This is life

Last Thrusday was the first day I took a bus in Uppsala. Yay!  After our biology class in the morning we had a 3 hour gap until our next class (Swedish) in the afternoon.  So some of thr girls in our class invited me and Sierra (on left) to the city center to get chinese food with them.  It was probably the first time that I really felt like I had some real friends and it was so much fun!  We sat and talked and laughed, really getting to know eachother, although my friends did a lot of english talking and I did only a little bit of Swedish.  Pictured below is myself, Sierra, and Abi.  Abi is another exchange student but doesn't go to our school.  It was just by chance that we hopped on the same bus that she was taking to school.

 

Typically in Sweden (or from what I have seen) Friday or Saturday nights are movie night.  Everyone gets together and eats popcorn and usually some dessert foods and watches a movie.  My host parents went away this weekend to one of their friends 50th birthday parties so I spent Friday night with Abi and Sierra.  We practiced our swedish with eachother and Abi's younger host brother and watched a lot of disney movies in swedish.  Sierra brought a blue cake (pictured below).  The blue part that you see is almost a jello texture and the inside was a blueberry flavor.  

Now if movie night is on a Saturday there would also be candy.  It used to be that children in Sweden could only have candy on Saturday's.  So there parents would hide the candy (or just eat it themselves) for the rest of the week until they got to Saturday.  The parents could threaten to not give the candy to the kids if they did something bad during the week, so in general Swedish children in the past were very well behaved.

 I spent Saturday night with my 3rd host family who lives 2 minutes away from where I am now.  This was so much fun!  They have two girls, Alva 15 and Emma 11 whom I relaxed with all day.  Emma doesn't know english very well and since I don't know swedish very well we spent a lot of our time together pointing to objects and I would say it in swedish and I would help her say it in english.  We also played a lot of sherades trying to understand eachother.  There mother is a wonderful baker and baked the cookies seen below for our fika.  All of the pasteries in the picture were homemade the day of!  After fika Alva, Emma and I played a disney singing game on their Wii.  And yes, of course it was in swedish.  I now know how to say "Under the Sea" and "I Just Can't Wait to be King" in swedish :)