100th Post – Hej Då

Deep breath.

New blog.

irk. I’m going to miss my tag cloud so much.

I woke up and thought that my appendix had burst, so no school today, which is terrible because I wanted to know how the dodgeball game ended up. Last night I was invited by some of my school friends to take part in a game called “ghost ball” which is played in the school gym from ten at night until six in the morning. After some confusion, there were too many people on the team and I couldn’t play, but I still really want to know how long our class lasted. Last year they only went until two in the morning after four rounds.

Things have been happening the last few days, but I haven’t been writing about them because I’m really bad at taking pictures and also updating this blog, so I’m just going to post links to McKenzie’s blog because she’s much better at documenting these things than I am.

http://mckenzie-hejsverige.blogspot.se/2014/04/free-cone-day.html

http://mckenzie-hejsverige.blogspot.se/2014/04/cookies.html

http://mckenzie-hejsverige.blogspot.se/2014/04/day-before-move.html

I really wanted to end this blog on a bang, but the whole inability to post photos thing kind of hinders that. On my computer, I’m able to view most of the posts still, so if any of you notice posts missing pictures, let me know and I’ll try and fix it.

In the meantime, I’ll be posting everything else onto this blog – k8thegr8abroadabroad.blogspot.se

I’ve found that blogspot is much more picture friendly because it’s much easier to click and enlarge with them.

 

Penultimate Post

When I delete pictures from the cache on my blog, it deletes them from the actual posts, which is why there are a few posts missing pictures. I’m sorry guys! I didn’t mean for that to happen, I didn’t know! After my next post I’ll be moving blogs, so if you want to follow me again, you’ll be able to find me here. Sorry for the inconvenience!

i did some stuff

 

Yesterday I went to this flash mob pillow fight with Emily, McKenzie, and Daniel. It was really fun, and someone’s pillow burst, so there was stuffing EVERYWHERE. We left a little bit before it ended so that we wouldn’t have to clean up. There was a mariachi band playing in the background and the fighting lasted for maybe ten minutes.

       

 

Afterwards we all went out for fika (and on the walk, we saw a street artist and got stopped by a cult handing out vegetarian oatmeal balls) and then I went with McKenzie to get her eyebrows done so that she could look human for a job interview she has for tutoring 7-year-old Americans today. After booking the appointment, we had a 45 minute wait, so we went to a cute bookstore and shopped around.

 

That night I went to Elle’s house for dinner and then slept over because we were watching High School Musical 2. Great movie. God, I love High School Musical. It’s just the right amount of cheese and camp to be funny and not obnoxious. We also went on a walk to the water and I found a bike that someone lost. Kinda careless of them to just drive it into the water like that.

 

Today Elle and I dropped off Tara at the train station and then went to the National Museum, a museum that’s been closed and dark forever for restoration purposes.  It was only open this weekend so that the public could have a look at it, and my was it it stunning. I felt almost like I was house shopping, but for a mansion. Today was the last day it was open, and I don’t know when the public will be able to see it like this again.

 

 

 

Afterwards we stopped at the Grand Hotel because Elle wanted to see if we could get lunch there, and we just walked in and this woman came up to us after a few minutes and asked if she could help us and I went “I’m sorry,” cause I couldn’t think of what to say in Swedish because it felt like we shouldn’t be in there. She asked us again what we wanted, and I was like “Tea?” and she shook her head and said all the tables were booked. Here’s the Grand Hotel bathroom though, isn’t it pretty?

I Might Have Seen The Northern Lights

you can view the post here

From My Cool Friend Who Works The Soundboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP6eTEgObwg

I wish I could have been there! I miss PAC Productions! ❤

Cheez Doodles Are Probably The Only Thing In My Life That Has Never Disappointed Me

I just love cheez doodles so much. It always a good day when cheez doodles are involved, no matter how terrible your day has been otherwise. When I come home I’m going to bring two bags with me, one for the plane ride and one to give to my family. And I’ll get like a billion Marabou bars because I don’t know how I can live without them now that I know what real chocolate is like. And rissifruti? I wish I could bring you back. But that needs to be refrigerated.

Guys. Real talk though. What do you want for souvenirs. Do you even want anything? Because like the American I am I am v obsessed with the food and that’s all I can think to bring back. Nick says that’s a dumb idea though, so I don’t want to make any of you feel unloved by just handing you a chocolate bar. Because food is really the only present I like anyway, and I don’t know how other people feel about gifts. Nick is probably just weird. Everyone likes food. Who doesn’t like food?

Sidenote: idk about you guys, but I’m dying for a bologna and mustard sandwich with cheetos in the middle of it. Idc if that makes me sound like a fatty fat fatty because that is literally the best sandwich in the world and I haven’t had one in maybe 3 years, and I think it’s time. MOM – when you pick me up at the airport, can you pack a one for the car ride home? Ok, but now I can’t decide if I want that sandwich, Domino’s Pizza, or Doritos Locos Tacos for my first meal back. Hjalpa mig!

It’s Been Awhile

Awhile is such a weird word.

^ McKenzie and I on the trampoline

I’ve got some pictures that I stole from facebook, so I thought I could post them and tell y’all what I’ve been up to since last posting.

this is from the day Connor came to Stockholm

Connor, Mackenzie, Elle, Narain

Andrew, Narain, Grace, Me, Avishkar, Josh

this is the exhibit that we’ve been working on for Dorren. I didn’t have my camera this day, so I don’t have any photos of the photos we took for the fotografi group. sorry

At Katarina Hissen – Mackenzie, Narain, me, Grace

Avishkar

Emily and I sunbathing at the top of a hill. There was a dog park up there, but there were only like 3 guys in there, so we couldn’t pet dogs surreptitiously :(((

climbed a statue

ok, so I’ve been going to school and moping around because wow I’m really tired, but then on  Wednesday I decided to have fika with Sam. After fika we picked up her mum and brother from their hotel and went out for pizza and then toured the city. It was very cool and I liked meeting her mum a lot because I just think it’s so neat to see my friends in their ‘natural environment’ or whatever.

Thursday I decided to go hangout with McKenzie (the girl) and so I called her up and she was like “I’m going to my counselor’s house, but I’ll be done in a bit” and it takes me like an hour to get to her house, so I left pretty much right then and there. I get to her stop and text her to let me know when she’s walking home and I’ll meet her there, and she’s like, “No, come to teatime with me and my counselor!” so I start walking and then I realize that I don’t remember where he lives. I text her asking, and she doesn’t respond so I sat on a fence and pulled out my book. Over an hour and a half later she and Daniel come walking down the road and my feet are ready to fall off because wow my socks were wet.

The next day I decided I wasn’t mad at her, so I went to her house for lunch because my classes ended early. We made brownies and watched Legally Blonde: The Musical and then I slept over.

Saturday her host brother set of the trampoline and Paddy came over. We jumped on it for a while, while Kenzie’s host brother tried in vain to make us do flips. (I still remember chipping my tooth at Keenan’s house, so I’m not very eager to fling myself through the air anymore.) Then I made Kenzie and Paddy watch Hannibal (which they loved, and I know all of you would too if you would just give it chance).

Today I was going to hang out with Paddy but I was very worn out from all my social interactions and declined to watch The Five Year Engagement (eh. Not bad, not good. Jason Segel is looking really old.) and Austenland (v cute, mom. you’d love it.) instead.

My host parents left a few days ago to go to see their daughter in Florida, so my host mom’s parents are here watching us. They are very nice and I like them very much.

I’m going to Kiruna on Monday, so I’m going to sleepover at Sam’s on Sunday and then fly out in the morning with everyone. I’ll make sure to bring my camera!

Me and Will (McKenzie’s host brother)

McKenzie’s host dad promised he would make me apple pie with ice cream the next time I came over for dinner, so I came over for dinner two days in a row

sam’s brother (Keaton), Sam’s mum (Pam), and Sam (Samantha)

I’m Coming Home!

AIR: 16 JUL 14 WEDNESDAY
LV:STKHLM/ARLANDA AT: 630A MILES – 718
AR:AMSTERDAM AT: 835A
NETHERLANDS
SNACK

AIR: 16 JUL 14 WEDNESDAY
LV:AMSTERDAM AT:1240P MILES – 4120
AR:CHICAGO/OHARE AT: 210P
ILLINOIS
MEAL

^That’s my flight itinerary.

This is really weird to think about.

Anywho, today I went to the exhibit we’ve been working on at Dorren. The chairs we were painting turned out really nice and the photographs we took were pretty good too. There was a room a floor above the exhibit where these two guys from Dorren were rapping for three hours. It was really intense.

Afterwards we went to Dox to meet Sam’s mom, Pam. She’s really cool. Sam and Pam look like the same person. We also met her younger brother Keaton and he was really funny.

Everyone left so Emily and I went to get muffins and Fridhemsplan’s Coop.

I came home and cleaned my room.

I’m so bored, someone please skype me.

 

This Has Been a Post

Today I went to art class and they told us our next assignment will be “graphic”. I asked what that was supposed to mean and they said that you can use a potato to do it???????? But we won’t be using potatoes. I guess it’s something to do with stamps. We get to use knives on linoleum flooring to make them. We weren’t supposed to have school on Wednesday, so I was going to hang out with Sam, her mum, and her brother who are coming from Florida to visit her that day. The art teacher said today that she wants us to meet in Slussen at noon on Wednesday. I don’t know what I’m going to do yet. She wouldn’t explain what we were doing in Slussen beyond “getting inspired”, so I should probably be able to hang out there for an hour or two and still meet up with Sam’s family.

Update: My friend just posted this in our class group on facebook – Imorgon letar vi upp Sophia och säger att vår mentor har bestämt att hela klassen är lediga på onsdag. Hon får skjuta upp tiden på den där konst grejen. Vad tycker ni? Jämställdhet osv. Maybe we won’t have school after all!

I tried to go to a rotary meeting today, but when I got there my counselor wasn’t there and I felt weird staying because I wouldn’t have paid for my meal and they would have given me meat and I didn’t recognize any of the members that I usually talk to, so I slipped out after making some small talk.

I needed to wait for Hamish though because I left my phone at his house when I slept over the other night. He said he would be at the place where my rotary meets at 1:30, so I took a walk around gamla stan and rode the ferry a bit. Then I decided to go to where he has his rotary meetings so that he wouldn’t have to walk all the way to where mine are. Trouble is, he doesn’t go every week like I do. I waited there until 1:30 when his rotary meeting would have gotten out and he never came from the dining hall.

I ran from Katarina Hissen into gamla stan where my meeting was and found him and Emily waiting for me. I was 10 minutes late and they were scared that I was never going to show up. So much for being helpful.

We hung out for an hour or so, trying to find a cafe that could be “ours” since we always go to Cafe Dox as a large group and we wanted a place for our own. We loitered in a church though and couldn’t find what we were looking for by the time Emily had to go back to school. Next monday maybe.

Here are some pictures I stole off of Hamish’s blog:

this is the german shepherd I mentioned before.

this is a hamster on my head

Some Photos To Accompany the Last Post

minecraft exhibit at moderna museet

Avishkar and Elle

Tanner and I

We sat on the docks for a long while and played with these pontoons

more haircut photos

On the ferry ride to Skeppsholmen

Dinner on Friday

the view of Grona Lund from Skeppsholmen’s citadel