Jag har bott i Sverige i åtta månader nu, och jag har bara 4 månader kvar. Min skola och mina kompisar är jätte bra. Jag har träffat några personer som jag kommer att prata med hela mitt liv. Jag hoppas att de kommer till USA och besöker mig. Camilla kommer i oktober, sen kommer hon igen med Maria, Ida, och Emma nästa sommar. Anton och Anton kanske ( Read more... )

I just got back the other day from my trip to Belgium. I had a great time, I went with another exchange student Phil for our 1st of 2 spring breaks. We flew with Ryan air to Charlerloi, which is a city about 40 minutes south of Brussels. We stayed our first night with Phils friend Laurelei, the picture below is at her host families. Her family was  ( Read more... )

Well I have now been in Stockholm Sweden for 6 months, and these last 6 months I think will go by extremely fast. I have a ton of things planned for these next few months, like ski trips, european tours, end of school, and much more. I have been busy since I have last written in here. I was skiing all last week at a place called Vemdalen. If you ( Read more... )

Well I have just finished my first Christmas weekend away from home, and surprisingly it was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Of course I missed my family, but its only 1 christmas out of a lot I will spend with them. And I am learning a whole new culture through it, so its a very good experience for me. The Christmas traditions here are ( Read more... )

Well I have just gotten back from my innebandy match on the other side of town. We won 6-5, it was a great match. I had an assist and my line played really well, it was the top line so that was pretty fun. We play in a series against all the teams in the south part of stockholm, and I live in the northwest. So it takes 45-60minutes to get to every ( Read more... )

Well today is lucia, well actually only for about 20 more minutes. Lucia is a holiday here in sweden. I stole the description of Luciadagen(the lucia day) from a fellow exchange student grace. I didnt know how to explain lucia, but her livejournal had the following and made it much more helpful...

HISTORY OF LUCIADAGEN

In Sweden, December 13 is ( Read more... )

I have now finally made my livejournal a little more interesting. I had no idea how to add pictures, or to make it look a little less boring. But a fellow exchange student grace helped me. I think I will update now a little more often, and add pictures and fun stuff like that.

Well I have now been in sweden for over 4 months! Things are going well ( Read more... )

Yes it’s true I finally played my first floorball match!! I started to practice with this team just a week or two after I arrived and yesterday was my first match. Well I found out Wednesday that I would be finally playing from my coach. The only problem was that I didn’t have any clothes to wear. We have also been trying to get my clothes from the ( Read more... )

Well these last few weeks have been going pretty well for me. I have been busy as usual with a few different things. Two weeks ago I was up in Uppsala, which is a city about an hour north by train. I went with Laura from Brazil, and we met the other Brazilian Flavio who lives there. We spent the day at Flavio’s house watching movies, taking a bike ( Read more... )

Well I have now been here for 2 months and a couple days. And I still love it! The weather has started to cool off, and the leaves are changing colors! The leaves that use to be green are now yellow, orange, and red. The roads and sidewalks are covered by them, and I think that they are absolutely beautiful. I have been very busy lately, and have ( Read more... )