The last night of April officially injects the life into everyone in Sweden. They celebrate this so-called Valborg night by having a great party. Lund is famous for their Valborg festivities where there’s a lot of drinking and bands playing and they leave the place like a mess — but just for a day.
We recently connected with another family from Germany that moved in into the neighbour town Staffanstorp. They have a daughter who is only a little younger than our boy and they get along pretty well. We visited the spring fun fair in Staffanstorp together — there were an unexpected lot of people there.
Also, ants were also feeling very social and started trying capturing our home, but plastic glue to the rescue, we were able to close (almost) all entry points.
In other news: Our couch finally arrived! And the new living room shelf unit. Unfortunately, it now so bright every day that we can’t watch stuff on our video projector.
Mid of May, more friends from Germany visited us with their kid while they spent some time in Sweden camping. It was pretty awesome and we went to the Skrylle National Park together, which has some really nice paths through the forest and a big playground for kids.
There also was a circus in town where Johannes met some other kids from his school class, which was actually better than the circus performance itself.
Next up, the Katastrofal Karneval came into town. This only happens every four years in Lund, where the students will make a big parade through town with funny costumes and lots of puns. There were also lots of theatre performances and such things, but most people seemed to be standing in lines instead. There were so many people that we left pretty soon.
Tobias, a friend from Kindergarten throughout school and after drove past Lund with his wife on his way up to Norway and paid us a far too short visit. I hope we can see each other for a longer period soon, if… well, we’ll see what happens in the next few years.
And finally, we reconnected with the Staffanstorp family for a walk and café visit. We were caught by heavy rain on our way to the café and again on the way back, but we still had a great time.
That was our month of May. Things really got back to life by now. It feels like we have finally arrived here and that’s a really good thing.
