Hello

I know I have promised to write about stuff but I never feel like writing anymore. I come up with a bunch of stuff to tell you about but then when I’m about to write I just don’t want to take time and write about it.

And I really don’t want to sound mean to you (everybody reading my blog) but it would be so much easier for me if you wrote your questions in a comment. That way I see them right before I write.

I’m going to tell you about homecoming now.

I really don’t know why you have homecoming but it’s almost an entire week of stuff. I don’t remember if I told you about it but I’m going to tell you again if I did.

You are supposed to dress up every day to school, every day a different theme. Monday was decade-day (dress like they did in the 50s, 60s, 70s and so on), Tuesday was western-day, wacky-Wednesday (dress as weird as you can), Thursday was color wars (seniors wear black, juniors wear white, freshmen wear gold/yellow and sophomores wear blue (I think), Friday you were suppose to wear blue and gold/yellow (the colors of the school.

 Friday was one of the big days of spirit week. All the classes were shorter so that we would have tome for a “meeting” with the whole school. Everybody did performances. Like the cheerleading team had a performance, the orchestra had one, the dance group had one and so on. They also pronounced who the homecoming king and queen was. The whole “meeting” was so cool! All of the students were excited and happy.

After the meeting it was a parade for the school. The cross-country group was going in the parade and so was all the other groups too. Since romana is in the “horse riding” team she was in the parade. All the groups were throwing out candy to all the children and hungry teenagers who were looking. Bethany, her new boyfriend and me took a lot of candy and after the parade we split it up. Haha, I have a lot of candy now!

After that it was time for the football game. That was so much fun! We came after half of it and to be honest I barley watched the game at all. We mostly went around a talked to people and it was so much fun. A lot of people think it’s so cool with exchange students so they had so many questions. After a while Cody and Jordan came too so that was a lot of fun. Cody is so funny! When the game was over did Romana have to go to her horse show and sleep there with the horses so Dave was going to come and get me and take me home. Dave is Tanya’s boyfriend and he is really nice. Jordan and Cody were very kind and waited with me until Dave came.

The "meeting"

 Me and Hunter (a friend of Romana who wanted to take a picture with a swedish girl haha)

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This is at the school "meeting". Betheny, me and Alicia

 

 

Me and Betheny (she had candy in her shirt)

 

 

Romana and me :D (and some guy that I don't know)

 

 On Saturday a girl came home to me and fixed my hair and make-up for the dance. Tanya drove me home to Desiree (an exchange student from Germany) there we waited for one more exchange student from Spain and we ate pizza together before the dance. I have friends from America too but a lot of them weren’t going for those who wonder. We went to the dance together and we met other friends there. When everyone had started to dance I can tell you that all the exchange students were chocked! We were chocked of the way they dance there. I’m not going to describe to you have they dance but one time the teachers stopped the music, turned the light on and told everyone that they were dancing inappropriate… Anyway, I had a lot of fun and I danced in my own way. 

This is Drew (Tanyas son), Lindsey (Tanyas daughter), me and Tanya before I was going to homecoming. I had already done my hair and make-up. More pictures of the dress and stuff I'll post tomorrow.

What is school compared to the Swedish school?

The school is very different. First of all don’t they have one group and then different subjects with that group. They have first one class that starts at 07:37 am. Then it’s is another class that starts later with a new group of people, like in high school movies. When the first two classes are over half of the school has lunch while the rest of the students have one more class. After that the switch. The lunch is also very different. There is a cafeteria where you eat food you brought to school or you can buy food. There is wraps to buy, pizza, cookies, ice cream, pasta and cheese and some other stuff. The wraps you get to decide what is going to be in them and which bread. They are really tasty I think. The lunch usually cost fewer than 4 dollars. There is also a school restaurant to buy food. They haven’t opened yet but they are opening on Tuesday next week. The restaurant is where I have my food service class. Right now we are learning how to make the food and when the open we get to make it. I don’t really know what you can buy there except for pizzas and wraps.

Have you visited the Amish people?

I haven’t gone to their house yet but I’ve talked to them. Perry is the name of one of them. He is a really good friend of the family I live in. His son is also a good friend but he left the Amish community to live like we do and therefore wont his family talk to him anymore. Perry tasted the chocolate from Sweden and loved it! 

Which subject to you have?

First hour I have astronomy, second hour I have graphics, third hour I have food service, forth hour I have earth science and fifth hour I have English. 

What do you do on the week-ends?

I do different stuff every week-end. This week-end we first went shopping (on Friday), then we went to Jordan’s work and talked to him and Nick a while. After that we went to Chloe’s bonfire and I met some nice people there.

On Saturday we went to Romana’s horse show. It was freezing and it rained. But I ate to huge and sooo tasty wraps and that was good. It’s also fun to see people ride western style.

On Sunday me and Tanya went to a meeting with our coordinator, Lisa, and some other exchange students. There were no one from Sweden but two from Norway. But I didn’t have time to talk to them. The meeting was mostly to help the student and the host parents to talk to each other about rules and stuff. 

What do you do after school?

After school I sometimes go to a store, or to Tanya’s work to talk to her, or to the gas station or something like that. Then we go home. Usually I and Romana get something to eat and watch TV a little while. After that we feed to horses and clean the stable. Today I painted the fence. I talk to my host mother sometimes about stuff. It depends on the day.

Show us pictures of your room!

Show us pictures of what you bought when you went shopping

Fashion!

Hello!

This post is about the fashion here.

The first thing I noticed when it comes to the fashion here is that it’s not very different. Some things that they wear here would some people in Sweden love to wear too. But mostly, the things that are in style right now here, has already been in style in Sweden.

Animal patterns are very much in style here, especially zebra patterns. Everyone loves it. When I came here my room was purple theme with zebra patterns. My towel, pillow, blanket, carpet is zebra patterns. A funny thing about that is a lot of girls have covers for their horses with it. So the horses look like zebra-horses, haha.

Another big thing here is bling-things (or whatever it’s called). Fake diamantes everywhere. They have it on their trousers, belts, big earrings with fake diamantes, bags and so on.

Sarah, you would love the horse things here!!!

They also wear more t-shirts and less “t-shirts without sleeves” like we do in Sweden. The trousers are, as you probably know, “baggier” and straighter than we have.

Almost everyone’s hair is so pretty here!!!

Hello!

I’m going to tell you how a normal day for me looks like (a request from my mum).

It usually starts with me waking up a 6 am (if I’m going to take a shower) or half past 7 if I’m not going to take a shower. Then I go downstairs and make my lunch (one sandwich with cheese and turkey, grapes and one energy bar), meanwhile I toast one bread slice for breakfast. When I’m done I go upstairs and finish my slice of bread while I do my hair and makeup.

Then me and Romana go to school (she drives us) and school starts at 07:37 so we’ll be there at around 07:27. I always go to my looker and leave my bag there and then go to my first class which is astronomy. The next class I graphics and that class have Romana too so we meet there and have graphics. After graphics I usually go to food service but now I think I have lunch instead. So I’ll go to lunch with Romana and after lunch I have food service. The class after that is earth science and the last one is English.

After school me and Romana go home and eat something and then feed the horses and stuff in the stable. Then I do homework, or we go somewhere or we sit and watch tv, or we ride.

That’s pretty much what a normal day looks like. But sometimes after school we go to the food store or the pharmacy or starbucks or something els.

That was Pringles who wanted to say hello by putting her paw on my keyboard.

She is so annoying sometimes but she is also so cute! She walks into room in the night and jumps on my bed (or on me) and scares me to death.

Yesterday I didn’t do much. Just school and then I and Romana rode a bit. When we put the horses in the pasture (or whatever it’s called), Ace (one of the horses) gets so happy so he starts to run and jump and stuff and Scooter (one of the dogs) likes to chase and play with him. But since Ace doesn’t really likes dogs he just runs without paying any attention to him and yesterday he ran over Scooter and kicked him in the head! Scooter rolled on the grass and then he got up and continued to run after Ace like nothing had happen. Crazy dog…

Today I’m going to make pancakes (Swedish style) so we’ll see how that goes… I’m not very good at that but
I’ll try. After that I have homework to do. Both in astronomy and earth science L

In food service today we made pizza! And we got to eat it after we were done! Yaay! I was really happy haha.

Bye! 

In just a few hours I’ll be heading to the airport with mum and dad. I just have a few things left to take care of and pack and after that I can try to sleep. I’ve got so many cute things from my wonderful friends; letters, pictures, candy, a necklace and a bracelet (which I’m wearing now) and some other things. Yesterday I said goodbye to my friends and it was so hard! I cried so much and I honestly thought that I didn’t have any tears left, until I had to say goodbye to Sarah. We both just stood there and cried and cried. I love them all so much!

I’m so excited to finally go and start my new life there! It will be great!! I’ll maybe write a post to my blog if I have internet at the airport. If not, I’ll write when I come home to my new house.

Bye for now! 

Hi!

Today I got my host family! It’s a mother and a daughter who live in Michigan. The daughter is one year younger than me and they both seem really nice. They have two dogs, 7 cats, 4 horses and a miniature pony. I’m going to fly to New York on Friday and spend the weekend there. Then the school starts on Tuesday. I’m really looking forward to it!

Bye!