1. meeting so many new people. granted, this one is kind of a given, but it is still my top #1 favorite thing about being here.
2. seeing a 12th century cathedral from everywhere in the city.
3. swedish classes with Steffan and figuring out how to make and understand 28 different vowl sounds (maybe this should be on a least-favourite list...:P)
4. the shower curtian that the ex-tenant left me
5. night-cycling
6. gatherings on the roof
7. the 10:00 flogsta yell and the guy in block 9 who plays his trumpet instead of yelling
8. swedish meatballs.
9. when danny the spaniard is telling me about the american midwest and says that they need their guns to get the tornados off their land
10. sommersby pear cider
11. how fit my legs are going to be from all the biking
12. hearing so many different accents all day long
13. ikea and claus ohlson (the best stores ever!)
14. being in the bbc (blue bike club)
15. meeting someone new every day
16. cross-cultural sex jokes
17. when people working at the stores only talk to me in swedish and i get away with not knowing what they're saying and still look and sound "swedish"
18. franz's pointing game
19. FIKA
20. the way my swedish hairspray smells
21. the squeegie in my bathroom
22. how people here say toilet instead of bathroom
23. fanta
24. biking on cobblestones (initially it's fun and silly... but after a while my bum starts to die a little bit)
25. how everyone smells really good
26. delicious sushi
27. the breaks during classes when all the international kids get together and make plans for the rest of the day
28. dancing at the nations
29. cooking for my friends
30. the fact that i've only been here one week and feel like i've already had a life-altering experience
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