This week flew by!

The other day when I was walking home from school, I think it was Tuesday but maybe Monday I don't even remember right now. Anyway back to the point, it was so beautiful! The fog was everywhere and the lights across the canal shined through hazily with the nearby trees sharply silhouetted, it was amazing. I took some pictures but I don't have the USB cord to Scott's camera so I can't upload the and share with you the beauty just yet. I hope my description did the scene justice, I doubt the pictures will.. It was just amazing though.
My week really went by so fast, I can't believe tomorrow is already Friday!!
In my design class we had to make something out of something else or make something different... It's hard to explain.. It was called recycling, but I didn't really stick to the recycling aspect. I made a necklace and I used tatting as the design... Tatting I just discovered last week, it's kind of like crochet and friendship bracelets mixed into one. The sort of thing you can find at the hem of slips, table clothes, and doilies. :P It is really pretty, of course I don't think it is good enough... It wasn't perfect. My teacher really liked it, so that is good. Everyone thought it was must be really hard because its a bunch of circles connected and then I outlined it with a "chain" just more tatting knots. :P I finished that yesterday, and sadly I overslept and missed the class today... I was really looking forward to that class too! :-/
On Wednesday the Stockholm exchange students met up at Marian's house to rehearse our skit for the district conference. I'm not looking forward to it, I think I might just have to read the lines as I do it, I don't think I will remember my lines in such a short period of time. Also, I'm not looking forward to singing the Star Spangled Banner in front of everyone... Alone... First. I am looking forward to singing the Swedish anthem... Hopefully it goes well. :)
Today we met up again and had dinner at a Mexican restaurant for Marian's birthday, it was really fun and good food. I was starving!! I thought my stomach was going to cave in on itself before we ate! :P I mean I was so hungry I couldn't decide what to order... I was holding everyone up, I told them just to order me what ever... So they ordered me the same as everyone else. It was good too!
So that's my week so far, I'll be sure to tell you all about the district conference! :§ <- that's my unsure face.

The Meeting

On Wednesday all of the Stockholm exchange students got together here at Anna's house for a meeting on what we will do at the district conference next Saturday. It was quite an eventful evening. We were going to meet at 3:30, one person showed up on time... That's not a bother. Two more came a bit late, like an hour. It takes a bit to get to my house so I wasn't too surprised that people weren't on time. We did a bit of work, mainly looked at what one person did and had fun. The other three people were still on there way, but apparently one person knew how to get there... Apparently. Then they called and said the bus didn't exist... They were at a place I didn't tell them to go, but I didn't give them clear enough instructions because I told them the bus in one sms and like 2 sms's later I told them the location... They didn't get that. So instead of asking me and going to convenient way, they took the bus to Karlaplan... From the place they should have taken the bus to my house. Then they had to wait about a half hour for the bus. Then when I told them where to go from the bus stop they walked about ten minutes past my house, they turned when they weren't supposed to. That isn't their fault though, I told them to walk a kilometer but after that I gave them no further directions... They couldn't handle them I didn't think. So they finally arrived around quarter to six I think.
The meeting was productive though, we made new ideas and organized an anthem with bits of everyone's national anthem and the Swedish anthem at the end. So next weekend we will be doing skits on things we thought were strange or funny and the anthem as well.
This post pretty much just turned into a rant... I kind of thought that it might. That's all though, I feel much better now that it's off my chest. :)

Trying to keep up

I have been meaning to write about my weekend, but the little stool I am sitting on hurts my bum! So I don't like to sit here for too long.
So on Saturday I went to Uppsala, about 45 minutes north of Stockholm by train. It was a Rotaract organized event, and it was a lot of fun! All of us Stockholm exchangers took the train up together, and met up with some of the Rotaract members and the one exchange student in Uppsala, Anthony, an oldie from Australia. First we walked over to the student union and had fika/lunch, it was a really cool place fun by the students of Uppsala University. After lunch we went bowling, it was a lot of fun even though I wasn't very good (I never broke 100), and the bowling alley was really nice, very clean with only a few lanes. Then we had some time to walk around the city, so we walked to the center and had fika again. After that we met back up with Rotaract and went to dinner at a Chinese buffet. That was a really fun day, and makes me think how much I'm going to miss the exchange students going home soon! :-/
Sunday was a luncheon at Vivi-Ann's house, which is absolutely beautiful by the way! Vivi-Ann is our district chair, she is such a great lady, we all love her! All the Stockholm exchange students went, Anthony couldn't join because it was Farsdag and he was spending it with his host family.

*Oh Grattis på Farsdag Papa! :)*

While we were there Vivi-Ann gave us a tour of her yard, it was really nice, and there were viking stone carvings right next to her house!! We also told her how we were all doing, what we did over höstlov, that sort of thing. We had spaghetti for lunch, one thing you might not know is that Swedes put ketchup on their spaghetti.. I don't think it is very good at all. :-P After lunch we planned what we would do for the district conference that is in a week and a half. We are going to do skits about strange things that have happened to us or things we found strange in Sweden. Tomorrow we will practice and plan some more here at the house. It should be quite silly, at least to us! Oh Vivi-Ann has the cutest dog! It's a five year old boxer named Simba, he is so adorable and nice! I just love that dog!
Talking about dogs reminds me that Ralf is still missing, apparently people have seen him down by the water and on a tree stump by the house in front of ours. They have seen him up till Wednesday or Thursday that I know of and he has been missing since last Saturday! So he is close by, we are thinking someone is feeding him wet cat food or tuna so he is staying with someone else. It is weird that someone would do that though, he certainly never looked like he was starving he is quite a fat cat!! Well we have signs up and we are keeping our eyes peeled for him, maybe he will turn up.
Anna left for Singapore on Sunday just after I got back from the luncheon. She will be there for ten days! I wish I could have tagged along to Singapore... For 10 days! Annica is staying with me again, so it's all good in the hood.
Oh the paint and wallpaper in the kitchen is completed and it looks amazing! I hope the living room and foyer turn out as well!
That's all for now! :)

So I don't seem like a slacker!

So this week was pretty boring, I tried to stay off my feet as much as possible because by the end of the day my ankle is always hurting! So that meant missing fika on Wednesday. I still went to Swedish classes, which are now over... How sad. I'll be starting Swedish in school now though! That means I don't have to pay for it. Hooray! It also means fewer lessons per week, unfortunately.
Today I sent my computer home to be fixed, I'm going to miss having it! But it will work better once I get a new motherboard. :)
Yeah... Like I said kind of a boring week. Tomorrow I am going to Uppsala with Rotary, there we will experience the university atmosphere of the town (a big university town), plus bowling and Chinese food. It's going to be a good time! Sunday will be a lunch at the district chair's house. That will be fun and nice too.
That's my week in a nut shell.

Badminton Battle Wounds

I twisted my ankle in badminton today... I was winning that game too! Sure I didn't win the first one but I was making my comeback, then *pop* and I landed on the side of my foot. Luckily it's not that bad, it just hurts a bit.
In a few days I'll be tiptop again! :)

A Little Update

Fika was fun, and afterward I went with Julia (Canadian Exchanger) back to her hotel and had dinner with her and her host sister. That was really cool.
After that I had to walk home from the last bus stop in the dark dark of Djurgården. Of course I chose the route with the least houses and it cut through a wooded area, but it was well lit and I made it home alive. :P
Ralf has been missing for more than 24 hours now, Anna got a phone call from a women who said she found Ralf playing around Rosendals Slott, which is right next to the house. Anna told her it was okay and that the cat lives there, but now Ralf hasn't come home yet. I hope the woman didn't take Ralf. :P
Yesterday I had fika with Annika (Anna's friend who is staying in the house with me) and her mother, it was really nice and we walked around a little. Last night I went to work with Annika at Göta Lejon, a theater in Södermalm (southern district of Stockholm?), she was selling and dealing with the ticket issues. People kept trying to ask me questions, I just looked at them wide eyed and dumb! :P At 10 we watched RAW comedy club perform, it was nice I actually got a few of the jokes and then there was a Canadian comedian as well so I got some English. It was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I went and tried. It's a lot different than going to school, because at school I will just zone out really fast because I have been doing that since the beginning, but with the comedy show I wanted to know what they were saying so I was really listening.
Now some words are starting to come without me translating them in my head, that is nice because now the words just mean what they mean and they don't mean the English meaning to me anymore. I don't know if that makes sense but it is strange learning a language but it was a nice realization when some words just flow... Not all, I still have a long way to go and I'm not even really speaking but it is getting a bit easier I think. I'm on the right track. :)
Tonight I have badminton, I'm excited, I haven't been in two weeks, because I was sick two weeks ago and then last week I got caught up baking cookies with Charlotte (my half American friend from school :P). It is really nice to have badminton, it's fun and I am getting better. Maybe after this is over I can try to join a club or something. This is only klubbträning, it's not an actual club. It goes on until 13 Dec. so maybe by the end of it I will be good enough for a real club. :P
School starts back up tomorrow, no more höstlov, what a shame. :P