Most week-ends we travel, so we aren't affected by the fact that no meals are served here at the school on the week-ends, beginning Friday evenings. So, last Friday I cooked chili and baked brownies to be served on Saturday evening to the 7 MSSU students and David and me. First, a trip to the grocery store, which thankfully was facilitated by Janna, a teacher at the Folkhogskola, driving me to the store and helping me find things. It took a long time to locate everything I needed. Then, I started cooking. That was a problem because the stove, located in a kitchen in a student lounge area in one of the dorm buildings, wouldn´t turn on. I even found instructions, which were in both Swedish and English, but they didn´t help.Finally, I found two of the students who had cooked on that stove and found out there was a timer that had to be turned on. Apparently some mishaps have occurred in which someone turned on the stove and left it on. So there is a timer that has to be set every thirty minutes for the stove and the oven.
Once I got that problem solved, everything went smoothly. I was sure I had more chili than even 10 people could eat - our friend Edina, a volunteer at Folkhogkola from Hungary, joined us. But all of it was consumed. The brownies were kind of a wierd consistency - the flour seemed more like pancake mix - who knows - but everyone got fed and we had a good time talking with Edina from Hungary about what different English words mean. Like "zip lock" "snack" can´t remember what else.
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