Today was my 3rd day at Kungsängsgymnaset and what a day it was. It all started off normal. I woke up, had breakfast, and then we headed off to school. Hanna had a three hour chemistry test this morning, she did well on it so it's all good, so I was going to go to Ida's classes in the morning. We met Ida in the locker area where Hanna left to go take her test, and Ida, Austin, and I went to Ida's first class, advisor time and her second class Biology. It just so happened that her advisor and her biology teacher were the same person so we did not have to change rooms. However, halfway through the biology class things began to get interesting: the fire alarms began to sound! Everybody was really surprised and not quite sure what to do. We made our way out of the classroom and as we headed to the door we looked around us. To our surprise a wall of smoke was rolling towards us from the direction of the natural science wing. It was quite scary and we all hurried out of the building. Outside in the freezing cold air nobody was sure what to do so we all huddled together for warmth in a group that consisted of the rest of our class. There were people yelling in Swedish, teachers running around, and students complaining about the cold, I was one of them. Shortly after we had gone outside a fire truck pulled up and one of the teachers announced that this was all a drill. One of the people in Ida's class explained to us that things were so messy and unorganized because they only had fire drills about once a year. Ida then explained to us that the fire department creates smoke in fire drills sometimes to force the students to exit the building in a different direction. Sure enough shortly after she had explained this we saw an entire class climb out a window. The whole fire department looked really disappointed and quite annoyed with the state of our fire drill. One of the students who had been in biology just went right into the building despite the calls from his teacher, the students in this class, and the firemen. The teacher had to go in and get him. We slowly made our way around the building to a separate building, connected by a walkway upstairs, though you have to go outside if you want to pass through downstairs. So after our teacher deemed it safe to reenter our classroom, we continued on with our class. The whole affair was an adventure and I know realize why we do fire drills once a month or so, though their fire drills had smoke.
The rest of the day proceed without any major hiccups, compared to the fire drill. I went to all of Ida's classes today, math, chemistry, and physics. Side note, thanks to Dr. Barnes and AP Biology, Austin and I understood everything the biology teacher wall talking about, photosynthesis, even though it was in Swedish. Austin and I also tried a yogurt like substance that was very sour. We ate it with corn flakes and sugar. Austin absolutely hated it but I thought it was kind of good, in small amounts and covered in cornflakes and sugar.
After school Austin came home with Hanna and me because Ida had a trombone lesson. We made Kringlor, a type of sweet pretzel, and formed them into many different shapes, covered them in butter and sugar, and then ate them. They were delicious though we did not give the dough enough time to rise so they were a little flat. We had so much fun baking that we did not keep track of the time and had to race over to Ida's house. We were going to an abs workout at the gym near Ekebyskolan had to drop Austin off to change, he would walk over with Ida while Hanna and I went to the gym to change because we did not want to walk to the gym in shorts, since it was freezing cold outside. However, Hanna thought that the class was in the gym near Kungsängsgymnaset and we were very confused when we arrived at the gym to find only a boys soccer team practicing and the doors locked. We called Ida for directions and made it to the class a little late. Guess who was there when we arrived: Emma's dad, Jonas Moen! The class was very fun and a great workout. Afterwords we rode our bikes home and ate an amazing dinner of schnitzel, a German dish I had never tasted before, it was amazing! Then Hanna and I made hot chocolate and watched Avatar. Overall an eventful, exciting, and delicious day! Tack så mycket, tills vidare!
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