrance door for us. The portugise girl woke and open the window with a scared look on her face. She first thought it was a burglar but when she saw us it all went fine and she opened up the entrance door so we could sleep inside. First I was happy to sleep inside, second, Iam happy I did not kill myself getting over that fence when I was drunk in the middle of the night, third everything went well so Iam not complaining, I had a blast.
Here is some pics from yesterday morning til the meeting with Tommy Salo and the night
First stop: A wooden church made without nails.
The beutiful city of Bardejov. The Bazilika is 76m high. The
market in front of the bazilika has been going on once a year,
every year for 658 years.
The rain came out of nowhere and it just poured down. Horrible
weather but of course, we kept the mood up.
Another stop for a look at more wooden churches.
But this one I found impressive
In the evening we drank beers.
I had a great time
The window to a communistbar. Ashame it was closed though.
We had fun at Madrid club instead and the floor is covered by
sand. Great feeling sitting with bare feet, drinkin.
The mysterious meeting with Tommy Salo. I found it nice, a
poster of him in the dorm.
Martin and Sandors room in the dorm. On the floor there,
I spent the night.
The show must go on even if I have a bloody hangover. I will invite Katkas mum
and sister for dinner today. It is going to be awesome.
When I entered the main square as a pedistrian it was like walking into a postcard, I felt blown away by the buildings and the Bazilika. The whole city belongs to world heritage list. The whole day was full of cultural activities and when we were heading back I decided to follow my class back to Kosice.
I had a chance to see the dorm where I also slept. It was very nice of the guys to let me sleep there because the connections between Kosice and Presov is quite bad in weekends, last train goes at 23:10. So this meant I had the opportunity to enjoy the nightlife in Kosice, we went to three bars.
A funny thing was that when me and Martin came back in the night to the dorm, he had forgot the key for the entrance to the dorm. We climbed over a high fence and knock at the girls windows to wake them up so they could open the main entrance door for us. The portugise girl woke and open the window with a scared look on her face. She first thought it was a burglar but when she saw us it all went fine and she opened up the entrance door so we could sleep inside. First I was happy to sleep inside, second, Iam happy I did not kill myself getting over that fence when I was drunk in the middle of the night, third everything went well so Iam not complaining, I had a blast.
Here is some pics from yesterday morning til the meeting with Tommy Salo and the night
First stop: A wooden church made without nails.
The beutiful city of Bardejov. The Bazilika is 76m high. The
market in front of the bazilika has been going on once a year,
every year for 658 years.
The rain came out of nowhere and it just poured down. Horrible
weather but of course, we kept the mood up.
Another stop for a look at more wooden churches.
But this one I found impressive
In the evening we drank beers.
I had a great time
The window to a communistbar. Ashame it was closed though.
We had fun at Madrid club instead and the floor is covered by
sand. Great feeling sitting with bare feet, drinkin.
The mysterious meeting with Tommy Salo. I found it nice, a
poster of him in the dorm.
Martin and Sandors room in the dorm. On the floor there,
I spent the night.
The show must go on even if I have a bloody hangover. I will invite Katkas mum
and sister for dinner today. It is going to be awesome.
A trip to Kalvaria
I found some pics from last friday when me and Katka went to Kalvaria, a church located on a hill. The location makes it also a nice view over Presov. So we decided to take a walk and get up there!
For your notice, what I heared is that often couples walk up there to find a spot for sex but we did not, it was people around so we kissed with each other instead;) The time we spent there was still a real pleasure with a enjoying view of the city and the church. It was beautiful!
On the way to Kalvaria
Me in front of the church
The view of me and the city!
Conversation skills in the market
We had an intresting class the other day. We went to a market where u can buy delicious vegetables and berries. We learned the names and had the chance to see the great choice. It was a creative nice way of improving slovak! By the way, the slovak name for market is TRH, lot's of consonants huh? not really the easiest word to pronounce...
The woman in the middle, the teacher Angela and some of my classmates
some classmates
Slovak women in traditional folk costumes selling berries.
The battle of Slovakia. Yesterday we went for icehockey!
We had a great lunch before the action!
The Icehockey game! Kosice in blue dresses, Bratislava in white dresses.
Nr 67 on the back is swedish and if u look carefully u can also see HÖGLUND
In the break, between the periods, a beer was neccesary! The guy Iam
drinking with is Martin, a german from my class.
This is Slovak!
Easy words
My class 
weekdays
Learning directions
Greetings
How are you?First day as a Erasmus-student
ohh, I woke up sleepy at 6 am in the morning feeling quite anxious about the first day. When I was finished with breakfeast and taking a shower and stuff, Katka walked me to the bustop. We said good bye and then my journey began...
8.30 it was registration time where I had to sign a paper and I also got a welcome package. We were 13 people in the class for the EILC learning slovak language. The nationalties are Poland, Lithuania, France, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Portugal and a swede you know. We had to introduce each other for the class and then the course started. Afterwards we went to a restaurant for a welcome lunch. The rektor of the university was present welcoming us to Kosice and then we ate. It was nice talking some, getting to know each other. When the lunch ended me and three other boys went for a beer. Overall the day went fast and now Iam a little tired so Iam looking forward to the bed.
Bye bye
Tomorrow, first day in school
Iam gettin a bit nervous thinking a about tomorrow but I think it will go great. I will write about the whole day tomorrow when I come home. Wish me good night and good luck tomorrow
bye bye
Our new Apartment
The days have passed away so quickley since I last wrote in my blog. Me and Katka have had fully schedules taking care, cleaning, unpacking and funituring our new apartment that I have not felt like writing anything til now.
I have to say it is a real pleasure to move in to this flat, we are both very satisfied. The things that have been happening this week has been mostly about the apartment as I wrote earlier but the big grocery shoping was a killer. We spent more or less 2 hours buying food and it almost broke me. It was also this 3 min of jazz music going on and on all the time too but finally we reach the registers and could get out of the foodstore. This was my all-time personal record spent in one foodstore and it is also probably the biggest foodstore I have ever been to. After all we got everything we needed and for the next time we have a better perspective where everything is located.
Yesterday we had a nice walk in Presov through the center, bought a ice-cream, looking at people siting outside having a beer still enjoying the summer. Presov is really a city full of people and energy during the evenings. I like it. We will take more walks and maybe sit down in the park in the center sometimes or have a beer. Iam looking forward for the next time it will happen:)
The neighbour we met yesterday living on the same floor is a big talker. She is a lady somewhere over 70 and we met her first in the staircase. She was nice in the beginning but when she began showin us pictures of her great grandchildren it started to feel weired. Then she continued talkin and she invited us to her flat. So we had the chance to see her apartment and she kept on talking for maybe 10 minutes and further on she followed us out and kept on talking while I was unlocking the door to our apartment. This was never-ending talkin, really no breaks, no sign of a stop so it was such a relief to get in to the silence. So today we were very, very quiet when we entered the staircase in hope to not meet her before entering our place.
Today we went to a big big shopping center. We had a long look and the choice was enormous. We looked at some clothes but in the end I felt good with buying a book that seems to be awesome.
For now we takin it easy and will doing so!
Packing the last stuff!
Today we are moving in to our apartment and it feels really goody. First we actually went up early and took the bus to the Ukraine to buy some nice stronger alcohol and I also found great shot glases and wineglases aswell:) So now we are doing the last stuff of the packing! We are close now, very close to move in...ojojoj!
Btw. two bottles of vodka I paid 3,50euro for. good price isn't it? Ukraineprices= for free in swedish eyes
Getting better
Yesterday I started feeling better and today too so maybe tomorrow Iam healthy. The good things with being ill is the timing with Premier League startin this weekend:) Yesterday I watched Chelsea - Hull, Blackburn - Manchester City and ended the day with Everton - Arsenal! I was happy:)
Today the schedule is fully booked too, that is wonderful! 12:30 Psv-Ajax, 14:30 Man U-Birmingham 17:00 Tottenham-Liverpool and then watch some athletics. 21:35 is the 100 m final for men:)
Have a good sunday sports day!
some nice links
Nice british humor!
I found a intresting link concerning
my english studies for the up-coming year!
I want my health back
The reason I have not written anything in my blog the last couple of days is because I have been busy sneezing, blowing my nose and feeling smashed by high fever. Iam litteraly not in a good shape which have had lead to much sleep and Iam still in need of it.
I hope I feel better til Sunday because that is the last day staying at Katkas parentes. Then I would like to invite them all for dinner in a way to show my gratitudes for being here.
Iam keeping my fingers crossed during all this mess of fever and throatache that I will feel better otherwise I will be pissed.
Fever
Will go to sleep now...I have got a fever!
My Flighttickets are paid!
I bought my flighttickets for christmas today. The plane goes from Budapest the 21 of december to Gothenburg and the return ticket departures the fouth of januar. It feels good to have it paid and finished. One great thing with traveling with plane is the comfortability just with the passport and a conformationcode to get the boardingcard. Maybe this have existed for a long time but still it is making it very easy to travel!
Other good news is that we have set a final date of moving in to our flat, the 17th of august. Iam really looking forward too it now, getting my own or almost. Me, katka and Silvia will live there.
For showing my appreciation for staying at Katkas parents, I asked them out for inviting them to dinner and they loved it as to the fact that I am showing how thankful Iam and doing something to express my gratitudes for being here.
Another great thing happen today. I had my second footmassage, it is breath-taking having that massage. The Massage guy told my tension had passed and I feel more loosen up. That was great, however my stomachproblems continues and that is also true. So I shall try to not eating so much that getting stuffed and that is not easy but I will make it a try! He also said I had an headache recently and I told him I was out in friday celebrating my birthday which lead to a hangover. He just laughed a little and said that that is why I can feel u had the headache and maybe it also made u loosen up from the alcohol since I cannot feel any tension in your body this week.
I think Iam getting more used to living here and that also makes my body adjust. I feel very relax now by my new surroundings, almost like home!
My birthday!
Since it was my birtday yesterday I did not write anything so I will update today. Yesterday was great, I got really nice presents so I could feel spoiled.
Me and Katka slept over at Hela and Slavos place because we went out in friday so we woke up at them yesterday and I was quite exhausted. We were out for a long time partying and I got to sleep at 4 o'clock and woke up at 10 o'clock. But it was a nice time out and when the clock turned twelve we cheered for my birthday, it was wonderful.
I started my birthday with a nice, healthy breakfeast too get some focus and energy. Then we went to Katkas family and sat down in the living room spending time, celebrating, cheering, laughing, it was blast! After the family get together me and Katka had some time for ourselves which made me suprised. Katka went in the room singing with a cake and a bottle of rosewine, I was really happy:) She gave me her present, a dvd she made herselves with pictures telling our story since we first met. It was such a original awesome gift, I almost cried watching it together with my Katka drinkin the rosewine and havin the cake.
The whole birthday was perfect yesterday which actually continued today with some birthdaysandwiches that I supposed to get yesterday but then we slept at Helas place. So my belly is happy after that delicious start of the day!
Mr Cook
I had pizza!
very lazy day today! Highlight of the day: Katkas mum did homemade pizza for lunch. That was yummy!
Yesterday we went to watch a footballgame. When we entered I saw something glourious, a beerwagon! So we had two beers watching the game and it also made it easier to enjoy the match because the quality of the game was not so high.
I would say I rather not write when nothing is happening so I will make todays writing short.
Tomorrow I will cook a swedish meal for Katkas family. I hope I can figure something out because this starting to be a tough promise to hold. Despite my anxious state though, I will go through with this and tackle my fear and do some cooking, wish me good luck, I am going to need it!
Football game
If it is not raining too much we are going for a footballgame and then out.
yes, me and Katka have been together for 8 months today!
yes, me and Katka have been together for 8 months today!
Hangover after a nice celebration
The celebrations for Slavo was terrific last night. We all enjoyed playin cards and having fun together. The present I bought for Slavo was very appreciated and we tried the Slivovica all together. I think it was quite strong so my head is a lttle tired today but we had a really nice time so it does not matter if I have a small hangover!
It is raining today, wow must be one of the first times since I got here!
Now It is time for chilling and a cup of tea! Sayonara
It is raining today, wow must be one of the first times since I got here!
Now It is time for chilling and a cup of tea! Sayonara
We have an apartment in Presov!
Today I have had a footmassage. It was really intresting to listen too and it felt nice. The guy giving me the massage was talking about how the parts of the foot affecting diffrent parts of the body. He could also tell by massing the feet how my internal organs were functioning. I was happy about when he told me my liver is in a good shape. That means I do not have to worry about drinking my beers:) But one thing he could tell was that my stomach is not the best, worried and I could totally agree. The footmassage lasted for one hour and I paid 10 euro. I was very satisfied so in next week I will come back again for another foot massage.
Tonight we will celebrate Slavos birthday so I have bought a very nice bottle of slivovica, 52%! I am pretty sure he will like it!
The present for Slavo Here u can see the plums
And saving the best for the last. Today we got our apartment! yeah! We are moving in the 15 of august! When we have moved in I will buy nice bottles of Slivovica, Borovicka and of course St. Nicolaus Vodka. I will not either forget the specialty, wait for it, Tatra tea! This is will be nice when people come to visit! So the preperations has all ready begun!
Tonight we will celebrate Slavos birthday so I have bought a very nice bottle of slivovica, 52%! I am pretty sure he will like it!
The present for Slavo Here u can see the plums
And saving the best for the last. Today we got our apartment! yeah! We are moving in the 15 of august! When we have moved in I will buy nice bottles of Slivovica, Borovicka and of course St. Nicolaus Vodka. I will not either forget the specialty, wait for it, Tatra tea! This is will be nice when people come to visit! So the preperations has all ready begun!
becoming more and more slovak
Today the day has been full of activities and stuff to do. First we woke up at eight in the morning to be able to visit the dentist in michalovce. So we took the bus there and I fixed two teeth. The dentist was working very well and the price was great, 59 euro for two teeth, amazing price for a swede so I made an appointment for next week aswell. This means I have slovak teeth now so Iam becoming more and more slovak:)
A pic of Katka and the lake
Then we went to the lake and sunbathed. It was 28 degrees in water, really nice and for lunch I had a langos with a beer, the brand of the beer is kozel which becoming more of an favourite very close to my number one beer Zlaty bazant! Very good!
What happen next was dramatic, ok maybe not but I got stung by a bee while laying at the blanket sunbathing. It was a long time I got stung by a stupid bee on my arm but it was ok, just got a little red. After this incident I lost my mood so we packed our stuff and went for the bustop!
When u got a bad mood, the slovaks say, a fly sit on his nose! These f-kin bees and flies! But Iam feeling better now and my mood is back:)
ciao ciao
Sunday dinner
I had great sunday dinner. It included mashed potatoes with filled paprika (rise and meat) and tomatosauce. It was really delicious!
Have a look for ourselves.
Have a nice sunday!
Have a look for ourselves.
Have a nice sunday!
Henrik Höglund
I have been lazy updating my blog recently so I have to put more focus into it.
Short summary of last couple of days: babysitting, Seen Kosice and lookin for apartments.
First babysitting. I have never honestly been so exahausted by taking care of two little kids. They can really drag out all the energy. It started with the one of the kids (Matus, 1 year old and Nika 4 year old) does not matter which one screamed and woke me up. The following morning was in my foggy newly woken-up eyes two kids jumping, talking, screaming, barking like dogs everywhere. When I say this I do not mean I don't like kids, it was more of chock seeing and being in this fully energy 4-year old girl prescense talking, questioning me without no signs of getting tired. But overall the day went ok, the little boy and girl was cute and making me feel happy with their cute smiles when it felt like sometimes too much. Afterwards Slavo invited us for a beer which was deserved for cooling down the nerves, helping a lot and I made it clear when falling asleep, It is not in the nearest future before I am becoming a daddy!
Yesterday me and my Katka went to see Kosice before the apartmenthunting. I have never seen Kosice and it was great to see this city. The center was beautiful and the highlight were the 13th century roman-catholic cathedral. that one was amazing. I said to Katka while looking at this piece of culture. The catholics really likes to showing off:)!
But I have to say I was more then Imprest by the view of this magnificent building. Koisce was a lovley city (235 000 inhabitants) with lots of nice buildings like the one that I will study in, My EILC-university.
We looked at two apartments in Presov and they both got dis and advantages but the first one was the best. It included everything so hopefully we take that one.
Slavo showed me the local newspaper and a swedish icehockeplayer has joined HC Kosice, Henrik Höglund! He is 31 one years old and played in Fredrikstad before HC Kosice. My first thought coming in to my mind while getting to know about this was that maybe me and Henrik go out for a beer sometime and I can show him Kosice and Presov:) We will see about that but I will with out a doubt go for many games in Kosice and see him play.
Here is a link over the matches for HC Kosice for the once intrested who what to combine the visit to me with see a ichockey game! just change the month in the calender to find the dates of the icehockeygames
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.steelarena.sk%2Findex.php&h=12099b0aac5128e536cd8ff410aaabac
In the bus on the way home I saw something swedish and had to capture the moment with a picture!
Short summary of last couple of days: babysitting, Seen Kosice and lookin for apartments.
First babysitting. I have never honestly been so exahausted by taking care of two little kids. They can really drag out all the energy. It started with the one of the kids (Matus, 1 year old and Nika 4 year old) does not matter which one screamed and woke me up. The following morning was in my foggy newly woken-up eyes two kids jumping, talking, screaming, barking like dogs everywhere. When I say this I do not mean I don't like kids, it was more of chock seeing and being in this fully energy 4-year old girl prescense talking, questioning me without no signs of getting tired. But overall the day went ok, the little boy and girl was cute and making me feel happy with their cute smiles when it felt like sometimes too much. Afterwards Slavo invited us for a beer which was deserved for cooling down the nerves, helping a lot and I made it clear when falling asleep, It is not in the nearest future before I am becoming a daddy!
Yesterday me and my Katka went to see Kosice before the apartmenthunting. I have never seen Kosice and it was great to see this city. The center was beautiful and the highlight were the 13th century roman-catholic cathedral. that one was amazing. I said to Katka while looking at this piece of culture. The catholics really likes to showing off:)!
But I have to say I was more then Imprest by the view of this magnificent building. Koisce was a lovley city (235 000 inhabitants) with lots of nice buildings like the one that I will study in, My EILC-university.
We looked at two apartments in Presov and they both got dis and advantages but the first one was the best. It included everything so hopefully we take that one.
Slavo showed me the local newspaper and a swedish icehockeplayer has joined HC Kosice, Henrik Höglund! He is 31 one years old and played in Fredrikstad before HC Kosice. My first thought coming in to my mind while getting to know about this was that maybe me and Henrik go out for a beer sometime and I can show him Kosice and Presov:) We will see about that but I will with out a doubt go for many games in Kosice and see him play.
Here is a link over the matches for HC Kosice for the once intrested who what to combine the visit to me with see a ichockey game! just change the month in the calender to find the dates of the icehockeygames
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.steelarena.sk%2Findex.php&h=12099b0aac5128e536cd8ff410aaabac
In the bus on the way home I saw something swedish and had to capture the moment with a picture!
