When you begin to study at a Swedish college (at least every technical college) you are assigned to a group of like 10 people with 2-3 people as coordinators. These coordinators are supposed to help you through your first couple of weeks of school, show you where everything is, how stuff works and stuff like that. I think my coordinators did a very good job, though I didn’t get to know them very well.
I just noticed on Facebook though that one of my coordinators has started studying in Tokyo. Reading his blog I get extremely home-sick. I want to go back there and I just want to be there! I want to eat lunch at Design Festa, I want to go to Akiba to look at figures and check out new cameras, I just want to do all the stuff, I just want to be home.
I’m meeting with the international department (the department handling exchange programs) on the 30th, but it seems I misunderstood what the double-exam thing I talked earlier about really was. The information is really unclear, everything you can find online and in brochures indicates you take your masters degree there, but when I spoke to the head of the international department on the phone, she said the program was to extend your education by 2 years to take another masters degree – something I’m not very keen on.
Maybe I can get into one of the programs that my coordinator got into. Maybe I can survive here for 2.5 more years and then get a job there. Maybe.
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Fredrik Olsen
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Maho
