Saturday, April 14, 2012

Perspective change.

I officially have been here three months as of yesterday. It has been an interesting trip to say the least. It has proven my gut right, that I do want to live here. It has opened my eyes to a completely different lifestyle as well. I figured that I would take this blog post to talk about all the things that I have observed/noticed in the past three months, as well as look back at some of my experiences and reflect on them now.

I guess I should start by talking about my first experiences and observations from back at the beginning, and how my opinion has changed, because it actually has changed quite a bit. The first thing that I noticed happened before I even got into Sweden. It was at the airport, which is actually located in Denmark. When I got off the plane at the airport, I had to walk through what was basically an art museum to get to passport control. Once I reached passport control I realized that I was not back in the U.S. anymore. Anton told me all these horror stories about when he came into the U.S. about how he was questioned, and they wanted to know things such as how much money he had on him, and how much he thought he had in his bank account. The ONLY questions that I was asked when going through passport control were