I’ve now been in San Diego for a little over a week and during this time I’ve managed to eat my weight in nachos (blue/purple corn tortillas people – it’s a revelation!), been swimming in the ocean and getting sand everywhere, and I’ve almost managed to figure out how to cross the streets, some of which are as wide as a regular Swedish highway, without being hit by a car (it’s somewhat of an artform).

This weekend we visited Coronado Beach, a beautiful place full of mica minerals making the sand look like gold. The pelicans put on a show diving for fish and I still have sand in my hair and ears from bodyboarding.

We’ve been to campus for orientation day and tried to score as many free pens/tote bags/mugs/ stickers etc as  possible from all the different organisations on campus. Rubik’s Cube Club, Salsa Society, UCSD Quidditch club, Origami folders of UCSD, Pokemon League @UCSD or the TriTones A Capella group (the pun is that the school mascot is Triton, the god of the sea – brilliant, I know), we’ll see where I might end up… Campus is huge, (HUGE) and you easily get lost, but it’s very pretty and architectonically interesting. Below is the library. Not too shabby if you ask me.

We had a little beach barbecue making smores and going for a swim with the other Swedes. My sweater still smell like smoke and my bed has turned into half sandbox, half bed after that, but it was nice.  

This week school starts for real and we are moving into our new house. I’m excited to move out of my suitcase and get my own bed (we’ve been sharing in this AirBnb for the past couple of days), and I’m actually kind of excited to start classes too. That might have changed in a week though…
Have a nice one folks!