Uppsala, Uppsala!!

Running to Uppsala right now..

tonight it's Valborg .. it's gonna be big celebrations all

around Sweden for the beginning of the spring ..

the best parties are of course in university cities ..

.. and we are going to the biggest one in Sweden :D

we planned perfectly all the details:

- we got the studentkort for entering Uppsala pubs

- we have been to Systembolaget

What else!? ah, we forgot the accomodation .. but

hopefully we won't need it!

What a nice surprise!

How can you transform a boring pub filled with old people
into an indie club full of young and stylish Swedes!? Well, i
don't know..but somebody did! [www.klubbphoneme.com]

we went there last night, Kristian Anttila was playing on the
stage..i was a bit skeptic, cause Marianns usually is such
a bad place, but the last wednesday of every month it
changes completely..

..after all it's not so difficult..you only need a live concert,
a good dj set before and after the show (after months of
Harry's music was such a big shock for my ears)..big
beer for 50sek ..and interesting people..

..like a beautiful singer that wants to go to France but
meanwhile she is studying theater (is it possible in Falun!?)

..or like two crazy guys from a band called Sober Inflows
[http://www.myspace.com/soberinflows] ..one is cousin
with somebody from Mando Diao..and somebody else
bought Sugarplum Fairy drum set..at least..i think so
cause i have "foggy" memories..but it was fuckin funny!

i am just wondering where all the nice people of the last
night usually go out..cause i don't think they just go out once
a month!!.. well, this is another big mistery of Sweden :)

anyway, nice to break at least once the Harry's
dictatorship.. jättebra Tati!

Time to remember

Nothing about Sweden today: the guy in the blue t-shirt

is not swedish, the landscape behind us in not Sweden..

..why this pictures then!? well, he is my biggest friend

and today it's his birthday :)

we took this pictures in the summer of 2005, it's not that

distant if you think, but for me seems ages ago..at that time

i never thought i would have come to Sweden for one

year and i am sure he never thought he would have travelled so

much around Europe for his job..

..he is in Barcelona right now, i am still in Sweden..thousands

of kilometers far away, everyone following his own dream..

but what is strange, is that maybe for the first time

(we know each other since birth!) i remembered

his birthday on time, curious :)

BUON COMPLEANNO GIACOMO!

Receipt for a perfect Sunday

Ingredients:
1 Enrique with blanket and cold beers
1 Tati with African Studies book and "bird present" on the hair
1 Fede wearing pullover
1 Elena losing her things (key, bag, pullover..)
4 nice Swedes, special guest Elin (should be read as JEEEEEEELIN!)

Preparation:
Get up quite late and go to the lake.
Lie down on the green grass kissed by the sun and think about the sense of life (eventually sleep).
When the sun starts to set, buy one pizza in Pizzeria Venezia and eat it having a nice conversation about the "community".
End all with a coffee on the roof of Britsen (eventually sleep there).

Sudden death, sudden death!

It took just couple of seconds: my swedish neighbour is
sitting on the sofa..cup of coffe in one hand, worry in his eyes,
probabily snus under his lips. His hockey team (MODO) is
playing extra time of the fifth game of the final, and it's suffering,
simply suffering..statistics confirm: shoots on net
says 15 for LINKOPING.. 0 for MODO..

it's just one minute left, MODO coach calls for a time out..
all the players around him, I wonder what he is saying..
Calle (my neighbour) instead doesn't seem to want any break,
still sitting on the sofa, concentrated, watching deeply
towards the tv..I wonder what it's in his mind..

time to play again..just few seconds left
when the miracle takes place.. all the arena, filled up with
thousands of MODO supporters, explode.. also Calle
stands up and frees all the tension with a viking shout
..Kuusela, the guy in the picture, has just scored the
most important "mål" of his life..sudden death..
the game is over..sudden death for LINKOPING..

it's time to party now, but not that much..in 48h there is another
game, maybe the last one, maybe the decisive..
LINKOPING vs MODO another time..everybody will be there,
everybody with the beard a little bit longer..it's a tradition here,
every swedish hockey player stops to shave himself at the
beginning of the play off games..
what!? the guy in the pictures hasn't got long beard??
yeah..you are right.. but he is Kuusela, he is finnish..
..and this is another story..

The big mistery of Sweden

why is there always a long queue standing in front of the

cash dispensers, if everyone is used to paying

even one beer with the credit card?!