I haven't posted to

I haven't posted to any of my blogs for a while now. Things aren't really busy, just spread out enough so that I don't have a good block of time to sit down at the computer and process photos, or formulate any coherent thoughts about sustainability. I do have lots I want to write about on the sustainability blog, but I somehow feel compelled to put up some background info first, about what I am studying, and what is leading my to the more abstract, roaming thoughts I really want to explore. When it comes to simply regurgitating the info from class or from the book however, I find myself either bored or lacking confidence in my explanation. It's a real shame considering the quality of lecturers we have and will have, including the former president of Volvo and Ikea US who we have for the next three days. I also want to set a good example for the few others that i have convinced to start a blog as well.

I went to Lund this weekend to pick up some packages I had mailed from Japan over two months ago. despite being promised that they would arrive in a month, they only arrived last week. Inside them is my kayak. I was pretty piffed off to find that when I arrived back home in Karlskrona, one of the boxes holding important kayak parts had not yet arrived to my sister's place in Lund (I used her address because I didn't know what mine would be). I mailed them all at the same time, and I really don't know why only this one would be late. If it doesn't arrive it will screw my entire year, as I was planning to take my kayak up the east coast of Sweden next summer for a month once school is out.

My Swedish is coming along. I am meeting a great "speech tutor" three times a week, which is about the only time I really get a chance to speak Swedish for now. My hope is that after another month or so of this, I will be good enough that the other Swedes wont switch to English so soon. I'm not sure if I will meet the goal however, considering that I have not really had time to study on my own as much as I would like.

In fact, I am really disappointed in my whole time management skills since I got here. I was hoping that, since I usually only have classes in the mornings, I would have lots of time to read and research a lot about what I am studying, study Swedish on the side, go to the gym a couple days a week, and kayak once or twice on the weekends. Somehow none of that seems to be happening as much as I would like, but I can't think of where the time is going.