Cedar Point, Roller Coaster park of the World!

Hello everyone!

Yesterday, I, Cathy and 30 other exchange students went on an organized day trip to Cedar Point in Ohio, USA. For those who are not familiar with Cedar Point, it has been awarded as the best amusement park in the world, 11 years in a row. It has more rides than any other park (75) and most roller coasters in the world with its 17 roller coasters.

I have to add that I’ve never been on a big roller coaster in my life, and when people asked me: aren’t you afraid of going to the roller coaster capital of the world, I said, I can’t be afraid of what I don’t know…. Believe me, I had time to be scared when we had arrived, some lines lasted for 1 hour!

We left Windsor, Canada at around 8:30 in the morning and we arrived in Cedar Point at noon when they opened, we were in the park for amazingly 11 hours in a straight! In which we left around 23:30 in the evening.

Despite the 11 hours we had in the park, there are too many lines to actually have time for all the rides on one day, so I and Cathy went on 10 rides in total, of which 7 were roller coasters!!!

It was an amazing day which is hard to describe with both words and pictures but I will try!


On the way to Cedar Point, we took a break for some breakfast, and next to us were a car show. I just had to show a picture of this cool car!


We past a nuclear plant, and NO it’s not on fire (as someone thought) it’s steam from the cooling equipment.

We are getting closer to the amusement park; here you can see many of the 17 roller coasters that they have, some which are over 60 meter high and two over 95 meter…

Here was our first ride of the day, it was a relative small drop which gave 2 seconds of weightless, just as a warm-up :-)

Cathy is looking happy, believe me, I’m not!


One of the roller coasters that we went on, it’s really hard to capture the roller coasters on camera because they are soooo huge!

After we been on two roller coasters and had eaten some food, we took a little simpler ride, Cathy was SO excited to drive!

Me at the park.

It’s closing in towards Halloween, hence the park have started with Halloween theme, it was really cool in the evening when wherever you went there were monsters trying to scare you, it was so fun!

Cathy as a Mexican!?

Park picture.

Even Ghostbusters were there, with a whole Halloween parade!

Me underneath a roller coaster that is 130 meter high and the speed is 193 km/h (from 0 to 193km/ in less than 4 seconds) some Crazy ride!

This was the ride Magnum XL200, and was the most fun ride of the day! It is 62 meter high and goes in 120km/h.

As you can see, I wasn’t at all scared…

And then some calming down before going on the next rides! I have to say, I was quite good :D

One other ride that stood out was this one, it’s called Mantis and is a ride that you stand up in and have 4 loops! It feels really cool and different from the usual ones were you sit down in.

Getting buckled up!

A video of actually Me and Cathy on the first part of the ride we are standing up in, sorr for the bad quality, upload limit on the blog:

(Thank you Florian for the filming)

Again, the Halloween theme!

It went dark really fast, but that didn’t stop anyone!

A proud moment in my life...

After a few rides more, a part of the 6 people team, Henrik, Cathy, Mona and Ard (Johannes and Florian) rounded of the day with some nice food in a 60’s themed American restaurant, the decoration, waiters and music was 60’s themed and it was a nice finish of the day.

Overall I have to say it was an amazing day and Cathy agrees. I will definitely go back here sometime in the future to ride the rest of the rides that we didn’t have time with. And for anyone that is visiting North America around Ohio NEED to go to Cedar Point!

With this said, have a nice day/night/morning/evening everyone!

Niagara Falls

Hello everyone! Today, I'm finally uploading the pictures from the Niagara Falls trip that I went on last Saturday. It was really well organized by our exchange coordinator, Michelle, thank you! I haven’t had time to post earlier because we have had our first week of real lectures and guess what, we actually have homework that I haven’t had for years! I also got to know that I’m allergic to Penicillin, the hard way :-)

Ok for what you all have waited for, the pictures!! I have a lot more pictures, but since this blog is quite hard to upload many pictures at once, I only post these 27 below, enjoy! ;-)

This were the bus we went with, it's the team bus for University of Windsors different athletic teams. Compared to Sweden, every University over here have their own sports team that comptes with eachother, quite fun actually! So we went with this bus at 7 in the morning and the ride took about 4 hours... But Michelle had some movies that we watched so it went really fast!


Now we have arrived to Niagara Falls, these are the falls on the american side, seen from Canada. If you didn't know this already, the Niagara Falls lies just between Canada and USA, so each side have their own waterfalls, however the Canadian falls is the most famous ones.


Me and Cathy making our amazing pose with the Canadian waterfalls behind, don't let the picture trick you that the falls are small, we are quite far away taking the picture.

For a second there, I thought we were in London, until I realised that we actually have nice weather...

The canadian falls, seen without me and Cathy, which is quite sad, will probably photoshop our pictures in :p

Are great "Uniforms", the are not bulletproof, but even more amazing, waterproof!!!

Cathy imitating either a Lemon or a Cathy after too much fast food...

Me, looking better than ever, Brad Pitt, you have competition!!!

We are just under the Canadian falls as can be seen by the picture, I really wish I could explain how cool it was with the Amazing heavy sound from the water, the spray of water in the face, the smell and so on...

Now we are actually under the falls, they are 600 meter wide, but the tunnel is only 200 meter, it was cold and dark but cool.

Here we are behind the falls, it was quite sad that we couldn't go closer, but it was something about "security" or something fictional like that :p

Beautifull Cathy with the american falls and the bridge connecting USA and Canada

The edge of the falls, it was soooo beautifull!

And of course, a picture is nothing if not me and Cathy are in it, so here we are!

Canadian falls!

a horse... don't know what that has to do with anything, but here you go... a horse...

The smurfs are preparing for an attack, be afraid! Be very afraid!

Yay, we are going on a boat, but not any but, the famous "Maid of the mist" that will take us out to the falls!

Closing in...

The falls! however, it was very hard to caoture the real experiance with a small digital camera, but I hope you get a glimps of how cool it was!!!!

We went even further in with the boat, but no good picture... We had water all over us, yay, free shower!!! But I forgot my shampoo :-(

The great France and Swedish team! Thank you gusy for a very fun day!

There were not only the falls to see, there were criminals too!!! The whole downtown were filled with fun things to do, like a huge amusement park.

Burger king, were all Frankensteins eat!

On our hunt for food, we eat at Hard Rock Cafe, and I have to say, I've eaten in Hard Rock Cafe, both in NYC and here, and it taste sooooo good! So I can grately recomend it if you walk past sometimes!

The decoration is great as always, here are REAL elvis stuff!

After the food, we went to the bus that took us home in the evening. It was a great day with great weather and great company, a very nice experiance. However it's a thing that needs to be experianced because it's so hard to show with pictures, but I hope I showed some part of it!

I'm going to bed now, have class tomorrow so need to be rested. On saturday, we are going to Cedar Point, which is the worlds biggest amusement park which is located in USA. More about that later, good night people!

The school introduction

Tuesday was the day for the school introduction. It’s a small ceremony for all first year students to listen to the dean speaking and also to show themselves as a group. Of course the exchange students are not first year students, but we were still a part of this which was a good experience.


All the students had different shirts depending on in which program they belonged. These were the business students which on their shirts had the killer slogan “We’ll become your boss”!


The exchange students!!!! Woho!!!
I had to show some Swedish spirit!

I have no clue what’s on his head and why, but they were engineers, do I really have to say more?

The important people walking in, they all had their own color of their garment depending on what they presented.

How come it always take a very long time to get all the people together, whilst when something is over, it takes about 30sec until everyone is cleared out…

So this was the welcome ceremony, during the week there have also been some “kick-off” activities, however nothing even remotely comparable with the Swedish Kick-off week!