“Me hacés una gauchada?” – Spanish for “Can you do me a favour?” The hero wanders of the Pampas. The romanticized lawless cowboys. The free-living legends of the Argentina society. Once nomad cowboys of the vast fertile grasslands. A horsemen envisioning himself as a centaur – a half-human, half-horse. In the pampas town of Coronel Vidal
I left Hoi An only a few days after our goodbye party. Me and Cecilie travelled together, first night spent in a nice hotel in Da Nang before our flight to Bali, Denpasar. We booked a few nights in Uluwatu at the south coast. I did not take too many pictures, however, I have collected
After some time living and studying in Hoi An I would like to present some pros and cons of being a development student in this city that I now can call my second home. PROS Experience how lucky and privileged I am in comparison to so many others Getting to know 23 new people and
During this semester, we have two exams. One of them is the group exam, which I personally looked the least forward to. I find it a bit hard to write one paper together with four other brains with different ideas. However, we were told to write down a list of preferred topicsa and then we
Our Hoi An experience is almost over! The last week has included a lot of recapping of the essential topics in our studies. However, the issues have been presented from other perspectives. Our lecturer, Roy, also like to present topics with photos as a tool and learning method. In my opinion, this week has been
As a South Asian student doing this program, my experience was different from the other Scandinavians. This difference does not diminish my experience but it simply means, that I got an experience I would never get otherwise. The most ironic consequence of studying with people belonging to another culture in the place of your own
Just one more addition to the perks that you get upon doing this course, is cultural evenings. One cultural evening we had a chaat party. I suppose there is no perfect translation for chaat into English but I also suppose that eating some snack in the evening might be present in many cultures. In India,
The students of Peace and Conflict Studies for this semester got a unique opportunity on 23rd February 2017 when the ambassadors of the Nordic countries to India decided to visit us. It was very much a once in a lifetime opportunity for us. For them to come down from Delhi and meet us was a
We are now half way through our semester with development studies, and I think that all of us enjoy the student life in Hoi An. Our days usually starts with breakfast at Balance café. Then I rush to a nearby coffee shop to pick up my daily coffee and bring it to morning class. I
Walking Buenos Aires is more than anything a travel through an architectural wonderland, seeing the abundance of majestic buildings from decades of neoclassicism mixed with French and Italian Renaissance architecture. But nowadays, a visiter can’t help but notice the numerous colorful murals, both abandoned buildings, bins, signs, rolling shutters and side walls are decorated with
