Idag är Påskdag...Jag läser och tittar på tv i min lägenhet.

Om Min Lägenhet

Jag är i min lägenhet nu. Min lägenhet är jättebra. Det finns två sovrum, ett kök, ett vardagsrum och ett badrum. Det finns en säng, två garderober, en bokhylla och ett sängbord i min sovrum. Det ligger några boker på bokhyllan och sängbordet. Jag behöver en annan bokhylla.

I vardagsrummet finns det två soffor, en cykel, en bokhylla, ett bord, en tv, och en piano. Bordet ligger mellan soffan och tv-n. Bokhyllan står framför fönsteret. Lilla soffan är bredvid bokhyllan, eller mellan bokhyllan och tv-n.

Det finns ett bord, en spis, en frys, och fyre stolen i köken. Bordet och stolen är bredvid fönsteret. Frysen står framför spisen. Stolen är under bordet!

The grammer is probably not perfect, but that is me explaining my apartment in Swedish. A pretty bare-bones description because it is exhausting to try to do. That is one of the things I know too!! If I meet someone I can tell them my name, what I do, where I am from, where I live, where that is, some things I like to do, about my family, and how my apartment is set up. That would make a fairly odd conversation. I am understanding a little more as the days go by, which is good.

I watched a movie the other day...the movie was in Mandarin and the subtitles were Swedish...I did fairly well understanding the movie and asked my roommate when I was not sure. Then the next day I sat down with a dictionary and the newspaper and I was really frustrated. I am also picking up a little bit more of what people say...mostly because I have relaxed and started listening as hard as I can.

I was at the train station and the train I needed was closed for repair and the guy started to tell me what I needed to do in Swedish and I got really frustrated. Then I calmed down and realized that I could understand quite a bit of what he was saying if I just listened. I made it through the situation in Swedish and got home ok. I watch some show that looks like a Swedish Sesame Street in the mornings sometimes and I get a little of that. Its a humbling experience and the patience and humility are the toughest things...oh yeah! and I had a conversation with like a three year old kid that lives underneath me and I understood all of that!

I went on a decent run yesterday. I found a relatively flat trail that sort of goes through the suburbs along the highway. The hills were too much for me at this point, I am basically starting over again. I got completely lost but somehow ended up at the shopping center across the highway...I honestly never crossed the highway so I must have come into a warp-zone somehow.

Det är fint väder i dag och i går ochså. Solen skiner och det är tio grader varmt i Stockholm. Its been really nice the last couple days...the sun comes up pretty early now and goes down pretty late. he next few weeks will be the turn here in seasons. It happens quick in Scandinavia because of all the daylight. Things bloom, turn green, and warm up fairly quickly. It will not get much warmer than the 60s though...which is perfect for me.

I bought my ticket back here for April 29th. Anything earlier had gotten really expensive and this was the earliest I could go. It turns out that I probably will not need a visa for my summer language classes since they are less than three months. I really think I can pull the language thing off...but I really need to start working in September or the gravy train will come to a halt (and there has not been much gravy on the train the last 5 or 6 years! more like the bread, cereal and water train...the food train).

That is all for now. I really wish I could get back earlier, but at least this way I can maybe get a paper done in London before I return, see my Norwegian friend, and see a couple friends from France (that I met in Copenhagen) who will be coming into London at the end of the month.