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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Ready for take off? No not yet :D



Hej, hur mår ni? Jag mår bra, nem jag här lite tid för skriver det blog. Derför jag vil skriver på engelska. Well just welcome again after such a long time. The time has past by and so my journey have just began. I will tell you in a few sentences about my very first days here in this lovely city.

The picture I have taken with my handy cam unfortunately was from Schönefeld Airport. So first of all I have to leave Germany and this has been the first real challenge. But have a closer look on the screen with the times. Have you seen the expected departure time and the real one? If not, my flight has got a delay of about 5 hours (only for a 1 and almost a half hours flight). The reason was some delay in Stockholm and this delay causes many many other mistakes. To fix it the smart guys at German-Wings invented to take some other machine but when asking them they used to say, well the Airplane has just to be checked within technics division... Nevertheless the people who were responsible for some substitutional parts have just forgotten to order all necessary parts, so the sent one was not adequate enough so we have had to waited for the late machine (on its way to Zagreb) to take it. This odyssee has been ended almost at half past eight. Oh I have just to thank my cousine Franziska for cheering so much with the servant at German-Wings so that I have brought everything I wanted to (my luggage later has been labeled with "HEAVY 60kg" :) ) Thereafter the flight was really quite. At this low-cost airline they didn't served anything so you have to stare a bit. But nevertheless at almost 10 p.m. we just have arrived at Stockholm Arlanda. I was a bit tired so taking this luggage was a bit stressful. When we have arrived at Arlanda C (C stands for central-station) we just have noticed that the train has departed at the moment we have bought our ticket. So we have to wait some more time... waiting this was the really important phrase of that day. Nevertheless we have just taken a very comfortable train to Uppsala C and arrived there 20 minutes later. The next challenge was to call outside opening-hours an officer who can handed us the keys for our rooms. (us means Enno, a friend of mine and me) It was the first time I really have to use english because swedish would not have helped. We meet each other (after some problems with the swedish coins as well as the telephone) near some Thai-restaurant. There was a charming blond haired guy, named MAD, who was just our officer. We asked him if we can only pay our extra fee for being that late (500 SEK) for only one person. He just have declined it so we both have signed our papers. Thereafter we've just asked for some short way and MAD recommended us to take a look for a taxi. Well whenever you reach a country for the first time you should have paid some extra fees (i will call it the tourists-increase of prices.) Finally we paid about 1,5 times then normally but the taxidriver takes us exactly in front of Kantorsgatan. After paying we've just reviewed our corridors and after went to the Gasstation to buy some food. Extremely tired we just have fallen into asleep

Welcome to my very first blog...

... I'll send you a warm and nice hello and welcome to my very first blog. I want to invite you to explore "my world" while reading and / or posting. The title may not as clear to everybody as it should. This blog is about the time I'm going to spend in Sweden. I will be there from September this year up to June next year. And, in this blog I see a way to write down my experiences.

I will try to write only in english, allthough my mother tongue is german. But of course in Sweden I want to learn Swedish so, from time to time, I will post something in swedish too.

Please, let me know, how you like this blog and what are you interested in while reading.

So far...