Travel to Sweden - Settle in Västrås

Depart from Albuquerque Sunport (ABQ) - 12:32pm MST 10/01/13

6-Hour Layover in Chicago O'Hare Airport (ORD) 10/01/13

Vodka Shots at "Skybridge Restaurant and Bar" ~6:12 pm CST 10/01/13

Depart Chicago O'Hare (ORD) - 10:05 pm CST 10/01/13

Depart Copenhagen (CPH) - 17:10 CET 10/01/14

Upon arriving to Scandinavia I realize something very quickly:

It's much better here.

The Copenhagen airport was a monument to interior design and architectural beauty. The dark wood floors and glass walls set this place apart.

Arrive Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN) ~ 18:10 CET 10/01/14

Notice the Swan chairs and design prints at the SAS gates.

Stockholm for the night and half of the day - 2010/01/14-15

Train to Västerås and Hike to Mälardalen University. Arrive ~ 17:14 CET 10/01/15

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Welcome to Sweden

This has been quite a lengthy trip so far, but we've settled at last. A total trip of about 22 hours, with total time from doorstep to doorstep being about 47 hours. I've since moved into my good sized, 10 square meter bedroom. Luckily, I somehow managed to sheist my way into an excellent room. Not only does my radiator have fins, but my previous occupier left me a bed full of blankets, a desk covered in lamps, and a bottle filled with pee.

The building we live in, Junior, is completely occupied by international students. Of which I've met folks from Mexico, Finland, Lithuania, Thailand, Pakistan, Romania, and Spain. Life will take a little adjustment, but not much.

• The toilets have two settings: Piss or Dump.
• The showers have two knobs: Power and Temperature.
• The outlets will blow if you try to plug in an 85W computer to a 50W adapter.
• The markets all close at 18:00.

The town is riddled with skybridges. We found this out when we went to buy food. While in Stockholm, we decided that we must rid ourselves of the SEK (Krowns) to USD (Dollahs) conversion at every transaction (7 SEK ~ 1 USD). So we took some notes:

• Nice restaurant lunch = 99 Krowns
• Lunch buffet = 79 Krowns
• McDonalds Hamburger = 10 Krowns

Bingo on the hamburger find. A nice, easy amount that gives a good benchmark for everything else. From now on, everything will be measured in how many hamburgers we can buy with the same amount of krowns. That being said, we purchased the basic food's we'll need for the next few weeks for a mere 364 Krowns (36 Hamburgers). That included a 1 krown mortgage on Kenneth's Orangina Soda.

Studying begins this week, at which point I will be able to complete my first task of the 101 goals I have for the next 1001 days. More to come then.

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