Let's talk carrots

Did you know that in two days I will have been here a full month? Isn't that crazy? What could be more crazy is that I could see myself living here at some point in my life, probably sooner rather than later.

Anywho, it's Wednesday but that didn't really mean anything special. I did, however, get to work before 8:45. I was the only person on the bus at one point and there was like one other person in the train car with me to Jaegersborg. The regional train was full but that was kind of expected. I did a lot of reading this morning. An hour of reading about the Badger's participation in the World University Games and then reading on catalysis, isomerization, and other chemistry words that I know but cannot explain well. About ten Esben came and asked if I'd like to see him fractionate some catalyst. I jumped all over that opportunity. It is, however, a rather boring and tedious process, especially because it is manual since their automatic machine stopped working. But it was interesting to learn about and I got to do some of it and we had a fun chat about common Danish and American desserts. Desserts you ask? Well, I like to bake things for people as a way to thank them and it hit me yesterday that I could bake for the people I eat lunch with and work with but I don't just want to make chocolate chip cookies. My initial thought is lemon bars and I think that is what I will stick with unless I can't find lemons anywhere. It will be quite interesting buying everything I need and then actually making them but it will be fun and they will (hopefully) be delicious. Plus it's not a dessert that Esben mentioned. :-)

We had lunch with Arkady, Kresten and Klas; apparently Arkady had told Esben a time so that we would not be traitors two days in a row. :-P Our conversation was so incredibly dead that after a few moments of silent eating Klas says to Esben: "So how is your carrot?" This then sparked a ridiculous discussion of the carrot and how it compared to all the other carrots Esben had eaten in his life, with various input from Kresten and Arkady and Klas. Small talk to the extreme is what that was. It was very funny, though, and I laughed quite a bit.

The afternoon passed more quickly as my reaction finished up and I had some analysis to do. I still had about an hour of time and so I did more random reading and checked on Munich flights and hostels. I can't wait too much longer before booking things so that I don't pay an arm and a leg for it all.

I left about 4:20 and got home and was chatting and making dinner by 5:20. Dinner. I'm very proud of dinner. I threw together some random spices my host has and added some oil and proceeded to put pork tips in it. I made some pasta and cut up some bells peppers and cooked the peppers and meat together. The spices worked out well, though one was over powering the others and I don't know which one it was. :-) I've just chilled out otherwise. I did NOT go on a bike ride in hopes that I will go to bed earlier and be able to get up at 6:15 instead of 6:30 and bike in the morning. I'm afraid biking after work gives me too much energy and that is part of why I don't go to bed till later. We'll see if it happens.

I did post pictures from Sweden on Facebook. I didn't want to make a new album so only about half the pictures I took are posted. They're the more interesting ones, though.

Please continue to pray for my health and for all the people I am meeting and have yet to meet. Pray also for wisdom concerning Munich. I'm a bit afraid to go alone but there are reasons I won't be trying too hard to find someone to go with me and I know it will be a great experience. Also pray for my coworkers: Arkady, Klas, Esben and Melitza all seem to be under the weather, with Melitza feeling she's got some flu thing and Esben something similar.

Have a wonderful day/night and I will write you tomorrow. :-)
Bekah