In the beginning

Starting in Sweden was easier than I thought it would be.
Nothing's really that different than Australia, apart from school.

When I arrived in Göteborg airport I expected to go through customs, but nothing, I didn't have to show anyone anything, not even there was snow on the ground but I was to tired to bother about it. We went to my host grandparents house for Swedish cakes. DELICIOUS!!

Göteborg. (pron. yacht-a-bouy-g)

Göteborg is very big, the shopping centre has a lot of shops. But throughout the city you see a lot of repetitions, i.e. Lots of Maccas/Burger Kings and lots of H&M and KappAhl (big clothing lines). and lots and lots of other stores.

We went to a resturant in Göteborg; Jensen's Bøfhus, Delicious food, and the desert was all you can eat ice-cream.

My first serving of the all you can eat ice-cream.

Shopping and trying to find a bargain is half the fun. Sometimes you can find something well priced, and sometimes not. A lot of the jeans I've found have been about 400SEK which is about about $80. So it's pretty good if you find something cheaper than that. Something else I've learnt about the Swedes when they shop; when they try on skinny jeans, they HAVE to be very tight, almost impossible to zip up/button up otherwise they're deemed too big. I had and interesting experience on monday or tuesday, I was trying on jeans (I now know I'm a size 38 eur) and we had a pair of 38's and 40's. I tried on the 38's first, and they we really good to put on and do up. but they were a bit 'lose' around the waist, so Mamma and Bea took the 40 back and brought back a couple of 36's. My GOSH were the 36's ever hard to even get INTO, let-alone even think of doing them up. But apparently if you want skinny jeans, you get skinny jeans; jeans you can barely fit into, haha.

Another tradition in Sverige, which I rather like. Lördagsgodis which involves eating lollies on Saturday. I'm not joking. I love it, as you can imagine. So on Saturday's we go and buy lollies, (or we buy them Friday night and leave them until Saturday) and come home and have them. I can't believe it's actually a tradition, but I'm cool with it. :)



I went to my first Ikea store the other day. My lord it's MASSIVE!

The Welcoming doors of IKEA.

The store is massive, and you can buy almost everything there; even Elk pasta, that's right, pasta in the shape of an Elk'd head. And we bought some things for Bea's room, then we bought some soft drinks and Mamma bought a hotdog and Bea and I had ice-creams.

Everything is big and amazing, and I'm loving every bit of it.

That's it for now,

Corinne.xx