well I have been very slack on the blogging lately, hope I can remember everything thats happened since my last post. Well I have changed host families, had a lovely send off from the Leijonhufvud family as we went out to dinner. So now I am back at the Steiner family where all is chaotic as usual with 6 of us kids running around, although now one cat less, but also as of last week with a puppy. Now dogs aren't really my favourite animal as a few of you may know, and so I was rather worried about a rotweiler joining the family but she is just so cute! Other than the fact that she uses the kitchen floor as a bathroom.
Well I had a couple of days staying with Adele, I arrived to her town at about 10 on the sunday and we just chilled out for awhile catching up then had lunch with her family which was moose pattys!!! Finally I have eaten moose! Yum! Then we joined 2 of her friends and spent the afternoon/evening in the spa/sauna and did the whole run from the hot hot sauna and jump in the freeeeeeeeeeeeeezing cold pool.Then watched a movie in the evening. On the monday Adele's host sister Hedwig drove us and a friend to stockholm for a day trip where Adele and I met up with two exchange students who we met on eurotour, Stephanie from Brazil and Megan from Australia, which was lots of fun. We would be looking through shops and then just have to leave and go have a coffee because we would jsut be standing talking the whole time! haha so was lovely catching up with them. Then on tuesday Adele and I just relaxed and hung out that day. On the trip home cancelled trains plus a confused little kiwi resulted in me staying at alana's house that night instead of my own, so was nice to see her again.
The rest of the one week holiday wasnt terribly exciting, and then it was back to school. Last weekend, Will, josh, Ngaire, Natalie, Alana and myself got together in Lund for one last get together before we all go home. You see we are all the aussies and kiwis who arrived in a certain area of sweden at the start of the year and had language camp together and ski trip and eurotour etc so we have seen eachother through the year and had a fun weekend to say goodbye. Strange already saying goodbye to people! Anywho Johan, who was an exchange student in Alana's district was also with us. It was a good weekend, met up late saturday arvo and did the usual 18year old thing on a saturday night and then recovered at Expresso House, a popular cafe) all sunday. Great times :D
Yesterday Anna and I went to a scrapbooking class for 3 hours which was so much fun. Not quite up to Grandma's standard but its a start! I have a whole new appreciation for all you scrapbookers out there! Anywho Anna is close friends with the instructor and so we are going to get together through the week casually which will be fun as these cold winter nights get colder and darker!
Speaking of which its getting darker earlier and earlier again and lighter later and later. It feels like 9pm at 4pm! Crazy!
I feel as though I have done a lot more in the past weeks but nothing is coming to mind so I will leave it at that. On friday I am going to stay at Nikkis in Karlstad which is exciting.
Now here are photos loooooooooooooong overdue! Some dating back a couple of months! It is too hard to order them though so they are randomly
stephanie and adele
With Meaghan
host sisters
host parents
with sonja
my host sister anna from my second host family
friend Helena
with good friend Louise
exchange student get together with singstar
eating my cinnemon bun on cinnamon bun day
Helen came over from Denmark where she is on exchange to visit
Morgan Alana me Louise
Matt from France
Morgan and Alana
