Hi everybody!

Yesterday morning I got out of bed at the humble time of 20 minutes to 10, this because we had planned to go skating at the sea at 10 o’clock. I almost made it on time but then Peter and Gustav came by to drop their floorball equipment so we became a little late. But Sara, Erik and Samuel didn’t seem to mind at all waiting in the lovely weather. Today was also the day for ”Bothnialoppet”, a 60 km race on skates, but since they started at 9 o’clock there was plenty of space on the track.

The cathedral of Luleå

When we arrived at Gråsjälören there was time for ”fika”. Since I came out of bed rather late, I didn’t have any… But Sara, kind as always, offered me one of her sandwiches and some hot chocolate. Thank you very much =)

Peter, Gustav, Erik, Samuel and Sara "fika"ing in the sun

Gustav in a hurry

Samuel and Peter, who is performing ice dance

We spent about 2 and a ½ hour playing on the ice before we got back to town. The day continued with hanging at my place until the usual floorball at 4 o’clock, and after a pizza it was time for a ”schlager” evening at Magnus crib. As usual we were all disappointed with the competitors that made it to next weeks national finale :P but there is not much to do about traditions =)

Today is not much to say about, it started with the service 2 stairs down, this time with communion, continued with ”kyrkfika” and since that I haven’t done any of all the things I had planned to do. Shame on me :P

The upcoming week will probably be quite busy since it’s the week when all classes will finish, so I shouldn’t have time to write anything her for a while. And if do, please remind me that I should work instead =)

Mae råkes

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Thank you all, that visited the concert tonight. With an audience as you, it can not be other than great.

I am a little tired and should have gone asleep hours ago but I haven’t, it will probably come back to me tomorrow but that is another day, so why worry yet ?

Anyway, here’s a picture to wish you all a good night and sweet, sweet dreams =)

Sundet, Luleå

Mae råkes

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I love the winter, I love the snow and I love the cold, I may not love the short days, I love the creaking noise that only exists when you’re walking in snow colder than 10 degrees C, I love skiing down a mountain in those amazingly beautiful March and April days. But, as the snow starts to melt away and the coltsfoots and blue anemones starts to rise up from the cold, and just a moment ago, dead, ground something happens to me. Just then, but not a day before, I suddenly feel happy that the winter is over.

These pictures are for those of you that already wants the winter to be gone.

Mae råkes

This time I will write in English so that my English speaking readers will have a chance to understand, not that I have any English speaking readers…

This weekend we have had the most amazing gospel festival in Gammelstad, where about 40 people from all around the world joined up with Old Town Gospel Choir to sing , surprisingly, gospel songs. It all started at 10 o’clock in the morning, the sun had already risen and the weather was perfect for a day in nature. Instead we went into the Stadsö church to practice….which was just as fun as opening christmas gifts and with very little need of regret =)

I must say that I am really impressed of all people that in 5 and a ½ hour (including lunch break) managed to learn both lyrics, voices and moves for 9 different songs, and remember that there were some of them, like Peter and Gustav, that hadn’t sung in any choir before. Denise and Wan Teng from Singapore didn’t even have any trouble with the 2 Swedish songs, and with amazingly good pronounciation! ( which, by the way, strengthen me in my opinion that Swedish is a really good and simple language to learn, way superior to English as an international language ;) )

Well, by lunchtime Ingemar, me, Hilma, Peter and Gustav went into Ingemar’s car, it was the start of a journey that took us several hundred meters to the ”Gammelstads Pizzeria” were we had… exactly, pizza! You can’t have to many pizzas, errh, well you can but this wasn’t such a day, my canibale was excellent (yes, it is a kind of morbid name, makes you wonder if they’ve used the last complaining customer as an ingredient…)

Then we headed back to the church for some more practicing and by ½ past 3 Emma and Lennart thought we were ready enough to meet the audience =) During the 2 hour break until we should meet befor the concert began, I, Viktor, Samuel, Denise and Wan Teng took a little sightseeing trip to the old church were we stepped into the middle of a wedding…I hope we didn’t spoil any of the atmosphere, but at least the girls got pictures of some typical Swedish everyday life =)

The concert was held at 6 o’clock and we started of with 3 songs performed by OTGC and then the rest of today’s special choir came in under much pomp and circumstance. From my point of view the performance was really good, close to excellent. My friends that had the opportunity to listen didn’t complain either, if it was out of politeness or not I cannot tel, but I assume the best =)

After a tremendously fika, with lots and loads of different cakes we went on to EFS were the night ended with chit-chatting, some alphabetical wordgames that Viktor introduced and, at last, a round of punishment Uno (which may sound strange to you that have never played it, but is really fun when you’ve come to know it a little=)

This is all for today folks, hope you’ve enjoyed reading it =)

Now I will leave you with some words from the most elegant and beautiful language God has given to mankind, Jamska ;)

Mae råkes