Just got out of the first of six meetings of my SUSA class (Introductory Swedish for Exchange Students). I don’t think I can actually transfer this credit but it’s nice to at least learn some Swedish! I can now say things like Jag heter Dixon (My name is Dixon) or Jag kommer från USA (I come from the USA). Learning another foreign language makes me always want to revert back to Spanish, but Swedish is obviously quite different! There were two UNC students sitting behind me (one of whom is from Greensboro and went to Grimsley) and another in front of me so it felt like home!

I bought a bike yesterday – seems to be the only reasonably quick way to get around. Lund is the most biked city in Sweden and there are bike paths along pretty much every street so it feels safe. My mom says “I’m not as experienced a biker as those Europeans” so I need to buy a helmet!

Someone said today that they were sorry I missed the warm weather – I told them I’ve had about enough of it back home! It’s been in the fifties and sixties while I’ve been here which is comfortable when biking around! Really windy too, I guess that’s why Scandinavia is able to generate so much wind power.

The room I’m staying in is actually quite nice! I get my own bathroom too and the room is nearly as big as a dorm room I shared with another person this past year… Current issue is I have no blinds or curtains so that’s number one on my list of things to buy. There’s about 8 or 10 people in this building with me so we share a kitchen that is plenty large. Explored the nearest grocery store yesterday and I was impressed! They even had Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce so I’ll survive here. No peanut butter though. Or it was in Swedish and I didn’t understand!

I’ll try and post some pictures later!