Countdown to a new life: -7d to go

Friday and in exactly one week I will be at Hobart airport to depart to my new life in Sweden.  It is pretty scary to write that down, but exciting, too. Right at the moment, I try not to think about that because I have to focus on my last deadlines.

This Friday was more or less wasted until 11am with editing my paper and trying to cut out 1500w to reach the proposed word count! What a mess – but finally I managed it! After printing an signing the cover sheet I ambled to Arts Students Central to hand in my essay – I was in a really good mood after handing over the 15 pages J

As I walked back to the library I met one of my Austrian friends who is a coffee lover like I am and we decided to – you know it – have a coffee together. It’s pretty much the same every time we meet at campus! I really like talking to him because he is interested in the same things as I am and has a really easy going attitude and it’s easy to talk to him and have a good laugh together. I will miss that when I am in Sweden *thanks for our coffee times*.

But after a 2h coffee break we felt guilty and headed back to the library to do something productive – which mostly consisted of searching the Internet for cool events to attend instead of working on my last and biggest research paper. At 4:30pm we decided to walk back to the Villas because we both were doing nothing useful anymore and, by the way it was dinner time, too!

It is always fun to walk back to our accommodation, because lots of ‘fit’ people enjoy taking the uncountable steps up to the hill in order to get in shape. But on a regular basis we ‘mountaineers’ are faster and need no stops to get up there – but the people who are dressed up in their sports outfits and stuffed with energy drinks and high carb bars are losing ground as longer the steps go up the hill.

After dinner I was trying to work on my paper but instead I ended up chatting on Facebook with one of my fellows from class.  We share the same ‘brain shut down strategy’ which consists of listening to way too noisy hard rock and metal bands over earplugs on full volume – then we can concentrate the best way, may sound strange but works (for us).

Either way, I will have to work hard to get to know friends in Stockholm but maybe there is a little chance that I can meet up with one Swedish girl I got to know here.  We will see how things work out and as long as I have my Facebook account I can keep in touch.