the Chilean version of the Village

Have you seen the movie the Village?

The real story actually happened in Chile as Misse has told me.

After the 2nd World War, a massive amount of Germans immigrated to South America, which I was never aware of before.

He told me that there are many Chileans who have Latin names but somewhere in their lastnames there appear a Schmitz or Hitler(hehe, just kidding.)

Anyway, he described to me this community in Chile which was entirely self-supplied and rich and totally shut from the outside world. You had to be of German heritage in order to reside in there. But once you have moved in, you are not allowed to move out. The government didn't do anything about this because they were frankly quite rich. So this closed community didn't bother anyone until a half-dead man escaped out of the village and told everyone about- how if you wanna leave, you get shot.

I have heard many crazy things in my life, but this one would be one of the top 10

Wait for it! it's gonna be Legen...

Yeah, a Swiss guy told me that he was almost having a threesome, but, as expected, he was one millimeter close to achieving the goal that every man has dreamt of. So more juicy details come later...

a Latin American who grew up in Sweden...

Well, based on a true story


This is one of the funniest stories I have heard in my life

Here's my friend

We are having this discussion about going to bed early in order to gain height. Yeah, that's right, that's why Napolean was so short cause he didn't believe in sleeping; he thought it was a waste of time. And I am telling him how I gained one centermeter first year at college cause I was living off campus and bored at night so went to bed really early every night. Then he says he hasn't gained any height since he was in 7th grade.

That's weird

Then I go on asking him you were this tall when you were in the 7th grade? since he is about 5'11'' now. Man, you must have been the tallest kid in class!

Yeah, but it was sad when everybody overgrew me in the 10th grade...

and he goes on

The thing is that my mom was only pregnant with me for three months...

3 MONTHS!?!?

Yeah, she didn't know that she was pregnant until the 4th month then I was born one month earlier than I should have been... So I was practically only in her belly for 3 months... She was still drinking, smoking, and I think she also did some weed...

HAHAHAHA!!!! But you look pretty normal now!!!

Yeah, when I was born since I was due early they had to inject tons of hormones in me. I think that's how I grew so fast

oh Right!

Yeah even when I was little, kids didn't even wanna approach me cuz I was too big!

ha, I could imagine that, but you are all normal now right?

Yeah, pretty much

The Egg discussion

So apparently, China doesn't have any brown eggs, while France and Spain have only brown eggs, both which the US, Sweden, and Taiwan all have.

So it actually started with talking with Kiko, the girl from China. Because she bought some eggs from a street market and they were brown. she thought they were fake because of the color of the shell and also the yolk.

So I also went bought some brown eggs at the market then when I was cooking them tonight, Manu(Barcelonian), Jean-Charles(French) both asked me where I got those eggs from. They thought that's the color that the eggs are supposed to look. "Normal eggs" as they called them.

I know you might be bored outa your mind reading this stupid crap. But hey! now you will never know what kind of eggs you will get when you are abroad!

Valborg- Walpurgis night

the parade

roma and a drunk swedish girl

sleeping on the street

Once a year on April 30th, the Swedes go crazy, drunk, and obnoxious for the whole day. Yes, this is Valborg, a pagan holiday from long time ago.
I am not really familiar with the traditions of the festival but one thing I know is that on this day, there will be huge fires celebrating the spring, or some sort, and people start drinking 10 in the morning until the next day.

Usually, the biggest parties happen in Uppsala since it has got a long tradition on this day, they have boat races, parades and all the student unions called "nations" will be open till 4 in the morning to host big parties with music and dance floors.

So I was all pumped to celebrate this festival and headed up to Uppsala after a morning class. When we got there, we saw huge lines in front of nations because of the Champagne meals you can get in the nations. You have people popping Champagnes all over the place and people eating herrings. What I have heard from Samy is that, well I sort of saw the people in the queues consisting of mainly hot blonde girls, so he told me all the girls were really drunk and he made out with three in one hour at the event.

Anyway, I met up with Clara and got the guestcards for the nations for the night and sat on the lawn chatting with her for a while. Meanwhile, there was this parade marching out of the university library directed by the principal. Apparently this is also the day for the graduates to march down the winding road to complete their graduation. They have almost the equivalent cap and gown but only neater. The caps looked somewhat like the police type of cap you would see in the movies. Anyway, Clara and I had a nice chat and she had to leave for else where so I walked with her back to her dorm and saw her place. It was really new and nicely decorated. You can't really imagine the streets in contrast with this room. Anyhow, I met up with Christophe and the others but only me and Christophe were sober enough to walk around in the city. So we did. Saw lots of people from Stockholm hanging on the streets so we said hi along the way and got some nice surprises- mainly free food.

Nothing happening until when the fire started to happen but we didn't know it was far away from the city center and no one was really motivated to move there. Instead we all got into MAX(a Swedish fast food chain) and had some burgers. People have been telling me how good MAX is because of the burgers. But after tasting them, I feel they are more like the cheap burgers you can get at Lidl (a cheap German supermarket chain). But after I had my dinner we started thinking that it was time to line up for the nation parties.

Actually not much to say about the party because it was quite typical as usual although we had to spend 220 SEK in total to get in one of those. It was a real disappointment although we talked with some girls who had some interesting backgrounds.

Needless to say Samy was his usual self hitting on every single one of girls in the house. He succeeded with some but only stayed on the conversation level. But then he turned into almost a malconfigured vacuum machine that is supposed to suck girls in but turned out to blow/ repel girls away. When you are watching him in action, you will see this crowd filled with girls and a guy named Moses parting the crowd into two.

After getting bored out of our minds at the nation, Christophe and I headed out to search for ways to go back to Stockholm since there was no more trains running. But we ended up sleeping in the chairs of a open-air cafe on the sidewalk for one hour before it got cloudy and cold. Then Christophe spot an open door into a condo so we tried sneaking in and finally found a floor in front of a business that won't open tomorrow and rested on the floor. It was quite intimidating when we heard the elevator running we hoped to God that it wasn't the owner of the business coming in on a holiday. But it turned out to be a woman downstairs who opened the door and asked "HELLO? HELLO?" and we never heard her close the door. Christophe seemed to rest pretty well since he started snoring not long after while I was keeping myself on the toes to listen to the surroundings.

After that we went out of the apartment and went in the station where we saw Samy and some others. That's when Samy was telling us all about his glorious stories but not managing to recall what happened to his forehead.