martes, 30 de junio de 2009

29-30/6 Preparation course - Nicaragua


During these two days we (see pic from left: Isabell,August,Kristofer and me) have been participating in several minor courses, organized in Gothenburg by VFSN former trainees (Rebecka and Erik), to prepare ourself for our time in Nicaragua. The topic of the courses was:

- Info about Nicaragua (history, political, geographical etc)
- Group dynamics
- Renewable energy, ecological perspective and sustainable living
- Gender
- Expectations and apprehensions

Very well organized! Thank you soooo much Rebecka and Erik!!!
We had a lot of fun and are now feeling more secure and comfortable about our trip and the adventures laying ahead!


And congratulations Isabell and August, who was the superior winners of the game "Rappakalja", that we played during Monday evening at my place!

We will meet again in august, in Härnösand. There we'll attend SIDA's two weeks trainee education for Aid workers and also two weeks of (well needed)Spanish!

viernes, 26 de junio de 2009

Exploring Änggårdsbergen


This has nothing to do with my trip to Nicaragua, but I wanna share this with you all anyway. Änggårdsbergen is a big nature reserve area and also a part of Botaniska Trädgården, which is a famous botany park in Göteborg. Since this park is just across the road from where I live, I decided to take a look around. So today I walked around for about 1-2 hours there. It was sooooo nice, as you can see at my collage above.

If you live in Göteborg or will come here to visit, I strongly recommend you to take a walk in that area!

And since the lovely Swedish summer finally has arrived, I bought some very tasty, sweetish strawberries! Mmmmmmm delicious!

lunes, 22 de junio de 2009

Vaccination

Now I'm back in Gothenburg and I should really start preparing for my trip now. So today I visited City Akuten, to take my first vaccine injection. It was for Typhoid fever.

Later this week I'll go to the doctor to discuss whether or not to have a shot for/agings tuberculosis. I'll also consider Yellow fever, since I might wanna visit Venezuela on my holiday this winter.



This is what I need for the trip:
-Hepatitis A & B (done)
-Typhoid fever (done)
-Cholera (bought it)
-Yellow fever (done)
-Malaria (on prescription)
-Tuberculosis?

Maybe there is more, but I'll now more on Thursday.

miércoles, 17 de junio de 2009

Best company, best food and one of the best time ever in my life!

This has been my best two weeks ever I think. I've met so nice, funny and super sweet people during this course. They are now my family!

We have been cooking dinner together every day. A taste of all the different food cultures that was living inside this B&B. The people from the other B&B's joined us (even though it wasn't appreciated by the neighbours and our host ;) ) and we have had sooooo much fun.

This amount of food is enough for 6-7 months i think. So now i might not need to eat during my whole trip in Nicaragua ;)

Here is a picture were almost everyone can be seen, and the very tasty food!

domingo, 14 de junio de 2009

Climbing a wind turbine

This is Ana and me, 30 meters up in the air in a wind turbine tower in Falkenberg. This was a study visit we made when attending the summer course of Wind power technology. You climbed inside the tower on a ladder, with some safety equipment off course ;) And because it was a bit windy that day, the tower swung back and forth a bit. But what a magnificent view!!



This is how the other windtowers look like from 30 meter up

sábado, 6 de junio de 2009

Wind power technology - summer course in Falkenberg

Today I arrived in Falkenberg, where I will stay for the next two weeks and attend a summer course in windpower technology. Provided by Halmstads University.

It's, beside the interesting subject, a very good course. Because the university pays for our accommodation and breakfast at a B&B and lunch during this course. They also provides us with bikes.

But the best was yet to be discovered....

I meet Davide, an Italian student that was going to attend this course, in Gothenborg earlier this day. I showed him around the harbor and opera. Then we took the train down to Falkenberg and to or B&B.

Here we meet with the other guys who was going to attend the course as well. I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that they all would be quite old...

But the majority of the students was between 25-30 years old and very easy to get along with. And I was going to share a two bedded room with a girl name Ana, from Spain. Isn't that great? now I would have a perfect opportunity to practice my Spanish!

This is the people that was living in the same B&B as me:



From left: Ingemar (swe), Davide - yellow cap (Italy), Me , Abdul (Dubai), Berkan in orange sweater (Turkey) and Ahmet (also Turkey. Ana (spain) is taking the picture