Roasted Spleens!

I went to my friends Alicia and Philips cover band concert party thing this weekend and it was alot of fun! i went with juliana and Phil and we were the only young people there besides the band. so we were dancing with old people. it was so much fun, and the band was soo amazingly good! i got to dance with my host dad! he is THE funniest dancer in the entire world, i dont think i have ever laughed so hard! it was so much fun. really really good music, juliana was like i want to get a picture with them because someday they will be famous!

The Band 'Roasted Spleens' and the exchange kids!

Hunting and Other stuff

A couple of weekends ago i got to go hunting! I was actually very excited to do it, i knew i wasn't going to kill anything so i really didnt have a problem with it. plus i am here to experience and see other people lives and people hunt so i had to give it a try and not preach my beliefs on them. ok so i got picked up at like 7.30 and we were in the forest at 8. It was -2 degres that morning, so it was very very cold. So i have never been hunting before so i didnt know what to expect, so let me explain how hunting works (here). so there is a group of people who are in the forest and with the guns waiting for an animal to come, but then there is also another group of people that walk with the dogs, so they let the dogs go in the forest and the dogs sniff and find tracks or animals, then they start barking and the goal of the dogs is to keep the animals in one spot without touching them so its easier to shot i guess. i was in the sitting group at first. so we walked in the forest and different people were stationed at different places. i was on some rocks in the shade. and then you sit perfectly still and listen to hear like the dogs barking and looking for moose and other animals, we sat for like 2 hours and it was really really cold! my feet felt like they were in ice almost frozen buckets of water but i will stop complaining. so then after 2 hours we went back to the meeting spot and fikaed, then we went out agian. this time was better, the sun was coming out so it was warmer and i actually saw some animals. we heard a dog bark then we saw some deer, but one was running and like didnt notice us so it came super close, froze stared me in the eye and ran away, it was beautiful! and we saw a baby deer too. then we went back and ate lunch, then i went with the dogs. we walked and walked and walked back and forth following a dog. it was pretty funny. but i saw a MOOSE!! it was so cool, the main hunter guy was like "freeze, look an elk" i was excited! but we walked for like a good 5 miles i would say. and we saw a wild boar that one of the other hunters shot, then we walked some more and then we saw a baby deer that someone else shot. then i saw it actually get like gutted! it was so nasty, but i kind of like disecting and stuff so it was actually pretty cool! i think i will save you the pics here, i have them on facebook. then we went back and were done hunting for the day. so i hung out at the house and helped make dinner for all the other hunters. oh we were hunting on a farm, so after 2 cows got loose and we had to go like heard them, and it was the funniest thing i have ever seen! they drove a volvo on to the field and were chasing around this cow in a car, so funny! but after that we had dinner and then i went home. it was a really fun day, and i might go again sometime with juliana hopefully though.

So basically life is becoming normal and everyday routines are kicking in. i wake up in the morning (not feeling like P diddy) then go to school blah blah blah ( wow already two ke$ha references). hm, im starting to make some friends i guess, but its difficult because they study alot and i dont really have to, so it makes it hard. i go to swedish for beginners classes mondays and tuesdays and they really help. i speak as much swedish as my brain will allow me, sometimes my brain just decides that it doesnt understand any swedish, and the next day i know alot. its all in the process of learning i guess. actually i wish i could speak more, but i have a very limited vocabulary so that makes things difficult, but i am actually understanding somethings. like if a group of people are talking i can understand what they are talking about and some ideas, but it gets hard when someone talks directly at me because i dont understand everyword they say and its not enough words to actually piece together what they are asking, so sometimes i just smile, nod and huh?! i made some kanelbullar for kanelbullar dag. that was typical sweden i guess. kanelbullar is translated to cinnamon balls, they are basically cinnamon rolls without the glaze and some sugar instead, like i have said before, they are my crack, so good, im really excited for christmas and all the baked goods i will eat then. YUM! other than that i hang out with juliana ( brazilian exchange) a lot. she really is very funny and makes me laugh all the time, its so fun with her around. the leaves are changing colors and falling off the trees so i find myself running through the leaves alot and wanting to jump into piles of them (no pineneedles to worry about here :)) and it has been raining so that means huge puddles to jump in and splash my swedish schoolmates with! im trying to make the best of this crazy swedish weather. my host mom told me last night that , "if you have bad memory, sweden is the place for you" because the winters are really depressing and the swedes tend to forget how bad they are until they are back. yeah life is life now, nothing to exciting i guess. oh i tried fencing! it was actually pretty fun, i think im going to try again sometime and have an awesome sword fight. i am also going "elk" (moose) hunting next saturday. im actually pretty excited, not to kill the moose, but to see them and experience hunting, going to be crazy i guess, but something i wont forget. oh i also went boating in the arcapelago. its this huge chain of islands around where i live, like thousands of islands, it was freezing cold and the person i went with kept on saying, "i have never heard this before, this has never happened before" it scared me and i thought with my luck with boats that we were going to break down or something, but we survived and it was all good :) having a lot of fun!