Visiting Fallhult, in Småland (situated in the south east)

I'm spening these two weeks (28-29) in a village called Fallhult, where my parents live. As most of you already know, my parents runs a farm and a car repair shop there. I enjoy helping them out while visiting. That's my way of "relaxing" =)

Although all of the animals (sheep's and cattle's) are outdoor, feeding on the grass and there's no harvest at the moment, there's still things to do on a farm. Lucky me! =)

Here's some ot the things I've been doing these days:
-cleaning fences and house walls
-driving the tractor (for various purposes)
-cutting the lawn
-helped my friend paint there house
-assist at a 2 day long dog-shepherd competition
-clean the car repair office
-taking long walks with the dogs =)
-pick blueberry's and chanterelle in the woods
-visit friends and relatives
-etc....

I'll add pictures of that later on...

This is the view from my parents house, in the backyard, on different times of the day and various weather conditions:




And here are some macro pictures of the fauna in my parents garden:

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New compact camera 2/7 -09

My new camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 (shock and waterproof), arrived this week and I've already tried it out! Very pleased =)



Yesterday I was visiting Liseberg (a amusementpark) and took some pics while riding the roller coasters (I'll add the movie clip here as soon as possible):



And today I tried it out by the sea while sunbathing and cooling down in the water. Here is a picture of the sunset at Saltholmen, Göteborg:

Early morning walk (another sidetrack) 1/7 -09

This morning we (me and Isabell) woke up at 05.00, since Isabell had to catch the early train home. After accompanied here to the tram at about 06.30, I took a 2 hour long and very nice walk around in the forest nearby. I really like this area, with all the forest and little ponds. Hope these pictures will, as it did for me, give you some recreational and calming feeling. I wish you all a very nice day!

29-30/6 Preparation course - Nicaragua

During these two days we (see pic from left: Isabell,August,Kristofer and me) have been participating in several minor courses, organized in Gothenburg by VFSN former trainees (Rebecka and Erik), to prepare ourself for our time in Nicaragua. The topic of the courses was:

- Info about Nicaragua (history, political, geographical etc)
- Group dynamics
- Renewable energy, ecological perspective and sustainable living
- Gender
- Expectations and apprehensions

Very well organized! Thank you soooo much Rebecka and Erik!!!
We had a lot of fun and are now feeling more secure and comfortable about our trip and the adventures laying ahead!


And congratulations Isabell and August, who was the superior winners of the game "Rappakalja", that we played during Monday evening at my place!

We will meet again in august, in Härnösand. There we'll attend SIDA's two weeks trainee education for Aid workers and also two weeks of (well needed)Spanish!

Exploring Änggårdsbergen

This has nothing to do with my trip to Nicaragua, but I wanna share this with you all anyway. Änggårdsbergen is a big nature reserve area and also a part of Botaniska Trädgården, which is a famous botany park in Göteborg. Since this park is just across the road from where I live, I decided to take a look around. So today I walked around for about 1-2 hours there. It was sooooo nice, as you can see at my collage above.

If you live in Göteborg or will come here to visit, I strongly recommend you to take a walk in that area!

And since the lovely Swedish summer finally has arrived, I bought some very tasty, sweetish strawberries! Mmmmmmm delicious!

Vaccination

Now I'm back in Gothenburg and I should really start preparing for my trip now. So today I visited City Akuten, to take my first vaccine injection. It was for Typhoid fever.

Later this week I'll go to the doctor to discuss whether or not to have a shot for/agings tuberculosis. I'll also consider Yellow fever, since I might wanna visit Venezuela on my holiday this winter.



This is what I need for the trip:
-Hepatitis A & B (done)
-Typhoid fever (done)
-Cholera (bought it)
-Yellow fever (done)
-Malaria (on prescription)
-Tuberculosis?

Maybe there is more, but I'll now more on Thursday.