Days 33 through 37

This week was so much fun, that it's going to be hard to condense it into only a short post, but here we go.

Monday morning we took the bus into town and managed to find the school with no problems and we met up with everybody else and then started our first Swedish class. The classes were really easy, as I had expected, but I had figured they would get better. The classes ran from 8:30 until 3:30 with lunch at a Rotary club and two fika breaks in between. Each day we ate at a different Rotary club, but they were all at the same hotel, which I found to be a little funny. The food was ok, but not really that great. Each time we had to all stand up and give our Rotary greeting: Hej, jag heter Michael och jag kommer från USA. We would then head back to the school for more lessons. Unfortunately, they did not really get any better, because there were a lot of people who had absolutely no prior knowledge about Swedish, so the classes had to move at a glacial pace, which was rather annoying for Iliyas, Hamza from France, Miranda from Canada and I, because we were already past this level. But it was still so much fun being together with everyone and hanging out in Eskilstuna, which I actually later found out is one of the most dangerous places in Sweden to be in late at night... But oh well... I'm alive and I survived even after we were chased by some crazy guy through town who was looking for two guys with drugs that were going to stab his girl friend and needed to use one of our phones. Oh yeah, and that other guy that was asking what hotel we were staying at, and we just pretended that we didn't speak English and that we were all from France. We got on the bus after that... That was Thursday night, after we had eaten at McDonald's because a Rotary is the manager so we could order however much food we wanted so everyone just pigged out. So after a week of fun, we finally all said goodbye and split up to our various cities. We all have each other's business cards, cell phone numbers and pins however. My blazer has so many pins on it now.


Pictures of this week (including the Viking Weekend) can be found here.