Two newly baked engineers to go

Almost three months have passed since my last post. It's been busy times! What has happened? Well, now I am sitting in a dorm room in Linköping (Funny, the first time I've lived in a dorm in Sweden during my studies is when I am writing my thesis) while what the Norweigan meteorologist calls "Per" is raging outside my window. The Swedish ditto calls it the "January storm of 2007" (in sync with "The January storm of 2005" that our brothers and sisters in west called "Gudrun"). I was hoping that this was my last couple of hours in Linköping since I have booked train ticket for Ängelholm for tomorrow, but all train traffic downwards has been cancelled and only "January storm of 2007" knows how many trees have fallen over the railroad hindering my return to Skåne. Up to 39 m/s wind has been measured (somewhere around Gothenburg I think) and people are advised to stay indoors. Here it is not that bad, but it was pretty hard to go all the 500 meters to Hemköp to buy my grapes, milk and one banana. On my way there I saw some pretty obvious tracks "Per" is leaving behind, see below for a pic. Although I am not 100% sure. It might have been the "Moppekidz" of Ryd (Ryd is the wonderful area where my dorm is located and Moppekidz are these infamous gangs spreading fear around the neighbourhood. (If you fear the whiny sounds of EU-mopeds and 14 year old kids that is). The other day I was at the gasolin stand filling up the car when 8 grown-up versions of the Moppekidz arrived in a Volvo 242 from the early eightees screaming "You are all gaaay").The reason for me being stuck in Linköping again, is exams, a master thesis and the above mentioned dorm room. The exams are cleared, the master thesis is awaiting printing and the dorm room is supposed to be cleaned out today. So, after countless of hours at Island (The computer room of our section) together with my compadre Kuma, we finally managed to put together around 130 pages of master thesis, and suddenly, the world has two more Japan-focused Industrial Engineering and Management Civil engineers to fear. The world will in this case more specifically be Japan, since I will start my hard 10-days-of-vacation-per-year-working life at Tetra Pak in Tokyo in February, and Kuma will be doing the same, except that his Tetra Pak will be IKEA and his Tokyo will be... eh.. somewhere in Japan starting in the New Yokohama.

Other than that, I have been to London a couple of times, visiting Miwa. Lets see if I can get a few pictures up from there. We also went to Malaga, Spain to visit my sister and her family, for my sisterdaughters birthday. Mum was there too, from Sweden, and it was a looong time ago since so many family members where gathered at once! The tube in London.

A famous bridge in London.

Some giant stones.

Security at Stansted.

Salisbury cathedral.

Mum in Malaga.

At Malaga Beach.

Richard in the kitchen.

Almost new born puppies.

Again.

Cheyenne.

Nuncio (?)

We also took a trip over to Florida. Flying via NY, our plane was cancelled due to some mechanical failure, so we had to stay one night in NY. That meant a couple of hours in NY and some time for a trip in to Manhattan and Times Square on Christmas Day. Cold and rainy though. Florida was much better with just below 30 degrees (Celcius) everyday and a Pontiac Grand Prix GT to get around with. Things done in Florida in short: Visited Kennedy Space Center (My 4th time there), Drove a Grand Prix GT on the beach in the Daytona Beach, Shopped in Miami, Went to Key West, Swam in the Mexican Gulf, Took an airboat ride in the Everglades, Saw an NHL-game (Florida Panthers beating the crap out of Montreal Canadiens).
We're going to the moon!

Times Square NYPD.

Shopping in Art Deco Miami.

We're driving on the beach!

Zzzzzzz...

Those Canadiens didn't stand much to the panthers.

Miwa times three!

Tomorrow, if "Per" allows me to, I will go back to Ängelholm for about one week. Then I will go to Miwa in London for the following week. January 29th, I will fly from London to Tokyo, and February 1st I will start my new job at Tetra Pak. So, see you in Japan!