First three weeks

12/2: The running of the race Surfers Challenge today was really a nice, tough and fun experience. I enjoyed running in the heat on the beach where I had to run with much variation to avoid rocks, soft sand and water. Sabina (the one from Umeå I am here with) surprisingly attented to, it was good to have some company in the beginning.

17/2: We decided today to move to a new place in Vincent (a suburb) in order to get closer to town. Until now we have lived on a farm on the contryside. We will stay with the same family as Isa and Monica (the exchange students from last year) did last year. It feels a little bit strange to leave the farm where I really have started to feel like home. I am very grateful to Loreen and her family for there kindness and helpfulness this first two weeks. I really feel that she wants the best for us and she has put in efforts to help us with things.

23/2: First day at school experience today. We will be at this school for three weeks twice a week. The school is a big school with old and proud traditions and our class mates says that it is one of the best schools in the city. In other words; its a well recourced school. We will go to other schools later on to see the differences.

Arrival to East London

My long journey is over and I am at place in East London. The trip has went both god and bad. Good: It was nice to have company with Sabina, it was good movies in the plane and an interesting novel of Katarina Wennstam and the went pretty fast.
Bad: I got ill when I woke up on the plane from Frankfurt to Johannesburg on the morning and throwed up to times. Not fun but not as awful as it sound - I am used to get ill and throw up sometimes when I travel.

Now we are taken care by I nice women named Loreen where we will live at least for the weekend and longer if we want.

Time for a long travel

Dear friends, family and other curious people,

I write in English for the sake of practice and because I then maybe can use some of the text I write here in assignments to the university. Feel free to comment if I do embarrassing language mistakes so I can learn of them...

Today is the day of departure from Sweden. I go tonight and arrive in East London in the late afternoon tomorrow friday. Its my first journey outside Europe so the long flight travel will be a new experience in itself. I am curious to see how the vegan food we have ordered on the plane is, I dont have big expectations.

In some sense it feels as though I have already left because I left from Umeå on friday and have been in Norrköping, Linköping and now Stockholm to visit family and a friend. It feels good to have met you/them and have a proper goodbye.

We will live in the house of a staff of the University of Fort Hare this weekend but after that its an open question where to live. I look forward to see Loreen (the one who let us now at her place) who is mother of Nicole who is in Umeå this spring as part of the same exchange as me and whom I met before I left Umeå. She plans for a 5 km walk on saturday so it will be a physical start. Feels good!