Hej everyone!
Well tonight has been arguably one of the weirdest nights of my life. I spent the day in Angelholm with Rosie all day today which was fun no doubt about it. We made Mexican food all from scratch. So I was supposedly supposed to take the 9:15 train home. After her host dad has dropped me off and everything I am sitting there for the train but it says that the train to Malmo and Copenhagen leaves from the same track and time as the train to Halmstad does. So I wait and see because I know that my train always comes after the one to Copenhagen. So I wait and everything. After that train leaves it turns out that I have to wait for another hour until my train comes YIPEE! Now you have to understand that the train station closes that waiting room indoors at 9:00 pm. So I had to sit out in the freezing cold for an hour and a half. Good thing I had a book to occupy me otherwise it would have been torturous. Finally my train came at 10:15 and everything goes great until I get to Halmstad. Once I get to Halmstad I go to unlock my bike to ride home, since Claes and Lena are at a party and aren't able to pick me up. (I had left my bike by a tree locked up when I took the train this morning to go to Rosie.) I look over to the tree where I had locked my bike and its not there. !!!!!!CRAP!!!!! I knew I had locked it up because I checked to make sure it was locked twice before I got on the train. I start looking through the thousands of bikes around me to see if someone had moved it or something and it is nowhere to be found. During my search a couple of giggly 18 year old girls comes into the bike area and one squats down and starts peeing right there for everyone to see! I just turned around and kept looking for my bike, at this point anybody peeing in the bike racks isn't enough of a distraction from my current mission. Then the other comes over to me and asks me in swedish is there are any shops open tonight. i told her I didn't know and she said something else in swedish that I didn't understand and asked her if she could say it in english. Well that one little question blew my cover and she starting asking me questions like if I was swedish. what I was doing in sweden? If I had been to NY? and so on. Then her friend, the one that was peeing in the bike racks came over and started talking to me too. Turns out they thought I was 21 years old and was wondering if I knew of any places to get a good drink. I was probably the very worst person to ask. By this time I knew there was no hope in finding the bike tonight so I decided to walk home. The girls asked me if I wanted to go get drinks with them. I told them I would walk them to the intersection but that I would have to go home. So we started walking down the the big intersection which was about 3 blocks down. I could definitely tell they had already had a few drinks, I could smell it on their breath and the peeing one had to hold onto me pretty much to whole way to get to the intersection. During this time they talked TONS! I was shocked because I had never met them but they were talking to me like we had known each other for a lifetime. Turns out I sound like Lindsay Lowham off of Means Girls and this other lady off of the movie She's the Man. haha. Funny girls. By the time we got to the intersection they had already forgotten that i couldn't go with them. So told them again and they gave me both of the cell phone numbers just in case. Then I made the long trek home on the way I called Lena and told her that her bike has possibly been stolen and I told her everything, how I had double checked that it was locked and everything. She understood and we agreed to look for it tomorrow. I pray we find it! I feel so bad! It has been such a weird night that I am scared to do anything that might cause it to get any weirder. So I am going to bed. I hope tomorrow is better!
Hope everyone had a good day!
Love,
Micah
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
Happy Easter!
Hej Hej everyone!
I hope everyone had a FANTABULOUS Easter! Mine was pretty good. I know all of you have no idea where I am now. On the Thursday after I got back I moved to a different city, Halmstad, and I am living with my rotary councilor and his family. They have 2 daughters but both of them are not living at home anymore. On might be moving back home soon but no definite plans. So I have been here for about 2 weeks now. The friday after I moved in the other exchange student named Matt who lives here asked if I wanted to get pizza and watch a movie with him and his host brother. So I said yes and we agreed to meet at Stora Torg which is the city center. Any, you have to realize that I have only been here for a day so I do NOT know my way around the city but I decided to take the bike down there anyway. So I made it down there and we went and had pizza and then went to Matts place to watch a movie, well the movie didn't end till about 12.30 a.m. haha. So it was dark and I had no idea how to get home. I rode around on my bike for about an hour but couldn't find the bike underpass to get home. So I had to call for some help from the host parents. They are too kind to me. On Saturday and Sunday I went to church for General Conference. I was able to watch almost the whole thing in english which was really nice. This whole past week we have had Påsklov for school which is easter break so I didn't have school all week. SLEEP!!! haha. So I slept all Monday and then on Tuesday I went to Ängelholm and hung out with Rosie all day. We went and fikad and ate chinese food then we went to the gym and worked out for a bit. Afterwards we threw the softball around in an abandoned parking lot until my train left. It was a good day. On wednesday I stayed home until about 3 when Susanna, the youngest daughter, 21, came and picked me up and took me to show me around Halmstad a bit. We went to this Italian ice cream place and had the best ice cream ever! It was so good. It actually kind of reminded me of Farson ice cream. So it was really fun to spend some time with Susanna, she is really cool. On Thursday Rosie came here for the day which turned into two days but oh well haha. We just chilled and threw around the softball and walked around Halmstad which was fun. It got really late so we asked if she could stay the night and Claes and Lena said it was ok. On Friday Rosie, Claes, Lena, and I went to Landkrona which is close to Malmö, to go to a art gallery thing. It was pretty good. Rosie and I watched Ice Age 2 in the kids section while all of the adults went and looked at art. haha. it was awesome. After the main gallery we got in the car and went around to different artists studios. The first one we went to was absolutely awful and uncomfortable but Rosie and I survived. The other six places were pretty good. The tour ended in Ängelholm so we dropped Rosie off there. On Saturday it was Easter so we pretty much stayed home and made food for the dinner that night. Sweden, well at least this family, have a tradition of eating fish on Påskdagen (Easter day) and then on Påskafton (the day after easter or Easter Sunday) you eat lamb. So we had fish and I choked down some Ludafisk and Sil while I was at it. I will probably never ever in my life get used to that taste. BLAH! but its tradition so I managed. Other than that the dinner was good. For Easter day we had Lena's sister and her husband over for dinner and then Claes and Lena's two daughters and one of their boyfriends. It was good. The next night we had lamb and some more sil and ludafisk. I ate some more to be polite but not to much. The lamb was good though. That night we had some of Claes and Lena's good friends over and their daughter and her boyfriend and of course Claes and Lena's two daughters. It was really fun. After dinner I talked to mom and when I got done talking to her I showed all the them how to play "Spoons" it was really fun and all of them really enjoyed it. Today is Monday and its a "Red Day" in sweden so there is no work or school. So I got to sleep again. haha. But today I made some amazing bread for dinner. Lena said its the most amazing bread she has ever seen, hope she thinks the same thing after she has eaten it haha. But I think it will be good. So that is really all that has been up with me lately. Hope everyone had a great Easter!
Love,
Micah
P.S. I can't believe I have only been back in Sweden for 2 weeks, it feels like forever!
I hope everyone had a FANTABULOUS Easter! Mine was pretty good. I know all of you have no idea where I am now. On the Thursday after I got back I moved to a different city, Halmstad, and I am living with my rotary councilor and his family. They have 2 daughters but both of them are not living at home anymore. On might be moving back home soon but no definite plans. So I have been here for about 2 weeks now. The friday after I moved in the other exchange student named Matt who lives here asked if I wanted to get pizza and watch a movie with him and his host brother. So I said yes and we agreed to meet at Stora Torg which is the city center. Any, you have to realize that I have only been here for a day so I do NOT know my way around the city but I decided to take the bike down there anyway. So I made it down there and we went and had pizza and then went to Matts place to watch a movie, well the movie didn't end till about 12.30 a.m. haha. So it was dark and I had no idea how to get home. I rode around on my bike for about an hour but couldn't find the bike underpass to get home. So I had to call for some help from the host parents. They are too kind to me. On Saturday and Sunday I went to church for General Conference. I was able to watch almost the whole thing in english which was really nice. This whole past week we have had Påsklov for school which is easter break so I didn't have school all week. SLEEP!!! haha. So I slept all Monday and then on Tuesday I went to Ängelholm and hung out with Rosie all day. We went and fikad and ate chinese food then we went to the gym and worked out for a bit. Afterwards we threw the softball around in an abandoned parking lot until my train left. It was a good day. On wednesday I stayed home until about 3 when Susanna, the youngest daughter, 21, came and picked me up and took me to show me around Halmstad a bit. We went to this Italian ice cream place and had the best ice cream ever! It was so good. It actually kind of reminded me of Farson ice cream. So it was really fun to spend some time with Susanna, she is really cool. On Thursday Rosie came here for the day which turned into two days but oh well haha. We just chilled and threw around the softball and walked around Halmstad which was fun. It got really late so we asked if she could stay the night and Claes and Lena said it was ok. On Friday Rosie, Claes, Lena, and I went to Landkrona which is close to Malmö, to go to a art gallery thing. It was pretty good. Rosie and I watched Ice Age 2 in the kids section while all of the adults went and looked at art. haha. it was awesome. After the main gallery we got in the car and went around to different artists studios. The first one we went to was absolutely awful and uncomfortable but Rosie and I survived. The other six places were pretty good. The tour ended in Ängelholm so we dropped Rosie off there. On Saturday it was Easter so we pretty much stayed home and made food for the dinner that night. Sweden, well at least this family, have a tradition of eating fish on Påskdagen (Easter day) and then on Påskafton (the day after easter or Easter Sunday) you eat lamb. So we had fish and I choked down some Ludafisk and Sil while I was at it. I will probably never ever in my life get used to that taste. BLAH! but its tradition so I managed. Other than that the dinner was good. For Easter day we had Lena's sister and her husband over for dinner and then Claes and Lena's two daughters and one of their boyfriends. It was good. The next night we had lamb and some more sil and ludafisk. I ate some more to be polite but not to much. The lamb was good though. That night we had some of Claes and Lena's good friends over and their daughter and her boyfriend and of course Claes and Lena's two daughters. It was really fun. After dinner I talked to mom and when I got done talking to her I showed all the them how to play "Spoons" it was really fun and all of them really enjoyed it. Today is Monday and its a "Red Day" in sweden so there is no work or school. So I got to sleep again. haha. But today I made some amazing bread for dinner. Lena said its the most amazing bread she has ever seen, hope she thinks the same thing after she has eaten it haha. But I think it will be good. So that is really all that has been up with me lately. Hope everyone had a great Easter!
Love,
Micah
P.S. I can't believe I have only been back in Sweden for 2 weeks, it feels like forever!
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