Here I will drift into the very undisirable form of just telling you how it is, without any storytelling or something. This past week I came across the most amazing thing: a tuning fork! Yes, that makes it so I have been able to tune Cecilia's guitar so now it sounds good. Not perfect, but good enough. So far I have remembered/learned again at least one chord of the guitar alfabet.
A week ago it was now that I went on an AFS camp in Stockholm. This time all of the exchange students were there. Thailand, a Russian girl, New Zealand, the United States, France, with others. There I was met by an interesting idea, that maybe I enjoy that kind of talkative, open atmosphere and people, more than I thought. When I first came, I thought of finding some peace and quiet here; I thought I would be less talkative than the Swedish people, then I was surprised and thought everyone talks a whole lot here. Then, now it seems different, people talk much sometimes, around their closer friends mostly, but at other times not much, like at a Russian dinner we had 'hos Stephan' (at the Russian teacher's place). When I came to the camp last week in Stockholm, it was very enjoyable being in the company of talkative people, and though I did not talk so much, I think it was a considerable amount for my not having met them but for one, two times. It was a very friendly atmosphere. Maybe it was just in that little microcosm, the AFS camp, with the feeling of comradeship and being together in the same situation.
Until what, a month ago or so, I was as I have been at home in los estados unidos. Talking more randomly and openly within my family, and being much more reserved and not-talking in society. It is hard to say what I am doing now, but I am being more active and extroverted.
Dinner today was Älgkött with sås, plain boiled potatis, and sallad. That was all. It was really good, just really simple as well.