not so short...Weekend Update

Well it is Monday which means the weekend is over.  Since my last post on Thursday morning I have gotten some feedback that I should continue blogging so here we are again.  Friday I spent the day sleeping I think...I can't really remember and so that is probably what I did because normally if I don't have class that’s where you will find me....sleeping.  Tuesdays & Friday nights my favorite pub Stallarna is opened.  This pub/club is located on campus and is student owned and ran so you have to be a member of the student union to go.  Well this means it’s a ton of students crammed into a small place dancing to old-ish American music/house music.  Its sweaty, loud, overpriced beers & cider and its fantastic.  I dance the night away with the whole international community it seems and some brave Swedes.  The pub closes at 2 which always leads to an after party at one of the corridors that we decide as we are in the queue to get our coats.  That’s right everyone I guess it’s a Swedish thing or perhaps a European thing but you check your coat at the pub, it’s amazing! Friday evening it was in Lyan 61 where partner in crime Kaitlyn lives.  She is from Georgia and we tend to stick together for the most part.  This particular evening the after party consisted of dancing to Latin music led by our friends from Spain.  It was another unforgettable night with fun people.  Saturday I again slept in, why wake up early there is nothing to do, it’s cold and dark.  Then that evening I had a get together with some girls from class.  One thing that I really love about school here is the fact that the people in my classes are my friends.  This is a really neat dynamic because I don't know if everyone would agree with this statement but at home I have "school friends" that I sit with each day and do projects maybe sometimes grab lunch with but that is where the friendship ends.  Here we hang out of evenings, on weekends and at the pubs, it creates a great atmosphere in class because we are all getting close.  We went to Ewa's (pronounced Ava she is from Poland) to help her build a chest of drawers from IKEA. She insisted that we did not need any mans help that we could construct them on our own.  I know what those of you who know me are thinking....Allie is a great person to invite over to help you build something...that’s right up her alley...hahahaha just kidding.  As you can guess I sat back while they struggled and laughed...I did add some wonderful music to the event and drank ciders :)  It was fun to spend time with some girls from class, we laughed a lot and learned why things from IKEA are so cheap, the labor is really hard...or at least it looked hard, I wouldn't know.  Watching them struggle to put that together wore me out so I decided to go to bed at a decent hour since I had to meet my "friend family" on Sunday.  A friend family is a family that volunteers to be your family while you are in Sweden they can make you dinners, take you sightseeing, or whatever you want to do with your family.  Sunday at 12 my friend family picked me up from campus to go to their flat to eat lunch.  The family that I have been assigned to consists of Elias the man of the flat, Charlotte his "girlfriend/live-in partner/baby mama" and their baby boy Victor. There are also 3 children Elin 11, Samuel 14 and Jacob 8 which are Charlotte's children from a previous marriage and they only live with Elias & Charlotte every other week, I have not met them yet.  The flat was very nice and very modern.  Charlotte made a wonderful, traditional Swedish meal.  Swedish meat balls, boiled potatoes, corn, lingon berries, and cucumbers.  It was really good I actually enjoyed some Swedish food for once; I guess when properly prepared it can be good. For desert we had traditional Swedish cheesecake and coffee.  After lunch baby Victor woke up so I got to play with him.  My family & I talked about my life and home and really everything about school kind of like talking to my own parents actually.  It is really neat to get to know a family of Swedes.  As I mentioned it can be hard to meet Swedes so this gives me the opportunity to ask and learn a lot about Sweden.  After spending the afternoon with them they brought me back to campus and I had to work on a paper.  As most papers go I spent 60% of the time using Facebook rather than working which is when I ran across the fact that Sunday was the super-bowl.  Needless to say I freaked out! Not because of the game that I was going to miss but the food! I quickly called Kaitlyn to go to the store with me to buy food to celebrate this holiday. We bought SO MUCH FOOD! It was unreal anything we saw that looked like American Super bowl food...we bought it.  We hurried home and cooked everything.  When I was walking with my groceries to Kaitlyn's corridor one of my friends passed and was eyeing all of my bags...I made sure to clear up to him that it was a holiday sort of like the Chinese New Year in America today so we had to cook a feast.  Feast we did! Not long after eating I had to go to bed because I was worn out from such a long day...I had no idea who even was playing in the Super bowl...let alone who won. haha  Today I had class and it was scheduled from 1-3 so you can imagine when I checked my phone at 3:38 and we were still in class how shocked I was...class felt so long today because it WAS.  We went an hour over...gross.  Well that pretty much sums up my weekend.  Actually now that I look at this...it’s not a summary at all but more like a narration of my weekend sorry....I'm a talker.  This week I finally get to go to the Swedish schools and see the children I can't wait so there will be plenty more to come soon!! 

Until next time,

Allie