Ah, so no exciting trips to another country this blog, but it’s still fun, right? To be honest I’m starting to wonder how many people, if any, actually read my entire blogs; I mean, I can’t even be bothered to grammar-check them, they’re so long. So I’ll try to keep this one short, yeah?
My first Swedish class was pretty scary, because as I said, I missed the first three, but I did okay, and I should be able to catch up fairly easily.
The food and atmosphere were better at the Kalmar Reccegasque than the International Gasque, but it was still good fun; I got to sit at the VIP table! Actually I have no idea why I was there; the people around me kept getting up to make speeches and stuff, it was kind of weird. They were all super nice, though. Oh, actually they weren’t all VIPs. The girl opposite me was in exactly the same boat as I, so we kind of sat around confused a fair bit.
Afterwards, when the tables were cleared, they started up the music and whatnot for the afterparty. The music, quite frankly, was terrible. I found Anna, though, and we spent the evening chatting instead.
After everything closed up, I went to Max (Swedish McJack’s, with whatever else thrown in) for some food with Scott et al., which was pretty tasty at 3am. Then we got lazy and caught a cab home, although it was surprisingly cheap, considering what I’d heard.
Today I slept in, got up for a bit, put on some nice music, went back to bed to listen to Oh, Inverted World, and generally didn’t do much. Oh, but I cooked a surprisingly delicious and easy dinner (chicken satay stirfry) and bought some toothpaste. And walked in the super-big, super-slow snowflakes, which was amazing. It’s so nice at the moment – not cold (hanging around zero) and no wind, either.
Tomorrow is fika with Breanne and then more fika with the Kalmar language cafe. Cool. Okay I really should do some homework, eh.
Man, this was supposed to be a short post. Sorry…
A delicious chicken satay stirfry you say? Haha we should swap a few recipes, at this point I’m just cooking the same few dinners on a constant rotation due to laziness and lack of cooking skill :p
Oh and I always read your blogs even when they’re long and half the references to people and places I don’t know go straight over my head – I guess I’m a tiny bit jealous that I can’t be in Sweden too! Keep them up, they’re a good read
That would be great, my recipe repertoire is rather shameful. To be honest I just kind of think of something then make it up, usually. I mean, I’ve made satay chicken stirfry before, but the ingredients are so different here that I had to kind of just wing it.
Heh, well thanks very much! You haven’t thought of writing something yourself, have you? And don’t be jealous, you sound like you’re having an amazing time in San Diego!
I just made the world’s best spaghetti bolognaise haha, though unfortunately it is a family secret!!
Nah actually it’s pretty basic. You’re right about the ingredients, especially since some forms of food are basically inedible in America (bread and cheese to name just two!). I do like the ingredients that are exclusive to here though, I put some Mexican pimiento pepper into my last bolognaise and it was quite good!!
Aww, my bolognaise generally consists of mince, pasta sauce, and whatever vegetables I can find around the place. Boring, but nice. I reallly should grab some random Swedish ingredients some time, see what I can do with them (hopefully not die).
I just made the world’s best spaghetti bolognaise haha, though unfortunately it is a family secret!!
Nah actually it’s pretty basic. You’re right about the ingredients, especially since some forms of food are basically inedible in America (bread and cheese to name just two!). I do like the ingredients that are exclusive to here though, I put some Mexican pimiento pepper into my last bolognaise and it was quite good!!