Mondaytuesday is totally a day of the week.

Soooo…. Sorry about the lack of blog post yesterday. The internet connection here at the hostel is very spotty as it is currently trying to support 30+ people. Students tend to all go online at the same time and therefore clog up weak connections, making it impossible for anyone to get on and do anything.

Archway at Parliament

Very nice square connecting side streets

Yesterday was our first day of class, and so, therefore, today was our second (wow! Kira can do math!). We did not start until about 12:45 in the afternoon on Monday because the Professor had to first find the classroom and then set it up (that was a loooong process). A few of us wandered around Gamla Stan for a bit in order to get a better sense of the city and eat up some time before class. As we didn't have any homework and the hostel isn't really a great place to hang out, getting out to see the city while lugging around our notebooks, course readers, and textbooks really was the best option. Class was very long (we went until 6 pm), but some of that might have been perceptional, due to the fact that we were covering Mendel, which we have all covered multiple times (we get it already! Yay Mendel… pbth).
Instead of going back to the hostel and finishing our problems like good students (well, that was mostly me. Hannah had done the problem sets for this particular chapter earlier in the summer), Hannah and I went out to explore more of Stockholm in the evening. We ended up wandering out of the tourist district and discovering beautiful streets, local shops, the public library, interesting statues, and graffiti that seemed to have some sort of significance. People had written their names all over a wall with a plaque embedded into it; we couldn't exactly decipher what the plaque said, but the abundance of names and the lack of evidence of attempts to remove the names indicated to us that perhaps the act of writing one's name on the wall had some sort of significance.

Kira in Mårten Trotzigs gränd

Hannah in Mårten Trotzigs gränd

We quickly became distracted from this wall when we discovered that we had accidentally stumbled upon Gamla Stan's narrowest alley way, Mårten Trotzigs gränd. Of course we stopped and took pictures, even though it was dark and raining. We couldn't resist!
Towards the end of our walk, we stopped in at a grocery and Hannah bought a tube of fish product (the kind of thing in the picture of food tubes I posted).

Here's a picture of her eating it (No thank you!).

Hannah eating…stuff.

Wine Bottle Holders (for you Mom)

On the street

Lights + Water + Train = beautiful

 Today, Tuesday, has been much less exciting. We spent a lot more time in class (we brought our own lunches in middle/high school fashion, so no exciting restaurants either), and we were so tired afterwards that we stayed at the hostel to attempt to work on homework (No Dad, haven't really found a good place to study in town, though I'm working on it. Thing is, cafes are a little expensive and I haven't seen any good sit-down-for-a-couple-hours bookstores). The most exciting thing we did this evening was walk to the grocery store to buy some more starving college student food (on sale salami expiring tomorrow, cereal, digestive biscuits- which are like yummy yummy graham crackers from England, and the like). The sunset was absolutely gorgeous, so of course I will share it with you. You're going to be getting a lot of pictures of the sky and water here. It's very pretty, and the pictures aren't quite capturing it.

Sunset today from the boat

Sunset coming back from the Grocery Store