122 days in!!!, Birthdays and other things...

Wow. I just cannot believe how much time has passed in my exchange allready! I left New Zealand on the 14th of January, arrived in Swedn of the 18th and its already May 14!!! 122/4 months! Just cant believe it, unfortunatley it means i only have about 8 months left...However in this time I have done so much,

• Taken the train, within sweden and overseas
• Been to Denmark, Poland, LA
• Taken a ferry to more than one country
  
• Spoken Swedish
  
• made many embarrassing swedish mistakes
  
• made many embarrassing english mistakes
  
• built a snowlady
  
• made a snow angel
  
• made friends with people from Canada, Switzerland, America, Australia,France....
  
• been skiing
  
• been to many places in Sweden including Stockholm, malmö
  
• been on a night train for 17 hours or so/slept on the train
  
• walked to school in the snow
  
• been barefeet in the snow
  
• gone sledding
  
• stared at one country while sitting in another
  
• had DAY TRIPS overseas ( Copenhagen )
  
• been to an orphanage
  
• worn mufti everyday to school
  
• used my mobile in class
  
• understood all that was going on in a SCIENCE class-and there was no english
• involved.thats impressive
  
• read in english while simultaniously speaking and listeningto swedish.
  
• seen a lot of sweden
  
• been hit by a biker
  
• made some great friends and had lots of fun.
  

so having lots of fun and most aspects are going really well, obviously not everthing can be perfect.

Well it was Emmys birthday yesterday and Antons birthday today so of course we woke them up early by walking into their room with pressies and singing and a a lit candle on their breaky. Can't wait for my turn! So had the family round to say happy birthday to them both yesterday...

my host dad göran and my host grandad jan who im going to DK with bike riding

Albin
Anton and John
with my lovely lovely host mother

preparing




the cool as candles

girls getting ready

So there you go, not too much to report really havnt done too much since stockholm, am joining a sports team among other changes soon to be made, getting exciting with eurotour creeping closer etc

Well there you go!

Puss och Kram

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Update, Stockholm & Göteberg...

Hey guys,

Well summer is on its way!!! Its getting very warm, had a couple of days with 17 or so degrees! Its fantastic, time to get this pasty body tanned!!!

Well since my last update I have been to a Monster Trucks show with the fam..

with albin
Brittany and Emmy

I have had a couple days in the göteberg area, the Australien Embassy in Sweden held an ANZAC day service which i attended with Alana, belinda, erika (nz) and will,adele and ella ( australia) Alana and I took the train together to Varberg to stay with Will on the thursday afternoon, getting there about half past 4 and so had a wee look around the little town which i thought was really cute and lovely. On the friday we headed up to göteberg where we met adele and ella at the trams and together got the area where the ceremony was to take place. however when we got off the train the map of the area had no pictures or words just numbers and no key! Completly useless!!! Thank goodness we had left a lot of time to get there as we only just made it on time despite having half an hour for what was meant to be an 8 minute walk! But we finally found the cemetary where Belinda and Erika were also. As New Zealand has no representation in Sweden as of yet, Erika and Belinda were asked to carry the nz wreath and place it on the cenotaph during the ceremony...

Belinda and Erika...
cenotaph

nz wreath
ribbon close up...

The service was really cool to go to, it was a little reminder of home with the last post etc. we had been invited to the reception afterwards which was back i stan so we got lifts with some people from the service. It was quite nice to socialise with the aussies etc, a bit of normacly with the slang language etc so that was pretty cool...

It was lovely weather over the time we were there and after the reception it was nice to have a wee look through the shops of göteberg..

myself, will and alana

alana and i
Erika and alana, NZ pride

Group photo! Belinda, me,will, lana, erika

me and alana again

and again! haha

the river...

buildings on a street...exciting i know :P ....

Well headed back on saturday for Brittany's Birthday dinner that night may post photos of that later. Sunday was recovery day! I had to be ready for an early monday morning start for Stockholm! hooray!!!

So left the house at 8am for the train to stockholm, i went with my rotary district which meant two woman birgetta and dagmarr who were our 'teacher' people and the 6 of us exchange students in my district, Jacquelyn, Brittany, Greg, Stacey, Natalie and myself along with Alana who managed to tag along too. we met in Lund and began the 6 hourish train ride to stockholm which passed pretty quickly

Alana, myself, jacquelyn

Jacquelyn, alana, Brittany and Stacey

Jacquelyn, lana and britt

jac and i

We got to Stockholm at about 3.30/4 and between then and 3.30 thursday arvo when we left again we saw several museums, ate out, shopped, had a nosey round and went to the Kings birthday celebration. that was actually the reason/exscuse for us to go as it was the kings birthday on wednesday meaning a public holiday on the wed and thursday and because friday was inbetween the weekend as those public holidays it meant no school friday also!hooray! haha

alana and jac

the girls

britt me and stace

natalie and i next to the a carriage from waaaaaaaaay back in the day. was so beautiful the old royal family would have been pretty cool cruising round in this!

our ride wasnt quite so flash..at the zoo museum sitting on the huge dalahåst. all the kids in sweden have one to represent their playtime etc, its quite a swedish symbol.

in the lift...

Greg and Brittany

Greg Britt and Jac

group photo

Jacquelyn, lana and brittany

Jac and Alana

Jac and Britt

The Gold room in the city hall

marching band at the kings birthday....

the king..

recieving flowers from all the kids

dressing up in the clothes of hundreds of years ago

I am having a really good time here in sweden still, 3 weeks till summer break in which i am cycling round denmark, eurotour and much more so its all happening,

untill next time...

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