Visit från Sverige day 2

The second day we went snowboarding to Kleinarl. A small but nice skiing area in Salzburg. The snow was all right for this strange and warm winter. We could even go down in powder snow. It was Lovisas 7th day on the board and she even went down a half pipe. She learns fast! But at the end she's really tired ;-)

I also tried some jumping in the soft powder were falling doesn't hurt...

Visit från Sverige day 1

Last week I got a visit from mpenzi Lovisa.
The first day I showed her the great town of Linz with all it's sights. Yes, Linz is so small that one day is enough. There was even enough time to buy a nice binding for her snowboard.

Inside the "new cathedral" of Linz

There I grew up

The art gallery

The plan was to visit my aunt later that evening, but there was no time. Instead we were looking for an evening dress for Lovisa to wear at the lawyers ball in Vienna (without success - yet).

Marks from Africa

Yesterday, one year after I had my last exam at Chuo Kikoo Dar es Salaam I finally got my marks.
But why do I get a B in 'keyboard instruction' and in 'university chorus'? I have never attended this courses (didn't even know that there is a university chorus). But I think now I understand, probably I got that classes because 'artificial intelligence' and 'network design and administration' is just missing, as if I've never been there though that are the only two classes I could use here for my studies...
That's the African style I love so much.

Winter in Åre

When the winter doesn't want to come to Europe it hides in a small village in Sweden called Åre. We went there to search for it, well we found a little bit and we had lots of fun with it! Lovisa, winter and me went snowboarding (it was the first time for Lovisa), winter and I told her how to do it and she learned really fast!
But there was not only snowboarding. One day we went with a Hundspann (dogsledge) around Åre and we made friends with Kiwi, Knas and Fläcken three sweet Huskies.

We found winter

New Year

We celebrated New Year in Linköping in the house of a working colleague of Klara. Was a nice mix of people: English, German, Austrian and I think I also saw some Swedish ;-) Chris the German guy and I were quite impressed how Swedish people style themselves for a New Year party :-)
On this picture Lovisa tries to explain how to count till THREE.
(In the background there is Chris "He's German, that's why he drinks so fast...")

Vadstena

Next stop was Vadstena were I spent my first Midsommarfesten this summer. Now I had my first typical Swedish Christmas meal. Delicious!
Next day we spent in the stable with Apollo (Lovisa's horse) were I learned how to clean the horse, make the stable fresh and a lot more. After that we drove to Linköping to Klara for New Years party...