Dag remix

A continuum from the previous post, now I shall touch on other topics.

On entertainment (parties):

Parties are aplenty in Lund. Every night there is a party somewhere in this little town be it at the Nations, the Unions, the corridors or simply a private gathering. I haven't met anyone who hasn't been to a party since arriving here.

By the way, the guy above is Ola, one of our group's mentors and this shot was taken at his place where the mentors organised a pre-party for the mentor group. In case you're wondering what's a mentor group, it's similar to what we call orientation groups aka OGs minus all the screaming and running kids with drawn faces.

So i've attended 3 big parties: the 1st was at Helsingkrona Nation for the crayfish party where I got drunk on crayfish. 1 was at VG Nation which was a whole night of dancing/drinking with the Germans and the other was the official Welcome Party held at Karhuset. Karhuset is a lecture block for mainly the sciences and it's kind of amazing how they can transform something so dead in the day into heaps of joy (and puke) by night.

Crayfish Party @ Helsingkrona Nation

From Aug23 08

So we paid 120 SEK (~28SGD) for a night of buffet dinner with crayfish, and later on a big slice of freshly-baked chocolate cake with yoghurt and berries plus a whole night of partying!

Regarding crayfish, their 'crayfish' is actually similar to what we keep in our fish tanks back in SG. Same size same colour and I wonder if they actually taste the same too!


About partying culture here, prior to the actual party there is usually a pre-party. The function of a pre-party? To get you high enough to let loose for the actual party of course!

Here we have the welcome drink at Ola's place prepared by Ola. A blend of vanilla vodka, 7-up and berries. P/s: Looks are always deceiving, this is no tame drink!

From Aug29 08

Another interesting culture of the Swedes. When you're invited to a party, you bring your own liquor i.e. you bring what you want to drink at the party. The host is not obliged to provide drinks except maybe the welcome drink. The reason being liquor is too expensive in Sweden. Just FYI, a can of beer costs around 12SEK (~3 SGD) and cigarettes cost 48 SEK (~10 SGD).

So everyone got high on liquor...ok, some got a little too high! This lovely lady here is another mentor, Sophie.

Now everyone's ready to head to the party!