June 13-16

Not too much has happened the last few days.  On Wednesday we went to Skansen, a sort of living museum.  Skansen is set up like a mini Sweden, so that you get all of the history there has been, and they are all in the correct location.  Such as the Sami Camp is in the northern part of the park, and in real life the Sami are from the north.  While we were at the outdoor museum, it decided to pour rain on us, so had to wait for a half an hour under an overhang until it stopped raining.  Afterwards it was pretty nice, though.  We went to one building where a woman taught us about how fibers are taken from the flax plant and then spun into thread to be woven into clothes.  It was quite the complicated process.

On Thursday we went and bought a cheap frisbee so that we would have something to play with.  Then I went with a few people to a thrift store, which wasn't quite as thrifty as one in America, so I didn't buy anything.  Then later, when we were at the beach playing frisbee there were a couple people skinny dipping....at 6pm.....so that was interesting.

Friday we went out to eat at a bbq place.  I kept myself from getting the unlimited ice cream bar, even though it looked delicious.  It's hard to find authentic Swedish food here because of the influence of immigrants here.  In class we learned that in the 90s one in five Swedes were foreign-born.  And this all happened suddenly.  After dinner we tried to go watch the football game in the park, but we were too late to find a place to see, so we just went back to our dorms to watch it on TV.

Today we had originally planned to go to Uppsala, but the weather didn't agree, so we went to the Nobel Museum instead.  The museum was interesting, but it was kind of small.  They had an exhibit where a photographer had done interviews with some of the more previous recipients of the prizes.  The recipients were told to draw their discovery on a poster sized piece of paper and then they had their picture taken.  The way that the photographer did these interviews showed the humorous sides of the scientists, so it was fun to look at the pictures.  Now I have to write a 500 word essay about the history of Scandinavia and read about 100 pages for Monday, so I have a fun weekend ahead of me!