Vimmerby

From Falun, Judith and I arrived in Vimmerby after 7 hours of traveling by train. We spent the week, August 10th to 14th, with 30 other students form Canada, the US, Mexico, Brazil, France, Austria, Germany and Japan. We stayed in a boarding school on a hill that looked over the town and we got our own rooms. We had classes in Swedish (learning the basics), Swedish society (history) and sports (learning the Swedish names and playing). We had a lot of fun getting to know each other, playing games and sports and spending our free time watching Borat or exploring the basement of the school. Vimmerby is famous because it is the home town of Astrid Lindgren, the auther of Pippi Longstockings and many other childrens' storytales. There is a theme park/children's fairytale land based on her books. We got the chance to visit it one afternoon and I wished I was 6 again because there is so many cute houses, parks, and kids' toys and attractions there. Here's a picture of us standing in front of Astrid Lindgren's World. The other picture is of Villa Villacula, Pippy's house. I found the park very interesting because they had live music and performances, they would play skits from the storybooks. I didn't know what they were saying, but the little kid actors were so cute. We had 2 hours at the park but it was some big, we couldn't see everything there. It was a fun week and there are many other trips and activities planned for this group throughout the year. Friday, after a long train trip and a lay over in the Stockholm terminal, I was back home in Hudiksvall with a week or so before school started.