Wow! We have a lot to catch up on! The days are just flying by here... not just because the sun goes down at 3:30 but also because I've been so busy! I'm not sure if I mentioned it last time but we trekked out to Ikea last Saturday (sooo Swedish right!?) to pick up some things to make our little white rooms a bit more homey. It was quite a trek from Stockholm so of course we went straight to the Ikea restaurant to have some Swedish food, so good! My room feels quite a bit better now, with a real duvet cover and blanket and everything!
I realized I'm a bit of a psycho when I bought a set of Ikea curtains and my friend Cara from NZ and I constructed the most poverty looking curtain wall i
n the middle of my room to give my roommate and myself a little bit of privacy. My roommate was happy about the idea, and I was VERY happy about it. I never knew how much I like time on my own, although now that there is a bit of privacy, no matter how hideous it looks, I fe
el significantly better. It definitely isn't sound proof though... I'll probably come home fluent in cantonese!! This is Cara poking her head out of our amazing creation... (note how awesome the curtains in the background are)
On Sunday I woke up and went for a really nice run. I'm not really sure where I went and was memorizing every turn I made to make sure I didn't get lost, but it was all beautiful and the distractions made me feel as though I could run forever! The sidewalks are pretty sketchy right now but it definitely kept me on my toes! I forgot a touque to run in so I wore the team Canada hockey headband to represent. Haven't been able to drag any of the friends out for a run yet... they aren't quite seasoned for the snow. They say stores are closed on Sundays in Stockholm, turns out this is a huge lie! We went shopping yesterday and I bought some beautiful boots at Topshop and a jacket at this Swedish store called Monki! There is so much great stuff here... must practice self control!
Pia and I beginning our afternoon shopping. PUB is a mall... not a bar!
Today... I started SCHOOL! ahhh I was really
enjoying not being a student for a while there! But back to reality, and was it ever a shocker! I'm questioning why I didn't do more research on schools and pick one where I could take easy courses and really enjoy traveling... but I tend to do this to myself a lot, so I will suck it up and work. I had international trade policy today which I was expecting to be really easy until the prof started unleashing these crazy equations with letters and curvy lines (all things I haven't had to learn since first year? or never?), anyways, I have a test on it all on Monday, really excited.
After class, rather then doing something as lame as studying, Cassandre (Paris), Pia (Aussie), and I decided to go to the Vasa museet. Its a museum focused on this war ship called the Vasa that was built hundreds of years ago for some king dude, and sunk before it even got out of the harbour. ( A bit of a laugh to make a museum about this I think.. VasAMUSING if you will..) Anyways, it was sort of cool, the ship was really well preserved even though it was at the bottom of the ocean for something like 300 years because of the low salt levels in the Baltic sea. (don't quote me on this :) ) So, it wasn't the most awesome museum I've ever been too (is there such thing??) but I'm glad we went, and we had a great walk home and then went to our second Swedish lesson. Still hopeless
at Swedish, now I just smile and node and say YAH!
for mom: I bought a coffee maker! You win, it was easy, I am just crazy.
Well, I guess I must hit the books.... I'm so glad exchange is only pass/fail!
Alskar, (Love)
xox J
ps: apologies for any wierd formatting, I'm still trying to figure this program out... computers were never my strong point. I'm trying to post more photos but getting these two on just took my about 25 minutes... which is not going to help with my studies!
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