I'm Here!!!

Well, guess what everyone.....yup, you guessed it, I'm officially in Sweden! (but you knew that, right?) My flights were long and pretty uneventful and boring...though the flight out of Minniapolis was delayed for nearly three hours because the plane's air conditioning broke, meaning yes, I missed my flight from Amsterdam to Göteborg (I can now make ö, ä and å without having to type in a special code :) I think I'm the only one excited about this....). Because I missed my flight, that meant that I had spend 4 1/2 hours in the Amsterdam airport, waiting for the next available flight, which I felt pretty lucky about because the other Rotary kids who missed their flights to Stockholm or Copenhagen had to stay the night in Amsterdam.

So, I arrived here safe and sound with no problem. My host family met me with big hugs (from the mom) and handshakes (from the dad and boys). It took about 40 minutes to get from the airport in Göteborg to my new home in Varberg and the time went pretty fast with all the questions and everything being asked (luckily my host parents speak pretty good english and the brothers understand it pretty well, though have a harder time talking).

My house is absolutly amazing...3 stories and very swedish looking I think, with little nick-knacks everywhere. I woke up this morning kinda early (6:00 am swedish time, 9:00 pm the day before Oregon time), and spent about an hour and a half putting all my things away. I then ate some breakfast (special K cereal :)) Then went into my room to read (everybody else was still asleep, except for Oscar who had to leave at 8:00) But then I fell back asleep for 2 more hours, and now I'd say I'm pretty well rested. Look at me going on as if you all really care about my sleeping patterns.

I've got to go now, me Lena and Rickard are heading to the square to look at the market and stop at a little café that they like.

I'll update soon!