Blogs from Sweden, Europe - page 169

Finally, arrived in Sweden! Got off the airport and the weather was chilly! but nice! I liked this weather .....the moment I thought I came at the right time....and today, it started to...RAIN...._" Anyways, Found a hostel last minute and checked-in...its a very nice one though!=) I did get a reply from the locals my friend introduced to me so gonna stay there for 2 nights!! ^^ So, walked over to the City Hall and took a guided tour....very intersesting.... Stockholm looks very nice......cute European...with a Medieval style....haa..dunno...just really like the layout...(well...have always been an IKEA fan to begin with...wahhaaa!!) The place is really clean and although I can't understand a thing by looking at Swedish.....it was just so easy coz everyone speaks English.....=P Surprisingly....not a lot in the supermarket was in English! I had to ... read more

Hi! Well, we finally arrived in Orebro after what seemed like days of traveling. I ended up running into a girl from SDSU before boarding the plane in Chicago. Both of us were relieved to have a traveling buddy, and it ended up that there were two other girls on our flight going to the same school as us. We met a guy from our flight who helped us find the right train to take and he showed us a little bit of Stockholm while we were waiting for the train. Once we got to Orebro, everyone was exhausted but we still took time to walk into town and buy a few things for our rooms, which are about the size of a normal dorm room with a private bathroom. There are 12 or these rooms ... read more

This week has been our welcome/orientation week in which all the International Students are welcomed to Uppsala and the Student Nations. We have had a whole schedule of activities planned and sleep is not one of them. It has been a blast and it is far from over. Tomorrow is Swedish Food Night and the day after is Swedish Swimming( whatever in the hell that is) and a picnic. So let me break it down for you on the glories of this week and the mash of culture: Monday: OK i lied, it wasn't a whole week. It started on Tuesday. my bad. Tuesday: CRAYFISH PARTY!!! at Snerikes. We get there and there are tables covered in trays of crayfish with beading looking eyes just daring you to try and figure out how to eat them. ... read more

Well, the biking is pretty much over, 1300km in 13 days, a bit of a sore knee. I'm in Stockholm, couldn't bike all the way from Goteborg as planned but took a train to the Gota Canal, stayed with Elsa there and biked along it , then a trian for the last section to Stockholm before leaving my bike outside stockholm station (most trains and buses won't take bikes here, its crazy) and spending the night in Uppsala with an old german friend of mine (he is sad he can't come to estonia, espacilly when I told him about some of the girls that will be coming, but he has to fly to srilanka to visit his aid worker girlfriend)... he propsed an alternative plan whereby I would take a 3 euro ferry to the islands ... read more

We took a bus to Stockholm today and we were led by of course my favorite professor in this entire world. The man is hilarious. My favorite quote today was "You'll read in the news tomorrow, Man dressed as Boat hit by Bus." You don't need to understand the context. I don't know this great man's name sadly but I do know that everything was going wrong for him and our tour today. First of all we got to the Vassa Ship Museum and it was packed and we were late so he gave us a speed tour of the museum which houses a 300 yr old ship that sunk on its maiden voyage after 30 min. It is pretty massive. We then went to watch a video on how it was raised from the depths ... read more