Enjoying the country-side

Haven't done much the last days but cooking, reading and the occasional walk.

But it's been good :-)


Faro as you can see are also enjoying the lazy days.

I'm even a bit scared about going out and socializing tomorrow. Luckily I think we'll start the day in the book fair with all the book nerds so hopefully the social code is not too high :-P

Finlandia

Back home in the Finnish the country-side for a couple of weeks, so will not be updating to much for the next days I think.

Our first day back was fantastic just because we got to go to sauna, I've missed that in Sweden!

Yesterday, we spent at the kennel and took Faro to the physiotherapist's place that treated him a year ago after the accident. Apperently he was quite tense from all the agility so it was good we went and he need to loose about one kilo. Ops! :-) that's my fault I think, I thought that he seemed so skinny a month ago and that it was ok to give him some more food as we have been training so much with him but apperently not really...Finally we also got some excersises to train the deep small muscles in his back legs, seems that he is taken a lot of strenght to the front legs only or it might be because we have trained a lot of contact-training where he has his back-legs on top of something and front legs on the ground.


I forgot to show you our diploma from one of the courses :-) Haven't got a diploma since primary school I think so that was fun

Almost finished with the first course!

phew, it's been a tough couple of days. Yesterday we presented our projects and got some feedback from other students. We celebrated with a nice dinner and went out afterwards as it was the last lecture of the course but we still have to work on the final version of the project, which we did the whole day today. So now I'm tired and will continue tomorrow...

Now bedtime & I leave you with this video, I'm quite impressed with their co-ordination! I wouldn't manage:-)

Horse-riding

Stefan's birthday present this year was a ride on icelandic horses, I think he got tired of me going " oooh, horses!" everytime we saw horses by the road, since here's a lot of them. So finally this saturday was the horseriding day.


My legs are still a bit sore but it was fun! I didn't realize I look like a 5-year-old though with all the pink and jeez the horse look small on the pic! :-D My toes were frozen after 2 hours though so either I need warmer shoes for next time or better wait for the spring.

Peeping Tom is a Deer

We have a window in the bathroom facing the forest, but sometimes in the night when it is light indoors and completely dark out and you can't see a damn thing through them, I would prefer to have at least blurry windows to know that nobody looks inside. When it's windy you hear noises too, and since you can't see a thing, my imagination starts playing tricks on me. Sorry for the blurry picture-but you get the idea, this is our bathroom:

Today when I went for the morning shower and what did I see on the outside:



Someone was enjoying breakfast. As long as it's a little deer I'm ok but the day it's a bear I might wanna move back to the city.

And tickets for Finland are bought 23.10-4.11 we'll be back in Finlandia.

Swedish Dates

I don't know when I'm gonna learn to write them in the wrong order! Like: 2011.10.14 when the correct way is obviously 14.10.2011!

Right?! :-)

Unfortunatly, I had got it completly wrong on the phone as well. We were supposed to (I thought at least!) have the car check-up today but turns out it's 14th of NOVEMBER! Holy macaroni! I blame it on the Skåne-guy on the phone, he basically spoke Danish and was impossible to understand. Well, we'll try calling them on Monday to get it re-scheduled. Otherwise we'll just have to wait I guess.

Now Faro is not-so-happy because we are not yet in bed so nighty nighty!

Stefan's Boss

Stefan's new boss came to check that he really is working. No lazyness allowed!

Tired

Pheeew, seems there is too much to do and too little time nowadays!

Should read some articles for tomorrow and need to work on the project for next week. Also I should get some sleep!

Just wanted to tell you that I past my first exam! The Swedes have a wierd scale though goes like this:

• U (which is FAIL)
• 3 (20-29 points)
  
• 4 (30-34 points)
  
• 5 (35-40 points)
  

I got a 4 so I'm happy. The silly thing is I got a 10 points for the question I thought was most difficult, I guess it was easy once I finally remembered the correct answer. Perhaps that's why I answered less good on the other questions because I kept thinking the whole exam who the f*** was Mintzberg? Luckily, I remember thar just in time to write the full answer and score a jack pot on that one :-) ( and if you're wondering Mintzberg has a theory on stategies, how to position yourself on the market)

Well, bedtime, Faro is already snoring after the agility today.

The Typical must-take cruise-pic of us

Strange People in Uppsala

Back in Uppsala yesterday with my friends in the trainstation we were sitting down on a bench and opposite us sat a woman that looked pretty normal but after a while we noticeed she talked to herself. When she started to creep out my friend she came up to us and asked if she can borrow her a phone. None of us really wanted her to though so she walked on.

Today when I was waiting for the bus I was checking my messages on my phone and didn't notice her at first but it was the same woman who came up to us yesterday, today she was asking me for money.

She didn't look like the avarage begger, so I was a bit puzzled. She seemed mostly disoriented and confused, like you imagine an alzheimer patient. She seemed to young to have alzheimer though but who knows....

Helsinki trip

We had a rocky ride on the boat on the way there because of the storm but our first glimpse of Helsinki in the morning was beautiful so it was worth it.

I spent the whole day with a friend. We had lovely brunch at Sis Deli, spent some time in the book store and finished the day having dinner in the new restaurant Vapiano in Helsinki. I loved the fact that they had spicy Italian sausage on the pizza. Our old favourite italian restaurant stopped that because "Finnish people don't like spicy food". Bah!

Now I'm back in Sweeden, tired from the party on the boat, seems like these guys also had a tough weekend:

On My Way

Feeling better and on my way to the cruise, waiting for the bus in Knutby.

Lovely weather ain't it?

Fever!

Ounou! I was happy last week because I had not caught the flu from my classmates but I spoke to soon...the last days I had a cough and flu and now I have fever :-( (ok, 37 degrees but it's a lot for me)

Just had one of these, (luckily we had ginger at home since I tried to make this recipe some weeks ago) Now I go back to bed-hope to be well for the cruise on the weekend.

Tobago chicken was good:

I dare you to check this out!

Stefan made again a funny post-about "scary" animals in Sweden.

The Swedish Way of internet banking

As I finally got my bank-account in Sweden I also got my "codes" for the internet bank. Except for that the codes are in a machine that looks like a small calculator and you have to insert your card in there. The thing looks like this:
So everytime you want to log-in to the internet bank you have to 1: put in a code to the machine the internet bank gives you 2: remember your card-code and 3: put the code the machine gives you in the internet bank and then finally you can log-in. It's a bit more annoying than at home where you have the codes on a piece of paper that is easy to bring with you and you only have to remember your own usercode for the internet bank.

And finally I got my Ica-card as well and I was thrilled to get another little machine:

I hope this enhances the security or something becuase I really don't see the point.

Or perhaps it's an environmental thing? If it uses less energy and resources, making the small machines in china once (which will have to be shipped over?) or making the paper bits with codes several times. I wonder....

Chocolate

Since we are anyway on the food-subject I need to show the yammi chocolate that my classmate made me for my birthday. Darkchochlate mixed with dried cranberries and some nuts and into the freezer and you'll have the same!

Ajvar Relish

I was looking in vain for this sauce in Finland so was I happy when I found it even in our small Ica here.


Super yammi with chicken and rice!

Oat-porridge or havregrynsgröt

Believe it or not but we acctually ate porridge for breakfast! I got inspired by the book I bought by Noora Schingler, where she wrote to eat porridge with fruit and berries.

I was fine with it until my berries were finished. It was ok with honey and banana too but oat porridge will never be a favorite of mine.