Day 09 – Your beliefs
I believe that Teen Mom made my day today. It's an awesome show and I can spend hours in front of it!
Questions
I looked through my comments and my mail and put together some answers for the most common questions I've got so far. Here we go!
Vad kostar hela resan sammanlagt?
- I think I have answered this question ten times, go back and look for answers before you ask them. But okey, here we go again. I guess the whole trip, including pocket money, is around 100.000 kr. Maybe more, maybe less... it depends on if you're a spender or not ;)
Vad händer om man måste byta värdfamilj?
- Well, there's a lot of things that has to investigated and all that kind of stuff. I think my organization made a very bad job concerning to that. They were passive and slow and my family and I had to deal with the whole things. It was kinda hard to be alone without your family and a organization that just sitting down and watch aside... But it turned out very well and now I'm so happy I changed! It was worth the labor!
Vilken organisation åkte du med?
- I went with the swedish organization called Explorius, and I can't recommend it at all. According to me, it's not a good organization.. but I can be wrong. But in my case, they didn't do their job very good.
What's the best/worst thing of being an exchange student?
- Haha, Holly! what a quetions! Anyways, the best thing is all the new friends you get and to experience the high school spirit. The worst thing is that here in America, adults treats you like you're 14 years old, when you more or less counts like an adult back home in Sweden. That's kinda annoying sometimes.
Om du fick välja, gå på en liten eller stor skola där borta?
- If I could choose, I would attend a bigger school than the one I go to now. I live in a very small town, and to be in a very small school where everyone knows everything about everyone and you're parents knows everything about all the other adults in the town makes rumors and gossips a lot worse than they are. People here love gossiping and that's hard sometimes.
Vad gör man om dagarna när skolan är över? Hänger med vänner eller?
- Almost every student here is a part of some school activities after school. It can be basketball, speech team, clubs, play, year book or tons of other choises. So, the most of my awake time am I spending in school, in different activities and there's where you get to know all the friends and stuff. It's fun, but so different from the swedish school-system!.
Är det sant att du kommer att få gå om ett år när du kommer tillbaka, alltså att du går med de personerna som är ett år yngre än dig?
- That's right. This year doesn't count. I don't get my "studiebidrag" and when I'm back home, I'll start my 2nd year in high school... which means that I have two years left in high school when I'm back! But if that's a concern you have, don't care about that. This is so much more than just a "sabatsår", you're actually attending a school program and you go to school. You're learning so much more about your self and others, so don't worry about school back home in Sweden, this is absolutely worth it!
Day 08 – Your siblings
If there is something I love so much so there's no words for it, it's my siblings!
I have had my brother Pontus by my side my whole life. We have gone through everything together and he's always there, even though we're not very close. Since we got older our lifes are totally different and we don't have much in common. But that doesn't matter, I know where I have him and he knows where he has me. People often asked if there's a special connection between twins, and actually I think there is. We don't have to talk so much about everything, we just know where we have each other and that's very nice. We can laugh about everything and nothing, things we have gone through and moments we'll never forget. They will always be there and we will always have something to go back to and laugh to! I love you my dear brother, Pontus!
My little sister Nellan is also a very good friend. She was born when I was six, and I used to say that that was my best b-day present. And it was. Nellan is six years younger than me, which means that we don't really hang out like my brother and I used to do. But that doesn't matter, we have had a lot of fun together anyways. With her I can bake, watch movies, go shopping, go down to the super market and buy ice cream, eat pizza at Napoli (the pizzeria in my village), take a walk with the dog, do homework together, go up to grandma and eat buns, read and chill. We're not in the same age or have the same friends, but that doesn't mean that we can't have fun. We have a lot of fun, and of course, tons of fights as well. But that's normal, isn't it?
I love you, sis!
Smile kids!
ASSE Meeting
Today Asse had a meeting for all exchange students in the district where I live. We went through how our first part of the year had gone and what was waiting ahead. I really looking forward to the Florida trip in February with Lana...
The foreign group I am in in, is the best of them all. We have so much fun every time we see each other and today we decided that we are all going to get together next year. It will probably be in Thailand, Bangkok where Ning lives. Haha! Awesome!
The Swedes - Me and Lina
Lana (germany) Hortense (France) and me
Cannelle (france) Léa (Framce) and Ning (Thailand)
Ning and Heejun (south Korea)
The whole group!
Day 07 – A moment
The moment the airplane took off from Arlanda, Stockholm the 13th of september 2010 is a moment I'll never forget. It was a moment where I new there was no chance to chicken out and head back to Sweden. I was on my way to New York and for a ten-month long trip where my whole life would change. There is a feeling in your body you just can't explain. An unreal feeling. I had been waiting for this one since I was ten years old and my step sister Sofia went, from that moment I always new I wanted to go. To be there and finally knowing that your dream comes true, that's an amazing feeling I wish all people could fell it. That moment is always going to be "the moment" in my life and I want my kids to feel exactly the same eventually!
2011-01-04
Good morning!
Today Lana and I had a real sleep in. All juniors had to tke a test from first to fourth hour, so we foreign exchange students could stay home until lunch. Nice!
Yesterday, after practice, Lana and I decided that we should do the supper. We made spaghetti bolognaise. Jay was home with us, while we were doing it, and he was so anxiety-ridden and wailing, he thought we should burn the whole house down. But t tunred out very well and it was very appreciate!
Have a nice day!
Day 06 - Your best friend
There's no words for how much this girl means to me!
- I love you, my best friend Elin Nilsson!
You're gold!
Day 05 – Your definition of love
I'm really not the person who can talk about love. Instead, I'll write all things I do love...
I love....
The feeling in your body when you're at Landvetter for heading off. Staying in bed all day watching my favorite tv-show. Hotel breakfasts. New sheets in my bed. Hug someone I haven't seen for a long time. Spotify. When my favorite song plays on the radio. The wait for something funny. Weekends without haves and requirements. Movie nights. To laugh with friends. Lying and talking on the phone with someone for hours. The smell of my favorite food. Mom and Dad. Summer nights that never wants to end. Christmas Eve. The first breath in a new country. Wake up and have an unread text message from my best friend who only tells me how much the person likes me. Being around people I love. Milk chocolate. New York. The 25th every month. Thailand. Travel by train. Seeing my friends happy. The feeling when you walk around town with a bag in your hand and you know you just bought yourself a new favorite to the closet. Chai Latte. Rings and bracelets. New, white converse. To have a lot to look forward to. To party and laugh with my friends. First Advent. Second Advent. Third Advent. Fourth Advent. Midsummer Eve. Seeing that my favorite blogger has updated. Getting to school and meet the girls in my class. My iPhone. To laugh so hard that tears runs. QP menu at McDonald's with large fries and Coke. Summer. Coffee with friends for hours. Play golf with my dad. London. Meatballs with potatoes, cream sauce and lingonberry jam. My cousins. Sitting in the hallway at schooland laugh with the girls in the class. Travel. Sitting on the couch in my basement and have tea, watch movies all night. Driving. All my good friends.
Day 04 – What you ate today
Lana and I have a new trend now. We're starting every day with a real breakfast, omelette with ham & cheese and a big glass of orange juice. This makes me think of how good breakfast mum and I had every morning when we were in Thailand and Venezuela. That was really cheesy!
Anyways, the rest of the day have been like a potluck when the whole family with grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles got together for celebrate X-mas again! That was awesome! So, I have been eaten a lot, didn't take a picture of it though.
But here is one from this morning!
2011-01-01
I have had an amazing night! Even though it's just nine o'clock, I'll go to bed now. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow!
Good night, people!
I love u, sis!
Congratz
A year summary will come!
Day 03 – Your parents
Well, what can I say? You don't choose your own parents! ;)
Hehe, just kidding. I love my parents so much. Like any other kid would say "My parents are the best ones", I can just agree. My parents are the best ones, without hesitation! I don't know if any parents can compare themselves to my ones, that just doesn't work.
My parents got divorced eleven years ago, so I don't really remember them living together under one roof, but that hasn't bothered me one second. I haven't lived in a "happy family with mum, dad and two kids" like other people has done. But I like it that way (what else can I do ;)) and it has made me stronger and maybe more spolied for that matter too. But hey, I need som proceeds too, don't I?
Anyways, my parents has always done everything I asked for, helped me, been there for me and loved me. I have been on amazing trips with both of them (not together though) around the world and through Sweden. They are the ones who knows me the best and I can always count on them, in all situations, everytime. They are the ones who can make me feel like the best girl in the whole world, and they can make me laugh about stupid stuff like no one else could do. But of course, they can also make me cry when we have our fights, because I don't like to see them disappointed and unhappy because of things I have done. But I guess all good and bad stuff we have gone through have made us even more closer than we were before and that's a good thing, I think?
"love is in the air" - dad and mum when they were in my age... kind of!
Dad, granduating!
Mum in her youth age
Dad now...
.. and mum now!
2010-12-30
Hi!
There's nothing to say really, this break has been kind of boring since Christmas was over. But I have one more thing to look forward to before school stars again. New Years eve!
Lana and me are going to Léa, a french girl who lives in Princton, for a New Year party together with some exchangestudents and some other friends. It's going to be so much fun!
For now, Lasse is here and he, Lana and I are watching Eclipse!
See ya <3
Day 02 – Your first love
When I' thinking about my first love, I get a smile on my face. It's so funny, that guy, my first love, has been with me through kindergarden up to 9th grade. Of course he wasn't my love all the time, but the first years in school and up to 5th grade, he was. His name is Anton Karlsson, maybe the most common name in Sweden you will ever hear? Hehe!
Anyways, he lives in the same village as me, has always done, and to be honest, I think he will stay there.... like me ;)
We had a lot of fun, even though we weren't old enough to understand what "dating" was. But we had our own view of dating and we hanged out together all the time. We were in the same class for five years and every break between the classes, we were together and we even made our math-homework together. We were "the smart ones" as our other classmates said. Haha! When there was a school dance or something, we always danced, and when it was hiking in the woods, we always went together. When there was a game against the other classmates in "king" (a game with a basketball), we were always in the same team. When we had shop class, he made a heart and burned in: Anton + Jossan = True!
Haha, can't do anything else than laugh when I'm thinking about it, so cute but in the same time so dumb.
Here he is ;)
Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Who am I really?
It's obviously a damn good question. How easy is it to tell who someone is? I have a name and an identification number linked to this, but I am more than that. I have a lot of opinions and a lot of experiences that have shaped who I am!
It's obviously a damn good question. How easy is it to tell who someone is? I have a name and an identification number linked to this, but I am more than that. I have a lot of opinions and a lot of experiences that have shaped who I am!
In 10:09 a.m, the 13th of August 1993, were my brother Pontus and I born in Gothenburg, Sweden. That's concrete facts. But now? It's so hard to really tell who I am, because there are so many other things that have a finger in the pie and plays big parts of my life.
I'm very sloppy and disorganized. I'm always putting things up until the last minute and have never had a clean and nice room. My mum calls me a mess. But that's how I like it, and when I'll move away from home, I'll rather pay a cleaner than to put some dishgloves on my hands and waste time on that kind of stuff. If people can't stand it, fine, it's up to them, I do not waste time of idiots, which I also hate. I can't stand people that is stupid or plays stupid, that's maybe even worse. I hate to get up early in the morning and I hate to spend hours in front of homework.
I hate when people repeats themselves, that drives me nuts. And I cant either stand people that doesn't try their best and just gives up in situations they maybe haven't run across yet. That's retarded.
The worst thing you can do when you'r with me is not to "letting your hair down" (bjuda på sig själv) and stingy people isn't very loved by me either.
If I don't disbelieve, you have got a kind of negative picture of me now, but that's also wrong. I hate when people has preconceptions about others and thinks they know people when they in real life have no clue (of course, I judge people as well, but at least I'm trying).
Then I think you'r wondering what kind of things I do like, and I'll tell you now!
I love coke. I love people that are themselves and dare to stand for it. I love people who is mastering things I don't and knows their own thing. I love to spend time with my family and to go shopping. Travelling is also a big passion in my life and to do it with the nearest and dearest is even better and invincible. And a movienight with a lot of candy and sweet stuff isn't wrong either.
That was a small part of me.
Peace out!
Starting tomorrow!
Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – What you ate today
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your best friend
Day 07 – A moment
Day 08 – Your siblings
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – 10 things you like
Day 11 – Your day
Day 12 – This week
Day 13 – Whay's in your bag
Day 14 – Christmas wishlist
Day 15 – Favorite blogs
Day 16 – What you wore today
Day 17 – Your room
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – What you wore today
Day 21 – Favorite vacation
Day 22 – This month
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your Day
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your aspirations
Day 30 – One last moment
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – What you ate today
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your best friend
Day 07 – A moment
Day 08 – Your siblings
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – 10 things you like
Day 11 – Your day
Day 12 – This week
Day 13 – Whay's in your bag
Day 14 – Christmas wishlist
Day 15 – Favorite blogs
Day 16 – What you wore today
Day 17 – Your room
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – What you wore today
Day 21 – Favorite vacation
Day 22 – This month
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your Day
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your aspirations
Day 30 – One last moment
2010-12-28
I'm so happy! Yesterday I got a package from Sweden, a very anticipated one full of swedish chocolate. When my Grandma Sandee called me and said there was a package down at the station, waiting for me, tears rolled down my cheeks. It was so nice to see my dad's handwriting on it and read the christmas card he had written! I don't know, but I never thought a card from my dad could be so appreciate as it was. Haha! I guess I didn't value that kind of things very much before I left, one more thing I have learned since I came here!
Had early pracice today, 8 a.m. Went home a bit after ten and fell asleep until noon when Jay came home and woke me up. Had some lunch with him and later, Lexi and I will go snowmobiling! I'm so excited. It was so cool last time and I want to do it every day. It's awesome!
I guess there's nothing more to tell you guys! Life's goes on here and I like it!
My new sweat pants and sweat shirt from Basketball! Swanville Bulldogs is the shit, you know ;)
xoxo
Oh Gosh, it's already 4:05 a.m and I haven't even gone to bed yet. I should be sleeping by this time of the day. The show that has kept me up all night is, of course, Gossip Girl. I can't believe that show has such an effect on me. I love that show, and every single episode has an ending which makes me want to see one more after the other, and that's how it keeps going until I realize that six hours have passed, without even knowing it. Strange but awesome. But that doesn't bugger me, I love it and why can't I watch it when I have break and no school? Life's great!
A perfect way to end a perfect day!
Carter and me are having a "Lord of the ring" marathon. I'm in my new snuggie, a blanket with arms!
Good night!
