Day 19

Today's been a lazy, do nothing day for the most part. When I woke up, I had some cereal, and then saw that everyone else was still asleep so I went back to my room and ended up falling back asleep for about an hour. Once I got up again, I laid out in the backyard. Kelsey texted me asking if I wanted to bike to the lake between 1 and 1:30, so around 12 I went inside to make a salad for lunch. I waited til about 1:15 and was about to leave to meet her, when she texted saying she forgot she was supposed to skype with her family so I ended up going back outside on the trampoline to lay out. By the way, trampolines are a great place to lay out. She ended up coming over around 3:30 to lay out with me, which we did til 5:30... then she left and I showered. After my shower, My and I walked to the store to buy some drinking yogurt for our lunch in between games tomorrow. While there, I met one of their neighbors, Matilda, who is my age, and she seems very nice so she gave me her number to call her whenever I wanted something to do. 


Karin and Micke had a couple over for dinner. So I sat outside with the 4 of them. We had different kinds of fish: salmon, regular herring, mustard herring in a jar, and some other kind of herring in a jar, and shrimp. I had one bite of each. We also had swedish hard bread with butter and cheese on it, and boiled potatoes. After that, they put some other meat on the grill, so I had another small bite of grilled salmon and a small piece of lamb with a small spoonful of potato salad. I was supposed to go over to Ingrid's and Kelsey's after to bake some traditional swedish cookies, but they called and said they ran out of time. 


The couple that we ate dinner with are moving to the states in a couple months, and asked if I would be willing to help their 10 and 14 year old with English before they move and they would pay me. They also suggested I go to this specific bakery downtown and talk to them about me possibly helping them a couple days a week for a couple hours each day. They wouldn't be able to pay me but I could help out and get experience with swedish pastry. I said I would be very interested in that and so Karin will hopefully take me down there soon so we can figure out if that would be possible. The wife and her daughters also ride horses, so when I told her I wanted to go ride them one day, she said I could go with them one day this coming week if I wanted. 


That's about it for today. I'll be heading to bed shortly because I've got a long day ahead of me tomorrow. We are leaving at 7 am for Skovde, which is 3 hours away, and have a double header starting at 12. They are supposed to be the hardest team to beat in Sweden, so wish us luck! :)