Month: October 2010

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Last weekend I was visiting my old teacher and friend Lilian in her son´s house in Clovis which is just outside Fresno. Her son and his wife was in China so it was Lilian, Göran, there two grandchildren Emelie, Kimberly and me! and the lovely dog Zlatan of course :) It was a supernice weekend, we went to Halloween party at the kids school, went to see the girls playing soccer, eating and drinking nice, went to mountains next to sierra forest to have a look. It was very interesting trip also from a culture perspective, i learned so much about how it is to have kids in US. Its so different from Sweden… Emelie and Kimberly are such a adorable children, they mix Swedish and English in an almost perfect way! Just before I went home we went to a nice Mexican restaurant were Lilian and Göran gave me birthday dinner. Thank you all so much for a great weekend!

This week is midterm week so its kind of stressful at the moment. The first midterm in Customer Relationship Management went okey but the second one in Marketing Strategy was probably the worst one I ever taken, I studied the completely wrong things… good thing though that it only counts for around 10-15% of the total grade.

Tomorrow is a Halloween party and on Friday we will go to Palo Alto (near San Francisco) to be closer to the Warriordash that we will run on Saturday. We will probably go out in Palo Alto on Friday and on Saturday evening there is another Halloween party back in Davis.

I also booked tickets to go to Portland on the 19th of November together with like 15 people, after we booked the tickets my German friend Christian found out that Robyn is playing in Portland on the 20th of November so we will go and watch her! Im very excited about that!

Time to get some sleep! Going to be some intense couple of days now! sweet! Happy Halloween!

I love my new toy!!! It is so much fun, im having two mid-terms and one paper due to next week, this indoor helicopter is the perfect thing to relax with when i need to take a break or studying. Me and Wasse both one each in Las Vegas, only $25, hopefully we will move together in spring so we can have races with them at home! That would be awesome! :)

Today I played one soccer game and one ultimate frisbee game, we lost both :) It so much fun though, Europe has a lot to learn when it comes to sports in school. Tomorrow morning im leaving for Fresno to meet my friend and teacher from Sweden Lillian, her husband and their two grandchildren, im really looking forward to that!

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Have a great weekend everyone!

Had such an amazing weekend!! Most of all it was great to spend time with my great friend Christofer “Wasse” Wassenius! We were in Vegas two years ago so we did not had to stress around to see things! Before I didnt really enjoy going back to the same place twice but after Hawaii and Las Vegas I must admit that I change my mind, or maybe it is just the fact that Hawaii and Las Vegas is two of the most awesome places in the world. Anyway we mostly spend time at the pool, eating, walking around on the strip and went clubs :) Two times at Tao, then Surrender and JET. I like Surrender best, it a outdoor party around a big pool, which make the atmosphere exactly as you would expect from a good club in Vegas. There were 5 girls from Wasses university and 1 friend of them so most of the time we did not have to stand in a line at all. Me and Wasse had to pay cover fees while the girls went in for free! I think in some aspects Las Vegas is more of a paradise for girls than for guys, because they are really threated like princesses :)

On the way home the plane for late for more than one hours because of thunderstorms, the plane was also overbooked so i was offered $300 to stay one night extra in Vegas. Too bad I had class the day after, probably wouldnt be so fun to stay in Vegas alone anyways… At the SAC-airport a classmate named Cammi came to pick me up, thank you very very much Cammi!

Me and Wasse also planned a bit of our Mexico-trip in the middle of December. Or we actually decided to not plan so much, we will be traveling in the south of Mexico for around 2 weeks and then celebrate new years at Playa de Carmen. So much looking forward for that! Nice weather, cheap food, great company! It will be a perfect end of a great semester abroad!

Jonas we missed you :)

Obviously, i been busy enjoying life :) haha no seriously, before coming here i was sure that this was going to be the toughest semester in my life – no time to enjoy life! It has turned out to be wrong though! Of course the workload will soon get heavier, because of the mid-terms, groupworks and everything but still it is bearable…

This post will be a bit different, its been one week since my last post and i feel im just getting lazier and lazier so i will make it simple to just shortly summarize each day.

Thursday – School in the morning and then going out with friends in the evening.

Friday – Groupwork in school, Helping Cammi to move and the Corn Maze. The Corn Maze has been in the guiness world record for the biggest corn maze, it is a labyrinth on a corn field, look the album from october to get a better understanding… in the evening we went out again, surprise! :P

Saturday – Went to San Francisco with Braden to watch the Blue Angel (Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron). Brenden was born in the Bay area so he knows his way around. We watch the show from one of his friends roof-tops, later we went out and spent the night at one of his friends house, it was a perfect day, thanks buddy!

Sunday – Going back to Davis and try to recover from the weekend… Then I wrote a paper on a book in the leadership course and prepared for a project.

Monday – School and then in the evening we had our first game with my school soccer team, we unfortunately lost with 2-1… we have a quite good team, some of us just need to get into better shape, and that very much includes me :)

Tuesday – School, group project, pool, frisbee and trivia night… im surprised how good some people can be in trivia :)

Wednesday – School, cleaning, washing, going out to bernadors playing some dice game and enjoyed life with great company!

Thursday – School, packing my bag and going to LAS VEGAS!!! :D One of my best friends from Sweden is studying in Mexico so will meet in Vegas! Im very excited! Snart ses vi go man!!

Here are some pictures from the Corn Maze and SF/Blue Angel trip…
More pictures in the Davis October 2010 Album

I probably missed half of the things that has been going on this week but anyways… will try to update more often so the post doesnt need to be that long and my memory will be with me…

Lean on me Wasse, when you not strong :P

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Yo yo yo yo! Im supertired! Life in Davis is really so intense! Been going out, doing sports and homework constantly the last week! It sounds like im complaining, but im not! I LOVE being here! It is such a great atmosphere, everyday when i bike to school there are thousands of happy bikers all over the campus! The people at my school are all super awesome! Yesterday I was at a birthday party and now I just came home from another birthday party! It is great to see 30people showing up to celebrate! I hope i will be able to host a Swedish birthday party in about 3 weeks :) IKEA is only a 30min drive away so i hope i can get some meatballs and swedish candy!

Last week i won a beerpong tournament together with Brandon(classmate)! It was pretty cool! It was between 40 and 50 teams in the tournament and before the tournament i never won a single game before so it was very exciting to play :P

The classes im taking are
* Leadership
* Marketing Strategies
* Customer Relationship Manager
* Business, Government and the International Economy

In this post i will shortly describe my Leadership course. Our professor name is Robert Lorber, author of at least 3 books that we will read this quarter! Then we will have 5 guestspeakers from sucessful leaders! Here is the list:
Dale Carlsen, CEO of The Sleep Train
Bob Eckert, Chairman and CEO of Mattel
Rosa Zeegers Senior Vice President Marketing and Licensing, Mattel
Steve Buster, CEO of Mechanics Bank
Joan Miszak, Senior Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness of Raley

We will write three individual papers on our professors books and then we also do one groupwork. I really like the professor and the class even though it is about soft skills. I like the professors life philosophy of always being honest to other and yourself and his strong focus to find everyones passion. On monday we will have our first guestspeaker and im really looking forward to hear for that.

Oohh, and people already started to decorate their houses for Halloween and they ask me what I will be, VIKING?! Hmm, actually I have no idea of what to be, but it feels like Halloween is a pretty big deal here :)
On Friday we will go to something called Corn Maze, it is supposed to be the biggest corn field in US? where they cut the field in a special way to make a huuuge labyrinth. We will go their when it is dark, get a map of the field/labyrinth and then we all try to get through. They say it take about one and a half hour, i better bring some food :)

Finally, I would like to give two recommendations
1. TV-show “Eastbound and down” – Not for sensitive ears.
2. Book “The Developing World” – by Fredrik Hären.

Ok, time to say hello to the pillow, class tomorrow! Adios amigos!