Freaking Cold Stockholm

Student housing finally realized I never had a roommate even though I was paying rent for 2-in-a-room and sent me a message threatening to charge me an additional 1000 NOK a month to stay in a single or else I would have to move in with someone else. After numerous messages and calls trying to fight back, I lost the battle and had to move in with someone else on a different floor. At least my new roommate is someone I was already friends with before. It's just hard going from a single to a double room, especially since I had never had a single in college before. So now I am happily on the second floor of my building in a a VERY CLEAN kitchen (yay!) and my address has changed. Here is my new address:

Olav M. Troviks vei 24, H203
0864 - Oslo, Norway

During the move to my new room, I refused to leave the mirror I bought from IKEA mounted on the wall so I ripped it off the wall so I could try to put it in my new room. The adhesive tape holding the mirror up was so strong that it pulled off a large chunk of plaster from the wall and now there is a large hole in my old wall. Woops. Hopefully student housing will not notice it. I transported the mirror to the wall of my new room, but the adhesive was not as strong after I ripped it off the old wall. After a couple days the mirror fell and shattered. It was a sad sad day.

Stockholm, Sweden
The weekend following my move I went with my ex-flatmates to Stockholm for 2 days. Man it was cold. Temperature wise it was about the same as Oslo, but the wind made it unbearably cold. We spent a large portion of our time hiding inside Cafes to stay out of the wind. Stockholm was just another city to me. I wasn't impressed, but it may have been due to the fact that I could not stop shivering from the cold. We spent some time in Gamla Stan and did some museums on Djurgården. I liked the Vasa Museum the most. The Vasa was a warship from the 1600s that sank as soon as it first set sail and lied at the bottom of the sea for hundreds ofyears until it was restored in the 1900s.

Vasa Ship

Gamla Stan

The one cool thing about having been to Stockholm is that I just started reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which takes place in Stockholm and other parts of Sweden so I understand some of the references. 


Anyways, Stockholm was okay. It would have been better if we made it to the world's largest IKEA.