The last few days have been pretty relaxing. On Saturday I went to get some groceries since I'll be staying in one place for a while now. The cheapest store here is called Lidl, and it's set up EXACTLY like an Aldi. No joke. The only problem is that they don't sell peanut butter, and I'm almost halfway through the jar I brought :(. In the evening we decided to go see a movie at Filmstaden Sergel, the biggest theater in the area. We had planned on seeing Snowwhite and the Huntsman at 8:50, but when we got there around 8:15 we found that there were only 16 seats left and we had 13 people, so we chose the 11:45 showing instead. The weird thing about the movie theater is that you order your tickets on a computer and you have to reserve which seats you want as well. To get into the bathrooms you had to enter a code that was on your ticket to unlock the door. And the theaters were so huge that they had balconies. It was quite the experience. When we got out of the movie it was after 2 am, but it was bright enough out that we all felt wide awake and had trouble falling asleep.
Sunday a few of us went to Woz Cup 2012, the 7th World Cup for Segway Polo. Yea, that's right, people play polo on segways. It was probably the strangest thing that I had ever seen in my life. We also went to this little beach that is down the road from our dorms and worked on our homework for class. It's not warm enough to swim, but it's nice to be out in the open air.
Monday (yesterday) was our first day of class. Class goes from 9-12 but we get a half hour coffee break in the middle. We went to a 711 for our coffee break, where they sadly don't have slurpees, but they do have iced cappuccinos. In the evening our professor took us for a walking tour of Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm. There are lots of historical buildings in this area, including the Royal Palace and the Nobel Prize building (in front of which 82 people were once beheaded). We also walked down the narrowest street in Stockholm, which is barely wider than my shoulders.
Today after class we went to the Vasa Museum. This is a museum for a ship that sunk on its maiden voyage in 1628, but was found in 1961. The ship is the only almost fully intact ship from the 17th Century that has ever been salvaged. It was really cool to see all the intricate carvings that went into the construction of the ship. After the museum we went to dinner at a cafeteria-style restaurant where I got my first meal of Swedish Meatballs! They were soooooo good! They also gave you bread with your meal, and I may have brought some home with me haha
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