Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

DAY 4

my best friend in the light snow

Well this was just as remarkable as all of the other days, if not a bit more exciting. Why, you may ask? Oh let's just say we were blessed with the temperature hitting a mind-blowing -2°c and snow coming down on us! You can just imagine the excitement as some of the students experienced snowfall for the very first time.

Come morning, the Athena group, along with members of faculty, went to 'Hotorget' where we visited a flea market that displayed on sale all the local produce, along with apparel and other items. We saw really creepy porcelain dolls, right out of a horror movie kind, lots of old paintings, jewelry, books and artifacts. I bought a rather cow boy looking hat from the flea market. We got reaally reeeaaaaally hellish late and ended up getting just 45 minutes at the Natural Science Museum. Their vice principal did not look very happy about it, can't blame him, punctuality is rule number 1 in Sweden. 

So, the Natural Science Museum was wonderful, from dinosaurs to their eggs to fossils to the beginning of life and the existence of mankind, it was all there. 4 of us walked up to the Nordic animals section and played a little game called "guess the animal without reading the signs". After the Nordic Museum, we walked to the Botanical gardens. 

It was gorgeous and very warm. The botanical gardens was divided in sections and each section imitated a various habitats. We had Australian desert habitat, the rain-forest, temperate grasslands and various other fruit and flower trees and plants. I bought a bottle of cool organic lemonade which was an absolute delight.

We then returned to the hotel, only to freshen up so that we could visit 'Sofia Church' in order to experience the soothing and marvelous singing by Åsa one of the teachers and her group

After that, we walked to the nearest food court, gobbled up a scrumptious dinner and headed back to the hotel. All in all, day 4 was hectic yet fun-filled!

Sofia Church