Settling in

Well, here i am again, not writing as much as i would have hoped. oh well, i'm sure you are doing fine with that, if not... too bad, ha!

This has been a good week, I'm an uncle again, the weather has been great, and we had our first small group meeting last night. but let's see. i don't think i've written about last weekend so i'll start with that.

Friday was a nice day, sunny and about 10 degrees C (around 50 on a fahrenheit thermometer). We did alot of walking around the city and were just really able to enjoy the day. Once the sun decided to go away and night fell upon us Andrew (a fella that went to seminary with both Aaron and Sara, lives in Connecticut and is now here to help with music for the same time period as me) Sara and I went to a concert at one of the Lutheran churches in town. It was a choir concert and it was very good. the nice thing about it is that it was free. This night happened to be Gotherburg's "Culture Night", very similar to an "art crawl". there were many productions going on around town, most art studios were open to the public and the place we explored after the show was the Gothernburg Art Museum, i liked it.

Saturday, I slept in and relaxed. it was the first time i really had much time to myself and i felt very relaxed. at around 16:00 (4:00pm) i took the 23 minute bus ride into Gothenburg and met Sara and Andrew at Liseberg (the largest theme park in Scandinavia!) and we explored and enjoyed a few rollercoasters, it was the last weekend that it was open. good times! That night we went to another concert, this time it was a Gospel show at a church, Andrew really enjoys gospel music and since he plays the piano, he enjoys it even more. It was a decent show, and the most amusing part of the night for me was how people stood up to get involved with the music. Ok, so, you know how in the states when you are either in church or someplace where you are following the worship leader and someone stands up, soon after almost everyone is standing and worshipping together. well, the funny thing about this night was this: it was about the 3rd song and about 6 people stood up as a group, then across the sanctuary about 3 more stood up... and that was it. i looked around and was kind of waiting for more people to stand up, but nope, nothing. the only thing i saw was one lady in the 3 row stand up, walk up the isle and tap the lady in the front row on the shoulder. Apparently since she was video taping the choir it didn't give her the same permission to stand with the other people in her row and this lady asked her to sit down. Gotta love the 'Stoic Swedes"

That gives a good idea of what Friday and Saturday were for me, but now it is 14:55 (2:55pm) and I think i need to go get lunch. yep, i'm hungry, my stomach is starting to get trained to the eating schedule around here, which is: (no matter what time you wake up) eat breakfast, fika @ 10ish (even if you've just had breakfast 30 minutes ago), 12 or 12:30ish is Lunch, 1:30-2:30ish is fika again, sometime between 5&7 is dinner, 8 or 9 is fika again and then if you're still up between 11 & 1 you'll eat fika again, only at this time of day it is called....(i can't think of the word) and translates to "night food". yep, always eating. so should i be hungry? no! but am I hungry? yes, STARVING actually. so..

later.
Timmer