Hmmm....yesterday after I went home, I found Martin there. He had dropped in to give us the directions to his place since he forgot to do that on Thursday. Annika came a while later, so we left Saima and Martin alone (if looks could have killed at that time Saima's look would have murdred Annika and me!!LOL!!) and cooked dinner. Annika improved the left-over spagghetti from the party and we made some soup...voila - nice dinner for movie. We saw this really eerie movie - Picnic at the Hanging Rock - I've seen the movie before. It's based on a true story of the msterious disappearance of 2 young girls and their teacher when they went on a picnic to this hanging rock. The mystery remains unsolved - the whole movie has this wierd lazy, slow, and brooding feel to it, made intense with the music, use of colors and cinematography - its definitely an interesting movie to watch!!! After that movie they started another movie but I was too tired having been on my feet all day long and not even gotten a few hours of rest the prev night, so I went off to sleep.
Today we are meeting Dr.Ebeling in the anoon for icecream and coffee and early night. Tomm its an early night too, in preparation for my journey to Bordeaux, which I hope and pray shall be smooth!!!!
I promised to blog about Sweden - its much overdue and feels funny doing that now but it must be done (sounds like a punishment na?) - so here goes:
My first sight of snow in Sweden thrilled me to bits, even though I was already so tired. It was on the train to Stockholm - infact there were several people on the train who were going for skiing trips. It was so cool to see white landscape outside throught-out the journey. When I reached Stokcholm, Dini had told me that it had started snowing in Vasteras that day at 10 am and on their drive to Stockholm it was snwoing so heavily that they were scared my train would stop in middle...I'm really glad that didn't happen!! LOL!!
It was incredible - walking on snow for the first time, and Pauline even took a photograph of me with my first snow-ball - kiddish eh? I can't say how exciting it was to FINALLY see snow!!! I was expecting snow here in Magedburg as well coz on my retun journey I'd seen snow upto Uelzen but there's been no snow here so far, so I'm really glad that I managed to see snow somewhere!!! LOL!!!
During my short little stay in Sweden Dini, Bengt-olof and Pauline told me so much about their traditions and culture - thier folk-lore that is full of stories of gnoes, elves and fairies, about St. Lucia (who was blinded and late beheaded), and the speical food and drink for the festival. One drink I had there is found in stores only during Christmas and Easter time, and its sales are so much that they make Coca-Cola suffer losses during that period. It's a traditional drink, the recipe of which has been handed down one family through the years and is today avaliable in bottles!! Pretty darn cool eh? It tastes real nice too!! They also have a version of gluh-wine which comes in a non-alcoholic form as well, called Glugg. The meals I've already mentioned - with lots of pickled herring, meat-balls, ham, smoked salmon served with mustard sauce, 'Satan's temptation' ( it's amde with potatoes and anchovies), grilled ox-meat(for new year's eve) etc etc....the traditional dessert for Christmas is Milchries, which is quite like our kheer, only thicker. In it they put one almond and acc to legend, the person who gets it, is the next to get married - I wondered what it means if a married person gets it!! LOL!!!
Gosh I'm really lad I went there, even though I dragged my feet about it and was filled with so much apprehension before the trip and had such a tough time getting there - it was definitely worth it!!!
Shall stop now....but since I shall not blog now for a very long while - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2004!!! Party hard, but be safe!! LOL!!!
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