Almost Home
We’ll be flying home in about 18 hours. Whoo-hooo! I´m not looking forward to the flight at all, since it will be during the day and there is very little chance of Erik sleeping, but I am looking forward to being home and in my own bed.
It has occurred to me that I might be overly sensitive. Just so you know.
We had Swedish pizza for lunch and dinner. Whoo-hooo! I love Swedish pizza, but only if it has banana, pineapple, curry and ham. Sounds weird, tastes yummy.
Mike gave me The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler for Christmas. How did I miss this author before? I know I’ve picked this book up before and the blurb sounded kind of boring, but it was a totally un-put-downable book and I managed to finish it thanks to an early bedtime for Erik and a very, very late bedtime for me. Babies are an excellent excuse to be anti-social.
My niece is standing in the hallway just waiting for me to get off the computer. Since I have nothing to say, I guess I should sign off.
Before I do, maybe I should ask you all to contribute to the Swedish Stereotypes About Americans Bingo Game. Tell me a stereotype and I’ll tell you if I’ve heard it on this trip. Thus far, I’ve checked off several of the stereotypes.
1) If we don’t eat a meal at McDonald’s it’s because we’re eating Chinese takeout.
2) We know nothing about European geography.
3) We have bad table manners.
I know I had five, but now I can’t remember the other two. Oh well. Life won’t end if I can’t be snarky.
December 27th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
I wish you a lovely trip back home!
As to your Stereotypes (I’m married to an American to you know) and I am from Norway so we have the same):
She has the impression that people from the Nordic countries believe that Americans eat either pancakes or bacon and eggs for breakfast every day (which is far from the trues and you know it).
December 28th, 2006 at 8:41 am
Stereotypes… hmm… I’ve seen some on a message board I frequent.
We all voted for George. Twice.
None of us know anything about world events.
We all know everyone in our state.
We’re all uneducated rednecks.
In the Midwest we still have cowboys and Indians riding around shooting each other.
We all eat French fries.
I’ll see if I can come up with more later.
December 28th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
We assume everyone speaks English and that louder English is more understandable
We like all the stuff Hollywood exports to other countries and life in America is just like that
We like our food bland, over-sweet and over cooked and our coffee really weak
We are all cowboys. We are also all from New York. We are also fundamentalist Christians and white.
We are more ethnocentric than people from any other country.
December 29th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Ohh, I’ve been hearing them all trip, my favorite was their impressions of Texans. Geez… Also that we don’t know geography, or travel out of our states, we’re fat, we don’t walk anywhere, and that we don’t know world events.