OK, I just came back from the laundry room and my head is sort of spinning now because all the labels on the washing machine were in Swedish and there was no translation whatsoever and my roommate and I just had to trial and error our way through and pray that our clothes don't shrink or something. Heh.
We're about to cook lunch now, we've been cooking pasta these few days, in different variations. I'll show you the pictures of what we've had so far but for now let's start with these:
Snowflakes on my coat sleeve!
Eklundshofsvagen. Its a quiet little hostel tucked away from the city centre
I was bored. So Yeah I jumped for the camera.
Not satisfied with one. Another one!
Little Fella Thriving in the Snow
As close as you can get
So tempting to leave our signatures
And if you squint hard, you'll see vapour coming out of my mouth. I can't help it, all right!
All of us at Eklundshof. From Left to Right, Clarice, Mel Ng, Sherene, Mel Chan, and Myself!
Roomies! Clarice and I.
Yeap. So the first few days in Sweden were mostly spent settling in and getting lost and walking around a LOT. I think we walked about 3 km per day on average, and it got really cold sometimes, but we managed somehow. We walked to one of the not-so-nearby supermarkets called Willy's, but went totally unprepared without bringing our big backpacks and so we had to walk back carrying home all sorts of heavy things. What a disaster lah. But after that our hostel was finally stocked with all sorts of food, and you have no idea what a big difference that makes! We stopped by for lunch @ Willy's and this was my first taste of Swedish Meatballs. They call it köttbullar here, and don't ask me how to pronounce it because I tried and it didn't work at all.
As you can see, they do serve it with jam. Ikea stays traditional to their roots!
And they have all these interesting recycling machines. Sweden is probably one of the most environmentally friendly places I've seen. They really charge for each paper bag/plastic bag you use, and they have all these recycling machines that give you tickets that can be redeemed for stuff the more you recycle. I think they should cart this idea back to Singapore, heh. Not that it would work right off, oh but i'm rambling now so I should keep on the subject.
We bought a lot of dairy based stuff because its really cheap here, you can get 1.5 litres of milk for about 2 dollars? And cheese as well is pretty cheap. You get about 500g of mozarella cheese for 5 SGD. AND OMG, AfterEights - those chocolates that are really expensive (like 1 small pathetic box for 11 SGD) in Singapore are super cheap here! 6 SGD for a medium sized box! Ok. Well anyway moving on...
So, with all that grocery in our fridge (yes we have a fridge, microwave, oven, and stove in our room! and we're loving it!), what did we cook for ourselves so far?
Black Pepper Pasta with Sausages and Carrots
Garlic Cheese Pasta with Mushrooms
Hehe, created with the help of all these funny mixes. But some were from scratch!
That's it for now, but I'll be back with pictures and stories of my hitchhiking experience, a night out at a party, and of course of our Swedish Food Night which was awesome!
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