two days and counting

Saying good bye is always the hardest part. Tyler headed off to Boston today, so at least I get some of my good byes in stages, but really, I'm not sure that makes it much easier. It just kind of drags the tears out over two whole days.

My mom did show me a blog another guy wrote when he went off to Sweden for a year, and it had lots of pictures of the foods in it, and I must say I'm kind of excited, kind of terrified. Excited for the fact that ice cream seems to be everywhere (because really, what is better than ice cream?), but also a bit terrified because he had pictures of a TV dinner that was chicken and bananas, and also he had pictures of ...fish paste in a tube. I'm not so sure I'll be trying that stuff.

He did have a lot of pictures of hedgehogs which makes me think that they run around wild in some parts of Sweden, so I'll let you know if I come across any cute hedgehogs. You'll also get a billion pictures of them, because they're just that cute.

I finally got my residence permit and passport back on Friday after many sleepless nights of worry over whether I'd be able to leave on time, and I even have a working computer. There was only a little bit of threatening involved.

I'll write more and include some pictures when I get to the other side of the Atlantic!