Back in Sweden.

So its been a while, and I really just have not had motivation to post. Although now I found it again, and am posting. We've been back from Berlin for a little over a month, and my three months here are almost up. I have however applied to stay here in Sweden. I love it so much, and want to just stay here, study, and adventure some more. Since we got back from Berlin a lot of things have happened. We started what I call cooking adventures. We found out that one of the grocery stores has an ad that contains recipes, so we have started using those to make a shopping list. We have made a lot of different things. I we have a few pictures, but none that really do the food justice. I think I will start trying to take more pictures of our food. I also am going to start trying to translate the recipes and posting them on here as well. That way I can share those with you all. They actually are very delicious.

I've been going out on my own as well during the past few weeks. Its interesting. Never once have I felt unsafe. I really like that about this city. I think thats one of my favorite things about it. There is only one area of the city that I have not really explored yet, which might just prove to be the most interesting part. I am going to try to get there soon.



Other than our cooking adventures not a whole lot else has been going on here, just life. I finished my first class in Swedish last week (level A1) and am starting level A2 tonight! Since I started I feel like I have learned so much about the language, and am able to have/understand basic conversation. I think the most frustrating thing is, I understand the grammar concepts, but I just dont have a vocabulary built up yet. I am still working on that. Once I get that built up I will be a lot more confident. Although I will say that I do pretty well at typing out stuff. I just have to use google translate to figure out some words. A lot of the time google translate leads me in the wrong direction, and if I would have went with what I thought originally I would have either been right, or closer to correct. Soon I will be starting to introduce more Swedish on here as well. so that I can get more practice typing it.

 Melodifestivalen has ended and the winner was crowned.  Loreen was the winner, and although she sang a song in English. I really did like her performance. I've linked the video to her performance below. I also have linked the video to the runner up. The one thing that I thought was cool about melodifestivalen was that throughout the whole process whenever you wanted to vote for a song, you were making a donation. The total donations that they collected were over 1million dollars.  You had the option  to donate either about the equivalent of half a dollar, or a little over a dollar when you voted based on the number that you called.  It takes about 6.75 krones to make one US dollar, and there are only 9 million people in this country. If you were to look at all the votes, it equals almost one vote for every person who lives here in Sweden.

I think that is about everything that has happened really in the past few weeks. Well, we had a birthday party for Anton and his uncle. It was a lot of fun! I made a pancake cake! Its basically a cake made out of very thin almost crepe like pancakes, you put whipped cream, and different types of jam on each layer. Our cake wound up being 15 layers! It was so much fun! I also helped make cinnamon buns! They were delicious! I always have fun when we go home to visit Anton's parents and brothers! On the next blog I will write about this past weekend! This past weekend I had an amazing saturday and sunday! I cant wait to share it with you all! 

Hej då!