Wednesday night I played hostess to Gunnhild (from the Faroe Islands), her sister, mom, daughter and Jerome (the Netherlands). I wanted to try out a recipe for pumpkin risotto but I really needed a whole family to serve for the size of the recipe, so I made a temporary one for the night. Also on the menu was caprese salad and Jerome's grandpa's homemade berry wine. Little Fia Ly and I preferred our apple juice juiceboxes though.
Tulips from Gunnhild's sister Sanna...
My favorite 2 year old! Gunnhild's daughter Fia Ly...
The aftermath...
This week I also decided to have a backup plan in case I can't find an internship in Europe next fall semester, so I applied for exchange at the University of Helsinki and the University of Oslo. Although I was much more interested in the classes at Helsinki, I decided that I'd rather live in Oslo so I made it my first choice. I have to wait seven weeks to find out if I get nominated.
University of Oslo
University of Helsinki
Saturday night I went to Inga's housewarming party...
Ricarda, Inga, Jerome, and Liene enjoying organic Danish carrots, and me with a See's butterscotch sucker
Today was my first day meeting Leo to start our English tutoring lessons. Leo's dad, Mikael, was one of my professors and says that the family will be spending next year abroad in an English speaking country so he wants to supplement his school's English lessons with some one-on-one tutoring.
This is seriously an over-achieving family. Leo is only ten and he is performing with the Malmö Opera next week, he plays the string bass, and before I got there for our meeting he had already had a piano lesson that morning. I think it is going to be a lot of fun teaching him. The cutest part was when I was trying to teach him something and I said, "Is it A or B?" and he said, "Yes." So I actually did use my limited knowledge of Swedish to clarify some of the terms and concepts for him so he could finally answer that is was A, not B.
