Monday, April 9, 2012

Happy Easter!

Hej Hej everyone!
I hope everyone had a FANTABULOUS Easter! Mine was pretty good. I know all of you have no idea where I am now. On the Thursday after I got back I moved to a different city, Halmstad, and I am living with my rotary councilor and his family. They have 2 daughters but both of them are not living at home anymore. On might be moving back home soon but no definite plans. So I have been here for about 2 weeks now. The friday after I moved in the other exchange student named Matt who lives here asked if I wanted to get pizza and watch a movie with him and his host brother. So I said yes and we agreed to meet at Stora Torg which is the city center. Any, you have to realize that I have only been here for a day so I do NOT know my way around the city but I decided to take the bike down there anyway. So I made it down there and we went and had pizza and then went to Matts place to watch a movie, well the movie didn't end till about 12.30 a.m. haha. So it was dark and I had no idea how to get home. I rode around on my bike for about an hour but couldn't find the bike underpass to get home. So I had to call for some help from the host parents. They are too kind to me. On Saturday and Sunday I went to church for General Conference. I was able to watch almost the whole thing in english which was really nice. This whole past week we have had Påsklov for school which is easter break so I didn't have school all week. SLEEP!!! haha. So I slept all Monday and then on Tuesday I went to Ängelholm and hung out with Rosie all day. We went and fikad and ate chinese food then we went to the gym and worked out for a bit. Afterwards we threw the softball around in an abandoned parking lot until my train left. It was a good day. On wednesday I stayed home until about 3 when Susanna, the youngest daughter, 21, came and picked me up and took me to show me around Halmstad a bit. We went to this Italian ice cream place and had the best ice cream ever! It was so good. It actually kind of reminded me of Farson ice cream. So it was really fun to spend some time with Susanna, she is really cool. On Thursday Rosie came here for the day which turned  into two days but oh well haha. We just chilled and threw around the softball and walked around Halmstad which was fun. It got really late so we asked if she could stay the night and Claes and Lena said it was ok. On Friday Rosie, Claes, Lena, and I went to Landkrona which is close to Malmö, to go to a art gallery thing. It was pretty good. Rosie and I watched Ice Age 2 in the kids section while all of the adults went and looked at art. haha. it was awesome. After the main gallery we got in the car and went around to different artists studios. The first one we went to was absolutely awful and uncomfortable but Rosie and I survived. The other six places were pretty good. The tour ended in Ängelholm so we dropped Rosie off there. On Saturday it was Easter so we pretty much stayed home and made food for the dinner that night. Sweden, well at least this family, have a tradition of eating fish on Påskdagen (Easter day) and then on Påskafton (the day after easter or Easter Sunday) you eat lamb. So we had fish and I choked down some Ludafisk and Sil while I was at it. I will probably never ever in my life get used to that taste. BLAH! but its tradition so I managed. Other than that the dinner was good. For Easter day we had Lena's sister and her husband over for dinner and then Claes and Lena's two daughters and one of their boyfriends. It was good. The next night we had lamb and some more sil and ludafisk. I ate some more to be polite but not to much. The lamb was good though. That night we had some of Claes and Lena's good friends over and their daughter and her boyfriend and of course Claes and Lena's two daughters. It was really fun. After dinner I talked to mom and when I got done talking to her I showed all the them how to play "Spoons" it was really fun and all of them really enjoyed it. Today is  Monday and its a "Red Day" in sweden so there is no work or school. So I got to sleep again. haha. But today I made some amazing bread for dinner. Lena said its the most amazing bread she has ever seen, hope she thinks the same thing after she has eaten it haha. But I think it will be good. So that is really all that has been up with me lately. Hope everyone had a great Easter!
Love,
Micah
P.S. I can't believe I have only been back in Sweden for 2 weeks, it feels like forever!

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