I slept in for the first time in a veeeery long time today, and it was great. Ahhhhh. Then I got up and went to Museum Gustavianum, the place with the anatomical theater on top. It turns out they consider me a student in Uppsala, so I got in free. Spiffy ( Read more... )

Here begins a freakishly long entry!

To start out, pictures from the kräftskiva: me with a kräfta, pile of kräftor. And here are the candied lilacs I ate the other day ( Read more... )

I am so good at worrying that I can't believe THIS never occurred to me...Sweden has several nuclear reactors. Apparently, depending on whom you believe, one of them was relatively near meltdown the other day. Oh yes, and this would be the one that's about 50 miles from Uppsala at Forsmark. There was some kind of electricity problem with the ( Read more... )

Word of the day: pinsam. Embarrassing. And here's why we need that word:

Yesterday I was invited to Julia and Daniel's for supper (a "sillmiddag" in fact..."herring supper"), so I thought I'd take a nice white wine with me. So I went to Systembolaget, which is the state-monopoly liquor store, and spent some time hunting down the perfect German ( Read more... )

I am still laughing...we played theater games in class today, which definitely broke up the monotony of listening exercises and particle verbs (I am starting to feel about particle verbs as I did about VERBS in Old Norse). One of the exercises was a dramatic reading of "Små grodorna," where one had to read the text in a specific manner and ( Read more... )

Miscellany
Last week there were two cases of cholera in Sweden. No malaria yet, though. :)

Pictures from my birthday: with Julia and my green princesstårta at Landings, blowing bubbles on Stora Torget downtown

PotluckThe potluck was great fun…the other Americans had much better ideas than I did…peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Rice Krispie ( Read more... )

I burned a CDR with a bunch of pictures and an LJ entry that I wrote last night...I planned to upload it all today. But the CDR doesn't work for some reason. So I guess I will go burn another copy tonight, and then I can post all about Värmland tomorrow. Suffice it to say for now that Värmland was a bit on the nippy side, but I went swimming in a ( Read more... )

Today we're having a potluck dinner. (Or a knytkalas, since this isn't Minnesota.) We're supposed to bring a dish to represent our country. All the fun of cooking is gone when I'm in Sweden and without proper ingredients and hungry roommates, so I don't want to cook. I'm about to head to ICA and buy stuff to make ants on a log. This phenomenal ( Read more... )

Simple Song Meme ( Read more... )

The rest of Berlin
Ok...so we went to the store with all the Ampelmann stuff. Check out the Wikipedia link...it's interesting. Eric bought an Ampelmann ice cube tray.

After that we took the U-bahn to Osthaupbahnhof and walked to the East Side Gallery, which is the part of the wall that is still standing and that was turned into murals by artists ( Read more... )