I was just wondering if anyone actually reads my blog.  If you do can you make a comment.  I do not really care.  If no one comments I will still write because I know my mom reads it.  But I was just wondering if anyone else reads it.  So if you do please comment.  Like not a deep thought out comment just like Yes I read it.  That is all.

Sportlov

Pictures from top to bottom= Isak and Rasmus playing table top hockey, semi final.  Swedish chef and fruit salad.  The mountain.  My ski buddy.  Boys playing Grizzly Dumb.  My birthday breakfast.  Snow from the bus window.  Girls night with my besties.
So this week was sportlov which means sport break and I had no school.  On Friday Jessica and Rachel slept over which was really, really fun.  We talked about pretty much everything and ate lots of junk food.  Then on Sunday I went to Sälen with PeOs churchs youth group to go skiing for the week.   It took like 5 hours to get there and when we got there my group had to make supper, but it was really easy because all we had to do was microwave the premade food.  The place we stayed was pretty nice.  It was like a hostel but we were the only ones there.

Monday was my Birthday.  I got breakfast in bed and they sang to me in the morning.  Plus I had to wear a neon vest all day that said it was my birthday.  Monday was our first day of skiing and I realized I cannot ski.  Even on their tiny little hills.  But it was okay because I hung out with PeOs daughter and we stopped skiing after lunch.  Their mountains are not very big.  At night we watched The Chronicles of Narnia and talked about how it related to God.  Then we played games and stuff and I won the ice cream eating race.  But then I got like gum disease.  It was gross.  Everyday they had Dagens Dansk where they would each tell their story about something a Danish person did and then we would vote which one was best.  I saw a woman with her helmet on upside down.  It was very Christian of us to make fun of the Danish.

On Tuesday I only went skiing in the after noon and I convinced this one guy from my class, Isak, to go skiing with me.  It was fun.  We went on all the green runs.  After skiing Isak and I played cards and I taught him Grizzly Dumb,  the game that all of us exchangers play where you try to get your queen to the king.  Then all the boys started playing it.  It was so funny.  I took lots of pictures of them all trying to find their future wives.  Then we watched more of the movie and prayed some more.  

On Wednesday I went skiing in the afternoon alone.  I was supposed to meet the others for fika, but could not find the place so I just went home and showered and knitted.  When they came back Isak and I played cards some more and they had a table hockey tournament.  Then we had supper and it was my groups night to provide the entertainment so we had a disco.  It was lots of fun.  Oh and they played fruit salad which was disgusting.  Four people chewed and then spit out fruit into a bowl.  Then Måns ate it.  I almost threw up.  Thursday was out last day of skiing and Isak and I went in the afternoon.  Then I watched them all race, but got really cold just sitting there so I went a little on my own and then returned my skis.  I went back showered, then went to the Sälen store and bought a hoody so I would always remember my awesome ski trip.  It was lots of fun apart from the whole skiing part.  

We drove home on Friday which was fun because we watched good movies and I got to sleep.

On Saturday I went to Göteborg with Rachel and Justin.  We went shopping a little bit and Justin bought me my birthday present.  Then we had Indian food for supper.  It was pretty good for Sweden.  But it was lots of fun talking to them.  And we found an English Store that we are going to go to next time.  We did not go yesterday because my tummy hurt and by the time we got there it was closed.  We had to take the trolly thing.  We are getting so good at getting around Göteborg.  Yay us!  When we were heading to the station we saw recorder lady, the lady who sits and plays recorder all the time for money and we decided to buy her something to eat but the only place open was McDonalds.  So we bought her a cheeseburger and apple pie.  When we took it to her she like blessed us in her language.  I was happy that she was happy.  Oh yeah and in Goteborg we saw these guys with Guy Fox masks on who were protesting Scientology and then we went to the Scientology church because we wanted to see inside.  But you had to ring a bell to get let in so we stood outside for awhile trying to decide whether to ring it our not.  Then we finally did, and Rachel spoke, but they did not understand so we did not get in.  It was sunny in Göteborg so we just stood in the sun for a little and today it was sunny here so I went for a walk with my host mom.  It was really cool in the mountains because there was like actually real amounts of snow and it was nice out too.  It kind of made me sad at first because it reminded me of home.  But then yesterday on the train I was so happy that I almost wanted to cry.  I like it here now and am happy.  Okay that is all.  I was told I write too much so I tried to cut it down today.

Okay so I haven't written in like a month and I am a bad person.

Let's see what has happened in January.  I moved, but you knew that.  I like my knew house with my little apartment like area and it is nice on the lake.  It is pretty.

So school was the same pretty much as before Christmas.  But now I have only one class on Mondays from 8:15 to 9:20 so last week I started working at my host mom's daycare.  It was lots of fun and I think I learned more Swedish there than I do at school.  Because the little girls say things and if I don't understand get all cranky and little girlish and say "you don't understand do you"  with a smirk.  But now I have learned how to say lose your teeth and all about different animals.  There was one little boy there who doesn't speak very much either and we are kind of like best friends now.  

But before last week lets see what I did.  Justin slept over on the 16th and then we went to Göteborg with Jessica and her friend from Belgium on Saturday.  It was kind of fun but I was kind of sick so I was rather tired.  But we saw Nazis again.  This time they had done something bad but we did not see what they did we just saw when they were lined up against the wall being frisked by the police.  There were lots of police and a police dog.  It was rather exciting.  But they were just taken away and we were getting hungry so we went into the mall and ate at Pizza Hut.  It was fun to eat in a Pizza Hut, but it was not really the same as at home.  When we finished eating we came out and there were no more Nazis.  I wanted to go home early because I did not feel well so Justin and I went home early.  Justin went back to Lidköping and I went to watch Erik, Calle and Antons band play.  They are really good.  I quite enjoyed it.  Then we went to Eriks house after and had and after party.  

Then that week at choir I started my first Swedish Solo.  It did not go so well the first time, but I think I am getting better.  Carros 18th birthday was that Friday so we had a party at her house.  It was really fun.  I love the boys in my class, well and the girls too.  We sat around and talked about what I like about Sweden and what I thought.  And they asked me if they saved up money for me if I would come back next year to go on the class trip to Germany.  It almost made me cry.  I love them so much now.  On Saturday I went to Hjo and watched the boys play again.  I went with Carro.  We are like groupies now.  

I have also started being really nerdy again.  Swedish school is rather under stimulating so I have started researching stuff like UN missions and stuff.  And I have started to write a paper comparing Queen Elizabeths rule to Catherine the Greats.  Yeah kind of lame but I think that it makes me happier to actually use my brain again.  Plus it is good practice for next year.

On Wednesdays I finish school at like 11 or something.  I have started going to Religion which is interesting.  But now Jessica and I meet in Skövde earlier on Wednesdays and fika.  I love talking to here.  And I love Canada.  Canada is really awesome.  I have decided.  But we found this new little cafe in Skövde with lots of good stuff and we go there a lot now and have made friends with the guy who works there.  But I am pretty sure he still thinks we are American even though we have told him a bunch that we are Canadians.  Last Thursday I watched the boys play in Skövde again.  They were good but the other bands were a little scary.  But on the bus home I talked to Erika all in Swedish and it was so fun.  I think she was a little surprised at how much Swedish I could actually speak because everyone speaks English to me so I never really get a chance to speak Swedish.  

This weekend I went to a folk music festival in Vara with my host parents because my host mom plays the accordion and my host dad plays the bass.  It was fun.  I played the accordion and sang, but it was really hard to learn the songs because we did not get the words written down, she just sang them to us and then we had to sing them back.  So I made up some words and hummed a lot.  But it was cool to listen to.  

Yesterday was Justin's Birthday so Jessica and I went to Lidköping to see him and Rachel.  It was fun.  Lidköping is so much cooler than Tibro.  Well it is a lot bigger at least.  We had sushi and then fikad.  And saw their school and stuff.  It was nice to visit with them.  I like them.  We have a small but awesome district.  I wish the Ausies were closer because I am a little afraid they might feel left out because we always hang out but we cant hang out with them because they are so far away.  Oh well I invited them to Göteborg on Valentines day.  But they have each other so hopefully they are good.

Okay so that is what happened in January.

I am going to make soup because I am sick