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Valborg!
Valborg, valborg, valborg.
For those of you who read my previous years blog entry about this sacred day on the calendar of every Uppsala student who has ever had a hangover, you know that this day is the day where Swedes save up their being good points and promptly throw them out the window for 24+ hours of mayhem and irresponsible drinking, (in designated areas carefully watched by the police of course.)
This is a carefully scripted day where ...
Eating Contest
... 8217;s are a very special food, so the eating did not begin until the curator of the nation sampled the kroppkakor to make sure that they were fit for eating. She sampled them and then gave a short speech about how great the kroppkakor were. All of the speeches that night had to do with kroppkakor, these took place before, during and after the eating contest.
The eating contest was simple. Each contestant was given a flag. When they finished one ...
The Destruction of Fika!
... sanctity of Fika is at risk. An American company that prides itself on bad coffee that you can get from a drive through has no place in this Nordic country. I am hoping that they at least did a little bit of location research to find that Sweden, the country that consumes the second largest amount of coffee per capita in the world, likes to enjoy their coffee while sitting down and not while walking to their next appointment. Swedes ...
Turnén fortsätter!
Lämnade Enköping igår för fagra Uppsala och fler avsked. Bjuden på mat tre gånger på mindre än ett dygn, två glassar, en Oreo cookie tårta, skitmycket choklad och gott the. Idag väntar ännu mer choklad, och ännu mer choklad. Jag kommer vara så redo för Australiens beach -11. Ett sista hej då i Uppsala sen bär det av till Stockholm och ett gäng nya hej då. Jag tänker bada så in i bomben om några ...
Hunting for Mushrooms!
... show up in pictures of fairies, but would be fatal to us. Maybe that is why fairies have never been discovered, they make those who find them eat the mushrooms and this takes care of the problem. Sort of paints a different picture of fairies doesn't it?
Next year I will try to find a better place to find mushrooms where I am not competing with more than twenty other people. Victor says that there is a good place in Kalmar, so maybe we can try that ...
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