I Love This Country

I arrived in Sweden on Friday. Peter met me at the Copenhagen airport and we took the train over the bridge into Malmo (Sweden) where he had left his car. We drove the hour and a half or so back to his house and stayed there just a few minutes. I had been worried about barging in on his 16 year old son and 23 year old daughter for three months, but thankfully Peter surprised me with a wonderful plan: His good friends Jan and Kirsten own a house in the country, by the coast. Behind the house is a wonderful cabin they rent out to families during the summer months. Peter and I are staying in the cabin for now, and quite possibly for the entire time. Yay! We'll be going back and forth to his house several times a week which will allow me to get to know his kids gradually which makes good sense for everyone involved.

Kirsten and Jan are wonderful. We have been over to their house for lunch and dinner, and last night while Peter was at karate class and visiting his kids, they took me out to a movie. It was in a beautiful old theater but a funny coincidence that my first movie in a foreign country was called 'Garden State' and featured Jewish charcters from New Jersey. It was a good movie. After that they showed me around the village of Varborg and then we drove right onto the beach and got out and walked around. It was a gorgeous cold and clear night with a full moon. Being by the ocean is always exciting to me, but the combination of it being at night and in Sweden was really special.

On Saturday, Peter and I had taken a nice walk to the coast. I have a bunch of pictures which I will hopefully be able to post soon.

I truly love this country so far. It is modern and progressive but distinctintly European. I am surprised and happy that I love it this much.