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As stated in a previous post, I have recently been introduced to Swedish waffles (and by recently, I mean for the past 2 months that I've been here.--Also realization that I've been here for 2 months, slightly freaking out).

The past couple of weeks, on Thursdays, I have been going to the same Student nation and paying 40 SEK (6 US dollars) for all I can eat waffles and coffee and talking with friends for hours on end.

It's kind of a mixture of FRIENDS at Central Perk and How I Met Your Mother at McClarens  where we all sit around a table, give ourselves food comas and get hyped up on 5 cups of endless coffee and sit for hours on end just talking, laughing and filling in awkward moments.
No matter how poor you are, there is always time for waffles and even if you are poor and barely have food, you know that filling up on waffles will last you the whole day until around 10 o'clock at night when you get the late night munchies.

One of the best parts, besides the re-enactment of two famous television shows, is that no one will judge you on how many waffles one eats. Like I said before, Swedish waffles are a lot thinner than US waffles and always come in twos. So the thickness of one big US waffle is about 4 Swedish waffles. So like it's ok to eat 4 Swedish waffles because it's like 1 big US waffle.
And you top it off with cream, jam, chocolate chips or even better when they bring out the chocolate whipped cream (yes chocolate whipped cream and yes it's homemade).
::ugh, drool::
Now that it is fall/slowly winter a cup of hot coffee and some warm waffles will for sure make this winter bearable.
Just thinking about holding a warm cup of delicious Swedish coffee and filling my cold stomach with warm waffles as I watch the snow fall outside, makes for the picture perfect winter that I can't wait to experience.
Everyone, WINTER IS COMING and so are the waffles.

autumns, leaves and pumpkins! oh my!

It's fall! It's fall! It's fall!

Wait was season is it?
Fall.

Like the real definition of fall. Leaves on the trees are orange, red, yellow and there are big piles every where. The air is crisp the sky is sunny and wool tights and flannel are in. Now all I need are pumpkins.

This is an image of fall that I found on Google.

Now these are images of fall in Uppsala.

Yes they are a tad filtered due to Instagram, but the colors are real. 

It's real fall. 

I can only imagine what it would look like during the wintertime (I'm bracing myself).

All in all I'm adjusting well to Sweden, my coffee intake is better now as I bought myself a French press and feel like a hipster barista in my room making coffee. I'm cooking a lot with makes me happy and at home.

I'm also walking a lot and taking the bus, since my bike has been kidnapped so finding my way around Uppsala is getting easier.

I started a new class this past week and it's a little better than the last and also a lot better, since in 2 weeks I will be on my to BERLIN! (Hefeweizen and German food, I'm on to you).

Also Amy Poehler and her brother might make a trip to Stockholm to film a TV show...what? 

I know, I'm crying too.

Keep on the lookout for a short, brown hair girl wearing bright colors and speaking broken Swedish, you might find her.

russianfest 2k13

While everyone was flying off to Munich, Germany to enjoy the festivities of Okotberfest, I myself had a different kind of "fest", a "Russianfest" as said in the title.

This was the event:

Known as "Katushka" pronounced (Ka-toosh-ka), it's pretty much a Russian accordion punk band that lasts for about 5 hours. 

In a small student club, hundreds of Swedes and International Students come, drink and dance to this accordion punk music and have mosh pits.

It was fantastic.

Dancing freely in the extremely, disgustingly warm heat of a tiny room, dancing on stage to accordion music. I have never experienced something like this before. All I remember most was at one point they played "Last Christmas" accordion style. It's September.

This was the stage with the accordion band, notice the theme of the stage was Space.
Space, Russians & Accordion Punk?
I kind of approve.

They need to have more of this back in the states.

Despite the freezing cold, everyone was having a good time and didn't feel their bodies being turned into icicles outside. When I mention that it was disgustingly warm, I mean it was disgustingly warm. I walked in and I felt the heat, that the cold freezing air outside felt like an air conditioner....that's how disgustingly warm it was.

No joke.

But then of course once we got outside to leave, the cold no longer felt like an air conditioner. 

This was the Swedish cold everyone was warning me about.

And then my bike got stolen.....

Locked up against my friends bike, somehow the thieves got into my lock and took my bike. 

Disappointment? Yes, as I had only had this bike for 3 weeks, but on the other hand I wasn't surprised as bikes are stolen on the regular here. Luckily the people I was with walked with me as we got the 3am meal at McDonalds but it wasn't until we had to go home that things that a little adventurous and uncomfortable.

I had to ride on the back of some guy's bike and let me tell you it was uncomfortable, but it was probably the only solution other than walking 30 minutes in the freezing cold at 4AM.

And that concludes my whole Saturday night in a nutshell. As of now, I have had the days off until Thursday (so like tomorrow) to relax, watch Bones and drink copious amounts of coffee.

Until the next adventurous post.