Surfin’ USA

A lot to catch up on (pictures galore!)

It’s been while and a lot has happened since my last entry. I was very busy with several things, so I haven’t gotten to actually writing something here before. So let’s get started:

First of all there was my thesis and especially the conference submission I was working on. The deadline for that was the 23rd of April, hence the week before that was quite bad… Anyway, eventually I managed (with the help of my supervisor Devdatt and the former PhD student Mattias) to finish and submit a nice paper — at least we think it’s nice

That same weekend, after submitting the paper, my two good German friends Lars (”Uschi”) and Simon came for a visit (after not managing to do so for 1 1/2 years ). Anyway, together with my friends from Gothenburg we had a great time with lots of partying, but see for yourself:

The following week I spent taking care of formalities and saying goodbye to all my friends in Gothenburg, which again involved a lot of partying. Here are some more pictures:

Then, on Friday, my father drove his empty car all the way up to Sweden (roughly 1,000 km), we spent Saturday packing and drove back down on Sunday, with an overfull car. Quite surprisingly everything I wanted to take back to Germany fitted in the car.

I spent Monday home at my parents’ before going back to Aachen on Tuesday, where I’m now living in the same dorm I lived in almost two years ago. Tomorrow (Thursday) I will start an internship / summer job with a local company. I will try to write more about that in a couple of days. I will also post some reflections on my time in Sweden, so stay tuned…