But alas, it's harder than it seems. I'm sure there aren't many people still following. Probably mostly because I don't update enough, but whatever right? Well, I want to invite anyone who's left to my day of return. I'm getting into O'Hare on Saturday, January 16 at 12:30 pm, if everything goes smoothly. I'd love to see you there.
So tonight I'm going to see Avatar by myself, and honestly, these past few weeks have been rough. My class is awesome and I love the teachers and the material and the people in it. And then there was Kiruna, such a winter wonderland in every sense. After we got back from Kiruna, it was a string of parties to say goodbye to people as they dropped away from my life, possibly and probably forever. It's hard to think about, but it's natural I guess. And since the great days of departures, I have been reading library books and watching Tillsammans and Ratatouille and reading more books and hanging out in the library cafe so I can have internet. They have the BEST kanelbullar here when they are fresh out of the oven. It's impossible to resist the smell. Plus, there's the International Herland Tribune and the Times daily, so I can read and catch up on the world.
Tonight, like I said, I'm going to the movies, and tomorrow I'm going to bake cookies and make icing and go to midnight service at Domkyrkan with Michelle and some of her friends. Then we are having a pancake breakfast and Christmas dinner! So I won't be all alone for Christmas after all. And after that, Sarah H. gets back and we will celebrate boxing day canadian style, lol.
So now, I need to not resist the kanelbulle that is calling my name, and say until next time, blog readers.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Russia and this week
Sorry it's been so long since I blogged. But, I don't have internet in my room and it's hard to remember to blog when you have limited time. Plus, everyone who reads this can get in touch with me in other ways and probably view pictures on Fb anyway.
I just got back from my Russia trip on Wednesday (see pics on Facebook), after my train back from Stockholm broke down somewhere in Småland and we had to wait for over an hour and the next train came and we all crowded onto it for the last 45 minutes of the trip and ended up getting back to Lund 2 and a half hours later than expected...ugh. And I lost a glove on the ferry back from Finland. So Wednesday wasn't that great until Sarah bullied me into going to VGs...then it was great fun. I love the guys that live in her corridor.
Russia was brilliant. It was so strange and foreign. When I first came to Sweden, I was a little uncomfortable, but being in Russia was much stranger than that. The Russian people aren't really nice to strangers, but our tour guides were great for the most part and everything was either beautiful and restored or rebuilt or being restored or rebuilt. The Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow is actually an exact replica of the 19th century cathedral built on that spot, just finished in 1995. All of the buildings in Russia (well, not ALL, but you get it) are very big and imposing. huge vaulted ceilings and statues and mosaics and everything.
Our hotel in Moscow was the nicer of the two...it was actually part of the Olympic Village for the 1980 Olympics (that the US boycotted). Moscow is HUGE. The official population is like 10.5 million, and from about 2 hours outside the city center is pretty much solid apartment buildings and stores. One of our bus stops was a Russian Wal-Mart type place, which was definitely the biggest store I've been in since the USA, except for maybe IKEA. I literally was getting lost in there. The other thing similar to the States was that a bunch of things in Russia are open 24h or really late, which is really unlike Sweden. The only things open on Sunday in Sweden are IKEA and the grocery stores, and maybe one cafe.
Anyway, bus trips are never much fun, especially overnight drives, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I may never go back to Russia again and I already got to tour the Kremlin and Lenin's tomb (CREEPY) and see all this crazy stuff. So while I'd've liked to stay longer, I'm happy with the way it turned out.
I just got back from my Russia trip on Wednesday (see pics on Facebook), after my train back from Stockholm broke down somewhere in Småland and we had to wait for over an hour and the next train came and we all crowded onto it for the last 45 minutes of the trip and ended up getting back to Lund 2 and a half hours later than expected...ugh. And I lost a glove on the ferry back from Finland. So Wednesday wasn't that great until Sarah bullied me into going to VGs...then it was great fun. I love the guys that live in her corridor.
Russia was brilliant. It was so strange and foreign. When I first came to Sweden, I was a little uncomfortable, but being in Russia was much stranger than that. The Russian people aren't really nice to strangers, but our tour guides were great for the most part and everything was either beautiful and restored or rebuilt or being restored or rebuilt. The Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow is actually an exact replica of the 19th century cathedral built on that spot, just finished in 1995. All of the buildings in Russia (well, not ALL, but you get it) are very big and imposing. huge vaulted ceilings and statues and mosaics and everything.
Our hotel in Moscow was the nicer of the two...it was actually part of the Olympic Village for the 1980 Olympics (that the US boycotted). Moscow is HUGE. The official population is like 10.5 million, and from about 2 hours outside the city center is pretty much solid apartment buildings and stores. One of our bus stops was a Russian Wal-Mart type place, which was definitely the biggest store I've been in since the USA, except for maybe IKEA. I literally was getting lost in there. The other thing similar to the States was that a bunch of things in Russia are open 24h or really late, which is really unlike Sweden. The only things open on Sunday in Sweden are IKEA and the grocery stores, and maybe one cafe.
Anyway, bus trips are never much fun, especially overnight drives, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I may never go back to Russia again and I already got to tour the Kremlin and Lenin's tomb (CREEPY) and see all this crazy stuff. So while I'd've liked to stay longer, I'm happy with the way it turned out.
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