Today's Schedule

10:00 am: Nobel Museum guided tour
Fun fact: Dynamite inventor Alfred wrote a play so explosively bad his own family members tried to destroy it. Only three copies survived.

Noon: Thanksgiving luncheon at the U.S. Embassy
Fun fact: the newly-installed security gate at the front of the embassy dwarfs the actual building.

2:00 pm: Guided tour of Stockholm City Hall.
Fun fact: yes, this gold mosaic is actually just as bizzare as it appears:

3:00 pm: Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin, Ph.D., Anti-terrorism Coordinator, Department for Global Security, Foreign Ministry
Fun fact: She's a SIPA graduate.

4:00 pm: Iced Latte at Wayne's Coffee Kungsgatan with quite possibly the world's tallest Coast Guard officer, who's also a Fulbrighter.
Fun fact: That 500-kronor note in my wallet was actually Norwegian, not Swedish, as I discovered when I tried to spend it.

6:15 pm: Early North European Seminar: Kronologi och samhälleliga strukturförändringar under 500-talet with John Ljungqvist
Fun fact: We still really don't know the most fundamental aspects of the royal burial mounds' construction: when exactly they were built, or even in which order they were built.

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Peter Leonard
Graduate student in Scandinavian Literature at the University of Washington.

2007-08: Fulbright Fellow & Guest Researcher at Uppsala University's Centre for Multiethnic Research.

Spring 2007: Exchange student in Nordic Literature at the University of Copenhagen, Scan|Design Fellow. Intern at Museum Tusculanums Forlag, the University Press.

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