Valborg and My Birthday....

Hej Hej! Long time no update. Sorry about that, I get very focused on my procrastination.

So last time I posted was before Valborg, or the last day of April. It was very interesting. I hung out with my friend Lili from China the whole day. We met up, stupidly, at 9 in the morning, our goal being to grab a spot to see the boats go down the river....we waited for about an hour and a half, for nothing spectacular, but there were tons of people out and about. Since the boars weren't too exciting, we decided to do something else. Lili had to go to the bathroom, so we wen't to her
"apartment" (kinda, not really one) in Hotel Uppsala, in the center of town. We then walked around town, it was like the town exploded with people, it's the most crowded I've ever seen Uppsala. After walking around, we had lunch. We ended up buying strawberries, a must for the day, and we headed to the Main University Building were we listened to live classical music, choruses, and a skit that was in Swedish so I didn't get that much out of it. We ate half of our strawberries and found it time to go see the President of the University supposedly give a speech, but really only waved his hat from the main library...very anti-climatic. We ended up in the end, buying some ice cream for our strawberries, and sitting in front of one of the entrances to the cemetery, eating. The town was full of empty champaign bottles and garbage lying about.

The next Thursday I had my Swedish listening test. I think it went well for the most part, but the people talked so fast that it was difficult. I'm used to them slowing their speech down a little bit for the beginners, but they didn't. I have no clue how I did, nor do I know how to figure that out.

I turned 20 this past Tuesday and it was a lovely day. I opened the package that my parents sent me, and even skyped them before I went shopping with Jackie. We weren't very successful, but it was fun none the less. Stefan met up with us for dinner, which we had at MAX, not as "fancy" as my parents would've liked, but I can only have it for a limited time. Our goal was to see "How to train your dragon", but as it turned out, was in Swedish, not English like the internet told me. We ended up seeing "Kick-Ass", which was interesting... That night I skyped with my parents again.

I have my Swedish Written Test, my Swedish Ethnology Paper, and 3 more classes to attend before I can get distracted, but it's proving to be very hard, but just the paper writing part. Most of the time, writing a paper, to me, is like pulling teeth, so it requires motivation, which I seem to lack, much to my mother's dismay. I'm incredibly excited for my parents and Justin to be coming in 20 days! I am ready to come home :)

Well, there you have it, that's all that has happened that's noteworthy. Pray that I can get through these last 15 days of schooling!

Just some info: The sun starts rising at about 4 am and starts to set at 9:30pmish and dark by 10pm. That means 18 hours of sunlight! It's starting to screw with my mind!

Lindsay