Day 26

Today my class (NV 2-Biotek) headed to Erken on a field trip to study limnology, or the study of fresh water. The bus ride was a little over an hour and I talked with my new friend Anton the whole time. He is Korean, but he is adopted, so he doesn't speak it, but thankfully he was able to tell me about a good Korean restaurant in Stockholm! So we arrived there and then settled into our rooms, which where actually really nice. They were in this building that used to be somebody's house, but was then donated to the University. The rooms had two bunk beds in each, but our room only had three people, which was nice: Anton, Samuel and me. After we got settled in a little bit, we headed to the lab and began our experimentation. We were split into groups and each group would study a different part of the lake and we got the "not exposed to wind" section of the lake. So we had to put on these big rubber pants with attached boots over our clothes and then wade into the water to collect samples. The one I had was 3000 sizes too big in every direction, so I was definitely the most gangsta of everyone. It was a lot of fun to basically go swimming without getting wet and we collected a lot of samples of different plants, plankton, worms and snails. I even saw some fish but I wasn't able to catch them. After many hours of this, we went back to the "house" and then ate dinner, which consisted of meatballs and pasta (with ketchup!! yuck!!) and then we just hung out until sleepy-time. Two of my classmates brought guitars so they were playing and a couple people were singing. They sang some Beatles songs and some Disney songs in Swedish. (which was really weird for me, knowing them in English) I went to sleep at about 10:30 because I was really tired.

pictures coming soon...