Pic Uploads
Here are some pics from the summer in Canada. They are out of order but include a trip to the Toronto Islands, a Coldplay concert, Blue Jays game and Muskoka as well as some from our Midsommar party in Newmarket. I will upload some from Sweden after. Enjoy!
Trip to Toronto Islands
Coldplay Concert
Canadas Wonderland
Cottage
Jays vs Cinncinati
Toronto Islands again
Sunset on the Moon River
Annika and Will in Bala
These are a few pictures from our Swedish midsommar celebration in Newmarket on June 21st.
And this is from the Swedish church's midsommar celebration in Toronto
Annika by the falls in Bracebridge
I will post these for now and add a few more later..the internet is really slow right now!
More New Beginnings...
Well, its been a long time since I wrote here but I have a few minutes now so I'll write a few things I have been up to...hopefully I can keep it up a little more often now!
I am in Lund, Sweden now starting a new course called 'Svenska som främmande språk' or what we english people would say, Sweden as a Foreign Language. I had my first class this morning and it seems really good. It will not be easy as we have class 4-5x per week for 3 hours from now until December, but in the end I am supposed to have my Swedish up to the University level so that I can study in Swedish if I choose to do that.
The people in the course seem nice and I think we'll get to know each other pretty well this semester so hopefully it won't all be work and we can have some good times too!
The teacher said today we should be speaking only Swedish all the time if we want to pass the final exam for this course but she never said anything about writing in English :P so I guess I will use my blog to get all my English thoughts down.
I'm not sure exactly what my plans are after this course but it is a good start and opens up a lot of doors for me in the future. It also buys me some more time in Sweden for the time being (provided I get my visa) which is where I want to be right now.
I also finally found somewhere to live (unbelievably hard in this town) and am living in a town called Malmö which is just across the water from Copenhagen, Denmark. It seems like a good place to live and I've got a place which is very central which is great for commuting back and forth to Lund (12 minutes on the train) It cost me 640kr which is about 110 canadian for 30 days of unlimited travel. Its not a bad price considering it pays for itself after about 5 round-trips and I will be making around 20 round-trips per month.
Oh yeah, and I am also taking an distance-ed English course through Athabasca University which will allow me to graduate as soon as I complete all the work. It seems to be a good system and so far I would recommend it to anyone who wants to travel and/or live somewhere besides where they are studying. From what I hear all universities in Canada (and maybe elsewhere too)should accept their courses as part of most programs.My plan is to graduate next Spring or Summer, so we'll see how it goes studying two things at once. The nice thing is this English course is flexible and I have up to a year to finish it if I need it.
It was hard to come over here this time and leave Canada behind. I was home for such a short time and there was so little time to relax and do the things I wanted to do. I felt like I was stressed the whole summer about organizing stuff for the fall (courses, visas, financial stuff) and along with travelling around with Annika and my family and working part-time tutoring English the summer absolutely flew by...
Not sure when I'll be back in Canada but things are going well here right now and by the end of September I will be deciding my plans for Christmas and the spring so I will be sure to write again and let everyone know what is happening then!
Hope everyone is well! Would be great to hear from you all!
Will
Living room
Sam misses Arthur
