Who needs sleep? Well, you're never gonna get it.

Ah, the title of this post is taken from a Barenaked Ladies song and it totally applies to Brandy and I this morning.

What exactly am I doing up right now (5:30 am) and why was I up at 4:00 am this morning? Well, the French group of girls who were here had to pack up their crap and leave at that time. So, after hearing them all pack, zip, and move their bags and then having one of them hit my feet with her bag, I was pretty much up. I gave them a loud shhhhh but it didn’t really help the fact that they kept banging the door shut and talking. I’m attributing it to the fact that they are French (yes, I know, a stereotype that is prob. disrespectful even though I now think it’s true and never want to visit France because I was offended by their blatant disrespect for others). They were gone by 4:15 am and I laid there for a minute thinking maybe I could get back to sleep but then the guy in the corner with the massive nasal problem started snoring (a.k.a. gasping for air basically) again and Brandy and I were done sleeping. So, we went out to the lobby and talked for a bit and then I went outside to see how light it already was at like 4:45 (it was pretty light). It was also pretty cold… there was like a 15 degree drop in the temperature here and now it’s more reflective of what we were expecting. I kind of what to go out and see if there’s a café open yet but I can almost guarantee there is not one. I might lay back down in a bit but I know I’ll be able to sleep on the train so I’m not that motivated.

I looked at our syllabus for the class finally (since technically it starts today) and I have to say that I’m not that thrilled with what we have to do. I think a lot of it will be repetitive and similar. We have to write reflections, lead discussions and us grad. students have to write a paper. That isn’t that hard to do but it might not be as easy just because there doesn’t seem to be a lot of variance in what we’ll be talking about (I’m under the assumption that most of the sites will function in similar ways). Of course, I have no problem saying that I didn’t really see anything different from day to day. I guess we will see. I’m also a little irritated at how unorganized everything is. Our original schedule had nothing on it from Thursday afternoon on and we almost booked our flight to Tallinn for Thursday night. Now I see that we have class until like 11:00 am on the last Friday, so at this point, we don’t really know for sure when we’ll be done. We also don’t know if anyone is picking us up from the train station today in Jonkoping. If no one is, we’re planning on wandering around and hoping we can find our hotel. If not, and we’re late to the meet-and-greet dinner, oh well! I’m trying to be laid back here and not having a definite plan or map is my way of enjoying myself on this trip! Crazy, I know, but for someone like me who always wants to know what is going on, this is a fun little taste of spontaneity! I think I'm iffy for this class mostly because I'm tired right now and it's too early in the morning to be thinking about this.

So, I guess I’m going to lay down for a bit or wander off until places open. My next post will hopefully come from Jonkoping this evening.