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Hello everyone! I am a new face here
on the CIE blog. My name is Fanny Stray and I’m from Sweden. I
applied for Maryville College last winter and during this spring. I’m only
going to stay here for one semester, so I’m going to enjoy this time as much as
possible.
Here,
in Maryville, my major is International Business but back home in Sweden my major
is Informationdesign. It’s basically how to make information more approachable
for your specific target group in Public Relations. Quite different from
International Business, don’t you think? I just wanted to study something
different while being in America.
It
has been one month and three weeks since I arrived to campus, and it feels like
I’ve been living here for much, much longer. There was so much to do here the
few weeks before the school officially started and now there’s even more to do
with classes and homework! However, that is not what I’m going to talk about in
this post. I want to tell you how my trip here to Maryville was, or at least
what I can remember from it.
I
left my family by the gate in Stockholm Arlanda in Sweden around 7am. My plane
was leaving around 9 am, but they always want you to check in early if problems
arise. I am a little embarrassed to admit that I let some tears appear when I
said goodbye to my mother, father and younger sister; but that is long
forgotten now.
My
first flight was eight hours, from Stockholm to New York. New Ark airport is
definitely one of the biggest airports I’ve ever been to. You went from
different gates with train! How ridiculous is that? My second flight from New
York to Washington D.C. got belated due to bad weather, but after two hours of
wait I could finally board the flight to the capital of the United States of
America.
From
Washington I took a flight for McGhee Tyson airport and I landed in Tennessee
around midnight. I was a day too early for the International House to bring me
to Maryville College, but sliding down into the hotel bed in Jameson Inn has
never felt better. When I arrived at Maryville College at noon the next day I
got welcomed by Kirsten Sheppard and since then everything has run smoothly
around me.
So
that’s me, a new one. I’m a Swedish exchange student, here in Maryville College,
for one semester and life has never been more perfect.