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:: Thursday, April 21, 2005 ::

Alternating currents...Force a show of hands

I was supposed to go to Uppsala today, but the best laid plans of mice and men, and all that. Instead, I will entertain you with something a friend of mine here came up with regarding student life here in Sweden. So without further ado, I give you:

The Top 26 Ways of Knowing You Are an Exchange Student in Falun
1. You can bike drunk better than you can bike sober.
2. Your definition of getting up early is waking up between 12 and 13.
3. You eat vegetables once a month.
4. You are used to going to Kåren and knowing over 200 people.
5. You've stopped going to ICA because it opens too early.
6. You have a class once a week.
7. You have enough time to make lists like this.
8. You have enough time to read lists like this.
9. You get excited when LIDL puts bananas on sale.
10. You get excited when a Swede initiates a conversation
11. You try to impress the opposite sex with your second-hand bike.
12. You don't mind paying five crowns a minute to talk to a friend in the next building.
13. You've dropped the Swedish course.
14. You hear the same songs on the radio as you did when you arrived four months ago.
15. You travel to a different country in order to buy cheaper alcohol.
16. A 500-crown bill has not lasted in your wallet longer than two days.
17. You have no Swedish friends.
18. Your definition of a really nice bike: costs more than 300 crowns, wheels thicker than 3 centimeters, both brakes work, has more than two speeds, and is a different color than rust.
19. On Fridays, you say "yes" even before people ask if you are going to Kåren.
20. You spend entirely too much money to get drunk at Kåren.
21. You're enjoying Kåren after getting drunk.
22. After spending months in Falun the only Swedish you ever use is "Hej" and "Tack".
23. You don't care about how clean your kitchen is anymore.
24. You just can't remember when you had your last two-course meal.
25. It's impossible for you to go to the LIDL and buy JUST MILK.
26. (If you're Spanish) You think a "siesta" is something great you're not able to do in Sweden.

But wait, there's more. We also have:

The Top 18 Ways of Knowing You Are a Swedish Student in Falun
1. You don't have any international friends.
2. You actually don't have that many friends at all.
3. You like to wear shiny white running shoes under a classy black dress.
4. You like it better to walk with a bike than really bike on it.
5. Except in commercials, you have no sense of humor.
6. You claim to live in a hard working country...
7. ...But you don't.
8. You will never question a rule and always make sure it is carried out with the utmost precision and certainly no flexibility.
9. The level of your university courses is a joke.
10. You feel lonely when you don't have your mobile phone with you.
11. You think that when you show your emotions you risk the death penalty.
12. When you are drunk, you are allowed to show emotions and to be a total bastard.
13. You only go out if you are good-looking.
14. If you don't stand in line for at least half an hour a day you start shaking and feeling sick.
15. It's impossible for you when you are drunk to understand the sentence "Sorry, I don't speak Swedish."
16. Your clothes and the music you listen to are the same as in the 80's.
17. Your favorite way of ending a conversation is walking away.
18.YOU CAN EAT KETCHUP WITH EVERY SINGLE DAMNED KIND OF FOOD!!

Maybe this isn't very funny (or doesn't make much sense) to those of you out there, but it's funny (and true!) to those of us here, so there it is. A little slice of Swedish student life. Enjoy.

Swedish word of the day: utbytesstudent, which means "exchange student"

:: posted by Rob 5:45 PM [+] ::

1 Comments:

ROFLMFAO!!! I damn near sprayed Coke out my nose, and I've never even been to Falun (or Sweden for that matter)! Ah... the life of an armchair traveller. -- O.o

PS. You need anything? Herring maybe? *Ducks and runs for cover* LOL

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:46 AM  

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