About two weeks ago, I was looking at my schedule for the next half of the semester, and mostly looking if I would be able to go on the Kiruna trip once they finally announced the days of the trip. NOPE. Exam schedules are again making that not possible...
So my thinking was it would be cool to see Dream Theater again while they're still playing in Europe. I thought it would be cool to meet up with Jordan again too.
Looking at their schedule, they play their last show in the European leg in Ljubljana Slovenia on Saturday the 31st. It works out pretty well because my last class for the week is on Wednesday, so I can take the time to travel there. I told Jordan my idea and he thought it would be cool if I could make it!
After a couple days of looking at the different possibilities of traveling there, I was able to make out this schedule:
Thursday the 29th --Leave Jönköping at 1:45 A.M. to Stockholm Arlanda (the airport) by bus. Get there at 8:50.
Stockholm to Milan: 2:40-5:30 via easyJet (cheap airline. but doesn't go directly from Stockholm to Ljubljana...the other option was Copenhagen-London, London-Ljubljana, but it was a bit more expensive)
from the Milan airport to the central station, I'll have to take some shuttle that leaves every 30 minutes or so, takes an hour.
Then it looks like I'm taking the train from Milan to Ljubljana at 9:05 P.M. and getting there at 8:10 A.M. on the 30th.
I'm staying at a hostel pretty much downtown, and actually about two blocks from the hotel that Jordan is staying at (at least that's what Google Maps tells me).
Getting back will be just as long. Leaving Ljubljana at 8:48PM on the 1st, and eventually getting back to Jönköping at 3:30 in the morning on the 3rd....seems like a lot of traveling, but the fact that I'm going to see Dream Theater playing in freakin' Slovenia, hanging out with Jordan again, and just the fact that I'm in Slovenia itself is pretty cool. I've heard good things about the country, so I'm pretty excited to see what it will be like!!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
October News...so far
It seems like more people have read my blog than just the two people! So I thank you for your time reading my blog. It'll be kind of tricky to follow up from my last blog about the fantastic adventure...but I'm sure it's just nice to give an update every now and then. I'll even throw in some more pictures that I may have forgot to show:
I went to a hockey game the Monday after Copenhagen. The team here is pretty good! They won the league a couple years ago...so we'll see how they do this season. A lot of people assume I follow NHL...but I don't really.
One evening, I went out just taking pictures...here's the canal near my place.
A very SMALL golf course we biked passed on Visingö.
School has been getting kind of busy especially last week with two poster presentations for both of my classes. I kind of liked the way it was set up: making a poster, walking around to see how others did things...made things a little more informal and not as stressful as getting up in front of a class, with powerpoints just reading off the slides.
Also, the previously-mentioned "ridiculously important" exam scores are in...and I passed! Immediate relief came over me and it was nice to know I don't have to worry about failing the class and not getting the credits I need. There's still a presentation next week in Marketing which is almost as important, but as long as I do alright in that, it will be ok. haha, here I was thinking that the great weekend I had in Copenhagen was just to prompt me for disappointment with the exam, but it's nice to get my cake and eat it too :)
I have recently decided to spend Christmas in France with the same family I stayed with for three weeks back in 2004. It will be great to see them again, and to go Snowboarding in the Alps!
Speaking of trips, there is now word on the schedule of the Kiruna trip in December. However, it looks like it will be during a few classes and it's towards the end of the semester...which sounds a lot like the situation I had with the Norway trip: school getting in the way of a once in a lifetime trip! I would really like to go on this trip, it's a little more expensive, but I'm sure it is worth it. It's still up in the air for now, we'll see how it plays out in the upcoming weeks.
I have talked to Jordan (the keyboardist from Dream Theater...see previous blog if you don't know who he is!) a few times on Skype, just in between his gigs and days off...not talking much, but just chatting about music and stuff. He's given me a few artists to listen to which he is "coming from". Getting the direct influences of the artist is pretty cool I think! I have thought about trying to go to another concert while they are in Europe for the rest of October, like the 31st their last spot on the Euro tour is in Slovenia...a place which definitely sounds interesting! And maybe walking around with Jordan, but I feel like that would take away from the adventure in Copenhagen and just sounds...needy...I don't know....I'm sure there will be times in the future when they are in Chicago or Wisconsin again and I can try to meet up then...again, who knows!
I went to a hockey game the Monday after Copenhagen. The team here is pretty good! They won the league a couple years ago...so we'll see how they do this season. A lot of people assume I follow NHL...but I don't really.
One evening, I went out just taking pictures...here's the canal near my place.
Here's the ceiling of one of the many churches I found in Copenhagen. 12 Apostles
A very SMALL golf course we biked passed on Visingö.
School has been getting kind of busy especially last week with two poster presentations for both of my classes. I kind of liked the way it was set up: making a poster, walking around to see how others did things...made things a little more informal and not as stressful as getting up in front of a class, with powerpoints just reading off the slides.
Also, the previously-mentioned "ridiculously important" exam scores are in...and I passed! Immediate relief came over me and it was nice to know I don't have to worry about failing the class and not getting the credits I need. There's still a presentation next week in Marketing which is almost as important, but as long as I do alright in that, it will be ok. haha, here I was thinking that the great weekend I had in Copenhagen was just to prompt me for disappointment with the exam, but it's nice to get my cake and eat it too :)
I have recently decided to spend Christmas in France with the same family I stayed with for three weeks back in 2004. It will be great to see them again, and to go Snowboarding in the Alps!
Speaking of trips, there is now word on the schedule of the Kiruna trip in December. However, it looks like it will be during a few classes and it's towards the end of the semester...which sounds a lot like the situation I had with the Norway trip: school getting in the way of a once in a lifetime trip! I would really like to go on this trip, it's a little more expensive, but I'm sure it is worth it. It's still up in the air for now, we'll see how it plays out in the upcoming weeks.
I have talked to Jordan (the keyboardist from Dream Theater...see previous blog if you don't know who he is!) a few times on Skype, just in between his gigs and days off...not talking much, but just chatting about music and stuff. He's given me a few artists to listen to which he is "coming from". Getting the direct influences of the artist is pretty cool I think! I have thought about trying to go to another concert while they are in Europe for the rest of October, like the 31st their last spot on the Euro tour is in Slovenia...a place which definitely sounds interesting! And maybe walking around with Jordan, but I feel like that would take away from the adventure in Copenhagen and just sounds...needy...I don't know....I'm sure there will be times in the future when they are in Chicago or Wisconsin again and I can try to meet up then...again, who knows!
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