Pirates!

Last weekend and the first half of this week has been nice--I alternated between doing work for the editing job, studying Swedish, social activities, and unpacking and moving in.

Saturday afternoon was gaming, Saturday evening was a birthday party for an SCA guy, with a pirate theme. He requested that everyone attend wearing "an attempt at pirate costume" and he had many fun contests set up--he divided us into four "ships", of four crew members each, and we competed in a variety of categories for the treasure chest of "gold coins". One of the ones I found most fun was "walking the plank", wherein we were required to cover one eye with an eye patch, and then look through the wrong end of a telescope with the other eye whilst walking across the plank, around the chair at the end, and then back to place. I have always loved balance games. The site he used for the party is the same old school house we do dancing in on Sundays, and since he had music playing all evening archinonlive and I did some dancing. Not many other people did--only tinkerbell and her pirate that I noticed, but I can't really resist a chance to dance.

Sunday was dancing, of course, but, sadly, the Monday evening folk dance class has ended. Granted, it was nice to have the extra time to unpack. I have now unpacked all but two partial boxes (one containing disks of computer programs and other rarely needed computer accessories, the other containing various important papers that would belong in a file cabinet, if we had one. It is lovely to have my kitchen toys and books and SCA stuff unpacked and put away. The sewing stuff and tools still need some organizing before I can claim they are really "away", but that will have to wait till we find, purchase, or build shelves for them. However, I think I can pretty much claim one week elapsed between my stuff arriving and getting it unpacked. The only reason it took that long is all of the other work and fun stuff in between.

Today, in addition to unpacking the last of the boxes I also baked ( Heavenly Rolls )

They are a truly decadent food, and I ate six of them straight out of the oven. yum!

Luleå, Min Nye Stad

This week we were actually given a homework assignment in Swedish class--write half a page on the topic of "Luleå, Min Nye Stad -- Detta är Luleå" (Luleå, my new town -- this is Luleå). I did my first draft on my own, with the help of a dictionary and google translate. Then I got archinonlive to read it over and suggest changes to how things are actually said in Swedish. He resisted the impulse to edit it to better sentences but instead left things in the simple, direct grammar that we have so far in class. Once we were done with that it occurred to me that since I will need to present it to my classmates tomorrow I should probably also prepare a glossary of the words that are either new to me, or words I know quite well, but haven't come up in class/textbook yet (e.g. medeltiden = Middle Ages). This turned out to be 46 words long!

( Luleå, min nye Stad -- Detta är Luleå )