the stockholm exchange

...ah stockholm, what a fabulous weekend.
i caught a 10pm flight out of frankfurt hahn last thursday to go hang out with sandra and susie in stockholm for the weekend. after landing at about 1am and finally getting to sandra's apartment around 2 (i was freaking out because i had no money to pay the cab and i didn't know where sandra even was), it was time for .... well, it was time for bread, cheese, juice, gossip and bed actually. haha. not very exciting.
sandra had work the next day, so i just sort of lolled around the house doing not much of anything - although i did finally get to finish watching "the shawshank redemption" which is an AMAZING movie. i hung out with sandra's sister jessica and her boyfriend adrias in the morning too. definitely good times. jessica showed me the pictures that she has of the time she came to visit the states four years ago. we were all so young!! man, that was a trip down memory lane. we all used to have so much fun together.
when sandra got home we struck out in a blizzard to go find somewhere to eat, at which point i realized that all of the english, french and spanish in the world could not help me understand one word of swedish. i think i would have died of starvation without sandra and adrias there to order food for me.
that night was a blast. we got all dressed up and went over to take's apartment for some good old fashioned fun. i met sandra's boyfriend and take's girlfriend, who were both really awesome (and pitied me and my lack of swedish, so spoke to me in english and explained what everyone else was talking about). we headed over to this place called "after" after that to meet up with susie and some other girls. it was there, of course, that i took a fated spill onto the ground.
here's a note: when there is a blizzard, and you are drinking, and you are walking on cobblestone streets, four inch heels are NOT a good idea.
(but damn, at least i looked good).
we didn't stay in After long because Adrias couldn't get in (apparently they have something against mohawks?) so we shuttled off to a different club called Medusa - the name of which i only remember because i took a picture of it.
it was there that i was mistaken for a bartender, actually made drinks for people and handled their credit cards, and chatted up a danish guy while pretending to be a brit who was working her way through school here in sweden.
it kind of rocked. haha.
the next day we went to the vasa museum, which is basically a building built to house this giant ship from the 1600s that was salvaged from the bottom of the bay, where it sank on it's maiden voyage. it was so cool!!! i might be a little bit of a nautical nerd. after seeing that we just went shopping ( I <3 H&M) and wandered around the old town, taking in the sites. stockholm really is a gorgeous city. i want to go back!
we took it easy saturday night - chinese take out plus "mamma mia". definitely a good combination. i caught about 3 hours of sleep before i had to be up for my 3:40am bus to catch my 6:50am flight from the airport. i thought i was going to murder a group of (possibly drunken) swedish guys on the plane. bastards would NOT shut up!!
anywho, about 6 hours later, after travel by plane, train and automobile, i got home to my beloved bed in noertzange.
for the next two weeks, i'll be off traveling again - first to austria for a week with my mom and then to berlin for another week with my english class. after that, only one week of school left, a weekend in spain, and finals. then i'm done!
oy. time flies.
love,
me