my very first days

Hej eller Tjena,

As far as you may have noticed I have had arrived here at Uppsala. In this post I will give you a kind of summary what has happened to me at my very first days. As you (already may) have read there were serious problems just at Schönefeld-Airport. For gods sake this wave of bad luck didn't continued. After arriving I have noticed that EVERYTHING of my new home is IKEA-Stuff. That was also one reason to went to IKEA (as I will write later on). 

On wednesday morning, I met Enno at his new apartment and there was a Newbie from Uppsala (Newbie means a student in the first year) who invited us to join him. That was a really good chance to see the university and our new campus. At that time nobody neither Enno nor me have bought a bike. Although we have had to went by foot. It was a distance of (let me guess) about 7 km from Kantorn to Pollacksbacken but the weather was really good (sun was shining, normal temperatures) so it was a nice walk to the new campus. While walking the Newbie, his name is Rickard introduces us to the special treatmens for the first-years students. At Uppsala they use to socialize the Newbies as soon as possible. Due to that fact in the first week they party a lot (each evening, almost) and use to say "The harder you can party the harder you can study". That was the reason why there were some "freaks" at the campus when we have arrived there. But look for yourselves...

Thereafter we have managed to get our Internet-Account. This was no common thing, because everywhere we went to and have asked for more informations there have been allways the same answer. "Well you are Exchange-Student? Then you should wait for your contact person here at Uppsala". This has happened a number of times. On wedneday in addition I met to the other apartment members. They are all swedish, in my corridor live about 2 girls, two buys, both of the girls live in couples and one of the boy is still married to an american. All of them speak a very fluent english as most of swedish people I have met to yet.  And I went to shopping. We have a small supermarket next to our housing area and they use their position as best as possible. The prices are higher than in city-center due to the fact that this one is the only supermarket in that area. Maybe later I will try out Vaksalatorget - a market is located at this large place near downtown. At this place they use to sell (stolen) bikes. Neither Enno nor me want to pay so much for the bus tickets so we went through the whole city at our first day and have checked out every bike store but unfortunately were all out of stock.

A bit frustrated we returned to home and tried to enjoy the new internet-connection.