latvija

Wow.
they spoke a lot of Latvian.


more to come...

EuroFather

Well, I hope Dad got into Copenhagen alright this morning. Tomorrow I will meet him at the train station in Lund and we will begin our mini tour of Europe. Lund-Stockholm-Riga-Prague in two weeks, then I will spend some time in a couple metropolitan East Coast areas before hopping to the other side and basking in the California-ness that my fellow students have been longing for. It rubbed off on me.

I am terribly excited to see Dad! Any piece of CA and family will surely make me happy. But unfortunately, it started raining again yesterday, which means it's raining today (though bright). I hope tomorrow the sunniness continues without the rain so Dad and I can ride bikes around town. Bikes are big here.

Packing up also makes me down since the white walls return and my dorm room is a bit more institutional.

back to the future

My time here has recently been spent planning and searching my upcoming weeks- I'm looking for hostel/hotel deals online, arranging visits from friends and affirming plans for my return to SoCal. This week is our last in the program, so we've been getting in a lot of bonding. Last night was another birthday party, and tonight we're returning to one of our favorite haunts, Lunds Nation, a student bar/sometimes restaurant that serves appropriately priced beers.

Mark's friend has left; Patrick's girlfriend has left; Ximena's boyfriend has left. Soon we will leave, too. We're planning a Lund reunion roadtrip for the winter break that starts in the south and picks up people along the way, ending our caravan in San Fransisco for a fun night. We'll see if our plans are birthed into reality- it would be really fun.

I'll miss the awesome greenbelt.

reading and apples

There's not so much to report on now- lots of people have their girlfriends or friends visiting for a little or a lot of time, so we have new people on our floor. (Kansas' girlfriend is staying for almost three weeks! but they're travelling a LOT so she won't be burdensome on our hall)

I've spent a lot of time researching on line and reading (course books on poverty but fiction too- Harry Potter, Margaret Atwood, random stuff left here by former dorm dwellers) and I'm feeling a bit dumb to be so solitarily Lundian.

I may go to the next Malmo football game, tuesday again.

I read one of my friend's blogs today about how she spent an awesome long weekend in Paris and encountered kindness from some other tourists. It was a simple yet touching snippet about the generosity of humanity-- namely, free dinner! And a request to pay it forward someday in the future. Awesome.

Thinking about Latvija and Prague....