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Diary: April 21-22, 2001

Laufey Helga Gudmundsdottir

The day started rather early, we had to get together in Gothenburg at ten o’clock and go on a sightseeing tour around the city. It was a double-decker bus and I was so lucky to sit upstairs right in the front so I could see everything. The problem was that the seagulls were always shitting on the window so it was kind of hard to see through all that dirt!

So after the tour with all those churches and fish, actually in one place we saw a “fish church”, we had time to shop in Gothenburg and visit the famous mall Femman. Most of the Icelanders went wild in H&M, Intersport and Vera Moda and spent almost four hours there. So after all the shopping Maria and me felt like going to the toilet so we asked the next person where it was. We got the directions and off we go, but no, no, no, not that easy. Of course we couldn’t find it and we had to ask two persons to get the right directions. When we finally got there with two stuffy shopping bags, YOU HAD TO PAY TO GO TO THE TOILET!!! So I had to go to a store and change money into a five SEK (approximately 50 ISK), but that’s not all, so I paid and got inside that dirty public toilet and couldn’t lock the door!!! I thought to myself it would probably lock by itself and off I went. But all off a sudden, sitting on the toilet with toilet paper in my hand, the lights went out and the door opened. I screamed Maria, Maria and she came running with another coin and taught me how to lock the door. I can say I know that never in my life I would go to such toilet. NO THANKS!

So next we headed off to Liseberg, the famous tivoli, threw our bags to some lady and started our ride. Maria and me headed first to the oldest machine, which was some kind of a swing and then another and another and another. Unfortunately the Hangover was closed so we couldn’t show our good screaming tactics there but the roller coaster and the other stuff came instead. When we were getting really cold it was time to meet our Swedish hosts and go home after a day of adventures.

Today, Sunday, we are working with our projects and everything is going great. From four o’clock we have free time so maybe we can have a little sleep or some cozy thing, which does not take a lot of energy. I hope the forthcoming days will be so successful and fun!

Laufey Helga Gudmundsdottir