Ying in Lund!

Finally! Haven't been able to find time to blog... I've been out the past few nights and most of the time when I get back to my room, I plonk myself onto the bed and concuss. Being an exchange student can be rather exhausting in the beginning -_- Anywaaay, Lund is a great place! Although the weather hasn't been very kind to us (with random bouts of rain and can-blow-you-away-wind), I've been able to explore the town. It's not super happening but it's a great place to relax and nua. The pace of life is really slow... and it's a rather quiet university town. =) I've been keeping note of what happened in the past couple of days and this is update. It might not be a long update cause I just typed a REALLY long post and it got deleted cause I shut down my laptop accidentally (don't ask ha).

Day One

- Bad start cause of my baggage probs... really sway cause the other smu students could get away with 40+ kg but I had to go to an annal baggage in charge person. Argh.

- Everything wasn't so bad cause my greatest friends sent me off (my IJ babes, shakineh, yilynn&xx) Thank you darlings! I love you alllllllll. Muacks! *heart*

- I was a bit upset due to my small quarrel with my mum. (I think everyone there knew about it cause it was pretty obvious heh) Things weren't too good between us before I left... but I still hugged my mummy goodbye when I had to go. I can't imagine being away from her for so lonnng. *sniff*

- It's hard saying goodbye I tell you. You have to hold back tears cause you'll end up making everyone cry and that's not very nice hehe. Those people who go abroad to study for long periods of time have it worse... poor things.

- I was excited nevertheless. I was going to have my journey to freedom!

- Flight to bangkok was really fast cause I was chatting with yuxian hehe. But I was quite bored cause there was thai airways has no personal inflight entertainment! I actually slept through most of the flight to copenhagen lol. Can't believe I really did that... amazing. I'm such a piggy.

- Getting to the train station at copenhagen was quite funny... we had a mini accident at the escalator. Oddly, the train station had no travelator so we had to lug our baggages down the escalator. They were so heavy that they ended up colliding into one another. So unglam! lol. But I guess it wasn't as bad as when we arrived at Lund Central Station. We had to carry our baggages down the stairs lah! The people in Lund must be damn strong or something... there was no lift or escalator. Maybe they just kick their bags down the stairs.

- Checked in at the AF building. Got my room and it's really nice! I love it! The furniture inside comes from Ikea I think (not suprising) and it's almost like an hotel to me. Will upload photos soon! I have my own bathroom, fridge and microwave... really self sufficient place. It's pretty easy for me to settle down in it.

- Yuxian's swedish friend Richard brought us around and taught us how to walk to AF/supermarket. That was just before we had turkish lunch with the SMU people... in the end we went to Ikea! Richard drove us there... he's a rather helpful guy... but then again I think he likes Yuxian so he might be nice for a reason heh. I got my dustbin and duvet there =D


Day Two

- I was late for swedish class! I tell you... swedish is damn difficult lah! I couldn't make a lot of the sounds... and it doesn't help that I have a pretty lousy teacher. She seems rather bitchy and superficial... but I might be wrong about her *shrug* Ming agrees though. The good thing is... I managed to speak more to Julie, the french girl staying in my apartment. She's rather soft spoken and shy... really sweet though. She helped my in class when I couldn't understand what my teacher was talking about when she spoke to me. I suck at swedish! Heeeh.

- Went for lunch with a big group of international students. We had italian food! Dining out in sweden is damn expensive. Sometimes I think I rather not eat. This place is really good for dieting lol. We got lost trying to get to the meeting place for our general information meeting... we ended up walking ALOT. So much walking in Lund... if not cycling. *sigh*

- We went to Elaine's place for dinner! The walk to her place was like 45 minutes... it seemed never ending *shudder* The walk was worth it though cause we had a damn good chinese dinner. Ming cooked for us =D Had Bah Kut Teh, teriyaki chicken, potatoes and rice. Played a lot of dai di and other card games. We're such gamblers lol. Had a bit of beer to warm ourselves... I have to say though, elaine's place is really quite exclusive. It's like a little house on its own. We got to know this asian aussie guy from sydney... Jonathan. He reminds me of yoza... the accent and appearance. Quite strange hehe.

Day Three

- Spoke to mummy on skype in the morning cause I woke up fairly early (still jet lagged I think) Only met up with the SMU peeps at 12 plus to hand in our enrollment forms. The walk to school was again very long... I think I can seriously tone my legs or lose weight here.

- My econs coordinator is really cool! He has ear piercings... long tied hair. He reminds me of a pirate... the wannabe pirate in dodgeball lol. He seems really nice too =D

- Hung out at sparta... we self invited ourselves and played heart attack at the common room. We must have been pretty bored lol. Headed back to get ready for the international welcome party held by a nation (student clubs in Lund). We ended up rushing cause we had a house meeting to decide what supplies to get for our kitchen and what duties to do. Chatted with patrick from holland and dominique from germany. Decided to go with dominique to the party cause he knew the way... Waaah the walk there was madness. And the best part was I didn't bring my letter of acceptance and I had to go alll the way baaaack to get it. The party wasn't even that fantastic when we got back! The music was sooo 'off'. I started to miss phuture/zouk when I was there. But I guess it was quite an experience... first clubbing with lots of ang mohs surrounding me lol.

Day Four (my eyes are beginning to close)

- We went to Malmo! Headed to the same Ikea... and got more stuff =D This time we had swedish meatballs... ooo yummy. Ten swedish meatballs is more than enough for me man.

- Had a look at Malmo casino... though we couldn't go in cause we didn't have our passports with us. Anyway there was an entrance fee and I wasn't really keen about spending that money.

- Malmo was really quiet... cause it was a sunday. It seemed like a ghost town... and we were quite disappointed. There's not much of a night life in Sweden. Maybe we should really go to spain soon... party party party!

Okieeeeeeeeeeeeeessss! That's enough blogging for the night! My shoulders starting to ache -_- *collapses*

*dreams of ba chor mee, bbqed chicken wings and teh chino*