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First Week Back
... to take part in clubs and organizations where I can meet not only international students, but this year I may actually meet some Swedes. Who would have thought?
In the past week I have arrived and settled in. Like my apartment in California was furnished by discards of my family, this apartment here has been furnished mainly by furniture that Victors relatives no longer need. No complaints here, we have a really big comfortable couch and lots of shelf space ...
MidSummer Eve
... place as a celebration for the end of summer. We saw quite a few people in tradition clothing along with people wearing flower wreathes on their heads. The Maypole came down the main street right by us and then we joined in with the processional. Once they had the Maypole up the dancing started. We were able to follow along with the actions and dancing around the pole and discovered we were dancing like tree frogs. Noah waved his new Swedish flag proudly throughout ...
Truly, the best wedding ever!
... toast. We are use to raising our glass for a toast and then taking a drink. In Sweden to raise your glass to the person sitting next to you. Then you turn and raise the glass to your table partner, for me Noah. You then turn to the person on the other side of you and finish my raising the glass one more time to the person across from you before you take a drink. We taught them the tradition of hitting the glass to signal ...
Perhaps one skelton might be enough!
... course was salmon in a pumpkin puree followed by a wild garlic soup with crayfish. For the main course we had rack of lamb with a potato cake and white bean puree served with port wine sauce. Dessert was a wonderful raspberry soup with yogurt sherbet and chocolate cake. Noah followed the Pagel house rule and ate three bites of the lamb, potato cake, and garlic soup. There was no way he was going to take another bite of the salmon after ...
OUR ADVENTURE BEGINS
... along with their good friend, around 6:00. They were also at dinner with us.
We discovered the app to teach Noah Swedish isn't all that accurate. I was saying how Noah orded his drink on the plane in part English and Swedish. Cousin Karl immediately started laughing at what he said. Apparently, snalla, which Noah thought please, truly means Sweetie. So basically Noah said to the flight ...