walking with christopher walken

i’ve been playing a lot of tennis with william this past week after the sun goes down because its so hot during the day. my parents took my sister to old salem for 3 days as her birthday present. i went bridge jumping with paul and tyler. when we were walking over to the bridge a cop drove by and asked if we were going to jump off that bridge but tyler was so smooth and said that we were just going to go swimming and the cop drove away. i was sitting in the hot tub and i got stung by a wasp and my arm swelled up really big the next day. i went to the shish kabob place for the first time and had a lamb gyro. it was really good. they have a lot more of these places in sweden than here but in sweden a gyro is called kabob.

i got up and got my room ready for the 8:30 inspection. the guy was like you forgot to dust. i left my towels and sheets and pillows in my room. then i took the bus too the train station and met toby and colleen and krystal and wes. the train was so crowded with all our suit cases. the first security check went really smoothly but then when i was showing them my passport at the gate and they just pushed my into a back room and started search through all my stuff. it was really weird because they didn’t even ask me, they just kind of grabbed me and brought me to this room and patted me down. then i got to board the plane pretty quickly. the sas flight was really nice. they gave me a vodka and a snack and the old lady that was sitting next to me gave me her snack too. then for lunch they gave me swedish meatballs and mashed potatoes and a mini bottle of wine and cheese and bread and strawberry stuff for desert. i asked for more meatballs and they got me some more. then i took my sleeping pills but i didn’t sleep that much but it was ok because the rest of the 8 hour flight went by pretty fast. once i got to newark i picked up my bags and went through customs. then i said goodbye to my friends and dropped my bags off again and i rode the tram to terminal c to wait 3 hours for my next flight. we boarded at around 7:30 and we had to wait for ever to take off and i was miserable on that flight. when i arrived at the airport mom and paul were there to pick me up.

i sold my bike at the book store; you can buy it here. mine is the second cheapest one on there so hopefully it will sell fast. the book store will take like 100kr and then paypal me the money when it sells. i also sold my phone there for 230kr with the same deal except i think they only take like 30kr for the phone. then i tried to buy my ticket but the lady said i had to wait until tomorrow. so then i walked to the design center and did the online checkin for my flight and printed out my boarding pass. at the beginning of the year they made us pay a 50kr deposit to get the card that lets us in the design building and they told us we could get it back at the end of the year but the front desk has been closed all week so none of us have been able to get our deposit back. so then i walked back beat and defeated. it’s crazy how long it takes to get anywhere without a bike. my feet were getting tired. i think i’m going to try to catch the 9:17 train to kastrup tomorrow morning with the georga tech kids and toby. i know that i’ll miss that train though so i’ll probably end of taking the 9:37 train. then i went to alex’s new apartment and drank probably way too much but i wasn’t really worried about missing my flight because the sun always wakes me up at like 6am regardless of what i do the night before.

i did my laundry, finished packing and cleaned my room.

i played badminton with wes and then we finished up some more of my food. he won one game and i won the other game. i think my arm is going to be soar tomorrow. then i took a nap and then i went to a left over dinner to eat other peoples left overs. i brought shake cheese. yum shake cheese.

i packed some stuff and i went to a bbq and finished up my sausages and beer.

i played tennis with wes at victoria stadium this afternoon. we had some really good rallies and i was surprised because i haven’t played in so long. of course i dominated him 6-2. my serve was doing really good today. then we watched a bunch of movies and made peanut butter microwave fudge and philip came over and we watched some more movies. one of the movies that we watched was this swedish vampire movie. henry cleaned the whole corridor today and it looks so amazing.

i had dinner with some friends and then we were throwing water balloons out of the window of sparta and we saw some other people going to a nation. so after we finished throwing all our water balloons at them we went and joined them at vöstagöta. it was the last night that the nations were going to be open but it was really lame. i think i was pretty tired too because the last night i only got about 3 hours of sleep because the stupid swedish sun woke me up at six.

yesterday i was getting kind of anxious because i didn’t have anything to do so today i made a list of things that i could do but won’t get around to doing and i must say that i feel much better now just knowing that there are things that i could be doing that i’m not. having things to do and not doing them feels great and it gives my life purpose. it’s also how cope with the immense psychological challenges of not working or doing nothing. one thing i did do today was 160 push ups; i was feeling pretty beastmode911. i downloaded a bunch of movies because i want to have them for the trip back home except i keep watching them. that reminds me that i need to go to the flea market and get some head phones. i think i saw some awesome ones last time that looked like from the 80s but i didn’t think i needed them until i remembered that i lost my earphones in france. the only ones i have now are for the stupid proprietary jack on my samsung phone and i hate them with all my heart. i had some drinks with janne and philip. janne had a new finish vodka for me to try called koskenkorva. it was interesting because even at room temperature i could hardly taste it and there wasn’t the usual sensation as it was going down but it sure got us drunk. then we went to hallands nation. it was pretty good except this swedish guy was trying to kick janne out for a while but luckily he didn’t succeed.

stupid:

i went to print out my booklet but i ran out of money on my print account so i had to go buy more at the studicentrum. the smallest amount i could buy was 50kr so now i have a bunch of extra print money left and nothing to print. then printed the rest of it out and turned it so now i’m officially done! on my way back home i saw this weird bike without a chain, i think it’s kind of cool:

mom said to take more pictures of outside so here is my attempt: