It's been a while

Sorry I haven't posted anything in quite some time. I guess I have been busy lately.
Okay to start... The district conference. The skit went great everyone loved it, and laughed quite a bit too! After everything I was thinking about the national anthem part, I finally gathered enough courage to do it, and then we ended up just skipping it. :P All that for nothing! That's okay though, we left it on a high note, or well I guess we didn't. ;)
Let's see... After the district conference we meet with a girl from France who is staying in northern Sweden, we hung out in the city for a while then went to Joáo's house for dinner. I made chicken pesto pasta... Without much chicken, but it was good. :) We had on and off problems with Marian that day, but finally got her to stay in the city and hang out with us. (She thought Louise was mad at her... For no reason)
The next night I spent the night at Louise's house because Anna was in Geneva, that was fun. We also went to the movies with her Swedish friends from school... We saw Paranormal Activity... It was crazy! The last scene everyone in the theater screamed!
The next night I stayed at Anna's mom's (Barbro). It was nice, I tried speaking some Swedish with her. It is easier for me to speak with her because she doesn't speak much English.
Hmm what else has happened lately... I'm trying to work my way up to the present, but I keep thinking of things more recent. The school week, as far as I remember, was pretty normal.
On Friday, some of the exchange students came up for the Stockholm weekend a day early because they live quite far away. So I had two exchange students stay with me, Josh from Australia and Minh from Texas. :P Friday night a bunch of exchange students came over for dinner... Lasagna. Then we watch a movie, Forty Days and Forty Nights. The people who came over were Louise, Yasmin (from Australia), Miriam (ex-exchange student to the states), Chad (from Idaho), and the two who were staying with me. It was a nice night, and a lot of fun.
Saturday all the exchange students and rotex (ex-exchange students) met at central station. We went to Gamla Stan from there and walked around, we had a bit of free time so we walked pretty much in a big huge group all about. We were going to go up this big elevator in Slussen, which has a great view but it was 20 kronor and no one really felt like paying. :P Then we met back up with the chaperons and took a ferry over to Djurgården, we were going to go ice skating but the ice had all melted. So we walked along Strandvägen and to a restaurant, where we ate lunch. After lunch we went bowling... Not to boast but I won. :P We had around two hours of free time before dinner so we walked across town... Probably the longest way possible to walk. :P We met some other exchange students who were in a different group and staying in a different hostel across town. We went for fika, it was a really nice time! I got to meet a lot of great oldies, that I always hear about. They are all such great fun! I wish we would have had more time with them! After fika we parted ways and went to dinner... By train this time! :P I had some pork and potatoes, but wasn't very hungry so I barely ate anything (weird for me) :P We hung out in the lobby of the hostel for a while, played a game to see how much we knew about Sweden and cultural history... Not much. :-X Then we listened to the oldie exchange students tell us stories and things they learned from the year and the Rotex kids talked about what they got from their year aboard. After that we just had a lot of time to hang out, one girl played her guitar and sang... It was a fun night! Everyone was playing Spotify in their rooms... The televisions had the internet hooked up to them so we could use them as computers as well. It was a lot of fun!
We had some more big problems with Marian... I don't think she was ready for this year, at all!!
On Sunday we went to Skansen for the Julmarknad (Christmas market), we walked around Skansen and saw the animals. We saw owls and this guy talked to us forever about the different owls they have at Skansen... And so on. It was quite cool, he just talked for a long time but he was interesting. :P We also danced around the Christmas tree, that was a lot of fun!! I'm really glad I danced. They were very silly dances, one we were doing chores and heading to town, church, then home again. :P Or they may have been two different songs. It was good fun! After we danced we went for lunch, we had pankakor, I wasn't very hungry again though... I only ate one. After Skansen we said our goodbyes and parted ways. Josh, Chad, Phil (from Michigan), and Anthony (from Australia) came back to my house and we napped for a while then met back up with some of the other oldies that were at the other hostel. We went for fika in Gamla Stan, we hung out there for quite a while, said goodbye to some and went off to Burger King with some others. After Burger King we said goodbye and Josh, Chad, Phil, and I went back to my house. Phil's train wasn't until 23:20 or something, so we watched a movie and hung out until it was time for him to go. After he left we went off to bed.
Monday I went to school and the guys walked around town until I got out. Then we met up and I had lunch at Kungshallen, which has a lot of different kinds of food. Then we met up with Anthony at central station, he just came back down from Uppsala. He got a burger and we headed back to my house again.
All day we were having problems with Copenhagen.. We were supposed to go to Copenhagen on Tuesday, the next day! It was going to be Louise, Anthony, Brenton (Aussie), and me, going from the first of December to the forth. We got all the okays we needed to go, and we had contacts there as well. Louise's councilor told us it was alright to stay in a hostel and when we asked Vivi-Ann if we could she said yes, she probably just had a lot on her mind and didn't think about what was asked. She later said there was no way she would ever say yes to us staying in a hostel. She was asked during the Stockholm weekend and she was one of the two chaperons. I got what I thought was an okay for Marie-Ann, my councilor. She emailed Anna Monday morning saying I couldn't stay in a hostel. So we were working all day to either convince her or find a place for me to stay. We worked on it until around 10 or 11 at night! Copenhagen turned into a no-go. Anthony stayed over anyway, the next day we saw Josh and Chad off to the Party Cruise to Finland, where they were going to stay in Nokia, Finland until this coming Sunday! Lucky them. :P
After we said goodbye to them we met up with Louise for fika at this cute place downtown. We decided we should have a movie night at my house and just eat a lot of junk food! Anna made a good dinner and her friend Brigitta was over. She was telling us about her old job as a hotel critic, Lou and Anthony wanted her job! :P She got to stay in 5 star hotels and judge whether they were up to 5 star standards and things like that! Very cool job!! We talked to her until 10 and then we organized comforters and pillows, candy, chips and dip, popcorn... Of course I made cinnamon popcorn! Oh and we drank Julmust.. A magically drink, I don't know how to discribe the flavor... Anna told me it was sort of like root beer when I first tried it... mainly just so I wouldn't expect it to be cola, which is what I originally thought. I guess it is a mix between cola and root beer with some extra sweet almost fruity flavor added. :P It was a good night! We cuddled on the couch and watch Snatch and then Anchorman, we watched movies until 3 in the morning! It was a lot of fun, and my tummy was hurting after all that junk food! :P
We slept in quite late, or I woke up early and then got up at 10:30 or 11 and then went back to bed and we just hung out in bed until like 1 in the afternoon! We made leftovers on toast and I ate so much! :P Then we decided we didn't feel like doing anything so we watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. At around 4 we headed into the city and parted ways.. Louise went home to Täby, Anthony to Uppsala, and I went to talk to Marie-Ann and get my rotary money for the month of November.
Finally I made it up to today!!! I've only been writing for around an hour!!
I haven't really done anything yet today... Just some laundry, packing and unpacking, and the dishes. Soon I will go to central station and buy my ticket to Lund, I decided even though we couldn't go to Copenhagen and I am down like 80 or 90 bucks, which I may or may not get back from rotary after that whole fiasco! I am still going to Lund tomorrow! I am sure to have a great time and the ticket is only 311 kronor, slow train hurray! After I buy the ticket I am going to meet Anna and Nicolai at Kungsträdgården for dinner, then we are going to the Opera House to watch the Nutcracker!! I can't wait! It is going to be set to the theme of a series of children books by Elsa Beskow. It sounds really cool. I haven't been to the nutcracker since me and dad used to go together when I was little.
Oh we have had frost on the ground for two days now! It is really cool, the sun was shining yesterday and the sky was clear and still it never went over 0°C! It is really cool, the ground is just kind of white and the windows don't really have frost so you can see out clearly. It is really pretty. Last night when I was walking home the moon was shining so bright and the sky was so clear, it was just so beautiful and the ground was not muddy like it was just two days ago! It's amazing that the ground frozen pretty much over night, and it's no long muddy out... Hurray for now! :)
Well that's my past two weeks in a rather large nutshell! :)
Too bad there aren't any pretty pictures to spice up the reading. :P