Day 12

Today was slightly more exciting than yesterday, although it started out quite similarly to some others (see days 7 and 11 for details)

The first highlight of the day was dinner which consisted of Swedish pancakes. It may sound funny, but pancakes are a dinner item here and are eaten with different types of jam instead of syrup. One takes a thin pancake on a plate and spreads a line of the jam on the pancake, then rolls it into a little tube. This is then cut into bite sized pieces and ingested; this process is repeated until all pieces have been ingested. Three choices of jams were present at tonights dinner; strawberry (chunky style), apple sauce, and lingonberry. The strawberry jam had little pieces of strawberry in it and was my favorite, and I tried the lingonberries, but they turned out to be almost inedibly sour. I also forgot to mention that before one even begins to commence the pancake-ingestion process, one must first ingest a soup, (it was actually very tasty and had chicken and little shrimp in it) as this is the customary procedure. Usually it is a type of pea soup, but tonight it was a creamy chicken base.

After dinner, we biked over to a family's house to give their son, Daniel a gift as he is going on (non-Rotary) exchange to Ohio. They family was having a little going away party with their neighbors and we also found out that it was also his birthday. (Katarina had forgotten this) So we sat through their dinner while I was trying to make sense of what his mother was saying because she speaks so quickly that native Swedish speakers have a hard time understanding her. She was very nice though, as was everybody else. So we finally left at almost 11 and headed home and now it's almost 12 and time to go to sleep.