21 August 2008
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I have decided to skip all the orientation parties and tours and off to Saffle to visit the Henningssons, practically my Swedish family. Saffle looks so different then it was in winter ...duh. As usual, Mr & Mrs Henningsson with their warm welcome and warm hugs, melted my nervousness away. I will call them Stefsmor & Stefsfar. We headed straight for lunch.
My first Swedish lunch-->Pickled Herrings with boiled Potatoes. Its scary at first but strangely, pickled herrings taste so much better here than back home. I actually enjoyed my meal very much. We had our lunch at the patio(never get that chance when i was here during winter).
We went out to the lake for a walk and then rested for a bit before I joined the guys to fish by the lake but no lucklah.

We had Salmon for dinner...
At night before sleep, we played a really fun card game, Quiddler. I would reckon that if anyone of my friends in Sg are gong to the Settlers Cafe. I think I saw that game there too.


22 August 2008
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I was up quite late on Friday, as in got out of the bedroom late cos was busy trying to start the blog ha ha. We had bread and cheese for breakfast and then headed to town to open my bank account. The turnip bank refused to let me open my account although I should be able to according to the University. But the branch in Saffle asked me to open it in Vasteras ...sigh and of course I start to compare thins back home.... I have to remind myself not to compare or I'll go nuts. If i have patience for mails in a neighboring country back home, I should have patience here too.


We went groceries shopping after that and cooked Hainanese Chicken Rice. hey realised the recipe in the pre departure notepad is nuts. Its not a complete recipe. Nonetheless the chicken rice happen and my chili sauce turns out well...and that's a new recipe on its own ha ha.
Stefsmor baked a wonderful apple pie which I had 2 slices of. Eaten with custard cream yummmmm...

We played quidder at night and had our own mini Crayfish Party with cheese pie (it was a yummy experience and I was surprised no itching around my mouth...did i lost my shellfish allergy here?) and a 2nd round of Quiddler



Sweden at 8pm. Crayfish!!!!!
So I've been eating and eating and eating...

23 Aug 2008
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After breakfast, we went out for a stroll around the town area in Saffle. We went home for a wonderful lunch of salmon like fishes with eggplant/tomatoes curry.



We then headed to Aunt Karin's Summer House by lake Vanern. Gosh the lake was beautiful and surrounding the area was lots and lot of lingonberries and blueberries. I met Snoddas, the dog. I was terrified as usual but got over it. Its not jumping around like psycho cats so its ok. Aunt Karin fed us with more godis(goodies). Everyone spoke swedish but strangely I could capture some of the words and pretty much figure out what they were talking about.


Aunt Karin's Summer House
On way home Stefsfar, stopped by several places around lake vanern. It was really beautiful!


Back home, I tried to watch last episode of Cinta Fitri from SCTV but in vain. It got stuck always. I gave up watching. A family friend came as a family of four plus another dog, Buster for dinner. They are such wonderful people. Buster was very much friendly too and I was very much "shy" of Buster but again I managed to get over it.
Jan, Ulla and their son Richard with wife, Kamilla were wonderful. so we had more food and more apple crumble pie. I had herrings with potatoes and then salmon with more potatoes and then apple crumble pie with sauce. Plenty of food and drinks( gingeer ale and plain water for me thou) and everyone was jolly and chatty... I was again lost in language recognition but I really do not mind that, in fact I hope I could pick up the language faster that way.

I guess my loss of 4 kg has been pointless after being in Saffle for a few days...

24 August 2008
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We had Goulash Soup for lunch and pancakes with homemade jam with cream. We then head off back to Orebro. I cooked my mom's styled sardines again for dinner. I hope to be able to shed some fats and extra food off the coming weeks. Ramadan's coming any ways...