But here's whats been going on:
School ended (yay!) and ALL of my friends have left (boo.). It's actually been quite hard to enjoy, because it's just been a lot of saying goodbye and crying (well everyone else is crying, I can never manage to make myself cry when I'm supposed to. It's not that I'm not sad...I just can't cry. I suppose I don't have any emotions) and thinking of all the things I wish I did and all the people I wish I would have hung out with more.
But I have taken some time to enjoy myself. I went camping with my friend Roza. We had no plans or ideas where to stay. We just packed our bags and headed to the woods for a couple days. One thing I do like about this Semi socialist society is that you can just plop down and camp wherever you want. They have this law that basically says, "the land belongs to everyone." So you are technically allowed to wander around anywhere. I don't think you're allowed to camp in people's backyards, but if you're feeling wild, you should go for it.
I absolutely love how much forest and just empty fields there are around Sweden. It's the size of California, but with 1/4 of the population. The only bad thing about camping (or being outside in general) is the MOSQUITOS. There are SO many here. After two days of camping (and an entire bottle of mosquito repellent) I had about 40 mosquito bites (they like to go through your clothes too and I completely forgot to put mosquito repellent on my bum so I had about 15 just on my bum :( ). Here are a few pictures:
They even have these little cabins along the trail that you're allowed to stay at. Some of them have beds and kitchens and the whole works. Roza and I camped by one the first night, there was a mean French couple in there who didn't want to share the space (even though there were 10 beds in there and it was SO cold outside...just another strike against the french in my European adventures).
I thought I broke my camera, because as we were crossing a part of the lake, half of the bridge was broken and partially under water, so I jumped, slipped, and my camera went completely under water. I have no idea how it survived. It was completely submerged in water for a good 30 seconds, but it was in it's case so maybe that helped? But here's the little set up to how we crossed the lake (then no more pictures because I thought it was dead).
We were at one side of the bridge, then we found this metal chain and pulled it. A little platform came to get us and take us to the other side :) It was awesome (besides the slip).
I also had a last dinner with my first Ochem class in Uppsala. I don't know if I've ever mentioned, but I live in a place called Flogsta and everynight at 10pm people stand outside their window and scream. We call it the "Flogsta Scream." They say it started one day when someone was studying for a final and to relieve his stress he just screamed out the window.
So I took my class up to the roof to do one last flogsta scream, it was so beautiful outside.
And of course we ate lots of food and cake :)
One of my friends made a cake called björnakaka, which kind of translates to bear cake, which I of course thought was AWESOME. Really its just called that because it comes from the area of Sweden called Björna, but I still like to call it bear cake!
Now my mother dearest is coming to visit me and I'm soooooooooooooo excited. We are going to an Island of Sweden called Gotland and then off to Edinburgh in Scotland!
And then... HOME!
Thanks for reading!
Puss puss (kiss kiss)
