So maybe i should write about sweden since i dont think i have really done that this year.
so i went skiing in febuary at Säfsen. I had mono at the time and couldnt eat or swallow anything, and im pretty sure i was like completly out of it that entire trip, not really safe for skiing, but i seemed to be fearless and just went straight down the mountain, it was a small mountain, but it was still skiing and i had a good time. we went skiing 3 days and yeah it was really cool, i miss skiing.
Easter. that was interesting. the spring in sweden is so beautiful and there are flowers everywhere. and easter was sunny and warm. and m host mom hide an easter egg for me, that was cute and actually very hard to find. then we ate easter food like sill which was gross, we drank schnapps but you have to sing before you drink them so that was funny now that i can actually understand to songs kind of. it was a good easter.
Valborg: there is a tradition in sweden where at the end of april to celebrate may coming the light huge bond fires all over the country and the young kids party. so i went to watch this in stockholm with juliana otavio and luara all from brazil. I thought it was so strange how they thought it was safe to light this huge fire with like hundereds of people all around it. it was scary when they light it, all the smoke and this huge fire. it was crazy. but it was interesting and people sing and just hang out around it, but it was very cold. but the place we were at was very beautiful and it was a cool tradition to celebrate may. nice
we had a exchange kid weekend in Strängnäs and that was fun to be with all the exchange kids again. we went to the church there and like strängnäs is very important to the religious side of sweden. then we went to a fire station and that was so fun. we went down the fire pole and up in the sky lift, used the fire hose and hung out with fire men. that was my favorite part. we walked around the town and all the old buildings and streets and we hung out at the beach thing there, rugved went swimming because he's crazy. Then we went to mariefred and toured the old castle there and learnt some history of sweden, like the paintings in that time the guys wanted to have really good legs so thats why they showed so much legs in the paintings to get the ladies. and they have this super old stuffed crazy looking lion in the castle, it was weird. then we rode an old train and then went home. i actually had a very good weekend even thought we did some like kid activities it was so fun.
Juliana had her birthday a week before mine so we had a party with some of the other kids that was really fun. exchange kids are crazy i'll leave it at that.
The weather here is very nice, everything is blooming and its very beautiful, so many colors. and the sun like wont set till like 11 and it rises like at 4 so its a huge opposite of the winter time. it rains alot but i really love the spring here.
I moved to my last host family.
Häkan is my dad and hes the owner of a company that makes fences called heda. its pretty successful adn he is so funny. he always teases everyone but he is so nice and so funny.
annette is my mom. She is so nice and talks so much which is good becuase my swedish is improving, but sometimes my brain hurts. she really makes sure her kids do what they are supposed to and shes nice.
Josefine is my sister she's 15 and she rides horses. She is so busy with school and horses and i have no idea how she has anytime to do anything fun. But she is very good at riding and competes alot. she spends alot of time with her horses and she has such a sweet heart.
Madicken is 9 and doesnt speak any english which is good for my swedish. but she is nine and has so much energy adn speaks so fast that i try to understand her but its hard. She is pretty cool though.
I like this family, they are so busy though. They are building a new house which we will move into pretty soon by the stables so they can care for the horses. they really love horses and have 2 and now im realizing how much work horses really are. but i think it'll be fun to live in the country and be a farm girl for a little bit anyways.
School. Yeah its soon over and yeah.
Swedish. I actually can understand most and i speak some, its coming and im happy with it now. of course im not where i wanted with it, but i know alot for only studying it for 10 months of my life. im proud because learning a language is not an easy thing to do for anyone.
yep thats sweden
Sunday, May 29, 2011
France
I haven't updated in a couple months now :P sorry for that but i really hate writing about my life. anyways though i thought it would be good to write about my trip to france.
So i left on thursday the 19th of may and woke up early met with Philip, Alicia and Sanna went to the airport and took of on our way to biarritz. I sat next to Philip who i havent seen in a long time and we talked the whole way which was nice, and it was all basicaly in swedish and i understood and spoke so i was pretty proud. then we landed to a bus to the train station. we had some time to spare so we got some lunch and when we were walking around this little boy with a baguette came skipping down the street smiled and said 'bonjour' it melted my heart how cute and french that was. then we got some baguettes and waited for our train. when we got on the train it was ok, but then this really creepy french guy came on and started like hitting on sanna and long story short we got flashed on our first train by a french men and it was creppy. Ok then after our train journeys we ended in Le teich went to our hostle thing swam in the pool which was nice, then oscar came over and we had a french dinner. It was so nice to see Oscar again. And it was really nice to be in france, it was really beautiful. so we stayed up eating baguettes and drinking red wine and talking it was a lovely evening. Then oscar had to leave and we went to sleep.
may 20th. We went to Arcachon which is kind of where oscar has stayed on his exchange. its a little town right on the coast and so cute i love it. We went to this freaking amazing beach! its just these huge sand dunes, like the biggest ones i have ever seen in my life, and they just go on and on. ONe side is like a forest and the other side of them is ocean, absolutly breathtaking. So after the hike up the mountain of sand we se up our stuff then Oscar Philip and i ran down. It was like a good 3 minute run straight down to the water. i was so tired when we reached the bottom but it was exhilirating. and so much fun! we stood in the water for a bit then we had to start our hike back up. that part not so fun. it was so steap and me and philip we joking that we were going to die or have to crawl up it, oscar freaking like ran up it so he was long gone. then like after 10 minutes we made it back to the top and then Alicia and Sanna ran down. So i visited with oscar and Philip then we decided that the girls will need water when they come back so oscar and i decided to get some. we ran down the other side which was so much steaper but alot shorter. it was so fun i felt like i was flying down the dune. amazing. the we got water and had to walk back up. then we made it back to the group and Philip wanted to run down the other side so we did that again, this time i filmed it and it was pretty fun. then we went back up and then we felt ready to leave the beach, well actaually i never wanted to leave, but it was time becasue we were hungry. So we ran down one last time and this time i fell and rolled and had sand all over my body and hair in every inch of my body for the remainder of the trip hahha. Then we went and ate. i had a hot dog, but it was 2 hotdogs in a baguette with french fries on top and it was so good. then we caught a bus back into the city and walked around there. we walked around a park and then around the neighborhood and the houses seriously look like castles. i really loved it alot. Then we saw like a lookout tower so we went to the top of that which was pretty cool and very beautiful. then we walked around and got some things to eat back at the hostle went to another beach and just relaxed before our train went back. It was my favorite day and so much fun. i got very sunburnt and i dont think i will ever forget those sand dunes, they are amazing and i really love arcachon i want to go back there someday. then we took the train home drank some red wine on the balcony and talked the night away. fantastic.
May 21st. we left Le Teich and headed to Bordeaux. Thats a cool city too. It has so many old buliding and stuff and it was pretty cool there. We went to a park along the river and soaked in the sun. Then we met with oscars exchange friends from america, it was cool to meet them and talk about there exchange and mine. then we went to a park and relaxed walked around the city, went back to the river by the park and just hung out. it was fun and relaxing. then we met with some other exchange kids and went to a pub, but we didnt want to sit inside so us swedes went back to the park by the river and took in the sun. then we went with oscar to the train because his rotary is dumb and he couldn't stay with us. then when he left us and the other kids all went to eat food. It was really cool how exchange kids accept new people and are friendly to them without even knowing them, these kids were very friendly and we had a good night. so after we took a tram back to the hotel but we got on the wrong one so we asked this guy for help and he put us on the right train but grabbed both alicias and Sannas butts and thats not ok at all. The french guys are so sleasy it was gross. but we made it back safe and went to sleep.
May 22. so it was our day to go home and my Birthday! we took a train to the airport and we were tired so we slept most the way there, but i really loved the french country side. I decided that if i would have gone to paris first i probably wouldn't have like france as much as i do. I really love france its very beautiful, but the people are so different, the guys are sleasy and none of them can speak english and never in my life have i felt more useless trying to communicate. I think it was a good thing i went with swedes becasue we only really spoke swedish so it was good. and actually on this trip i started to think in swedish which was amazing and so weird! so then we got on the plane and i have never prayed so much or been so scared before in my life. it was seriously like 2 hours of straight turbulance and i was scared. its weird casue when i was a kid and something scary happened i always felt safe becasue there were adults around and like i knew it was going to be ok, but then i was like the adult and alone and i felt so unsafe and scared. but we landed safe and im still alive for now anyways. then i came home unpacked, got a package from my family for my birthday and then my friends came over for a birthday dinner.
My trip to france was amazing, i really love it there even with all the creepy people.
So i left on thursday the 19th of may and woke up early met with Philip, Alicia and Sanna went to the airport and took of on our way to biarritz. I sat next to Philip who i havent seen in a long time and we talked the whole way which was nice, and it was all basicaly in swedish and i understood and spoke so i was pretty proud. then we landed to a bus to the train station. we had some time to spare so we got some lunch and when we were walking around this little boy with a baguette came skipping down the street smiled and said 'bonjour' it melted my heart how cute and french that was. then we got some baguettes and waited for our train. when we got on the train it was ok, but then this really creepy french guy came on and started like hitting on sanna and long story short we got flashed on our first train by a french men and it was creppy. Ok then after our train journeys we ended in Le teich went to our hostle thing swam in the pool which was nice, then oscar came over and we had a french dinner. It was so nice to see Oscar again. And it was really nice to be in france, it was really beautiful. so we stayed up eating baguettes and drinking red wine and talking it was a lovely evening. Then oscar had to leave and we went to sleep.
may 20th. We went to Arcachon which is kind of where oscar has stayed on his exchange. its a little town right on the coast and so cute i love it. We went to this freaking amazing beach! its just these huge sand dunes, like the biggest ones i have ever seen in my life, and they just go on and on. ONe side is like a forest and the other side of them is ocean, absolutly breathtaking. So after the hike up the mountain of sand we se up our stuff then Oscar Philip and i ran down. It was like a good 3 minute run straight down to the water. i was so tired when we reached the bottom but it was exhilirating. and so much fun! we stood in the water for a bit then we had to start our hike back up. that part not so fun. it was so steap and me and philip we joking that we were going to die or have to crawl up it, oscar freaking like ran up it so he was long gone. then like after 10 minutes we made it back to the top and then Alicia and Sanna ran down. So i visited with oscar and Philip then we decided that the girls will need water when they come back so oscar and i decided to get some. we ran down the other side which was so much steaper but alot shorter. it was so fun i felt like i was flying down the dune. amazing. the we got water and had to walk back up. then we made it back to the group and Philip wanted to run down the other side so we did that again, this time i filmed it and it was pretty fun. then we went back up and then we felt ready to leave the beach, well actaually i never wanted to leave, but it was time becasue we were hungry. So we ran down one last time and this time i fell and rolled and had sand all over my body and hair in every inch of my body for the remainder of the trip hahha. Then we went and ate. i had a hot dog, but it was 2 hotdogs in a baguette with french fries on top and it was so good. then we caught a bus back into the city and walked around there. we walked around a park and then around the neighborhood and the houses seriously look like castles. i really loved it alot. Then we saw like a lookout tower so we went to the top of that which was pretty cool and very beautiful. then we walked around and got some things to eat back at the hostle went to another beach and just relaxed before our train went back. It was my favorite day and so much fun. i got very sunburnt and i dont think i will ever forget those sand dunes, they are amazing and i really love arcachon i want to go back there someday. then we took the train home drank some red wine on the balcony and talked the night away. fantastic.
May 21st. we left Le Teich and headed to Bordeaux. Thats a cool city too. It has so many old buliding and stuff and it was pretty cool there. We went to a park along the river and soaked in the sun. Then we met with oscars exchange friends from america, it was cool to meet them and talk about there exchange and mine. then we went to a park and relaxed walked around the city, went back to the river by the park and just hung out. it was fun and relaxing. then we met with some other exchange kids and went to a pub, but we didnt want to sit inside so us swedes went back to the park by the river and took in the sun. then we went with oscar to the train because his rotary is dumb and he couldn't stay with us. then when he left us and the other kids all went to eat food. It was really cool how exchange kids accept new people and are friendly to them without even knowing them, these kids were very friendly and we had a good night. so after we took a tram back to the hotel but we got on the wrong one so we asked this guy for help and he put us on the right train but grabbed both alicias and Sannas butts and thats not ok at all. The french guys are so sleasy it was gross. but we made it back safe and went to sleep.
May 22. so it was our day to go home and my Birthday! we took a train to the airport and we were tired so we slept most the way there, but i really loved the french country side. I decided that if i would have gone to paris first i probably wouldn't have like france as much as i do. I really love france its very beautiful, but the people are so different, the guys are sleasy and none of them can speak english and never in my life have i felt more useless trying to communicate. I think it was a good thing i went with swedes becasue we only really spoke swedish so it was good. and actually on this trip i started to think in swedish which was amazing and so weird! so then we got on the plane and i have never prayed so much or been so scared before in my life. it was seriously like 2 hours of straight turbulance and i was scared. its weird casue when i was a kid and something scary happened i always felt safe becasue there were adults around and like i knew it was going to be ok, but then i was like the adult and alone and i felt so unsafe and scared. but we landed safe and im still alive for now anyways. then i came home unpacked, got a package from my family for my birthday and then my friends came over for a birthday dinner.
My trip to france was amazing, i really love it there even with all the creepy people.
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