The previous night´s anger didnt have to last too long because Saturday night we had an original plan. Halloween party in the swedish way: 30 euros to get into the place + 50 euros the fancy dress. Posh party with models and cool people in general. In the end it was ok, yes there was very beuatiful women with fancy dresses but everybody was kinda quiet. Anyway, and comparing with previous experiences, I had fun. Nobody kicked me out of the place and the fancy dress thing was very funny Some pictures here…

And the worst is that there is no justification at all, if I was producing a mess I could manage to undersand it, but even if he thinks by looking at my face that I am wasted (that I wasnt) thats only my fucking problem, it only becomes his if I am disturbing someone. At my age nobody is gonna tell me what I can drink. The guy was obssesed about kicking me out of there, only he knows why, not even his own colleages could convince him that I was ok. Why me and not the people coming with me? Was it the long hair or what? I dont wanna jump into conclussions but I am starting to see xenofobia in these people. Because swedish get drunk like hell and nobody kicks them out. Because I have been in that place 3 times and the first time they already tried to kick me out but when the guy spoke to me he had to admit I was ok. Because every time we go there they ask us for IDs (and I dont think we look too young) and when we prove it they look pretty dissapointed. And the sad thing is that this happens very often, the previous IT intern ended up in the street a few times and some of them violently. There is a girl here whose recently ordered beer was taken by the bouncers and she was kicked out. They say in Sweden is illegal to serve alcohol to someone who is already drunk but, who is the one to decide that? Is the level of accepted alcohol different deppending on wheter you are local or not?

The thing is that you get the impression that going out here is a fucking lottery, the party might be finished at any time, deppending on the arbitrary decision of a motherfucker. And of course, the normal reaction would be to decide not to be back in that place ever, but the sadly fact is that there are not too many options to go out in this wonderfull city after 1am. So you better get home earlier or some sucker will help you to take this decision. You get very pissed and feel like sending the fucking country to the hell.
Anyway, I consider it is also important to discuss these issues here, those considering Stockholm to be a great destination better think twice about it. I have lived in quite a few places and never found this shit. I dont like the atmosphere here, appart from the bouncer problem people in general looks kind of proud and not easy to reach, showing their money arround with an arrogant face. If right now I have to fill that famous report with the good/bad things of the city I am afraid the score wont be too high. I dont know wether this a problem of the country or just concerns to the posh capital. Maybe I have been very unlucky and now I am pissed and exagerating. But I have been here more than a month and my first impression is not changing. So I will have to do something about it, for the time been I am organizing plenty of weekends plans so I dont have to spend them here. Heading back to the Erasmus world is another good option, apparently they go out on Wednesdays and on weekends they just organize parties at the uni, avoiding going to the center. I am starting to understand why…

Getting accommodation in Stockholm was not so hard, even though the city was supposed to be a difficult one for this. It was necessary, however, to pay some money. Here you have to pay in order to get contact details of landlords from the main web site, 696 swedish kroner, arround 75 euros. At least for me, it was worth it, in just 2 days I visited 3 places and decided to stay in the third one. Funny thing, it seems that the main thing that made the landlord give the flat to me was the fact taht I work in the Spanish embassy. He made me submit a letter stating this and from that moment everything was easier. I could even negociate the price to make it 100 euros/month cheaper and reduce the deposit to the half. Anyway, the place is gonna be expensive, 6500 swedish kroner per month (arround 700 euros) but I think I get the right value out of my money, it is a 70 m2 flat, 7 min from the centre by train. Very, very big to be living at my own, I even have a spare room for visits. Here you can see how it looked like when I moved in. As you can see furniture was very crappy but, as I did when I was living in Cardiff with ebay, I decided to invest some money in the place. At Blocket you can buy second hand stuff and in the Statoil gas stations you can rent a van to transport it. This was the final result…

The van