Happy Birthday Lovisa!!!

Last night/this morning we got to celebrate Lovisa's 18th Birthday!! Yaya! It started at 6 where all the girls came over and had dinner then boys came around 8:30. Definitely loved having dinner with just girls though. There were even speeches and singing and games. Then the guys came and started the party:) It was fun, alot of fun "high school" drama, but fun. I'm not going to lie, but it seems to be hard for young adults to have a party without an alchoholic beverage so me and Jessika thought why not prove them wrong! Jessika ended up making beautiful drinks that were tasty and not alcholic:)

Saturday!!

I caught up with Nathalie one of my oldest friends Saturday moring to hang out. We ended up going to Pelle Svanslös a play she was going to work at. It was only an hour long play played by 10 to 16 year old actors and actressess. Pelle Svanslös(meaning=Pelle Has No Tail) is pretty much another version of the ugly duckling but with cats instead. It was soo cute!! Theo's(alfalfa's) little brother played Pelle.
We walked back through town afterwards to find something for me to wear for Lovisa's B-Day party, But could never find anything. Nathalie ended up saving my night by letting me borrow something she had that was SUPERCUTE!
I ended up getting home at 4:40, where I was supposed to meet Nina in exactly an hour, and i was no where near close to be done. That's awesome. Anders and Ulla got to watch me run through the house trying to get ready as fast as humanly possible!

Friday!!!

Friday after school I went shopping with Nina and Vickan. We pretty much went to every little store in town. Including the little purse store(where my mom had her first job). It turns out that little store is closing down after 40 long years...So sad... We ran into Camilla and Daniel in their class, not much more happened while in town then.

BUT LATER, around 9ish Nina picked me up to go meet lovisa and jessica to see TWILIGHT!!!! OMGOMGOMG!!! Definitely a new favorite movie.

Edward kind of actally looks creepy in this picture^He doesn't look that scary in the movie.

Make Linköping Seem a Little Bit Brighter!

Another school day with cold weather and alot of wetness. My weekend is completely planned already, soo excited. I was planned to go to something called Tjejkväll in Town, but me and Ulla both agreed on not going through with it. I'm thinking Novemeber should be nicknamed Sleepy Month. Its the first time the sun starts leaving earlier and coming later...Not exactly the most enthusiastic days of the year.

So today is Thanksgiving in America. Weird!! I got the opportunity to see most of my amazing family through skype tonight and it was totally amazing. I love all of them soo much. I can't wait to be able to see them in a year:)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

It's the 4th Thursday of November, and the first Thanksgiving ever that I've not been in the United States of America.

LHC vs. Modo

My class has a tradition of going to one hockey game together every year. So I got to go with them:)

It ended 4-1 to Modo. Not exactly the ending we hoped for, but it was fun:)

A Day of Snow in Linköping!!

Some quick pts. of the day:

• I looked outside to see that there was snow and more snow falling down.

  

• I took the for the first time ever!!!......I took the bus all by myself...yay.. You have to slide a card t be able to go on the bus( I put it in wrong twice). I got off at the wrong stop and ended up walking a distance to school;) I just got to nervous. The button your supposed to push to get off the bus looked to scary to me. Other than that it went quite well:) I had Chemistry and Physics today.

• Got tickets for hockey game tomorrow: Linköping vs. Modo.

• Still snowing.
• I took the bus home w/ the company of Alex & Viktoria. fun. fun.
• Still snowing.
• Cleaned my room...finally... from some help of Allison while getting into the Christmas spirit by listening to Christmas music on the radio:)

"Common, Simple, Beautiful"

^Love Her!! ^

My Wonderful Exhausting Stressful Weekend

This weekend, well since Friday, has definitely been a little of everything. Friday was the Häfvet thing, Saturday was a movie/game night, and today was taking a break for the rest of the week.Häfvet was different, fun, but different. The night started by going to Lovisa's house/room...I don't really want to say it, but I'm thinking hanging out at Lovisas house might of been a little bit more fun than going to Maxim(the club). It was freezing and on the way home it actually started snowing a little bit, not so fun when you only have a pair of tights on...

Last night was exactly what I needed after the night out. Just hanging out at a friends house:) Ice cream, game(charades but with only words), and the movie Hitch. When I got home YouTube live was on, who knew soo many different kinds of talents were/are hiding on youtube?

I'm an Exchange Student

The day after Calles Halloween party. We got rid of everything that has to do with Halloween and put everything up that looks like Christmas. It was actually really hard to help put most of the stuff up. It was just wierd...

~*Here's a quote from the conversation I had with Katelyn and Hannah, "I miss Target telling me what Holiday it is!"

Is it Frost or Snow?

This morning I lost track of time. As usual.. I couldn't stop pressing the snooze button:) As I finally rushed out the door ready to leave. This is what I saw....

...Snow/Frost!!!

I got excited today telling people that there was snow outside...some said back yay, and some responded w/ it not snow it frost! I personally like to call it snow:) Today at school i got to make my mini speech in psychology. It was kind of fun... I definitely felt that I could of done better, but my group thought it went well. *Funny* thing happened today that I think most likely could only happen in Sweden. At the end of the day I was sitting in the hallway with some friends and all of a sudden a guy come into the hallway with an accordion and starts playing for some of his friends...I'm quite sure that most likely would not happen at Southwest Christian School.

Actually at this very moment its snowing outside my window!!!

Tonight is Katedral vs. Berzelius Skolan to see who can drink the most! The craziest thing about this competition isn't the fact that it's high school students seeing who can kill the most brain cells, but the fact that the money made from tonight is going to the schools...meaning that the schools know about this event! In Texas this would be treated very differently I believe...

Babysitting:)

Thursday night, last night, while Ulla and Anders(my host parents) were at the opera, I had the great plessure of babysitting Calle(my cousin). It was fun:) Me and Calle got presents from Ulla and Anders. Calle got some candy & pokemon stuff, and I got the BEST thing ever..kind of.. I got a bus card!! I'm soo excited. I was thinking about using it for today, but I didn't have the guts. I'm a little scared...Well after a movie and decorating for Calles Halloween party for tonight, it was time for him to go to bed. Klara came over to work on a psychology project we have and when we finished she ended up helping to decorate. It made me really miss halloween in texas. Before Calle went to bed..him and Klara teamed up to freak me out, by tossing spiders at me..so not cool!!

News!!

I'm going to the Chris Brown Concert!! Last night I got a text from Nina, saying that she had officially purchased the tickets for the Chris Brown concert January 23rd in Stockholm!!

And something I have been waiting for has finally arrived the premiere of Twilight! Because I can't see it by myself I am trying to be patient enough to see it tomorrow w/ friends:) Can't wait!!

Studiedag

In Sweden schools have something called studiedag, when translated means day to study pretty much. School is cancelled is cancelled for all high school students. There scattered through out the year, and now Katedralskolan has been lucky enough to have to of them this week:) Yesterday and today. I went to Klaras house yesterday to work a bipolar project thats due Friday.
It turns out that there is going to be Chris Brown concert in the end of Janurary, that I'm totally hoping I'll be able to go to...
-----The "I Hate Spiders Story"- So my cousins having a Halloween party on Friday and well they've started to take out all the decorations. He ended up finding a huge disgusting spider!!! He thought it was funny when he came in my room and started throwing it at me, until I started crying....Well the next happened jus last night when i got home from Klaras house around midnight, so i was ready for bed.. Right when pulled off the blanket to go into bed the spider was hiding there!!!! It took 5 minutes by itself just to take a magazine to hit it out...and that is how you ruin a good night.....

Oh & It Snowed Today!!!!

Don't Be Fooled by the Blue Sky!

My plan for this morning was to take the bus, but the sun ended up shining so I rode my bike instead. As soon as I got outside I noticed the saddle on my bike was covered in ice from last night. Not exactly the coolest thing ever, well close, maybe;)

By the time I got to school, I was happy to go into a warm building. It turns out that everyones getting sick now...soo sad...4 people were missing from just my class.

On the menu for dinner were the delicious Waffles! Its right up there with pancakes:)

Skypers!!

Last night was a good night to socialize with family & friends home in Texas:)
*Funny Quote By Buddy(guy on bottom right)* If I had a nickel for every person who asked to look at their

blog I would have 5 cents by now.

Texans vs. Californians

Heres a website to hear my friend Buie fight for Texas: http://ksquaredradio.blogspot.com/

NovemberLjus

Last night I was invited to go something called NovemberLjus, which in english means November Lights. So around 7:30 P.M., I rode my bike to town to meet up with some friends to walk this trail of lights:) So pretty!!

Popcorn&SwedishCandy

Yesterday I ended up only having psychology, where we got to learn of gross techniques to get rid of mental illnesses from the 40's. The funny thing about this was that we saw the same movie I saw when I was in psychology las year, when I was going to SCS. Weird!!! We got to learn about phobias and OCD too. Well after the "long" day at school me, Lovisa, Klara, and Jessika, walked into town to have lunch and go some shopping. *Funny story: Jessika was explaining how Klara, Lovisa, and Einstein were born late. Then I asked who Einstein was. At the exact same second all three of them looked at me w/ the exact same stare. Then I felt stupid, I thought there was someone in our class nicknamed Einstein or something. Didn't exactly feel awesome when they were actually talking about the Genius Einstein:)* Oh well..like goes on and I learn from my mistakes;) Last night I ended up having some friends over for Idol 2008 and Sex and the City. It's always nice to take a break from a long week...Today I'm feeling its another good day to be spent on applications...

High School Musical=Britannia High

Britannia High is a show thats aired in the UK and is pretty much high school musical in a show. Its definitely a new favorite:) I usually don't watch that much TV;), but I thought this earned its own post.

Wake Up

Changing Man

Start of Something

Watch This Space

Yesterday and Today

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Started the day off rushing out the door to make it to my physics class, where not much happened. Most of the people in my class i think were stressing out about the math test today. We got to have a little break with fika(break for coffee\tea and pastries) again. It's going to be weird going back to Texas where its not exactly normal with fika. I had language history and then math, where it took 10 minutes finally figure out that it wasn't going to work with the whole math test thing. So I got to leave early:) But my goal for this month, other than finishing all my applications for college is definitely trying to learn and understand their math. Tonight for dinner was the wonderful swedish pancakes. For sure the greatest thing possible. I ended up getting to make them. Not exactly the prettiest pancakes ever made, but they were at least eatable. Thats always a plus.

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Yesterday I only had 2 late classes so I got to sleep in a while, but when I woke up it didn't feel like I slept in at all. First chemistry then Swedish class(its for people that swedish as a second language). I had a huge break b\t those to classes! An entire 2 hours to do whatever, so I thought why not after 10 years of not understanding minesweeper learn today. I got the honor of being taught by the master himself Theodore Nilsson:)...In swedish class we got to tell stories in front of the class all in swedish. Some told fairytales, some told their own fiction stories, and some true stories. They were all great. The only thing worse than waking early in the morning for school, is leaving from school late where its black outside. Now it's geting dark at just 16.30. Not much other than that happened.

^above a picture taken last wednesday the day we came back from Spain^

Rain, Rain Please Go Away

As soon as I got to school today it started to rain, so I just got to hope on that the rain would leave before I had to go home, but why would the rain want to go away? It felt like the rain just felt like pouring harder than ever when we got to leave. Cute picture to the left. Its Fredrik and Lovisa, I couldn't not take a picture. I was supposed to be at school today from 8:10 till 17(5 P.M.) today, but because there was an open house today at school my last period class from 2 to 5 was cancelled:) If it wasn't raining it would have been a wonderful day. Me and Klara shared a rainy bike ride home to her house where we found Theo creeping by the window. We got to make a yummy chocolate cake, and played some awesome Dance, Dance Revolution. Too cool for school. It's been a long while since I played. I think the last time I played was actually at Allisons house, before I left for Sweden. I'm quite sure actually. Oh, the yearbook came out. The swedish yearbook is a little different than the senior portrait, school team, and prom queens yearbook we have in Texas. It includes every Gymnasium(High School) in the Linköping area. Not as personal. Here's a sweet picture of my new class:)