Hello everybody! It's been some time again since I wrote something, so here's an update on my life:

Everything is going according to plan. There's lots and lots of snow, I'm really enjoying working in my project and there are a lot of plans for the future. And my Swedish is great! Well, I can make myself clear anyway. For example:

Allting går jättebra. Det finns jättemycket snö överallt, jag tycker om jobba på Zokker och det finns många grejer jag vill göra i framtiden. Och min svenska är jättebra! Fast min Ingelska är bättre...

So I will continue in English, because your swedish is probably not as brilliant as mine. Muha! I'm getting language course every Monday now again, so I could write these sentences without a dictionary!

Anyway, that's it for today. Listen to Marit Bergman, she's okay as a music tip. Oh, and look at the weblog of my friend and house-sharer Greta! It's just a click away (look to your right). Hejdå!

Hmmmmmmm.... the holidays are just over now, and I'm fresh to start working again. It was great! We had visitors (my sister Eelkje and her boyfriend Erwin, Greta's parents came and my cousin Nynke as well), which was really nice, but it was a nice holiday anyway.
The Swedes have a lot of holidays:

• dec 13th: Santa Lucia
  There are silly beauty-competitions everywhere and the prettiest girl of the island, the town, the school or the innebandy-team is chosen to be Lucia. She sings nice, traditional songs with a lot of candles on her head, and is surrounded by the other girls and some boys in silly hats.
• The time before christmas: Julbord
  You go and eat with different groups of people. I had Julbord with the people at Kumulus & the volunteers, my lovely neighbours and the Mörbylånga Kommun (the politicians and less important people like, for instance, Greta and me). You eat special christmas-foods, like sill (herring), gravad lax (buried salmon, really yummy), Lutfisk (most horrible of all things fishy: white, fluffy and tasteless), julskinka (christmas ham) and ehrghsd haisjfbn, jansons temptation (ansjovis & potatoes-dish, which is really good).
• dec 24th: Julafton!
  Christmas Eve! with presents and singing! We celebrated it with Eelkje and Erwin, Greta's parents and the local volunteers. Everybody brought some nice foods, and it was jättekul. That's a positive word.
• dec 25th & dec 26th: Första och annandagen av Jul
  actual christmas, but not filled with much things. And the shops are not really open that much.
• dec 30th: Födelsedagen!
  My birthday! 20 years, woehoe! Now I can finally buy liquor (again). Nynke (who was visiting us now) and I made chocolatty cakes and brought them to Kalmar, to party there with my other friends. It was really nice! Liza from Växjö brought her Dutch boyfriend Jasper, so Dutch people were everywhere. Poor not-Dutch-speaking people. The cakes were great!
• dec 31th & jan 1st
  Just kept on partying, haha. Firing sterretjes, getting a little drunk, saying 'Gott nytt år' to everybody who crosses our path, making noises and doing illegal things: I had a good time. And we ate appelflappen!

So, that wa really nice. And now we're back in ordinary life again. But the days are getting longer and I'm looking forward to 2007. I wish you all the best in this year: 'Gott nytt år, folle lok en seine yn it nije jier!'

And, for the people who don't like the top 2000 of Radio 2: a good music tip! 'The Soundtrack Of Our Lives' is quite a nice Swedish band. And did I mention 'The Deportees' already? They are even better. And from Umeå, which is just as far away from Mörbylånga as Franeker.