Going out with friends on a Wednesday night and meeting people in other different costumes, it was basically like being in New York. (Disclaimer: I haven never been to New York but from watching countless re-runs of Friends, Saturday Night Live and other shows, I assume that's what it's like).
My friend, Sofie had been wanting to organize a pub crawl for a long time and since other Californians and I had been here for 5 months, the time was right.
First, before anything else, let me explain what a pub crawl is.
A pub crawl is when you dress up in crazy costumes or outfits (because usually pub crawls have themes) and to go different pubs in the student nations and have one drink. The goal is to go to as many nations as you can and then end up at a club, if a student nation is hosting a club night.
It's similar to what we call "bar hopping" in the states, but pub crawl makes more sense in that one will most likely end up crawling the streets of Uppsala at the end of the night, instead of hopping.
We decided to do the pub crawl on a Wednesday so that the pubs weren't too busy and packed, we did have class the next day but not until 10AM, but we were prepared to show up to class in our costumes. Like we were ready.
The theme of our pub crawl was returning characters from the amazing show Saturday Night Live. A returning character is one who has returned to the show multiple times.
This was the group invite created by my friend Sofie...
We ended up going to 6 out of the 7 pubs which was a success and a very fun night.
For returning characters these were some options/suggestions:
Olya Povlatsky
Actor: Kate McKinnon
Years on SNL: 2012-present
Gilly
Actor: Kristen Wigg
Years on SNL: 2005-2012
Church Lady
Actor: Dana Carvey
Years on SNL: 1986-1993
Mary Catherine Gallagher
Actor: Molly Shannon
Years on SNL: 1995-2001
Doonese
Actor: Kristen Wigg
Years on SNL: 2005-2012
Stefon
Actor: Bill Hader
Years on SNL: 2005-2013
Garth & Kat
Actors: Fred Armisen & Kristen Wigg
Years on SNL: Armisen- 2002-2013
Wigg: 2005-2012
Target Lady
Actor: Kristen Wigg
Years on SNL: 2005-2012
Rosanne Rosannadana
Actor: Gilda Radner
Years on SNL: 1975-1980
Aunt Linda
Actor: Kristen Wigg
Years on SNL 2005-2012
"We're not porn stars anymore"
Actors: Vanessa Bayer & Cecily Strong
Years on SNL: Bayer- 2010-present
Strong- 2012-present
The Girl You Wished You Hadn't Started A Conversation With At A Party
Actor: Cecily Strong
Years on SNL: 2012-present
The decision was not easy. So many good characters to play and so little time to prepare.
Until I went thrift store shopping and got my idea.
Actor: Bobby Moyniham
Years on SNL: 2008-present
It was totally easy. A flannel shirt, which I already had, a pull over sweater which I also had and a trench coat, which I got for 45 SEK (6 USD), so it was a really easy costume.
I even had sunglasses to wear too, it was perfect.
At 6PM we all met up at V-Dala student nation to start our pub crawl.
Here is the picture of all of us dressed as our SNL doppelgängers
From Left to Right
The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started A Conversation With At A Party- doppelgänger- Cassie
Drunk Uncle- doppelgänger - yours truly
Garth & Kat- Kacey & Sofie
Although it was a smaller group than a normal we still had a good night.
First pub: V-Dala or as it is fully known: Västmanlands-Dala Nation
There we met a guy in our class who was also in a pub crawl and welcomed us into their game of Swedish charades, which is basically charades but in Swedish. And no, I had no idea what the charade said when it was my turn, so I had to have the Swedish guy next to me translate:
My charades were a guy making a pizza
and
Mowing the Lawn
Later we found out that the charades game we were playing was a competition between other people in the pub crawl, and we won!
Go US!
After hanging out at V-Dala nation, we headed off to Snerikes Nation for another drink.
This is Sofie and Kacey in front of Snerikes Nation paying tribute to our favorite show 30 Rock, specifically Kenneth the Page.
Are you (guys) ok?
Then after about 30 minutes hanging out in Snerikes we went across the street to Göteborgs (or Gothenbergs) Nation and sat on comfy seats and quoted SNL.
After Goöteborgs Nation, we headed around the corner to Smålands Nation where a fellow classmate, Ronja, of ours was working at the bar. We explained to her what we were and entertained her with our characters. She later brought out her boyfriend who was a fellow SNL fan.
Note: Not many people in Sweden are familiar with the show Saturday Night Live. I know they are missing out on so much. My friend Sofie, who is Swedish, knows of SNL because she had studied abroad in the states last year and fell in love with the show. But the rest of the Swedes who haven't studied abroad in the states, have no idea. I think I've asked my corridor mates if they have heard of it and they just look at me weirdly.
My new goal before I leave in June, introduce them to the wonderful world that is Saturday Night Live. It will be done, I already got one of them to love Parks & Recreation. I'm almost there.
So when our friend told us that her boyfriend (who is Swedish) was a huge fan of SNL, we were beyond excited. Sofie and Kacey acted out their roles as they were a sibling singing group and Cassie and I simple quoted our characters.
He enjoyed it.
We stayed in Smålands for a while and saw that they were having a pop quiz night and tried to join and answer the question...it wasn't so successful.
But while waiting around, my friend Cassie, decided to check her email and proudly announced that our class was cancelled because our professor was sick.
The SNL Gods were upon us.
With that news we decided it was time to go to another pub to celebrate, until I remembered that it was my friend Erica's birthday (HI ERICA!!!) and wanted to stay to wish her a Happy Birthday since Smålands had WiFi and the pub next didn't. And thank god it was her birthday because right as I sent her a birthday message our friend Ronja came up to us with a full plate of nachos and told us that no one claimed it and they were going to throw it away and wanted to know if we wanted it.
Free nachos?
WIN.
(On behalf of myself and my friends, we would like to thank our friend Erica for being born on this day because if not, those poor nachos would have died in the garbage. Happy birthday nachos from Sweden)
I didn't get the outside of Smålands pub but this is the inside.
After Smålands we ran (literally ran) to Väsgöta (VG) nation for another drink in their pub.
And then last but not least headed over to Norrlands Nation where they hosted their Wednesday club night and met up with our friends Jenn and Madeline and danced, to not-so-great-music.
No seriously, it wasn't that great but we still danced like crazy.
After Norrlands, there were no more pubs left for us to go, we went and had a nightly burger at Max's and spent the night at our friend Sofie's place, because the city bus stopped running at 12:30AM and we were out until 2AM.
Oh, and at one of the pubs we discussed a Disney themed pub crawl for March, so yeah this will continue on until June.
Goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow.
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