COOKIES

Last night Julie (www.juliewishau.blogspot.com) invited us all to her house in Malmö for a cookie exchange. So Jo, Rachelle, Stephanie and I got on the train at 13.27 to Malmö. It was rainy and cold and grey in Malmö but we spent about 2 hours on the town looking in shops. Luckily Julie and her host family were kind enough to let us come early! (17ish) I have to pay Rachelle back for this really cute jumper dress thing I got from H&M. As soon as we got to Julie's the sugar intake began. We started off nimbling on our own cookies and then drank loads of coffee or tea. At 19 the guests arrived bringing an array of cookies. For the better part of two hours around 20 girls all sat and drank glögg and chatted. It was very cosy. Julie's brother had just arrived yesterday from Chicago so it was nice meeting him. He was the only boy until 20.30ish when Tom and Ryota showed up.
We left at 21.21 because some other girls were taking the bus down to the main station also. We got to the screen with a list of rides and we could not find a single one with Helsingborg! We all panicked because we were afraid we'd be stuck in Malmö for the night!! Luckily we waited a few minutes and turns out the screen was just full. We had to wait for an hour though before we could get on the train! But we sat inside the terminal so it wasn't freezing cold. Four girls high on sugar is not good though. Rachelle danced for 15 minutes in her own world, Jo and Stephanie were having a field day with a Burger King toy, and I just sat through it all knitting. Oh dear. It was ironic though because Tom and Ryota even though they left probably at 21.45 got on the same train as us! Overall it was a nice day. I met some of Julie's friends and got out of Helsingborg for a day.
I made Nanaimo bars (that didn't taste like home but people adored them) and classic Snickerskaka.

Julgoodies

Last night we went to Jon and Mollie's because every year for the past 15 or something their family and the Fejne's have had a traditional Christmas candy making night. We made knäck, almond cookies, and marzapan stuff. I felt so sick the entire night though and at 20.30 i fell asleep on the couch! I didn't wake up until 22.30. I felt embarassed but they knew I wasn't feeling well and Jon and Mollie are super nice so it was alright. Knäck is soo nice. Sugar, syrup, cream and almonds. Yum. I'm going to have to make sure I don't eat mad amounts of this stuff!
Carolin is their daughter (Jon has two other kids which are 23 and 25 I think from another marrige - he was the one married to the woman who ran off to be with the Nimis guy!)

korv med bröd

Last night (well at 16.00) Stephanie, Joanna, and I headed out to Fredriksdahl because there was a Christmas market happening. Fredriksdahl is like a park and heritage area. It was really cute, all light up with candles and what not. Candy and hot dogs filled my tummy, that's it. And this really good äppleglögg that I wish I had bought... with Stephanie's money.

glumslöv

So Steph, Christoffer, and I hopped on a train at 17.27 to head out to Glumslöv for a get together for Abel's birthday plus to hear his new demo for Kosmonout! He has a super super cute house. Kim and him met us at the train station. Then after Kim left, Jake came. A little while later Mange and Edde were out in Glumslöv too. A few of Abel's friends came too, but I'm not positive on who they were. Well one is Oskar who is in Kosmonout also. And the other was one of Victor's friends. We got on the train (after talking to Nad for 10 minutes on my cell!) but since we didn't have time to buy tickets before hand we had to pay 62 kronar!! Arg.. Oh well. Get into town, have a slow walk up to Mange's. Then we see how Wii is played. Ha it's cool!!! Except it would get old, real fast. Then it was basically a mad spooning session on Mange's bed. HAhaa! Most comfortable thing in the world. I fell alseep and came home a bit late, but I told Anders today and he didn't mind.

Support

So on Thursday Rachelle made her first presentation infront of her Rotary club. The one about Canada and life back home. It was a rainy day but the girls all met up on the bus, and then walked to the hotel where the Rotary is held. It seems so much different from the lunches we (Stephanie, Jo, and I) have for our clubs, but dinner meetings are always different. Rachelle had so many people there to support her! It was nice to see. She did a good job of half swedish- half english so there's no way the club can say she hasn't learnt anything. Since she has, and no they haven't said that about her. I just mean if they wanted to think that it would be false! She sang O Canada! Ha oh how I miss that song!
After parents Roos drove RAchelle and I to the H-If match because my Rotary councilor and her boyfriend weren't going to be there that day and they have season tickets so they let me have them! She's really cool. The field was disgusting by 10 minutes in because it was raining. But we won 1-0. Then I walked down to Knutpunktin and took the bus up to my house haha Which is about as fast as me walking from Olympia Stadium to my house! But it was nice with Rachelle's company haha!

Canada

Ha oh dear lord. Rachelle, Stephanie, and I make for a good time.
ha oh little Stephanie not from Canada.

Lussebullar

Lucia buns! Ulrika and I made some on Monday. I must get the recipe before I go home. Yahoo for Christmas.

The Reason Why

I made carrot cake yesterday but it's a funky colour because there is no baking soda in this house (the thing that browns baked goods). It tastes really good though, just no cream cheese icing!

So the reason why I left for Thanksgiving was because I went to Råå to go to julskyltning. Mange, Edde, Abel, and I went to Rikard's grandma's for glögg and pepperkaka! Then through the streets and back home.

They had it in Helsingborg last night. So after training I met up with Abel and Edde and we didn't really look at everything. It was bloody cold and super packed and none of us like that! So we went to Mezo and sat there for about an hour for fika. Najs. But now I'm sick.
Edde on the left in his hyperactive blurry form. Abel on the right just sitting and laughing.

Thanksgiving

So this post should've been made when I made the one about brunch but I've gotten lazy. Today I was sick so I'll be able to make lots of posts.. well sort of. So after brunch Rachelle, Stephanie, and I went back to Stephanie's to start on our Swedish Thanksgiving. I made the stuffing then I had to leave (I'll get to why) so all the credit goes to Rachelle and Stephanie. Sweet potates, mashed potatoes, corn (they boiled it?!?! - canned corn that is), turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, carrot cake, asparagus.. I forget what else. I was late getting to dinner but they saved me food so I got there right before dessert! We had lingonberries instead of cranberries since they don't have cranberries here. Weird I know. I miss craisins! So we had Japan, Sweden, Danish, New Zealand, States, Canada. Nice :) It was good seeing everyone also.

Won't Back Down

Last Saturday I went to a concert because my friend Abel was playing drums with his band. It was so ridic good! Best out of the three by far. I just wish it had been a lot longer!! They played again on Thursday at OlympiaSkolan for Olympia Dag. It was so nice, again!!