DAY 2: Malmö after school + Dairy Product Sample
Tasting
It’s great to be in Sweden. That’s the thought that
occupies my mind as I walk to my Swedish Class in the morning, a large smile
plastered on my face. It’s still dark, but that’s what makes my walks all the
more beautiful.
Little did I know however, that six hours later I’d be on the verge of
throwing up. But first, let me
enlighten you with the information we received on this day of the Malmö
Introduction Program. After Swedish Class we walked to the building Orkanen to
receive a lecture on what to do here in your free time. Why, you ask? Because
as a poor, unintelligible foreign student, you clearly need help finding your
way around. Not that I mind! It was actually surprisingly interesting and
informative. I dare bet that I know more about the possibilities of Malmö
University than the regular swedish student does at this point!
(Photos were taken after the event, so people were leaving)
So to start off, there was more than one lecturer, and
I won’t bother you with the tourism-related information (“you must go to the
chocolate factor, take the Rundan Sightseeing Tour – and visit the Malmö Art
Museum!”) since I have to visit them first! If you –have- to know more about
Malmö for tourism, then go to this website instead: www.malmotown.org
Instead, I’ll
shortly list a few interesting points I came accross:
- Folkuniversitetet. They give anyone (you don’t have to be a student) the option to create a study circle. You need to be a group of at least 3 people who share the same thought/wish/idea and want to learn something new together. For example... pottery! You decide what you want to do and how often, and that way you can create your own course. They offer administrative help and financial compensation if your group is approved.
- Connectors Malmö. A group of people who are interested in bringing ideas to live. You want to make a documentary? They’ll be interested in making it happen with you! Looking for a project to spend some time on, see what’s currently happening! www.connectorsmalmo.com
- Malmö Student Choir. I’m not the best singer on the block, but heck, that sounds fun! I’m always jealous of the singing theatre students at ArtEZ when they practice in the stairwells with their beautiful angelic voices!
- Malmö Association of Foreign Affairs. They arrange a lot of lectures regarding international topics, such as current political happenings in Germany, and they also organize a trip to Istanbul this semester. Very awesome. www.ufmalmo.com
- The pike and the hurricane. This is the magazine that is published every month by the Malmö Association of Foreign Affairs. I signed up, figured they might end up liking a comic in there. Maybe. Probably. We’ll see.
And of course there’s ESN Malmö and parties, and other
trips, but these were the most interesting to me.
On to the next event of the
day: Dairy Product Sample Tasting!
I figured I’d be all systematic about it, and eat it
in the order we gathered the various food products. However, that was a pretty
bad idea. That licorice that you see there, on my plate, that black dot...
that was an explosion of salt if there ever was one. Maybe the thought of
tasting makes your taste buds ultra sensitive (I bet it does), or maybe I’m
just paranoid, but I swear that messed up the rest of the products for me.
Or maybe I’m just not really into Swedish dairy
products.
Nevertheless, it was very interesting. I've never
really been to a tasting before, so that was an enlightening experience
concerning the sense of taste. Afterwards, I recall being rather nauseous. It’s
still dairy. Next time I’d prefer to go to a chips/crips tasting event. Yum.
Hightlights:
- Swedes like putting their food in tubes. They have ham and cheese in a tube, so you can press it out like mayonaise. As well as other tastes like caviar (ew), and bacon, if I recall correctly.
- There was a quark or a cream that was mixed with mushrooms. It was bloody delicious.
- Yoghurt is fine. Except for that one... really really bad one. That I couldn’t finish. I banished the name from my mind.
- You don’t try to make a butter sweet-tasting. It’s horrible. On the other hand, Sweden has the best butter in the world, called Lätta. It’s THE BEST. I would buy tons of that and take it with me to Holland... if I wasn’t trying to watch my weight.
And so my day ended with a rather confused, and still
hungry stomach, screaming at me for a bacon cheeseburger. JAG ALSKAR
HAMBURGARE!! :)
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Just for extra's, here are some photos of the Orkanen cafeteria! :D
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