Mina lärare

Jessica

Poja

Oscar
Jag är mycket nöjd med mina lärare. Jag har tre: Jessica för Rivstart böcker, Poja för grammatik och Oscar för Uttal och konversation.  Lektioner är intensiv och av en hög nivÃ¥, men det är ju bra - jag tror jag lär mig snabbt svenska med en total nedsänkning... 

Att Springa med huggormer...

En av de finare sakerna här i Uppsala är att jag är mitt i Natur. Springer man om ett minut kommer man i sko. Jag springer bredvid ön och lyssnar pÃ¥ fÃ¥glar, tittar pÃ¥ skogen och idag mÃ¥ste jag fly om en huggorm pÃ¥ väg... :-)   

Mat i Uppsala - enkel

Det finns många restauranger i Uppsala . Ja McDonalds, Burgerking, Max.... nej seriös också bra restauranger, men inte så på min smak. För mycket salt, för mycket husmanskost tror jag. En bra undantag är Hamberg, en fiskrestaurang. Jag brukar ska äta i Asiatiska restauranger som Amazing Thai eller Indiskt Oriental.

SkoKloster

Skokloster är en fin barock slott bredvid en stor ö. Idag hade vi en utflykt med en visning och det var mycket trevligt. vädret var bra och slottet intressant.  

mina klasskamrater


Eleverna kommer från 50 länder och också i min klass finns olika nationaliteter: Holland, Tyskland, Polen, Storbritannien, Ukraina, Frankrike, Schweiz, Libyen och även Japan!
Vår språk? Svensk!

MÃ¥nga bocker... :-(


I skolan använder vi olika sorts böcker: Rivstart B, Svensk Grammatik på Svenska och en övningsbok i svensk grammatik. När jag slutade läxor, jag brukar läsa andra böcker: Uli vår Hage och Fantomen, det är toppen! :-))

Ondskan

På kvällen vi har en föreläsning eller tittar vi på en film. Idag var det Ondskan på boken av Jan Guillou.
Andreas Wilson är Erik Pontus och är mycket olycklig som en eleven pÃ¥ en Internat skola. Jag hade fruktansvärt synd om honom :-) 

Uppsala Domkyrka



Uppsala har en stor Domkyrka. Det är störst kyrka från Norden. I kyrkan finns grav från kung Vasa och mycket andra intressante saker.

Här ska jag bo näste veckor

Jag bor i Clarion Hotel Gillet mitt i Uppsala stan. Uppsala är en lite stad. Där finns allt kända shops och även en bio - men jag tror att jag ska ha lite tid för att  go till bio. Skolan är pÃ¥

Jag är en verkliga Uppsala student!

Nu är jag i Uppsala och ska go förbereder mig för två veckor intensiv utbildning på svenska. Människor från mer än 50 länder har inskrivet sig på UISS (Uppsala International Summer Session). Jag ska studera av nivå B1, vad betyder att jag måste talar och förstår mycket bra svenska i slutet ... :-)
Jag ser verkligen fram emot att vad som kommer och är mycket motiverat.
   
What is the plus of Google+? Why would anybody switch from Facebook to this platform? Google+ is a little bit of twitter, a bit tumblr, digg and a (lot) of Facebook. Even the so hyped "circles" is a variation of the Facebook groups, that nobody uses, though nicely animated. The idea of the introduction of circles, sparks, hangouts and huddle all at once - makes its rather complicated and confusion. The lack of facebook, blogger and comprehensive twitter integration is just plain stupid...
But ok it's another Google Beta project, so who knows what's still to come / improved... But then again we already had Google disasters like Orku, Buzz and Wave. It doesn't help that it is by invitation only - which makes it no real alternative for Facebook yet. I think that the Google invitation strategy is nice when you have an open system like Gmail and such, but not for a walled concept as plus is. There are too few people to interact with.
Also for businesses no Google plus pages - so how can they interact with their fans?
For now I will be very reluctant to add Google plus content and if a lot of people are just as reluctant it will be Google Zero...
PS: Couldn't resist to make a Circle of Jerks :-)

New York Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

Isn't it funny that it was just two years ago that a bill to legalize gay marriage was defeated in New York's then Democrat-controlled legislature and now with a GOP senate four Republicans joined all but one of the state's Democrats to pass the bill in Albany 33 to 29...
So it took  a while, but mainly thanks to the rallying of Andrew Cuomo it finally came through.

Me and @NicoletteVanDam at the opening of #KIA Motors Nederland




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Unfortunately: I have really no idea who she is... ;-)

finaly my own muesli from ... mymuesli!

For years I was a fan of mymuesli.de, but couldn't order because they did not ship internationally. But now they do (thanks to the Dutch Muesli guys (Bas & Jasper). This is my Morning Wake up Mix - try it out!

Nokia N9 - beautiful phone, but useless

It looks really pretty - but running MeeGo makes it uterly useless...

My Ex-Gay Friend

He's not looking happy/gay now at all...more bitter

In the good gay old time... :-) (Mikey on the left)
A very well written piece by Benoit Denizet-Lewis today in the NYT Magazine.
It's about his old Michael Glatze you used to be an activist at XY magazine, used to be his friend and...uh?!..USED to be gay.
In a country where 92% of the people say they believe in god it's no wonder that there is still debate about gay people - which is very hard to believe when living in Amsterdam. Anyway Michael completely lost it and is now living in a bible school in (Broke Back Mountain) Wyoming... Poor guy. I hope he will return quickly to the happy and cute(!) guy he used to be.
PS: very interesting comments on this piece too.

those were the days... ;-)

16k - wow! (by the way: now also as an app)

build your design home with lego

The new architecture series of Lego is real fun - look at this beautiful Falling Waters model - I really would like to build it. (If I would have/make the time)
Other buildings in the series are:
Farnsworth House™


Burj Khalifa


Empire State Building


Fallingwater®


Rockefeller Center


Sears Tower


Seattle Space Needle


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum®


White House
Have a look for your self.





All american guy

The return of the (killer)apps

Not sure what is going on but slowly all kinds of apps are creeping back into my life. I thought that I had everything "browserized" - but the contary seems to be the truth...
There are some pretty neat apps out there for the mac and I now have a couple of them running permanently (@space 2). These apps give a far better user experience and look beautiful. Also they remind you of your familiar iphone/ipad apps - so you are already used to them.
These I use most: sparrow (mail), reeder (rss reader), twitter (uh... twitter) and evernote (notes).
With launchpad in Lion I think a whole new wave of apps will come to us - is this the end of the browser then? (and of Google?)

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward for sale

@bonhams you can now bid for a original Lady Penelope doll as used in the Thunderbirds series. I think I would rather have her pink six-wheeled Rolls Royce, as driven by her chauffeur Parker.

New happy Delft tiles

Logitech G35 - not for PS3

Just to keep things at peace @home I thought it would be a good idea to use a headset for my PS3 gaming. I was thinking of this nice Logitech G35 ones: 7.1 dolby. But unfortunately Sony still doesn't allow us to use USB headsets on the playstation - why is that? So I canceled my order and will start to use my "old" Sennheiser set.

Uppsala: jag kommer!

Det är bara tre veckor när jag ska åka till Uppsala för min sommer course "Svenska". Vädret är mycket fint och det är många saker att se. Jag undrar vem vill bli mina medstudenter och om jag första och talar svenska tillräckligt bra...

All of a sudden I fancy a swim...

Films for the weekend: 3. Mine Vigante

 
After a lot of Hollywood movies it is always nice to relax, dream away and to enjoy a classic Italian movie. It seems that only Italians can do this - beautiful settings, philosophical scripts, beautiful people and a great sound track. This is a film to remember and to cherish. Tomaso has to go to the far southern tip of Italy to help his family out with their pasta business. A trip with lot's of surprises and a warm ending...

Films for the weekend: 2. X-Men First Class

How did it all start? Now we know because of this nice Sunday afternoon flick. But it is just a little bit to long I think, it could do with at least a half hour less of talking and extensive action scenes.. Nice role of Kevin Bacon.

films for the weekend: 1. The HangOver II

Sure it is the same formula, but what a formula it is :-) It's an other 2 hours of senseless humor with the guys. As usual the most fun comes with the end credits...

Time to go to the beach...

Australian HIV Campaign Reinstated

RipandRollAustraliax180 (QCHA) | Advocate.com
The  campaign for HIV prevention targeting gay men in Queensland has been reinstated following an online backlash against the company that removed the ads in response to complaints from an antigay Christian group. More than 25,000 joined a Facebook group to support the “Rip and Roll” campaign from the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities - hurray!

Really offensive - or not?

An HIV-prevention ad featuring a fully-clothed gay couple embracing with a condom has been removed from bus shelters in Brisbane, Australia following complaints from the Australian Christian Lobby...huh?

Heavy Medal?

The medal I got after the "Rock & Run" run was announced as a "heavy medal" medal - in fact it was a very cheapo plastic piece of rubbish - why did they do that?

Pierre & Gilles @ Christies Paris

Today is the long anticipated auction of Pierre & Gilles photographs/paintings @Christies Paris. For a mere €30.000 or so you can pick up an original artwork by the guys, so hurry!

Rock & Run in Amsterdam

I ran the Rock & Run Amsterdam today - it was a pure recreational event, without any time keeping - but it was fun to run freely around the corner over the canals between some very weird dressed other runners...

Pelle Svanslös

Därför jag ska åka till Uppsala i 4 veckor (på att plugga svenska) jag tänkte att det var en mycket bra idé att läsa böcker från Gösta Knutsson. Hans Figurerna i böckerna är katter (huvudpersonen är Pelle Svanlös) men har levande förebilder bland verkliga personer i dåtidens Uppsala. Böckerna avsågs vara en protest mot det alltmer öppna stödet för nationalsocialismen i Sverige... Jag hoppas jag lär mig en liten som Uppsala också.

New Kids Turbo

I wasn't planning to watch this movie, but happened to stumble upon it, and I must admit: It was more fun then I thought it would be. I liked Rikkert (Wesley van Gaalen) most. His relationship with his Opel Manta is classic :-)

We are all living in the past - realtime

Interesting story in the New Yorker: What is the relation between the reality, our senses and our brain?
Don't our senses need time to digest what they see, hear, feel? Next there is some transportation time needed to our brain and finally our brain has to put all that stuff together and make some (real) sense out of it. To make things more interesting - different senses have different legacy times and you also have to deal with the difference in the speed of light vs. sound e.g.
So how do we have a sync feeling about things that happen around us? Isn't it so that we have to wait for the last feed to come in? And so: are we actually living in a world that is already microseconds away....

Wow! Maybe even some people have a different legacy time and are living in a different time all together - that explains a lot considering some people ;-))

The story of Bill Sanders - a gay frog as an iPad app

Author Connie van Gils  and illustrator Roel Seidell wrote this story about a gay frog whom liked to watch the boys from the water ballet more then girls :-)
Now a free download in the iTunes store for iphone/ipad in 5 languages - sweet!

RIO 3D

Take a standard animation story with your usual team of (voice) characters put a 3 D glazing on top and voila: a recipe for disaster. But wait a minute: RIO 3D is very likable, maybe it is the setting in RIO (it all is very accurate) and the music of Sergio Mendes - but this is great Sunday afternoon entertainment.  Actually I liked it so much that maybe I have to start playing angry birds RIO on the iPad as well.

Pirates IV: On Stranger Tides - can it get any stranger?

I watched POTC IV in IMAX 3D, but it didn't help: it's again way to long with confusing action scenes and no story. Luckily Sam Claflin (did he work out?) is in it though - so we have something to like :-))

New books for this weekend part III: De Maagd Marino

Yves Petry won the prestigious Libris literature prize 2011 with his novel "De Maagd Marino" about a guy who eats an other guy - with his consent... oops. Very loosely based on a real story it promises to be a great story. I bought the book, but somehow I don't seem able to start reading... yet.