the cruise ship (thanks for the photo, Kathryn)
Last week we went with exchange students on a cruise to Riga, the main capital of Latvia. At first I thought it was a very cultural trip, but in the end it was an infamous booze cruise. Finally I know what it’s like, the Swedes here told me about this, and it’s very much like as they say it is. I won’t go in detail, but it was fun and awesome! We had 7 hours in Riga, but I didn’t see much of the city I think. We went for a long lunch (stayed around 2 hours in a restaurant) and walked through the city to find a supermarket to buy some cheap liquor. Yeah, Sweden is really ridiculous expensive, so buying booze in another country is a great opportunity. We came back on Friday, and I used most of the day to recover. It is kind of a shame that this was the last official trip organized by the International Commission. Also, most of the Dutch students left this week back to Dutchland. I will probably see them again somewhere in Maastricht.
But anyways, back to work. The new course is fun to do. The lectures are unfortunately in Swedish, but the presentations are visual, and I have nice groupmates who I can always ask questions. The project is about open air museum consisting a medieval village. The village was mostly dependent of ironworks. Our task is the give information on site (in an interesting way) to the visitor about how the people lived, how the iron was made, how it looked like and so on. Our group has the task of specifically describe the process in the melting oven. A nice and an interesting subject, I think. We are going on Wednesday to the site, so that’s going to be a great field trip. I can borrow a descent camera from a groupmate, so I will post the pictures as soon as possible.
O yeah, Arne and Aduen arrived in Japan. They have some good stories already and nice pictures (which I lack) on their blog. So go & Aduen in Japan" href="http://kyushu.hku.nl/" target="_blank">ahead!
