Friday, February 24, 2012
Leo Tam @ Lund University, Sweden (from CityU) Feb 10, 2012 - Feb 14,2012
February 10, 2012 ( Friday )
Today is the first day of my “Northern Night Trip”. I am going this trip with my CityU friends. In our planning, we would go Tromsø,Norway, then to Abisko,Sweden and to Kiruna,Sweden finally. In the first day of Tromsø, we went to a museum called Polaria. In the museum, we could learn the formation of northern light and see the feeding process of the sea lion. However, the museum had no fun at all and it seemed that the Ocean Park in Hong Kong is more interesting because the museum was small and had less interesting things. However, what make me feel stunning is that Tromsø was a beautiful city. It is located near a huge iceberg, together with the sea view scenery. It left a good impression to me.
February 11 , 2012 ( Saturday )
Today is a fantastic day because I am sure that I have finished a “must-do” checkpoint in my life. That is to climb to the peak of a snow mountain. This mountain is called Storsteinen Mountain. We first took the 4 minute cable car from the ground to the 421 meters high peak. Once we went to the peak, it really impressed me because we can see the whole view of Tromsø. In the peak, we had a little “Snow war” which we threw the snow ball to each other. I believed that it is a check point of my life since there will be no such opportunity for me to have a relax and fantastic day in my life as a role of student.
February 12, 2012 ( Sunday )
Today we left from Tromso and went to Abisko. Abisko is located between Norway and Sweden and it took almost a half of day to go from Tromso and Abisko. We planned to see the Northern Light in Abisko because it is recommended by our friends who went to Exchange last year. However, today was a cloudy day and it is too difficult for us to see the Northern Light. The conclusion of today is that the preparation work is really important including the booking of the accommodation. Because we booked the hostel very late, we finally booked the hostel in a very far location. Together with Sunday, there were no, if any, activities for us to play. And we had to take 50 minutes train from hostel to the center in order to do the activities we plan to do. So let see whether we can go to center successfully on Monday.
February 13, 2012 ( Monday )
Today is a fantastic day because we can finally see the Aurora (Northern Light) in our exchange life. We went to a place called Abisko Turiststation first. Because there is an Aurora Sky Station which is claimed the best place to see the Aurora. Before we go to the Sky station, we stay in a hotel in the tourist station and wait for the entry of sky station. Suddenly, many people ran out from the hotel and we just follow them. After that, we saw to the sky and finally see the one of the most amazing thing in my life, the northern light. We can see the northern light clearly and watch the light to move. It seemed that the northern light has life that it moved with a pattern. We all felt fantastic and stunning.
February 14, 2012 ( Tuesday )
It is Valentine’s Day today and it had the triple meaning for me in this Northern Light trip. The first meaning was that it is the first time for me to have Valentine’s Day in the foreign country. It made me the first time to stay away from the family in this special day. The second is that we could see the clearest northern light I even seen in this trip. Since it was a surprise for me that it is cloudy in the morning and we expected that we cannot see the northern light at night. But the sky was very clear that it was full of star and the northern light as well. The third one is that it is the first time for me to see the shooting star in my lifetime. The shooting star was very fast that I must trace the track of the shooting star. I am sure that the Valentine’s day of this year must be the one of the most meaningful day for my life.
Labels: 2011/2012 Semester B
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