Afro Headquarters

Over the may 29th weekend my time was split between working on my project presentation, packing my back pack and cleaning my room. Then come monday it was presentation time at K3, In the morning we all had 10 minutes each to present our projects to the class, teachers and invited guests. In the afternoon we started with the half hour critique sessions of each project. We finished at 4 in the afternoon and I headed back to Uni Island to get my bags and it was off to Åkarp. Wednesday we finished the the last of the half hour critiques, during this time my project was critiqued and the professor liked my approach to the design problem and my classmates offered some good advice to me if was to work on my concept further. Thursday was officially the last day for my exchange here in Sweden as I handed in my final report on my project. My classmates and I celebrated inside our classroom with an Interaction Design slumber party, not as many people showed up as were expected but for the seven of us we still had a good time. Friday, in the afternoon I went to say farewell to Mr. Laurens Mendes as he was off to travel europe for bit before heading back to South Africa. Then I made my way to Uni Island and we were going to have one last party before people left on saturday and sunday, and to top it all off it was Natalia’s birthday on saturday, so we were keen on staying up past midnight to celebrate her birthday, before we all had to say good bye. There were a lot of good byes and a few tears, but like any family we have Uni Island reunions to look forward too. Saturday night, I was in Denmark for a birthday party for Anders (a fellow classmate). We didn’t watch the football match between Sweden and Denmark, but we did have a text feed from a website, and Sweden lost 1-0 and therefore has failed to qualify for the 2010 FIFA world cup. The most interesting part of the evening happened when I tried to get home to Åkarp. I left Anders’ flat at 12:40 to catch the train at 1 back to Malmö. I got to centralen at 1:45, and walked to the platform where I would catch the pågatåg train to Åkarp. But since saturday was a national holiday (celebrating the day Sweden was established as a country) there were no more trains running. I knew there was a way to get there by bus, but I didn’t know where the bus stopped in Malmö, after checking the signs at centralen I caught a bus to Värnhem where I found the bus stop I was looking for, the schedule showed the next bus was at 2:20, but at 2:20 no bus came, I checked the schedule again and there would be another bus at 2:50, at 2:40 the bus came, either 20 mins late or 10 mins fast it didn’t matter. I was watching the sun slowly start to rise, and realized I didn’t know where to get off in Åkarp, when I asked the bus driver he didn’t know the street that I was looking for, so I said the stop closest to the train station, as we neared the stop I immediately recognized where I was and finally made it home to number 3 Nils Anders Väg. Yesterday I was back at school cleaning out the classroom, we had amassed a lot projects over the semester and we had to sort out what people wanted to keep and what we could throw away, after the cleaning we took some time to share the pictures we had compiled over the course of the semester. Then I went to Uni Island where only my roommate Pets still lives, I burrowed the bike that Oliver had given to him and rode the bike 11.7 kilometers back to Åkarp (it was good practice for the up and coming bike trip with greg, jon, beth and alex). Today I wanted to head back to Malmö to look at maybe buying a bike but the weather had other plans, as it has been raining the pretty steady the whole day. So i’ll have to leave leave bike shopping for tomorrow and I’ll catch the train to Uppsala on thursday.

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