Wow so it has been a month since I updated my Live Journal...they have even changed the livejournal site since I was on it last...I guess stuff happens in a month. It is interesting that I have not updated recently because I have not been overly busy nor do I have a lack of computer access as I have a computer in my room now. Oh well...here is an ( Read more... )

You're Beautiful...You're Beautiful...You're Beautiful it's true!

Now for all of you that don't recognize that song...where have you been? James Blunt and his song You're Beautiful was on the top of the charts here in Sweden all summer. And on Wednesday I got to see him in concert in Stockholm!!! It was so fun...once we got there.

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     It has been so long since my last entry! After going to the Ice Hotel Christmas Holidays ended and I moved back to my house once my host family returned. Going back to school was really really hard for me and the first two weeks back were not really happy ones for me. However since then I have done some major revamping of my timetable and I am ( Read more... )

     Well these past 3 days have been quite an adventure for me. Not only because I went to the Ice Hotel but because I planned it myself and did all the booking and over all I would say things went fairly smoothly. I say fairly because of course our train to go to the Ice Hotel was delayed...3 hours! Haha...I am so prone to having my modes of ( Read more... )

Here is a bit more about my Christmas...

After watching Kalle Anka we opened presents. If there were little kids in the family this is when Santa Claus would come to the house and delivered gifts but since the youngest person was 16 we didn't get a visit by Santa. In Sammi's host family they always have 2 people that are like the elves and hand out ( Read more... )

Well I have now had my first Swedish Christmas (and New Year!) and it was wonderful. I spent Chirstmas with another exchange student (Sammi Boyd from Washington, USA) and her host family because my host family went to Austraila to visit their son who is there on a Rotary Exchange.


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Last weekend I went to Skansen again to see the crowning of Stockholms Lucia. This is Lucia and all her maidens and then the other is when Lucia was actually being crowned.


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     I had no plans for this friday until I came up with an ingenious idea while shopping for groceries with Birthe. Make a ginger bread house!!!! For 22kr = less than $4CND you could buy all the ginger bread in a kit to make the houses. It made me very excited.

So on Friday Amy (BC, Canada) and Jena (also BC but not with Rotary...friend of ( Read more... )

     With the lovely dump of snow that we got earlier this week we had to go out and play in it...and so we did! We (Phil, Amy, & I) went to Annie's (from Austraila) house and had a crazy time playing in the snow...well until it got too dark for us to play!

But before we got to Annie's Phil and I had to wait at the train station for a while so ( Read more... )

     It never occured to me that I have not included a picture of my host family in my LJ yet.  Good thing that my Dad is still looking out for me and making sure that I keep everyone informed. So here we now have a picture of my present host family. The picture was taken in...Septmeber but they still look like this :)

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