One Year Ago: Arrival Day at Lund University
August 17, 2005. Arrival Day at Lund University.
One year ago today I woke up in a sleeper cabin in Malmo’s train station. I took a curious purple train to a small college town called Lund, with five other students that I thought were from Germany. I would later, randomly, become friends with one of them during the next five months.
I remember the crunch of the gravel in front of this red ‘AF-Building’ and a packet of papers with the word ‘Delphinen’ on it.
The bus ride there, the initial maze of the alphabet labeled buildings, hauling my bags up a circular staircase, and then trying my keys out in every door trying to see where I was to live.
Then a rush of events and memories that are just beginning to blur with time. Meeting all the new faces from all these wonderful countries. Those first two weeks without Internet access. The morning Swedish language classes, the first trip to Willy’s armed with my pocket dictionary, buying that precious bicycle, remarking how much busier the place seemed when all the regular Swedish students descended upon the town.
It’s hard to imagine that it really has been one year since.
