Today we got to do our first design charette in Malmö. We recently walked near a plaza during one of our tours and it needed some improvements. It was mostly a surface parking lot and half an open space. It was our chance to come up with a redesign of this plaza to make this part of the community more inviting and fun. We got into teams of 5 and we all came up with designs. I got teamed with Marisa, Rasam, Noelle, and Diana, and we all came up with a design bas...

Day 12: So drinking last night was probably not a good idea. However, I did wake up early af, so that was good. The fact that I got throw up all over my shorts, no. Not good. Last night I threw up all the wine that I chugged, that 13,5 % of alcohol. So I kind of woke up with a mini hangover, but it wasn't that bad. After getting ready and getting my coffee and breakfast, I was good to go. We left this morning pretty early, and we got a tour of more of the city. ...

Day 11: Today we get our bikes, so I was stoked about that. We would be biking and touring Malmo, the City of Tomorrow, the most sustainable city in the world. We got our bikes around 9 and toured the community of Bo01 City, where I was able to see the architecture of the modern city. It was absolutely the most stunning thing I have ever seen. It was literally an architecture playground. Biking the city alone I was able to see some of the most great buildings an...

Day 10: Trying to walk with 30 people to the train station and getting on the train was pretty stressful. Today we were heading out to southern Sweden to Malmo, so we all left by 9am to T Central. We walked there since we couldn't take the subway. I'm so glad I bought a backpack because I saw so many people struggling to lug their hug luggage across streets and cobblestone. But the walk wasn't too bad. We got to the train station with a few minutes before our tra...

Day 9: Today was a lazy day. It was our last night in Stockholm, and I felt like doing nothing. I slept in (which was nice) and had breakfast around 10am, but a bunch of my friends wanted to go out and explore the city one last time, so I told myself to not cave into the laziness and just go. So we went on a historic canal tour around the river in the city. It was really interesting to learn about the history of Sweden and its capital, and I was able to see so m...