Activities

ABF sponsors courses in languages, arts, dance, etc.
Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund (the Workers’ Educational Association).

The Nature Bus!
http://www.naturochkulturbussen.se/

Hiking with MLV (Malmö-Lunds Vandrarlag)
www.vandrarlaget.se

Nature Conservation Society sponsors hikes, activities and lectures, as well as environmental activism.
http://www.naturskyddsforeningen.se/

Lund volleyball club
http://www.lundsvk.se/

Club sports by LUGI, hockey, volleyball, indoor soccer
http://www.lugimotion.se/

Lund Expat Meetup group, tons of activities every week
http://www.meetup.com/The-Lund-Expat-Meetup-Group/

Computer

There is a Mac store at 6 Martenstorget.

http://macsupport.se/?page=132&l=,0,109

The academic person is named Jonas Edgren.

Jonas Edgren046-15 04 000708-60 93 42j.edgren @ macsupport.se

To change the setting for your computer to use a Swedish keyboard, see this link.

Lund University & LUCSUS

The Gerdahallen gym has tons of classes and facilities, and is right next door to LUCSUS. You can sign up & pay a 1 year membership (cheap! 1650 SEK for staff), then get reimbursed (talk to Ann). You need to bring a letter stating your employment with the University, and some kind of photo ID to sign up.

Business cards: can be ordered through the Lund University website. Talk to Amanda. Amanda can also help set up an appointment with the Foretagshalsvard department to evaluate your ergonomics and provide physical and mental health services.

Internal mail: the code (Hämtställe) for LUCSUS is 16.

First Monday of the month at 3pm: test of the emergency siren system. Don't panic.

Ann will set up an email account for you and give you your LUCAT ID, needed to get on the University system.

To check email:
http://webmail.lucsus.lu.se
You will get a security certificate warning that the site is not trusted. Too bad.
Log in using your LUCAT ID and password from Ann.


LUVIT is the online course management system. You need to be added to the course by Ingegard.
http://luvit.ced.lu.se/
User name: Your Lund email address
Password: must be initially set by Ingegard in the system.

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Lund University IT support: call 29 000. More info here.


Pedagogy classes for new teachers: some are offered in English. Look for the English titles in the list on the left here:
http://www5.lu.se/anstaelld/forskning-undervisning/hoegskolepedagogisk-utbildning/universitetsgemensamma-kurser
The person who deals with this for LUCSUS is Gun Wellbo
046-222 39 00
gun.wellbo@ced.lu.se


To use Ethernet, Ola needs your Mac number. Go to Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More Info... then select Network. The number is listed under Ethernet MAC address.

Learning Swedish

Several options to start learning Swedish. In order of preference:

1. Free course for new faculty offered by Lund University. Unfortunately, about twice as many people want to take the course as there are spaces available. But try.

2. You can pay for a course at Folkuniversitetet. There are intensive short-term courses (every day) as well as 9-week evening courses, two days a week. The 9-week course costs 2800 SEK. Skomakaregatan 6 ipg, 22

3. Medborgaskolan

http://www.medborgarskolan.se/

Swedish for beginners course starts Sept 22, about 1000 SEK.

http://www.medborgarskolan.se/templates/pages/CoursePage.aspx?lid=1281&sgid=11&cid=431310_Gustav

4. Free courses (Swedish for Immigrants) are offered through Komvux. Contact Ann-Sofie Ekberg at VUC on telephone 021-391706, Mon-Thu 8:30 to 9:30.

The Lund page for Komvux is here and contact info for Swedish courses is here.

This says you can also register for the course at the Lund city library (Stadsbiblioteket) at the Guidance Center (Vägledningscentrum).

To translate Swedish, Google Translate works quite well. If you use Google's Chrome browser, you can set it to do instantaneous translations of whole web pages.

You can also try http://tyda.se/ which has an English-Swedish dictionary and thesaurus.