Hi everyone! I just wanted to tell you that I have moved my blog to another site, so just klick at the link below and you'll get there!

 

Helloooo! Today was the 1st Advent! And I got to celebrate it with other Swedes at a Swedish ladys house here in town. Me and Nora went there together, and it was so nice! We listened to swedish christmas music, ate swedish christmas kakes and cookies and drank swedish Glögg! We also litted the first candel on the advents ljusstake together. It was all so nice and cozy and for a while it felt like I was home in Sweden. 

 

Hello family and friends again! It was a while since I wrote now, and a lot have happened. I have changed family, and I finally really feel like I am home here in Alaska. I moved last saturday to my STS coordinators house to live there fore some days until my new family got approved. I moved in here last monday and I already feel like a part of this family! This family contains my hostdad Brad, hostmom Carey, host sister Julia and host brother Garet. They are all so nice to me and I am so glad that I get to live with them all! 

 

Also yesterday was Thanksgiving! My first one ever, and probably not my last, I will definatly adopt that celebration to Sweden, I mean who would not want to have a day of from school, to just eat as much as you can and be thankful for stuffs? Geniusly!! We celebrated it at some frieds house of my hostfamily. It was really much fun and we ate soooo much! (Even if I could not try the turkey and had broccoli and brussels sprouts instead) I tried pumpkin pie for the first time, which was so good, and we had some amazing brownies!

We came home areound 5 in the afternoon, and when we came home everyone just kind of passed out in their own beds of food coma, haha! Later that night I whent to Nora's house, because today it have been Black Friday, and we were gonna get picked up by Monica and her host dad at 6 in the morning, so I figured it was best to stay at Nora for the night. We spended the night with her host sister Hattie, playing Twister and watching Dr. Who, it was so nice!

 

Black Friday was not really as I thought it would be.. I thought it would be a totoal cause, with hours of lines and nothing left in the stores, but I was wrong. Here in Alaska Black Friday was camparable with Åhlens City in Stockholm on a monday morning (dead). It was like noone out there! I fould some really nice stuffs and saved some money. I also had a lot of fun with Monica and Nora while shopping! I love you guys! After we were done with our shopping I whent home with Monica to her place where I stayed for about an hour and just are some of their Thanksgiving leftovers, and watched Scoobie Doo until Carey came and picked me up. Now I am back home, and I am sooo tired! I will not stay up long tonight, feels like I'm ready to go to bed now, haha (and it's only 5)!

 

Here is some pictures from yesterday and today:

 

Today when I checked the mejl box I found a package, from my family, FULL OF CHOCOLATEEE!!! It made me so happy! But I'm not going to eat them up now, I'm gonna store them, for those days when I just want to take the next plane back home, for the days when chocolate is the only solution to all of my problems.

 

Hey! Here in USA christmas have already started! They play christmas music everywhere, sell christmas stuffs all over the place, the snow in on the ground and they send christmas movies with christmas commercials on tv, so I thought it was time for a christmas photo! So here we go!

 

Where we whent to take the pictures of the family there will also be a wedding tonight (I'm not invited though :( Don't know the people who will get married at all) so there was so pretty in there, just had to take some pictures f of the wedding setting!

 

I FINALLY got the package my mom sended to me for like 3 weeks ago yesterday! It was a package with 6 Daim!!! I AM SO HAPPY!!! DAIIIIIM!!! YEY! I gave one of them to Nora today in school, she became so happy so she started to cry, haha! It felt good to be able to make someone so happy. 

 

Yesterday:

Knockknock at the door..

Me: Who is it?

Answer: THE ALSKSAN WINTER IS HERE!!

 

Ok bad humor, but it was really like that, I whent out with the trash yesterday at like 12pm, and when I looked out of the window the same night there was snow everywhere! Literally winter over a night.

 

Hellooooo! Yesterday was Friday, and we had a Riflery game after school, against South, so I got to meet Gjöri! She is in their team, and she is from Norway. We won the game, and I spended some hours in the club room with my team mates! After that there was the Talent show in school, and Nora was in it with her host sister Hattie. They didn't win anything, but they were very good, and I think that they deserved a price! After the Talent show we whent to Lars house for a team party! Haha, or party my be an exaggeration, we were 5 people chilling with a tv game and Lars host brothers snakes for some hours. It was nice, and we had fun! 

 

I feel like I have made so many new friends trough the Riflery team in only some days, and it feels awesome! I have even met a person who also haves All Time Low as her favorite band! AWESOME!!

 

Hey! I joined a team today after school! The Riflery team! They meet up after school everyday in the riflery room and shoot for a while, and every friday it is competition against some of the other High Schools in Anchorage, so therefor we dress up every Friday for the games. I think it will be really fun, and now I have something fun to do after school and I can learn something new.

 

Hey guys! Last saturday night I whent to a ice hockey game for the first time of my life! It was my organization STS that organized it, so I met up with lots of the other exchange students from all around Anchorage there, it was fun to meet them again! Almost all the other exchangers from my school was also there, and we sat together. 

The game was actually pretty fun to watch, even if I don't care at all about ice hockey, but there was no fight!! Which sucked because that is all I have heard about ice hockey - there is fights, but not that day..

Anchorages hockey team won the game with 5-0.

 

Happy Halloween people! Today have been such a great day! It was so fun with all the people who were dressed out in school, how we got cookies at the lunch break at the schools Halloween costume competition. 

I whent to Noras house at 7, and at 8 we whent out with her hostsister and her two firends to go Trick or treat, it was so much fun, me and Nora felt like we were 6 years old again, and we got SO MUCH CANDY!!! Seriously! And it was crazy how we saw how parents drove there kids almoust to the door to the houses they were going to, I mean, how will the kids learn how to take care of themselfs when they can't even do Trick or treat by themselfs, haha?!?! 

Some houses were so well fixed for halloween, people here does really put their soul into decorations!

Hii! And Happy Halloween! Today is Halloween, and I am just getting ready to go over to Noras place to go Trick or Treat (yes we know that we are to old for it, but we have an accent, so I think we will get candy anyways).

I have been dressed up as a dead soldier the whole day, but I think that will be a bit cold in this Alaska climate to go around with outside, so now I'm a bear instead!!

 

The night started at Monicas and Francescas place where we got ready together.

 

Hello friends! Right now I'm sitting in my Photo class with nothing to really do, because I forgot my camera at home, so I'm just chilling with good music. Today is an important day, becuse I will get to know if I made it to the Hockey Cheerleading team! I have not told you about it yet, but tried out for the team yesterday and have had Clinic (training for the tryout) for 2 days before that. It was very fun, and I think I did good on my tryout, I mean I have never done Cheerleading before, and I almoust nailed the whole Cheer and dance! The hardest part was the jums.. Let's just say like this - practise makes perfect (and I need some practise..).

But yeah, so there should be a paper somewhere in school saying if I made it or not, I have no idea where though.. Hehe. I'm not sure that I made it though, because most of the girls had done cheerleading for a long time, and they will only take in 12 girs, from the 20 who tried out. But anyways, I had a good time, met new people, learned some cheerleading and did my best, so it doesn't really matter.

 

Hi! Yesterday my local STS coordinator had fixed a daytrip to Alaska sea life center with some of the other exchange students from Anchorage. It took almoust 3 hours to drive to there, but we had stunning views during the whole ride so we survived. We spended almost 2 hours in the Sea life center, and then we whent out to eat lunch/dinner. The Sea life center was placed in like the smallest town I have ever been to, so they didn't have such a big range of restaurants, but me and Gjöri (from Norway) found a Greek/Italian restaurant (americans are weird, I mean Italy and Greece have totoally different fook cultures, but they mix them on the same menue). The most fun thing that happened on the restaurant was that under the title "Italian specialties" the first dish was "Chicken Masala"... That is like the most Indian thing ever.. Americans!