Irene and Isrenn

Hej Hej!
Wow lots has happened! Things are going amazing here! Right now I am in the middle of class but we are just taking notes that I already have so instead I am going to write to you guys! :) So this past week school was out for something called Sportlov, I don't know exactly why but I'm cool with a break haha. So for Sportlov my family and I set out to Norway. Katrine, my host mom, her family owns a cabin in the mountains between Bergen and Oslo. So we left Saturday morning at about 5.30 a.m. and drove for about 10 hours and arrived at the cottage at 3 p.m.. I slept at least half of the way so it only felt like a 5 hour ride there. Katrine's parents were at the cottage when we arrived. The next day Sebastian was sick with a really high fever, so Katrine's mom stayed with him while Katrine, Calle, Phillip, Nikolai, and I went out cross-country skiing. Katrine had to teach me since i have never done skiing that way. In the beginning I fell like 7 times but in the end I got it and Phillip and I were way ahead of everyone. You know I really enjoy x-country skiing, I would never do it competitively, but I enjoy just going out and getting the heart rate going and see everything. It was a little windy so we didn't go far before we went back to the cabin. When we got back Phillip and I stayed outside and played in the snow, most of the time we were jumping off the roof into the snow, it was fun. The next day Sebastian was still sick, he was sick with fever until about Friday. Anway, the next day we went out on skiing again and then Phillip and I continued to jump off of the roof, we advanced to running and jumping off the roof. The same routine happened on Tuesday. Then on wednesday after our usual ski outing Phillip came down with fever and also Calle came down with it too. On Thursday we had planned to go to Gailo to go down hill skiing for the rest of the week but everyone was sick so we decided not to go. Also on Thursday Katrine's parents left to go back home, they are really nice. That night Katrine came down with fever also. So on Thursday night it was up to Phillip (he was better by now) to make dinner, and we made a really yummy dinner and chicken and rice. On Saturday it was really really windy and snowy, we had originally planned to go home that day but Nikolai came down with a very high fever and Katrine was still sick. So on Saturday Calle and I packed up the car and we were ready to head home but the road never opened. So we stayed one more night. Since we had originally planned to go to Gailo we didn't pack any food for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Good thing the road opened on Sunday because we were getting really low on food. haha. It was a very long ride home. But we got home at about 8 p.m. I had a really really great time. I definitely knew when we got back into sweden because there was no snow. There was sooooo much snow in Norway, it snowed almost everyday. It was way fun. I loved it. Now, if I had the choice to move to Sweden or Norway I would most likely move to Norway. It fell in love with it haha. I will post some pictures later. Hope everyone is doing great!
Love,
Micah