The Lindahl News: Abroad Edition

When we moved into our apartment in August, we found a closet shelf full of items left behind from former North Park professors.  Many of these were labeled as Christmas decorations...a tree, lights, a hanging star, a ljusstake/candelabra and some ornaments. A special shout-out goes to John and Beth Hjelm for many of their contributions and to Rachelle for the balcony lights.  Thank you!! E and M wanted to put up the Christmas tree before they left . If you look towards the top of the tree, you will see a second star that M made. After the girls left, I moved the tree to create more floor space. The second star still hangs on the tree as a reminder of the girl who placed it there. The pillows on the couch are slipcover-style over the original orange pillows. With the borrowed sewing machine, these were projects sewn this fall. I also sewed slipcover-style covers to go over the cat print pillows Rachelle left behind. Rachelle also left...

Our girls learned a new joke concerning Thanksgiving Day here: Q. What do you call Thanksgiving in Sweden? A. Thursday! Our morning was just like a regular Thursday morning here:  Wes worked on classwork and I headed off to my English Conversation group...E and M really wanted to meet my students to chat and Anne came along as well.  Our conversation included "Black Friday" here vs. there. My students were rather amazed with the "Doorbuster Deals" one might get by getting up super early to stand in line for limited offers that appeared too good to be true. It was really fun to have them in class with us! Before class was fun, too, as I let them test out (quietly, of course!) the drum set in my classroom.   Here are the girls with some of my students, three were absent on this day.  I'm so thankful to have met each one of these special young adults! As it's a regular Thursday in Sweden, our gang headed o...