smorgis board of sweden - meaningless photos with commentary

My favorite candle lit bakery: Cafe Linnes
The main river of Uppsala. This bridge is miraculous in that it connects my two favorite places in the city: Isak's house and my favorite bakery

Above: Norrland's nation welcome dinner. (Alex's nation)

All of a sudden I feel like I have adopted the persona of Hermione from Harry Potter. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Swedish Nations are very much like Hogwarts Houses, particularly the banquet halls. Each nation has a huge medieval mansion where they hold candle lit dinners with choirs and Swedish folk songs, and huge gasques (a Swedish ball) and masquerades etc. Traditionally Swedes are given their nation based on heritage, so us Internationals obviously get to choose our own (and there's no sorting hat to help, unfortunately). The difference between Nations and hogwarts houses is that there are 12 nations as oppose to 4, and in the evenings they transform their 13th century estates into raging nightclubs. I have to say its quite odd partying next to 2ton oak book shelves and painted portraits of academic legends - but i do my best.


Above: salmon, bacon, ham, shrimp and caviar in a tube.
For some reason the swedes seem to think that its appropriate to color any type of meat white and stick it in a tube. I have yet to understand this foreign logic.
The SEMLA. Yes this bun filled with marzipan and whipped cream may contain 2000 calories but that doesnt stop me from having at least one a day - a sad state of affairs which has forced me to up my daily gym hours to 2 per day, just to keep the scale from rising astronomically.
Uppsala at night. Christmas-like trees which look surprisingly like hallucinogenic mushrooms
My piece of ass bicycle, who's only attribute is that it hasn't yet been thrown in the river (knock on wood). we're talking no gears, back breaks, and the world's shortest seat here!

Each night multiple bikes get thrown in the river by drunk students who obviously have an undercover campaign against environmentally friendly transportation. Thus every April the city has to hire a team of divers to remove TONS of bicycles - were talking over 500 - before the annual canoe race. Fishing in the river has now been made impossible, since the only thing people catch are old bicycle parts.
Evidence of my new domesticated lifestyle. That's right I've learnt to cook, and i'm surprising decent at it!