Hey, everyone! I figured I would do one more blog post before things picked up here in Mullsjö. School starts Monday and I AM SO EXCITED. Students won't be here until tomorrow, so I'm equally excited to meet all of them!! With all our extra time, Luke and I have been hiking through the local trails and walking into town almost every day, usually to pick up some groceries.
The trails are absolutely beautiful. Like I said in my last blog post, so many tall trees, bushes, and greenery everywhere. It's almost overwhelming at times! Yesterday, we walked a shorter trail (about 3.5 miles) that went around a couple lakes and had a lot of hills . . . almost too many hills . . . But we survived! And got to see some breathtaking views while we were at it. Today, we walked a longer trail (about 6 miles) that was more flat and very wild. The paths were overgrown in a lot of parts, but that's what made it exciting! We were sometimes up to our waists in overgrown fields, which meant that lots of ticks were hitching rides on us. Despite insects and a few wrong turns, we had some really fun and relaxing hiking adventures.
Another awesome thing about today was that we had pizza. PIZZA. My favorite food above all my other favorite foods. The cafeteria doesn't serve meals after Friday's lunch so we're on our own for the weekend, which gives us the opportunity to get food elsewhere- even though the cafeteria food here is actually pretty amazing. Well-balanced meals with fresh ingredients and lots of fruits and vegetables. There's also always a vegetarian option, which is great for this aspiring vegetarian! It's so different from meals in US schools, where hardly anything is prepared fresh and well-balanced meals can be hard to find. But here, it seems like people are more health conscious, and they understand that eating healthy is extremely important to a person's well-being. But anyway. Back to pizza.
Luke and I went to Pizzeria Viking, one of the two pizza places here in town. Luke has been here before, so he suggested we try a kebab pizza (also, the entire menu was in Swedish, so we went with what we knew). Kebab pizza is apparently a very popular pizza here in Sweden; it has lamb and kebab sauce on it, made out of a yogurt/sour cream type mixture with spices (source: Google). There was no cheese and very little tomato sauce, so it was pretty different from your typical American pizza. But it was definitely just as delicious.
Well, hopefully that's enough of an update to last til next weekend or so! I'm ready to spend time at school, in the studio, and meet lots of new people. Thanks for reading!
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