How's that for weather? Pretty much covers all the bases!
Friday, March 21, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Snowflakes
It's been snowing constantly here since midmorning. I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw it snow for more than 4 hours. Right now there are giant fluffy flakes floating by my window - probably half an inch or three quarters of an inch wide. This is remarkable. Nothing is sticking, though, which I don't mind. I think snow looks beautiful and I love to eat it and make snowmen, but other than that...I don't really care for it. I'm fine with it snowing for a while, playing in it, and then it being melted by the next day.
Boston? that'll be fun.
:-)
No classes this week, and an exam a week from Thursday. Not too shabby. I was hoping to go down into Copenhagen for a day, but there's no way I'm doing that if it's snowing or cold and rainy out, which it looks like it will be for most of the week. I guess I'm just going to have to keep myself locked away and toasty, with some tea and cherry pits. Now, I don't usually say this, so keep this for blackmail purposes if you will, but I am a southern girl. I like my sunshine and my warmth and my not-always-either-cloudy-rainy-or-snowy weather. But you can leave the sweet tea out of this. Unless it's Sweet T and it's really ultimate frisbee, in which case, I'd like a giant serving, because I'm severely lacking.
Boston? that'll be fun.
:-)
No classes this week, and an exam a week from Thursday. Not too shabby. I was hoping to go down into Copenhagen for a day, but there's no way I'm doing that if it's snowing or cold and rainy out, which it looks like it will be for most of the week. I guess I'm just going to have to keep myself locked away and toasty, with some tea and cherry pits. Now, I don't usually say this, so keep this for blackmail purposes if you will, but I am a southern girl. I like my sunshine and my warmth and my not-always-either-cloudy-rainy-or-snowy weather. But you can leave the sweet tea out of this. Unless it's Sweet T and it's really ultimate frisbee, in which case, I'd like a giant serving, because I'm severely lacking.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
how's that for consistency
mmm fun. My mom pointed out today that my freckles have disappeared. Now you know why. I plan on sitting outside as soon as it gets above 50...and the sun actually appears.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
more pictures
I added some more pictures to the end of the last post, since Blogger decided to be nice to me. Tyler also put a bunch of photos (you may notice some of the same pictures, since most of them were taken by him, and all of them were taken by his camera) up on flickr
check them out!
check them out!
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Tyler's visit, part II
Wednesday brought a trip to Göteborg, or Gothenburg. We missed our train, learned some important lessons about travelling in Sweden, and got another ticket for the next train. It's a 3-or-so hour train ride from Lund, filled with some very pretty scenery, some geese that weren't Canadian or the white ones (!) and some moose/reindeer/elk/Swedish antlered animals. Even though we left in the sunshine, we arrived to...more clouds!
Jessica, who let us stay with her (thank you so much!!), picked us up from the train station and took us back to her incredibly cute apartment. It was amazingly large and beautiful. After dropping our things off and talking a bit, we went off exploring.
We started with Kronhuset, the oldest building in Göteborg. It used to be an old grain/artillery/other things storage facility for the king.
From there we went down to the canal and looked around and poked our heads into the City Museum, which held the remnants of a Viking ship that dated back to 900 AD. I was pretty impressed.
We went through some parks along the canal, but I think Tyler was a little tired of the clouds (welcome to Sweden!) so we headed back for a delicious dinner with Jessica and her husband and sister. Both of us went to sleep pretty early because it had been another long day. Notice a theme?
Luckily on Thursday the weather was in our favor - the clouds stormed themselves away during the night, and it was SUNNY! so sunny, I couldn't keep my eyes open.
But it was nice to be able to explore in the sunshine. We walked through some more parks before meeting Jessica for lunch.
After lunch she very kindly guided us along the river, telling us lots of interesting histories and showing us the giant dinosaur cranes.
We made it on our train this time, and settled in for the long ride back to Lund.
Friday was a recovery day, and I had to meet with a project group in the morning. We baked some semi-successful garlic-olive bread and some delicious cookies. I also convinced Tyler to bring a frisbee to Sweden, so I got to throw around for a bit - the first time in nearly three months. Good fun :-)
Today I unfortunately had to travel back to Copenhagen with him to send him on his way back to Boston. It's always hard to say good bye, but I'm glad that we were able to have an excellent week and I didn't have class at all! Incredibly coincidental, and absolutely wonderful.
But now my room is quiet and empty again, and I've got to do something for this project. I'd rather go to sleep :-) Tomorrow I'm spending all day at Krichansta again, this time helping Ira, another international student here, at the Sunday cafe. I'm not sure what we're making, but it's bound to be fun!
Jessica, who let us stay with her (thank you so much!!), picked us up from the train station and took us back to her incredibly cute apartment. It was amazingly large and beautiful. After dropping our things off and talking a bit, we went off exploring.
We started with Kronhuset, the oldest building in Göteborg. It used to be an old grain/artillery/other things storage facility for the king.
From there we went down to the canal and looked around and poked our heads into the City Museum, which held the remnants of a Viking ship that dated back to 900 AD. I was pretty impressed.
We went through some parks along the canal, but I think Tyler was a little tired of the clouds (welcome to Sweden!) so we headed back for a delicious dinner with Jessica and her husband and sister. Both of us went to sleep pretty early because it had been another long day. Notice a theme?Luckily on Thursday the weather was in our favor - the clouds stormed themselves away during the night, and it was SUNNY! so sunny, I couldn't keep my eyes open.
But it was nice to be able to explore in the sunshine. We walked through some more parks before meeting Jessica for lunch.
After lunch she very kindly guided us along the river, telling us lots of interesting histories and showing us the giant dinosaur cranes.
We made it on our train this time, and settled in for the long ride back to Lund.
Friday was a recovery day, and I had to meet with a project group in the morning. We baked some semi-successful garlic-olive bread and some delicious cookies. I also convinced Tyler to bring a frisbee to Sweden, so I got to throw around for a bit - the first time in nearly three months. Good fun :-)
Today I unfortunately had to travel back to Copenhagen with him to send him on his way back to Boston. It's always hard to say good bye, but I'm glad that we were able to have an excellent week and I didn't have class at all! Incredibly coincidental, and absolutely wonderful.But now my room is quiet and empty again, and I've got to do something for this project. I'd rather go to sleep :-) Tomorrow I'm spending all day at Krichansta again, this time helping Ira, another international student here, at the Sunday cafe. I'm not sure what we're making, but it's bound to be fun!
Tyler comes to Sweden
Again, I'm terrible at blogging in regular intervals. Since last update...who knows. My first class is mostly done - I have a presentation on Tuesday (which I am not at all ready for) and a question session on Thursday or Friday and then my exam on the 27th. April 2 I start my second course, so things are flying by.
Tyler came to visit this past week! I wish he were still here, but we had a lot of fun roaming around the countryside.
Saturday he arrived, completely sleep deprived because he couldn't sleep on the plane, but he struggled up through the day and did quite well at it.
Sunday was mostly a restoration day as well, trying to get his sleep schedule and eating schedule in sync with a completely different time zone. We took a walk up to the highest point in Lund. It was cloudy and grey and drizzling, of course, but it was a lot of fun.
ahh, McDonalds. You can get the Chicago Star right now! Next comes the Vegas Classic and then the Texas Grande. mmm Tastes of America. (we didn't actually get anything from this restaurant, but we did watch Supersize Me!)
Monday was a journey to Helsingborg. We were hoping for good weather and interesting sights and got...terrible weather and many closed things. But we did get to see the Kärnen which is a remnant of a Danish fortress.
The southern part of Sweden used to be ruled by Denmark, and in fact, from Helsingborg, Denmark is only a 20 minute ferry ride away. But we decided the weather was too obnoxiously gross to merit paying for a ferry and walking around outside in more grossness.
(he looks surprisingly happy for being about to be eaten by a ferocious dragon)
Just when we decided that nothing could improve the cold and rainy day (yes, the boy from Boston admitted that it could be cold in Sweden, too!) and we got back on the train for home, it started snowing these giant fluffly flakes. Unfortunately, the train was in motion so we couldn't get off and run around in it. yeesh. But it snowed over the night in Lund, so I got to see (and eat, and throw) some snow! second time in five years. Excellent. I'll put some pictures up later, right now all the pictures I have are the ones from Tyler's camera, and he was sleeping through the snow ;-)
Tuesday was Lund Day! We walked into town and ate at a cafe that served me very nice food, but the day's dish was veal somethingorother and was kind of odd. It almost tasted like mashed potatoes and gravy (to me) but who knows. They had very good soup and bread. Then we walked around the town a little bit, so I could show Tyler where I was. The snow was pretty much all melted at this point.
I probably didn't even need the hat.
After a bit of walking around, we went inside the Domkyrka (cathedral) built in the 1100s sometime. It's a pretty old place.
It has an astronomical clock and a crypt, both of which were incredibly cool.
Tuesday was finished with some baking at Krichansta and then a lot of sleeping. There was lots of walking today (and no squirrel sightings :-( ) so we were beat.
Tyler came to visit this past week! I wish he were still here, but we had a lot of fun roaming around the countryside.
Saturday he arrived, completely sleep deprived because he couldn't sleep on the plane, but he struggled up through the day and did quite well at it.
Sunday was mostly a restoration day as well, trying to get his sleep schedule and eating schedule in sync with a completely different time zone. We took a walk up to the highest point in Lund. It was cloudy and grey and drizzling, of course, but it was a lot of fun.
ahh, McDonalds. You can get the Chicago Star right now! Next comes the Vegas Classic and then the Texas Grande. mmm Tastes of America. (we didn't actually get anything from this restaurant, but we did watch Supersize Me!)Monday was a journey to Helsingborg. We were hoping for good weather and interesting sights and got...terrible weather and many closed things. But we did get to see the Kärnen which is a remnant of a Danish fortress.
The southern part of Sweden used to be ruled by Denmark, and in fact, from Helsingborg, Denmark is only a 20 minute ferry ride away. But we decided the weather was too obnoxiously gross to merit paying for a ferry and walking around outside in more grossness.
(he looks surprisingly happy for being about to be eaten by a ferocious dragon)Just when we decided that nothing could improve the cold and rainy day (yes, the boy from Boston admitted that it could be cold in Sweden, too!) and we got back on the train for home, it started snowing these giant fluffly flakes. Unfortunately, the train was in motion so we couldn't get off and run around in it. yeesh. But it snowed over the night in Lund, so I got to see (and eat, and throw) some snow! second time in five years. Excellent. I'll put some pictures up later, right now all the pictures I have are the ones from Tyler's camera, and he was sleeping through the snow ;-)
Tuesday was Lund Day! We walked into town and ate at a cafe that served me very nice food, but the day's dish was veal somethingorother and was kind of odd. It almost tasted like mashed potatoes and gravy (to me) but who knows. They had very good soup and bread. Then we walked around the town a little bit, so I could show Tyler where I was. The snow was pretty much all melted at this point.
I probably didn't even need the hat.After a bit of walking around, we went inside the Domkyrka (cathedral) built in the 1100s sometime. It's a pretty old place.
It has an astronomical clock and a crypt, both of which were incredibly cool.
Tuesday was finished with some baking at Krichansta and then a lot of sleeping. There was lots of walking today (and no squirrel sightings :-( ) so we were beat.
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