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.

 

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

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)

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

Last Friday Night

We went to Hamish’s house for a Pasta Party. He’s got a really skinny German Shepherd. Dogs.

We went shopping for pasta and there was a woman with free samples of ice cream an meringue and it was wonderful. Sofia was in charge of the ingredients because she’s Italian. She got really into her job as you can see by this clip of her yelling at Mckenzie in Italian about pasta.

When we got to Hamish’s house we took him outside and I gave him a haircut. It was kind of terrifying because boy hair is tricky, but I think it turned out all right! Beatrice is in the building!

  

 

We bought too much pasta, so everyone got a mountain on their plate. Afterwards we had to leave because the bus was coming and it kind of sucked because we hadn’t timed it out very well and all the cleaning was left to Sofia, Grace, Elle, and Hamish. We’re jerks. I’m sorry.