Sticka, sticka, fika!

Sticka is swedish for knitting. Fika is swedish for coffee and goodies break. Sunday the 30th Asa had some people over for a Sticka & Fika thing. Good turn out with plenty of yummies. I made a swedish classic : chocos cocos, I think that's what they are called. And I also made mexican wedding cookies, one of the guests also brought a delicious muffin like scone with raspberries, loved them. Want the recipe! So one of my projects I had started with my first host family was a knitted elephant...but I didn't have any stuffing to stuff it with so have yet to finish it. Didn't get it done at this get together either but guess what today, February 4, I finished it...minus the eyes. Still have not decided if I want to add eyes or not. Didn't stuff it with stuffing but instead cut up an old sweater thing. which worked perfect...it's just you know a little heavier than the average stuffed animal :)

So, lately....
School has been productive I guess I can say. I mean I do work in every class...by work I mean translating any assignments the class has been given to english. Which is extremely time consuming and tiring but nonetheless I am doing something. It's actually good to be in class because it fills up the days.
I went to the sauna again...and into the freezing water. I love it, great way to relax after a long week, this time Dakota and Keisha came with.

This is where the saunas are at, as you can see the water is frozen here. Which means the saunas were closed because you aren't able to get in the water...unless you drill a hole in the ice!

Monday and Wednesday nights I am at wrestling practice which has been tough yet rewarding. The coaches and girls on the team are all great. And these girls, I tell you , they're tough. Freestyle wrestling is on a whole other level compared to high school wrestling.  It's harder but you can get away with pretty much anything! And, on Thursday nights I am at volleyball practice. Volleyball has been a good subsitute for my lack of going to the gym....but it's not a sport I will want to continue with when I get back home. It's more of a sport I like to do for fun, like at the swimming hole.

I have also been out in the woods a bit, just taking Isa [dog] out on walks. It's been decent weather so that's been good. Snow/ice is basically all gone now, few spots were its still stuck but mainly gone.

What else. This past Tuesday the 1st I made dinner for my family. A traditional mexican dinner of fajitas, rice, beans and, HOMEMADE tortillas. Not at all as good as my mom's but it wasn't bad either. Fajitas were good, rice probably had too much tomato sauce, beans needed salt and well tortillas were actually pretty good. It seemed like everyone liked the food which means I didn't fail!  

Here my host mom is helping with the tortillas! Hers was actually really round compared to mine.

And the results....!

Well, honestly that's about it. It's Friday thank God, time for a much anticipated weekend! Two weeks left till "sports week" here...like mid winter break back home!