Then I lost It...

Thursday:
I woke up and had to be at AJY at 10am for our walking tour of where all our classes would be held. Since I'm only taking English courses I followed the tour until I saw the English building and then left. The English building is next to the bar that we've gone two a bunch of times, which is definitely convenient for remembering where its at! Afterwards, I went back to AJY and compiled all my classes and stuff and then went to the Mensa for lunch with Anna. After lunch, Nelly and I went to try to sign up for the German Pop Music course, but couldn't figure out where it was, so we just ended up walking around HD for over two hours before calling it quits. Then around 3ish I walked down Hauptstrasse searching for a gift to take Sabina and couldn't find anything, so I just went home. Got home and spent the rest of the day packing/getting ready for SWEDEN! I talked to Nan on skype for the first time which was SO much fun and Dan and Anna came over and hung out for a while! Then around 1ish I went to bed.

Friday: SWEDEN DAY 1!
I woke up around 7 and finished packing/getting ready to head to Sweden! Anna and I had to go to AJY to print off all travel documents and we decided to get breakfast since we didn't know when we'd actually get to eat again. So we went to Kamps and I got a kasebrotchen (mmm) and a choc. croissant! :) then we went to the train station to begin our day of insane traveling. We got to the Hauptbahnhof at 9:30 and talked to the guy and bought our 6 euro tickets then took the train at 10:45 to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and got off and took a street car to Rastatt Hauptbahnhof and then a bus to Baden-Baden airport. We then had about two hours to kill before our flight so we walked around the tiny little airport in Karlsruhe. At 3:00 our flight left!!! Ryanair is an interesting airlines. The seats are extremely uncomfortable unless you plan to sit straight upwards the whole time and the leg room is basically non-existent. Its a funny airlines tho...they play this happy-go-lucky boarding music that makes you think you're going to like the carribean or someplace warm. And the seats are navy blue and bright yellow, which is a little over-stimulating haha. Anyway, Anna and I walked on the plane and you could pick where you sat, so we noticed a pretty good lookin' dude sitting alone, so we grabbed the opportunity and sat beside him ;)! We ended up spending the entire 2 hr flight talking with him. His name was Florian and he goes to Stuttgart Hochschule (its a step beneath a University) and plans to work in Business. He was visiting a friend in Stockholm which was why he was on our flight. Needless to say, we exchanged email addresses and had a pretty good time talking to him :P! We landed in Skavsta at about 4:50 and had a half hour to catch our bus to Orebro. We waited outside for the bus and at 5:30 the bus pulled out of the airport!!! We were officially on our way!!

We got to Orebro at 7:50 and Sabina pulled up!!!!! It was SO GOOD to see her!! She took us back to her little apartment and made us spaghetti and meat sauce for dinner, which was perfect because we were STARVING! We talked for a little while and then got ready and went out. We went to her boyfriend, David,'s apartment first where we met him as well as 7 of his friends. David is probably one of the sweetest guys I've met in a very very long time. In Sweden apparently, you hug everyone you met for the first time so everyone kept hugging me, which for me was fabulous since I am such a huggy person! AND their way of saying hello is "HEY!" in a really chipper voice haha! So we kept saying "hey" and meeting all of their friends and hanging out before we eventually left to go to their on campus club! Now in the states, a club on campus would be lame. however, in Sweden it was apparently where EVERYONE went on Friday nights! There was this HUGE line that we had to wait in and we ended up making friends with people standing around us. Once we got in we gave our jackets to the hanging people and made our way inside. Their club had two dance floors, one that played old school music and one that played more modern music. The little one (old school) was the most crowded. Apparently Sweds like their old school music-haha. We went there first and ran into Sabina's friend Lena who was really funny and sweet. Then we ran into David and his friend David (who we will refer to as Hannah's David). Hannah's David kept messing up my hair, which is a HUGE no-no. And kept telling me that by the end of the night my hair would not look so perfect...I wasn't too pleased altho he was kinda funny about it. We ended up dancing for a while with Sabina's friends and left the club around 2ish to walk back to Sabina's apartment. We got back and fell asleep.

Saturday: SWEDEN DAY 2!
We woke up around 12:30..eek! And didn't end up leaving the apartment until 2:30ish. We took the bus to town and walked around a bit. In Sweden you can only buy liquor/beer/alcohol from an ABC type store and it's only open certain hours and its closed after 3 on Saturdays. So we had to make a run to the ABC store to get stuff for later that night. I got Strongbow(a cider) because everything was OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive! A tiny bottle of Bacardi was 499 Kroners which was like 50 Euros. Ridiculous! So we got out little bottles and then decided to go grab a coffee. We went to a place called Bara Vara which was exactly the type of cafe I wanted to find here in Heidelberg. It was busy like Starbucks at home except they had little nooks where you could sit and be out of the way with really comfortable chairs and the coffee...OMG was the coffee good. It was by far the best mocha I've had!! We sat there til about 5ish and then took the bus back home to cook dinner before going over to Hannah's. We got to Hannah's and had a girls night where I got to meet Hannah (one of Sabina's best friends) and a couple of other really cool girls. Girls in Sweden are gorgeous. Literally, like model gorgeous. Anna and I kept whispering to each other about how ugly we felt compared to all of them. They're super tall and thin and always dressed to the 9s. We hung out with Hannah for a while and then they decided they were going to go clubbing and Sabina/Lena/Anna and I decided we didn't want to go so we left and went to try and find a bar to sit and talk in but since it was Saturday night everything was INSANELY crowded so we went to the classiest of classy places...Burger King. haha! Apparently, Burger King is "classier" than McDonalds in Sweden so we went and got fries and cokes while we waited for David to pick us up with the car. We got back to Sabina's around 2:30ish and then had to wake up super early to go Sabina's parents!

Sunday: SWEDEN DAY 3!
We woke up early had breakfast and David picked us up to go to Sabina's parents houses! We first stopped at her Mom's house for a HUGE lunch! It was unbelievable!! She made meatballs, this amazing potato casserol, cheese and crackers, different sandwhich meats, grilled salmon, lox, and so many other things. It was unreal. I don't think I've eaten that much in a VERY long time!! Then for dessert her sister baked a brown betty (apple crisp) that was TO DIE FOR. Her family was so sweet and warm and welcoming! Then around 3 all the kids (me, david, sabina, anna, and her sister and bro) headed over to their Dad and Step Mom's apartment. We spent the rest of the day hanging out with her Dad and Step Mom and littlest sister Sorena. She's not even 3 yet and the CUTEST little girl! It made me really miss Ash & Lil. We left around 7ish and headed back to Orebro where we ate Pizza and crashed.

Monday:
I woke up feeling pretty shitty. We showered/got ready and Sabina came home around 1:30ish from class and we went into town to go shopping. We ended up not buying anything and came home in time to make dinner before trying to go to the soccer game. However, it started raining so David came over and we watched a soccer game on TV instead and then watched a bunch of random shows on TV and went to bed.

Tuesday: LAST DAY IN SWEDEN...
Woke up and met Sabina on campus at 12. I was really pretty crappy and had a bad sore throat, so we went to a pharmacy to get me some type of throat losenges. Then we went to their Outlet stores to go shopping and tried on a bunch of jeans but nothing fit so we left and went to their little Red Houses village. It was really cute/quaint and we walked around the lake/park that was beside the village. It was really gorgeous outside so it was nice to be out in the fresh air. Afterwards, Sabina and David dropped Anna and me off at Sabina's while they went to a meeting and Anna and I made dinner. We made chicken-alfredo-pasta and an amazing salad. We ate and afterwards I felt really sick so I laid down while they cleaned up and talked about things to do that night. I guess I was a big party pooper because I just wanted to stay home and I think they were slightly upset with me...ooh well. I ended up not being able to sleep the entire night so I called Mom around 3am and talked to her for a little while and then got back on the couch and laid there until 7 when the others got up and got ready to head to the bus station.

Wednesday: Traveling home...
Sabina dropped us at the bus station at 8:00 and we took the bus to Skavsta airport and got there around 10:30. We grabbed something to eat and then waited to board our plane. The plane left a little after 12:30 and we landed close to 2:30 where we then grabbed a bus back to Heidelberg from the airport. It was more expensive than taking all the different transportation, but I was too sick to want to deal with it. We got home around 5 and made dinner and then Anna left. I got really sick afterwards...not good. Spent the whole night throwing up/talking to my family and trying my hardest not to get more upset.

Thursday:
Didn't sleep a wink so around 9am I emailed Dr. Tracy and told him I wanted to go see a doctor and that I didn't think I'd be able to go to Berlin with them. He picked me up around 3:30 and took me to see Dr. Schaff-hauser. He dropped me at the front door and I climbed the 3 flights of stairs up to Dr. Scaff-hauser's office. He was by far the NICEST doctor I've ever seen. He was friendly and funny and knew I wasn't feeling good at all so he made sure that I was checked out and gave me these funny drops to drink with water so that my virus/flu bug wouldn't progress into anything worse. I left him and went to the Apotheke to get the funny drops and then came home. Anna and Dan came to check on me, and Anna brought me soup which was nice b/c I had no food in the apartment other than chips and tea bags. They stayed for a few then left and I got into bed and started skyping with Sarah. Charis and Alex stopped by to check on me, which was really sweet and then after they left I took dimetapp and went to bed.

Friday:
Woke up and spent the whole day watching movies/tv.

Saturday:
Woke up and again spent the whole day watching movies/tv.

Sunday: Today:
Woke up around 1 and decided since its Sunday and nothings open anyway instead of pushing myself to go out I'd stay in and watch movies/tv and drink as much hot tea/soup as possible before classes start on Tuesday. I have a really bad gunky cough but other than that I'm feeling a lot better than Wed/Thurs which is good. I'm sad I missed out on the Berlin trip but I really think this was the right decision. If I'd gone, I probably would have only gotten sicker and I don't need that for the start of classes. Well, thats my update now back to SVU and my tea cup.