Rotary Camp in Vimmerby

So far it's my third night in Vimmerby for the Rotary Camp. It's for all the exchange students that are going to be in either Småland and Östergötland. Alot of the camp is for learning swedish, even i speak swedish kind of fluently, i've unexpectedly learned alot more than i thought. I've learned everything i knew verbally so learning grammer is definitely making me feel not as smart as i thought i was. The first night, on Monday, we didn't do very much, but it was my last official night with my mom, so was an extra special night for me. By the end of the day all 7 of us came back to the dorm rooms to finish our "homework".
Yesterday was definitely interesting in that some how everything became about music just randomly all by acident. It started with a tour around the small town of Vimmerby, where Astrid Lindgren grew up and helped inspire the ideas for all her books. Anders Axklo, the tour guide(the coolest guy ever), showed us one of the greatest sterio systems in the world in just a little shop. You haven't heard music, until youv'e heard it through these things. By the end of the coolest session ever, he showed us a sterio system that only 11 other people own in this world. And i thought i the last thing we heard was great sound. The guy who owned the system played Eva Cassidy and there wasn't a dry eye in the room. It sounded like she was right in front of me.
We began walking back up to the school and listened to another guy, named Björn, who played traditional swedish music. It was really good. And pretty much right after that there was a jazz concert in the church that night that we ended up going to. The way the music played through the church it gave me chills. It was really amazing. It was like a national band camp thing. They were all the BEST in the country, nationwide. All between the ages of the 14 and 25. And it was all by coincidence that all that music was in the same day.
Today was a little bit different. We got to go to Astrid Lindgrens World. It was soo cute. I think we had to be the only people between the ages of 9 and 30. Not even being sarcastic. Seeing Pippi, Ronja and Emil was so fun even for being 18. Nobody can be cooler than Pippi Långstrump. We got to eat dinner in the park there and it was as if the bees were in a war to get our food. It was really gross actually..... Now i just got back from a little mini concert where some of the actors from Astrid Lindgrens world came to sing. They seem to just have a lot of talent in Vimmerby:)
Until next time.
Love,
Ann