THE EASY WAY TO ACT LIKE ATYPICAL SWEDISH STUDENT

GUIDE BOOK TO STUDENT LIFE

18 PAGES OF BASIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LIU - LINKÖPINGS

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WELCOME TO ESN LINKÖPING

MEMBERSHIP & START PERIOD

TRIPS/SOCIAL ERASMUS

STUDENT LIFE AT LIU

PRACTICAL LIU INFORMATION

SIGHTSEEING IN LINKÖPING

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ABOUT THE BOARD

PEER STUDENT

STUDENT LIFE AT LIU

STUDENT PUBS

OTHER PRACTICAL INFORMATION

SIGHTSEEING IN LINKÖPING

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ABOUT THE BOARD

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ERASMUS STUDENT NETWORKESN LinESN Linköping is a local section within the organisation ESN (Erasmus Student Network) that work in the interest of international students. The board of ESN Linköping consists of 13 dedicated board members working on volunteer basis, all looking forward to meeting meeting you! We work after the principle of "Students Helping Students", to give you a great time during your exchange period abroad. We are constantly working towards improving the integration between the exchange students and the

Swedish students and developing our organisation. Find more information about the current board members of ESN Linköping on our webpage, esnlinkoping.org. If you have any questions, please contact one of us directly or use the contact form on the websiwebsite!

ESN OFFICEYou will ind the ESN Of ice on the ground loor of Kårallen on Campus Valla. If you enter through the main entrance, you will ind our room in the hall to the left. We are open

Tuesdays and Thursdays during lunch hours 12.15-13.00. This is the place to go if you wish to buy patches for your overall, buy the ESN card, ask us questions or just hang out! We will not have ticket releases in the ESN Of ice since we are not allowed to havhave queues outside our door. Please respect the no-cueing rule, if the ESN Of ice is full; come back 10 minutes later.

PS. We all L-O-V-E coffee, don’t be afraid to invite us for one!

» ESN ACTIVITY COMMITTEEThe ESN The ESN Activity Committee has been active since 2012 and is a group of Swedish and International students who help ESN Linköping to organize events. They come up with great ideas for activities and plan events together with the ESN Board. You will see them at the majority of our majority of our events wearing an “I love ESN Linköping” t-shirt. If you are interested in joining the committee, please send an e-mail to Erik at acc@esnlinkoping.org for more information!

WELCOME TO ESN LINKÖPING

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To become a member of ESN you can buy the ESNcard or join the Activity Committee. As a member you will be able to attend the ESN Linköping annual meeting where you can make your voice heard and affect our organization!

The ESN caThe ESN card is valid in all ESN countries and besides your membership, you will get discounts on a local, national and international level - ranging from discounts with the international partners like New Yorker to discounts on our events. You will need the ESNcard for some of ESN Linköpings events. The cost of an ESNcard is 60 kr for 6 months or 100 kr for 12 months. If you want to bto buy the ESNcard, don’t forget to bring a picture of yourself for your card (2.7x3.7cm).

WELCOME PERIOD To make you feel welcome to Linköping we organize a lot of activities during the Welcome Period (and throughout the rest of the year). Some examples on what we normally do:

• International buffets• Movie nights• Pubs • Floorball• Guide Tour• Welcome Dinner

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ESN Linköping wants you to get as good a start as possible to your stay in Linköping, which is why we try to match Swedish students with Exchange students in our Peer Student Programme. The concept of the Peer Student Programme is very open and fopen and free, it gives you someone to ask practical questions about student life in Linköping, to perhaps have lunch or ““ika” with occasionally or maybe attend some of ESN Linköping’s events together! A Peer Student can be your lifeline here in SSweden. Ask her/him about what milk you should put in your coffee, when you have to queue for the upcoming Kravall or where to “ix your bike. The aim is for the students involved to get the opportunity to make new friends, for International students students to get gain some insight into Swedish student life and for the

Swedish student to have experienced parts of another culture.

NoNote: it is not the job of the Peer student to assist you in practical matters such as retrieving your apartment key for you before you arrive in Linköping or similar, for such practicalities you will have to contact the International Of“ice at the ununiversity.

HOW TO GET ONEIf you want a Peer Student you have to sign up on our webpage www.esnlinkoping.org. You will “ind the application on the right hand side on the start site, after which we will try to pair you up with someone as soon as possible. Unfortunately we dodon’t always have enough Swedish students for all the International

students who sign up, or enough International students for all the Swedish students, so we cannot guarantee that you will get paired up with someone immediately. The Swedish student will then receive your contact information and contact you as soon as possible.you as soon as possible.

If you have questions about the peer student programme or need any help, please send a message to peer@esnlinkoping.org.

PEER STUDENT KICKOFF In the beginning of every semester ESN Linköping throws a Peer Student Kick Off where you can get to know your peer student better. (You are of course welcome even if you don’t have a peer student!) So grab your Peer Student and join us for this awesome evevent! You will “ind more information about the event on our website.

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LiU refers to Linköpings University, an abbreviation you will hear more often than the actual words. The Student Life at LiU is rich and a bit complicated; different organizations, clothes and plenty of technical terms. Hopefully you will ind this intintroduction usefull!

STUDENT BODYStudent body (Studentkår)At LiU you will ind three student bodies that together form Kårservice. They own the clubs/pubs [hg], Örat, NH and Trappan but is also the heart of Campus Valla: Kårallen. They will help you if you have any education related problems at LiU. You can ind momore information on how to join here: karservice.se/information-in-english/

Lintek: For students at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Stuff: For students at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Educational Sciences.

Consensus: For students at the Faculty of Health Sciences.

FESTERIER- PARTY

ORGANIZERS A A Festeri is an organization that organizes parties, normally there is a Festeri for more or less every educational specialization at LiU. They are a bit myste and you are most likely to see them walking around campus in weird out its during the orientation week in the week in the fall, or while they promote one of the kravalls.

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OVERALLAn Overall is the of icial party out it for a Kravall. Kravall in Swedish means “krav på overall”, which translates as “requirement to wear overall”. Kravalls are held at Kårallen,

most of them on Thursdays. ESN Linköping has a kravall of its own, which is held in October every year. All educational specializations (economics, computer science, teaching etc.) have an overall colour of their own, making it easy to igure out persoperson’s ield of studies, as an international student your overall is blue with yellow stripes. Most people pimp their overalls buy sewing on patches they’ve gotten at different parties.

Important: you are never to wear it “full bodied” except for during the overall premiere party, normally you wear it as pants and tie the arms around your waist. To inaugurate your overall ESN will throw you a legendary Overall Premiere to get it dirty! dirty! To ind more information about how to wear, pimp and get your overall go to our website and read the overall guide..

So buy a overall as the semester start and join the Swedish tradition!

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SCANBALT EXPERIENCEScanbalt Experience is the travel partner of ESN Linköping that organizes trips to Lapland, Russia and Norway during the spring of 2014. We will annonce official dates for all trips, so stay tuned and check out our website!

ESN SEA BATTLEThe ESN Sea Battle is a cruise The ESN Sea Battle is a cruise to Riga or Tallinn brought to you by ESN Sweden where 2100 students from all over the world party together. The ESN Sea Battle is an experience of a lifetime and it is held twice a year, to Tallin in the fall and to Riga in the spring. A lot of activities are held on the cruise such as karaoke, language exchanges, quizzes etc.

LACUXLaLaCuX is short for Language and Cultural Exchange and is a collaboration between the ESN Linköping and the student association of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering (Y), the student association of Industrial Engineering and Management (I), the student association of Mechanical Engineering (M) and the student association of Business and Economics (ELIN). It is an evevent that takes place every second Monday and the idea is to practice language by having fun, playing games and quizzing. Half of the time we will spend speaking Swedish and English and for the other half we will speak Spanish, German or French. It’s all about having fun, getting to know new people and there are no language requirements what so ever.

LaCuX will be held every other monday during the semester. Time and dates will be available soon. Check out the website and the Facebook LaCuX page for more information!

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Also called Ryds Herrgård, is a student pub located in Ryd, one of the areas with the highestlevels of SPC (Students Per Capita). They have three different bars, a dance loor, they serve food almost every night (try the burgers!) and have a varity of beers. Every second Tuesday is PParty Tuesday aka International Night which is highly attended by exchange students, during wwhich you will have 20kr discount on the entrance with an ESNcard. During these nights you will ind a chill out pub with no cover charge on the ground loor and on the irst loor there will be a rockin’ dance loor and great cocktails to be found. International nights are a tradition here in Linköping and you will ind that these nights arare the best, so don’t miss it!

If you are in the mood for a nice (and cheap according to swedish measures) dinner, [hg] serve food almost every night between 6pm and 9pm. On Fridays and Saturdays [hg] turns into a night club between 10pm and 3am. There you can go with some friends, drink some beer or have a drink and show your awesome moves on the dance loothe dance loor.

Flamman is situated in the basement of the student neighbourhood Flamman. It is a small pub/club run by students and the line is usually quite long since the bar serves alcohol with some of the cheapest prices to be found in Linköping.

NH is owned by the Student Unions and run by students, it’s a big bar/club which on its bigger events have several bars and dance loors. Members of the student union bene it from a reduced entrance fee.

A student pub located at the Health University!

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SITTNINGThe most typical element in the Linköping student life is the “sittning”, which is a themed dinner party spiced up with entertainment and a lot of singing amongst the participants!

A sittning in LinA sittning in Linköping has a few very obvious characteristics, which may be performed slightly differently dependent on the organizers’ faculty or programme, but the over all idea is the same.

Toastmasters/madamsThe The toastmasters/madams will be in charge of the sittning, they will decide when to do what, which song to sing when and similar things. Always be silent when they are speaking!

Seating arrangementsAAt almost every sittning in Linköping the arrangers will decide beforehand where everyone is supposed to sit by doing a seating arrangement and place seating cards at every seat. It is very important that you follow this order and sit where they have seated you, since the staff serving the food needs to know where everyone with special food preferences (i.e. allergies, non-alcoholic bebeverages, vegetarians etc.) are seated.

TempoThe The toastmasters/madams will at the start of the sittning present the tempo of the night. It could range from anything like “Things related to Sweden/rainforests/football/whatever” to “How I want this night to end” to “Things you don’t want your mother to know”. Whenever you feel like you want to sing a song, you think of something related to the tempo (preferably something funsomething funny!). Once you’ve thought of something funny, you inform the rest of the table by saying “Psst! Tempo xxxx”, when everyone is on board you start hammering on the table and then shout it to the rest of the room. The toastmasters/madams will then chose a song for you all to sing.

GyckelWhen attending a sittning in Linköping it is likely that you will get to see special performances called “gyckel”. These are songs where someone has replaced the lyrics to a wellknown song with lyrics that usually are of a sarcastic, humoristic and dirty nature. The toastmasters/madams usually perform some, and there might be guests performances as well. There are certain traditional things to shout betto shout between the songs in order to get to hear more, but what to shout is decided by the toastmaster/madam. Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it!

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SPORTS & EXERCISECampushallenCampushallen (CH) is the gym on Campus Campushallen (CH) is the gym on Campus Valla. They offer everything from group workouts to climbing. In the beginning of each term ESN Linköping will have a cool event at CH where you will also get a guided tour and a possibility to ask questions. CH is also the places where we usually throw different sport tournaments, if you have any cool ideas for that get in touch with the Activity CommitCommittee!

POLICEIf you would like to report a crime, call 114 14. For emergencies, call 112.

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IF YOU GET SICK OR DON'T FEEL WELL - WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU NEED TREATMENT If you fall ill and there is no emergency, you should call 1177 in the irst instance and talk to Medical Advisory Service (or visit www.1177.se) or your medical centre. Call 1177 - Medical Advisory Service The Medical The Medical Advisory Service is staffed by nurses who can give you advice and help you if you need to see a doctor. You can call the Medical Advisory Service 24 hours a day. You can also visit their website at www.1177.se. Information on diseases, medicines, eexaminations and treatments is available here. You can also ask questions here which will be answered by doctors or nurses. Medical centres (= “Vårdcentral” in Swedish)There are medical centres in all Östergötland municipalities. You can make your own decision on decision on which medical centre you want to belong to done by registering with a medical centre. At the medical centre, you will ind doctors and nurses who are able to help you with common diseases, and depending on which medical centre you visit you might also ind physiotherapists, welfare of icers and dieticians.

When When you call a medical centre for advice or to book an appointment, your call will often be answered by an automated service. You then have to key in your dialing

code and telephone number. When you have done this, an automated voice tells you when the medical centre will call you back. If you are acutely ill - Call 112If If you are acutely ill, you must call telephone number 112 and ask for an ambulance. You can also make your own way to one of the Accident and Emergency departments at any of the three hospitals in Östergötland (the University Hospital in Linköping, Vrinnevi Hospital in Norrköping and the hospital in Motala).

Pharmacy A pharmacy is a sA pharmacy is a store where you can get prescription and unprescribed medicine. Some unprescribed medicine can also be bought in food stores and supermarkets.

Sexual Health If If you suspect that you might have been infected by a STD, a sexually transmittable disease, it is free to get tested at the STD clinic at Universitetssjukhuset (Campus US). You can ind all contact details by searching for “STD US” on 1177.se.

DRUG AND ALCOHOL POLICY OF ESN LINKÖPINGAlcoholESN Linköping works for a healthy alcohol culture among the international students. There are alcohol free alternatives offered at all of ESN Linköping's activities.

NarcoticsIn accoIn accordance with Swedish law prohibiting the usage of illegal drugs, ESN Linköping strongly disassociates from all kinds of illegal narcotics. A person caught using narcotics during any of ESN Linköping's activities will not be allowed to take part in any future activities.

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RESTAURANTS & SHOPS

BaljanBaljan is locaBaljan is located in the heart of Kårallen and this is where you will ind the cheapest coffee and cookies at Campus! Coffee price: 5kr (4 kr if you bring your own cup)

AmigoAmigo is also locaAmigo is also located in Kårallen and has everything from a salad bar to band aides. The price is higher but the opening hours longer. Coffee price: 11/16 SEK

MoccadoMoccado is locaMoccado is located in A-building next to the lecture hall A2, and in the C-building in Colosseum. Coffee price: 11/16 SEK

EllenEllen is the cofEllen is the coffee shop in the Key-building with an amazing salad bar and different kinds of sweets. Coffee price: 12/17 SEK

PressbyrånYYou can ind Pressbyrån in most cities in Sweden but also in the D-building. They have everything one might need (everything from magazines to hot gods) and also have really good tasting cinnamon buns. Coffee price: expensive

ZodiakenZodiaZodiaken is a café and restaurant located in the Zenit building. They have

both ika and food. It’s located next to a book store.

LiU StoreThe sThe store is located in Kårallen and this is where you can buy clothes and other accessories with the LiU logo. It is run by students, and sometimes they offer pre-sales to big kravalls if you buy an item there.

LIBRARYThe LibThe Library on Campus Valla is located in the D-building. The library always has the books that you need for your classes and you can ind its online catalogue at www.bibl.liu.se.

TELEPHONETheThere are a few different phone companies available in Sweden. ESN Linköping will provide you with a Swedish SIM Card during the orientation week, which will be connected to the company Tele2.

COURSE LITERATUREA A few of the places where you can get hold on course literature are listed below.

Notice boardThe notice boaThe notice board available on the student pages on LiU’s website is where people sell their old course literature, look for latmates and sell other exciting things. On Campus BokAB in KåBokAB in Kårallen is the of icial course literature retailer on campus, most of the lecturers at LiU will inform them of which books that are necessary for each course which means that this is the place where you can ind the correct version of the course literature.

OnlineTheThere are plenty of online book shops that will offer course literature, the prices are often slightly cheaper than in BokAB. The biggest ones are adlibris.com and bokus.com for new books, and kurslitteratur.se for used ones.

ACCOMMODATIONACCOMMODATIONUnUnfortunately, ESN Linköping cannot help exchange student with inding accommodation, we just don't have the means to help everyone in need of apartments/rooms. However, what we can do is to link you to websites that might help you in your search. Visit our webpage at webpage at esnlinkoping.org/accommodation to ind links useful for accomodation search!

LiU CARDThe International Of ice will instruct you on how to get your LiU card, which serves as proof that you are a student. It will give you access to the computer halls and buildings on campus after closing hours (once you’ve activated a pin code on LiU’s website) and make it possible possible for you to go to student run places such as NH and Flamman.

PRINTINGThere are computer halls that are available to those with a LiU Card in the A-building and in the Key-building, from there you can print once you’ve registered a PayEx accoun on LiU’s website. You can also print in the library in the D-building.

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Stora TorgetIs in the middle of Linköping. Here you will ind shopping, restaurants and the cinema.

Linköpings domkyrkaThe cathedral of Linköping, which looks amazing both on the inside and outside.S:t S:t Persgatan 7582 28 Linköping

Kinda KanalPaddling, golf, beautiful nature and much more!Södra Stånggatan 1582 73 Linköping

TinneTinneröledenA part of Linköping where you can go see the fantastic nature Sweden has to offer. When here why not take a swim in the lake, lay down in the grass and bring some hot dogs for the BBQ.

Saab ArenaThe big aThe big arena in Linköping. Events like Kalas and concerts take place here.Gumpekullavägen 1582 78 Linköping

FlygvapenmuseumThe Swedish Air Force Museum is a modern technical and cultural history museum. Guided tours are offered and they have a unique collection of aircrafts.Carl Cederströms Gata 2586 63 Lin586 63 Linköping

TrädgårdsföreningenGGreen and beautiful nature in the centre of town. Here you can bring something to eat and have a picnic or just take a relaxing walk. For the ones who like to be more active, free outdoor gym passes are being organized during summer and there are beachvolleyball ields that you can book.DDrottninggatanLinköping

Linköpings Slotts- & DomkyrkomuseumA museum A museum where you will see how thecastle has changed throughout the years since the Middle Ages and there is a historicalwardrobe with clothes that you are allowed to try on.582 28 Linköping

Bergs SlussarHere you can go and see the exceptional view of the lake, the boats loating through, while enjoying a nice cold ice cream.

TinnerbäcksbadetA heaA heated 50m pool and one of the Nordic region’s largest arti icial leisure lakes.582 24 Linköping

Friluftsmuseet Gamla LinköpingTTravel back in time and experience a smallswedish town as it was a hundred years ago. “Welcome to Gamla Linköping - a place forplay and curiosity, laughter and memories, a place to experience beauty and relaxation.”Tunnbindaregatan 1582 46 Lin582 46 Linköping

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HejHej dåTackVarsågodSnällaJagDuDuVad heter du?Jag heter …Hur mår du?Jag mår bra/dåligt.Vad kostar det?KaffeMjölkMjölkSockerSnyggMiddagFörfestMellanfestFestEfEfterfestJahaEn öl tack!Jag älskar dig.

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HiGood byeThank youYou’re welcomePleaseIYYouWhat’s your name?My name is...How are you feeling?I’m feeling good/badHow much does it cost?CoffeeMilkMilkSugarGood lookingDinnerPrepartyMiddle partyPartyAfAfterpartyAhaOne beer please!I love you.

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One word that might need further explanation is the noun “Fika”. First of all we have to straighten out one thing: it doesn’t mean the same thing as in the Italian word “Fica”. A Fika is more or less the act of having a coffee, often along with some kind of cookie or sweets. You can take a Fika whenever you want, in the middle of the night, in the afternoon and so on. Fika is more of a social thing, people even tend to have a common ika at work so don’t get worried if the person is not in their of ice, they are probably out for a Fika!

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