April in Sweden

Hej San everyone,
Today was the first day of my last course of my first year of Grad school. Very exciting. In less than 2 months time I will be half way through this journey. It's crazy how fast the time in one's life goes by. I'm so lucky to be living a life that is equally exciting and fulfilling.

The snow has finally melted and early spring flowers are popping all around Lund. The city has put out the flower boxes and filled them with Easter daffodils.

Joss and I stocked up on food and wine for the long Easter weekend. I've had the last week off for Easter break and it has been nice to have rest before the last push of the school year. In 2 months time I will have completed my first year of Grad school, with one more to go. I am 95% sure that I will be taking the Internship offer in Kigali, Rwanda. I've also been offered an Internship in Uganda, but I am more interested working in Rwanda. If possible I will work something out where I can work at both locations, but that is up in the air at this point. Other LUMID (my program) students have worked in Rwanda and I've exchanged a few emails with them. They have enjoyed their time there and one stayed on to work with a UN organization.

The plane tickets to Rwanda are very expensive, so most likely Joss and I will fly to Uganda and either take a bus or fly from there. It will save us about half of the cost doing it this way. Given our finical situation we need to take advantage of savings where we can. Also, this way we will be able to spend a week or so in Uganda. Times are exciting for us. We are working out our visa and getting our shots. Seems it will is wise to get our Yellow Fever shots before we head out. Actually they won't let us in without them.

In the mean time we are enjoying Northern Europe as best we can. Last weekend we hopped on a ferry to Rostock, Germany in the former East Germany. It's a lovely little city on the Baltic Sea. We were fortunate enough to stumble the Easter market where we were able to enjoy bratwursts, sauteed mushrooms with garlic sauce, fried potatoes with apple sauce (yes a bit strange indeed), curry sausage, and a variety of beer. Needless to say it was an enjoyable day. On Sunday we headed to Warnemunde, which is a seaside resort town that was a favorite vacation get away back in the day for leaders such as Castro. Today it is a cute little port town where you can walk around eat, drink and shop. A really nice little get away. It was a bit cold where we were there, but I'm sure in the Summer time it is lovely.

Anyway, I should be getting to my studies so that I can work out what this development thing is all about.

Enjoy the photos and drop me a line when you can.

Also, when you get the chance follow this link....
http://llamatown.wordpress.com/ Joss's blog, he updates it every so often. It is his account of our life. Take some time to read it over, and stop by from time to time.