The umlaut (there's no way I'm spelling that correctly) is my favorite attribute of the Swedish language, I think. Add one to any word and it makes it so much more interesting to say! For example, "öppen" means "open," but it's pronounced "urpen" because of the umlaut on the o! The fun never stops with umlauts. :) So you can imagine how fun it is to say that I walked the circumference of Frösön this afternoon! Frösön is the little island right in the middle of Storsjön lake, which is the lake that Östersund overlooks. Now THAT'S a lot of ¨'s! (Little random bit of history lesson here, the town of Östersund was settled "East" of the Storsjön Lake "Sound," hence the "Öster""sund". Neat, huh? I disgress. :)) After our Swedish language class today, Stacey and I met up with Niklas and Daniel, who I've mentioned before are two Swedish students at the University, and just walked around the whole island this afternoon. It took exactly two hours to get around, but the colors were so vivid it felt like the sun was setting the entire time. I'm getting some killer pictures here; it's tough to choose which ones to put on Facebook because they all represent something different! And keep in mind, too, that every time I point that lens in the direction of the view I want to capture, the image that appears on my camera screen doesn't even come close to representing how much my breath is being taken away by what I'm seeing.
Anyway! Tomorrow or Wednesday I'm going to go around town choir-shopping. I'll stop at every church until I find one that will let me join their choir. I just need to start singing again...my heart is ready to burst from claustrophobia!! I'll get you posted on how it goes. :) I'm also STILL on the hunt for a darn bike, so I'll keep you all up to date on that as well.
How are all you doing?? Keep me posted!
Love and miss!
kt
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