Instead of going south for Spring break like most people I ended up going north.
I began my week long adventure (3/18/11) outside the city of Göteborg Sweden visiting Lenny a good friend from the farm school. He is the farm manager of the Farm school his mom runs. We spent the first day in the city of Göteborg with two of his friends. We got to go "backstage" in Universeum a science discovery center with one of his friends who is in charge of the reptiles. The Universeum takes you through Sweden's natural habitats in which you begin walking in north and going down to the south. The science center interactive activities as well as real animals that lived in the habitats. After "going through" Sweden we got to behind the doors. Lenny's friend offered to let me hold the snakes, but I opted not to. We also learned that the center works on peoples phobias. For example if you have a phobia of snakes they have a room where you can work out a time to come and they will work with you to get over that fear by holding them. After the Universeum we walked around the city and then went on their version of the Lodon eye. After having dinner in the city we went back to Lenny's friends apartment to hang out. We ended up playing scrabble (they played in English for me), but I still came in lost. It's not something I was really surprised about....
The next day (I was staying in the farmhouse) I woke up around 9 to help Lenny with the farm chores. It was almost like being back on the farm. After chores we had fresh bread and made breakfast with the eggs we collected and cheese that had been made from the milk. After we got ready and headed out into the countryside. We took a short hike to a waterfall that overlooked one of the many lakes in the countryside. Lenny informed me that in the summer they take the boats out and go fishing all the time. In the winter when the ice is still thick enough they also go ice fishing (but not as much). After our hike we went into a small town to try and find a traditional cake that he said I had to try. The small cafe that we went to was run by one of his neighbors. Unfortunately they were out of the cake so instead we had two other desserts with an orange soda. The first was a coconut chocolate cake and the other was some sort of paste covered in chocolate (I don't know the actual names or what exactly it was, but they were both amazing). Deciding that we needed to do something else to counter the treats we went back and picked up basketballs and headed to a elementary school to play. Lenny really wanted me to try this "special" pizza for dinner so after we headed to pick it up. It turned out to be a "kebab" pizza meaning it had all the meat, sauces, lettuce and french fries on it that would come in a "kebab". To my surprise it was quite good, just a little heavy. Also you cut pizza with scissors here in Italy as well as in Sweden (it works quite well). We spend the night eating pizza and reminiscing about our time at the farm school.
Sunday morning I got up again to help with chores. We then hung around on the farm for a while until he took me to the airport where I was off to Copenhagen.
I began my week long adventure (3/18/11) outside the city of Göteborg Sweden visiting Lenny a good friend from the farm school. He is the farm manager of the Farm school his mom runs. We spent the first day in the city of Göteborg with two of his friends. We got to go "backstage" in Universeum a science discovery center with one of his friends who is in charge of the reptiles. The Universeum takes you through Sweden's natural habitats in which you begin walking in north and going down to the south. The science center interactive activities as well as real animals that lived in the habitats. After "going through" Sweden we got to behind the doors. Lenny's friend offered to let me hold the snakes, but I opted not to. We also learned that the center works on peoples phobias. For example if you have a phobia of snakes they have a room where you can work out a time to come and they will work with you to get over that fear by holding them. After the Universeum we walked around the city and then went on their version of the Lodon eye. After having dinner in the city we went back to Lenny's friends apartment to hang out. We ended up playing scrabble (they played in English for me), but I still came in lost. It's not something I was really surprised about.... 
The next day (I was staying in the farmhouse) I woke up around 9 to help Lenny with the farm chores. It was almost like being back on the farm. After chores we had fresh bread and made breakfast with the eggs we collected and cheese that had been made from the milk. After we got ready and headed out into the countryside. We took a short hike to a waterfall that overlooked one of the many lakes in the countryside. Lenny informed me that in the summer they take the boats out and go fishing all the time. In the winter when the ice is still thick enough they also go ice fishing (but not as much). After our hike we went into a small town to try and find a traditional cake that he said I had to try. The small cafe that we went to was run by one of his neighbors. Unfortunately they were out of the cake so instead we had two other desserts with an orange soda. The first was a coconut chocolate cake and the other was some sort of paste covered in chocolate (I don't know the actual names or what exactly it was, but they were both amazing). Deciding that we needed to do something else to counter the treats we went back and picked up basketballs and headed to a elementary school to play. Lenny really wanted me to try this "special" pizza for dinner so after we headed to pick it up. It turned out to be a "kebab" pizza meaning it had all the meat, sauces, lettuce and french fries on it that would come in a "kebab". To my surprise it was quite good, just a little heavy. Also you cut pizza with scissors here in Italy as well as in Sweden (it works quite well). We spend the night eating pizza and reminiscing about our time at the farm school.
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