A two-day sum up

Before I go into how tedious today was, I will quickly sum up yesterday. Yesterday morning (when we were still in Goteburg), we got up around 10:00 to clean our rooms (required and weird) and then checked out around 11:00. We took the tram to the train station, locked our bags in the big lockers, and went walking to find the Paddan city boat tours. After getting slightly turned around (and going the wrong way… surprise, surprise), we found the little kiosk and just barely got on the 1:40 boat tour.

Aside from the fact that it was like 30 degrees outside and we went out on the harbor which made it even colder, it was a really fun tour. We went down the canals throughout the city, around the harbor, and saw lots of the famous sites (i.e., museums, ships, churches, markets) around Goteburg.

I took a lot of pictures and the captions contain the descriptions (if I actually remembered what the guide said the places were). When we were done with that, we went shopping at Nordstan, the big shopping mall.

It was huge and we all split up at times to go into different stores. I did not end up buying anything (which was disappointing since there was an Esprit there and I’m in love with that store) but no worries. It is nice to know that I am being frugal and will not have a massive credit card bill when I get back into town! We got done shopping around 5:00 and had until 6:30 to relax and wait for our bus. We got some ice cream and other stuff to snack on and then made our way on the bus and headed back to Jonkoping. We got home around 8:30, worked on our journals from our Friday visits and then went to bed.

Now for today… If there is one thing I really dislike (maybe even hate), it is when someone changes the schedule and we do not find out until plans have already been made and then things have to be changed. We found out this morning that we had to be back from lunch at 12:40 (rather than 1:00) to go to our site visit. I was planning on getting my sandwich back at the hotel and resting a bit during our break. Instead, I rushed back with Chelsea (who needed to get her bus pass), had 5 minutes to eat, and then had to rush back to campus (we were late too). To make it even better, we walked from the campus to the bus station and the bus station is like 100 yards from our hotel! We could have just met the group there! Some other people had been at the grocery store right over here too and walked back to campus with groceries only to have to walk back to where the store was again. We were SO angry. Then, we got on a crowded bus and heading a little ways down a road, got off, and then walked like half a mile to Ramseygården, an assisted living place that felt like it was in the middle of nowhere. To make it even better again, we then waited outside for 20 minutes until someone realized we could 1) just walk in the front door (we thought it was locked or something) and 2) go around the back to the entrance we were really supposed to be at. Since we were not happy about what had already gone on so far, there were a few of us that just did not really enjoy the visit. Also, this place was just like the Solstickan Care Home that we visited a few days ago, so it seemed like there was nothing new to learn. We thought we would be done early but then we sat down for an hour to have coffee and talk some more. I am pretty sure I passed out on the table during the talk. I caught parts of it but again, it was nothing new. We came back around 4:00 (after walking back to the bus stop and waiting 15 minutes for the random bus to come) and I watched a little bit of the Simpsons and then came downstairs to the lobby to work on some journals for the class (which is what I am almost done with now… I needed a break though so I’m blogging instead). I do not think anything else is up for the night, other than just watching tv and taking it easy.