Christmas pause

Well, we have no more studies this year… A lot of our classmates left Lund for their homes, to spend Christmas with their families, or for holiday travels, or both. They don’t have time or topics to post to this blog as much as before. Lund stays quiet… It cried a lot the last week, for all the merry students parting (not partying this time!) from it until the next year… or leaving for good. But now Lund tries to stay cool… Very cool, actually, I would even call it cold. It tries to smile its cold sad smile with brief moments of winter sun shining through crystal-clear air on freezing cats sitting a top of the laundries’ thermal vents… and on a guy who stops to caress those cats and to talk to them in Russian.

Lund also stays hopeful. Because many students will return the new year, and some new students will come too. All our classmates (but one, and we wish Odushka a lot of success in Stockholm and we’ll see her here the next September, hopefully!) will be back in Lund in the beginning of January. Those, who stay here, plan to organize LUMES Christmas celebration, we’ll have a big beautiful apartment to chase Santa around, all at our disposal, yahoo! I bet it will be as lovely as my dream of it here. I miss my friends, both those in and out of Lund, and I want and hope to see them all soon!.. Merry Christmas, everyone (let’s think it’s a cultural event, not simply a religious holiday, ok? ;-)), and A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR of us all together!!!