Week 8 - Behind the Scenes

sun-bathing in spring - typical

Week 8 was a little more office-focused again, but in a way that felt productive rather than repetitive. There were lots of different smaller tasks, a few bigger project-related jobs, and just enough variety to keep the week moving nicely from one day to the next.

Monday started with all the usual little office things: printing, forwarding emails, checking the international office inbox, and updating the Excel table for accepted Erasmus students. It was one of those very practical days where the to-do list is not glamorous, but everything on it matters. I always find there is something oddly satisfying about clearing small tasks one after the other.

Tuesday brought a different kind of task when I helped Alice update the system for practice rooms. That meant checking the equipment in certain rooms and getting access to the program so I can help more in May. It was a good reminder that there are always new systems and processes to learn, even when the work starts to feel familiar.

Wednesday introduced a bigger assignment from Ghada: converting PDF guidelines and decisions into Word documents so they could later be updated because of some major changes in the college and its administration. It was the sort of task that sounds straightforward at first but quickly turns into a careful process once you get into it - especially when word makes a jumbled mess out of signatures! Still, it felt good to be trusted with something that would actually be used later on. Lunch was spend at my Date´s workplace as I was invited to have Waffle-Day with them - another delicious tradition here in Sweden.

Thursday continued with keeping the international email up to date and working on those PDFs for Ghada. In the middle of all that, I also filmed Tildes Interview for the website, and then had Swedish class as usual. It was a full day, but in a satisfying way — the kind where several very different things somehow all fit together.

Friday kept the same rhythm going with international email work, finishing the PDFs for Ghada, and another round of interview filming, this time with Signe. By then the week had built up a nice mix of administrative tasks and creative work. It felt like a good reminder that office life can be surprisingly varied when you look closely enough.

The weekend took me to my old “home-town” from 2017: Örebro, where I visited my friend Freppe. We had a pizza party, talked until 2am and did a little sightseeing and shopping, which made the trip feel nostalgic in the best way.