Cultural Exchange [Nancy]
Friday, October 29
A group of excited besties met up early in the morning outside of kårhuset in Lund. Ahead of them was a long but fantastic trip awaiting. Two cars were rented and after a quick pack-in the group left Lund and Sweden behind. The journey time was spent with a quiz marathon, the winner will not have his name published here since he will be to cocky about it, so enough about that.
During the day we had a longer stop to stretch our legs and do some sightseeing in the wonderful town of Göttingen.
Close to midnight we finally arrived to Nancy. The BEST Nancy group was patiently awaiting our arrival and a glass of wine was immediately placed in our hands. We had a couple of hours to get to know each other before we went to bed.
Saturday, October 30
We had an early breakfast before we went out on a shorter city sightseeing. Most amazing was the beutiful square of Nancy, according to our french hosts, voted the most beutiful in Europe.
City Tour
After lunch we went to the river, first we all paddled dragon boats. When this was done, the brave of us could paddle kayak in a bit more streamy water.
Sebastian had some troubles
It went better for others
In the end even Sebastian managed to stay on
When the day changed to dawn we took our cars and drove to Les Vosges. Finally there we were served a fantastic french dinner of melted cheese, ham and potatoes together with wine.
The traditional Pakito song
Sunday, October 31
In the early morning we took off to go to Strasbourg. In Strasbourg we had an guided river tour there we saw the fantastic architetcture of the city centre, the old defense systems, the modern european parliament and much more.
Lunch, eat as much as you can, we like
Some had trouble to keep the eyes open, others. Well he is just scary!
In the end of our time in Strasbourg we had a couple of hours of free time when we could wander around the city. In the night we went back to our Cabin house and played the game cantus dressed for Halloween.
and our dear President, well she is just embarassing, the most she can do is probably to tickle!
Monday, November 1
Still in the cabin we used the day to hike in the beutiful mountains. The weather was really nice, actually the best during the whole trip which was lucky and made the day great.
In the evening we headed back to Nancy and had a pub crawl.
Tuesday, November 2
As part of the cultural exchange the Lund group was going to be part of a creativity competition at the university. In the morning it was the introductory presentations, sadly everything was in french but it gave us a good chance to get some extra sleep.
In the evening our hosts had transformed the living room in the house to a replica of the Casino in Monte Carlo. Someone won a bottle of Champagne as the last one standing at 4 am in the morning, not a single Swede was among the last, so I can't remember right now who it was.
Wednesday, November 3
The day started as usual at 8 am, we was the whole day at school. In the evening it was Swedish evening. The evening started with a pre-course of knäckebröd and sill. After that we had potatoes, meat balls and cream sauce. Later in the night we served surströmming and snus. Sadly not everyone of our host could keep there food after that. During the evening we also tried to teach the french some useful swedish words and pick-up lines.
The waitresses, in traditional swedish costumes
Mmmm
Mmmm....
Mmmm, but most said uaagghh, an eloge to Daniel who served them
Thursday, November 4
The last day of the innovation competition we had to present our ideas. We had to choose two of them and decided to go for one idea about a hearing aid phone device and an interactive family schedule site. Both the ideas got positive responses from the company representatives (orange) and the professors. The presentations should be able to be seen on some french website, somewhere.
In the evening we had our last night together, Our hosts had set up an cabaret with highlights of Ocean carried out on a twelve strenged guitar and a number from moulin rouge. Of the swedes Christian stand out with his standup.
Yeaah, about that
He was more skilled than he looks
Swedish girls could learn from the french (anynomous)
Friday, November 5
It was time to travel back to Lund. The journey didn't start to well for one car, since we realized that the got a female GPS(based on behavioural similarities). Our GPS had, if nice, problem to decide a route there to go. The route continued to switch between Luxembourg and Hannover. A few times we drove out in a forest apart that it looked like a perfect highway. We got lost in Metz a half hour after we had started. But as the logical engineers as we are we took out a route based on the sun and memorizing and found our way home.
Whoever more problems were to come. The other car got into an accident on Autobahn and we both stopped until the police was done with examinating the damages and so on.
After all that happened we missed bordershop, but late in the night we were atleast back in Lund without more obsticles.
So at the end thank you Nancy for a wonderful CE and hope to see you all in Lund in the spring.
AND the group picture
A group of excited besties met up early in the morning outside of kårhuset in Lund. Ahead of them was a long but fantastic trip awaiting. Two cars were rented and after a quick pack-in the group left Lund and Sweden behind. The journey time was spent with a quiz marathon, the winner will not have his name published here since he will be to cocky about it, so enough about that.
During the day we had a longer stop to stretch our legs and do some sightseeing in the wonderful town of Göttingen.
Close to midnight we finally arrived to Nancy. The BEST Nancy group was patiently awaiting our arrival and a glass of wine was immediately placed in our hands. We had a couple of hours to get to know each other before we went to bed.
Saturday, October 30
We had an early breakfast before we went out on a shorter city sightseeing. Most amazing was the beutiful square of Nancy, according to our french hosts, voted the most beutiful in Europe.
City Tour
'The Square' in panorama
After lunch we went to the river, first we all paddled dragon boats. When this was done, the brave of us could paddle kayak in a bit more streamy water.
Sebastian had some troubles
It went better for others
In the end even Sebastian managed to stay on
The traditional Pakito song
Sunday, October 31
In the early morning we took off to go to Strasbourg. In Strasbourg we had an guided river tour there we saw the fantastic architetcture of the city centre, the old defense systems, the modern european parliament and much more.
Lunch, eat as much as you can, we like
Some had trouble to keep the eyes open, others. Well he is just scary!
In the end of our time in Strasbourg we had a couple of hours of free time when we could wander around the city. In the night we went back to our Cabin house and played the game cantus dressed for Halloween.
They don't own the natural talent as Samsam on the former pic
and our dear President, well she is just embarassing, the most she can do is probably to tickle!
Still in the cabin we used the day to hike in the beutiful mountains. The weather was really nice, actually the best during the whole trip which was lucky and made the day great.
In the evening we headed back to Nancy and had a pub crawl.
Tuesday, November 2
As part of the cultural exchange the Lund group was going to be part of a creativity competition at the university. In the morning it was the introductory presentations, sadly everything was in french but it gave us a good chance to get some extra sleep.
In the evening our hosts had transformed the living room in the house to a replica of the Casino in Monte Carlo. Someone won a bottle of Champagne as the last one standing at 4 am in the morning, not a single Swede was among the last, so I can't remember right now who it was.
Wednesday, November 3
The day started as usual at 8 am, we was the whole day at school. In the evening it was Swedish evening. The evening started with a pre-course of knäckebröd and sill. After that we had potatoes, meat balls and cream sauce. Later in the night we served surströmming and snus. Sadly not everyone of our host could keep there food after that. During the evening we also tried to teach the french some useful swedish words and pick-up lines.
The waitresses, in traditional swedish costumes
Mmmm
Mmmm....
Mmmm, but most said uaagghh, an eloge to Daniel who served them
The last day of the innovation competition we had to present our ideas. We had to choose two of them and decided to go for one idea about a hearing aid phone device and an interactive family schedule site. Both the ideas got positive responses from the company representatives (orange) and the professors. The presentations should be able to be seen on some french website, somewhere.
In the evening we had our last night together, Our hosts had set up an cabaret with highlights of Ocean carried out on a twelve strenged guitar and a number from moulin rouge. Of the swedes Christian stand out with his standup.
Yeaah, about that
He was more skilled than he looks
Swedish girls could learn from the french (anynomous)
It was time to travel back to Lund. The journey didn't start to well for one car, since we realized that the got a female GPS(based on behavioural similarities). Our GPS had, if nice, problem to decide a route there to go. The route continued to switch between Luxembourg and Hannover. A few times we drove out in a forest apart that it looked like a perfect highway. We got lost in Metz a half hour after we had started. But as the logical engineers as we are we took out a route based on the sun and memorizing and found our way home.
Whoever more problems were to come. The other car got into an accident on Autobahn and we both stopped until the police was done with examinating the damages and so on.
After all that happened we missed bordershop, but late in the night we were atleast back in Lund without more obsticles.
So at the end thank you Nancy for a wonderful CE and hope to see you all in Lund in the spring.
AND the group picture