Merry Christmas everyone!!
I hope everyone had an amazing christmas! I think I left off on Sunday. Well on Sunday morning we got up really early like 6:30 and went to a near by church for a little service that mostly consisted of songs. It was good but I was soooo tired. If it would have been later in the day I would have appreciated it much more but oh well it was what it was. So when we got back I went back to bed hahaha, they probably thought I was lazy but what can I say I was tired! haha. Anyway so the rest of sunday we went skiing and met up with Eva, Aileen, and Maria (some friends of Ann and Håkan, Aileen goes to my school and I will be living a block away from them when I change families.) On Monday we met up with Eva and their family again but we went to ski slopes that they were staying at. (Sälen is split up into like three sections and Eva's family was staying at the second little section of slopes.) So we went there. I traded in my ski's for a snowboard and the whole time we were there Aileen taught me how to snowboard. I have some pretty awesome bruises to prove it too haha. My butt is really sore and my knees but other than that I'm doing pretty good. That night we went back to their place and had dinner and did a gift game, it was kind of like a gift exchange except that not everyone got a gift. I won a candle and hand warmers from the game so it worked out good for me haha. Then today we slept in really late, well I did anyway haha. Ann and Matilda went cross-country skiing this morning and Håkan checked to see how the slopes were. He said they were so icy that it wasn't really worth it. So we didn't do any skiing today. So we just chilled all day long. In the afternoon we got our swimming stuff together and went to a really really nice spa here. It was soooo nice and relaxing, they had sauna's and warm rooms and the best showers and everything. It was awesome! So that was super fun to got to. Then we came back and ate dinner. So that has been my day today. We were planning on heading back home on Thursday but Håkan said that if the slopes are bad again tomorrow then we will just head back home tomorrow so we will just have to see! Well I hope everyone is doing great! I am doing awesome and having a good time!
Love,
Micah
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Christmas Eve
Hej Hej!!!
God Jul!
Merry Christmas!
Well things are awesome here. We made it to Sällen yesterday night. It was a long trip which mostly consisted of sleeping and watching movies on my part. When we got here it was dark so we ate and went to bed. In the morning around 7:30 or so we got up and went to rent skis and ski passes. (For some reason it seems like swedish people like to get up really early every single morning even on vacation! Come on when Americans are on vacation they sleep till like 9 or 10 and go really slow in the morning. Nope not swedes they are up and at it at 7 or 7:30 in the morning. But thats just from my point of view haha) Anyway so we went skiing from 9 until 1:30 and then went to the little house/cottage and had lunch then chilled for a long time. At about 5 we brought out all of the christmas gifts and opened all of them up one at a time. I got a lot of nice stuff. I got 4 really yummy smelling candles, chocolate, a christmas book called Tomtarnas Julbok from Rigmor, a book called The Emmigrants from Ann (its about a family of swedish people emigrating from sweden to the U.S. and all of their trials), a Wyoming water bottle!!, a Pippy Longstrump shirt haha, a swedish cowboy and indian movie from Ann hahaha (long story), socks, mittens, leggings, pedicare kit, piano book, ornament, and another book (by Elder Uchtdorf!)! So I had a pretty successful christmas hahaha. After opening presents we played a game and then went out to dinner (another Julbord, the best one I have had yet!) It was really good but I am really really full now haha. Then in the morning (early haha) we are going to the church for a christmas service and then probably go skiing some more! So I am doing pretty awesome here! Having a good time. It is really cold but good. haha. I would say the skiing is better in Wyoming but its ok here. I should have but on some ice skates to go skiing rather than skis haha. It like ice up there and if your lucky you might hit a powder patch for a few seconds but oh well it doesn't matter. What matters is that I am here with the family and having a good time and getting to know them better. I hope everyone has a really great Christmas Eve! And have a very Merry Christmas!
Love you so much!
Micah
God Jul!
Merry Christmas!
Well things are awesome here. We made it to Sällen yesterday night. It was a long trip which mostly consisted of sleeping and watching movies on my part. When we got here it was dark so we ate and went to bed. In the morning around 7:30 or so we got up and went to rent skis and ski passes. (For some reason it seems like swedish people like to get up really early every single morning even on vacation! Come on when Americans are on vacation they sleep till like 9 or 10 and go really slow in the morning. Nope not swedes they are up and at it at 7 or 7:30 in the morning. But thats just from my point of view haha) Anyway so we went skiing from 9 until 1:30 and then went to the little house/cottage and had lunch then chilled for a long time. At about 5 we brought out all of the christmas gifts and opened all of them up one at a time. I got a lot of nice stuff. I got 4 really yummy smelling candles, chocolate, a christmas book called Tomtarnas Julbok from Rigmor, a book called The Emmigrants from Ann (its about a family of swedish people emigrating from sweden to the U.S. and all of their trials), a Wyoming water bottle!!, a Pippy Longstrump shirt haha, a swedish cowboy and indian movie from Ann hahaha (long story), socks, mittens, leggings, pedicare kit, piano book, ornament, and another book (by Elder Uchtdorf!)! So I had a pretty successful christmas hahaha. After opening presents we played a game and then went out to dinner (another Julbord, the best one I have had yet!) It was really good but I am really really full now haha. Then in the morning (early haha) we are going to the church for a christmas service and then probably go skiing some more! So I am doing pretty awesome here! Having a good time. It is really cold but good. haha. I would say the skiing is better in Wyoming but its ok here. I should have but on some ice skates to go skiing rather than skis haha. It like ice up there and if your lucky you might hit a powder patch for a few seconds but oh well it doesn't matter. What matters is that I am here with the family and having a good time and getting to know them better. I hope everyone has a really great Christmas Eve! And have a very Merry Christmas!
Love you so much!
Micah
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Hej Hej Hej
Hej alihopa!
Hur mår ni? Jag mår jättar bra, tack! Alla är bra här. Jag ska till Sällen med Ann, Håkan, Matilda, och hundarna på fredag! Vi kommer att vara där till nästa torsdag. Jag är mycket glad!
haha alright I'll let you in on the swedish.
Hello everyone!
How are you? I am very good thank you. Everything is good here. I am going to Sällen with Ann, Håkan, Matilda, and the dogs on Friday. We will be there till the next thursday. I am really excited!
Well I got out of school last friday. It was a pretty fun last week of school. We didn't do much. On Thursday I took a test in religion so it wasn't that hard. After the test I went with the rest of the school to Förslov to watch the third years put on the play "Grease". It was pretty good. They did really good, and they are pretty awesome singers. And that was pretty much all for thursday. Then Friday, the last day of school, was really easy going. The whole school went to the Båstad church and had a little ceremony there where the priest and the the student body president and the principle said a few words. Then we went back to the school and had fika with pepparkakor and kanelbullar, and Glög. (Ginger-bread cookies, cinnamon rolls, and a swedish drink called Glög) It was yummy. Then we went back to the classrooms and played a few games. It was pretty awesome. We played charades, which my team won haha even with me. We also played a really fun game called knee to shoulder. It's where the teacher has little slips of paper for example one would say hand to ear and a person on the team would have to hold the little slip of paper with their hand against someone else's ear. The point of the game is to hold as many slips of paper as you can without dropping them. It was pretty fun, but harder than you think. After the games school was out. Ann picked me up from school and we went straight to the Skummeslöv church for rotary and had another little ceremony there. Then everyone got in a car and went to a nearby village and we ate lunch at this really cool and cozy restaurant. We had a Julbord there which directly translated means Christmas table. Which is what it was. It was a big table of all the traditional swedish christmas dishes. It was really good. I stayed away from the plain "Sil" but I tried the "sil casserole". "Sil" is pickled herring, so its basically rotten fish. But it wasn't too bad in the casserole haha. So rotary was really fun. Saturday I just ran errands all day with Ann so that wasn't too terribly exciting. But that night I went to the ward christmas party. It was really really fun. Sister Vistaunet and I sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with actions in front of everyone. They loved it. We did a gift exchange and danced around the christmas tree which is traditional in the swedish culture. It was really fun. For christmas I gave the whole ward a Remember book. They really liked it. On Sunday I went to church and helped with the primary program but there was only one primary girl so the young women (all 2 of us young women) and the missionaries helped out. I played two of the songs and then had a 2 minute talk which was all in swedish. I was so nervous for my talk but it worked out good. Everyone said that they were really really surprised haha. So that was super fun. After church I went home and baked Peanut butter Chocolate chunk cookies for Monday. Then at 5 Carl-Johan (my second host dad) came and picked me up and I went to his house to meet his kids. I had already met his wife. They have 3 boys, Phillip (13), Sebastian (almost 10), and Nikoli (5 or 6). It was really cool to meet them. They are really awesome. I got a tour of their house and saw where I would be staying and everything. We had dinner, tacos! It was awesome. For christmas I gave them one of the books about Wyoming which the boys absolutely LOVE! So I sat down with them and showed them all of the stuff in the book while eating the cookies I had made. We watched Handball and played a board game so it was a really really fun night. I went by their house today and dropped off some leftover cookies and Katrina (my 2nd host mom) said that Sebastian had taken the book to school with him and showed all of his friend haha made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside haha. I didn't go home that night until 10ish. It was really fun. Then monday I got up early and went to school with Ann which was always fun. That was pretty much all I did then. Well I started deep cleaning my room so it looks a lot better now haha. Mom and papa finally got around to cleaning off the spider guts hahahahahaha. And I went to the Chiropractor again and am feeling a little bit better. And now today! Well I slept in till about 9:30 then I went out and it was SNOWING!!!!! There wasn't very much at all but still the point is that it was snowing. But when Ann and I took the dogs out for a walk at about 1:30 all the snow was pretty much gone so it was kind of sad but you could still see some in the higher parts of Båstad across the bay. So I went by Carl-Johans and dropped off the cookies and then I came back cleaned some more and here I am writing this blog! Oh ya I forgot to mention that I made some of Papa's amazing Cracker Roca! It turned out awesome! And also we have made plans for me to move houses on the 2nd of January in the afternoon since I have a chiropractic appointment in the morning haha. And on Friday like I said we are going to Sällen to ski for the week of Christmas and won't be back till next Thursday. So I am pretty excited for that! Well thats the update from down here. Hope everyone is doing great! Have a very very very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. I love you all bunches and am really missing you and thinking about you during this season more then ever!
God Jul och Gott Nya År!
Love always,
Micah
Hur mår ni? Jag mår jättar bra, tack! Alla är bra här. Jag ska till Sällen med Ann, Håkan, Matilda, och hundarna på fredag! Vi kommer att vara där till nästa torsdag. Jag är mycket glad!
haha alright I'll let you in on the swedish.
Hello everyone!
How are you? I am very good thank you. Everything is good here. I am going to Sällen with Ann, Håkan, Matilda, and the dogs on Friday. We will be there till the next thursday. I am really excited!
Well I got out of school last friday. It was a pretty fun last week of school. We didn't do much. On Thursday I took a test in religion so it wasn't that hard. After the test I went with the rest of the school to Förslov to watch the third years put on the play "Grease". It was pretty good. They did really good, and they are pretty awesome singers. And that was pretty much all for thursday. Then Friday, the last day of school, was really easy going. The whole school went to the Båstad church and had a little ceremony there where the priest and the the student body president and the principle said a few words. Then we went back to the school and had fika with pepparkakor and kanelbullar, and Glög. (Ginger-bread cookies, cinnamon rolls, and a swedish drink called Glög) It was yummy. Then we went back to the classrooms and played a few games. It was pretty awesome. We played charades, which my team won haha even with me. We also played a really fun game called knee to shoulder. It's where the teacher has little slips of paper for example one would say hand to ear and a person on the team would have to hold the little slip of paper with their hand against someone else's ear. The point of the game is to hold as many slips of paper as you can without dropping them. It was pretty fun, but harder than you think. After the games school was out. Ann picked me up from school and we went straight to the Skummeslöv church for rotary and had another little ceremony there. Then everyone got in a car and went to a nearby village and we ate lunch at this really cool and cozy restaurant. We had a Julbord there which directly translated means Christmas table. Which is what it was. It was a big table of all the traditional swedish christmas dishes. It was really good. I stayed away from the plain "Sil" but I tried the "sil casserole". "Sil" is pickled herring, so its basically rotten fish. But it wasn't too bad in the casserole haha. So rotary was really fun. Saturday I just ran errands all day with Ann so that wasn't too terribly exciting. But that night I went to the ward christmas party. It was really really fun. Sister Vistaunet and I sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with actions in front of everyone. They loved it. We did a gift exchange and danced around the christmas tree which is traditional in the swedish culture. It was really fun. For christmas I gave the whole ward a Remember book. They really liked it. On Sunday I went to church and helped with the primary program but there was only one primary girl so the young women (all 2 of us young women) and the missionaries helped out. I played two of the songs and then had a 2 minute talk which was all in swedish. I was so nervous for my talk but it worked out good. Everyone said that they were really really surprised haha. So that was super fun. After church I went home and baked Peanut butter Chocolate chunk cookies for Monday. Then at 5 Carl-Johan (my second host dad) came and picked me up and I went to his house to meet his kids. I had already met his wife. They have 3 boys, Phillip (13), Sebastian (almost 10), and Nikoli (5 or 6). It was really cool to meet them. They are really awesome. I got a tour of their house and saw where I would be staying and everything. We had dinner, tacos! It was awesome. For christmas I gave them one of the books about Wyoming which the boys absolutely LOVE! So I sat down with them and showed them all of the stuff in the book while eating the cookies I had made. We watched Handball and played a board game so it was a really really fun night. I went by their house today and dropped off some leftover cookies and Katrina (my 2nd host mom) said that Sebastian had taken the book to school with him and showed all of his friend haha made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside haha. I didn't go home that night until 10ish. It was really fun. Then monday I got up early and went to school with Ann which was always fun. That was pretty much all I did then. Well I started deep cleaning my room so it looks a lot better now haha. Mom and papa finally got around to cleaning off the spider guts hahahahahaha. And I went to the Chiropractor again and am feeling a little bit better. And now today! Well I slept in till about 9:30 then I went out and it was SNOWING!!!!! There wasn't very much at all but still the point is that it was snowing. But when Ann and I took the dogs out for a walk at about 1:30 all the snow was pretty much gone so it was kind of sad but you could still see some in the higher parts of Båstad across the bay. So I went by Carl-Johans and dropped off the cookies and then I came back cleaned some more and here I am writing this blog! Oh ya I forgot to mention that I made some of Papa's amazing Cracker Roca! It turned out awesome! And also we have made plans for me to move houses on the 2nd of January in the afternoon since I have a chiropractic appointment in the morning haha. And on Friday like I said we are going to Sällen to ski for the week of Christmas and won't be back till next Thursday. So I am pretty excited for that! Well thats the update from down here. Hope everyone is doing great! Have a very very very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. I love you all bunches and am really missing you and thinking about you during this season more then ever!
God Jul och Gott Nya År!
Love always,
Micah
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Pictures!
My hair cut!
Lucikuter
Hej Hej!
Haha Hej everyone!
haha I am so bad at this. I'm sorry. Well things are going awesome here. Last Saturday I went to Helsingborg with a couple from Rotary. They took me to a Julmarket (Christmas Market) It's a lot like a craft fair just a little fancier. It was at a really old house with cottages surrounding it. It was more of a museum walk than a christmas market. It was really fun though. I love history so it was all good. In the beginning it was raining pretty hard but it cleared up really quick and then just as we were leaving it started raining again. So we were pretty lucky! I didn't buy anything but I got a picture with some accordion dudes. It was cool. You know in Wyoming there's a lot of Native Americans, but here there's a lot of gypsies. At the market I saw tons and tons of gypsies. So after the market I went home for about half and hour then I went to Halmstad to the church. We were having a ward activity and we watched 17 Miracles. It was a really really good movie about the Willie Handcart Company and Levi Savage. Before the movie started I bore my testimony on the pioneers. It went good. I also made Muddy Buddys (Puppy Chow) for snacks. It was yummy, and everyone else seemed to really enjoy it. Then sunday came, but I didn't have to play the piano. There was another lady that offered to play. She was a concert pianist, so it was really good. Well monday, tuesday, and wednesday were pretty normal. Just went to school. But on Thursday I got my hair cut. They cut off like 4 inches. I like it shorter but not too short. It looks nice. Then directly after the hair cut I went to a Rögle hockey game. They played against Malmö so it was a really intense game. And we won!! We beat them 4-2. It was awesome! So now Rögle is moving up into a higher bracket of hockey. It's awesome. When I got home I skyped Devin and talked to him a bit. Friday I went to school. Then at about 5 I went to the church to help bake Luciakuter. Its a really good bun like thing that is shaped like an S and has raisins on the ends of the S and it has Saffron in it. I don't know if thats how you spell it or not but sounds good to me haha. They are for the ward christmas party. I am pretty excited! Well only one for week of school. I think I might be going to Kristianstad today if I feel any better. Since the falling off the horse accident I felt fine but its coming back to haunt me so my back and neck are killing me and I have a pretty bad cold. No fun. So I don't want to go and get everyone sick but I want to go because it might be the last time I see the girl from Argentina because it is her goodbye party. She leaves in January I think. I don't what I'm going to do. Just go with the flow I guess. Anyway. Only one week left of school and then I will be out for 3 weeks. I will leave on the 22-29 to go skiing up north. Then I will come back and have another week. I think I will be changing families probably in early january. I am pretty excited! hope everyone is healthy and happy!
Love,
Micah
haha I am so bad at this. I'm sorry. Well things are going awesome here. Last Saturday I went to Helsingborg with a couple from Rotary. They took me to a Julmarket (Christmas Market) It's a lot like a craft fair just a little fancier. It was at a really old house with cottages surrounding it. It was more of a museum walk than a christmas market. It was really fun though. I love history so it was all good. In the beginning it was raining pretty hard but it cleared up really quick and then just as we were leaving it started raining again. So we were pretty lucky! I didn't buy anything but I got a picture with some accordion dudes. It was cool. You know in Wyoming there's a lot of Native Americans, but here there's a lot of gypsies. At the market I saw tons and tons of gypsies. So after the market I went home for about half and hour then I went to Halmstad to the church. We were having a ward activity and we watched 17 Miracles. It was a really really good movie about the Willie Handcart Company and Levi Savage. Before the movie started I bore my testimony on the pioneers. It went good. I also made Muddy Buddys (Puppy Chow) for snacks. It was yummy, and everyone else seemed to really enjoy it. Then sunday came, but I didn't have to play the piano. There was another lady that offered to play. She was a concert pianist, so it was really good. Well monday, tuesday, and wednesday were pretty normal. Just went to school. But on Thursday I got my hair cut. They cut off like 4 inches. I like it shorter but not too short. It looks nice. Then directly after the hair cut I went to a Rögle hockey game. They played against Malmö so it was a really intense game. And we won!! We beat them 4-2. It was awesome! So now Rögle is moving up into a higher bracket of hockey. It's awesome. When I got home I skyped Devin and talked to him a bit. Friday I went to school. Then at about 5 I went to the church to help bake Luciakuter. Its a really good bun like thing that is shaped like an S and has raisins on the ends of the S and it has Saffron in it. I don't know if thats how you spell it or not but sounds good to me haha. They are for the ward christmas party. I am pretty excited! Well only one for week of school. I think I might be going to Kristianstad today if I feel any better. Since the falling off the horse accident I felt fine but its coming back to haunt me so my back and neck are killing me and I have a pretty bad cold. No fun. So I don't want to go and get everyone sick but I want to go because it might be the last time I see the girl from Argentina because it is her goodbye party. She leaves in January I think. I don't what I'm going to do. Just go with the flow I guess. Anyway. Only one week left of school and then I will be out for 3 weeks. I will leave on the 22-29 to go skiing up north. Then I will come back and have another week. I think I will be changing families probably in early january. I am pretty excited! hope everyone is healthy and happy!
Love,
Micah
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Ingenting
Hej Hej,
Well not much going on today. I just had school today and it is raining and windy so to much going on. I am doing better at swedish. Everyone keeps telling me I am getting better. Its crazy that Christmas is almost upon us in about 3 weeks. CRAZY! Well thats really all for today!
Love,
Micah
Well not much going on today. I just had school today and it is raining and windy so to much going on. I am doing better at swedish. Everyone keeps telling me I am getting better. Its crazy that Christmas is almost upon us in about 3 weeks. CRAZY! Well thats really all for today!
Love,
Micah
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