Another day in my life

Hej everyone! Things are going fantabulous here. School was pretty regular today. Nothing exciting happened. Today it was a really really nice day. It was nice and sunny. When I got home I went on a run with Maya and some how Bianca got through the gate and came after us. Good thing we hadn't gotten far or crossed any streets. So I had to carry her all the way back so she didn't run off or anything. So after we had brought her back Maya and I continued. It was a good run and the beach was beautiful. After my run Ann and Matilda left to go to Matilda's training for jumping, but I didn't go because I had a lot of homework. So I was home alone for about 3 or 4 hours. It wasn't that bad. I stayed busy with everything and I cleaned my room and dinner. So I had enough to do for the most part. Well I'm really tired since last night I didn't sleep very well because Maya slept on my bed and she kept wanting to come up and sleep on one of the pillows which was not working for me haha. So I hope I will sleep better tonight! Hope everyone is doing great!
Love,
Micah

HOCKEY!!!!

Hej everybody!!! Well today was a really good day. I had a lot of fun in school today for really no reason it was just fun. For lunch we had this casserole thing that looked like it was soup that had sat for two days and then they decided to bake it. It was actually pretty good though. I think the chef thinks that I am a usual American because he always gives me like a super sized piece of everything. I like it when its pie but when its something like today....gosh its just weird. haha oh well what can you do but just say tack. I think the most exciting thing about today was that I got to go to Ängelholm with Håkan to watch a professional Hockey game. To start things out I was a VIP so I got to sit in a VIP box and have dinner which was really good. It was a 3 course meal with salmon, roast beef, then a blueberry muffin. It was really really good. The hockey game was sooooo exciting since Ängelholm was playing their rival Malmö. It was so cool. The crowd was really crazy. There was sooo much noise but it all added to the adrenaline. I am official hooked by hockey. I love it. I could never play it but I LOVE to watch it, especially swedish professional hockey. We were rooting for the Ängelholm Röglans which have become my favorite team as of right now, but they lost. They lost in the last 5 minutes of the game. They just gave up it was really sad. haha oh and to add the wonderfulness of the evening. Begita and Ulf and Magnus and their daughter Linda were in a VIP house just 4 doors down so I went and said hej to them and they gave me a little yummy orange pie. So I mooched off of them a bit. It was so much fun. I love hockey. But now I have to write a spanish paper that is due tonight before midnight and it is about 11:30 right now haha. Oh well. I'll get it done sometime. haha. I hope everyone is doing awesome! Stay safe and healthy. Don't do anything I wouldn't do (that gives you a lot of options. haha :)
Love,
Micah

Horses Again!!!

Hej Hej! Just so you know I do know how to spell Hey but Hej is how you say hello in Swedish haha just so you know. So anyway, today is Sunday. I went to church today with Jonas (Camilla's husband) and Agnus. Church was really good. When I got home there were 2 guys in the front yard destroying the bushes in front of the window. And I mean totally ripping them out. When I walked inside the attic stairs that I didn't even know existed were pulled down. Håkan walked into the house and I asked him is he was tearing down the house haha he just laughed. He and Sebbe were outside installing some lights outside on the porch. Now there is a big huge heap of branches and bush in the front yard. Skyped with Rosie (another exchange student in Ängelholm from California) today. At about 3 Ann, Matilda, and I went to the stable and took care of the horses then I got to ride a little pony name Mumni. He was a white and lazy pony but it was really fun to finally ride a horse again and it was cool to try out an enlgish saddle. It is not as weird as I thought it would be but it was just a little weird. I had a really good time. It also turns out that there is this girl that is trying to teach her horse western and she is trying to learn western so she might call me and have me help her. I think that would be soooooo awesome! So things are going great! Hope everyone is doing fantabulous!
Love,
Micah

Saturday!!!!

Hej everyone! Well today was a good day. I slept in till about 10 or 11 and it was WONDERFUL! After breakfast/lunch I went with Matilda to Sebbe's house. I got some really cool pictures of the place that I haven't downloaded onto my computer yet but I will post them on here when I do download them. It's still awsome to think that that place is 300 years old. It's crazy! Anyway after that I came home and ate a little lunch. Everyone left except me so I just chilled for about an hour. Then when Ann got home I went on a nice run down to the beach with Maya (the dog) since it was a really really nice day today. I had an amazing run. When I got home I took a shower and helped around the house and then we ate dinner. After dinner, which was swedish meatballs, Ann and I watched "Mamma Mia" on the TV and then I am here typing this post! That was my day! Hope yours is going well and will continue to be great!
Love,
Micah :)

PEANUT BUTTER!!!!!

Hej everyone! I'm doing great here. My cold is better now so I'm feeling great! I'm trying to think what I haven't told you about. Well on Wednesday I think it was, the school introduced all the students to Mac Book computer laptops. So I now have two laptops. I have a Mac Book with a Swedish  keyboard which will make typing in swedish tons easier. It's a really really nice computer I like it. I'm actually typing this post on it right now. :) On Thursday I went to Zumba with Lovisa (Ann's cousins daughter haha) She's about 20 years old and really fun to be around. Oh ya and I got a package from Mom with Reese's and Peanut butter and white chocolate truffles. I will never take peanut butter for granted again. Never. It is sooooooo good. Yes, they don't have peanut butter here other than cooking peanut butter, but it's not the same. I had my first peanut butter and jelly sandwich here and it was AMAZING! haha. What else......tonight I watched 127 Hours with Ann. It's the movie about the guy who caught his arm in the rock and was there for like 127 hours and ended up cutting off his arm. I couldn't watch the part where he actually cuts off his arm. I'm too squeamish haha. Anyway it was a pretty good movie. I hope everything is going FANTABULOUS!!!
Love,
Micah

HEJ I'M BACK!

Hej everyone! Sorry I haven't posted for the past couple of days. Well you haven't missed much. On Saturday I went to Matilda's horse competition and Sunday I was sick and Monday I stayed home from school because I was sick so ya you didn't miss much of my life here in Sveriege. But I did go to school today (thank goodness for DayQuil, its my hero for today!) I had a good day. The best thing happened today. For school they gave us MacBook Pro's. So I have my regular laptop and a Swedish laptop. It is soooooo nice. We spent like 2 hours with a guy who showed us how they worked. It was really awsome. When they called me up to get my laptop I was expecting to hear Meekah or something like that but this guy totally messed my name up. He called me Meesha. I don't know how he got that out of M-I-C-A-H but he did. haha it was really funny. Today I "hoovered" my room haha. Ann asked me, "do you want to hoover in your room?" I was a little taken aback haha. Then she showed me the vaccum hahaha I got it now! haha. I don't know what I thought it was but I was a little wary if you will. haha. Well things are going pretty good other than being sjuk (sick). My swedish is definitely getting better. I just have to try and speak more which I am doing more and more. I hope everything is going great wherever you are!
Love,
Micah

Finally Pictures!

Having fun in the Varberg (Var-by) Fort Musuem with the joker hats haha :)  The Varberg Fort was built in the 13th century. Thats where I saw the Boxtin man that I think I talked about.

Skyping Day

Well today I actually got up when Ann knocked on my door. But its kind of funny when I don't wake up right away and I accidentally sleep in like half an hour or something then I have like alot of time to spare but when I get up on time I'm always rushed in the end. I think I'll just sleep in anymore haha. (Mom and Papa are laughing right now haha :) Just a thought haha. Anyway. School went really good. I had a fun time today. It was just a normal day but it was good. When I got home I took the bike and rode to MAXI and picked up some "healthy" goudies. I think people usually use it for trail mix but I got all of the chocolate coverd nuts and yummy white chocolate and other yummy stuff like that. I brought it home and shared because I am awsome like that. After half an hour Mrs. Moss skyped me and I talked to her first class. It was really good. I showed pictures and everything. After their class I had about an hour to do whatever. Then I skyped her next class and talked to them for a while. Then I had half of my dinner and I talked to her last class. It was really good. All the kids seemed really interested. I saw alot of kids I knew and a ton that I didn't know. Things went really good but it was long. I had tons of fun! I hope everyone is doing great!
Love,
Micah
P.S. It rained again today! haha. rain is starting to get just a wiiii bit old now. But hey at least I can actually use an umbrella here unlike Wyoming otherwise you get struck by lightning or at least thats what my parents always told me so it's a little weird for me to use an umbrella haha. :)

En Vanlig Dag

Today was kind of just a regular day. Nothing really exciting happened. We had P.E. today which was really fun because we did boxing. I had tons of fun. Other than that everything went like usual. I came home went to MAXI with Ann and came back. Ann and Matilda went to the stable to take care of the horses at 6 and didn't get back till 8:45 so I was home alone and had a wonderful TV dinner consisting of tomatoes and a microwave pizza and milk and hard bread. It was pretty good. So I haven't been up to much today. Tomorrow I skype Mrs. Moss's classes so altogether it will be around 2-3 hours of skyping tomorrow!haha. Well I hope everyone is doing great!
Love,
Micah

Bring on the Mac' n Cheese!

HEJ EVERYONE! Sorry I didn't post yesterday. Yesterday I just went to church which was really really fun. When I got home Ulf, Begita, Magnus, Anki, Viggo, and Lykka came over and had dinner to celebrate Ann's birthday that was on Tuesday. It was really good and we had a lot of fun. Today I woke up 45 minutes late so I took a really really quick shower and got all ready and had pretty much 45 minutes to spare. (so much for hurrying haha) Anyway so Ann wanted me to read this book and I was almost finished with it so I thought since I had so much time to spare I would go into my room and read the book and maybe finish it. Well I was reading and I was watching the time. So it got to 8:55 when I usually leave according to the clock in my room. So I got all my stuff and walked into the kitchen and looked at the clock to realize that the clock in my room in 5 minutes behind. I ran down to my bus stop but I had already missed the bus by like 5 minutes by then! I felt like an idiot calling Ann and trying to explain why I missed the bus. I'm sure she thought I was an idiot too. Anyway she took me to school and I had already missed my first class and my second class had already started so I just waited patiently. After that school went like usual. When I got home nobody was here so I skyped Rosie who is in Ӓngelholm. It was fun. Then Ann got home and she decided that I could make dinner. So I whipped out the Mac' n Cheese. It was awsome. They thought it was soooo cool. They loved it. I don't think Matilda really liked it but Håkan and Ann did so thats good! My swedish is coming along men mig svenska inte bra. haha. I hope things are great wherever you are!
Love,
Micah

Golf!

Well today Ann, Håkan, and I went to a really cool fort that if by the sea about an hour away from Mellbystrand. It's a really really cool place. The actually fort was built early 13th century, so a long long long time ago. Inside the fort they have a museum and I got to see the Bocksten man. I guess the guy lived in the Medival times and was killed and then thrown into a bog. But the acids from the bog preserved him body for a really really long time. When in the late 1800's a kid was plowing or something and the plow caught a piece of fabric. When he looked at the fabric there were bones inside and a head full of hair. That is how the Bocksten man was found. His actually bones and clothing are in the museum and I got to see them and they are as real as they come. It was really cool because when they found him he had 3 poles stuck through him. But all of his clothing and hair and some of his skin was still in contact. It was soooo cool. After that we went to another little town and had ice cream. When I got home Matilda, Sebbe, and I went out to play golf, which was really fun even though I lost epically haha. I hope everyone is doing great! It was nice skyping jessie and Helen! Love you guys so much!
Love,
Micah

ZUMBA!

Today I had a really good day at school I had P.E. and played volleyball the whole time. It was a really good day over all. It rained most of the day. Oh and by the way I didn't tell you but here in Sweden we drive on the same side of the road as in the US. Anyway. When I got home Ann and I went to Laholm and we did Zumba. I don't know if they have in the US but it is really really fun. You exercise by dancing to music but not like ballet or any of that kind of dancing its more like......well I don't know how to explain it. But it is really super fun. We had a great time and were really sweaty afterward. So today I would say I had a really really good day. Tomorrow I get to go to Ann's school so I won't have to go to my school tomorro! I'm sort of excited! Well I hope everyone is healthy and doing great!
Love,
Micah

Just a Regular Day or is it?

Well today its Ann's birthday. It wasn't a good morning for her for reasons that I am not going to share but it just wasn't. But I went to school and had a really really good day there. The kids are becoming more comfortable with talking to me and everything. Its really nice. Matilda picked me up from school and we went and took care of the horses. After the horses we went to MAXI to pick up the things for dinner. I came home and made the pinini's for dinner. They didn't turn out at first like I wanted them to but they eventually worked. We had one extra person that I didn't know about but thank goodness I had enough. Everyone loved the pinini's so that was really really good. I am really exhuasted but I had a good day over all. I hope everyone is doing great!
Love,
Micah

Wilderness Camp!!!

Well I went to my Rotary Wilderness camp this weekend. It was awsome! I had soooo much fun. To start I met Paulo (from Brazil) in Halmstad and rode the train for the first time to Helsingborg where we met Vince (from New Zealand) and went to Kristianstad (krishansta) It was really exciting but then it got kind of boring. But it was really awsome new experience. When we got to Kristianstad we met up with all the other kids which was somewhere around 12-15 kids. We then got into cars and went to the place where we were going to camp that night which had portapotties there. It was a really cool area. We then went on a hike to a really really cool water fall. Svenn (somewhere in the states), Liam (Michigan), and Zach (from Australia) stripped down to their underwear and swam in the water which was freezing! We then had fika and a few games at the waterfall. After that we hiked back to where the Rotary leader lived which was sooooo amazing. you are walking in the woods and then all of a sudden BAM! house. But it is sooooooooo gorgious there. There is a little pond and then a gated garden of flowers and a big yard all surrounded by the forest. It is like my dream yard. Its amazing.  There we played a few more games. I got to shoot a .22 and got a 7 out of 10 score on my shooting. Then I got to try Ax throwing! Ax throwing is SOOOO awsome! Even though I had to use like the smallest ax it was sooo awsome. I almost got a 5 (score ring on the log we were throwing at) but i only got a 4. But I was pretty dang proud of myself. It was so cool. We ate dinner there. Hamburgers. I think I have had more hamburgers here in Sweden than I have in the US. But it was really good. During dinner we decided that my power animal is an Owl. I know haha. After dinner we went back to the camping ground and set up all of our sleeping bags and such. Then we built a fire and the people that had never had a s'more tried one and loved it. It was really fun to just sit there and talk. Liam brought his guitar up there so most of the time we were all just singing songs. People just kinda started leaving to go to bed. But only about 6 of us stayed up till 3 a.m. myself being one of them. At about 3 we decided to go to bed. My feet were soooo cold that night. And I couldn't curl up and warm them because my sleeping bag was way skinny so I couldn't move my legs at all. So I probably slept a total of about 2 hours that night. That morning we had smårgosar. Breakfast sandwiches. It was yummy. During breakfast a photographer and reported came and interviewed us. After breakfast a leader showed us what was in a shelter box. We set up the really big tent that is in there and it was really cool. Our project here in our district is to raise 5,000 kronar to buy a shelter box and send it out to a country in need. It is an awsome program and I support it 100%. After that activity we went and played Burnball which is a really fun game that is kind of similar to baseball but a little different. Burnball wrapped up our wilderness camp. So we ate lunch and everyone packed up to go back to Kristianstad to catch their train. My train buddies were Matt (from Nebraska), Paulo, and Vince. We bought our tickets and had an hour to chill. So Matt, Paulo and I decided to go into town and go for fika. So we wandered around and decided to go to this little shop that had goodies. I got a little chocolate ball that was sooooo amazing! So while Matt and Paulo fought about how much they hated each other I enjoyed my little chocolate ball. After fika we went to go wait at the train station for our train, and met back up with Vince. We got on the train and I told Paulo that we were getting on but he must not have heard him so I went back out and told Paulo we were leaving and he came on and started freaking out on Matt for leaving him. It was kind of funny but bad. So Paulo would not sit by us and crashed on the seat behind us. He slept half of the way to Helsingborg but when he woke up Matt apologized and everything was good after that. After we change trains in Helsingborg the train to Halmstad was way packed so we had to stand all the way to Laholm. I got off there. But before I got off Matt and I and maybe Paulo decided to meet up in Halmstad next weekend for fika so I'm looking foward to that. Håkan picked me up and we came home. So that was my weekend. It was pretty fun. Hope everything is going amazing in Wyoming!
Love,
Micah

SPORTS DAY!!!!!

Today was a pretty awsome day at school. I got to sleep in a little later this morning which made the day even better haha. Then Matilda drove me to the swimming pool. There everyone from the school did swimming races. The temperature was about 54 degrees farenheit (however you spell that) and the water was cold so it was really chilly but fun. After that we had an hour to walk to the soccer feilds and get ready to play "football" haha (soccer). We ate lunch at the fields and then my team played the first game. We lost so we sat out the next game but we played two games after that in which we won one of them. It was really super fun and everyone had an awsome time. But I think that the teachers were a little more pumped about winning than the kids on their team haha. So school was pretty awsome today. After I got home Ann and I went down to Helsingborg and did a little shopping. I finally came to the conclusion that I am NOT a shopping person! I know mom and papa are laughing right now but hey it is what it is. Things can change haha :)...And when we got home we ate some barbque ribs that were amazing. Now I am packing to go to my wilderness camp with the other exchange students tomorrow. I'm excited!
Swedish is coming along. Little by little. I am able to understand more but still not totally able to put it all together. I have decided that Swedes don't purposefully, but do, make things waaaayyyy too complicated. Also I have decided that some Swedes have no concept of personal space. They just crowd right in. Its kinda ackward but I'm getting used to it. Hope everyone is doing great!
Love,
Micah
P.S. I won't be posting anything tomorrow because I will be on the wilderness camp. So don't think I am dead or anything. I'm alive and doing well!

Little Kids!!

Today I woke up at 6:30 a.m. haha :). It was pretty awsome. I then went with Ann to the school that she teaches at with kids around the ages of 6-12. I had to give a presentation about Wyoming to all the kids that are 12 years old and that Ann teaches english to. I thought I did pretty amazing in my presentation and I had a way fun time doing it and being the one in charge haha. All the kids were really good. I had to answer some questions from them. Most of the questions were just "how old are you?" "Do you have brothers or sisters?" etc. Just really simple questions. But there were some that were like "What do you think of Barack Obama?" I asked the kids to raise their hands if they thought that he was cool and only two or three kids raised their hands and then I asked who thought he had some problems and over half of the class raised their hands. I asked one kid why he thought he was bad and he said, "because he's a chocolate." haha I know it wasn't good to say but I don't know it kinda caught me off gaurd. That kid was taken out of the room haha, he got a talking to. The kids thought that it was soooooo awsome that I could drive and that I talked and went to school with Indians. haha. After my presentation I went to recess with the kids and looked around. They have a pretty nice playground. And the crazy thing is that its not even fenced in and there's a forest right by the playground and every now and then you would see a kid pop out of the forest like nothing had happend. It was so weird that there wasn't a fence or anything and there were only 2 teachers on duty and most of the time they were just talking to each other. It was crazy! After the recess I played a game with 4 kids every half an hour. You could really tell which kids pay attention and try to learn compared to the ones that don't try to learn english. Man are they going to have a wake up call! After the game there was lunch so I went to lunch with them and I had carrots for the first time I have been here! It was heavenly! haha. After lunch Ann took me back to my school. I had lunch again with them and then I went to Swedish class and then to Math class. Only two classes today! I'm cool with that. After school I went home with Ailin. (Eileen) For dinner we had Louvise over and I made some really good potatoes. I also used the rest of the dough to make sugar cookies for dessert so that was good. After dinner Matilda and I went to the house that Sebbe is reconstructing. It is the most awsome house ever. Well it doesn't look that awsome but the way awsome thing is that that house and the buildings around it like the barn and chicken house is older than the United States! How crazy is that! I think Sebbe said its around 200 or 300 years old. It is sooooo cool. There are still original chains and everything in the barn. I'm dead serious it is the coolest thing ever. And Sebbe said that when he first bought the place that he went into the chicken house and there were skeletons of chickens laying around so the previous owner must have died and just left everything. But it really is the coolest thing ever. I told Sebbe that he was going to unbury a dead guy when he starts digging to put in insillation. He just laughed at me. Wouldn't that be freaky but cool if he did though. :0 I think it would be AWSOME! Well I gotta go to bed. Tomorrow is Sports day at school! haha. Hope everything is going great!
Love,
Micah