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First day at Sundsvall


This morning Inga brought Basti and me to the centralstation. Thanks she did, because it was raining a lot! The streets were flooted. Sebastian and me waited 20 minutes, until the train entered the station and left it at 5:05 in the morning. At 7:15 left we the train and walked to the university, where we had an introduction meeting. After the meeting, we had a tourist tour by bus for one hour, but almost nobody listened to it, because everyone just finally wanted to put his luggage in his accomodation. At 14 o'clock we arrived at Nacksta and ~50 people tried to get their keys at once. Thanks to the others i was one of the first, because i had to be back at 15 o'clock at the university for another introduction meeting. So Sebastian and i left our luggage at the appartment and went to university, but after a few hundred meters it began to rain heavily and we became totally wet. This was not nice organzied. They should have canceld the bustour, because we had to hurry to find our first walk to the university from Nacksta and it was raining all the time. We reached the meeting 15 minutes too late and totally wet. The meeting was nice, but useless for us, because we are no Free Movers but Exchange Students. After 2 hours the meeting ended with the result, that we have to come to the office personally. And i was so cold because of the rain...
After having seen the accomodations at Härnösand and Östersund Nacksta is quite frustrating. The appartment ist huge, but it's not nice, yet. And it is far more expensive than the other locations. And the worst of all: it's not dirty, but it is not renovated! So why did we have to wait until today??? Unbelievable.

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