A day of travel

Everyone from the Tech group left around 7:00 am today to head to Goteburg while I hung around until later. I was going in the afternoon so that I could visit a preschool with the Penn State group in Jonkoping. I left all my stuff in the hotel because I thought I would have enough time (45 minutes) to stop back by and pick it up since I had been told that the preschool was close by. Well, when we got to the school, I found out that the preschool was not so close, so I had to walk back to the hotel, get my bags, and walk back to the university. Before the site visit, we had to listen to a guy talk about a program that was basically a life skills class for older adults. It was incredibly boring. I nearly bumped my head on the table after dozing off. After painfully sitting through that, we were finally ready to leave for the preschool. We got into taxis and made our way across town to an incredible preschool. The building was amazing and the director gave me a lot of good information. Our entire group kept asking me questions about how it is in the states since apparently no one had ever really worked with kids. The rooms there were just amazing and how everything works is fairly similar to the states. I had to leave right at noon and when I asked about how to get back to the station, the woman told me to just get on the bus at the bus stop across the road, even though we didn’t know which bus or where it was going. I got on the first bus that came and if I had come like 2 minutes later, I would’ve had to wait an hour for the next one. I got a little concerned during the bus ride but it ended up taking me to the bus station in the end. I got on the bus to Goteburg and then some guy and his wife told me that I was in their seats (I think… it was in Swedish). I got up, looked confused and finally 5 minutes got the last seat on the bus (it was horrible). Two hours later, I was in Goteburg and everyone met me there at the station. We got a ride back to our apartments we were renting from a hostel and planned to meet at Liseberg at 5:00. Liseberg is the biggest amusement park in the country and on our way, we stopped to get sandwiches nearby. Chelsea and I got kicked out of one place because we got our sandwiches from next door and then came over to eat with the rest of the girls… so we ended up eating outside. We met Shannon and Brandy at Leisberg at 5:00 and had a great time there. We rode on a lot of the rides and played some lotto type games where you pick a number and win a prize if the wheel lands on it. We ended up with some Rolos-like candy (lots of it). All the wheel games were for different types of chocolate. We really wanted to play the Toblerone game but our tickets wouldn’t work for that one and we didn’t want to pay (it was pricey). We left around 9:00 pm and got a little lost on the way home. However, I had another great moment of rightness and we managed to get off at the right tram stop. We walked a few blocks up the hill to our little studio apartments (which were just like rooms) and everyone crashed.