Hälsohögskolan

I love my bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (but I’ll get to that in a minute). We spent around an hour walking around and shopping in Jonkoping before dinner.

We went into H&M and a lot of other stores that I can’t remember the names too. One of the girls bought a jacket but I don’t think anyone else got anything. Brandy, Devon and I walked back before the other girls (they had to find postcards) and we spent a few minutes getting ready and then made our way downstairs to the lobby. I was the first Tech student down and one student from Penn State and her professor leading their side of the trip were down there already. I talked to them for a minute and everyone else started coming downstairs. We all took about a ten minute walk up the hill to Hälsohögskolan, which I believe is the school of health and/or human services (to go to the gerontology department).

We met Stig Berg, the director of the gerontology institute at Jonkoping University and then met everyone involved in the course. Apparently, in addition to the 4 Penn State students and the 7 of us from Tech, there are 2 students from Vietnam, 1 from Turkey, and 1 from Spain. We’re not really sure why or what this course means to them. Stig talked a little slow and there wasn’t really much to cover other than the schedule. I found out that Brandy and I are doing our evening patrol together this Wednesday night and that we are done next Thursday (rather than Friday). After about 30 minutes of talking, we had dinner which consisted of sandwiches and a sandwich cake (bread, mayo, cucumbers, eggs, lox, shrimp, etc. all piled on top of each other in layers). I pulled off some lox, put it on a mozzarella sandwich and enjoyed! We hung out for a bit but it was obvious that we were getting a little tired and wanted to leave, especially the Tech students who had flown in this morning. We go the ok to leave around 8:00, took a picture by all the school pennants hanging in the hall (of course, Tech was represented) and then headed back home.

Yes, my head was blocking our pennant... I know...

Some of the girls stopped into a store to get ice cream, while Brandy and I walked back to the hotel. I laid down for a bit to take pseudo-nap and the bed was amazing! It’s comfortable, warm and just generally perfect! I woke up around 11:15 pm, unpacked, did some of our reading for tomorrow’s lectures and in just a few minutes I will be off to bed again.