I don't really know what animal this is supposed to be but it is huge ad very cool and something about Christmas!
Well I can start with Tuesday I guess because that is wher I left off! Tuesday, what happened on Tuesday? Yes, I remember now, I went and toured an architecure firm! Caitlin has a man in her Rotary club that works there and is the boss and so we got to tour it. It is called White and they do mostly apartment buildings and big office type buildings so it was pretty cool to see that. I was at one point in my life really interested in being an architect so I am glad that I got to see that. After that, and that took a few hours to tour and look at so much stuff, I went to Karrolinska with Caitlin to eat lunch. I know a lot of people that go to Karro, somehow, and that was pretty cool because I got to see a little more of the school and I got to see a bunch of friends. After lunch and coffee at Karro I went back to Virginska for a few hours, I actually really enjoy going to school. Right when I walked in the door a friend of mine came up and asked if he could interview me for the radio, it was an assignment and he was going to ask kids from other countries how they celebrate Christmas. I told him a little about what we do in the US and he said that it will air this coming Tuesday on the real radio, that's pretty cool :D. After that I went to the gym for a little while and then home for about five minutes while I got my innebandy club and dropped some stuff off. I then went to play innebandy with Andreas and I was lucky because I was about half an hour late but they had been locked out and then two or three minutes after I showed up we got in! I am a lucky kid sometimes. After the innebandy all the other guys went to watch a soccer game but I promised some friends that I would come to their hockey game. I went to my first ever hockey game but I only watched two of the three periods but it was really interesting, hockey is a tough game. The hockey players have my respect from now on, there is a lot to that game.
Wednesday was all about the hockey. I woke up, went to basketball practice and then to my Rotary club meeting, that was pretty cool because we had a Sankta Lucia performance that was pretty entertaining. First there was a song performed by my new host mommy, Gunn, and a bunch of the other Rotarians, they did it quite well and I was very impressed with it all. Then the real Sankta Lucia girls came out and did a performance too, they sang many songs and did very well. I don't really understand the Sankta Lucia thing, I have heard a lot of different stories about it but nobody really knows for sure, I do know that she is Italian and not Swedish so I don't totally understand why they do it but I think they are one of the only countries who has this tradition. At any rate it was entertaining and I am happy to experience it because it is much different then what we do in the US of A. After that I back to my school to go to art, unfortunately art was already over because the Rotary meeting ran a little bit long. I did however meet up with my classmates and we went to buy tickets to the Gymnasium fest which is a school dance party that is happening on Tuesday the 21st of this month, it will be a lot of fun. I also bought a ticket to a concert for Håkan Hellström that will be happening in March. It was a semi expensive but definately worth it day, I've got some good friends that are going to both and so both will be a lot of fun guarenteed! After that I went home and waited for Nicholas to come and then we went to the hockey game. This was not a messing around hockey game, this was a pro game, serious stuff. It was a lot of fun, I have never really been to a hockey game except the day before and so this was pretty fun to go to. Nicholas friend came as well and he was a nice guy, there were over 3,000 people in the stadium I think so it was a pretty good game. Örebro won something like 5-2 so it was a great day and I was happy I finally went to a game where Örebro won significantly!
Thursday! I think the Thursday school day was pretty normal as in nothing extraordinary happened. I didn't take pictures of anything so there must not have been anything too amazing. After school I went home to see my little host sister, Kajsa, go and perform with her class in a little play! Woohoo, it was pretty cool actually, they were all in the same school, maybe in the same class, I am not totally sure. They were raising money for a class trip or something that they will do in a few years! It was really good, they did the whole Sankta Lucia thing and I was quite entertained! I had a good day!
Friday was a busy day! I woke up and was at basketball practice at 8am, I had practice and then hung around with some of the other players, Fredrik and Herman. I walked to school with those guys and we ate lunch. After that it was just a normal Friday, the sam as it always goes for me. Class and friends and school and stuff. After school I rode the bus home and waited for Nicholas to come and pick me up! That was then another adventure, we drove Gunn's volkswagen beetle to Kumla, Kumla is a town of 20,000 about 20 kilometers outside of Örebro, with five people in it, five guys. After that trip, which wasn't bad or anything just a little cramped, I went to a pizza place with Nicholas, his friend, and Nicholas' little brother. We ate kebab pizza, a lot of kebab pizza and then we went on our way to play innebandy! It was a fun little adventure playing with a totally full stomach of kebab! I had a lot of fun and then I went back to Örebro with Tommy, Tommy drove out there just to give me a ride, nice guy. I went home and dropped my stuff off and then went back into town to hang out with some friends from school for a few hours! Great day!
Saturday I woke up nice and not early at about noon, ate some breakfast/lunch and just acted lazy. I spent two hours what could have taken a half an hour, that's a good feeling! After that Gunn gave me a ride into town to actually buy my Håkan Hellström ticket, before I just reserved a ticket. I am lucky that Gunn gave me a ride because I actually walked in right as the people working at the place walked out to take the open flag down. I was lucky that they were nie enough to sell me the ticket anyway and then I didn't know what to do so I went to visit Eva! I visited Eva and just said hej and talked for a little bit. I then went to the bus stop to catch a ride home! I went home and got ready for Saturday night, I was going back to Kumla. Pauline, is a girl that contacted me a few weeks ago, she will go to the US next year and so we have gotten together a few times for fika! She was having a birthday party because she just turned 17 and she decided to make it a dress up. I went as a jock, that's easy and Americanish so that's how I went. She lives in Kumla so I needed to catch a bus ride out there. I rode my first bus out to Kumla and that was cool, I ended up at a bus stop in the city and I was all alone and had no idea where to go, luckily I knew help was on the way. I called Pauline on my way out there and she arranged for a few of her friends to give me a ride, really nice of them. We hung out, played games, had a birthday party like you are supposed to, there were only six of us so it was kind of a nice small little party! I could only come home on the bus at 9:30 or 12:30 and Gunn said it was ok if I took the 12:30 so thats what I did, the bus ride took forever. I think I got home around 1:30, I don't know why cause it only took about 20 minutes to get out there. The whole time I was scared I was going to miss my stop because they don't show which one is coming up on the out of town busses. It was a good day of chilling and stuf :D.
Sunday I again slept in for a while, because I can and because it is nice to do so! I then hung out at home like I should be doing on a nice Sunday afternoon and at 2:30 I went to get on a bus and meet Eva. Eva invited me to go to a Christmas play with her. I of course excepted that because I love to do everything and it turned out to be a really good play. It was the real Christmas story in a chuch. We were invited by a long time friend of Eva and we had fika and did the whole Swedish socializing thing, it was great. Eva then brought me home and I ate some more. I am a hungry kid, a really hungry kid these days, I don't know what's up with that. I then talked to my family in the US for a while and went to sleep, it was a good day!
Monday, I woke up and went to school bright and early, Mondays are a hard day, always. I met everybody in the morning and I watched some presentations in my sports health class, I will be doing a little presentation tomorrow! We then had datornkunscap and then math. After math we went to watch Lucia in the gym, I guess all schools do a Lucia thing on today, today is the Lucia day by the way December 13th, and that was pretty good. I then went home and took a nap and went back into town to meet Severin and hang out for a few hours, I was going to go to watch Caitlin do Sankta Lucia but it cost 80 krowns and I am tight on cash right now so I decided not to. I instead watched a real big official one on TV with Theresia. I then came home and have been writing in this blog ever since! It's been a good day, we got fika from school this morning too, I forgot to mentiont that, it was a Christmas fika with Christmas rolls and stuff! Good times, good day!
