Hi! Today have been an awesome day! It was only a half day in school today, and by that I really mean HALF DAY, we literally had all klasses for 30 minutes each. It was interesting and really chill! It should always be like that!

At the teenage issues we did american pancakes and just talked. Me and Nora tried to make swedish pancakes from the american batter, but it did not turn out that well..

 

After school Me and Nora whent to the 5th Avenue Mall. We spent the whole afternoon shopping, and we fould lots of nice stuffs for so cheap prices! For example, at Abercrombie and Fitch I found a really cute top at sale for only 9 dollars, that is like 55kr! And Nora found a west at 40% sale. 

We also had some vegetarian sushi, and some Starbucks coffee.

We had so much fun!

 

Monday: I whent to the gym to do a boot-camp, and after that Harrison came and picked me up, and we whent to the cinema! We saw "Gravity", it was a really good movie! I don't know if it is out wet in sweden, but if it is you should all go and se it!

 

 

 

This sunday I whent to the mall to buy a new pair of jeans, which I found on sale on American eagle outfitters. I also found these nice Body Mists on The Body Shop! I got a really good deal where I bought 2 and got 2 for free (I´m not kidding), so I bought these 3 perfumes and a hand lotion, (I could pick whatever I wanted as the 2 extra thigs from the store that was in the same price range as the perfumes).

 

Hi! Yesterday at 10pm while I was sitting in the sofa and watched Modern Family my hostparents said that we probably could se the northern light if we whent to a darker place! We packed our cameras and putted on the warmest clothings we could find and drove about 40 minutes away from the town out in nowhere. We were not the only photographers who was there, but we had a very good spot. We fixed our cameras and waited for the lights to begin. That awesome amazing northern light that you can se on google never came, but I could clearly se a green shimmer around the mountains siluetts. 

 

 

Hi! Today I have been in the 5th Avenue Mall here in Anchorage and bought a pair of new jeans, and some perfumes on The Body Shop, just so you know! I´ll show it to you tomorrow, it is to dark to take pics on them now, but I can tell you that one of the perfumes smells like coffee, another smells like ginger and flowers and the third says that it smells like India, and I think it does. Awesome smells!

 

I have also been taking Noras yearbook photos! She came o me at 4 and Kristie and Daniel helped us to fix the photo studio. The photos ended up really good, and here is some of them:

 

Today we had a special day in school, me and all the other exchange students in school held presentation about being exchange students here in Alaska and make the Americans think about doing the same thing as us but to Europe. It was really fun, but a bit repetitive since we held the same presentation 6 times.. But after that the whole school really knew who I am, and everyone started to say hi to me in the corridor, haha!

 

Today it is the national Cinnamon Bun Day in Sweden! And I had to celebrate it by making Swedish Cinnamon Buns. They didn´t taste as they do in Sweden though.. But they were good enough. 

 

Hi! Today it´s Tuesday. And I have been spending almoust my whole day writing a reading test. It was 54 pages long, and really boring, and the weirdest thing is that it dosn´t even really matter if I pass it or not, because I am and exchange student and I won´t graduate in the same way as my american friends anyways, but I still have to do those test 3 days in a road for no reason. Today was reading, tomorrow is writing and on Thursday it is math. 

Efters school me and Nora whent to Starbucks for drinking coffee and talk. It is so nice to have Nora here, so I have someone to talk Swedish to, and have someone to discuss all the things that no one else understands with. No I am home and have just finished some dinner before Daniel will take me to my ballet class. 

Yesterday I whent to a gym pretty close to my home to sign up as a member. It is a really nice place with lots of workout equipment and lots of good classes. I can go to all of their gyms in Anchorage on my gym card, so it will never be to far to my workouts! I decided to sign up for gym and ballet instead of only lots of ballet as home because of that the ballet is very expensive here.. So it is not worth it to take more than 2 classes in ballet each week.

So my workout schedule will approximately look like this:

 

Monday: Gym, boot camp

Tuesday: Ballet

Friday: Chill or gym

Sunday: CHIIIIILL!!

 

 

 

This Sunday I whent with my hostparents to Flat top, It´s a nice viewing point up on a mountain 30 minutes from home. And I got some really nice pictures from the views! And I am happy that we did not meet a bear, because they life up there on the mountain tops, and are getting fat for the winter right now, but I didn´t se any!

The last football game was yesterday, and Dimond lost.. That sucked, but we had fun anyways! 

Hey! You are probably very tiered of all my posts about homecoming by now, but that´s to bad for you, because today is West High Schools homecoming, and because of that I know Josefin (the girl I whent here with) who goes there I can attend to it! I was to lazy to spend more money on one more dress, so I will just wear the same outfitt as last saturday, but my hair is different. I whent to the hairdresser today, and I asked her to fix some fancy curls in it too when she had cut it. I feel like Maria Montazami!

 

Here comes the good pictures that Michaels dad took before we whent to the dance last saturday!

 

Hi! Tonight it was a big dinner at a buffet restaurant in the city with lots of exchangestudents. It was really fun to meet new people who are in the same position as me, and I also got to meet a new girl who also is from sweden but travels with another agency. Me and Nora was a bit worried about that the buffe place would not have enough vegetarian alternatives, but we were wrong! SO MUCH VEGETABLES! And they also had fruit, and lots of awesome stuffs that you could put in the choklet fontain...

 

Today I helped my host parents to save a group pittbull poppies from a bad home and bring them to their new good host parents!

 

Yesterday night was HOMECOMIIING dance!! It was awesome and I had so much fun!

I whent to Monicas place at 5 and we got ready togeter with Josefin and Francesca before Michael and Tristan picked us up for going to a lake and take fancy homecoming pictures. After that we whent to a suchii restaurang close to school where they had aweome vegetarian suchii! And after that we whent to the dance. It was a crazy dance with so much people! It was like a big twerkmosh, haha! Totoally crazy! I don´t really consider myself as a twerker, so I stayed out of that area, but I had a awesome time dancing some kind of non existing mix dance, haha!

 

Hi! I´m back! I have had so much to do so I forgot about my blog, haha! The whole week have been really good, and it have really been fun to be a part of the whole american "spirit week" thing! Yestoday I was at Anchorage classical ballet acadamy and tried their ballet classes. They were so good, and it felt sooooo good to be back in my danceshoes! I´m gonna have to do a audition to be able to join the more advenced classes, and pointshoe classes, but I really liked the place, the classes were small, which gave everyone more attention from the teacher. It is pretty expensive though.. So i´m gonna have to think about how much I´m ready to spend, but I´m sure that I want to keep on dance there!

 

Today is the Homecoming Game, so I will soon go back to school to meat up with Nora and some other peps and go and watch it. I will bing my camera so the pictures will be better then thouse from todays ensamble:

 

Today was a good day! First of all because me and my Swedish friend Nora who also goes to Dimong high both had to change some classes, and we both could, so now I only have chill classes! So here is is my new schedule! I am so pleaces with them all! I have the "Teen Issues" class together with Nora, so we are just sitting there talking Swedish and noone understands us! Then I also choosed Guitar instead of American History, and that was a really fun class too! I already know some ackords and some songs, so it was actually pretty easy even if the other students already have been in that class for about one month now. And it was also really fun to do music again! I havn´t had it on my schedule for over one year, and to start it up again made me realise how moch I have been missing it. 
And suring lunch me and Nora was going out with Lexie and Michael, because they wanted to go to McDonalds or something, I brought my own food, because the fastfood here is not really that friendly for vegetarians.. But yes, we whent out of school where Michael was waitning with his car, and there he stands, with flowers and a sign where he asked me if I wanted to go with him to the Homecoming dance this Saturday! I was so surprices that he made such a big deal out of it, I mean that would never happen in Sweden! I mean I have never even got flowes from a guy before, haha! But I guess that is how they do it here in the states! But it was so sweet of him, and im sure Homecoming will be fun! 
He tried to write it in Swedish, as you can se, and he almoust nailed it! (or googletranslate did..), haha! We had a good laugh about it when I told him what it actually stood, something like: "Hey Swedie, It will really be cute when you go to homecoming with me?" 

Helloooo! Today I could se the sun!!! (it does not happen every day here..) We started the day with american pancaces! I woke up to the sound of that something was happening is the kitches, PANKAKEEEES! At 9 we ehent to the church, it was my first time to go to a mormor church, (or I was at one at home whent I was about 4 with my mormorn friend back then, but I don´t even remember it that well..) it was nice even if I don´t believe in the religion! I like the peaceful feeling is churches, and the peoples there are always nice. I actualy met a Swedish lady with dreads there, it was so awesome, we could speak swedish together and I don´t know, talk Ikea or something, haha! I also met some peoples from my school, so I had a good time, I will definitely join my hostparents there again!

 

We also whent to a big campus park today with the dogs. It was really fun and the dogs had a blast! Sophie loves to swim, and there was a lake there, so she was running up and down in the water. 

It was really good weather today, and pretty warm for being here (I still had to wear my coat.. But all the Alaskans was going around in shorts and t-shirts (they are probably crazy...))  and the sun was out the whole day, so when we got back home I decises to take a long walk to the mall (takes like 30 minutes to go to there) and try to take some pictures for a photoproject in my photoclass in school. It whent pretty good, and I also found a really nice sportsbra on Forever 21, and a pair of shorts and a nice knitted shirt in the awesome sale for 10 box.

So the conclution of this day : AWESOME!

 

 

Hi! Today I have been here for exaktly one week! And it could not be better here, I have already got so many new friends, got a new awesome family, learned how it is to live with dogs and cats (it is awesome! And Mac is not camplaining about my fast walk speed like all my friends!!), the school is also greate! I don´t think I will be able to go home again, haha!

 

Yestoday me and my hostfamily whent to a local farmers market to buy some frech vegetables! They has so big vegetables!!!! OMG! You should have seen the beets! One was like 3 at home! It is because of the high emount of day light hours they have here in the summers, so the vegetables gets BIG!

They had so much to choose between, pink, orange and purple beets, 1000000 different types of potatoes (all from black ones to pink ones), and so good frech broccoli! I had some of the veggies that we bought yestoday tonight, and they tasted really good.

We also drew around a bit in the town to try to find a plae where I can start to dance my ballet, and I think we did find a place, I got a tips about the place from my Swedish friend heres hostsister, who goes to ballet there. It is like the only place here that actuallt have real classical disciplined ballet classes, so I will try to call them tomorrow and se what they say.

We also whent to a wild animal center a bit away from Anchorage, where they had all kinds of wild animals that also live in the real wild here is Alaska (they had fence on this place (thank god!!)). A moose tried to kill me though.. Even if it had a fence.

 

 

Today it is friday! My first friday in Alaska, but far away from my last. Today I met the other Swedish exchange student in my school, we have both been trying to find each other for like the whole week, but today we both got messages in our classes, and got to go to the office and talk to each other, it was soooo nice to speak Swedish and have someone who really was in the same situation as me! I will meet her and another exchange student from I think it was Serbia this Sunday and help them to take there pictures for the yearbook. 

 

After school I whent with Michel to Anchorage Downtown where he showed me around a bit, and then we whent to a big mall over there. It was a really nice mall, and I found a perfect backpack! You have to carry around your books and stuffs all the day in school here, because the breakes are not long enough for you to make it to your locker. 

I also found a awesome Bring me the Horizon shirt on Hot Topic, I love that store, and Zumies, why don´t we have them in Sweden?!?!?!

After that we whent to a second hand store to find clothes for next ween when it is Homecoming week, and every day will be a different dress up day. Monday - Star Wars day, Tuesday - Superhero day, Wednesday - Guys in thight, girls in pearls day, Thursdag - Grease day, and Friday - senior colours (because I am one) (dark red). It will be awesome!

 

I also took some sneaky pictures in my school today for you guys, we are not allowed to use our phones.