Sooo everyone has been asking when I'm going to post another blog post...I am sorry it's taken so long!
November. I cannot believe it is already November. After November is December. Christmas time always flies. And thennn it is 2012 and the world will end! Just kidding. The world isn't going to end guys...don't believe that.
The first highlight I can think of since I last posted is that Coldplay's new album finallllly came out! I probably thought of that first since I am listening to it...but it is quite the highlight nonetheless!
Ok what else. It is so hard to think of things, it all runs together cause everything is so great! Maybe if I go backwards, I don't remember if I used that strategy last time, but I'll give it a try.
I'll start with höstlov. Otherwise known as fall break, so I had a week off school! Kind of like Americans get school off for Thanksgiving..but we don't have that here. Soo I went to my friend Simon's house for a Halloween party. Simon is an exchange student from Australia. I hate Halloween. Buuut I went anyways, and it was ok! A whole herd of exchange students and two Swedes I believe. But there was good food and good company, so all went well. Then Sunday was recovery day. Monday I went up to the Universeum in Göteborg with Lukas, Louise, and Magnus. It was a little like the Pacific Science Center..mixed with an aqurium and a rainforest? But it was fun! A radar measuring thing told me I am 162,2 cm tall. My little sister (6 years younger) is not much more than 10 cm shorter..won't be long till she passes me up. Buuut after that I got picked up by my Farfar and I headed up to Kungälv for a visit!
Let's see. Kungälv. My home town. Although I really only remember it from visits...but it was familiar nonetheless. I love the castle there. Now that I have been around Sweden a little more, I can definitely say that Kungälv has one of the best castles I have seen so far. Andddd Kungälv smells delicious. There is a kexfabrik (cookie factory basically) in Kungälv. Tastyy tasty. I also found the smell of my Farfar and Farmor's house familiar. Along with Anna's apartment too! I must have smell memory. But anyways, on Tuesday I saw Anna (childhood friend)! It was a lot of fun. We walked around town and had fika. Then we walked up to her apartment and I saw where I used to live too..kind of strange. Tuesday also happened to be my Farfar's birthday! So I headed back to their place. We had food and cake and the rest of the relatives came up too. It is so strange to be around them without the rest of my family there...cause that has never really happened before. No problems there though! It is nice to be able to spend time with them, seeing as it doesn't happen so very often. Two nights there, and then it was back home to Grimeton again for the rest of my break.
I went to Stockholm for a couple days sometime towards the end of October! It was a lot of fun to be able to see my exchange student friends there and see how their life is. It is so different...I live in the middle of nowhere...with a bus that can take me town only a couple times a day..only once on Saturdays and none on Sundays...in Stockholm you can jump on a bus, train, subway, anythinggg at just about any time you please. I mean you mighttt have to wait maybe three minutes..but you can literally go anywhere..without much inconvenience. And there are SO many people in Stockholm! Capital of the country...biggest city...only a million people...that isn't a lot compared to other places in the world. But in Lisa's world that is a lot of people. Something like 600 people in Grimeton, about 30,000 in Varberg, and 80,000 in Bellingham....yeahhh that's right! I know a couple facts...anyways I have to say I am glad I was placed here in Grimeton. Sometimes I wish I lived a little closer to town...but when I see the bigger cities like Göteborg and Stockholm I am thankful for the green grass, horses, and cows.
Well this memory thing...is hard.
I'll talk a little about school I suppose! I had my first Swedish test. It was about animals, veggies, fish, sayings, and abbreviations. I think it went well! I hope so at least. I've had some other test too, but mostttt stuff is all going to be coming up in the weeks leading up to Christmas break. School is eh though, so that's all I have to say for now.
Darkness is creeping over Sweden. I bike to the bus in the dark, and I ride home from the bus in the dark too. I am now wearing my warmest jacket and pretty much allll my warm clothes. Yay for Swedish sweaters!
Hmm. So this past weekend I went down to Lund to see the town and visit her daughters. Lund is pretty much a "college town" you could say. It was very nice though! I love all the old architecture and cobble stone streets all over Sweden. It may be normal for them, but you don't find that in Bellingham. Ulla's brother in law is Italien and has a pizza and pasta place in town, so we went there for lunch. Very tasty. He then cooked dinner for us later too. Three types of fish! I am not usually huge on fish, but he knows how to cook! Sweden also has really delicious bakeries. And all of them are reallyyy small, but super crowded. Because who doesn't want deliciousness!
Anyways that is what my past month or month and a half has looked like!
Buuuut I must talk about this evening! So I have this geography test on Wednesday. An English essay test as well....and I really should have studied. I had a much better time though. My mom and I made Christmas wreaths! It was a whole lot of fun. At least I thought so. Although bows are really difficult to make. I will put up some pictures, when I get around to it...so who knows when that will be. Guess you guys can hope that is soon! :)
Once again...sorry I'm so slow...my motivation sometimes is lacking...but like my father advised me..perhaps if I write shorter posts more often, it would be easier to keep up to with.
Hope all is well for everyone! If you are American and reading this, have a delightful Thanksgiving!
