And things get interesting

Sorry for the length of this post, but I have to blog about stuff before I forget it.

So I keep waking up in the mornings with my "quilt" halfway out of my "duvet cover." Welp, it's probably because the giant pillowcase-ish thing has no buttons or zipper on the bottom so it can't help but slide out. Dumb.

Even though Sunday (today) was supposedly a "free day," it's been quite the little adventure. First, a few of the group went to this big church we've past basically every day for a Swedish church service. Surprisingly, the Swedish aren't very religious as a whole. The SUSHIs couldn't even tell us what denomination the church was and it wasn't even some rinky dink little chapel, it was a monster! Of course, i couldn't understand anything the priest (preacher? pastor? I have no idea so I'll just rock the Catholicism lingo) was saying but I could follow along for the most part. The hymns sounded similar and I could tell the main parts like the Lord's prayer and communion. Probably because of the whole language thing, it was a teensy bit hard to stay completely awake;) Definitely an experience to say the least.

Before church, I found a mini gym (think hotel style) in my own stinking building! I mean, it only took me a week I guess? So I had a nice little elliptical bout before the day started. on my way to the gym, I think I may have had a third roommate spotting. Well, at least I saw shoes outside her door so I'm thinking she was home. Maybe I'll meet her before we leave? So we "fika-ed" on the way to church of course. I find it interesting how rare seeing people with "to go" coffee cups has been. Everyone really seems to embrace the whole coffee break thing to really enjoy their time. Also, I counted at least 10 pizzerias on the bus ride to the church. Pizza. is. everywhere. Interestingly, when someone orders a pizza, the restaurant doesn't slice it up, they serve it whole. Guess you just have to dig in (which would be A-ok with me if I could eat it!). Speaking of restaurants, I committed an accidental crime today at Max burger! Whoops! I keep forgetting the whole no ice/free refill thing so I just went ahead and got more coke before I even thought about paying for a refill!

After church this morning, the group met up with the teachers to go to Huskavarna to go to some museum place. Not quite my cup of tea (or coffee), but it wasn't to boring. After, I got yet another ice cream (even though it was raining and freezing. This one was my favorite so far- sort of like a pineapple version of a creamsicle- YUMM. It went fantastically with the candy I had at lunch again today=D

Last night, the word around the Raslatt block (I swear, this place is a gossip mill) was there was some fiesta party going down. Sort of an international frat party if you will. Of course we had to go. We made it there, and we made it home, so as far as I'm concerned that makes it a success. It was kind of funny, all the music they played was about as American as it gets. Kesha, Ying Yang, Britney Spears, I can dig it. As we got on the bus back home, something really weird and VERY un-American happened. The police officers standing at the bus stop were making sure all the extremely drunk people made it onto their buses to get home. They would even talk to the bus drivers so the bus drivers knew to make sure they got off at their stop. It mesmerized me because in the US, the police would just slap some cuffs on ya and hello public intox!

I'm kind of bummed it's been so rainy today because apparently there was a huge gay pride parade through town. That sort of stuff isn't usually up my alley, but I figured it'd been an interesting experience. I'm hitting the ground running at around 7:30 tomorrow, so I finally get to take a lame night where I do nothing but sleep at like 9. Is it weird that I'm excited?!