its our last day:(
Go America!
Hello! Or Hej! As they say in sweden ( clever). We are three friends spending three weeks in sweden working on an apple cider farm just outside of stockholm for the summer . Since there will be WAY too much fun-having and dance-making and euro-stylin going on, we decided to make a blog so all you people can see how totally awesome our experiences are! Thanks for stopping by and stay classy! Hejda!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
its our last day:(
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Oh haaayyy ya'll!!!!
sorry i havent written in a while. things here have been pretty busy and I have honestly been too lazy to fight for the internet here.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
where to start? I feel like I have been at Rosenhill for 2 weeks now, yet only one day has passed. you have heard about last night’s events so I dont need to explain our complete exhaustion today. nevertheless, we all attacked our daily activities with such enthusiasm, you would never guess we were jetlagged.
we woke up at 8 and ate a breakfast of homemade bread and butter, cheese, cucumbers, and turkish yogurt and granola with great conversation on the side. the people here are so insightful and opinionated about what they think is best for Sweden and the world. No need to worry about apathetic citizens here. so then we have morning chores to get ready for customers visiting the cafe. the cafe has a lot of sweets and is well known in Sweden for its apple cider, which is alcoholic. after chores there is another meeting where we decide what everyone will do for the day. hanna, elizabeth, and I started out picking wild strawberries on an overgrown pathway. it was hard to find them, but we picked so many. Ingrid, the cook, will use these strawberries to make jam. YUM. after a successful strawberry trip, we began to weed the onion and carrot fields. let me tell you, that is a back breaking job. but we got a whole row and a half done! then the bell rang for lunch, which consisted of pureed cauliflower soup, bread, and this potato and bean salad. eating like this makes me feel so healthy. then we took a break to swim in the chilly lake just about 600 meters from the farm. we laid out on the deck and relaxed which felt so nice after a days work. Lars, the part owner of the farm, along with his wife Amelia, boated up to the dock with a worker from the farm, Johann. they jumped in to swim ashore. they got out and, to our surprise, they were both wearing white tighty whiteys. no big deal. Valkommen till Sverige! after the lake we weeded more then went in for supper which we helped cook with Lars. had a few cups of apple cider then played badminton! my first game ever and we all laughed so hard. I looked around and noticed that we were playing with people from Germany, Sweden, and Ireland. I love it. soooo sorry this has been so long. I just have so much to say! basically, it is amazing here.
- Virginia
p.s. this is a picture of us picking strawberries:D
Oh what a day. Woke up at 5:30 this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep, so I decided to take a walk on the grounds and explore. It is so beautiful here! There is a bus that two of the wwoofers are staying in that looks just like the bus from “into the wild”. It’s furnished with hardwood floors and three beds, SO GREAT! we started off the morning doing routines after breakfast- my chore was to sweep the staff room and separate the dry laundry. After this we headed out to the field and elizabeth, virginia and I picked wild strawberries. It was just like at our summer house in tjastviken where we can go hiking around and pick wild berries. we had some lunch and headed to the lake for a quick dip! oh wow. almost forgot. it should be illegal to skinny dip in the public lake. especially if you are overweight, have chest hair like austin powers, and have a handlebar mustache that would make hulk hogan proud. im just saying. elizabeth and i caught this charming sight on the way to the lake this morning. we were half way through the wide open dirt parking lot before we realized our horrible mistake. we tried to make a run for it, but there was nowhere to hide. caught in the act. im sure it looked great that i had my camera in my hands taking a picture of the lake. now it looks like i was taking glamour shots by Deb . yikes.
enough about this inappropriateness and onto the more interesting things. There are ten wwoofers here on the farm, they are from germany, holland, sweden, ireland, another american, and argentina. they are all so different yet so interesting and its great to get into discussions with them and just goof around. There is a woman here who comes to watch us wwoof and talk with the owners all the time, because she is a member of the Green party of sweden, and she is trying to find a way to bridge the divide between the government and the people like Rosenhill who are trying to do their own part to make the country and world healthier. She said that everything evolves around food. Food is the glue that holds the world together, so she believes that Rosenhill can give her a better insight on how things run in an organic environment and how self-sustaining solutions could potentially lead to a dramatic improvement in the world. very interesting. I spit out a few stupid probably untrue facts i seem to have memorized about Ethanol production in brasil and bragged about how my brother is very politically active and called it quits. needless to say they were impressed? we played a feisty game of badminton and all gathered in the common room to watch an internet broadcast of the world cup game. GO SPAIN! the five germans in the room were not too pleased about this, but they were good sports.
The farm reminds me of some sort of hippie compound. Everywhere you look there is some small detail like a painting or a trinket that makes this place the most unique and special place i have ever seen. One of the wwoofers told me that Rosenhill was in a magazine a couple years back for a high fashion shoot, and was dubbed sweden’s best
“hippie style wedding spot” . aDUH! definitely in my element. in my tevas and tie dye shirts i was born to be here :) well thats all for now. I’m sure i have bored you to death. Ta ta!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Day two of our euro adventure! We usually won't do a morning post but events of last night cannot afford to go without mention. OH MY GOD. what started off as a normal night quickly turned peculiar. From the words of Elizabeth at 2am. We awoke to her giggling so hard we couldn't sleep.