Sitting in our kitchen. It’s 5.30 in the morning (which might also explain some of the misspellings below…). I have got up to catch the early morning flight to Paris. We are 7 students going there to represent the university of St. Gallen in a case competition. ‘The double’ (www.thedouble.org) it’s called. It will be [...]
A bit americanified, but nonetheless well deserved.
And in the words of Mr. McCain:
During the next couple of hours the world will be holding its breath “watching, waiting and hoping” as a good friend briefly expressed it on Facebook a couple of minutes ago. The election, that seals the next four years of US presidency, has drawn an interestingly high amount of attention from the rest of the [...]
The temperature is dropping in St. Gallen and both people and insects are retreating to the warmth and quaintness of indoor spaces. The biggest impact on our small WG (Wohngemeinschaft ~houseshare) is the sudden siege of our bathroom. Not by narcissistic men or nose-powdering ladies, but by wasps. Placed in a corner, the window of [...]
A clever soul has collected pictures from our trip to Filzbach, and posted them on the web. For your convenience please visit her Picasa Webalbum.
It’s raining. I’m sitting in my room looking out the window and down on one of the buildings in the yard a couple of storeys below. The church bells have stopped ringing, and the only sound left is the dripping of rain and the splashing of water from the drainpipes. Maybe St. Gallen hasn’t really [...]
Leaving a somewhat cloudy Copenhagen with a funny taste of longing at the back of my throat has brought me to Zurich and further on to St. Gallen. After a couple of hours strolling around the beautifull city with its old buildings and high activity I reached the university set on the side of the [...]
In 19 days Jakob is returning home from his long trip to Chile and 14 days later I leave for Switzerland. A lot of things have happened since we said our goodbyes some 7 moths ago. As you have probably read from Jakobs posts, he has experienced quite a lot. From one amazing sight to [...]
Arriving at Madrid at 1 o´clock this night was not as troublesome as we had expected. After a small detour with the metro we arrived at our hotel, found something to eat and were in bed by 3 o´clock.
Today has been very active. After an Andalucian style breakfast we went down to the Museo Nacional [...]
Today was the last day in school. Even though the motivation might not have been as high this week as it has been a good week alltogether. We were moved up a nudge in levels in the beginning of the week. Jakob continued on with the more advanced stuff, while I decided to follow a [...]
As some of you might know Nina has come to visit us for a couple of days. Nina and I haven’t had the opportunity this summer to go away on vacation together so we thought that we’d drive around the countryside in Andalucia for a couple of days exploring the small villages.
We headed off today [...]
…(or the Poet in New York) is a dance performance running in the gardens of the Alhambra (”Generalife”) until the 31st of August. We went to see this excellent performance the same day that Nina (Kaspers girlfriend) arrived to visit us. It is a flamenco dance performance written and choreographed by the famous spanish coreograph [...]
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A 45 minutes drive on narrow mountain roads later we arrived at Trevélez. This small village is often said to be the highest village in Spain, elevated 1476 m. above the ocean, and being so is often used as an offset for mountaneers venturing off into the Sierra Nevada.
Our first goal in Trevélez was lunch. [...]
This morning we got up at 8.00, oversleeping half an hour. We met up at the “Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones” (The congress center) with the bus and the about 20 other people going on the trip to the Alpujarras. And guess what: We have our camera up and running. You can see pictures from our [...]
All real websites and blogs needs to have competitions - and so does ours. We therefor now launch the big “What you can’t miss in Granada”-Competition.
The competition is simple. Find a site, monument or other place of interest within the vicinity of Granada and write a comment on the page GRANADA with info on the place. [...]
Yesterday we wanted to put our spanish skills to a test, so we got tickets to the brand new Transformers Movie. It was on in a cinema not far from where we live in a shopping mall by the name Neptuna. We have marked it in the map in the map section.
In Spain they don’t [...]
As you might have noticed, it has been a quiet couple of days here at J|K. We have now entered the past tense forms in the spanish language and they are to say the least a bit complicated.
The first week went on with present tence forms and “Presence Perfect” (Preterito Perfecto) forms and the bit of past [...]
One more small thing. Today was the release of the New 7 wonders of the World. In Granada there was a gigantic party to celebrate a potential appointment of the Alhambra as one of the new 7 wonders. 21 sites were nominated amonst these the Alhambra. The appointment was made by vote by people from all [...]
As written earlier, Alhambra is an astonishing castle built by an Arabian king in the 13th century. The gigantic castle and it’s palace and gardens dwell on the side of a cliff in the great Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Today we decided to put down our books and go study one of the most significant remnants of [...]