Waitttt... its December!?!??!

Can you believe its december already?

I have to admit, it doesn't feel like december here. Everything is still green!! Its strange not hearing people say happy holidays or merry christmas, in swedish its god jul. but u dont hear it said all the time as it is in the US. If any of you are wondering, yes i am homesick. i think this is probly the hardest month so far. but this is jump a bumb in the road. janurary is a busy month with visitors (cousins and my uncle) then i move to my next family in feburary. so i believe time will go by really fast after this month. :) So far the christmas things i have been to was a julmarken in a town 30 minutes outside of varberg. i went with my next host mom and host sister. we listened to christmas carols, drank glugg and had typical swedish christmas food. it was a mysig tima. :) or cozy time. (the swedes love saying mysig, cozy) then saturday i went for a ride, and we met with my rotary counselor and talked with him about what we have been up to. then sunday i went with him and his family to an innebandy game, or floor ball in english. it was a lot of fun and really intense! varbergs team is the best in all of sweden and has the worlds best player. :) how cool is that!! they played stockholm and won 6 to 2. i will add a video to this blog so you can see a little clip of it.

in school i have started a massage class. i absolutely love it! the teacher is great (ann) and she lived in california for 4 years so her english is really good. :) its kind of hard with the translation but when she shows me what to do, i kno what she is talking about. i gave my first massage today and it was to a guy (we were not able to chose) and it was hard work! cuz apparently for guys you must u A LOT of pressure! but the guy said have u done a massage before!..umm no?.. really!?!? u must be kidding me he said. haha so i think he liked it and the teacher said i did a good job but its only the first massage. so many more to go :) if i keep with it and work hard i can get a diploma in the class, come back to the us take a test to get me certified and battabingbattaboom ill have a lil job on the side in college. but its easier said than done.

i got my french test back today, if any of you remember me talking about all the studying i did. wellll lets just say i wont even say the grade because it was that bad. but, im still practicing and it was a hard test. and ive only taken french 3 years. so we will see how that goes, i think i may get extra help outside of class :)

in my history class i have to do an interview with an elderly person to learn about varbergs history from his or her time. thankfully my person speaks english. i believe i will meet with him/her next week for the interview, so i look forward to that :)

today i sent my christmas package for my family to the us... fingers crossed i hope it gets there. it was so confusing becuase no one at the place i sent it from spoke very good english! so hopppefully it will work out :) i can't believe break is in less than two weeks!!! time is going by sooo fast! i look forward to christmas and new years but i think i will be pretty homesick.

more updates on the festivities for christmas soon!!!

There is a pic of Hanna (next host sister, and eva)

a pic of the market... the candy side of it, my camera died before i could get a pic of anything else.

what we ate, some typical swedish, and the drink is glog (mmmmsooo deliciousss!!!)

next is the fastest driver in sweden. i dont remember the name but he was ther with his car!

next is a pic of the game, varberg is blue stockholm is white :)