Travel week!

Read about my first solo travel experience from October 8-16 visiting Croatia, Slovenia, Austria and Germany.

Exploring Estonia

I spent the weekend of Friday September 30th traveling with some friends to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia! Flights there from Stockholm were quite cheap and quite short, so we figured "Why not??" We came into this weekend hoping to have fun, and I’d say it was an absolute success. After getting in late Friday…

Hiking in Bergen

The week of September 19th was fairly uneventful – classes are still in full swing and the workload is theoretically picking up a little, but life is good. The weekend, on the other hand, was one of the coolest I’ve had in my life! Myself and a few friends decided rather spontaneously to go on…

Core course week (and other fun things!)

Hello! So sorry! I’ve been busy. Lots of traveling, lots of class, little bit of work :D. The week of Monday, 9/12 was Core Course week for my Sustainable Environments in Scandinavia class. During this week, we traveled to southern Sweden (by train) for 3 days to visit the cities of Lund and Malmö, learning…

Getting into the swing of things

This post marks the conclusion of my second full week of classes! My apologies for the delay in posting – I got wrapped up in cooking a feast Sunday night and then had to pack prior to my departure for my core-course week travel to the city of Lund, in southern Sweden! This week was…

Getting active

With classes now in full swing, life has begun to fill up with work and things so there has been less time for fun and other exploration. In spite of that, though, I’ve definitely still had a very productive week! Most significantly, I joined a rowing club! And a running club! I’d reached out to…

First week recap

Hello! This post officially marks the end of my first full week in Stockholm. It’s been an incredibly busy last few days, but I’ve already fallen in love with this city. We spent the first two days this week doing orientation and other important visa stuff, with our first field studies beginning on Wednesday. It…

First impressions

My story resumes as I wait with two fellow DIS students outside of our apartment building, a charming 6-story green brick apartment building, clearly only a few years old. After getting my room key, I’m finally able to check out my room and meet my roommate in person! The rooms came furnished which…