Good Morning! This weekend has been very fun!

Friday Emilee, Cristi, and I had a doughnut competition! :D I won! It was so disgusting after a while! So sweet! Then we went to the mall and I bought some nice things! Converse, clothes and a belly ring. Then we went to see extraordinary measurements. So good and I really recommend you to see it!

Yesterday I was in a guitar competition but I got so nervous and played a lot of it wrong! xD but it is a good experience and I am so happy for one of my friends who won! Then Cristi and I have been fooling around with wigs! Awesome!

I send a birthday gift for Marlene and she got so happy so she made me so happy! Love you girl! <3

Well, next weekend is the winter dance! It is going to be so fun! I love my dress!

I am partying in the U S A!

Another week has passed by.. The time is going so fast! This week we had showcase in school. It is the biggest performance the school has during the year and all magnets are doing something in it. I was playing guitar with everyone from my magnet. Alena and I were the first exchange students to be in the showcase. She is in dance and all dancers were performing as well as all guitar students. It was really fun but exhausting. We started with checking sound and light Tuesday. We went directly after school and stayed until 8. Then the next day we went directly after school again but we did not finish until 10. Thursday was the performances. First we had one on the morning for all 8 graders that might going to go to BTW and it did not went that well. It was a lot mistakes with lights and sounds but it worked. Then we had a performance after school on the night and it went much better. It was around 1000 or more people watching each performance. I was not nervous at all until you were on stage and saw all this people. I was lucky, I was sitting in the middle on the back row and our teacher was standing in front of me conducting so it was hard to see me. It was really fun and they taped it so I hope we are going to watch it in school. Since I was playing I did not see all performances.

Friday, everybody was so tired and we did nothing. First period I had graphic art and my teacher was not there and I had no clued what to do so we were taking photos and half sleeping. The next period I had guitar and my guitar teacher was with some of the guitar students in another school playing for them, so practically we did nothing, well I did go and practice and I got some help with one of my pieces from another student and it really helped me a lot. The next period I had physical education and we did work out, not as hard as I usually do. I did 25 push ups in a row!! I am so happy! We are having a fitness test soon and I have to do 25 push ups without resting to get an A on that part and I did not think I could do it! Obviously I can! Then during my history class we played phase 10. It was fun and I am thinking of buying the game. I found some other games in the mall the other week that I am going to buy and give some friends in Sweden.

After school Kevin, Signe, Jeff and I went to Emilee and had a movie night. It was so fun just hanging out with some of my friends. We watched the latest Harry Potter movie which I had not seen so I enjoyed it even if the others had already seen it and thought that I was stupid when I asked obvious stuff. The all read the books and they all had seen the movie. I stopped reading the books in the beginning of the fourth one.

When I woke up Saturday morning I was sick. Not much just a little cold. Watch “It’s complicated” on the computer. I have missed the chick flicks a little. Host mom and Host dad hate the chick flicks so I never get to see them. Well I have seen some of them at Cristi’s house. On Monday is Martin Luther King’s birthday so we do not have any school. Wonderful! Just four days of school. I miss you all! Hope you are having a great time! I am indeed!

I liked this week! First Monday I had a great time with Kevin and Andrew at the mall. I found some presents for my dear ones at home.
Then school started again after a lovely vacation. It was not that bad, nice to meet all friends again but not very fun to go up early in the morning; Sooo hard since I have been sleeping so much during the vacation. Since it not very common with cold weather here the schools were closed Friday so we had a three day weekend. It was called a snow day, it was not any snow, just some ice on the roads. Nice to be home from school! I have spent the most of the weekend with Cristi at her house, made marshmallows and pancakes and some other things. We watched a lot of movies, probably like six movies. Last night I fell asleep at the movie I wanted to see the most. I got so mad; I will have to see it again. I also crocheted a scarf. It is cozy and Host Dad has lent me one of his jackets that is warm so now I am ready for the cold! They keep bugging me about that I am supposed to tolerate the cold better than everyone else since I am from Sweden but I keep telling them that is why I choose the Southern.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I know I am a little late and that I have not updated in a while.

Well tomorrow is the last day of my winter vacation and I am going to go and have fun with Kevin, Andrew and maybe some other girl that I do not know. We are going to ice skate! I did that last week and I really thought that I had lost all of my skills in it but it turned out that I actually could skate kind of good. Not super good but at least I did not fall and I could go in a pretty good speed.

Christmas was wonderful! Of course I missed my family and all traditions we have but I had a great time here in the US. A lot of new food that was amazing and I met a lot of new people in the family. I also got a lot of Christmas presents. Much more then I was expecting. I got a album where you can collect all the 50 states that are on the back of the quarters. I am half way and I really hope that I can finish it before I go home. That would be so cool! I also got a bracelet with American coins hanging down from it. I love it! I love all of my Christmas presents but I am not going to tell you about more.

New Year was so different from what I am used too, not just because Marlene was not there. New Year is not as big here in America; Christmas is the biggest one, so you do not celebrate it as much as in Europe. I got ready in one hour and a half, pretty good if you compare with last year. Ask Marlene for more information about that! After I got ready I went away to celebrate the New Year with Kevin and his family. I had peanut butter and jelly sandwich for the first time, let me just say that it was useful, I also had sloppy Joe’s for the first time. Yummy! We played super Mario on Wii, I was not very good and I died all the time. We also shot some fire works. They had a cracker that was 1000 cracker in it! It was long and it took a while for it to burn! Kevin’s mom had bought this New Year stuff, big 2010 glasses and necklace and hats and all so we looked kind of ready for the New Year to come. I did not ring in the year with them, I went home around eleven but I made Host Dad stay up and Host Mom ended up staying too. Well she was playing Farmville but at least she said Happy New Year when it was time for that.

Yesterday I stayed in my pajamas and watched One Tree Hill all day! Until there was no more episodes released. Next one is on TV tomorrow but we do not have the channel, but it will not take long until it is out on the internet.

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday and that you did not miss me too much!