Vem Vet Mest?

On friday I stayed up and watched Gladiator for the umpteenth time. It's a great movie, a classic I would even go so far as to say. This time was with Swedish subtitles, so I memorized some of the best lines in Swedish.

"Bröder, vad vi gör i livet, ekar i evighet/Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in eternity"

"Det var en gång en dröm som var Rom, man kunde bara viska den, den var så bräcklig/There was once a dream that was Rome, you could only whisper it, it was so fragile"

"Roms bultande hjärta är inte marmorn av senaten, utan sanden av arenan/The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the arena"

I think that most of that is right.

On Saturday I went into Ystad to go to the gym and there were soldiers everywhere. It was very surreal, I was walking down the street and there where troopers walking by. Not to mention these giant tank-like vehicles. None of the Swedes seemed to take much notice. At six o' clock I went to see Iron Man 2 at Cinema 3 in Ystad. It was a good movie, great writing and action. That day in Ystad was when all the people camped out by the side of the road with beer a beer and a barbeque and watched all the raggare bilar drive around. Raggare bilar is the Swedish name for those old muscle cars. It was kind of like a public party or a festival. Everyone was out and a lot of people were drunk.

The next day all of us exchange students were going to be going to Malmö for our districts rotary conference, so I stayed at Chads house so it would be easier to get to the station. I went to bed at maybe twelve...

... and woke up at eight. We had to hurry to the station and skip breakfast in order to catch the train, which I slept on until we got to Malmö Central. We grabbed a quick bite to eat at the Pressbyrå. I had a hot dog. Then we went to the Hilton hotel where the conference was being held. It's a very fancy hotel, the Hilton. Lots of glass and plants and shiny black marble. The conference was up a floor or two. I was able to eat a complementary sandwich or two and then we filed into the big room with everybody else.

We were there for the second day of the conference which was much shorter and was basically just thank you's and a couple of presentations. We went up on stage and introduced ourselves and that was it. We said our names, where we came from and where we lived. We exchanged pins and business cards, and then took a few pictures by some elephant sculptures ("Don't sit on them, they cost 200 euros each"). We also got to meet the Swedish outbounds.

When the conference was done I went back to Ystad with Chad, Chloe and Christoffer. We all sat and watched the Hangover, which I thought was excellent humor. The rest of the evening was not very interesting. I was asleep before Lena got back from Gothenburg and "Vem Vet Mest".

Vem Vet Mest ("Who Knows Most") is a tv show that Lena and Rolf like to watch. It's basically a game show where they ask twelve participants a series of questions and those who answer right win. It's pretty simple. Lena was one of the participants this time.