New Year's

 

On December 30th, my friend Morgane (from France who is living in Sunsvall) came over to my house to visit for a few days. That night I was making dinner; chicken soup made from the bone from the chicken I roasted for dinner the previous night. Morgane had never cooked before in her life so I showed her how to peel potatoes and carrots and she was very proud of her contribution. Everyone liked the soup. My Swedish family had never used bones to make soup before so it was something new for them and wonderfully familiar for me. ********* During Morgane's visit we took it easy most of the time; sleeping in, playing PS3, listening to music, playing cards and watching movies. But when it snowed a foot over night, Håkan got us all to help shovel snow. Morgane was quite taken aback because she'd never had to shovel snow before. It was a big job but we all worked together and got it done! ********** For New Year's Eve, we had a lot of people come over to our house for supper. After supper, us kids went to Jarryd's house to meet up with more people and have ping pong tournaments. For midnight, we all went back to my house to watch the fireworks that Håkan had set up in the backyard! They were really cool and very loud! Everyone shouted; Gott Nytt År! and drank non-alcoholic champagne. It was an international New Year's with me from Canada, Jarryd from Australia, Morgane from France, two guys both named Daniel who are from New Zealand and were staying at Jarryd's house for the week to go skiing, and everyone else there who are Swedish! It was snowing and we had a snowball fight(which I won, of course!) and when we were all fully soaked, we went back inside. Not long after midnight, people went home so we didn't stay up much longer. But it was still a great night! Happy New Year Everybody!!!