Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone!
I honestly completely forgot that was today until I was out at brunch with some friends and I absolutely was not wearing any green.
Anyway, as promised, I want to tell you all about Knorr the pig, and what exactly that’s all about.
A few weeks ago, I went to IKEA and bought a stuffed animal pig labeled “Knorrig”. According to my Swedish roommate, that’s the Swedish equivalent of “Snort” in English? I don’t know how accurate that is because I’m bad at remembering things like that, but I thought it was cute and decided to keep the name Knorr for my new fuzzy friend.
Before this IKEA trip, I found out that I was accepted into a study abroad program to go to Paris in the fall. This will be my first trip outside of the United States, so I’m going to make it as fantastic as possible. With that in mind, I bought Knorr and decided that I will be taking him with me.
I see a lot of photos from when people travel and they come back with them to show off their experience. I think that’s great, but I want to try something a bit different and fun. It’s one thing to see a photo of the Eiffel Tower or me standing in front of it, but looking at a Swedish stuffed animal from IKEA traveling around France seems much more interesting. Before I go, I will be posting photos of him around where I live and where I go to school, just to kind of get in practice of carrying around a stuffed animal and taking glamour shots of him, but the main goal is for him to be my traveling pig.
Besides, he’s super cute too, so who wouldn’t look at him doing things? 😀
Jeanie Lindsay 