Saturday
Took it easy after the marathon that was the international gasque. Stayed in and even listened to the Colorado Buffaloes upset the Texas Longhorns at home! Go Buffs! I’m sure everyone in Boulder had a good Saturday night!
Sunday
Went grocery shopping and found a park nearby Rackarberget that will be amazing in the spring without all of the snow. It is also a good shortcut to get the ICA for our grocery shopping. It is slowly starting to warm up and the forecasts now are calling for above zero weather!
Monday
Had two rather uneventful classes and not much else. Realized it was the last day of February and I had yet to get an invoice to pay my rent so I emailed the landlord and got the invoice digitally. Hopefully I won’t be charged a fee for being a day late paying rent as it seems to be their fault I didn’t receive my bill in time. The Swedes seem rather relaxed about this.
Tuesday
Went to another rather boring lecture and then paid rent at Forex with Nick. Made burritos for dinner, which was a nice change from the regular fare I’ve been having and it was fun to just cook. I found this cool app on Facebook that shows where all of your friends on Facebook either live currently or are from depending on what is listed on their Facebook. Mine is fairly international and wouldn't have been nearly as cool to look at only a couple months ago!
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| My connections from my home base of Uppsala |
Seminar for Climate Change Leadership was pretty enjoyable despite being almost 3 hours long. I like the sense of community we have the class between all the students as well as with the course coordinators who are graduate students. Most of the class went to a pub night at Kalmar Nation and had a drink and some food. Kalmar is the more alternative nation and they have a good selection of vegetarian food on their pub menu. Since I have been a far cry from the vegetarian I was just a couple months ago I decided to try their veggie burger. It was very good, but very different as the patty was made up different veggies fried in a curry like sauce topped with all of the usual burger toppings.
Thursday
Slept in and then went out and enjoyed the balmy weather by Uppsala standards, 4 degrees C! (39 F) Walked around downtown with Nick and ran into Caitlin first and then Pen and Tina at Max Burger. The sidewalks and roads were getting very slushy and there was even some non-icy parts now as well as plenty of puddles from poor drainage. Now I am finally finishing updating the blog that I have neglected for 2 weeks. Our friend Leander is having a little birthday party tonight that I am planning on attending and we’ll see where we go from there.
Tomorrow night Nick, Laurie, Anneloes, Franzi, and I leave for Kiruna in Lapland! It is in the very far north of Sweden above the Arctic Circle about 700 miles from Uppsala. We will be on a 15 hour train ride in a sleeper cabin to Kiruna where we will spend 3 days and 2 nights. We are planning on dog sledding, snowmobiling to the famous ice hotel, hopefully seeing the Northern Lights, and using the sauna at our hostel. It should be really fun! I’ll update again shortly after we return next Tuesday!
Hej då
Jesse
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