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From Wednesday to Friday I was in Ronneby, the so-called "heart of the garden of Sweden" and a town Blekinge in South East of Sweden, and attended the SIDeR 07 conference. I had a fantastic time there. Not only that the other participants seemed to have liked my presentation but also it was great to get to know all those gorgeous and interesting people like Willem, Johannes, Sebastian, Jokke, Fredrik and Morten.


Willem and Sebastian (funny and clever guys from Holland and Germany who study in Denmark)


Johannes (the Norwegian studying in Holland who had the best presentation)

We had a good party time after the delicious conference dinner (which made me forget about the vegetarian disappointment at lunch time). In fact, it was party (#2) at the student pub (with ceap beer, a little bit of pool and dancing) and 2 afterparties (one at a student corridor where we were introduced to the Ronneby drinking culture ... Donk! ... and a small one in my room where Willem, Fredrik and I listened to a bit German music).

Well, don't think i went there only for partying. Because that's not the case at all! It was a pleasure to listen to some very good leactures and the others' presentation and getting a hell lot of new ideas and perspectives. I guess I also learned a lot abot the field of interaction design itself. The first time in my life I have the feeling that I found something that could be the perfect study program for me as it is the perfect combinition of knowledge and creativity. Just a pity that I got to know it so late.
Too late I'm afraid :(
But thinking of my new friends I think I'll survive :)

The paper about the Music Waggon project that I was working on together with my three Chinese fellow students Tingran, Lele and Wenhui was ACCEPTED at the SIDeR conference.



So next week I'm going to Ronneby in Blekinge and present our idea :)
Unfortunately alone :(
All my Chinese friends have a test at exactly the time ...
But well it will be fun anyway!

If you are interested in our project feel free to read the paper!

Music-Waggon (pdf, 877 KB)

I'm back! Goddarn, I'm back!

After one and a half weeks I made it finally to tonight's fencing training. Ivan, our trainer, was unfortunately sick and couldn't give the standard lessons. Or should I maybe say "luckily"? Because we had a little competition instead and guess who won it! Yup, ME!!! I won every fight except one which I lost 4:5 ... but sometimes I was a little bit afraid of winning as Swedish girls aren't the best loosers, you know. I heard all the swearing words tonight :P

Yup, I really feel remembered of good old days ...

...just that my hair isn't "poppy red" anymore :)