Klaassen Sisters' Thoughts on Tour

We stayed with a very nice host family in Lindsborg's sister-city of Munkfors, Eva-Karen and Lief Nilsson. They have two children - Matilda and Aaron - both of whom knew English. Matilda, we found out quickly, knew a little German, obviously Swedish and a good deal of English. When she talked to us there seemed to be something different about how she spoke. Later, we discovered her language professor was Australian!! That was it. Matilda was a Swede who spoke English with an Australian accent. :-) On a quick ending note, this being the final day in Europe I shall attempt not to dwell too much on the growing anticipation that I have for returning home to family and friends, the different historical churches that we have sung in and worshipped in was a wonderfull experience for all of us. All of the pastors have sent their greetings and well wishes to Lindsborg, especially the Munkfors families and friends whom we visited while in Sweden!!! See ya' all soon.
-Leslie


SWEDEN- Wow! Stockholm is such a beautiful city to tour. There is so much to see and do here. For our first day in Stokholm we walked as a group through the streets shopping at all the souveneir shops we could find. I love that the streets are all cobble stone: Beautiful to look at but the women have a heck of a time walking on it with their heels:) For lunch that day we were a little homesick and a little tight on money so where did we go? Good 'ol Mcdonalds! That same afternoon the graduating students of Stolkhom's Gymnasium (our version of Highschool) paraded down town in vehicles for over an hour making a lot of noise.
Our second day in Stockholm was our FREE day! We were all glad to have the chance to relax and run our own schedules! The group I was with went to.........the amusement park! It was much needed. After sitting several hours on a plane, in a bus, and on a ferry and standing through hours of guided tours we needed to let loose. It was a blast and a great way to spend time with friends.
-Hillary