Midsummer

Yesterday was Midsummer's Eve in Sweden, with all that it means. Herring in all sorts, boiled fresh potatoes with crème fraîche and chive, strawberries with whipped cream - me like it! If you also have good company (which I had) it's even more pleasant. Usually I don't go to parties very often, most of the time because I live so far from my friends, but now that I'm in Växjö I had the opportunity to go to a Midsummer Eve's party, and I enjoyed it very much! I'm a social person, more than I admit sometimes, because then it can get to hurtful when there's no friends around and I long to see them. Then it's easier to say, "I like loneliness". Well it's good to spend time with only myself too, but you need a good balance between the two sides.

Summer so far has gone so quickly by, I suppose it feels like that because I work all day. Then time flies. Now time's flied so far that it's already lunch! Mom's calling from the kitchen, saying the food will get cold if I don't get there NOW! So I better go.

I'm alive...

...and working. My days consist of speaking Swedish (mostly), a lot of English, and some German, giving information and advice on tourist attractions in this neighbourhood, selling crafty things, t-shirts, fishing licences, etc.

I like it. A lot. To be of help and meet a lot of different people. I don't think that I could make it with a job in which I won't see any people. And that people come from different cultures and are curious of the Swedish one is great I think. Without curiousity, where would man be today?

Well, I enjoy being in my old hometown, seeing friends that I haven't met in a long time, visiting my family. It's good to be back home.