Saturday morning we were finally able to move into our new apartment!! It has 2 bedrooms, 1 and a half bathrooms, a kitchen, and a living room. There’s also a washer and dryer. It’s fully furnished and definitely a nice little place to call “home” for 5 more months. It’s about a 2 minute walk from the field we currently practice and play games on and a 5 minute walk from our home field. Can’t beat that. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to stay there yet because the Internet isn’t set up properly, so we’ve been going back and forth between the 2 apartments for the last few days. But unpacking was definitely the best part of it all!
Some more exciting news! My parents and I have officially planned a trip to Ireland for 4 days, on my 2 week break in July!! Can’t even explain my excitement. We are staying in Dublin, in an area called Temple Bar, where all the pubs and such are located. Cannot wait to visit our heritage country, just wish the brothers could join!
Saturday we played a team called IK Huge. Beyond suiting name. Everyone told us how aggressive of a team they were… I think there were 4 or 5 yellow cards. For some odd reason the ref was card happy on the things that needed to just be warnings. He missed a lot of the major tackles that should have been yellow and red cards. It was just the little things that they were in to, like being knocked down after you pass a ball or run by someone or you could just be standing there and they would intentionally run into you. Unnecessary things. That was pretty much the only tactic they had. We ran at them over and over and over again and they never changed their system. They just took it, which helped us win 4-0 pretty easily. I thought it was the best the team ever connected. Everything just clicked for us. Always a good feeling.
Sunday, Carson and I went to Gävle- another pretty Swedish town. It’s a 30 minute train ride north of Tierp. We wanted to go to a bigger city so we could eat at a Mexican restaurant and celebrate cinco de drinko. Because obviously we are like any American- we love any reason to celebrate with drinking and eating. It took us over an hour to get a Swede to tell us where a Mexican restaurant was located. I don’t think many of them had any idea what we were asking them. We looked at all the shopping options while trying to find a restaurant, so it worked out. Gävle also has good shopping. Lunch was an adventure in itself. The owners of the “texican” restaurant didn’t speak any English, so trying to figure out what to order was just comical. Eventually, one of the owners asked a girl who knew English who was eating with her family next to us to translate for him. Thank god for her. It was a good lunch. They had a buffet type of thing going on- Mexican food and a buffet.. yes please. After lunch we walked around the city, not really knowing what we were doing or what to look for, but it’s a pretty city so it didn’t really bother us. We stumbled across Gevalia’s coffee headquarters, which was pretty cool. They do tours and all that but since it was Sunday it was closed. The craziest thing about Gävle is when you walk towards the west side of the city, you can actually feel the temperature drop like 10° because you’re getting closer to the Baltic Sea. We were walking and literally just hit a wall of cold. It was the strangest thing. But also really cool.
Traveling by trains to all these different places lets you see all the different types of houses and buildings located in the towns along the way. The architecture here is beautiful. Can’t get enough of it. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is the colors of many of the houses and buildings. It’s this dehydrated pee type of color. Sounds odd but its pretty in its own way. There’s also a lot of deep red houses.
Next time I write, we will officially be all moved in! Can’t waittt
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