And April becomes May

Wednesday April 23: Olympiaskolan (my school) had a soccer tournament. Every program (a couple classes per grade in each program) made a team. I thought that the tournament was going to be low key and more funny that serious. It was so wrong, it was super competitive with referees and everything. There were about 5 student teams and a teacher team. Unfortunately our team got knocked out in the first round. So we just went home.

Friday April 25: After school I went to meet Wiebke at the train station! She had travelled all the way from Hamburg that morning and I was so excited to see her! We spent the weekend exploring Helsingborg. Actually, on Saturday we Helsingör. It's the danish city right across from Helsingborg. We took the ferry over which only took 20 minutes. We wandered around the city before the castle, Kronborg, opened which was the main attraction. We went on a tour of the castle and it was really interesting. No royalty actually lived there, it was more for protective purposes. Kronborg is however probably most famous for being the castle where Shakespeare's Hamlet takes place. (more info here) After the castle we went in to town to eat the classic Danish smörrebröd, followed by some ice cream. We took the ferry home and tried another Danish classic, pølsekorv. When we were back in Helsingborg we did a little bit of shopping and I introduced Wiebke to the most important Swedish meal, fika!
Wiebke came for the most amazing Swedish weather. We walked on the beach and read outside in the run. We ate dinner outside and went to Sofiero. On Sunday Wiebke had to leave. But we had such a fun weekend together!

Wednesday April 30: We had a giant Chemistry test all morning and then we were done for the day plus it was a 4 day weekend! So Elna, Malin, Sofia, and I went to Sofiero to get some ice cream. Then we went in to the park and played cards until it was too cold. May 1st is a big holiday in Sweden so (as Swedes usually do!) they celebrate the eve before, in this case the 30th. My family got together with 3 other families and we had a huge pitch in dinner. All of the families had been on the ski trip. We had an awesome dinner and then per tradition we went to the beach to watch a traditional bonfire. The days before April 30th are like national spring cleaning day. So all of the stuff you clear out of your yard is piled up on the beach and then set on fire the night before May 1 to welcome in the spring!

Thursday May 1: Misha came to visit! Throughout the time she was here we biked around a lot. We biked to Kullagunnarstorp, to Sofiero, and Pålsjö. We made yummy dessert and talked and had fun.

Saturday May 3: It was time for the SAT. I slept over at Ellie's house on Friday because we had to get started early on Saturday. To be exact, we woke up at 5 and took the train at 6.12. We got to the testing location really early and had to wait a while. The test in itself went alright I suppose, you never really know. After the test we were hungry and guess where we grabbed lunch? TGI Friday's! It was so American and we both enjoyed giant burgers! Yummy. We walked around Malmö for a while but then we both just hit a wall of tiredness and we headed home.

Last week was our first full 5 day week since spring break. Nothing truly too spectacular happened. But last night I went with Ellie, Tina, and Linn to see Divergent  it was amazing! Highly recommend it!

I have something like 6 weeks left in Sweden. On the one hand, this countdown is making me super excited to see my friends and family again. But how could I ever want to leave my life here?
Instead of worrying about this I'm going to value the time I have left here. There are still lots of fun things coming up. (Especially a special visitor coming next week (!!!))