Back in the picture

I did it. Now everything is determined. At the 26th of June I will go home for a few weeks. That's earlier than initially planned, but I am looking forward to it. I avoided this time the Ybuss and Ryanair. The bus because of its exhausting way of traveling. More than 5 hours traveling just to wait another couple of hours in Stockholm. And Ryanair, because Ryanair just sucks. Ok, they are cheap. But who (except of those who travel for a weekend) can travel just with 15 kg? And the airports are so far away from everything. In Stockholm you need 80 minutes with the Nonstop-bus to the airport. And once you arrive at Weeze (which they proclaim to be "Düsseldorf") you have to drive additional 3 hours to my home. But not this time. My train will leave in the morning and will stop at the Arlanda airport, where I will have to wait for 3 hours until I can enter the plane. And from Köln/Bonn-airport in Germany it's probably less than one hour home. That makes at least 7 hours faster traveling than before Christmas. Far more efficient than the old choice.

Like everybody else I await that day with a happy and a sad face. One the one hand I am looking forward seeing home again. And even better, I will see Sundsvall again, since I signed my contract for the coming semester last Friday. But it will be just me who will see it again. I hope, some will prove me wrong. I love little surprises. Not only those you can eat :)
I did not much more today. I tried to fix my article, but that is not that easy. The main critics was, that explanations are missing why I have chosen the aspects which I have chosen. Well, to be honest: because I had to make a choice, I decided what I liked most or what the book presented. But that's a weak explanation for an article. Maybe ( <- look, Solene!) I can fix it with a little bit of creativity.

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