I really do more than eat! Trust me!

From all the pictures and all I talk about, it might seem that I just eat pastries, dessert and rotten fish.  Well it isn't entirely true...I occasionally go to school when and if I roll out of bed in time :) Just kidding!  School has been so much fun!  The schedule I have allows me to sleep in every day till 8 and I have joined an entrepreneurship class and I have joined the one and only club the school has (spirit/student counsil group - I think)!  A couple of my friends have started to speak Swedish with me which is so nice!  Sometimes they will be talking with me but more with eachother in Swedish and I will recognize a sentence!  Today Helen was talking about how we were being let out of class late and I understood!  So in my excited state I jumped up and translated what she said into english for the whole class to hear (oops!).  The girls that Helen was talking to were really suprised I understood and gave me a shocked expression and a "wow! You understood?" kind of look.  Everyone else in the class looked at me like I was crazy.  Oh well! 
Soo moral of the story:  All you Swedes can't talk about me in front of my face in Swedish anymore because I understand!!!!!!! Ok only if you talk slow, and ununciate, and give me time to process the statement, AND use words I know (which is still not that many).  BUT I am progressing!! 
Today is a very wierd day for me in school.  I have math at 9:45 and then after that I was supposed to have a physics and biology lab but they both were cancelled so I have 4 hours to waste in between my math and entrepreneurship class.  That's Swedish school for ya.
Yesterday I started a language class for all exchange students in Uppsala, even the ones here through other organizations other than rotary.  There were about 12 of us from all other the world.  There was someone from Australia, Great Britain, Turkey, I think Ecuador and other countries I do not remember.  Hopefully this class will really help me learn the language faster and become fluent!

 The fourth and final exchange student coming to Uppsala arrived Monday so all the host families got together and had a surströmming (rotten fish) party!  The smell and taste has not changed sense the last time I tried it. Shocking!  Karin, my third host mother, is an amazing baker and made the American flag cake seen below.  The giant donught shaped thing you see is like a merange.  It is really light because it is practically all egg and sugar! 
Now I feel obligated to let you know that I have not just been eating!  I have been going to soccer practices once sometimes twice a week and lacrosse practice is usually once a week, but I do not go to that every week because it is so far away.  I have also gone to the gym with my host dad and I have been going for runs around Sunnersta to try and get more familliar with the area.

Yes I am holding a fish spine in this picture!