sweden

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