To Catch A Hedgehog

There are hedgehogs here! I also saw a Swedish bunny rabbit yesterday, but last night after the crayfishparty I saw three or four hedgehogs on the walk home. I took pictures of them, one would've let me touch him, except he was terrified and all prickly, so I didn't. But they are really big hedgehogs too. Normally I think of a hedgehog as being able to fit in the palm of your hand, but these were bigger than two fists. They must've weighed at least a pound. I really want to catch one and bring it home as my pet. And feed it carrots and celery and love :-).

Okay, now that's out of my system.

So in Sweden, August is sort of an unofficial crayfish month. They have parties where everyone eats crayfish and drinks and sings songs. So our mentor group had one of these parties last night.
The kräftskiva (crayfish party, or crayfishparty rather, I've found that there must be a lot of compound words in Swedish, because the information from our mentors always includes words that are stuck together i.e. mentorgroup, etc. Anyway, it was awesome. I got there late, but I still had time to learn from Benedikt the German (everyone is German) how to eat one. The tails are pretty good, actually, and aren't too gross to eat. It tastes like lobster, but I think it's better. I ate two of them, and you are supposed to eat the chest-torso part too, but it looked too weird for me.

Pictures soon, I promise!