I had some time to kill before the day's activities really started, so I got baking! (This was also a great way to get familiar with how to use the kitchen white goods and see what communal appliances were available to use!) Unfortunately the banana muffins I made today were not vegan (contained egg), but I am on the hunt for some egg replacer :)
Delicious as always!
I accidentally let these sit a bit too long in the oven so the tops browned more than normal, but the slight crunch adds something new and they're great for this -3 degree morning!
The oil makes them extra moist on the inside!
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The oil makes them extra moist on the inside!
On the way to Fika and Board Games: I'm still fascinated by the snow and how it crystallises on hedges and other plants I see when I'm trekking around Lund :)
How quaint does the snow look balancing on this hedge!
Photos of different Swedish houses I passed on my way to the SOL Library Building
Fika and Board Games @ the International Desk: 11:00 - 12:45
Fika - literally meaning coffee, fika is the act of sharing coffee (or tea or water or other beverages) and light, typically sweet snacks. Rather than just being the action of eating and drinking or gathering together, fika encompasses the phenomenon of socialising together and companionship amongst friends or colleagues.
Let's start off with the fika table! It was so impressive - a selection of breads, soft cheese, sweets (liquorice, chocolate, cookies), cinnamon rolls, chocolate balls and fruit (apples and mandarins) were made available alongside coffee, fruity / herbal teas with cow or oat milk!
Fika table at the Board Games event!
Some close-ups of the fika fare:
Cinnamon bread scrolls! They're sweet but not too sweet and delicious :)
Chocolate balls! Classic fika food
Swedish liquorice - not the salty kind, though!
Now onto the Board Games - two tables stacked with games to play and several desk and chairs for people to sit at and socialise with some fika. A local Lund Swede and an Italian masters student invited me and another international masters student from Germany who I was chatting to (studying bio-medicine! - the study of how to track the genesis of physical diseases) to play Coup and King of Tokyo.
I'll be honest, back at home I'm not the biggest board game player - I rarely play and hardly know any games at all beside Scrabble and Monopoly. But this event was really fun! I wish I could've stayed longer and kept playing, I ended up becoming very invested and won the King of Tokyo (the best way of saying goodbye) before heading to SUSA!
My last view of the board games event heading off to SUSA
Snow and views on the way to my SUSA Seminar:
I peeked over a fence to get a glimpse of this Swedish mansion!
A Swedish House
SUSA Seminar: 13:15 - 16:00Today's class was long. I think there's something about sitting in a lecture hall with one of the best heating systems that makes me want to just have a nap AHAHAHA - but it's probably because I filled up on fika food and became so invested in the board games we played that I missed lunch and had to learn for three hours on an emptying stomach.
Today in class we revised numbers and focused on places and activities before finishing the class looking at different kinds of verbs to describe what we do at, for example, universitetet (university) (e.g., studerar, study; foshkar research); at a restaurang (restaurant) (ater, eat; pa mengu, look at the menu) studentkorridor (student corridor) (sover, sleep; gar pa fest, party) and kortet (kitchen) (larger mat, cook).
Spotted: traditional Swedish candy Ahlgrens bilar in a vending machine outside the classroom!
This was bought from the salad bar that they have at ICA which is the place I'd recommend going to if you want a decent and reasonably priced lunch! You tell the server what kinds of food you'd like (a selection of salads, quiches, kebab sticks - there's also a hot food station) and it is charged by weight.
These three salads combined cost SEK55.
Mushrooms; spring salad with snowpeas, spring onion, cucumber and pepper sauce; roasted carrot, pumpkin and parsnip with spinach and pumpkin seeds.
Let me tell you, I freaking LOVE the ICA salad. It is soooooo good. I didn't think you could make three different salads have such distinct yet delicious flavours that marry together for the human palette, but they nailed it. Usually at 12:00 there is a queue of people lining up for their salads (the queue is what got me curious about it!)
I decided to opt out of the pre-parties leading up to, as well as the Welcome Party tonight - those events just aren't my thing and I definitely wouldn't feel ready to tackle the 08:45 hike tomorrow having gone to those events. Instead I got familiar with the kitchen at Sparta, got to know more of my corridor-mates and made a spiced vegan lentil soup instead! :)
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