School in Sweden

I think it was about time for me to post a picture of my school, so here it is, the map of my school! Well I think it looks just like a college campus, my school is Nicolai, and the other buildings are difference programs to choose- Nicolai is mostly the arts school. Olympia is where the smarties go to :) and tycho brahe, is... the scientists to be!! Some of these buildings I have not been in yet, so yes it is rather large.

Followers

To those of you that are my followers, that really means a lot to me! Thank you so much (tack se mycket!) You have no idea how much it means for me to log on to my blog and see how many of my friends back have just joined my blog! That just made my day! Love you guys!!

cyclocross racing

While walking in the forest this evening I saw a cyclocross racer coming my way, and it somewhat reminded me of my brother lane, who very much likes this sport, and while I was thinking of this, I did not have time enough to move out of the way of this biker, so he became very close to hitting me! Then I started to think, you are not allowed to ride bikes in the forest!

Wait WHAT!?! Yes that is right, I was just informed that you are NOT allowed to ride bikes in the forests! But what is the point for it, I mean I know you can jog, or walk the dog, but no biking- sure people still do it... But when caught are you in trouble? I did not understand this rule at all. No one wants to bike in the city with the traffic, and no ones wants to ride their bike around the block a million times, and for this sport cyclocross racing, YOU NEED TO BE IN THE FOREST! So I was not mad at all that this man almost hit me with his bike- even if it was against the law to be doing it!

Surströmming

Surströmming, or rotten herring, is a delicacy in the North or Sweden, and I just happen to get to try it, even though I am in the very South of Sweden. It was such a bad stench that the can had to be opened in a bucket of water! The smell I have to say was not bad (me being used to the smell of feedlots in Nebraska) But the taste was very strong, even with hard bread, potatoes, butter, sour cream, tomatoes and onion all mixed. I would have to say, it was.. 'different' But I don't think I would try it again if asked! I just had to keep in mind, it is a once in a life time thing, and many people don't get to say that went to a party to eat rotten herring. There is not one thing that I won't try in Sweden, because I got myself into this knowing I had to be very open- minded, how else will I find things out for myself? So far its goin good!
This was the whole set up!

Homework in Sweden

Well this was a very momentous moment, my first homework assignment in Sweden, had to take a picture, it was about what music means to me, and at the very bottom with the smiley face, I said "I hope you can understand this!" Which is why it's a good thing I wrote it in english on the back as well... call me a suck up, but.. it is a new school, IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY! Hopefully I won't need a translator at all on the next one!