My time here has been going by so fast, I don't even know where to start my post! I have walked through and around the entirety of the island I am living on, Sodurmom, which is the equivalent of New York's SoHo, and is actually called SoFo by the locals. On the last Thursday night of every month they have a SoFo night where they have live bands, fashion shows, dancers, and free hookah because of the large middle eastern population; so my class and our professor are planning on doing that tomorrow. Last Friday we met up with some Bucknell students that the people who actually made the right flight had met on the plane and hung out with them. They were only in Stockholm for a week and are on their way to Helsinki now for some big conference of European engineers. During the day on Saturday, we went on one of the classe's schedualed excursions which included a bus and boat tour of Stockholm. On Saturday night we explored lots of the bars and pubs of our island, and faced a few difficulties because of the language barrier. We accidently went to a Nazi bar (there is a large neo-nazi following in Sweden), but quickly made it out of there after we realized that all the couches where swastika shaped. Then, we went met up with some students from Notre Dame and were refused service because of our American accents. Other than that though, we had a blast. Sunday morning we got up early and visited the royal palace where we saw the princess and queen leaving in their mercedes. Then we stopped by the National Museum and Grand Hotel where they put up the Nobel Prize winners and contestants. After that, we headed to Central City, where they have all of the really expensive stores and all of the sea front homes and yahts. While there, we wandered into an intense protest of China and got lost in the crowds. Yesterday, we went to Scansan which is the equivalent of a living museum of old world Sweden and explored the Vennei (?) museum which is built on a ship that was lost under the Baltic Sea for 300 yrs. after sinking in its home harbour. Today in class we had another guest speaker on the images and rhetoric of the Iraq war and its portrayal through YouTube and I am to give a presentation overview to the faculty board and students on Friday morning. That pretty much covers it... I am becoming even more of a coffee addict because it is the only cheap/ sometimes free thing here and having a double shot expresso has become a daily ritual at 11pm when it is starting to get dark every night.

Finally had time to post!!!

Hi!!
I finally got around to my blog after several days!! Even though I had to spend 20 hrs on a plane to get here, it was totally and completly worth it. Stockholm is completely gorgeous and super clean. The environment must rub off on the people too because they are all drop dead gorgeous, stick thin, and all look about 20 yrs younger than their actual age. Unfortunatly, the city is ridiculously expensive, a "cheap" dinner is about $35.
The class is at Sodurtun (?) University, and is so far very intense, but really interesting. All of the Swedes taking the class are PHds, so we all have to play catch up. I have to get back to reading, but I am seriously considering just staying here. :)