Recent Stuff, and my trip to Germany!!

This last week or so has been full of going to fikas, meeting friends, planning the next trips im taking while here, riding Sharika (check mate in swedish... not sure of the spelling of it), and going to Germany.

It seems like time is going by so fast!! Already im planning for things next year, its so weird to think that it is already october! So throughout the next year i will be going to paris, cyprus, england (maybe still working out the details), northern sweden, coppenhagen (where the president was this past friday!..its in denmark for those of you who do not kno), and the end of the year euro tour with rotary. this is my year of travel and relaxation but next year is college and time to buckle down, then find a job, then just travel travel travel (this is hoping :)

What i have been up to... going to fika A BUNCH, seriously im introducing that to the US. :) i had my senior pics taken by lovely olivia and they turned out to be amazing! thank you again love! :). For those of you wishing to see them, e mail me or check my facebook.

I have tried the authentic swedish fish, and no i am not refering to the candy. the disgusting storstruming (spelling??) its like anchovies only bigger, the smell is worse, and yeah.. gross. I tried it tho! but not without bread and potatos of course.

I have made the chocolate balls, they were delicious and full of sugar! im also intoducing them to the US.

I have begun to start my college application process, so wish me luck everyone! its so stressful because i hope im doing it right!!! thanks again heidi and mom for helping out with scholarships and such. I think searching for the scholarships is the hardest part!


With school we had an english presentation and a religion presentation due. for english we are working on different kinds of english and how the different versions of english came about, i love english class! its funny to hear all the different accents. i love it.
For my religion class we are studying about the jewish religion so in our groups we had different bible versus and we had to act them out.

So one thing I have begun to realize is that sometimes I just have to go with the flow and not worry about working out the details.

Not knowing what people are talking about all the time, and not always getting a good translation, I have to learn how to trust people and go with a gut feeling of it.

For example, my trip to Germany, I went with my host family to look for a horse. (Eva's horse Teardrop has been having problems with her feet so they have been looking for a horse for awhile now) I wasn't really sure where we would be staying, where exactly we were going in germany, or what kind of horses/how many we would be looking at.
We went with mats and eva's friends Donal and Aneka (they are horsey people also), leaving at 5 in the morning and driving two hours in sweden to get to the ferry, that ferry took us to denmark, then we had to drive another 2 hours to get to the next ferry, that ferry 50 min, then in germany, drove for I don't even know how long, because all I could do was sleep.

My thoughts about Germany, lots of big people (hey hey kinda like America!!) the arciture was just lovely, lots of brick houses and cute little farms, it was really pretty countryside, a bit like sweden you could say. The food was not my favorite. German Schnitzels are only to be eaten once a year (just in my opinion) potatos and friedness on meat...yumm yum. They were not that bad actually, you just feel like you gained 5 kilos after eating it!! So once we were in this little town far in the country of Germany, we met the "horse finder" guy. It turns out he only had two places for us to go to look at horses, and the first place the horses were not at all what we were looking for. (eva wants a quater or paint horse, western of course) But as we were driving to these different places it took about an hour or 2 to get there, we really had no idea where we were going, well i didn't, this man just pointed in a direction and the driver went there. So basically i saw germany from the inside of a car. It does sound quite uneventful but it really was not that bad. I can say that I was in Germany even if we didn't end up getting a horse from there. On the bright side we did go to a bigger town than the ones we had been at, called Lubeck. it was a town full of life, but not till the night! In sweden most shops are closed on the weekends and in the afternoons around 6 or so. but in this town the shops are open on the weekends, but they are open from 6 to 11 or 12 at night! so you can just imagine all the people that were out and about. the appartments in the town were so nice! i love the articiture, white windows and old structured buildings, very antique but modern.
To get back to my main point, even though I didn't know exactly where we were going or what was going on because everyone was speaking in either swedish or german or bits and pieces of english, but I think thats how one should look at a way of life, even if you don't know exactly whats going on, go with it. (but not without thinking about common sense) Its an important lesson that I'm learning, to not be so worried about how things are going to go, because sometimes we even if we want things to go our way, usually that doesn't happen too often. So you have to go with the flow and let things happen the way its supposed to.

This is all i have time to write for now, more next weekend!! :)
I will leave on wednesday for boras again, this time its a rotary thing, we are getting ready for the big conference that is in two weeks.

more blogging soon!!! <3