Korean Reunion in Sweden

After touring Copenhagen with an old Danish dude dressed as Hans Christian Anderson (embarassing to be seen with but very, very charming), I hopped on the train headed for Växjö in Sweden, where I met up with one of my best-friends from my semester of studying in South Korea last year, Jennie. I spent a great few days with her and her boyfriend, Per, touring around her town and visiting a nearby island called Örland, which is where the Swedish royalty spend their summers. We also played a game of mini-golf (I sucked!!!) and had a dinner of moose meat at Per's dad's house. It was so awesome to see Jennie again that I almost forgot to appreciate the beauty of Sweden, however that is quite impossible because the country is just too unbelievably pretty to go unnoticed. Blessed with emerald green forrests and too many picturesque lakes to count, Sweden is physically somewhat of a utopia. I guess you could say it looks a lot like Australia would if it were not for the seemingly endless drought that has plagued my homeland for too many years.

And now I am in the old university city of Uppsala, which is approximately forty minutes north of Stockholm. I am here with Martin (Swede), Kay and Janis (Koreans), who I also met while studying in Korea, and tomorrow we will be joined by my other best-friend from Korea, Vanessa from Canada. To reunite with these guys is quite a surreal experience. It doesn't seem like we ever left Korea. I think, though, the fact that as I write I am eating Korean dried squid while enjoying a glass of whisky has something to do with that.