{"id":153,"date":"2015-09-12T16:24:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/sjukskoterskestudenter-utomlands\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-10-10T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T21:33:48","slug":"the-travel-and-my-first-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/sjukskoterskestudenter-utomlands\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"The travel and my first days"},"content":{"rendered":"

After more than 20 hours of travel I arrived at Milledgeville, Georgia, USA. It was a long journey, but I tried not to sleep so it would be easier for me to come into the rhythm. At the hotel I jumped into the bathtub and right after into the bed. 10 hours later I had my first american breakfast: american pancakes, fruitloops, nice coffee and yoghurt. I didn’t realize that everything would be served on plastic plates and with plastic-silver – easy for the staff to take care of “the dishes”.<\/p>\n

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After my breakfast I packed my bags\u00a0again and Sallie Coke, my main contact in Georgia, picked me up and we drove to the university. Here she introduced me to everybody she knew and who I would have to know. I even got scrubs and the mandatory polo-shirt for working in the community. The students here wear scrubs at school in the clinical training center and at their clinical rotations at the hospital. They have a lab coat too, they can wear it\u00a0when they sit in the classroom, over their scrubs when having lectures after\/before training at the center. Because though the temperatures are warm and really humid outside, it can be cold inside because of the air-conditioning.<\/p>\n

Sallie kindly showed me around in the clinical training center too, but I will tell you more about that with pictures when I get there, which will be on Monday.<\/p>\n

I continued my day by getting picked up by my new roommate Anna. Anna is the person who so kindly answered to my add on the Facebook-group “Bobcats Exchange”, which is a group from students for students in Milly to sell and search for things. When I came to Annas house I met Jennie as well, who is the second out of three persons who live in this 4-room big house on one floor.<\/p>\n

After I settled in the house and had talked to my wonderful boyfriend Emil on Skype, Anna had invited me to come with here and here friends and go eat at a place called Longhorn. Before entering the restaurant we went to a petstore where I found a newspaper just for bunnies (I am in loooove!) and this collar for dogs with a bottle-opener) – \u00a0I found that acctually really weird…<\/p>\n

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At the restaurant I had a nice sallad, a really good soup, jalapeno-poppers and a bear. The girls told me that bear with oranges in it tastes really good, so I tried it and yes, indeed, I liked it! I had a really good time with the 5 girls who all where so nice and friendly to me. As they say: the Southern-manners are well known in this part of the country. As far as I have come everyone has been so nice to me and really openminded and happy to invite me into their lives, like I have been here for weeks. And at\u00a0the restaurant I met my third roommate: Beth.<\/p>\n

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After the visit at the restaurant I had to buy myself some food. I haven’t told you yet, but I have an own refrigerator in my room! That is awesome! So we went to Walmart. The famous Walmart I have seen on tv for so many times! And I can tell you that I got confused… there was just SO MUCH TO CHOOSE FROM! I had a real hard time to find what I want, because it is not always easy to see what’s in a product, especially not if it is a precooked product, e.g. a pizza. But finding fair-treaded meat from america was a hard nut to crack too. Not the fair-traded part (which I couldn’t find) but on the package they wrote produced in 5 different countries. So it was hard to find how and where the meat was produced, but instead it was much more easy to choose between different percentages of fat\/meat, e.g.: 10\/90, 15\/85, 20\/80, 30\/70. And trying to find something simple as olive-oil\u00a0was\u00a0hard too… because their are 100 different brands and sizes! In the end I went for the organic coconut-oil to try something new. Because coconut-oil can be used for frying but also as a skin product \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Besides the collar vs. bottle-opener the americans seem to have a lot of cool inventions. This morning for instance I found this cooler in the kitchen of my roomies. I found this so cool! You could pull the cooler after you so you could\u00a0take it to, say,\u00a0a party!<\/p>\n

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So, this was\u00a0my breakfast this morning. I couldn’t find a cheese-grinder so I am probably going to stop by IKEA in Atlanta one day so I can get one real for my roomies. Right now I use a carrot-peeler. Some Swedish inventions are really good I think. And of course it is Starbucks-coffe from a machine we have here, for my breakfast. Besides the Starbuckscoffe\u00a0I was also able to buy swedish coffee from “Gevalia” for the instant-coffemachine. But, surprise, it is not for me. I bought\u00a0it as a gift for my roomies.<\/p>\n

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So this is all from me right know. I hope you could get what I was trying to say, I still feel a little bit restricted in my English.<\/p>\n

This weekend I am\u00a0invited to a bridal-shower by a stranger I met on my journey and on sunday I am going to “fika” (in Sweden that means talking a coffee with something to eat, like a cake or sandwich) with Emily, a former exchange student from Linneaus-university in V\u00e4xj\u00f6. She found me on the internet – what a wonderful place to met people!<\/p>\n

Next week is going to start with visiting the clinical training center for the day and get drug-screened and leave blood-samples so I can start my clinical rotation.<\/p>\n

Have a good one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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