BRACAU 27 BLOG'S

One of my responsibilities as a co-worker at Hyper Island is to be the contact person for students who do their internships. Our goal is always to meet with the students in person, but this can be hard to achieve when the students are spread out all over the world. For example. the first Interactive Art Director students who are doing their internships right now, are everywhere from New York, Sydney, Montreal and San Francisco to Peking, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Barcelona. In fact, we've got an Inteactive Art Director student on all five inhabited continents in the world.

One of them is Stina, who is at Poke in London. One of Stinas colleagues during her internship is Nicky, who also has a blog about sock monsters, typography, web things and other stuff that strikes her fancy. Nicky's also been kind enough to host the third stop in our virtual road trip.

Allright, I'm off for my first class in Japanese!

For all of you non-Swedish people who are thinking of applying to one of our Diploma Programs, it can be good to know a few things about the Swedish culture and Swedish customs. One way is to read "How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons", an excellent blog about Swedish culture seen through American eyes.

I'm going to borrow Francis (that's the guy who writes the aforementioned blog) idea for a while and tell you about a very Swedish word: "klämdag". It's what you call a working day that's in between two holidays. For example, this Friday is a "klämdag" since it's between 1st of May (which is a public holiday) and a weekend. It's not unusual that people take these "klämdagar" off, to get a longer time off from work.

Even if you don't take this Friday off, this week is short because of May 1st. However, deadlines do not care about holidays, public or otherwise, and next week the students at Digital Media are ending their second specialisation. This means several deadlines to meet, and the activity level is high.

While we're busy working and making up for the "klämdag", you can have a look at the second part in our virtual road trip over at The Strange Attractor.

It's April 18th.