Watch out! The invation of the queens!!!
Finally I found the time and an internet connection to let you know how I am.
My train trip was an adventure. The X2000 train from Malmö to Mjölby was over 30 minutes late because of a technical problem. So I had to travel a whole different way. Instead of Mjölby to Motala to Örebro I drove via Katrinholm (extra stop there) to Hallsberg and then further on to Örebro. At the end I was just one hour later at the summer house.
In the first two days we had difficulties to do anything at all. There were two heavy thunderstorms or strong winds. The summer was back after this. We moved stones to the shore line, builded up a floor etc. It is great to be back!
I stay in one of the little houses. It still has no electricity. So we laid a cable to the house. The next morning I got up and I saw something moving on the floor. There were several ants there. From where did they come from? Then I saw it. They were marching in a long line one after the other over the cable into my cottage. It looked like in a Disney movie together with marching music. I removed the cable and killed all of them...
Of course Claes and myself are once more back as parking guides for Magnus theatre on several nights. As a payment I get a free entry to the theatre. The play this year is fantastic. A great bunch of actors and a very good story. In short: four famous swedish writers are in authors heaven and have discussions with each other. One of the writers is Selma Lagerlöf. I really have to read something written by her. Beside the story there was great music with great songs. A dream, I tell you.
On Thursday we had all people involved in the play over at Claes´ place for a small dinner after the performance. It was great to see several people again and I had a lot of fun. I was surprised how much Swedish I understood. It´s getting better and better ;-)
Yesterday morning we surprised Brita, the mother of Claes. It was Margaretha-day. That´s her middlename, so reason enough to celebrate her namesday ;-) Tia, the sister of Claes, made a cake. So early in the morning (9 o´clock ;-) ) we put on funny heads and brought her coffee, the cake, chocolate and card to her bed. Then we sung some kind of silly swedish song. It was fun and I never saw such a big smile on that woman´s face ;-) After this Claes and myself drove to Stockholm. In the evening we had dinner at Bo´s place (partner of Claes). We had so many laughs. This two are such a nice couple.
Today I was wondering around the city and I bought several swedish CDs. Sthlm is very strange at the moment, because:
Watch out! The invation of the queens!!!
The reason: A gay cruise ship is in town this weekend. Which means roughly 1900 middleaged mostly American queens are all over the town. It is really an invasion. Tomorrow everything should be over. Thank God for that...
On Monday we drive back to Stadra/Udden... I´ll let you know...
My train trip was an adventure. The X2000 train from Malmö to Mjölby was over 30 minutes late because of a technical problem. So I had to travel a whole different way. Instead of Mjölby to Motala to Örebro I drove via Katrinholm (extra stop there) to Hallsberg and then further on to Örebro. At the end I was just one hour later at the summer house.
In the first two days we had difficulties to do anything at all. There were two heavy thunderstorms or strong winds. The summer was back after this. We moved stones to the shore line, builded up a floor etc. It is great to be back!
I stay in one of the little houses. It still has no electricity. So we laid a cable to the house. The next morning I got up and I saw something moving on the floor. There were several ants there. From where did they come from? Then I saw it. They were marching in a long line one after the other over the cable into my cottage. It looked like in a Disney movie together with marching music. I removed the cable and killed all of them...
Of course Claes and myself are once more back as parking guides for Magnus theatre on several nights. As a payment I get a free entry to the theatre. The play this year is fantastic. A great bunch of actors and a very good story. In short: four famous swedish writers are in authors heaven and have discussions with each other. One of the writers is Selma Lagerlöf. I really have to read something written by her. Beside the story there was great music with great songs. A dream, I tell you.
On Thursday we had all people involved in the play over at Claes´ place for a small dinner after the performance. It was great to see several people again and I had a lot of fun. I was surprised how much Swedish I understood. It´s getting better and better ;-)
Yesterday morning we surprised Brita, the mother of Claes. It was Margaretha-day. That´s her middlename, so reason enough to celebrate her namesday ;-) Tia, the sister of Claes, made a cake. So early in the morning (9 o´clock ;-) ) we put on funny heads and brought her coffee, the cake, chocolate and card to her bed. Then we sung some kind of silly swedish song. It was fun and I never saw such a big smile on that woman´s face ;-) After this Claes and myself drove to Stockholm. In the evening we had dinner at Bo´s place (partner of Claes). We had so many laughs. This two are such a nice couple.
Today I was wondering around the city and I bought several swedish CDs. Sthlm is very strange at the moment, because:
Watch out! The invation of the queens!!!
The reason: A gay cruise ship is in town this weekend. Which means roughly 1900 middleaged mostly American queens are all over the town. It is really an invasion. Tomorrow everything should be over. Thank God for that...
On Monday we drive back to Stadra/Udden... I´ll let you know...
dedas79 - 21. Jul, 21:13
Hi there
what are you up to? I have a norwegian roommate (try to speak norwegian) and there is also a guy from sweden in our class... looking forward to the start of summer school on monday
big hug