words, words, words

Sweden was great. The Scandinavian Open was fun, and I wasn’t too displeased with my performance in my first jiu-jitsu tournament. However, I think that the fights were too short. What can you really settle in five minutes? What importance is earning ‘points’, etc. Although I don’t want to be a hypocrite, if I had won, I probably wouldn’t be whinging about the system, but I didn’t tap out, I lost on points. I got a bronze medal. So I went to the tournament and made out with a giant penny on a string. It was fun, though.
It was a great experience and a lot of fun to meet with some people from the school on a more social occasion. Also, Scandinavia, or at least the parts that we saw, was great!
Saturday night we went out for some traditional Swedish food and Sunday we spent hopping on and off a boat tour of Copenhagen. The city was beautiful and the people that we spoke to were very nice.
On the boat there was an Asian man who kept standing up when I was about to take a picture. I should have just taken pictures of his pictures on the back of his camera. I’ll put up some pictures soon.
Everything seemed to function properly in Malmo and in Copenhagen. The buses and trains were on time. It was just really pleasant.

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