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Jun. 28th, 2001 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nibotSome bits from an email to splorg: I am attempting to speak Swedish, with some success. Lund is a wonderful town, and I encourage you all to visit. It is in Southern Sweden, right by Copenhagen (which is in Denmark. But Lund was also part of Denmark 400 years ago, when Sweden beat Denmark in a war, won back the Skåne, and established the University I shall be attending, Lunds Universitet, in 1666) The Swedes I have met so far very much live up to their reputation for being rather un-sociable. Us Americans however are quite gregarious. I have been hanging out with a girl also from Berkeley and one from Riverside who are very friendly, although I have finally made contact with some of the people who live in my korridor. There is a room across from mine inhabited by a guy named `Torben'. Torben has schematics for a nuclear reactor (fission) posted on his door. And apparently last year there was a `Jobin'. Bizarre.
Right now the sun sets at 11pm and by 5 am there is broad daylight again.
I am almost officially a Swedish resident. I traveled here on a one-way plane ticket. I submitted paperwork yesterday to the Government here to officially "migrate". I'll have the equivalent of a social security number in Sweden, and will be eligible for cheap health care. (After a year, however, I will have to leave)
I resolved somewhat to avoid email for the next year. I intend to reply to people via postal methods, and I hope that some of you will write. My mailbox is large enough to accept small packages too (maybe 10 inches square by 4 inches deep) I don't know what happens to larger items.
Finally, I would like to add that this is a great time to be in Sweden because the exchange rate is astonishingly good right now for Americans. Things that are expensive for Swedes are affordable for Americans. This is good because prices in Sweden are very high -- but with nearly 11 Kronar to the Dollar, many things cost the same as they do in the continental U.S.
Right now the sun sets at 11pm and by 5 am there is broad daylight again.
I am almost officially a Swedish resident. I traveled here on a one-way plane ticket. I submitted paperwork yesterday to the Government here to officially "migrate". I'll have the equivalent of a social security number in Sweden, and will be eligible for cheap health care. (After a year, however, I will have to leave)
I resolved somewhat to avoid email for the next year. I intend to reply to people via postal methods, and I hope that some of you will write. My mailbox is large enough to accept small packages too (maybe 10 inches square by 4 inches deep) I don't know what happens to larger items.
Finally, I would like to add that this is a great time to be in Sweden because the exchange rate is astonishingly good right now for Americans. Things that are expensive for Swedes are affordable for Americans. This is good because prices in Sweden are very high -- but with nearly 11 Kronar to the Dollar, many things cost the same as they do in the continental U.S.
