this is the VASA!
skansen :)
stockholm, i love the flag
My town!

Ok so i've been gone for a week now.
So fars it has been absolulty amazing.
Day 1. basically i arrived and then we walked around Nyköping i unpacked and things like that, nothing really to exciting i guess. oh and fika when i got here, its basically a tea party where you drink coffee and eat pastrys, it was so nice, but i was so tired. i managed to stay up late though and get over my jetlag on the first day!! i was proud of myself.
Day 2. I met hannah today!! she is the exchange student from australia and is so nice. she walked me to the castle and told me that she jumped off of it in the winter! it's going to be fun. we walked to the harbour and its so pretty here, i absolutly love it! we also fika and it was nice to finally have someone i can talk to who actually knows what i'm going through and what to expect and things like that. she is so nice and so talented! everyone here is super active and very talented! i'll give examples later. then i came home and ate, then Filip one of oscars friends came over, along with Albin and Alicia. they are all very nice. they tried to teach me to play the drums, but i was no good at it. it was embarrasing, but all fun. we watched the butterfly effect then talked and stuff. well i guess i didnt really talk because i dont know much swedish, nor can i understand it lol.
Day 3. Bordborg!!! So me oscar Alice (my sister) her friend Emelia, and oscars friends, Victor (albins twin), Alicia, Filip, and Filip went to this place Borgbord. ok its basically this huge building where you go into these different rooms and in each room you have to do a series of tasks like an opsticle course. (sorry for my horrible spelling, but get over it) like in some rooms you have to balance on these things and not touch the ground, or crawl super fast the climb on ropes and laders and things, or fit in tiny spaces. it was crazy and very hard to describe. but it was so much fun! each room is like a puzzle so the entire time i had no idea on what to do but i just followed along and prayed that i wouldnt make my team lose! we had tacos for lunch thats for you molly, and they were pretty good. Ok so Swedes eat SOO fast, and huge quantities! its crazy i can never keep up. but yeah we were there like all day and i had so many bruises the next day and i am still sore from it! amazing! Then after dinner i went to the harbour with my family and had ice cream. it was nice to like walk around it and stuff like that, still very pretty. i love it!
Day 4. Ok we went to STOCKHOLM!!! wow! its amazing! i need a better vocabulary lol. so we walked around, down by the water and past like very nice buildings and things like that, its a beautiful city. we went to this island called Skansen which is like all old cultural sweden, it was nice to see some culture and there was a zoo there. so i saw some reindeer elk bears mink and they even had cats in the zoo. strange i know! but yeah i had swedish meatballs!!! wow swedes are so smart, they were soo good especially with the jam that goes with them. delicious! then we went to the Vasa! the vasa is an old ship that spent 333 years at the bottom of the harbour because it sunk on its first journey before it even left the harbour! the king wanted more cannons, so there was more weight on one side and it wasnt balanced so it just tipped! pretty funny, but it is a huge ship! so beautiful and its amazing how it got so perserved!! that was a very cool thing to see. then we took a ferry to old town stockholm and i saw the palace and the church where the princess got married and riskdag, all very cool things to see. goverment buildings you know. oh the guards here where like spikes on their helmets, its basically awesome! yeah then we went back to the apartment, but oh cool thing, we saw some of the kenyan track team training. there is this huge track competition in stockholm and they were just running on the streets! pretty awesome!
Day 5. we played monopoly and of course i one! we actually finished the game. yeah that took like all day. alice and oscar kept on making me say sjo (7 in english) its very hard to pronounce, so they were teasing me. all good fun i guess. then we went to Albin and Victors house and i met tommy and Uliah. they are nice people, it was fun, but they are jokers. so that was day 6
Day 6. So i woke up to Phil (the australian exchange student) so we went out to the carnival in nyköping. then he took me to the castle and the harbour then he ate lunch. it was fun talking to him about his exchange and he gave me some good advice. he is very funny and i like him alot, he wont be around too much now he keeps on going places which is very good for him because he gets to see alot of things. hes a really cool guy from what i can see and he had some pretty funny stories to tell. then i went to dinner at carinas (host mom) brothers house i think, then we went to the carnival. while there i met up with hannah and juliana (brazilian exchange student). so we talked some more and then oscar invited us to go swimming! so of course i was like hell yeah lets go swimming ( its pouring rain i might add). so we got in our bathing suits and went down to the river! ok so i imagined like nice calm spot where you walk in and swim. NO there is this bridge like 10 feet up above rapids where the boys oscar albin and tommy jump into! they are nuts! so after they did that a couple of time they pressured me to do it too! it was so fun! and they are man made rapids so there are like no rocks, but the river is pretty fast so coming up after is the scary part, but i am really glad i did it. and after i did it hannah, julia and juliana did it too! it was so fun and a nice story to tell my mom hehehe sorry mom. then they came over and we watched this really long boring movie.
yeah so thats my new life! its wonderful and i love it.
Cultural differences!
they eat cereal with yougurt instead of milk
there are no doors on the showers (in my house) and you have to squegee the floor after
spaghetti and ketchup?
they always eat as a family
always take off your shoes!
they love ice cream!
its basically the same though, not too many differences!
yeah next blog i'll introduce my amazing wonderful awesome family!!