Skating in 2009

New years eve has passed, and now there are no nice holidays left to look forward to. But soon, the spring will come. To confirm that, I today planted my persimmon seeds that I brought (probably illeagally) from Japan. I just hope they will start growing before I leave for Japan again. Yesterday me and my father went ice skating on the canal. We met like 30 other happy skaters with expensive equipment who passed us in 100 km/h. The skates that we (and them) are using are neither the normal hockey ones, nor the ones that the pirouette ice skaters use. Ours are used for going long distance. My feet hurt though, so we only took something like a 5 kilometre ride. It was nice, but my ankles hurt today...Over to the New years party. I spent new years at my sister's place in Stockholm, which was nice. We had nice food and nice desert. The desert consisted of a popular dish called Marängswiss (Meringue smoosh). You make it from meringues, ice cream, chocolate sauce and whipped cream. It's not very healthy, but it's very tasty. I was very tired all night though, and after playing guitar hero until midnight I tried to go to bed several times, but was woken up by the other guests who claimed that I was boring. They were probably right. Anyhow, I will start working on thursday, which I am looking forward to with a mix of feelings. I am afraid of failing completely but also I think it will be interesting. I just have to wait and see.