First Day

The first day in Uppsala has come and gone. After a gruelling 17-hour plane ride, not including a more-than-three-hours transit time in Paris, I finally reached Uppsala at 1215hrs. From then it was check the apartment (It’s just like a room in PGP. Nothing spectacular. Will load the pictures later), go to the lab and get started on familiarising the place. Isn’t it horrid? I haven’t had much rest during that long flight and then no rest still until 7pm (Uppsala time) when I reached the apartment.

What’s worse? There’s no internet connection! And if I want it, I have to pay for a year’s connection! A-doi! Xiao ah? I guess that means I’ll be in the office almost every day. Otherwise, how would I be able to cam with my family? I’ll be working a lot harder here than back home. Even then, internet connection will have to wait till they settled all the administrative procedures for me…

Guess what? I heard from the students here that they work till about 1800pm latest and reach around 0830 to 0930. And… they never turn up on Saturdays and Sundays until they are finishing up their work there (meaning thesis writing time). Wah… so nice.

It’s really lonely here. I haven’t seen a single asian, except for a Nepalese girl. Just like in the plane when I was all alone. I kept asking myself why I was there. Just before I left Singapore, I experienced a funny thing again. A priest urging young men to consider the priesthood; a priest personally asking me to consider; and my godmother telling me that she has been praying for something like that. It’s not just that. They happened all on the same day. How uncanny is that? Is this the calling (again)? I don’t know. I don’t know a lot of things. Anyway, since I’m here. I might as well make full use of the time here. Enjoy? I hope so. We’ll see what I can achieve in 6 months time.

Oh well. Nothing major happened during the journey (except that I have CDG airport. So leahchey (troublesome) to have to move from one terminal to another without clear signs.) or on the first day here. Maybe, I’m just tired. My eyes are bloodshot from the lack of sleep. Beddy bye time.

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