Dag Fem (Day Five) : Fredag (Friday)

Friday morning began with a sumptous breakfast laid out by Chef Xu again. I'm gonna grow fat at this rate...

Breakfast: Omellete with ham, Bread and Coffee

Did I take lunch? I think I forgot to take it! Anyway, rotted in my room until evening when the mentor group was supposed to meet in the Starsparken Park right over the South of Lund (I stay all the way at North).

Nice Park

The weather's real good over there, mild sunshine, cooling breeze, green pastures and cute babies...

Fountain in the middle of Starsparken

Couple Taking Wedding Shots

I left the mentor group halfway just as they were about to begin the BBQ-in-the-park session to head for the Malmö Festival. The Malmö Festival's a big event over in this Skäne region with people coming all over to attend it. It spans over a week starting last Friday and ends today.

Malmö City

Malmö

Land of Bicycles

Malmö Streets

Some Malmö Cathedral

The Clocktower Building

The Mainstage for Performance

There's also a clip of the music blasting away with my friends over here in Lund right now! Enjoy the music and feel the vibrance of the festival!!

Next we enter into the Food Street of Malmö Festival. Just follow your noses...

Food Street

Langos Stall

Langos (50 SEK)

Waffles!!!

Waffle with Strawberry Syrup and Whipped Cream! (35 SEK)

Rice with Beef Patty

Chokladfabrik Stall

Chokladfabrik (20 SEK)

Chokladfabrik (Dark Chocolate)

Chokladfabrik (Milk Chocolate)

Meat Grills...Yum yum...

Swedish-nised Thai Cuisine

Merry-Go-Round

Besides the Merry-Go-Round, there's this and this exciting rides.

More food tasting awaits....

Churros Stall

Churros M. Kanelsocker (Cinnamon Sugar) (30 SEK)

The Malmö Flyer

Malmö Night Scene

Malmö Night Scene

Malmö Night Scene

Dag Fyra (Day Four): Torsdag (Thursday)

My daily routine nowadays is to head for Swedish lessons in the morning till lunchtime and our favourite hangout is the COOP supermarket located downtown.

Other than that, it's rather too windy or far to explore other places for the time being, so just bear with me a little longer on the mundane stuff.

Breakfast was served on time at 8.30am by Chef Xu...

Breakfast: Bread, Fried Egg, Ham, Banana and Milo

It is now lunchtime after a 'tiring' day at Swedish lessons. The chef decides to take a break from the kitchen and settle for something simple yet nutritious...

Lunch: Cookies, Bananas, Melon and Milk

Grocery shopping for essentials such as pepper, salt and tomato sauce resulted in Chicken Bolognaise for dinner...

Dinner: Chicken Bolognaise

After dinner, it was time for a stroll around the area I shall call home for the next 5months or so. With great pleasure, I present to you my block (not N, it's O the lousy one with the wooden staircase)...

Run-down hut

There's a man-made bird's nest high up amongst the trees but the birds are definitely too large (pigeons here are around 2x the size of their counterparts in SG) to fit into that hole. Just for decoration perhaps...

Pigeon Hole

Some benches and BBQ facilities....

BBQ Facilities

Other surrounding blocks in Delphi....

Delphi Blocks

Some berries growing on a bush...

Berries

And as I mentioned in my previous post on the botanical gardens, the flowers are really lovely over here...

Pink Orchids

Just a side note regarding our insect friends over here. To the joy of some, there are NO ants, flies, cockroaches and of course NO lizards!! There are many bees collecting nectar from the plants though.

Dag Tre (Day Three) ; Onsdag (Wednesday)

I should really start another blog picturing the dishes I prepare on a daily basis. Maybe this can become someone else's 'cookbook' for studying abroad. So presenting to you BREAKFAST!

Bread with beef ham and Coffee

As there'll be Swedish language lessons on Thursday, I need to head over in the early morning to obtain my copy of the Swedish language handbook (~S$8). Damn cold wind gushing all over the place.

Humanities and Social Sciences Building

Flowers around the building....

Nice Flowers

Lazy me decided against cooking lunch as it was getting a little late and settled for fast food near my hostel instead. Sibylla is the name and they serve some nice juicy burgers there. Pricelist, see below. But I can tell you the price of an ice-cream though: ~S$4.50.

Sibylla Fast Food Restaurant

Mini Star Set Meal (42 SEK, ~S$9.80)

At 4pm Swedish time, it was time for the mentor group to meet up at the cursed AF building. The itinery today was city tour and the mentors: Ola and Sophie brought us around to check out the "must-see" places in Lund.

Presenting to you Lund's oldest cathedral....damn huge castle-like cathedral.

Entrance of Lund Cathedral

Sideview of Lund Cathedral

Interior of Cathedral

Another interior shot

I wonder who sits here

Area for Baptism

A Large Organ

A Huge Clock and Calendar

Entry to the Bishops' Mausoleum

Stepping on Their Graves

Next stop was the Botanical Garden in Lund. There was a slight drizzle and the drizzle here doesn't drench or hurt at all. Gently it lands on you and as it came, it left. The flowers grow really well in such cool climates. Something I seldom see in Singapore.

Flowers


More Flowers

On the way back to the AF building, we came across the Lunds Nation building. And mind you, the student unions here are not the paper tigers back home. These unions pack a serious punch in many policies.

Lunds Nation (In Swedish, there's no 's)

Finally, just before the group splits up to head home, we went for a meal of Fallafel on the mentors' recommendations. About this Fallafel, it has many pieces of vegetable+peas etc blended into a potato croquette-like thing and put into a wrap with even more vegetables.

Fallafel (25 SEK, ~S$5.80)