Oslo city 11-15/7

After visiting the zoo I headed on to the capital Oslo in Norway, to visit my friend Emma (who now lives and work there).

I arrived late at sunday evening, to tired to acctually do something. So we just headed for her apartment and hang out. She's been living in Kairo, Egypt while I have been in Nicaragua, so we had a lot to talk about! =)

While she was at work during the days, I spent a lovely time walking around Oslo. Here are some pictures from my visit:

Nordens Ark 10-11/7

I'm attending a summer course (distance tuition) at the agriculture university in Sweden, called SLU. It's about animal behavior in captivity and SLU cooperate with the zoo park Nordens Ark.

The first gathering was in Skara and the other two was and will be at Nordens Ark, since we're doing a individual project work on the animals within the park.

I've added some pictures from this weekend. Everything was awesome! The staff, teachers, environment and animals. The weather was nice almost all the weekend as well, just a bit rainy on Sunday afternoon.



And here are some videos on how they train their tigers, amulepards and otters:

Where is Sara?

Since I'm still traveling around a lot and I'm lucky to have a lot of friends who wants to see me. I figured that I should make a schedule for these two upcoming months (July and August)so you know where I'll be.

So here we go...

10-11/7 Nordens Ark, summer course session
11-14/7 Oslo, visiting Emma
14-16/7 Göteborg
16-18/7 Stockholm
17/7 Nica-party. Purpose: raising money to send medical supplies to Nicaragua.
18-20/7 Road trip from Stockholm to Småland? or train
20/7-13/8 Fallhult. Taking care of the farm while my parents go on holiday. Come visit!!!
14-20/8 Göteborg, studying for my exams
21-22/8 Nordens Ark, Project presentation
23-30/8 Italy or Göteborg. Don't know yet.

And that's all! Hope we'll be able to meet!

(caribbien paradise beach on Little Corn Island, Nicaragua)

Wish you all a great summer!! See you on the road/train!

Fallhult

Nu har jag begett mig hem till mina föräldrar och hjälper till på deras gård och i verkstaden. Det är ju inte riktigt som i det vilda, men det är ett helt annat liv än det inne i stan iaf =)

Finns alltid massor att göra här och snart är det dags för ensilageskörd (om nu bara regnet ger sig av och låter solen titta fram). Så just nu håller vi på att serva och göra i ordning alla maskiner inför den kommande intensiva skördeperioden.

Här är lite bilder för att demonstrera vad det innebär i praktiken =)

Lillebror Bosse slipar knivarna på slotterkrossen som vi kopplat på och tittar över så att allt är helt och fungerar. Bytt olja och smörjt med fett där det skall smörjas. Har även tvättat och bytt olje/luftfilter på taktorerna. Ready to go!

Pappa Pelle och Filip smörjer lastaren på Ferguson.

Nu är allt smort, svetsat och slipat. Dags att kolla så det fungerar!

Fenten är nytvättad och servad! Strålande fin, knappt man kan tro att den är 26 år gammal!

Mamma Lena är ute och kollar till djuren. Ska flytta en minerallåda (som är tung), därav släpet. Och hundarna ääääälskar att få åka med!

Mamma försöker räkna in alla fåren. Inte helt lätt... men det ska vara ca 140 st. Hundarna har fått hjälpa till att samla ihop dom.



Dags att flytta stutarna (kastrerade tjurar) till nytt bete. Jag cyklar bakom och Mette sköter fösningen av djuren. Mamma cyklar framför med Fanny, som stoppar stutarna om dom försöker springa förbi. Filmen är lite skakig eftersom jag cyklar samtidigt som jag filmar med mobilen och försöker se till så Mette får med alla djuren. Därav mitt gapande: "höööööger" ;)

Sådär ja! Nytt fint bete till stutarna. Mette gillar, förutom att åka fyrhjuling, traktor och valla djur, även att bada! Hundarna blir ganska varma av att valla, trots att det var molnigt och ganska svalt när vi flyttade djuren. Även Fanny dök i efter en stund.

Dags att fixa till staketen. Jag gör mig redo för lite grästrimmer arbete!

And off I go!

How to make delicious cinnamon buns

Just a little picture guide on how I make my delicious cinnamon buns, with apple! They are very yummy!

I made 41 buns, but I assure you they didn't last for long ;) (well, it's 38 left. At the moment...)

You can find the recipe in Swedish here and in english here:

Cinnamon Spins with apples
Portions: 36 pc

100 g margarine or butter
5 dl milk
50 g fresh yeast
1 dl sugar
1 tsp cardamom
1 / 2 tsp salt
13-14 dl wheat flour

Filling
150 g margarine or butter
1 dl sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon
2 tsp vanilla sugar
2-3 apples

Garnish
1 egg
Nib or granulated sugar


Do like this
1. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add milk and heat to 37 ° C. Bit down the yeast in a bowl and stir down the butter and milk. Add sugar, cardamom and salt. Work in almost all flour to a smooth dough. Let it ferment covered with baking towel about 30 minutes.
2. Stir the ingredients for the filling except apples. Peel, stone and cut the apples into small cubes.
3. Remove the dough of flour and knead the bench. Divide dough into 2-3 parts. Roll out each piece into a flat about 30x50 cm, wide on the fill. Sprinkle over apple dice in half the dough and fold it double. Cut the strips about 3 cm wide, divide them in half but let them stay together in the upper edge. Twist them together into a "knot".
4. Put the buns on plates. Ferment them covered with a towel, about 25 minutes. Turn on the oven to 250 ° C.
5. Whip up the egg and brush the buns. Sprinkle over the sugar.
6. Bake the buns in the oven 6-8 minutes. Let them cool on the screen, under a towel.

Comida deliciosa!!

35 buns left now... ;)

A day with Virginia (25/7)

Virginia picked me up at 11 a clock in a Audi TT =)
Then we hit the road and went to Varberg (as planned...). It was a bit crowded, so it took some time and patience to find a parking spot. But just when we was about to give up, three parking spots became available! Just in time.

Then we started walking around Varbergs fortress and the town center. We ate a good pasta just next to the market space in town. Here are some pictures from the trip:


Later that day we also went to Liseberg to look at Carl-Einar Häckners Varité (he's magician). I remember seeing him on TV when I was younger. Quite funny show, even though it was a bit short....

Visiting some friends and the wolfs at Kolmårdens Djurpark (zoo) (19-24/7)

During last week I've been visiting some good old friends that I haven't seen for a long long time. I spent the first two days (Sunday-Tuesday) at Richards place in Linköping, then two and a half day with Nathalie in Norrköping. I had also pre-booked a adventure at Kolmårdens Djurpark (zoo): Visit and pet the wolfs! (I received this adventure as a gift card last Christmas)

The wolf's greeting ceremony is to jump up and put it's front pawns on your shoulders and then lick you in the corner of the mouth, and then the whole face =) Very nice...

And they can get a bit jealous as well, so you might end up with 3 or 4 wolf's licking your face. Otherwise they just love when you scratch them on their belly!

Here are some pictures from the wolf encounter:


I can assure you that it was an incredible and unforgettable experience! Wow, the wolfs are soooo amazing. I, together with 14 other people and the keeper, went into the enclosure of four 9 year old male wolfs. We all freezed when the wolfs ran towards us. They are quite big you know ;) Then the wolf at the top of the hierarchy started snarling at the other wolfs (not us), just to maintain the hierarchy/order in the group and let the others know what they are allowed to do and not. Some of you maybe recognise this behaviour from a group of tame dogs. The keeper told us that a tame, unknown wolf is more reliable than a unknown dogs, because the wolfs body language is easier to read and they'll rather back away that bite. So we felt pretty safe.


If you're thinking about what to buy for a birthday/Christmas present or just wanna do something different and exiting, I encourage you to do something like this! It's a great and unforgettable experience!

And here are pictures of the other animals that you can see in the park, incl me and Nathalie:


Now I'm back in Göteborg where I'll prepare myself for the 2+2 week long education at SIDA's headquarters in Härnösand (starting on the 10th of Aug). I have a lot of things to do during this 2 weeks:

-Complete my vaccination
-Buy some things for the trip (sleeping bag, medical kit etc)
-Clean out my apartment
-Spend time with my friends
-Throw a "birthday-/far well party" on the 1st of August

Over and out for today