Pea Soup and Pancake Thursday

Yesturday for lunch, this is what I ate: pea soup and pancakes. Supposedly it is Swedish tradition that on Thursdays most restaurants serve this meal. Although it is a really weird combination, it was surprisingly good! Yesturday was also our last day of orientation! One of the lectures we had to listen to was about cheating and plagiarism. It was over an hour long, listening about what happens to you when you cheat, how to properly cite other peoples work, etc. I felt like I was in english class or something!

Here is a video of my room! Its kind of dark and I dont know how to make it look the normal way, instead of sideways, but I guess you can bend your head a little to watch! So in my bathroom, you might see that I have a shower and a toilet, but there is nothing that separates them. I have a drain on my floor, so the water goes there and the shower curtain stops most of it from making my bathroom too messy.

And here is my o so wonderful kitchen! Notice the dirty dishes on the left counter and the empty cartons and cans on the right. By the table you can bags of garbage. But the garbage is all sorted so I havent thrown it away, because I don't really know where sorted garbage goes! Other than the kitchen needing to be cleaned, its a nice room! The microwave was confusing to work at first. It has two knobs, one for temperature (i think?) and the other for how long you want something to cook. Then there is a buttton on the wall that you have to push to make it work, which took me a couple of minutes to figure out.

I have noticed that the Swedes try to be very efficient. In many places (banks, electronic stores, some offices, ect) they have this system where you take a number and have to wait for it to come up on the screen and then it is your turn. Yesturday, my host student, canadian friend, and I went to the accomodation office. There was only one other person in the office and they were talking to the accomodation lady. We had to pull a number though, we couldnt just stand in line.

There are 6 American students here this semester and we got an email from a news paper reporter saying she wants to meet with us on Monday. She wants to interview us about Obama being inaugurated! That should be fun :-) Maybe, I will be in a Swedish newspaper? haha