Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Some things can be a little more difficult than others.

Number one on the difficult list for me is my ability to BLOG.... I am fully aware that I am not so good at keeping it up to date..... sorry..... I am just really busy and have a REALLY hard time putting my pictures onto my computer. Here are some pros and cons to living in the beautiful little town that I do....

con: We get lost EVERYWHERE we go....
pro: I live with a model named LUDWIG.
con: Bacon is allowed to come in a tube but Mac&Cheese is toooo processed for Europeans...
pro: Jan, Tobi, and Stefan are the 3 nicest German boys I have ever met, and I have the privilege to live with them. 
con: It is always raining so it is impossible to take a picture with straight hair or without a coat on.
pro: my church is less than 1 mile away and is in a yellow farm house!
con: it is impossible to find ingredients to make Chocolate Chip Cookies.
con continued..... With the ingredients closest to the correct ones.... you get baby chocolate chip pancakes. ish.
pro: I get to Skype the cutest boy in the world almost every single day.
con: my shower curtain is slightly too short....
pro: people back home love us and send us American food! (yes, it is stored in a cabinet that locks in my bedroom)
con: my bike doesn't have a pedal.
pro: I am able to take a stunning picture of Vaxjo at least once a day.
con: the decorations at some parties slightly look like stake dance decor or blown up colored condoms.
pro: Kebab. I eat it every single time I go out for dinner.
con: when riding bikes home in the middle of the night in heels, you can sometimes fall and rip your tights.
pro: I have the loveliest friends.
 I ran out of cons so I will continue with the pros.
pro: old men race sailboats as a hobby here.
pro: when you get lost, it often times looks like a fairy tale.
pro: Katie's bike is harder to ride than mine...
look closely at how straight her tire is.
pro: I have friends who will walk to the grocery store with when all I am craving is a chocolate bar.
pro: I have more pictures of stain glass windows than I can count.
pro: I get to walk on beautiful streets every day.
pro: Katie and I are pros at taking self times pictures now.

pro, pro, pro, pro I could go on forever. I LOVE it here!

Ultimately there is so much to say and so many pictures to show from my adventure here! And I hate to bore you all though with the SUPER LONG posts. I try to sum it up shortly but it never seems to work. Maybe if I posted more often it would be easier.... but I don't.... so as for now you have to deal with this.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

the pictures are here!

We have been here for 2 weeks now and are still surviving! I am really bad at this whole blogging thing so here are pictures to go with our last post haha. One day I will be able to do all my posting at once, as for now let's quickly recap.
arrived after traveling for 2 days and eating nothing we got fed this for dinner. p.s. this picture makes the food look like 3 times it's actual size.... 
This is down town Vaxjo, and this church is the landmark that gets us home when we are lost.

who knew such a friendly sign meant, this way to the insane asylum?
oh... did I forget to mention we live in the towers?

on the plus side, when we walk to school it looks like we are walking to Hogwarts.

oh yeah, first important document I receive blows into a swamp while self timing a picture that didn't even turn out. I got it out of the water though and let it air dry as we walked and got lost for another hour in the rain storm. 

I hope you didn't forget the story of my shower blowing up. This is the man saving the day.

looking so much cleaner than when we first encountered the  "shisa"
Seriously though, this is like 3/4 cleaned up.

as the sober mormon girls, we got the responsibility of carrying beers for our friends into the party...
Stefan's just happened to be open in Katie's purse. lesson learned.

Celia and Doro... yes we actually have made a few friends.

oh this is us waiting for the bus... two of them had just driven past us....
and those beautiful grocery bags....
didn't know we were supposed to pay for them until after we had gotten home...

on the bus...
after it went to the end of the route...
waited 15 minutes for it's new route to begin.....
middle of no where....
us and the driver.....

finally someone actually feeling bad for us and making us an american dinner!!
Jan, Tobi, and Stefan=lifesavers.

our walk to school is about 45 minutes but we pass 3 lakes and it is beautiful!

I may make it seem like we are having serious issues over here..... but we really aren't.
We are so happy and truly LOVE it here!

our walk to school is really out of a fairytale.

As our journey in a foreign land is only just beginning,
 it is starting to really feel like home. 
I absolutely love where I am and am truly blessed to be here. 
I love you and thanks for taking the time to follow me on my adventures in
 VAXJO, SWEDEN!!