Three hour school day with a side of rhubarb pie!

11/15/2012

Today was an amazing day! Hanna's class did not start until 10 this morning so we got to sleep in! We had two options of getting to school, bike or walk. We choose the walk option although it would have been smarter to take the bike, even though there was only one bike we could use. We thought it wouldn't take us as long as it did to walk to school, but we got to class just in time. The first class of the day was chemistry! They did a lab in chemistry about molar mass and which metals were good conductors and which were not so great. It was really fun and I was able to understand most of it. After chemistry we ate a quick lunch before heading off to math. At the beginning of math class the Swedish teacher came in and said something and then walked out. Everybody looked really excited, I looked really confused. I still don't know what the Swedish teacher was doing there but he had delivered some exciting news. We no longer had our final classes of the day, just one period of math left, not two as usual followed by Swedish. Apparently this did not happen often, but when it did it usually happened on a day when they had a lab. It felt very weird to have been in school for only 3 hours, 45 minutes of which was lunch.

After school ended at 12:40 Austin came home with us, because Ida had a trombone lesson, along with Matilda and Sofia. We had to walk all the way home again but it was not that bad because we were not racing the clock. Once home we set forth to bake a rhubarb pie with vanilla sauce, a project we had been talking about ever since I tried describing Thanksgiving to them and pumpkin pie, which they have never had and we would have made it except for the lack of pumpkin in Sweden. We didn't read the recipe fully so we added melted butter to the dough instead of cold butter and we had to chop up a huge block of frozen rhubarb but it turned out great and very delicious!  We ate our pie, hung out, watched my big fat Greek wedding, from the beginning so the others could catch up, and played cards. Everybody went home before dinner and after the rhubarb pie had been demolished.

The rest of the night was spent eating a delicious dinner which contained an amazing potato, cheese, and cream casserole and watching movies. Over all a very relaxing day! Tack, tills imorgon!