thursday, friday & saturday

heyheyhey. ok, so as i said i would update a little more often then i have been doing lateley, so i might as well start the habit right away. the three last days have been fun. thursday was one of the volleyballgirls' birthay (haley), so we had a bonfire and stuff. we went home pretty early though, because we knew we had to get up early for practise in the morning.

on friday (yesterday) practise was only two hours, so that was nice. after practise we had to go to Fairmont so i could get my shots, apparently i was missing two.. later mariah, blair and myself went to Jackson to see the footballboys' first game this season. i think everyone goes to like all of the games or something. even though i didnt understand very much, i kind of enjoyed it, haha, to bad they lost like tha last second. it was quite the ride up there though, mariah's car was shaking and making funny noises and the oil was leaking, so yeah...

today we went to Mankato, which is a bigger town with a nice and big mall. it was me, my hostmom, and dasha (im pretty sure that isnt the way its spelled, but anyways..). dasha is a foreign exchangesstudent from russia, she's also going to blue earth HS. So we did some shopping, so now we have all we need for school also. Speaking of school, only three days left now, and im a little bit nervous, but i know its gonna be fine, and my hostdad is there, so there's really nothing to worry about..yey!

Status: i'm very very happy now, i love my family, and this place is not bad at all. i just feel very lucky:)

so i'll catch up later people, take care

Audrey, she's really nice:)

Me and Audrey on our way back from haley's

mariah likes drive through, haha

some of the blue earth players

dasha and me in mankato

im alive

sorry friends, for not updating in quite a while! from now on ill try to post like twice a week or something. and even add pictures as well, haha! mm, nothing too exciting has happened lateley, volleyball and more volleyball i guess, sleeping and more sleeping, haha! but school starts on tuesday, so no more lazy days. there was an open school thing today at the high school so i got to meet all my teachers, so that was cool.. im gonna post something very soon, i promise, you sooo have my word on that:)

peace haaha, lene

for those who wonders...

a short little post here now, my new little sister has a soccergame, don't want to miss that! So I moved in with my family yesterday afternoon, and i'm just smiling and smiling, coz this is the best hostfamily anyone could ever wish for:) Both of my hostparents are teachers, but my hosdad is also one of the american football coaches at my high school. and i now have two little sisters, and it's all about high school musical and hannah montana, haha.

i had my first volleyball practise today from 8 am - 1 pm, yeah, 5 HOURS. and it's not really volleyball, it's all condition, weight-training (styrketrening), balance, running, and then maybe 40 minutes of volleyball. and the "worst" part is that they are really good, hmm, i'll get there..sometime

school starts september 2, so i still get to chill out most of the time, except from the five hours with volleyball. and wednesday i'm meeting my counsler to choose subjects and stuff

gotta go! i'll post something later today or something
love


sweeeeeeetcorn


fourwheeling at my new IEC's house

Minnesota Update

Ok, a lot has happened since last post. I think i'm just gonna do a list thing coz i'm really tired:)

- Been in Madelia for three days at Anna & Henni's house, thursday we painted their room, then we went to New Ulm for shopping, and in the evening we went to Madelia High School for a sports meeting thing. Later that night I also got to meet a potential host family.

- On friday we got up really early to go to Mall of America. awesome.. we bought a ton of stuff there. we also got to go to IKEA, and we ate swedish food and we actually met some swedish people

- Today (saturday, or i guess it's sunday now..) I went back to my IEC and we were supposed to go and get Julia from Taiwan at the airport. But then another IEC in the area called and said she maybe had found a family for me. So, I met up with this other IEC, and she took me to Blue Earth, a city that's a little bit bigger then Madelia. Then I met the family at their house and they showed me around and stuff. After that we went to the pool place and hung out their with their two amazing daughters.

Status: So, i'm staying with this family till monday and if we all feel comfortable i'll move in here and this will be my hostfamily. and till now everything has worked out great, and this is really like the dream family, i mean, i've only been here one day, but they seem awesome. Another thing is that i'll have to change school from madelia to blue earth high school, and thats very ok with me.

To night I hung out with some people from blue earth. we were at this guys house and it was huge, it was really nice. we had a bonfire thing, hung out in the hot tub and in the pool. they have water slide in the back yard...pretty cool. and it was great meeting people at my age this soon.

as you probably have understand by now, i'm doing great, and this is waaay cool. i really have to get some sleep now though, catch up later!

lovelove

a few raaandom pictures from my three weeks in america

inside mall of america, yes there's actually an ammusment park there..crazy, we never did any of the rollercoasters though, we just went shopping

henni has a lot of fun painting her room.

another picture from camp, cam, me & benny

on our way to class at camp

camp and the state of MINNESOTA

tjena. en liten oppdatering. siste dagen paa camp, foerste dagene i minnesota.

so, the last day of camp was kind of sad. the staff put on a kind of delated 4. july fire works show and everything. de siste timene tilbrakte vi i en hockeyhall. alle dro paa forskjellige tidspunkter, saa det var den beste maaten aa holde alle samlet paa. Kathrine dro med buss 3 og Annette dro med buss 6, det var sinnsykt trist. For hver buss som dro maatte man si hadet til noen, og taarene bare trillet og trillet. saa maatte jeg si hadet til alle som var igjen, da jeg dro med buss 10.

var saa heldig aa ha my neighbour at camp, julia med meg paa hele flyreisen. Vi floey foerst til chicago, og saa derfra med et bitte bitte lite fly til rochester, minnesota. der maatte julia og jeg si farvel ogsaa. en annen utveklingsstudent (maria) og jeg ble hentet av hennes velkomstfamilie paa flyplassen, de var litt gale saa jeg er glad jeg ikke bor med dem. vi kjoerte til en liten by, fairmont, hvor julie my IEC came and picked me up. Vi kjoerte innom et par butikker for aa kjoepe mat og litt forskjellig. Saa kjoerte vi inn til Truman, en tiny tiny by hvis man kan kalle det det, haha.

I dag er det tirsdag, saa dette er min fjerde dag her i minnesota, de siste dagene har jeg for det meste tilbrakt med to andre utvekslingsstudenter, som jeg kjenner veldig godt fra campen. henni og anna bor i madelia, med den beste familien ever. we went shopping with their hostmom yesterday. Saa vi tre har det veldig bra, selv om baade anna og jeg fikk kultursjokket ganske raskt, det var ikke saa veldig goey hvis jeg skal vaere aerlig. men som dagene gaar blir man jo mer vant til omgivelsene og alt, og dagen i gaar var suuuuperbra, med besoek paa mankato university hvor minnesota vikings var og alt.

paa loerdag kommer "julia" fra taiwan. my IEC julia just calls her that because she can't pronounce her name, haha! jeg haaper egentlig at jeg har flyttet innen den tid, coz it still feels like i'm on vacation. but julie is very nice, so everything's fine.

jeg legger med noen faa bilder fra campen ogsaa, det var virkelig two amazing weeks. flere bilder kommer soon soon soon.
i'll talk to you later, and hopefully i'll have a family by that time.


Kathrine og meg i the capital city of Vermont


Meg, Annete and Kathrine


the 4's