International Sitting

We went to a "traditional Swedish culture" night. What we didn't realize was that it was traditional in the sense of guys drinking and singing songs about beer and women. Interesting. We ate Swedish meatballs, drank Pear Cider and Norrlands beer and toasted most of the evening. You don't say "Cheers!" here -- it's "Skål!" and everyone raises their glasses and says "Skål!" back.

Blondes!!

Jon with Carola and Anja (from Holland.) We think that they look more "Swedish" than most of the Swedes, with their blonde hair. Most people start speaking Swedish to them because they don't realize that they're international students.

Wednesday night is the big night for students to go out.

We're at the student pub, Kåren.

Left to right: Jon, Esther from Belgium, Sebastiaan from Belgium, Birgit from Holland and Inge from Holland.

Every night of the introduction week, Entré had parties for all of the international students.

Friday night was a tequila party! Entré's sole purpose is to plan trips and parties for students.

Emily's pictured with Esmée from Holland, Essi from Finland and some random guy who jumped in the photo.

Rosie and Rob are our good friends from England who hauled us and all of our luggage around England for two weeks.

We had so much luggage that we had to take both of their cars everywhere we went! Most British cars are almost half the size of our big American cars. Rosie's first comment when she came to the states and we all got in my car was, "It's like a sofa!"