Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Stockholm for the weekend.

Standing on a bridge over a road near Liz's house.
Thomas, Liz and I before Thomas went home on his trolly.
Stockholm has all the transportation systems you can imagine. They even have these little trolly things like in San Francisco. Food sampling night with Liz's host parents!

Here is some people protesting, I wasn't totally sure what but it was something about aribic peoples. They were standing accross from the political building in Stockholm.
American Apparel store in Stockholm they advertise on Facebook a lot and I didn't think they had any realy stores.
Just a cool picture I think of a building.

This was in a Café Liz and I took a fika in, it says "Gabriel våran snygging" which is like "Gabriel our good looking"
I really like the look of Stockholm in places.
Fika is a must for all Rotary clubs in Sweden.
This lady was talking about sleep!
Liz and I eating and stuff.
The people we were sitting with, the women you can see on the far right is Liz's counselor.
Kalops.
Me and the mirrored wall. I always laugh when I take these pictures because it is just glass that's mirrored on one side so there is probably someone in there looking at me while I do this haha.
Look at all that snow. Wow.
I had to get up pretty early to catch my bus to Stockholm and I was also in a little bit of a rush because I never get everything I need to do done the night before. When I went outside I was quite surprised to see the earth covered in snow, lots of snow I'd say about six inches. I went with a different bus line this time and so I was able to be picked up much closer to my house. I didn't sleep so great the night before and so on the bus I laid my chair back and went to sleep for a few hours on the way to Stockholm. When I got there and took my picture against the mirrored wall and then met up with Liz in central station. From central station we went together to Liz's school and talked to one of her teachers about why she was going to miss her next class, we were going to her Rotary meeting! After we talked to her teacher we met up with a few of her friends in the cafeteria and killed about 20 minutes talking to them. We then proceeded to walk to Liz's Rotary meeting place and meet up with her counselor. Liz's counselor is a delightful lady whom I would be happy to meet with again. Her club was also very welcoming to me and for that I am thankful, we ate a deliciouse meat stew thing that is called kalops and listened to a women talk about how to sleep better. After the meeting we went shopping in the city and while we were doing that it began to snow. When I first arrived in Stockholm it wasn't snowing and I didn't think it was going to either but it did in fact follow me there. We then went to Liz's house and I met her host family again, it was nice to see them because the last time I stayed there they were really nice to me and so I knew they were good people. After that Liz and I just chilled the rest of the night. We had a family dinner with her family and the food was delicious! Another exchange student, Thomas, came over and we watched a movie together, the three of us. I was totally happy with my first day in Stockholm and who knew what the second day would bring :O!

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