I had two lovely Thanksgivings. I did a small one here at the apartment on Thanksgiving Day. Peter flew up from Uppsala and helped me lots with the food. It was nice to see him again. Then last night we went to the official American gathering type thing here in town. It was soooo much fun! It felt like a real Thanksgiving with kids underfoot and people of all ages from the 3 week baby to the grandmothers. It wasn't MY family, but it was a big family gathering with people from lots of families and there was lots of English spoken. Next year I'll see if I can invite David's family to that and do more along the lines of one big Thanksgiving, but we'll see.
Also... I should not make 6 kilos of potatoes into mashed potatoes next year. It was a LOT of mashed potatoes...
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Working in the schools
It's been just crazy! I've been having a ton of fun working at the school on this internship, but it is also a ton of work. I get to see the bad sides when the students fight, argue, and generally try to act as close to 3 year olds as they can... as well as the good sides when the students actually surprise their teachers by doing their homework and working quietly. I still can't say if this is exactly what I want to do with myself, but it doesn't seem THAT bad either.
Besides this, everything is going really well. We've bought tickets home to visit my family for Christmas. I'm really looking forward to that. My mom paid half the tickets home as our Christmas presents. I've started thinking now about what to give various people as well as things I want. Top of my list is things like warm winter clothes, the boards that go on the floor between rooms (we're still missing two) and a working vacuum cleaner. Whatever happened to the days when we used to get toys! *laugh*
For Christmas David and I are each responsible for one 40-50 dollar present. We'll wrap it, and put it under the tree. Then we draw numbers to see who gets to go first. The first person takes a present from under the tree, unwraps it, and shows it to everyone. Then the next person can either take the first person's present, or take a chance under the tree. The third person can take either the first or the second person's present, or take a chance. This continues until all the presents are opened. Presents can typically only be stolen 3 times. Hehe.
Beyond that, we'll get stuff for both sets of parents, whoever David says we need to buy presents for, some of our close friends, my brother, David's brother, and probably my grandpa. Oh, and the children of course. They always get presents. It's part of being a kid!
Seems crazy to think of Christmas already! It isn't even Thanksgiving yet!
Besides this, everything is going really well. We've bought tickets home to visit my family for Christmas. I'm really looking forward to that. My mom paid half the tickets home as our Christmas presents. I've started thinking now about what to give various people as well as things I want. Top of my list is things like warm winter clothes, the boards that go on the floor between rooms (we're still missing two) and a working vacuum cleaner. Whatever happened to the days when we used to get toys! *laugh*
For Christmas David and I are each responsible for one 40-50 dollar present. We'll wrap it, and put it under the tree. Then we draw numbers to see who gets to go first. The first person takes a present from under the tree, unwraps it, and shows it to everyone. Then the next person can either take the first person's present, or take a chance under the tree. The third person can take either the first or the second person's present, or take a chance. This continues until all the presents are opened. Presents can typically only be stolen 3 times. Hehe.
Beyond that, we'll get stuff for both sets of parents, whoever David says we need to buy presents for, some of our close friends, my brother, David's brother, and probably my grandpa. Oh, and the children of course. They always get presents. It's part of being a kid!
Seems crazy to think of Christmas already! It isn't even Thanksgiving yet!
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Wow. Whatever happened to the times when I posted blog entries every day? I think that requires free time that I don't have!
Anyways, yesterday was a VERY boring Halloween. A bit sad that such a cool holiday isn't celebrated here. Oh well, it isn't their tradition. I did wander around downtown dressed as a devil and was glared at by tons of old ladies. It was so much fun! Friday will be nice though, then we will have our own Halloween party. I've got tons to do before then. Today I'm going to try and get the place decorated.
Yesterday I made cookie dough. Some of it is orange. I'm thinking about trying to make pumpkin cookies. We'll see how they turn out. The dough needs to sit in the fridge for awhile, so I'll be making the cookies today. I also need to bike out to systemet and buy David a few öl for the party.
I've got tons of cleaning and decorating and what not to do before the party. I'm really looking forward to it though!
Oh! ANd I think I've got a Praktik now. It's like an internship. It pays very little, but it does pay! It'll be parttime at a school for 7th-9th graders. In the Swedish system...until they are around 15 years old. It should be quite fun. I've got a meeting with the unemployment office about it on Friday. Hopefully everything goes well! It'll be for 4 weeks and hopefully everything works out! Weee! It's just parttime since I don't want to drop out of Swedish classes though.
That's life. I'll try to be better at updating this thing!
Anyways, yesterday was a VERY boring Halloween. A bit sad that such a cool holiday isn't celebrated here. Oh well, it isn't their tradition. I did wander around downtown dressed as a devil and was glared at by tons of old ladies. It was so much fun! Friday will be nice though, then we will have our own Halloween party. I've got tons to do before then. Today I'm going to try and get the place decorated.
Yesterday I made cookie dough. Some of it is orange. I'm thinking about trying to make pumpkin cookies. We'll see how they turn out. The dough needs to sit in the fridge for awhile, so I'll be making the cookies today. I also need to bike out to systemet and buy David a few öl for the party.
I've got tons of cleaning and decorating and what not to do before the party. I'm really looking forward to it though!
Oh! ANd I think I've got a Praktik now. It's like an internship. It pays very little, but it does pay! It'll be parttime at a school for 7th-9th graders. In the Swedish system...until they are around 15 years old. It should be quite fun. I've got a meeting with the unemployment office about it on Friday. Hopefully everything goes well! It'll be for 4 weeks and hopefully everything works out! Weee! It's just parttime since I don't want to drop out of Swedish classes though.
That's life. I'll try to be better at updating this thing!
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