They tell me it's my day 
I rather unexpectedly received a short letter from Annika's parents today:
Quote:
I den svenska almanackan är det David den 25 juni. Så grattis Dave på namnsdagen.
Hoppas att du vinner mycket pengar.
Ha en bra dag.
For historical reasons that I've never seen explained, Swedish calendars list names for each day and "David" is today's, so they sent me four lottery tickets to celebrate my name day, just like they do for Annika on hers. But, even though it's my day, it's not my lucky day, as there were no winners among them, although I did misunderstand one slightly and thought that I'd won 50kr (about US$6) on one of them until Annika checked and confirmed that I hadn't.
Even so, I'm happy about the whole thing, since I received a letter written in Swedish which I was able to fully understand on my own without needing to ask for help or look any words up:
Quote:
In the Swedish calendar, David is on June 25. So congratulations, Dave, on your name day.
We hope you win a lot of money.
Have a good day.
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