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!
Research, an individual intrest concerning my new enviorment.
I made some searches in aftonbladet.se and gp.se yesterday about Slovakia and Presov. I was intrested in what swedish media cover about Slovakia but it was poorley. The most articles was about Slovakias currencychange to euro in the turn of the year and a buscrash.
When I did my search about Presov I suprisingly found a handballresult about Tantran Presov-Kiel published 2004-12-06 in aftonbladet. Sadly, Presov lost the game to Kiel. Final Standings 32-38. Another Article about Handball were about Tantran Presov again published one year later in aftonbladet, meetings in the first knockout round in cupvinnarcupen. Presov was going to meet a team from Bosnia-Hercegovina, Dobej.
So now Iam curious about the winner of that game. Did Tantran Presov won the game and reached the quarterfinal. ojojoj....very exciting. If someone knows about the results in this game and which team qualified to the next round will be honouered with a beer. If u find the result just make a comment.
I also read experiences from foreign exchange students studying abroad in webpage called IRIS. Five reports was about the university of Presov where I am going to study and 60 total for Slovakia. The reports contained questions about motivation and preperation, orientation, support and integration, accommodation, costs and the overall experience. I think the costs were something similiar what I had expected, 200 euro a month. Mostly of the reports from the students that been studied in Presov graded high about the academic satisfaction and the overall satisfaction. Another funny thing about reading the reports were that two norweigans had been studied in Presov so Iam not the first scandinavian but probably the first swedish exchange student in the university of Presov.
Todays temperature update: 30 degrees but can rise up to 32.
Slovak Saying: There is always room for good people. Remember that.
When I did my search about Presov I suprisingly found a handballresult about Tantran Presov-Kiel published 2004-12-06 in aftonbladet. Sadly, Presov lost the game to Kiel. Final Standings 32-38. Another Article about Handball were about Tantran Presov again published one year later in aftonbladet, meetings in the first knockout round in cupvinnarcupen. Presov was going to meet a team from Bosnia-Hercegovina, Dobej.
So now Iam curious about the winner of that game. Did Tantran Presov won the game and reached the quarterfinal. ojojoj....very exciting. If someone knows about the results in this game and which team qualified to the next round will be honouered with a beer. If u find the result just make a comment.
I also read experiences from foreign exchange students studying abroad in webpage called IRIS. Five reports was about the university of Presov where I am going to study and 60 total for Slovakia. The reports contained questions about motivation and preperation, orientation, support and integration, accommodation, costs and the overall experience. I think the costs were something similiar what I had expected, 200 euro a month. Mostly of the reports from the students that been studied in Presov graded high about the academic satisfaction and the overall satisfaction. Another funny thing about reading the reports were that two norweigans had been studied in Presov so Iam not the first scandinavian but probably the first swedish exchange student in the university of Presov.
Todays temperature update: 30 degrees but can rise up to 32.
Slovak Saying: There is always room for good people. Remember that.
An easy day!
Today I have not done much. The day started regulary with breakfeast and then me and Katka went to Hela, Katkas sister. We had bought souvenirs to her and Slavos children, Nika and Matus from Croatia. They got each one a shirt. It was nice to see nikas smile when she got the shirt. First time, for me I give something to a 4-5 year old so it was nice. During the day Slavo came from work so it was great to have chance to meet him aswell.
After the visit we were so nice to buy dipers for Helas children and then we went for lunch. It was a lovley gulaschsoup, much more delicious then the one in a can I just to eat in Sweden, I think the brand is Felix or findus. Well, well now I am having a cup of coffee and taking it easy!
I looked at the adds for food and liquear and found an expensive price for my favourite vodka st. Nicolaus! It costed 7 euros for 0,7 liters:) I have actually found a liter for like 6 euros!!! hehe, well to swedish prices, both are quite good prices of course but once u live here, I do not wanna pay more.
Temperatureupdate: It is 30 degrees today and temperature is getting higher I assume, woho, Iam melting!
Something very funny from the croatiantrip was a girl sunbathing i remebered today. She was very let's say picky. She spread her legs very much, in swedish translation "vresade" and when me and my family saw that we all fell in to laughter and had to comment it with each other: She is really good at spreading her legs, right? Yes, that is a talented girl;)
I have a link for everbody with the sense of farting humour, like me then! ;) Enjoy!!!
http://www.mojevideo.sk/video/a16/sprdol_sviecky.html
After the visit we were so nice to buy dipers for Helas children and then we went for lunch. It was a lovley gulaschsoup, much more delicious then the one in a can I just to eat in Sweden, I think the brand is Felix or findus. Well, well now I am having a cup of coffee and taking it easy!
I looked at the adds for food and liquear and found an expensive price for my favourite vodka st. Nicolaus! It costed 7 euros for 0,7 liters:) I have actually found a liter for like 6 euros!!! hehe, well to swedish prices, both are quite good prices of course but once u live here, I do not wanna pay more.
Temperatureupdate: It is 30 degrees today and temperature is getting higher I assume, woho, Iam melting!
Something very funny from the croatiantrip was a girl sunbathing i remebered today. She was very let's say picky. She spread her legs very much, in swedish translation "vresade" and when me and my family saw that we all fell in to laughter and had to comment it with each other: She is really good at spreading her legs, right? Yes, that is a talented girl;)
I have a link for everbody with the sense of farting humour, like me then! ;) Enjoy!!!
http://www.mojevideo.sk/video/a16/sprdol_sviecky.html
Hvala for all the good times in Croatia!
The week in Croatia, Porec was a real pleasure, The weather, the blue sea and the nights out were to all satisfaction.
To describe the city Porec more in detail it is a small city surrounded with the blue sea and when you are walking on narrow cobblestone streets with historical architecture buildings inside the center you feel the historical atmosphere. The old citywall and the Basilica also gives the impression on walking in a city with lots of history. I definitely liked this historical environment. When you are standing in these settings it makes u realize how it looked like once upon a time.
Overall we sunbathed a lot because of the warmth weather and the Swedish lifestyle is used to 20 degrees and rain so it was exhausting when the temperature rose up to 35 degrees. The siesta was of major importance before dinner! According to drinks we tried some Croatian brands of beer (Karlovacko), rosewine and vodka. The rosewine produced in Porec was a great refresher. Especially one day at lunch after we drank rosewine we come up with a nice idea. Our heads become hot of the sun so we decided to dip our heads on the water to cool down .
We had a big laugh at this particular way of bathing.
To the sightseeing, of course we visited the Basilica and walked along the city of Porec to see the nice buildings. There was a Island just outside Porec that we got to by boat. The Island had a castle that we a look at and took pictures of. In our surroundings at Zelena Laguna we walked the stairs up to a modern chapel sited at a hill. The chapel looked like a skyscraper, 25 meters high, 90 steps. The Chapel also functioned as a viewing tower and the view was amazing. We could see Porec, Rovinj, Umag and the guide also mentioned Malmö but Iam not sure about that An another new experience was the taxiboat. We took the taxiboat in the evening for dinner to Porec and the lights in the night of Porec made it very beautiful coming in with the taxiboat by the sea meeting the city.
Now Iam back in Slovakia. Me and Katka taking a resting day and will meet Hela and Slavo at five o’clock. Time to eat some meat! Bye bye
To describe the city Porec more in detail it is a small city surrounded with the blue sea and when you are walking on narrow cobblestone streets with historical architecture buildings inside the center you feel the historical atmosphere. The old citywall and the Basilica also gives the impression on walking in a city with lots of history. I definitely liked this historical environment. When you are standing in these settings it makes u realize how it looked like once upon a time.
Overall we sunbathed a lot because of the warmth weather and the Swedish lifestyle is used to 20 degrees and rain so it was exhausting when the temperature rose up to 35 degrees. The siesta was of major importance before dinner! According to drinks we tried some Croatian brands of beer (Karlovacko), rosewine and vodka. The rosewine produced in Porec was a great refresher. Especially one day at lunch after we drank rosewine we come up with a nice idea. Our heads become hot of the sun so we decided to dip our heads on the water to cool down .
We had a big laugh at this particular way of bathing.
To the sightseeing, of course we visited the Basilica and walked along the city of Porec to see the nice buildings. There was a Island just outside Porec that we got to by boat. The Island had a castle that we a look at and took pictures of. In our surroundings at Zelena Laguna we walked the stairs up to a modern chapel sited at a hill. The chapel looked like a skyscraper, 25 meters high, 90 steps. The Chapel also functioned as a viewing tower and the view was amazing. We could see Porec, Rovinj, Umag and the guide also mentioned Malmö but Iam not sure about that An another new experience was the taxiboat. We took the taxiboat in the evening for dinner to Porec and the lights in the night of Porec made it very beautiful coming in with the taxiboat by the sea meeting the city.
Now Iam back in Slovakia. Me and Katka taking a resting day and will meet Hela and Slavo at five o’clock. Time to eat some meat! Bye bye
Congratulations!
Proudly showing the diploma
The winner is: Miss bachelor; Katka
Graduation day
Me and Katka walking in Presov
Katkas Graduation day.
The last couple of days I have been in my soon becoming universitycity. Me and Katka spend two wonderful days in Presov.
First day we woke up early at 4:30 to because of be in time for some documents at 9-11. The day passed by with some walking and shopping. I bought the follow-up by Lance Armstrong, Every second counts and suprisinlgy we found a slovak-swedish language book. The book is filled with phrases and words. Iam really happy for that book. But the heat was crazy hot, something Iam not experineced with, it felt like I was melting, figurativle.34 smoking hot degrees in the shade but as we were we walking in the city we did not always walked in the shade and this was the begininng. The day after I suited up for my sweethearts cemony as a graduated bachelor. The suit wrapped on my body in the sticky weather quickley become something similiar to a sponge but as we entered the cermonybuilding I was reliefed, thank sweet mercyful god for the invention of air condition. The cermony was academical containing funny dresses and hats in a very serious and important atmosphere. It was great to see my honey get the diploma!
Other news concerning the studies is my acceptance reply for the EILC in Kosice. I hope everything turns out well now with no other complications. According to accomandation, Katka found a great flat located near to school in a calm neighbourhood with a reasonable monthly price for the rent. We will look at the apartment after croatia to make our final decision. Let us hope it will be as good as it sounds!
Today is the day before me and Katka goes to Croatia for one week of holiday. We will meet up the rest of my family which is traveling from Sweden in croatia. Iam looking forward to meet my family, it will be awesome. So I will not be able to write in my blog for a week but when I come back, pics will be uploaded and stories will been told of this wicked trip!
By the way, it is so hot today too. The fan has been my survival and enduring friend this day standing within 1meter blowing out refreshing, cooling wind. So what happens today then? I will buy my favourite vodka for the trip so my family gets the chance to taste this delicacy flavour of Nikolaus Vodka!;) The shopping will follow with the packing and travelingfever so to end up, Have a great week because we will!
First day we woke up early at 4:30 to because of be in time for some documents at 9-11. The day passed by with some walking and shopping. I bought the follow-up by Lance Armstrong, Every second counts and suprisinlgy we found a slovak-swedish language book. The book is filled with phrases and words. Iam really happy for that book. But the heat was crazy hot, something Iam not experineced with, it felt like I was melting, figurativle.34 smoking hot degrees in the shade but as we were we walking in the city we did not always walked in the shade and this was the begininng. The day after I suited up for my sweethearts cemony as a graduated bachelor. The suit wrapped on my body in the sticky weather quickley become something similiar to a sponge but as we entered the cermonybuilding I was reliefed, thank sweet mercyful god for the invention of air condition. The cermony was academical containing funny dresses and hats in a very serious and important atmosphere. It was great to see my honey get the diploma!
Other news concerning the studies is my acceptance reply for the EILC in Kosice. I hope everything turns out well now with no other complications. According to accomandation, Katka found a great flat located near to school in a calm neighbourhood with a reasonable monthly price for the rent. We will look at the apartment after croatia to make our final decision. Let us hope it will be as good as it sounds!
Today is the day before me and Katka goes to Croatia for one week of holiday. We will meet up the rest of my family which is traveling from Sweden in croatia. Iam looking forward to meet my family, it will be awesome. So I will not be able to write in my blog for a week but when I come back, pics will be uploaded and stories will been told of this wicked trip!
By the way, it is so hot today too. The fan has been my survival and enduring friend this day standing within 1meter blowing out refreshing, cooling wind. So what happens today then? I will buy my favourite vodka for the trip so my family gets the chance to taste this delicacy flavour of Nikolaus Vodka!;) The shopping will follow with the packing and travelingfever so to end up, Have a great week because we will!
A nice night out
Yesterday, Katka, Hela and me was out. We had a really nice time together! We started our partynight at a place called sacramento that was a great place to sit at. We ordered in some shots and I also drank a beer. I also have to say the pizza I had was amazing, so nice! The name of the pizza was: the farmers pizza which contained ham, sausage, salami and an egg. We were siting at Sacramento, joking, talking and laughing. It was hilarious! Later when Sacramento closed we went to the place called Ibiza and there we ended the night. It was really nice there too, it was crazyfun!
So for tonight we are going to take it easy, I think we will see the movie, duplicity. It will be a calm evening!
Counting the days to Croatia now too. It is just one week til we will lay on the beach sunbathing with clearblue water. Greati, great, great I say about that!
Oh, yeah, I had an massage yesterday too. The massage was for 30 minutes and costed only 5 euros. A really good price! ANd the one massaging me gave me a tip about getting a better posture. It will be improved by horseriding so I will try that soon I hope! It could be fun.
So for tonight we are going to take it easy, I think we will see the movie, duplicity. It will be a calm evening!
Counting the days to Croatia now too. It is just one week til we will lay on the beach sunbathing with clearblue water. Greati, great, great I say about that!
Oh, yeah, I had an massage yesterday too. The massage was for 30 minutes and costed only 5 euros. A really good price! ANd the one massaging me gave me a tip about getting a better posture. It will be improved by horseriding so I will try that soon I hope! It could be fun.
Adventures of Mattias and Katka
Yesterday me and Katka took the bus to michalovce. From michalovce we changed bus to reach our destination. The problem was that we were not really sure were to go off the bus so Katka asked the busdriver and he did not knew but surprisingly a woman siting very close heard Katka and said that she could help us to show the way because she was stepping off at the same busstop. So when it was time to step off the bus we went off all together and then she said that she had to buy a flower at store quickly so if we just wait a moment she would be able to give us directions. Iam telling this because when she left us for a couple of minutes she gave us two bags which contained ID and keys she told us later. We were quite surprised she just left the bags at that time and later she let us know that she does not do this, leaving her personal belongings to strangers. She said that we must have been very thrust worthy for her. Later on she told us she was a teacher in German language so I tried to speak some german but I did not really remembered what I learned in German class at high school so It was better when Katka and the woman spoke in Slovak. She told us she also been studying abroad in Vienna as I am about to do and what Katka did in Sweden. The woman studied there for 30 years ago and she had still a really good friendship with a girl that she met during her time in Vienna. It was a nice story to listen too and I have to say she was so friendly and nice helping us with taking the best way to ruins up on the hill. I always get so happy when I meet this people like surprisingly happy.
The ruins of the Viniansky castle were a tough one. We walked up the hill for like an hour up and up. It was steep and we fought us up and were happy to have reach the top. The ruins were really nice to look at. Later on we walked down to the lake and when we got there we had been walking for 2hours. It was amazing to buy a beer then, felt deserving so I bought one more those beers were justified. This adventure reaching the castle of me and Katka were great. We enjoyed it a lot.
We were heading for the bus to catch so we could get home bus we missed it. We felt pissed about it but I got a brilliant idea. Let us check the hotel that was just nearby the busstop and see who much a hotel room cost for a night. Katka asked and it cost 30 euro for one night. I thought to myself, let us do this, be spontaneous! So we did it. We spent a perfectly nice afternoon, night and morning at the hotel. When we had dinner we sat outside and very close a company of many nationalities sat together, probably businessmen. What was funny about this was to listen to the English they were speaking, the accent and especially one Russian. He had such a strong accent. And it was nice to hear a language I could understand.
Today we have been to Michalovce and I done some shopping. I bought a book in English, Risk by Dick Francis and a shirt. Katka also bought some gifts for Nika and Matus.
The ruins of the Viniansky castle were a tough one. We walked up the hill for like an hour up and up. It was steep and we fought us up and were happy to have reach the top. The ruins were really nice to look at. Later on we walked down to the lake and when we got there we had been walking for 2hours. It was amazing to buy a beer then, felt deserving so I bought one more those beers were justified. This adventure reaching the castle of me and Katka were great. We enjoyed it a lot.
We were heading for the bus to catch so we could get home bus we missed it. We felt pissed about it but I got a brilliant idea. Let us check the hotel that was just nearby the busstop and see who much a hotel room cost for a night. Katka asked and it cost 30 euro for one night. I thought to myself, let us do this, be spontaneous! So we did it. We spent a perfectly nice afternoon, night and morning at the hotel. When we had dinner we sat outside and very close a company of many nationalities sat together, probably businessmen. What was funny about this was to listen to the English they were speaking, the accent and especially one Russian. He had such a strong accent. And it was nice to hear a language I could understand.
Today we have been to Michalovce and I done some shopping. I bought a book in English, Risk by Dick Francis and a shirt. Katka also bought some gifts for Nika and Matus.
The castle
Me xploring
The explorer
A nice view
