Name: Sebastian Lindberg
Buddy Programme Coordinator year: 2014/2015
Studies at Umeå University: Sport Science - Sport Management
In 1999 the Buddy Programme was started at Umeå University. Since then, thousands of international and domestic students, have met and made friendships for life. Every year one person is hired at the International Office to coordinate the programme. For the 20 years anniversary we've interviewed some of the former coordinators about their time in the Buddy Programme.
Name: Sebastian Lindberg
Buddy Programme Coordinator year: 2014/2015
Studies at Umeå University: Sport Science - Sport Management
ImageSebastian Lindberg
Amazing! The best time of my life.
This is a hard one, I have so many amazing memories. A non specific memory is all the amazing students I got to meet and spend time with as well as having amazing colleagues. If I try to be more specific on the other hand, I mean meeting my Girlfriend is a no-brainer, but except from that I think that the Christmas Dinner me and Malin (the other Buddy Coordinator) organized was a highlight. I think both of us was worried how well it would be received. Especially some videos that we made for the evening but in the end people loved it so... yay us haha.
I would estimate roughly 1600 including international students and students from Umea.
Soccer Tournament, Elk Farm, Hockey Trip & International Pub nights.
I moved to Canada.
ImageSebastian Lindberg
As I said, I moved to Canada and I have lived here since August 2015. I received my permanent residency card in the fall of 2018. I currently work at a company called SkipTheDishes (Same type of company as Doordash, UberEats, Grubhub etc) as a Training & Development Specialist.
Yes, actually quite a few! I have one my best friends from the programme living in Canada as for the others I talk to some of them from time to time and see some of them when I'm back visiting Sweden.