Wow I'm tired. The jet lag and mental stress of seeing, learning, listening to something new every. single. day. finally caught up. This last night I slept for about 16 hours, and am probably going go to bed even earlier tonight. So yeah, I am really exhausted right now.

So, the last week has been really long. Spent it at what was called language camp, to try and learn the Swedish language. We were staying in Kristianstad, town about an hour train ride from here. Well, I didn't really learn the language that well, but did learn a lot about the culture and history of Sweden, which was nice. Their state religion is recycling. Just about 96% of all waste is recycled here. There was a lot of information that we learned, it was over all fun. I was able to meet up with the other exchange students here, one guy from Colorado and two girls from Florida. There was also one girl from New Zealand that has been here in Sweden since January, she kind of acted like a guide for us, it was nice. I just did a lot of little stuff throughout the days while there, so kind of hard to re-cap it all. The most fun part was when went to a type of reconstructed viking town. It was really cool to light a fire with flint and to mess around with a sword, helmet and shield.

One topic that came up over dinner one night with the other Rotary members was when they were talking about how a quite of few of Rotary exchange students get married shortly after to people they meet on their trip, wither to other students or natives. So who knows? I've been told a lot that I'm going to find some Swedish girl and get married...

One other cool thing we got to do was go to an old church. It was built around the 1400s. It was really beautiful inside, and was very large for the size of the town that was around it. It was uncommon for churches to be built so large in smaller towns such as Kristianstad. The basin for baby baptisms is still the original one from when the church was built, which is very neat.

Besides that nothing else really happened. I did get to meet with Hanna today, that was fun. She was very nice. We went down to the beach and hung out for a little, she got back from Virginia this earlier this year as an exchange student as well. It was nice to hang out with someone not associated with the family or Rotary.

Well, that's about it. Now for some more sleep.

Hej Då!