The rest of the weekend turned out to be quite fun. On Saturday I participated in a treasure hunt with Kalmar which was great because I finally got to meet some Swedes as well as some international students who have been in Sweden for a while and therefore actually know Swedish. And they were all super cool and nice! We were broken up into teams and each team had a list of 10 items we had to find/make/borrow (no buying or stealing allowed) plus a theme to dress up in for dinner and a skit to perform. Then we all met back at the house for a 3-course meal complete with singing and toasting, as is the tradition, where we presented everything. We ended up having so much fun together that we went down to the pub after-wards and stayed until they kicked us out at the end of the night.
I was on Team Green and we had to perform a fast version of the opera Carmen. I played the narrator. The other teams had to mime the 3 Billy Goats, re-enact a popular Swedish children's rhyme in English, and do a sketch about August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, and Franza Kafka living together. Each team had a holiday for their costume theme but we were supposed to be creative and not obvious. My team was Christmas so we decide to the "villians": Ebenezer Scrooge, a lump of coal, commercialism, the Grinch, and the Julbock which was my costume. Other teams had Midsummer (they were the cast from the Shakespeare play), Halloween (they dressed as the day itself instead of in costumes), and Easter (they went as Easter witches, a Swedish tradition). Some of our items included: a 10 öra coin (these have been discontinued in Sweden), a painting made with potato-stamps, a 7-candle candlestick, a food with layers, a thing with only one corner, a floppy disk, a Birkenstock sandal, a peacock feather, and the driver's license from someone born in 1964. We didn't win the overall competition but we did have the best performance. Dinner was really good too: mushroom soup, spinach lasagna, and chocolate mousse.
Speaking of dinner, on Sunday I made dinner for my apartment complex (really it was just the exchange students because the Swedes never join us). I made my party chili recipe along with peanut butter cookies and buttermilk cornbread. No one except the other 2 Americans had ever had cornbread before but everyone loved it and thought it was more like cake than bread :)
I was on Team Green and we had to perform a fast version of the opera Carmen. I played the narrator. The other teams had to mime the 3 Billy Goats, re-enact a popular Swedish children's rhyme in English, and do a sketch about August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, and Franza Kafka living together. Each team had a holiday for their costume theme but we were supposed to be creative and not obvious. My team was Christmas so we decide to the "villians": Ebenezer Scrooge, a lump of coal, commercialism, the Grinch, and the Julbock which was my costume. Other teams had Midsummer (they were the cast from the Shakespeare play), Halloween (they dressed as the day itself instead of in costumes), and Easter (they went as Easter witches, a Swedish tradition). Some of our items included: a 10 öra coin (these have been discontinued in Sweden), a painting made with potato-stamps, a 7-candle candlestick, a food with layers, a thing with only one corner, a floppy disk, a Birkenstock sandal, a peacock feather, and the driver's license from someone born in 1964. We didn't win the overall competition but we did have the best performance. Dinner was really good too: mushroom soup, spinach lasagna, and chocolate mousse.
Speaking of dinner, on Sunday I made dinner for my apartment complex (really it was just the exchange students because the Swedes never join us). I made my party chili recipe along with peanut butter cookies and buttermilk cornbread. No one except the other 2 Americans had ever had cornbread before but everyone loved it and thought it was more like cake than bread :)
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