Not my day

Maybe I should put a warning on this post. It will include a few negative things. For only positive things: go to the end of the post and skip the first part.

My day started with a BIG fly in my yoghurt for breakfast. It was there when I opened it so I had to throw it away.

I decided to go outside to get the newspaper so I could read it while eating breakfast. I was barefoot and stepped on a big snail which died and my foot got slimy.

My phone died at school and I can't get it to work so I will have to buy a new phone.. (Which means I won't be available that way until I get a new one)

And, my bike broke as well right after school.

We were doing tasks downtown for our freshmen pranks today.. You can see my outfit in my last post. It was fun to hang out with some people from the class but I must say that it was a little bit boring as so many of the strangers we met didn't wanna do the things we asked them to do (parts of our tasks). One thing that was quite fun was when we carried a 45 year old man over the big square :) I also asked 3 guys if they could buy milk for me (using the words you would use if asking someone to buy alcohol for them if they are too young). Those are two example of quite a lot of things we got to do.

We also had our first chemistry lesson today! I have been reading some chemistry during this spring which I'm very happy about now so the things he went through wasn't that hard. I actually really enjoyed that class and I'm looking forward to continue with it! I was using the same notepad today as I had during the chemistry lessons last spring so when our teacher asked us a question that was pretty hard, then I could answer it as I found it in my old notes :)
I'm ridicously excited about bringing all my pens, paper etc etc and print out the handouts and have them in a folder organized and so on! This will be so good!

Outfit number 1 for pranks

Getting myself prepared for tomorrow... I'm a bit nervous as I haven't had time to learn the dance yet :/


Other updates:

I tried making my own sushi for the first time today! Was too tired to take pictures but I think it turned out pretty good for being the first time...



And look what I found :) A Texas flag! :D
Update: I have now been informed by my friend that this is Chiles flag, not Texas :) oh well, it made me happy anyways



Pranks to come

My last post were before dinner which means - I was too hungry so I totally forgot to write to you a little bit more about the pranks! Maybe you read it and thought that we will only play games on our 2 weeks of pranks.. No it's not really like that..

Our theme is "make love not war". We will have to be dressed like the flower power/peace people in the 70's.. My sister had perfect pants for that but she told me today that she threw them away two years ago unfortunally.. Our group will also have purple lipstick. That is the outfit for 4 of the days. The last day the theme for our outfits will be "Walk of shame"... any suggestions of what I should wear?

Our group will also have to have an Avatar-outfit and a Lust-outfit.. I guess Avatar will be easy, but lust?? More suggestions please.

So in these outfits we will do different things. And we always have to wear our orange ribbon on our heads as you can see on the picture. As for one, we have to learn this dance on the link below and on wednesday when we are doing things downtown, we have to dance this in different places...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpdZWr2GWLI&feature=share

The whole thing will end with a gasque which is like a fancy dinner. So there you go!

First class and starting of the freshman pranks

I don't really have much to say about it but as I told you yesterday that I would tell you today about how it went, then I guess I should do that. :)

We had our first lesson today in school but it was only introduction so I don't know if that counts? We will have introduction for the rest of the week so the real classes doesn't really start until next week.

We also got to meet the students that are a year ahead of us that will be doing the freshman pranks on us. We started today with some games and got a schedule on how the rest of the 2 weeks of "nollning" will look like. I think it was fun today and I'm really looking forward to join the rest. We are 7 girls in our group and we will be doing all the things together on these 2 weeks.

It feels so great being a student again :)

Our biggest squash and a fish salad

The squashes keeps on growing in our garden.. We let this one stay on extra long too see how big it could get... The picture doesn't really justify it as it was really huge. The smaller vegetable next to it is actually a cucumber. Also from our own garden.

I read a friends blog today and she has a lot of pictures of the food she makes.. I got inspired so here you have a picture of my dinner: fish salad

Speaking of fish.. We eat fish quite a lot in Sweden.. And it wouldn't be a weird thing to eat fish for breakfast here. As today I ate mackerel for breakfast. So for you who are not from here who are reading this - do you think that is weird? Me and my sister talked about that today that maybe you would think it's weird to eat mackerel in tomato sauce first thing in the morning?

Tomorrow I'll tell you how it went on my first real day at school. We are having our first lesson, but only introduction this far. After the lesson, we will start our "nollning", which is rag for your brittish and freshman pranks for the rest of you. I had to look it up in the dictionary as I can't really continue putting the swedish name in a blog written on english?

Celebrating that I have worked my last day

Today I worked my last day at Arlanda. That's what I hope at least.. I don't know if I would have to work there during the summer breaks but I hope to get something else until then. It feels so great to know that I don't have to go up in the middle of the night to work again!

Me, my brother, sister and Whitley celebrated with sushi and me and W will watch a movie soon and just relax.

Otherwise classes will start on monday, nollningen right after classes and bibleschool will start on tuesday. I will not go to bibleschool but I'm still excited to see who is here this year for it.

Welcoming day at uni for all the new students

Inside the university house

 What a day! I am right now in the middle of two chapters of my life. Tomorrow will be my last day at work (maybe not for forever but for a long time at least) and today I was at the welcoming day my university has for all the new students. Speaking of students, did you know that Uppsala University has 40 000 students? That is quite a lot for a city with around 180 000 people. And that it was founded 1477. Beat that!

It feels so great to go over to this next chapter in my life. I am really excited for everything I have ahead of me and I'm trying to give God all my worries about it and all my other dreams.

So I started the day with going to the gym with Whitley, then she followed me to the welcoming day at uni and there were tons of people there! I met up with a few of my classmates and we sat together and listen to the program of the day. There was music and speaches. A famous swedish rap artist, Petter, were our host.
What surprised me was how beautiful the university house is inside. I have lived here so many years but I have never been inside it. It was pretty amazing to see.

Students waiting outside the building

We have something here that is called "nationer", which is a building that is representing a swedish county. We have 13 of them and you can become a member when you study at the university. It's like a student club. They have apartments, pubs, restaurants, places you can study etc etc. I'm not a person that likes to party but as they have so many other things as well, I decided to join one. I randomly picked Smålands, partly as that's where I'm born. All the new students were going around these student pubs this evening but unfortunally I had to skip it as I have been so exhausted with everything going on lately and as I have to go up this night to work.

People from the university's gym is showing off

Petter

After the welcoming program, me and Whitley went home a little bit and then continued to Gränby to do some shopping. We didn't really buy much but we got a smoothie each at the naked juice bar and I also got sushi that I brought home. Swedish sushi is good, but not at all as good as the one I had in Dallas. When (please God!) I move there, I think I will eat at that sushi place every week! :D

I got a cd box with 4 cds of Johnny Cash and also a cd box with 4 cds with Simon and Garfunkel. I'm not suppose to know about the later one though as my mom is giving that one to me for my birthday so she has hidden it from me now so don't tell me okay? :)



The sushi.. I was so hungry so I had to eat two pieces before taking a picture