Relaxing Weekend

On Friday afternoon, my host parents Anders and Karin and my younger host sister, Emma (age 11), left for a weekend trip to Ulricehamn in Västergötland to visit Anders' family's farm Bredgård. My other host sister Alva ( age 16) was at her friend's house for the evening and I had been invited to Mikael and Marie Sandströms house for Fredagsmys. 

The Sandströms are another Rotary host family that live in the same neighborhood as me. In Uppsala there are four RYE students and we are all teenage girls from the Western United States (Washington State, California, Utah, & Colorado). We have four host families in Uppsala that we rotate between, however we only switch between three of the families, so I have an extra set of host parents that I will never live with, the Sandströms. Marie knew that my host parents were going out of town for the weekend, so she invited me over for dinner on Friday night. We had Hawaiian pizza and salad for dinner, followed by delicious pumpkin chocolate chip cookies made by Sierra, Beth, and me. 

After dinner,  I played with Heda (the Sandströms adorable 10- week old Bernese mountain dog puppy). Heda likes to bite, and she is really playful and adorable, I am so jealous of Sierra and Beth because they get to live with a cute puppy! But it's all good, because I live two blocks from the Sandströms house, so I can visit the puppy pretty much whenever, and I'll definitely be doing that. 

(Clearly seen in the above photo: World's cutest puppy!!!! Thank you Sierra for this photo) 

On Saturday, my host sister Alva and her Scout friends made fake beards for a competition to be held in Stockholm the following day, and I spent the morning "helping" them make their beards, in reality, I just ate all of the cookies on the table and drank some lemon green tea. I spent Saturday afternoon doing homework (terribily exciting, I know) and in the evening I ate the rest of my leftover pizza for dinner, and I took the bus into the city center to go to the movie theatre. I met my friend Cecilia at the movies and we decided to see The Wolf of Wall Street. Despite being three hours long and quite raunchy and controversial, I was impressed by the movie. The acting and directing was astounding and the film was overall really well-made, with good music and cinematography. 

Sunday morning was uneventful, mostly because I slept in all morning, which was great. I spent the rest of Sunday watching tv, working on homework, writing a speech for my Swedish class, and just generally relaxing.

I didn't do that much this past weekend, but it was really nice to kick back and de-stress, I am now feeling well-rested and ready for more adventures, bring it on Sweden.