We finally arrived in Jonkoping

The rest of the train ride was pretty uneventful. After walking back and forth through the cabins a few times, I finally found a free bathroom. That was about it though. We were a couple minutes late getting into Nassjo and then couldn’t figure out what train to connect to. There was one Jonkoping train going through some place we didn’t know but it was at 2:58 and ours was supposed to be at 2:20. We were about to head to the wrong train when I went, “Wait! It’s this one (as I pointed to the Goteburg train).” I remembered that you go through Jonkoping to get to Goteburg and sure enough, the departure time matched up to the train we were supposed to take. As we were running down the walkway, I whipped my camera out, yelled “I need a picture of my rightness (for the first time this whole trip)”, took a picture of the train sign, and then we stood there as the doors closed while not on the train.

We panicked for about 5 seconds and then realized that we had to press the green button to get the doors to open. We got all our bags on and flopped into the seats. It was only a 30 minutes train ride (past a beach or coast of the lake) and then we were at Jonkoping. Shannon met us at the station and we literally walked up a hill and we were right at our hotel.

I must say that this hotel is way nicer than the hostel we were in over the weekend. Brandy and I were supposed to get a double room together but ended up with singles, and my actually ended up being a double! So now I have twice the space for just me and I’m the only one with a lake and town view.

Finally something good! The beds look so comfortable but I’m trying to stay awake so I can actually get a good nights sleep tonight. We are all taking about 30 minutes now to re-coop and then Shannon is walking us to a shopping area so one of the girls can get some winter gear (it turned cold here today) since she mostly brought more summer stuff. At 5:30 tonight, we’re heading to Jonkoping University for dinner and to meet up with the Penn State group and other professors. Our last Tech student to arrive will hopefully get in tonight. She was supposed to be here already but her flight out of Roanoke got delayed and she missed everything. I will have new pictures up of the train ride and of Jonkoping at some point tonight.