Just another week.

This week brought up my 2 months in Sweden! In some ways time has gone extremely slow whilst adjusting to the freezing weather and all of the other things that come along with being an exchange student. But in many others, time has been flying, spending numerous days out with the exchange students, catching up with what's been happening, planning future hang outs and generally just going on some awesome adventures!


The temperatures been warming up slowly, and the snow melting too! So now I'm experiencing a winter more like home. Cold (but no where near as cold as it has been!), wet and occasionally windy with the odd burst of sunshine! So it feels like spring might actually make it up to this part of the world.


School is getting easier, I'm starting to pick up on some of the words used in the classes so can pick my way through some of the work sheets and guess what's going on. English is still as chilled as ever, however, the teacher has realised that she can use me as a resource for her class. So I spend a lot of the lessons reading out vocabulary lists from the texts they are using, or trying to explain things to whoever I may be sitting next to in the lesson. Maths is also pretty sweet at the moment, doing about the equivalent of year 10/11 geometry, so I can actually do something! Haha, I feel extremely successful in my Swedish when I'm sitting in maths.


Tuesday this week was the 25th of March, and in Sweden, that means... WAFFLE DAY! It's a celebration of the fact that it's nine months until Christmas. Apparently in Swedish, "Our Lady" reffering to Mary and "Waffle Day" sound extremely similar. So it's become tradition to eat waffles on the 25th of March.. Watch out New Zealand, Waffle Day is coming 25 March 2011!


The week went by pretty quickly and then came another extreme hang out session with the exchange students. Involving, 6 exchange students, 1 "ambassadorial scholar" and 1 Swede, some Disney, Spotify, awesome blueberry and chocolate chip muffins, 1 day and a heck of a lot of fun. Was definitely a great day!

The 6 exchange students on one of the sculptures in Linköping

Then Sunday included a visit to the Easter markets at Gamla Linköping, or Old Linköping. There people had set up heaps of small stalls selling random bits and pieces that occasionally had to do with Easter, but generally not. Then a visit to some flea markets with my host mum with as she said "mycket skit". 


Easter is coming up, and it will be interesting to see all these random traditions that the Swede's tend to have. I'm definitely looking forward to Påsk (Easter) and the week of holidays that comes with it. 


Signing out for another week,
love Alex.