Monday, December 6, 2010

Sunday and Monday :D Pepparkakshus

Beauty.
Oh yes, we did this!

The magic happening!


One mini snow plow giving another mini snow plow a jump :D made my day



This is an example in my math book, I just thought it was funny because I don't think that there would be any refference to alcohol at all in any American school book.










Kajsa wth the pieced together pepparkakshus, we had to put some of the broken pieces together with melted sugar.






Fire effects ;D
















how far I was actually.









The host in the white jacket.










Well we can start with Sunday, I took Sunday morning to sleep in. I mean, I need to sleep, I am a, hopefully, growing young man sleep is nice. I woke up at about 12:30 in the afternoon and had some breakfast, Tommy greeted me with a good morning and a chuckle, I think that's because it was afternoon. I chilled out at home, uploaded all those pics and then went into town. I called Caitlin up and she was in town so I figured I would go in early then I had planned before. I knew I was going to go into town because it was O' Helga Natt, (O' Holy Night) and there was going to be a big concert and a lot of people there. I went in and met Caitlin at around four and went to go see Eva and to pick up my monthly allowance! It is a nice time when I get a little money, my cell phone starts working again and I get the possibilities of a few fika's. I met Gunn uptown a right after that, the concert happened right in the town square and I found out on Monday that there were over 30,000 people there and you could definately tell, Caitlin and I couldn't get through anywhere. Gunn was near the stage selling candles for a Rotary project, there were a lot of Rotary people around town selling candles everywhere. I thought that I was going to help but I found out they didn't really need me and they didn't have a jacket for me anyway, haha. After meeting up with Gunn we went back around the croud to a place where we could see the stage. There were a few famous Swedish people there singing and hosting the event, there were TV camera's everywhere and they were all recording, this event is going to be broadcast all over sweden on the big Christmas day which is the 24th. After the concert Caitlin and I met up with Gunn and her son's and her son's girlfriend and sister. I finally met Niklas, he is 26 and a really nice guy. He lived in London for two years so he had a british accent and some good stories. After we had a nice fika at a little café Gunn and I went home. Once we were home we began construction on the pepparkakshus! A pepparkakshus is the same as a ginger bread house but it is made out of pepparkaka which is a little different I think then ginger bread. We simply put the thing up and let it all dry so we could finish decorating it on Monday! Sunday, great, great day.






















Monday, also a good day. Starts off early at 6:20 but hey, that's no problem in Lakeview I did that every week day, I love Sweden by the way! I caught the bus as normal and walked to school like normal. School was pretty normal today, one of my class mates just got back fro Abu Dabi (spelling) and so it was kinda fun to talk to him about that. I liked it though, it was a good day. After school I went up town and got my cell phone working again with this new month money. I then met up with Caitlin and went to her house for a little bit before heading home, we ate a little pizza and watched some cool Swedish TV. I went home and it was time, time for the house. The pepparkakshus was ready to be decorated. Kajsa and I were taking it on as our project I think, we, mostly she, made some frosting and decorated that thing like crazy. I think it may have been one of the fun/funniest times here. I enjoyed making the thing because I haven't gotten to in a few years, and it feels better if you have a little sister to do it with, then it wasn't just for my amusement. After dinner I came to write in this and chill out. It's been a good day! All in all a great weekend!

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Pictures! Bilder!

I hope you enjoy all of these pictures!!



Horseback riding adventure!
I don't know if you can tell but I am rattled here :D it was a lot of fun and I want to do it again but it was really really cold!!!















More good food!





























This is the youth choir!













































Good food!




























Thanksgiving in a box!















I don't know if I talked about this before but I got this package on Thursday, I think. Mom sent me this and I was so happy to get it because it literally is Thanksgiving in a box. Caitlin and I will be making dinner for our families in the near future, Thanksgiving is all about the food, we can do it on any day! Thanks so much Mom!!!!































My bus, I ride this thing everyday to school now :D
















Made this all myself, oh ya.

















Someone played a little concert in my school on Friday during the day, it was a student!! So cool.


















Somebody put my newspaper article in up in Virginska!








































Here is a cake that Andreas parent's got when they bought their car!! Delicous!





















Candle making good times!







































































Making the candles :D

























Caitlin came for a quick fika.


























These are pictures from the weekend, some of them I took and some of them I got from friends, they are really out of order! It was a fun weekend.


















































This one is right before we went home, we were waiting for trains and such.



























Hangin out at the hostel.






















































We just saw Santa, like a real Santa, not some guy dressed up like him, just a normal guy who looked exactly like him.




























































This is a christmas market, there were a lot of good things like this everywhere!































These are all the oldies, giving us advice and stuff :D
































Giovanna, "fixing" my hair.

































This is when we first showed up in the central station at Stockholm.






































































Corbin sleeping in the hostel.




































View of outside our room.





































Fika with almost everyone.














































































The ice thing that I can't remember the name of now :O








































Canadians :D






























Santa's pepparkaka workshop!






Caitlin.





































































When we first showed up at about 6:20am!












































This is Skrika, the concert that Caitlin sang in! Really, really good!




























































































I had to give Forss, one of the kids in my group my camera for the weekend so he could edit the film into our video and I got my camera back with these pictures on it. (hahahahahahaha)





































































































































































































This is the political building in Örebro, they do an advent calander in it during the holiday times pretty cool!



















































Caitlin and I made ourself this great potatoe thing dinner!! It's the little things...

























































































































































































































Here are the four of us guys that made Romeo and Juliet! There was a girl too but I don't have a picture of her...