7-0 win against Nora in Orebro!

On Saturday we traveled to Orebro about two hours North to play a preseason game against Nora. We won 7-0. We should have won by more but we couldn't finish. It was still a good game we just played down to their level which sometimes happens when you are playing a team that isn't as good. I played well but couldn't put the puck in the net until the third period. I also had a sexy assist to my line-mate Bohm. I think we connect well on the ice. I enjoy playing with her. I played center the first game and right wing this game. They are moving lines around to see who plays best where and with who. I hope they keep Bohm and I together. I can see us doing some nice things. The rink was in a different building than the locker rooms which I found interesting. Thank god Mandy told me to buy a pair of skate guards before I came because I use them everyday. However, they have already broken. I must walk a little bow-legged because my skates cut through the plastic of the sides skate guards. I have manages to find random ones laying around the rink so I have a working combination at the moment. Our first season game is on October 15th against Sodertalje SK (the team we played last weekend). We can totally beat them so I am pumped we get a rematch. They are going down.

I'm done with 3 weeks of school already. I passed my first module (week) report which is nice. The course is 8 weeks long. We have 3 more weeks of modules and then the last two weeks are for our projects so we won't have any class. I am looking forward to that. I don't know anything about the projects but I am assuming we conduct an experiment of our choice and then at the end of the two weeks we present it. I haven't thought about what I am going to choose as my experiment yet. Maybe something to do with wetlands so I can wear waders again.

I am working at Stadium on Monday after class. It is the warehouse job set up by my hockey team. Apparently the protocol is that the first 4 hours you work for them are unpaid? It doesn't make any sense to me but that's how they work. So Monday I won't get paid but from there on out I will. My roommate Deb is also working at Stadium so hopefully we will work the same shift sometimes and can commute together from Linkoping (Stadium is in Norrkoping). I haven't heard back from the school for work. I think that they only expect that I can be a P.E. teacher because I play sports. When I go in to drop off my pay sheet I'm going to tell them I can also teach science because that was my major in college. Lyndal, my goalie that is a cleaner there, told me they get tunnel vision and only think you can work one area and to tell them I can do other subjects too. They are in need of substitutes a lot because of sickness so hopefully once I tell them I am comfortable teaching other subjects they will call me up. Who would of thought that I'd be a teacher. Weird. Following in my mother's footsteps :) As much as I don't find kids the more enjoyable things in the world, I surprisingly enjoyed being the P.E. teacher and telling them what to do. They all just listened to me and did what they were told. Maybe they were just exceptionally well-behaved kids. Who knows.

It is starting to get a little colder. I can tell in the mornings that I am not wearing enough and I used to not be cold. It is also getting darker earlier. Like around 7:30pm instead of 9pm. It is only going to get darker and darker and colder and colder. Bring it on Sweden. It gets so windy sometimes. Like to where I feel I am getting blown over. It really sucks riding my bike in the wind. I am hate it when bugs fly into my eyes when I'm biking. It has happened like three times. And then it stings and I can't get it out. Sucks to suck.

I have gotten comfortable with the bus system/route. I had to go downtown to pick up a package from my mom because they don't deliver them and so I took the bus because I didn't want to deal with riding back with it. I haven't purchased a back rack for my bike yet. Or baskets. But I haven't really needed it. Except for instances when I want to pick up a package. When I go grocery shopping I bring my travel backpack and everything fits in it. Anyway, I used the bus to go to the post office and I didn't get lost.

I have been here a little over a month now and it feels like I have been here way longer. I feel very comfortable here and my routine is nice. Since partying is not a hobby of mine here I need to figure out what my hobbies are. I should have brought my guitar here so I could teach myself and actually consider myself someone who can play it. Maybe I'll have my parents bring it out when they visit.

The path from my place to campus is CRAZY during school hours. People are idiots on their bikes. I have almost died a couple of times. No one understands walking on the right side. It pisses me off. There are so many bikes on campus and when it is in between class time there is like no room to walk it is so packed.

I have figured out how to use online banking. There is this number pad that I put my card in and there is a code from the internet that I have to put into it along with my pin number and then I can access my account online. Very secure. I can transfer money to people very easily. And I think I will get paid by having it be transfered into my account because they ask for my account information. Sweden has the banking thing down.

So I drink coffee now. Not everyday. But when I'm in class about to fall asleep and we get a break I get some. It works. It actually makes me jittery. I will go from almost passing out in class to not being able to stop moving. Does the job though. And it tastes good. F American coffee. The coffee at a gas station here is equivalent to the top coffee at home. I am totally pulling that out of my ass but I bet its true.

It's gloomy today. Looks like I'll be chilling inside and watching movies. Stay classy America!