Break it down

Academia was definitely interesting....

First off it's 3 in the morning and I'm wide awake so looks like jetlag finally caught up with me.I figured I write some of my post about last  night then I could write the rest later today.

So back to the juicy stuff. First off, that first "legal bottle of wine I bought," yep apple juice. Story of my life. I don't even like apple justice but you better believe I drank it like it was going out of style.

So we met our SUSHIs at the "health park" next to the school around 8:30 (we were supposed to meet around 7 but we didn't see why till we got there). Definitely different form the Fayetteville "go out at 12 if your cool" lifestyle.  bunch of other students from all the different colleges were just chilling out in this park, playing games and chit chatting etc. What's intersting is all the different colleges have different color coveralls (white for health science, red for education i think? orange for engineering maybe? etc) and the students wear these coveralls to Academian. Yep, looked a little out of place without mine but no biggie. There are even supposedly some unwritten rules about not washing them and exchanging pants legs (SCANDALOUS). So we hung out for awhile and got our mingle on with the other students before walking to the club. The club is run by students and they try to make everything as cheap as possible which is kind of cool. We walk in and the first thing I notice is the techno beatzz. Swedes love their techno and oh you bet I got my jam on for a few hours before we left! IT was definitely an experience and I'm not going to lie I sort of wish we had something like that back in Fayetteville.

So later today turned into this morning. I just went for my second morning run (and by morning run I mean 15 minutes worth of a light jog before I got tired and quit). That's already more working out than I planned to do this trip so I think that deserves TWO scoops of ice cream today. The ice cream over here is pretty legit. I tried blueberry ice cream...tastes exactly like a blueberry. And then of course I had ice cream for dinner last night, some sort of lemon, delish! A few people with me got Swedish pizza (which they said was heavenly). The weird thing was, it was served whole-no slices (or pizza cutter)- so I guess you're just supposed to dig in. After dinner we went and sat (sans teachers yet again) at a restaurant on the pier for a little bit. It seemed like sunset, but seeing as its light basically all the time (JUST LIKE ALASKA CAIT!!!), it wasn't really going down.

Earlier in the day, we nailed down some class related stuff (like what we have to do as far as school work, YUCK) before having lunch in the cafeteria again. Speaking of school work, all my grades from last semester are finally in, 4.0 woohooooo! After lunch I finally got to hear about this infamous Swedish healthcare system I'm supposed to be learning so much about. A professor came and talked to us for a bit and I'm not lying, interesting doesn't even begin to describe it (minus the fact I was coming down from my caffeine high so I was about to crash). Regardless of weather a Swede goes the the doctor for a runny nose or a broken leg they pay the same copay (which isn't much). Regardless of weather they go to a public or private provider, they pay the same copay. They don't even have to pay for children's care or having babies!!! There's not even any question of what it would cost if they didn't have insurance, because THEY ALL DO! Mindboggling.

So the dorms I'm staying in are filled with other international students from all over, so I'm not living with people I came with. I could be a lot worse off though. One of my roommates, Maria, is from Peru and she lent me her hair dryer the first day so she's an A+ in my book. My second roommate, Agnes, is from the Netherlands. She's a little older (like 25) and she's finishing up her thesis so she's a bit busy but she seems nice. My third roommate (I think I have one) has been MIA and I haven't met her yet so we'll see how that goes.

Alright, time to peace out and go get ready so I don't miss the bus (which I expect to happen at least once on this trip with my luck)