Today was my first day of summer classes. We started right were we left off last week so academically there is not much of a difference. About half the class is from my old class so there are a lot of new students. My class is also now on the forth floor instead of the second, which made today’s thunder storm that much more interesting.
Tomorrow the bus drivers will be on strike. I can still take the train to school but traveling to other parts of the suburbs is going to be tricky. For example, to get to Hallunda from here it takes about half and hour by bus. Now we have to take a 10 minute train ride to Stockholm station and a 50 minute metro ride to Hallunda. Plus you have about a 10 minute transfer wait. I feel bad for the students in my class who have to deal with the new commute. I am thinking that most of them won’t show.
For those of you who have not checked out Russell’s blog I have a link to it off to the right. He is English major and a captivating writer so his blogs are always interesting.
Finally to the best part of my day! I got to work today. A huge thanks goes out to Stefan (Steven) who has been Alex’s friend since forth grade. After school I went to Stefan’s shop to have a look. It was a very big shop filled with uniform type clothing. Among other things they print logos on clothing. I made a new 24601 t-shirt with Stefan’s design and help. I have wanted to go to globen with Stefan for a long time so I decided to hang around till he got off work. I folded t-shirts, put helmets together, check off shipments and helped iron on logos. It was a lot of fun
Afterwards we walked all around the shops by globen. We saw plenty of nifty things.
I am still working on getting the camera fixed. Lots of pictures to come.

Drottningholm

Drottningholm Palace today was a huge disappointment. We brought food for a nice picnic, all the grassy areas were covered in poop. Dog, duck, I don't care, it was gross. There was however nice green grass everywhere, with a few bushes and trees, but these were the "gardens." Visitors get to look at the pretty grass and the trees, not enjoy it. We finally found a half shaded bench to sit on. It was 30 degrees C. To hot for sitting in the sun.
The newspaper said that there would be free tours of the palace today. Although the theater, the reason we came, was a separate tour. It cost money to see that. So we went to the theater gift shop and looked at pictures. We didn't even see the palace. They wouldn't allow any backpacks in. They didn't have any place to store them.
The best part of the day was sitting on the bench. Not even the castle was exciting to look at. It was yellow and old looking. I don't have batteries for my camera so I couldn't take any pictures.
So then it was decided that we would take the ferry boat back to Stockholm central. I didn't want to spend money to take the boat back but we got there just as it was about to leave and everyone jumped on before I had time to say "no." It turned out to be a lot of money.
I was planning to go to Skansan tomorrow for a birthday. This is the zoo and museum that I have wanted to go to since I first started reading about Stockholm. Every weekend there has been some excuse for why we can't go. Alex has been there before so I don't think he was that excited to go. Finally tomorrow we had the money and a birthday party. Only I spent my money on a stupid ferry ride that we didn't need.
After that there was no hope of having fun. I cut the holiday short.
I found out that on of the school field trips we take is to Skansan. Plus it will be free. Plus I don't have any batteries for my camera anyways.

New Place

So I went to the centrum where we are planning to move today. It looks so nice. I don't know which apartment building we are moving into I just know that it is one minute away from the metro station. Here are some of the possibilities.

I could see water from the metro station so I took a bike path down the hill. On the way I saw a badminton net, a tennis court, playgrounds and lots of hiking trails.




I continued on the bike trail past the marina. I came to a huge park and beach. Tons of people where laying around, swimming, grilling and buying ice cream. My camera batteries had died at this point so I don't have any good pictures. There was a fotball field, beach volleyball, ice cream stands and a big sandy beach. It looks like tons of fun!