After work is a brilliant concept for poor students. Even though Gothenburg might not be the best student city in Sweden, the Gothenburg After work culture is extraordinary. The concept After work might have a slightly different meaning in different countries, something I discovered when an After work in France meant suits, champagne and a 6 euro wardrobe fee. In Sweden AW is rather synonymous with cheap beer, free buffet and crowding, and the dress code is normally quite informal.

First of all- if you are not confortable with having dinner five a’clock in the afternoon, AW is nothing for you. If you learn to handle it, AW could serve as a great way of getting a good party night out with your friends, but still be in shape the next day (by starting early and finish early). Of course there are also those who consider AW a great pre-preparty, before going back home, getting some rest, having another dinner and some more beers before starting the night. However you like to go out for it, there are some things you need to know.

The normal after work deal says “buy something to drink- get free food”. The food quality can vary from overboiled broccoli and bread to Parma ham and brie, depending on after work place- that is why you need to find your favourite spots. You also need to be there in time, both to get a table and to get something to eat- if the food is for free there are no guarantees. Here are some of the best AW in Gothenburg:

• Excet, Vasagatan 52- Fridays 17:00-22:00. Tasty buffet, delicious cocktails and good prices! (Age limit 22)
• Lotus bar, Linnégatan 47- Fridays 16:00-20:00. A more fancy place with a luxury Champagne After work including cheeses and Parma ham, for 95 kr.
• Notting Hill, Nordhemsgatan 19A - Fridays 16:30-19:30. A cosy English Pub in the heart of Linnéstaden, with a free and mostly vegetarian buffet.
• RumpanBar, Linnégatan 38B- 16:00-19:00. Always crowded so arrive early. Free buffet including delicious stone oven baked pizza, among other things! Age limit 23.
• MiCasa bar, Vasagatan 32- Tuesday to Thursday 17:00-19:00. A cosy restaurant/ bar which offers a tasty tapas plate + 1 beer/wine for 79 kr.

If you have other AW tips you want to share with the Misi.se readers- please write a comment!

/ Sanna, Misi.se team 2010

Welcome to Språkpunkten- Language Exchange

Tuesday the 9th of March.

The first language café of this semester was a great success!  If you missed it you will get a new chance next week: The student buddies of Haga Exchange Group and FFS offer you an opportunity to meet new friends, practice the languages you are learing and of course, eat cheap delicious home-baked cakes and cookies!

The ambition with Språkpunkten is to facilitate language learing through fun and relaxed meetings between Swedish students and Erasmus students. Språkpunkten can also be seen as a possibility to establish contacts for futur language exchange between students of different nationalities. If you just want to pass by to see your friends, meet the student buddies and have a coffee, you are welcome as well!

18.00-21.00 Tuesday 9th of March

Sociologen’s Café Sprängkulle  Sprängkullsgatan 23

Welcome to Medspråk!

Practice your Swedish and learn more about Gothenburg, Sweden and the swedes!

Just drop in any time you like and practice to speak Swedish.

Any level, any nationality, all students from all schools and others are more then welcome. Whether you are staying here for a short or a long time.

We divide into small groups 50/50 Swedish and others, so that everyone will get the best chance to speak as much as possible.

We will give and get tips on what to do, where to go and take up any subject that interest you.

You may bring anyone.

Free of charge.

Tram/bus stop: Kapellplatsen.

Landalagången 3 (The French School) Mon-Thurs 17-18.30

Go up the stairs after the Pharmacy, turn right into the schoolyard, there is a big blue sign “Medborgarskolan”.

Up 1 floor.

Want more info, contact: susanna_walfridsson@msn.com

Passion for food in Eriksbergshallen

Passion för mat (passion for food) is an expo for food enthusiasts that will be held in Eriksbergshallen this weekend. The organisers promise a taste experience above the ordinary.

Top-quality food producers and suppliers will provide free samples of their products, and there will be beer and wine tasting (20 kr per taste).

Passion för mat will also feature a cooking school, run by the best chefs in Sweden. There you can learn about preparation techniques, flavours and new products on the market. A program for the cooking school can be found here (in Swedish) www.passionformat.se

Opening hours:
Friday February 26: 10.00-18-00
Saturday February 27: 10:00-19:00
Sunday February 28: 10:00-17:00

Admission:
140 kronor for adults
100 kronor youths aged 8-16
Children aged 7 and under get in for free

// Goteborg daily

Gothenburg has a quite big music scene, with both Swedish and international bands playing. Here is a short resumé of some of the best concerts you will still be able to get tickets to, in Gothenburg this Spring:

• Slagsmålsklubben (Swe), 13/3 Chalmers studentkår

The name Slagsmålsklubben is a free translation of the title of the film Fight club. Slagsmålsklubben is a alternative electopop band, including sex guys from Norrköping in Sweden.  They have a rather unique sound and I guess the concert will be something special.

When: 13/3 20.00

Where: Chalmers Kårhus, (tram stop Chalmers)

Price: 170 kr

• Shout Out Louds (Swe), 15/4 Brew House
  

Shout Out Louds, a Swedish pop band with a melodic but high-energy sound, had an international audience already in 2000.  After a US/Canada/Europe tour they will return to Sweden to offer you a chance to see them live.

Where: Pusteviksbaren

When: 15/4 20.00

Price: 195 kr

• Anna von Hausswolff (Swe)- 5/5 Nefetiti
  

So far this gig is just a rumor, seen on Anna’s myspace page. Hopefully it is true, and in that case you should visit Nefetiti, a legendary Gothenburg jazz club, the 5th of May. Anna von Hausswolff has a fantastic voice which spellbinds you.

When: 5/5 20.00

www.myspace.com/vonhausswolff

• Green Day (US)- 5/6 Ullevi

As late as in October last year they gave a concert in Stockholm, which was celebrated  by fans as well as critics. Now the time has come to Gothenburg: this summer Green Day, probably the most famous punk band in the world, will rock the city.

Where: Ullevi

When: 5/6 18.00

Price: 545-590 kr

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Tickets can be bought on Ticnet or in Pusteviksbiljetter, Järntorgsgatan 12

/ Sanna, Misi.se team 2010

- Crazy Gothenburg winter weather

This morning I challenged the snow storm and went out to visit the fitness center. The streets were empty but full of snow, and the woman beside me at the stam stop had been waiting for the tram for 1,5 hour. Due to the risk of snowslip and icicles falling from the roofs, the snow whipping my face and not shoveled trottoirs I had to surrender and go back to my bed.

You might think that this is normal winter weather in Sweden, and well it is. Up in the North. In Gothenburg it hasn’t been a winter weather like this since 1995, when a huge snow storm forced the public to stay inside while some adventurers went skiing on Avenyn. The winter of 1995 has become legendary in the Gothenburgers mind, something we have been dreaming about ever since then. Now it is happeing once again.

The snowfall is estimated to continue all weekend, and SMHI has issued a class two warning, which means that the weather can cause danger for the public, large material damages and big disorder of important society funcions. The municipality doesn’t have anywhere to leave the shoveled snow, several sections of the train and commuter traffic are cancelled and roofs are falling in. I got my newspaper this morning though, that is impressive. But for your own best, take the chance to stay in your bed today.

/ Sanna, Misi.se team 2010

Hey students!

Explore some new cool places for your nighrlife here in Gothenburg outside of Avenyn! This week let us present to you The House of Music in Gothenburg!

The House of  music is an important resource for the free culture in Gothenburg has deepened over the years and reach out to a large public who visit our concerts and theater and music programs.

The concert hall is a well established gaming scene with a good sound for a variety of musical genres – ethnic, hard rock, pop, rock, Afro. Latin, etc.

Café hammock is a popular and well attended cafe and concert evenings turn the premises into a cozy and intimate environment where we serve wine and beer and offer a simple pub menu.
On thier anniversary celebrations and music festivals are indeed real highlights of our business when the whole house filled with music, entertainment, food and drink.

The house is visited by many who want to participate in the course offering with African and Oriental dance and percussion, scratching with his band in their rehearsal studio, visit the cafe for a lunch or a tasty snack and watch one of our monthly exhibitions and much, much more …

Coming up next Saturday, February 27th

Marluks - release party for the new album.

Now it’s finally time to unveil Angler’s debut album with a loud and swinging party at Café hammock. Perhaps Sweden’s best dance heavy rock band promises a classic rock swing that feels right in both spinal cord and the legs.

Angler based their sound on boogiesvänget from three decades ago Status Quo, they inspired jammer from Jimi Hendrix Experience and the loud rock dang hands from bands like Grand Funk Railroad and The Who. With intense and melodic vocals add Angler their own piece of the puzzle to a classic rock sound.

As a hard working and hard-swinging live band keeps the audience Angler’s toes with sudden improvisations and pieces of odd tracks from rock history. An adamant swing with powerful choruses and howling lead guitar echoes of bygone days classic rock concerts, and so far the band has never played the same liveset twice.

More information about the band and the taste of the album is on the bands website: www.myspace.com / angler

Get there early – it can get crowded!
Ticket purchased at the door subject to availability, or pre-emption #

Admission: 60: –
We open at 20.00 Age limit 18 years. Menu & Bar.
At Café hammock in Musikens Hus
Djurgårdsgatan 13 (Majorna) S-414 62 Gothenburg, Sweden

// Yining Misi.se 2010

As you might know, Villa Villekulla is the name of the Swedish fairy-tale-figure Pippi Longstocking’s house. In Gothenburg Café Villekulla is a hidden fairy-tale inspired café, known for it’s delicious cake buffet…

I have heard many Erasmus students blessing the Swedish cakes and cookies you find in the city’s plurality of cafés. As a frequant café guest and a part-time café worker, I have had my share of cakes and cookies- and it’s true the Gothenburg cake selection is heavenly! Something out of the ordinary is the cake buffet of  Café Villekulla. For 65 kronor (45 if you buy something to drink) you get passed the dilemma of choosing between the cakes- you can have them all! Perfect if you rapidly want to get an overview of the Swedish cake selection and find your favourite.

Not only does this café offer a delicious cake buffet, also the decoration makes it worth a visit. Imagine pay the grandmother in the fairy-tale The little red riding hood a visit. That’s more or less how it feels like being in Café Villekulla. Crowded with gadgets and old funiture this café is as far away from the impersonal coffee chains as it can possibly be!

Even if it is not as cosy and chamry as Café Villakulla, you can’t speak about cake buffets without mention Steinbrenner & Nyberg. If you have the budget for a more luxury alternative, why don’t try the soup lunch including a gâteau/cake buffet in their restaurant downtown? Steinbrenner & Nyberg is a famous bakery/pastisserie, known for their alsolutly delicous cakes, gâteaus and pastries- for 87 kronor you get the chance to try them!

I can’t answer whether a visit in Café Villekulla and Steinbrenner & Nyberg will make you even more obsessed by the Swedish cakes, or if you end up too filled up with cakes to even think of it for weeks… There is just one way to find out. Make a visit and have some cakes!

Café Villekulla, Storgatan 10, Opened 10-21 every day

Steinbrenner & Nyberg, Östra Larmgatan 6, Week days 11-16

/ Sanna, Misi.se team 2010

The information meeting for the Kiruna trip arranged by Aroundsweden.se will be postponed untill next thursday, same time and location.

Alright Valentine’s day is coming up this weekend for many in Sweden Valentines day is considerd a day to celebrate love.  A very romantic and special day to show their love and appreciations for their girlfriends or boysfriend, or for those who are just dating it might just be the perfect day to take it to the next step .

For others Valentines day is considerd as just a commerical overrated day with nothing real content other than demands from your girlfriend.

However in Sweden Valentines day is still pretty big and no matter i Valentines day is for you, here at Misi.se we are going to present to you a very nice little shop right by Handels. There you can find many nice Valentines day items if you would like to spice up your Valentines day here in Sweden a notch, and make it one Valentines day not to forget

So if you are looking to make your Valentines day special why not go by the Haga Heartstore,  right by Handels in the cousy streets of Haga (Haga Nygata 18). There you can find many really nice Valentines day presents ( I know cause my girlfriend took me there sevral times :=)) and everything in there is heartshaped. So if you are planning for something special go check them out right HERE!

And don’t miss the Valentine’s Day Party this Thursday on Parken! More info in the Calender…

Hope all students will have a very nice Valentines day here in Gothenburg!

Best wishes

the Misi.se crew