Swedish Ice Hockey!!

Why is it that plans never work out the way they're supposed to?? Not that it matters, makes like more interesting. Anyway, I went to my first Swedish ice hockey game yesterday. Björklöven (the mighty Birch Leaves and our home team) vs. Rögle. We lost in overtime, but it was a good match nonetheless. The arena definitely wasn't the Kohl Center, but it was fun anyway. It's strange when you have no idea what's being said over the PA but you can sing along with basically every cheer the student section does (I guess all cheers and chants are universal, including the ever popular "You f*ed up!")

After the game, I finally broke out the lasagna skills. We had another big dinner with the native English speakers - I did the lasagna, Lyndsey and Hannah did the salad, and Ryan and Sarah did the dessert. I'm gonna be honest, cooking in metrics is a huge pain when you come from a country stuck in the imperial system (I'll bitch about that later). I didn't have a computer handy and I'm not too adept at converting celcius to fahrenheit so the temperature setting on the oven was a complete guess (I settled on 225°C) and 13"x9" pans don't exist here so I had no idea on the quantities of ingredients to get so that was another guess (not that it would have mattered since I have no idea what ounces are in milliliters anyway). On top of that, I either couldn't find what I needed or had no idea what exactly it was that I was buying for most of the ingredients (no cottage cheese and the type of pasta sauce was completely beyond me). Despite all of this, it came out ok. There was a distinct difference between my normal lasagna and this stuff, but I hear it was good nonetheless. I didn't mind it, in fact, I ended up with enough stuff for one and a half pans and leftover lasagna is still the second best food in the world.

It's time to finish laundry (well...more like actually start laundry) and find some clothes for an aerobics class I got talked into doing (haha, oh man, this'll be a joke). But the big thing today is northern lights viewing. Tonight is supposed to have a really good chance of a light show so I'm heading out to the lake away from the city lights. Wish me luck (on the laundry).