Swedish Lakeland

Hey! Tomorrow I am once again stepping on a plane and heading back to Sweden! I've decided to start a blog, but seeing as the people I am staying with for the first while do not currently have internet, we will have to see how often I can get about to ...

Life on exchange in the great city of Stockholm!

... them my American passport and my Swedish sponsor, I was whisked into a private office and after the exchange of 1000 Swedish Crowns and a few questions (foreshadowing: perhaps it is here where things got lost in translation), my passport was returned to ...

... big...maybe like a couple thousand people but it's famous for the Vasaloppet, a famous cross country skiing competition celebrating the Swedish king, Gustav Vasa's escape from the Danes and then triumphant return to drive them out of Sweden.  So of ...