... you write tests and make films about "living outdoors" in the sports lesson.
... you can get as much breakfast and lunch in school as you want - for free! (And if you're still hungry after your first plate, you can just fill it up again an other time)
... teachers and students go out of the classroom in the middle of a lesson because they get a private phonecall (okay, some of the teachers don't let you always come back in again when you're done...)
... you can't find a softdrinks automat in the school cafeteria - but 4 automats with different sorts of milk.
... you get leaned out an iPad from school and can play games on it the whole lesson without any teacher complaining about that.
... you bike on the sidewalk.
... the butter is salty because the bread contains no salt.
... you have to indicate your personal number (every Swede has a personal number bilt out of your date of birth and four individual numbers) for everything, even when you just want to lean out a DVD in the library.
... no one likes winter and snow.
... the people think it's quite warm when it's "just" -10°C in december.
... I'm so absolutely pleased to stay for the rest of my wonderful exchange year! I love to be here.
Here are some pictures of my school and friends:
Translating of the text on the picture (you can find it also here: www.huddingegymnasiet.se):
The Huddingegymnasium has a long tradition to accept exchange students from different countries all over the world. We had already students from Europe - f.ex. Germany and Italy - but also from other parts of the earth like f.ex. Costa Rica and Australia.
In this school year study three exchange students with us (same order like on the picture): Arika Kautsar from Indonesia, Danielle Andraschko from Switzerland and Lara John from Germany. Danielle and Lara go to NANATGM12 and Arika goes to SASAM12 [these are the names of our classes]. The girls are all paricularly interested in Sweden - Lara's grandparents have since earlier a little summerhouse on Orust [a Swedish isle], Arika likes Swedish popmusic and Swedish artists like f.ex. Icona Pop and Danielle studied Swedish at home in Switzerland [little note: I was in a Swedish course for beginners for 8 weeks.] in spring and speaks already Swedish.
We welcome the girls in HGY!
Oh what a lovely picture of my hostbrother David and me (testing the new iPad)
This was in the so-called mentors lesson, where we never do more like on this picture.
yeah, fancy gang ^^
from left to right: Desirée, Lara (exchange student from Germany), Sarah, Danielle (Jag!), Segen, Iram, Sofia, Nazla and Gonca. :-D
Finally I found an evening where I don't have something going on. The days since the last post where super activity rich. But first I will tell you (as I promised, if you remember) more details about Gamla Stan with the AFSers and Skansen. Well, here we go:
Agustin, a friend from Argentina asked on facebook if the students around Stockholm want to meet each other in the town and spend a nice day toghether. We (Agustin, Boon, Emir, Valentina, Bérangère, Gianluca, a friend of Gianluca Kristýna, Öykü, Öykü, the hostsis of one of the Öyküs and I) wanted. We met at 11 o'clock at the trainstation but we had to wait one hour for the girl of Chile, because she was lost. After her arrive we searched a place where we could eat something and all sit toghether at one table. We ended up at BurgerKing (classic). After this very delicious and exquisit star chef menu, we checked out Gamla Stan with all the cute viking shops. I bought a birthday present for Noelle but psssst, don't tell her ;-). We didn't actually do that much, we were just walking around and going into different shops, but it was nice anyway.
The next day my host family and me went to Skansen, this openair museum I told shortly about in the last post. Karin won some free tickets in the food store, therfore foure of us had a free entry. The first thing Ylva, David and I did was testing the chairoplane. I really loved it when I was younger and I still do. There was wonderful weather the hole day so we spent a lot of time outside (okay, this was not because of the good weather. You can not really choose between being outside or not in a openair museum). In any case, I ate plenty of sugar on this day, so you see I'm on the best way to become a real AFS student ;-). (For those of you who don't understand this joke: Another Fat Student)
Okay. This was the part of my post for which the "more details" in the title stands for. Now the "and other cool things" part:
Last Tuesday, the 2nd of September, Karins firm organised a fishing competition for the hole family. The goal was to fish as much fishes as possible and the person whos fishes weight the most, won. I catched 8 fishes and got the 7th place (First woman, yes!) in the competition. David got the 15th place. The fishes were thrown away after weighing. This competition was really fun, because we were just fishing for maybe one hour and therefore it was a little stressfull to take off the fish and take on a new worm. So it was not boring as it maybe sounds when I say "I was fishing". Another very cool thing I did this week was dancing. There is a big dance school in Sweden, called SCANDINAVIAN DANCEACADEMY which had open house the hole week. So I could test as many dancecourses as I wanted for free. And inspite I'm not a beginner at all (I used to dance in Switzerland since more than 9 years) I first thought, that I forgot how to dance. They are really really good. It will be a challenge for me to catch up with them but I am very pleased to accept this callenge. So... a long post. I hope you get not tired of reading. Tomorrow my hostfamily and me will go on a trip with the boat and on Sunday I'll have the first official AFS meeting after the arrival camp.
Ready to fish
Coooome fishies come come I won't do you anything rude
This was the worst part of the competition. Putting worms on fishhooks is not my favorite activity
Even if I don't look like on this picture, I had everything under controll ;-)
Yeah! I have one!
tasty fishes in a very aesthetic plastic bag
I won't write that much today, I just want to tell shortly what I did since the last post.
Last weekend my hostfamily and me went for a boat trip with VERA - världens bäste båt (eng. the world best boat). It was wonderful weather with almost no clouds and sunshine. We went to a little isle in the archipelagos after my first dance lesson on Saturday noon. There we stayed for one night until Sunday evening. It was a really great weekend and I enjoyed it a lot. David, Jonas, Karin and me took a swim (maybe the last this year) in the 17,3°C warm sea.
This weekend I went to Stockholm with some other AFSers on Saturday. It was fun to speak about the experiences we made in the last 2 weeks. We checked out a lot of souvenier shops in gamla stan, the old city, and ate really much candies.
And today I went to Skansen, an openair museum with very old buildings from Skandinavia. They have a lot of animals too, like bears and picks.
I'm sorry that this post is so short. I promise to write more details about this activities the next time.
båten VERA
don't worry, this jellyfishes are absolutely safe.
The king of the isle ;-)
(almost) carribean temperature
Agustin, Bérangère, me and Öykü: real vikings
gamla stan
The oldest house of Scandinavia (from Norway)
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