It’s a rather general complaint: the winter takes too long and should be over now. Paula Dubbink gives some tips for activities that can be enjoyed inside with a cup of tea, while waiting for the sun.
Yesterday, the guy who repaired my bike told me to be careful with my gears as they might be frozen in the morning.
“It’s shit cold during the nights.”
His wife added that the current temperatures are ‘really not normal for Sweden in the middle of March’.
As I don’t look forward to another five-month winter next year, I just pray that she is right.
For yes, we can indeed dwell in self-pity: if even the Lundanian locals consider the weather ‘shit cold’, that means that it is indeed shit cold. And that creates the urgent need to hide inside homes, cinemas, concert halls or seminar rooms for one more week, if you don’t want the tops of your fingers to freeze off. Hereby a few suggestions, all taking place inside.
As a starter, you can contribute to proposing developments and changes in one of Malmö’s parks. Since this semester, an action group brings students together to work on making Malmö’s Folkets Park more integrated and sustainable. On Monday night at 18.30, they will have their second brainstorm session, a.o. about waste management and public transport. Location: Paradisgatan 5S.
Plenty of opportunity to find shelter is also provided by Project Six Heterosexuality Week. The entire week, many activities about heterosexuality will be organized, of which some are both in English and inside. For example, you can join for a debate at the Debate Society, a Pubquiz at Hallands or just some free fika. More info through the link.
On Thursday, the Center for Languages and Literature and the Goethe Institute organize a German film night. The documentary Prinzessinenbad will be shown, which is about the life of three lower-class teenage girls growing up in Berlin. There will be English subtitles. The movie starts at 18.15 and is free. Location: Hörsalen, SOL, Helgonabacken 12.
Want some more action? Then go and see an ice hockey game! On Friday night, 7 PM, the Lund Giants’ first team will play a match against a team from Kungälv. (Yes, I don’t know where that is located either.) The match will take place at Lund’s Ice Hall however, which you can find at the Stattenavägen. Tickets are 80 SEK if you want to sit, 60 SEK for a standing place.
Saturday night you can again find a warm place to hide, to be precisely in the All Saint’s Church. At 5 PM, there will be a concert, where the Saint Marc’s Passion of the composer Charles Wood will be performed. It may not be as famous as Bach’s St. Matthew Passion , but why not come to listen? Free entrance…and we’re students after all.
Have a good week and count the days until April!
By then, Spring shall be here.
Surely.
I promise.
