Author Archives: Nicole Acton

Hello everybody! Well, we have officially made it home all safe and sound, and as I am laying in my bed writing this, it is making me sad to realize that it is all over and this is my very last blog post! We woke up really early that morning to travel to the airport,Continue reading “Our journey home”

Hello everybody! This post is about our last day in Gothenburg, with was on Tuesday, January 28, 2020. We started off the day with our last breakfast at the hostel, as it will not be open before we leave for the airport tomorrow. Then, we took our last tram and ferry to the same areaContinue reading “Our last day in Göteborg!”

Hello everybody!! It is hard to believe that today already was our last day of company visits and we are coming to the end of the trip, with only a full day left! We started the morning off with a quick breakfast at the hostel, and then boarded a really nice coach bus to goContinue reading “Our last day of company visits!”

Hello again everybody!!! If you read all three blog posts that I have done tonight, thank you and sorry for being a tad behind! But now I am all caught up! Yay!! We had another really fun day today (Sunday)! We started the day again by sleeping in until about noon, oops we did itContinue reading “Shopping, shopping, and more shopping!”

Hello again everybody!! This post is about our day on Saturday (yesterday) (sorry again!), and all of the fun things that we did! For starters, we got to sleep in that morning!!! It was our first time not waking up before 7 am for awhile and combatting jet leg, so I cannot even tell youContinue reading “The start to our fun-filled weekend!”

Hello everybody!! This post is about our day from this past Friday. We started off our Friday morning as usual, by having our favorite European breakfast at the good old hostel, and then made our way to our first company of the day, called Valea. Valea is a business law firm just across the riverContinue reading “A law firm, a sustainable water company, and our favorite Italian food!”

Alright, yes I know that I have been a bit behind on my blogging lately, but we have been SO busy that trying to squeeze in time to blog has been a struggle! But this post is going to be about our day this past Thursday. It was a really fun day!! We started offContinue reading “Cameras, robotics, and hockey!”

Sorry that you’re reading this a day late – my professor said it was okay to turn our posts in the next day since we got back to our hostel so late the night before! We started the morning off just like all of our others, having breakfast here at the hostel, and then madeContinue reading “Crashing cars and cooking carbs!”

Well, today was definitely a very long day but it was such an interesting and informative one! We had two company visits today, the first to Qualisys, and the second to SKF. After another hearty breakfast here at the hostel, we took the tram walked up a very steep cobblestone heel over to Qualisys. WhileContinue reading “Animation? Ball bearings? Burgers? What a day!”

Today was an exciting day as it was our first professional learning day here in Sweden. We started off the day with another great breakfast here at the hostel, and then boarded the tram to get to our first company, Skapa. They were all the way up on the 6th floor and had an incredibleContinue reading “Our first Swedish company visit day!”