Ah it’s been awhile, I apologize! Lots has happened since I last wrote, we went to Stockholm a few weeks ago and it was great. Very cold, but nice. We all decided that going to a party the night before we had to catch the morning train to Stockholm was a good idea, but of course it wasn’t. We got home from the party with enough time to sleep for about an hour and a half before we had to catch the bus to the Karlstad train station. When I was getting on the bus in the morning, my friend Reinhard [View Full Entry]

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Hej, jag heter Erin. See? I am learning a very useful language for when I return to Canada haha. Swedish class is going well, better than the Spanish I took at Windsor, but I guess that wouldn’t be difficult considering I did so poorly. In other news, the hockey game was great, I was not bored for a single second and despite the fact they did not seem to be playing as well as they normally would, the home team won. The Swedish Rally is coming up this weekend and I got my ticket for the Karlstad Super Special Stage today. [View Full Entry]

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Okay, due to popular demand, I'm posting some pictures of my building, my room and the corridor I live in. My favourite features are the location, which is close to the university, and the fact that everyone has their own bathroom here, it is almost unheard of to share. Also, I have a heated towel rack, which is pretty cool. My room looks the same now as when I took these pictures, except for a couple recent Ikea additions. [View Full Entry]

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So, in the tradition of procrastination, I am writing this belated second entry so I can put off school work for a bit today. A lot has happened in the last two weeks since I last wrote, most notably the welcome dinner for the international students, a couple parties, our trip to Örebro and my first two classes (Aspects of Sweden, and “Svenska som främmande språk”...Swedish as a foreign language). In our first week here, we went to Arena and Nöjesfabriken, two clubs in Karlstad. There was also a sangria party in Potatisen, one of the student residences downtown. Apparently these [View Full Entry]

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Okay, so it’s my first full day in Sweden, and at 4:20, the sun has set in Karlstad. The trip was long, to say the least. I was excited to fly but the waiting time in between flights and train connections made it a very long 24 hours with very little sleep. That and the fact that once I got into Sweden, no one really talks to each other on trains, and my seating to Karlstad from Stockholm was at a 4 person table by myself. On the flight to Stockholm from Paris I sat beside two Swedish men who did [View Full Entry]

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