Baby Fia!

One of my colleagues brought her daughter to our Christmas potluck last week and she is absolutely the cutest child I have ever seen. I was elated when she decided to sit in my lap, but that only lasted about five seconds. This is my look of devastation when she decided it was time to move on.

Me and Fia.

Holiday Season

Belated Thanksgiving pics!

Green bean casserole.

Sweet potato mash (my contribution!).

Jasmine's turkey.

My plate.

The first snow!

Nighttime. 

Morning!

Me and Idil baking chocolate chip cookies for the Human Ecology Christmas potluck!

A for Awesome

Just got my grade for Human Ecology: Culture, Economy and Ecology and it's an A--and that's an "A" on the scale of A, B, C, D, E, F. 

After all the hours spent reading about Iceland's climate change strategy, reaching out to the Ministry for the Environment, and basically becoming an expert on the country's afforestation, revegetation, and wetland restoration practices it feels amazing to get that recognition. 

The next step is to send our proposal to the Ministry for the Environment in Iceland!

One of my favorite pictures of Iceland.

New Apartment!

I moved into my new apartment today! Everything is still a mess but I have a feeling it's going to be an amazing place. And it snowed for the first time today--that has to be some kind of good omen, right?

Tomorrow will be a day of unpacking, organizing, shopping for little apartment things (like the shower curtain we are in desperate need of). But for now I will get to sleep in my poorly made bed, surrounded by bags and boxes of things to unpack, exhausted from such a strenuous day.

The Holograms

Klara's brother is in a band that has been touring Europe for the last month and Thursday night they played at Lund's neighboring city, so Klara, me and a couple other friends all met up to go see them at this club called Debaser. Her brother had actually put us all on a list so we didn't have to pay the cover charge, which to me justified the cost of buying a drink at the bar. I paid 104 crowns for a drink! It was ridiculously expensive but super delicious. After they performed we hung out with the band and had a really good time.

One of their music videos.

The girls and the band.

Anton.

The Holograms.

Andreas.

Sushi Night

Last night a bunch of us got together to make sushi. Although I'm sure most Japanese people would have been ashamed of our preparation everything turned out pretty well. We were starving by the time everything was finally ready so dinner was filled with a content silence followed by a lively political discussion. It was a very "grad school" evening.

Fried salmon skin. Delicious.

A shot of the nearly three pounds of salmon.

Prep time.

I ended up having a super simplified version of what is called Chirashi (with salmon, sliced cucumber, soy sauce, and sushi rice) instead of a roll and was very satisfied. 

Darkness Falls

2:00pm

4:00pm

4:45pm