Unfortunately I have been a touch negligent the past week on updating my audience of current whereabouts and the shenanigans that I have been pulling.
I am currently sitting in Helsingborg, Sweden, in my new home that I will au pair in for the next… roughly ten months. How did I get here from Gotland? What inhabits the grey area in-between? Read more to find out!
My last few days on Gotland included touring the museum of Visby, going to the medieval festival and viewing a jousting tournament, touring the Northern island of Fårä with Alicia, and on my last day, we went back out to the family farm and met up with Mikeala, (her cousin), and helped on the dairy farm, had a picnic, and explored the farm.
Alicia and I were allowed to drive her grandmother’s AUTOMATIC car to the island of Fårä. It was about an hour’s drive North, and when we hit water we took a ferry across it. We were lucky enough to have fabulous weather in the morning, so we decided to have a picnic on the beach. We went to a delicious bakery and got some bread and brought it down with us to the beach. We lounged around for a while, and then we were off again to tour more of the island. It was absolutely breath-taking. The big rock picture that I put up at the top of this blog is one of the famous "rauks" which have been formed by the wind and sand.
On the last day of my summer on Gotland, Alicia and I went to the dairy farm! I went on a picnic with them, we all brought fruits and a candy dessert, it was quite pleasant. Then we went on a tour of the farm, which included the dairy and all of the machines, corrals, cows, and chores that come along with it. It was fascinating to see how a large production dairy farm like that works. I’m used to seeing my mother and her two small cows at home, but I wasn’t truly prepared for this large-scale production. It was very fun to see.
The next day Alicia and I took the same ferry to Oskarshamn, then from there we took a bus together to Växjö where I left her, and traveled alone by train to Borås, then down to Varberg to visit Ivar and family. It was a very long day of traveling, exactly 12 hours of it! By the time I got to Varberg, I was exhausted!
The next morning I joined Sophia, Lars, and Ivar on the annual trip to the festival/market. It is a lot of fun, there are tons of vendors, fun foods, funny people to watch, and to top it all of it was another beautiful day. I did a little Christmas shopping, and I got my fair-fix, since I am missing the Illinois State fair, I had to exchange it for something else.
The next day, I got to hang out with Ivar and his friends around the city of Varberg. I am starting to get this feeling of normality in my foreign life here, and that feels great. That night we rented 127 hours and watched it with his friends, there were about six of us there and after the movie we played Mario cart or whatever it is called. I found out that I am horrible at it haha.
The next was my last day visiting in Varberg, and now I am in Helsingborg, but that whole happening will have to be another blog post. I'm late for a date with Mira and the family to watch "How I Met Your Mother" so ta ta for now!
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