The first information and where are the rest???

Hi there!

Three more days have passed and we had our first information meeting this Wednesday. We are only 5 international veterinary students!!! Only the 5 from Sweden, nobody else... And there are about 120 students doing medicine and odontology... But they are very keen to take good care of us, but it feels weird that we are only so few... We will have our information tomorrow, and we have a long list of questions for our coordinator to answer..

Soo...

Tuesday nothing really happened, I went with Linnea and her mum to Akropolis and bought some stuff, and when I came back, Zara had already arrived, so I didn't do much more than talk to her and made food, and played the Sims.

And Linnea came back during the evening, so we sat up and talked a lot. =)

Wednesday we had the big information, and then the veterinary students went out for lunch. After that, I went home with Sandra to look at her apartment. She and her boyfriend lives here, and they have two rats! So cute!

In the afternoon and evening I didn't really do much, and Zara's dad was leaving early in the morning, so they went to bed early so I did the same.

Thursday was interesting. I woke up at 4, when they went to the airport, and then I dreamed about puppies and it was really nice until Linnea came back and woke me up. Zara came short after and they made some noise before everyone went back so sleep. When we finally woke up, we tried out the bus system some more, went looking for lamps and went to the bank to ask for papers for the Visa, but it didn't work yet. We cooked food and didn't do anything the whole afternoon.

We all really look forward to start school, to have something to do.

The tourist weekend

The weekend seemed to fly away.
Saturday was spent shopping and touristing in Kaunas. Kaunas is a quite big city, the second biggest city in Lithuania, and the fourth biggest in the Baltic countries. We started the the by going to Hyper Maxima, and then we continued down to Kaunas city, to see what the town had to show. It was nice, we had lunch at a café and walked around in both the "new city" and the Old town, but we didn't go all the way down to the water, witch, we understood later, was the thing to do. We decided to take the trolley thing up to what was supposed to be a place with a nice view over Kaunas, but we didn't find it, only a HUGE church that we didn't look further into.

We walked past another big church on our way through town to Akropolis, the big mall. We bought some more things, like a lamp, a pot, a prying pan and a water boiler. We also had time to buy ice-cream before the mall closed.

We didn't do so much more this day, ate an early dinner and then watched "Gäster med gester", it was fun!

We started Sunday to drive my stuff to the room, and the off to Trakai! Trakai is a town outside Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania) and it has a very famous castle that is open to public. It was very interesting, and nice to see. There were also a lot of small tourist shops and we bought a few postcards and a present to dad. =)

We drove the longer way home, and saw a lot of small, grey houses in the valleys, and also a horse in front of an old wagon all loaded with cabbage! So sad that we didn't stop to take a picture!

Monday was mums last day here, so we went down to the old town again and saw the tower there, and an old church and a new one. There are a lot of big, beautiful churches here.
We also met Nida and her mum in the city, and talked to them for a while, nice!
Back at the room we fixed a little and then the other Linnea came with her mum. We talked for a little bit and then the time had come for mum to leave. After that I went to the school to fix internet and then tidied up among my stuff a little, and now it's soon time to sleep!

The ferry ride and the first impressions

Hi and welcome!
I decided to start a blog to remember some of the things that happens here, and I will try to write in English so more than my Swedish friends can understand!

The journey started yesterday with finishing the last of the packing and then heading for Halmstad to pick up papers for the car. Then we drove down to Karlshamn, and ate lunch on the way. In Karlshamn came the first problem, how to find the ferry terminal when we ha no address o put in the GPS? Finally we found our way and came to he ferry with plenty of time left. And that was good, because it took a long time to get on to the ferry. All the big trucks needed to back onto the ferry, but luckily we didn't need to do that. The ferry ride was ok, 14 hours is not always exiting, but we slept most of the way.

When we woke up, we could spot Klaípeda, the harbor city in Lithuania. It took a while before it was out turn to get off, but finally we got out.

It took some time to drive to Kaunas, but it was highway the whole time, and both interesting and boring. We saw a lot of small farms with these grey little houses and barns that I didn't know existed, and animals and fields. It's a lot of land that is not used, but the nature seems to be great. Other than this, we didn't see anything during the whole drive.

To arrive in Kaunas gave mixed feelings. Of course the GPS didn't work and we didn't have a good map either. So we stopped at a supermarket and I went inside to ask, and we were only two blocks away! Not pure luck, only skill. ;-)
The house was huge, and didn't smell very good, but the room was very nice. Small, but clean and with big windows.

After dumping all the stuff in the rooms, we went for the next adventure to find the hotel. After some trouble with one way streets, we found our way to the hotel, checked in, and then went out for a late lunch. A quick trip to the mall and supermarket and back to the hotel.

I will try to upload some photos later, but now it's time to sleep! To many new things to see makes me tired.