Time for a flashback to my abroad semester. Took me a lot of time to write this report. It should be worth the great time and unique experiences I had. Enjoy reading it and enhance your life too!


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Somehow I managed it to fly back home to Austria with 80kg luggage including my bike! This was just possible with the help of Otto, who took me along from Skövde to Göteborg. Tack så mycket!
Now I will celebrate christmas with my relatives and start to work again in january at TiSUN.


It's possible to fly with so much extra luggage without extra costs, thanks to a lot of sports equipment.

Enjoy the Diashow I created for the international dinner with the IC. All four seasons are covered with beautiful pictures and nice songs from Sverige!




Sweden - I love you! from solarthermienator on Vimeo.

One of my subscriptions for the photo contest at the university. The theme is "Equally Unique".

I already took a lot of great panorama pictures in Sweden, when I find time I will submit them at deviantART!


Unique Panorama Cloudes - by Martin Meingassner

Hej Hej!

Yesterday I won the speed-climbing contest on the Team Tower on top of Billigen. It was a tournament to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Klätterklubb. In the final I climbed against Magnus the trainer of the "Sverige Klätter National Team" and was a little bit faster.

Thanks you all for this great day, especially for the nice dinner in the evening. This was definitely one of my best days in Sweden.


the Team Tower on top of Billigen

Good movies of the climbing have been uploaded by Pippo to YouTube:
my Team Tower time record
and many more!

I also cut another movie of Miquel and me in the Billingen boulder room. Always a great time to meet locals and solve problems together. Enjoy it here.

Introduction to Model Workshop, was a small preliminary course to be allowed to work in the universities design workshop. This is compulsory if you want to attend the „Industrial Design Project“ course. For me the working with the machines was nothing new and the basic instructions were just perfectly short. Then we - I worked together with Delia and Malono from Spain - had to do practical projects. Highly motivated I constructed and manufactured a Design Notebook Lifter for my Macbook Pro.


proud of the construction and finished manufacturing


the Design Notebook Lifter is everyday in ergonomic use

More pictures of the whole project can be found here.

Feel free to copy and develop the design - it's (CC)!

I already have a wonderful life in Austria, but the things that happen here in Sweden to me are even better!

This is the first blog of my Erasmus semester in Skövde. I'm in Sweden since the 10th of August and these 2 weeks pushed my life to a new level. The time with the students is so much fun and excitement I never had dreamed of.
Everyday you build up new friendships with a lot of interesting persons. I want to call this atmosphere unique: the candidness and cheerfulness of the people I meet everyday is indescribable!



I go out now to celebrate a Brännboll tournament victory. I will describe details of my adventures later.


for the moment, let the pictures speak for themselves:

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