the journey begins...

So right off the bat, I get a upgrade on my plane to London! I was bumped up 14 rows in the business class for the same price as economy! All because someone was probably sick..I managed little sleep on the plane and had a stomach ache that might have been caused by the food and nerves...

There was a little bit of a wait in London, due to the security check of all the passengers from different planes that showed up at the same time.

Not much longer though, I found myself on another plane going off some kind of energy that I don't know where it came from. 1 PM London time, 7 AM WI time. I sat next to a girl that not two questions in, do I find out that she's also studying at Jönköping! I thought she was from the US or London as well because she didn't have an accent that I could detect. She is from about an our away. She answered a lot of my questions about Sweden and the area and helped me find the train to Stockholm so I could get to my hotel.

After a 20 minute train ride to Stockholm Central Station, I didn't feel like taking the next train that was kind of close to the hotel, so I took the taxi and saw a little bit of Stockholm. After getting checked into my room at around 6:30 PM, now 11 AM RC time. I took a quick shower (which took about 7 frustrating minutes to figure out the damn nozzle for the shower..stupid jetlag!) and found myself dozing off in front of the TV.

Next thing I know, it's dark out and I'm hoping that it's like 12 or 1 in the morning. Nope. 10...whatever. Ok might as well sleep a little bit more. Wake up. 3 maybe? Nope. Midnight...dumb. Ended up being fully awake around 3...

watched some BBC news, somehow got some more sleep and woke up to my wake up call of 9 O'Clock.

I hadn't had anything to eat since about 4 in the afternoon, so I knew that I would enjoy the continental breakfast no matter what they served me. They had a pretty basic set-up. Some yogurt they had was pretty good. There were these tiny plates that had a littler circle in the middle that I saw later used as egg holders..not rocket science, but I couldn't remember seeing anyone actually using them before. Luckily, unlike the French, the hotel kept their milk chilled so that pleased was a plus. After that, I got checked out before the 11 AM deadline and made my way to the train station.

3 train changes , one person I found from Wisconsin riding the same train as me, and 5 hours later, I'm in Jönköping. I sign the contract for my room thinking I'm sharing a room with someone else, possibly this other guy(I never did ask his name) from WI and having to take the bus into town. Nope. I find my apartment building to be pretty close to campus,

I have about a 5-10 minute walk to the business school, great view:

and I'm pretty much downtown! The room isn't as big as I thought, but then again I thought I would be sharing a room, no TV, no bed sheets, no internet...but that should come in tomorrow.

We have about 10 people to a floor sharing a little kitchen that's right across from me, and a bathroom. I guess there's a laundry downstairs somewhere. Everyone in this building is foreign, as I thought it would be. I've met everyone I think, but I'm only remembering which countries everyone is from. We got a Germany, Mexico, Spain, Finland, Columbia so far on this floor. Earlier I heard some obvious Americans talking as I walked by. So far, everyone seems nice. I feel kind of lucky having English be the language of choice in the building and at the Int'l Business School.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get some food, bed sheets, and internet. I haven't had a full meal since breakfast at the hotel.

Some other things I've noticed. They write $500 as 500:-. The light switches are different. I just found out this IKEA coupon I have that would be really awesome to use is expired by one day...LAME.