So, on the train out of Uppsala, I was thinking that I’m not really tracking the dates of each day. During the end of September, I had to look at the date on my phone or computer calendar. They weren’t tracking in my head each day like they used to.
On the train out of Stockholm to Alvesta, I realized that I’m really not tracking! The ticket checker identified that my train ticket was for tomorrow. I left a day early! We’ll at least I’m a day early and not a day late–and he let me use tomorrow’s ticket today and didn’t make me buy another one.
If the ticket checker on the train from Uppsala to Stockholm would have caught it, I would have just returned to Uppsala with a little trip to Stockholm on a beautiful afternoon with the fall colors.
Instead, I’m staying the night in a hotel in a nice little city, Alvesta.
Tomorrow, I’ll work from my hotel room with a late check out at noon. I’ll have lunch and then head to the library for the “språk cafe” (language speaking practice), and work from there for the afternoon until my train to Växjö. The ticket for the third leg of the train trip is–of course–for tomorrow!
I’m trying to figure out how I got off a day?
Perhaps it is because the Swedish calendar starts the week on Monday instead of the American calendar starts on a Sunday. Perhaps, I’m just not quite grounded and tracking with all the adjustments that are distracting me. The work this past weekend also threw the rhythm off a bit. Perhaps, I’m just off! At least the only consequences is the price of a hotel room (with free WIFI and breakfast), but I did get an online discount.
More Swedish learning tonight, while I enjoy the second chocolate from the second pillow.
Having to give some grace to myself tonight,
Beth
Oh this is classic!! How funny! I hope you are laughing at yourself. AND you still have the wherewithal to study Swedish at a library! You are amazing! I’d have gone shopping.:)
I once put my mother on the train three days before she was due to leave. Rather than having a sleeper room, she got the handicapped room and had the best trip she ever had. Accept bonuses when they come. Enjoy the day.
Roligt! Du gjorde det till något bra i alla fall