Barbeque weekend

Today is Swedens national day which my friend Axel usually celebrates by inviting some friends to his family's summer house by the sea for a weekend of fun and relaxing. I joined two years ago and it was so fun I decided to gothis year too. Me, Axel andanother friend named Björn started out friday in a car that we borrowed from another friend. We drove north along the coast to the small island Saltö with only a short stop for supplys. Even though Saltö is an island, it is connected to the main land by bridge. It is situated in the archipelago north of Göteborg - an area normally referd to as the west coast where many people like to go for the summer.

When we got to the house on Saltö we just sat out in the sun relaxing for a while. One more guy, Emil, who ironically is the owner of the car joind us a while later on motorcyckle. After relaxing for a while and chatting about god knows what, we prepared some chicken and vegtable shiskebab and made a nice barbeque dinner. The rest of the evening we played some games and continues talking and having fun.

We woke up late to a bright sunny saturday and had breakfast out on the porch. After breakfast it was time for the annual all terrain croquet game. Its just regular croquet but the hoops are placed at some rather hard to reach places. Even though I lost it was fun. Then we had some lunch consisiting of a series of different suasages that we planned to barbeque. However, the barbeque (a gas one) was acting up so we fried them instead and it was almost just as good. After lunch we headed out to a series of cliffs that are good for swimming, too bad the clouds came out to cover the sun and the wind picked up a bit in strength. It became slightly too cold to go for a swim so we chatted for a while then went for a walk.

When we came back from our walk we made an effort to figure out what was wrong with the barbeque and managed to fix the problem temporarily. By the time we got that done, we had to start making dinner. We made spareribs with ovenbaked root crops (potatoes, yams and the like). This was actually a rahter advanced meal and you might think a couple of young guys would have made something simpler, like a steak and a bucket of reayd made potatoesallad. To compenstae for the grown-up-ness of the meal we simply made a gargantuan amount of food (probably enough for 8 people) and finsished it all.

One Big piece of meat, and some extra just in case

Ready for a nice dinner. From the left, Axel, Emil and Björn

After such a big meal, with lots of talking and laughter in between moutfuls, we were to tired to do much but watch TV. Today we slept long as well, had breakfast and cleaned up to go home. Some of us have to work tomorrow, after all.

lite sent kanske....

...men nu har jag äntligen tagit mig tid att uppdatera lite. Har väll inte hänt så mycket på sistone, Taj Mahal har avslutats och nästa spex har påbörjats lite smått. Jag ska vara med ett år till hade jag tänkt, om jag nu lyckas fixa ett exjobb i stan i alla fall. Har träffat det nya gänget några gånger och jag börjar känna mig gammal men det ska ändå bli kul. I övrigt har jag skrivit mina sista tentor för våren och jag tror det kan ha gått ganska bra. Återkommer när jag får resultat. Nu är det sommarlov och jag ska försöka få ändan ur vagnen och ta körkort så jag blir kvar i Göteborg ett tag. Och så kommer Yini och hälsar på i juli, längtar redan. Det var nog allt.

Facebook

After suggestions from a friend I have decided to rejoin facebook to better be able to keep track of friends. Sadly you miss much of the news if you are not on facebook. However, my reasons for canceling my account a while back where emidiatly comfirmed when i started using it. I let facebook use my email account to find friends for me, little did I realize it would highjack my email account and send shit out to all the people on there. I almost regret starting the account again.

Anyway, facebook is just a way for me to keep track of people, if you want to know whats going on with me you can keep reading here or better yet, call me.

Sun moon flower

När jag var i Taiwan sist så besökte jag bland annat Sun moon lake. Som en rolig grej köpte jag ett slags frö där, sotppade  det i min väska och glömde omedelbart bort det. Det följde således med hem till Sverige och när jag renasade ur litte grejer ur min väska några veckor sedan hittade jag bland annat detta frö. det tog mig ytterligare en vecka eller så innan jag tog mig tid att köpa jord och en kruka och plantera det. Nu har plantan hunnit växa sig så stor att jag känner att det kan vara dags att visa den för omvärlden.

Sun Moon flower

Med tanke på att jag inte är så värst bra på att odla saker så är jag riktigt stolt över denna. Den lilla knölen på stammen är faktiskt resterna av det som en gång var fröet och tittar man noga på den kan man se litet små krumelurer. Det är kinesiska tecken som var inristade på utsidan av fröet som nu har vuxit med plantan upp.

Det står 快樂男孩 eller om man vill uttala det, Kuaile nanhai. Det bettyder glad pojke. Jag valde just denna ur en stor skål med massa olika fraser på fröer därför att jag är en tämligen glad pojke. De flesta andra handlade dessutom om pengar så de var inte alls passande.

Det var det om min husplanta, nu ska jag hem till föräldrarna för lite påsklov.

Weekend skiing

I just got back from a wonderful weekend skiing, here is the story. My mom called me up about a week ago to discus if and when I would have time to go skiing with the family. Since I didnt have any exams or such this week we decided to go up to Åre for a few days and, she managed to get my ticket using bonus points so didnt have to pay anything.

So, wednesday evening i hopped on the night train to Åre – Swedens arguably best ski resort and a few hours later, when the train stopped in Örebro, my parents got on. It was a sleeper train so when we woke up the next morning we got off the train, found a place to change into ski gear, stored our baggage and went for the slopes.

It was rather windy and parts of the system were cloesd so we stayed low among the trees where the wind couldnt reach. It was a warm day so the snow had a sorbé kind of  quality but the going was good and we had a great day.

It froze again during the night so all the soft, slushy snow from yesterday had turned into a hard crust down in the warmer areas. Instead we ventured up on the mountain out in the cold wind and falling snow. It was a bit chilly especially since every snowflake turned into a needle agasinst the unprotected skin of my face but the skiing was great. It was even possible to find some loose, fluffy snow if you ventured into the woods.

The third day it was windy as before but slightly better so we went further up on the backside of the mountain. This slope was nearly perfect, there was some soft snow on the ground and the angle of the slope itself was steep without being too much. This made for some fantastic skiing especially when the sun showed through the clouds. Even though it was cold and kind of coudy we even managed to shoot a few good photos.

Mom stepping out from the nice warm tent and a happy Anders with his board.

On the outisde edge of the slope was a pretty nice powder snow field and i forced my poor parents to shoot this series of me going down it (actually it is longer but i cut out the ones where im just a small speck):

Visa fullständigt album

Click the album and go to slideshow for best view.

The last day we packed up our stuff in the morning since we had to be ready to leave the apartment quickly. We headed over to the same place as the day before and got some good runs but it was too cloudy to see clearly and too cold. So in the end we went down lower in the area and got some good skiing there too. At the end of the day we went back to the aprtment, packed the last stuff and went to the train. Today I woke up at Gothemburg train station ready for school again.

In the end we never got to go up to the top because of the wind but all in all it was great weekend. It was nice to see my parents and we had a great time skiing.

Inflyttad!

Nu är jag inflyttad i min nya lägenhet på riktigt. När jag vaknade i morse var det min första morgon som jag inte hade tillgång till min gamla lya. Visst, jag har egentligen inte bott i den på länge men igår städade jag ut det sista och lämnade in nycklarna så nu är jag verkligen utflyttad.

Introducing new project

I sometimes write things in english on this page and from time to time  my writing is pretty good, however i have noticed that the transitions from one part to the next tend to be rather unsmooth. Therefor i have decided to concentrate on what i do best, descriptive writing. I have started a new blog with little snapshots of life that i call Frozen moments or to describe it better, it is photography without a camera. If you are interested you can check it out here: http://photowithoutcamera.wordpress.com/

Oh and dont worry, i will still continue to write here for all my fans out there (that is my mom and my grilfriend).