Paul Georges . Alterego Construction

Good morning everyone! As you all know, I’ve settled into my place here in Rydsvägen, Linköping University’s student residence area. It’s wonderful here; services are closeby, the area is very green and it also happens to be very easy to get around to see other students. Yesterday I caught a brief gilmpse of what the campus ressembles. I love what I’ve seen so far. The campus is not huge, not nearly as big as that of University Laval, but that just happen to be a VERY good thing. The buildings are all very close to each other, making walking between them simple (unlike school in Québec City). Everyone living in Ryd gets to school on bike. The entrances to the buildings on campus are crowded with old shitty bicycles that look like they’re going to crap out any minute. I’m going to have one of those too soon, I can’t wait! I got the student union fee payed yesterday. For all those who thought that the obligatory contribution of 2 or 3 dollars to support student unions was unjust, try 300 kronors on for size… that’s 50 dollars back home! Yesterday night about 100 exchange students got together outside of Ryd’s pub to chat and have a drink. It was so cool to meet other students from everywhere in the world: Austrailia, Taiwan, Germany (lots of them), France (lots of them as well), Italy, Spain, Slovenia (always singing! so awesome) and more. From today on, there should be approximately 750 exchange students studying at Linköping; way too many names to remember but I’ll do my best! Tonight there is a party at HG (the pub we were outside last night) to welcome all the exchange students to Linköping. That’s going to be a lot of fun! This afternoon I have to get some cheap stuff at Ikea (yes there’s an Ikea in Linköping) and maybe a European cell phone to stay in touch with the other students here at Ryd! Here are some pictures of Ryd (the first three) and of Linköping’s campus (the last 5).