Guess what?

I have a sauna.

There isn't really a way to encapsulate the events of last week, since I left the States. I traveled for 30 hours, on three planes and two trains. I met an architecture student from Denmark on my flight over the Atlantic, a satellite technician working for NATO in Naples on the plane to Washington, a German anesthetist on the train to Nassjo, and students from Australia, Kazakhstan, France and a dozen other countries.

I've started the painfully slow process of learning a new language, gone on a pub crawl, eaten Swedish meatballs in an Ikea, and taken the bus approximately five million times (with a projected 25 million to go).

I'm living in the Raslatt apartment buildings in a suburb of Jonkoping. The buildings are painted in shockingly horrible pastel patterns, but my flat is relatively nice. The same space would house twice as many students at CC.

And yeah, the student common room has a sauna.

Cheers,
Daniel