On 16th of August was my departing and everything went good. I met Deborah, Lea and Xenia (the three other girls from Switzerland who went to Sweden with AFS) and we flew from Zürich-Kloten to Stockholm-Arlanda. Even if our flight took only two hours we had to wait four and a half hours untill the next bus drove to the campside where the arrival camp was. We spent this time with showing Aiden (a guy from America) the game "Arschlöcherle" (eng. "asshole game") and we played it for about one hour. It was fun! When we arrived at the campside we had to notice that there are very small rooms and only two showers for all of us girls. Except this, the camp was very cool. On Saturday we had a lot of sessions and workshops which prepeared us for dealing with the diffferent culture and language and all the other things you have in an exchange year. In the evening we built four teams for the "evening activity" which meant a competition in form of a relay race. That was A LOT of fun!! After this competition almost every exchange student went for a swim in the lake next to the campside. And on Sunday were we all very nervous and excited: Our hostfamilies were eather pick us up there or waiting at the trainstation in their town or waiting at the airport after some of us had to fly further. My family lives quite near to the campside which is in Stockholm, so they were picking me up. I think I was never as nervous as in the 20 minutes before I met them. They are very very nice. They show me everything and help me with learning Swedish. I'm so glad to be here with them.
Actually I thought I will have school from Monday on, but because I came into the 2nd grade and not into the 1st I had school from Thursday on. So I had three free days which I spent with my hostfamily. On Tuesday evening Ylva, Tove, Cecilia (a friend of Tove) and me went to the cinema in Stockholm where we watched the movie "Man of Steel". On Wednesday morning Jonas and I went to the school for checking my schedule. The Swedish school system seems very complicated to me and my schedule is so difficult to read, because I go to three classes at the same time. First to a natural science class, then to a class with the name Svenska för invandrare (eng. Swedish for immigrants) and finally to the artclass. But some lessons collide with each other and some lessons are to difficult to understand for me ect. It's like a very tricky puzzle. However, today was my first schoolday. It was very exciting, but after three hours English and two and a half hours French and Swenglish the hole day my head was bursting of languages. I found it really funny when my teacher of French asked me if I'm Norwegian. She and a girl of my class said that I have kind of a Norwegian accent... I wonder why. Even if I slept 10 hours last night I'm soooo tired now. I wait for my hostfamily to come back from the airport. They were there because Tove left today for her own exchange year in China. I couldn't go with them because I had school and I think it was better like that for they could have this moment as closest family. Tove, if you read this, jag hoppas att du har ett underbart utbytesår i Kina. :-)
