Winter is finally here… not! The year I decide to move up north is the year it snows in Bucharest before December. Hmmm. Other things happen here though. Yes, most of them are related to school: projects, team presentations, exams, lectures and seminars.

For one of the courses we have now, half of the activity takes place in a cinema. Yes, a cinema, we’re watching movies and we discuss them in our lectures and seminars. All these interesting things happen in Filmhusset, a pretty cool place to go to school.

Also, for about 3 weeks the cats had free access in the house, meaning that they could come and go whenever they wanted. That was pretty cool because one afternoon I woke up with the huge orange cat in the middle of the living room. And, as sober and unfriendly as he usually was, he kept pushing himself on his back legs to reach my hand to pet him. Awww, that was so cute. Then it was also cute to hear him calling whenever he caught a mouse: he wanted to be congratulated. It became less fun when he started bringing live mice and presenting them proudly as great gifts… probably. And he just left them run around the house. I guess he expected another reaction from us all and definitely not running after them with a plastic box to catch them and take them out. So now he is not allowed in the house anymore, which is sad. In the meantime we get another cat to visit us every day.

One of the cool things about the cold season is that the landscape is amazing. I grew up in a place close to nature so I notice its beauty easily and I never take it for granted. Whether it’s the sun shining from behind the trees  or a sunset that sets the whole sky on fire, Stockholm is definitely a place where one can admire nature in all its urban grace. Just like my hometown. And because I am a bit homesick, probably because Christmas is coming, I started listening to a Romanian radio station. I grew up in a house where the radio was always on, and yes, I am listening online to the same radio station that we used to listen to at home: Radio Iasi. Music and news the old fashion way… good music and serious news.

Last but not least I would like to send a big thank you to the ones that wrote, called and came by and made my Swedish b-day one of the greatest days I spent in Sweden.