Hotel Uppsala

Hello from Uppsala, Sweden!

As in, the second to last stop on our tour! We are here until Tuesday morning, take a ferry to Finland until Saturday morning, and return to Uppsala on Saturday night. We are here until December 17th.

When I head for home.

I'm having mixed emotions. Everyone is. Do I want to return home? Yeah! I can't wait! Again I ask... do I want to return home? No! That means the tour is over! Do I want the ...

... like the sun never went down, but I didn't really understand.  Now I do.  The sun rises at about 4:00am officially but the sky starts to get bright around 2:00 and at night the sun sets around 10:30, but the sky is never pitch black!  It is the craziest thing!!  It always feels like so much can be done in a day with this much sunlight!

A few key events from the past month!  We had a 'Hej Då" party, which translates ...

Got up at 7.15am and had breakfast at the hotel then packed our day packs and walked to the train station to catch the train to Uppsala. Arrived in Uppsala at 10.30am and walked in to the centre of town to catch the bus to Gamle Uppsala. Looked for bus number 2 but could not find it. Walked to Tourist Info and they told us where the bus left from. Walked to bus stop and caught bus to Gamle Uppsala. Walked around the burial ...

... do you like Sala, do you like Swedish food, which is better American or Swedish food, hahaha, all sorts of great questions. but then again, we had to finish up....ahhhh they all said, as it was time for lunch. so i went over with Harriet and her school group to the nursing home nearby where the students eat their school lunch: pancakes with strawberry jam, cabbage salad, carrots and a chickpea and red onion salad. very weird combination and many teachers grumbled ...

... la chambre de Tim (avec son aide). Commentaire de Prune : sa chambre n'a jamais été aussi bien rangée, on a immortalisé l'instant avant que ce ne soit le parfait bazar aprčs le passage de 15 gamins... - Le matin Prune et Tim parlementent ā table entre les chocapics et la compote de rhubarbe pour savoir quels gâteaux faire. Tout le monde tombe d'accord sur des sablés, des cookies et un marbré pour les enfants, pendant que les adultes dégusteront ...

... I was going to purchase was fish eggs! eww), Special cereal (similar to Total), etc. After that, I came back home and finished some emails and messages. Then, I ate a quick lunch and headed back out to do more exploring of the area. By this time it stopped raining for the first time all day. While I was running around - Jon was doing a different kind of running around. Jon was getting settled in to his new office. The locals don't know what "cubes" are ...

... stab me but was just so incredibly drunk that he couldn't actually do it. It certainly was a bit of a wakeup call after being in Sweden for so long. Anyway, Jeff soon came back to tell us the story of his unfulfilling adventures and we all went to sleep, until about 8 in the morning when Jay's Swedish girl (who had been passed out on his bed all this time) woke up. Not knowing where she was, she completely flipped out. Jay was telling her "It's not as bad as it seems", but ...

... to bible school in my church, and God spoke to me about Israel, that it was time to go. I was quite surprised, since my thoughts were headed towards missions work in Tadjikistan or China. But of course I said yes right away. (And was very happy, since Israel is the love of my life ;)) But, since then I've only been seeing the problems: money, not knowing anyone, never ...

... civilisation in many ways throughout the past thousand years. As an example, most people don't realise that the Normans - those guys from the province of a similar name in France that ended up conquering Britain, Western Europe and large parts of Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries AD - were originally largely Swedish in origin. Hence the large ...

July 16 That day the weather was comme-ci comme-ca. It was also laundry day after that I went to walk in Uppsala and it was nice although we caught some slight rain. In the evening I cooked at Thomas place talked with him and use the internet before having a longer sleep. --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---------- July 17 That morning I decided that it was time to leave and move ...