On Thursday after Linnea had spent the majority of the day at the uni, we were set to go to the International Farewell Party hosted by UoN at the Queens Wharf Hotel – dress code: smart casual.
The party started at 6 pm, and we arrived about half an hour after that. When we arrived after showing our tickets and getting wristbands, we got drinks and started to mingle.
At the party, they had a photobooth so that you could get a couple of pictures with your pals. Linnea ended up getting a couple of them, below are two photos of them, the first one with Svenja and Nadine. The second one has pictures mostly of Linnea’s classmates from Sweden.
Apart from drinks, there was food at the party as well, although you could hardly call it food. It was finger food, so it was the smallest of portions and the hungry half drunk students flocked around the servers as they walked out from the kitchen with their newly filled platters.
As the party drew to a close, we got a bit of a surprise. When handing in the wristband that we got upon entering the party, we got a UoN duffle bag in return. A really nice gesture and very useful as the two of us hadn’t brought any duffle bags to Australia.
Outside the Queens Wharf Hotel before going home, the other Swedish exchange students and we had some fun with a couple of helium balloons and sang a few high pitched songs.
Gustav got the opportunity to say goodbye (for now) to his classmate Tanner. But as with most things, it feels likely that they will meet again. The world is not that big a place and either we’ll go to the U.S. in a couple of years, or maybe he’ll come to visit our neighbourhoods in the cold north.
The party was a hit. While most people went out to got to other bars, we went to the bus stop to get home before the buses stopped going and to prepare for another day – the last day of the semester (which contained a lecture at the Uni for Linnea).
/ Gustav & Linnea