Ven

Yesterday I went on my second Rotary Exchange student trip to the island of Ven. We took the ferry there, you could look over and see Sweden one side of the ferry and see Denmark on the other. It was pretty cool. When we arrived, we all rented bikes. Some people got tandems, but I stuck with a regular one.

We rode around the island for a couple hours and stopped to have a fika and lunch. Fika is a meal/snack which is usually composed of coffee and biscuits and cakes, but you can have anything you want, whenever you want. I forgot my lunch box and as of now it is still missing, demonstrating my almost supernatural ability to lose things, especially myself.

After we had explored for a while, we stopped at the Tycho Brahe museum. Tycho Brahe was a Swedish astronomer who was hired by the Danish king to study the stars. He set up his observatory on Ven. There was a lot to see and do there, including some games from the era like quoits and tug-of-war. When we were in the museum, a spontaneous choir practice broke out and we all stayed to listen.

We also got to meet the other exchange students from our district who have already been here for a while. There were two, one from Australia and one from South Africa. They started at a different time because they are in the Southern Hemisphere.

It was a great experience, and I can't wait for our next event which is canooing in Stockmöllan on the Rönne river sometime in September.