More pictures below with everyday stuff!
Here are 2 examples of what lunch might be. Way different than home. Here there is one entree per day. Lunch is free and nobody brings their own lunch. Some of the kids here complain about the school lunch not being good but I think that it's awesome compare to cafeteria food at home...Just sayin'
This is where we get our lunch.
Gustavs birthday was this week. For his birthday dinner we had sushi.
Here are the four Americans in Sweden this year with YFU. This picture was taken at the Frankfurt airport hours before our arrival in Sweden.
This is another picture from our first day in Stockholm right outside of Drottningholm.
And this was the little villa that I stayed in during our days at the arrival orientation in Kärsögården.
This is a random picture of the inside of my school.
These two pictures were taken Friday afternoon as I was walking home from the bus stop. What a glorious day!
The really good thing about school here is that it makes the weeks fly by. I feel like at home the weeks take an eternity. Here, I blink and it's Friday!
Also, this week we had our first PE class which is really different. We have PE once a week for an hour and a half. We have to walk a little ways to the sports complex for PE. We bring our own clothes and change inside a locker room before. And afterwards we shower before going back to school for the rest of the day. This week we played lacrosse which was really fun. Next week is conditioning which doesn't sound like much fun... But we have four more weeks of PE outside until we move inside. I think that once we move inside we will get to go the ice hall and try curling which really sounds like a lot of fun!
Another thing that I thought was really interesting was what we did in 'homeroom' on Monday. I know that in the beginning of the year at ZHS we go through the student handbook. Here we had a 'meeting' in which we went over the handbook rules as a class and if we had any suggestions for changing the rules we could voice our opinions and all of our ideas were sent to the principle. I just really think that it's interesting that we had a say in what we wanted the school rules to be.
One thing that I forgot to mention about the Norway trip was that I ate a living ant. Yup, a creepy crawly ant. It was a competition between classes, I don't think out class had a chance but I contributed by eating one. So that was interesting.
On one of my first Saturdays here the family took a day trip to Denmark, and last Saturday we took a day trip to Ystad and today we took another day trip...I see a trend. Today we went to Mölle.
There are hiking trails and some other things there. It was pretty popular today because of the nice weather. It was a really nice day all around. When we went to Ystad we brought a little stove and had hot dogs and today we brought a little grill and had hamburgers! Picnics all the time, I have not eaten out a single time since I came to Sweden. Shows a difference between here and the US, a good difference I think.
I have also been getting some packages from home with I love. My dad sent a large assortment of cookies and my clear favorite is Nutter Butters so its good that Yvonne and Gustav backed away at the sight of peanut butter! Also my mom sent my all time favorite mechanical pencil. It may be silly but those pencils really do make me feel much more at home.
I've realized that having the same people in every class all day comes with it's disadvantages. For example if you're an exchange student to the US you're exposed to 150 people everyday just by going to class. Here you're expose to the same 23 people all day every day. Maybe good in someways but if you don't find a lot of friends in your class then your kind of stuck. I received some information about a scout group that I can join so that is my next step in my friend networking project!
I received some information a few days ago about the next YFU meeting! This will be during 4 days of fall break. I was really enthusiastic about it even though I've already seen most of the sights that will be included I'm just excited to see all the people again! We all had so much fun together at the arrival orientation. I hope a lot of people come!
My next job as a good exchange student is to make homemade guacamole for my family. I said that we make it at home and now they want to try it, well I've never made it before so we'll see how it goes haha
Everything good here as we brace ourselves for the rain coming tomorrow that signals the beginning of fall.
Have a good day!
I like Swdish food too : 0
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