It's been very warm nice weather this week. Enev though I've worn sun screen since monday, I've still managed to get a bit of a sunburn... 

I've been out running a lot and exploring some new paths that I hadn't tried before. Because sometimes in order to find new paths you have to leave the security of another one behind, and maybe get a little lost on the way, but like they say, all roads leads somewhere. I like running. The serenity of the bush, the sounds of the birds. It's my alone time, and it gives me the opportunity to clear my head. The other day, I just stopped, lay down on the field and watched the blue sky, just lying there, listening to life, so peacefull.

 

On wednesday it was my oldest sister's birthday, so we were supposed to skype all family once I got home from school, but due to bridge reparations, I didn't get home until 4.10 pm - I usually get home 3.15, so that's late. So that didn't happen... Then again, I don't think she was online either... 

My other sister though, I talk to every now and then. We even have our own Friskis-pass via skype.Oh yeah, we're creative ;)

 

Friday we did a charity bike round, on a big 30 seat red bike. I think it was for stroke. It was a bit sudden, rather different and also very nice. 

 

Last night, we had a bonfire for Rebecca (an other exchange student, from the same program as me, living with some of my host familys friends). So me and Annunziata had made a chocholate cake with nice sparkly green letters saying Rebecca. Very appreciated.  

The sky is blue, and there's not a cloud in sight. I ran in t-shirt this morning, without freezing as crazy. This week I've had my first ice cream outside and I've counted twelve different kinds of flowers. Spring is officially here, and I just love it. 

Welcome to Canada; the country were we have all the four seasons - in one week. 

Friday we had another snow day and there were actually a whole lot of snow. I was kinda sad, not only because of the snow, but because they cancelled the dance. Or not actually cancelled it, they’re pushing it to May 3rd, but anyways... 

Monday when I got home I sat outside for almost an hour, studying for my test in socio, soaking up vitamin D with a cup of tea and Jake as mental support. Needless to say I wore both woollen sweater and socks... 

 

Thursday we had spare in the morning due to TPCL, which is sort of like Nationella proven, and everyone has to pass them in grade 10 in order to graduate high school. So seeing as our 10th grade drama was first thing that morning, we got a spare. So me, Ann and Julie went out for brunch and walked around in the nice spring weather. 

That afternoon I went for my first run since the snow came in november, it was soooo nice. You know the smell when it’s just been raining and everything’s fresh? Mmmmh... Although, it was pretty wet. Every here and there the trail I run on was flooded so I jumped and splashed. Also there was a big creek and being the orienteer that I am, I figured meh it can’t be that deep, eh? It could. Very deep, actually. 

As I already mentioned, friday was a snow day, but it was also my sisters birthday. GRATTIS KLON! So I went up at 5.30, had a battle against the internet connection and then skyped with her for a couple of hours (since I didn’t need to get ready for school anymore). With a little help from her, i finished my projet autonome, which is 20% of our grade in socio. That’s a lot, as a reference, the final exams in the end of the year is 30%. 

At two, I got a ride from my very nice nice host father Alan to the cornwall aquatic center to  help Julie by playing drowning (she works as a life guard). 

Saturday me, Ann, Natasha and her boyfriend went to see scary movie 5 and afterwards hang out at Natasha's. Lovely saturday evening.

As for today, I just got home. I slept over at Natashas and then Norma and Alan picked me up and we all went to Spring Home and Leisure Show. It was like a fair, where they show different things. Cute place. 

And yes, I’ll admit it, I actually ended up liking the winning song. It’s amazing how much better it gets when you don’t see him... 

It's less than three months left now, but I just really can't wrap my mind around that. It's like when I was going here, I won't realise that I'm leaving until I'm already gone. It makes me sad to think about leaving, so therefore, I don't think about it. Out of sight, out of mind. 

 

So anyways. This week, me and Ann went to the mall to get clothes for the school dance. Yes, the school actually is having a dance! The theme is neon and I'm sooooooo pumped! We have the cutest socks ever... :3

 

Friday we started off with a drama presentation for some grade 5ers at another school. My group had the pantomime, mais non c'est un pantomime ! un pantomime ? mais oui, c'est comme un mime! 

So our storyline was Aimee and Kristen were the dating couple who went to a restaurant where the waiter was a pantomime, me. So me and Kristen, Leonardo, had a couple of little arguments, like me not understanding her order, du vin rouge, rouge, du - vin - rouge, rouge. Je veux prendre un homard, homard, non pas du boeuf, je n'aime pas le boeuf, je veux prendre un homard, HOMARD! 

So anyways, the plot was that Leonardo was gonna propose to Annabel (Aimee) but the pantomime (me) stole the ring, but Annabel couldn't marry him anyways; Oh non, je ne peux pas te marier, parce que je suis - wooosh - la cape rouge ! So for you guys who don't understand french, she was a superhero! Nananana la cape rouge! So the pantomime took his chance, and got together with Leonardo. 

Ann's group, they had le clown de cirque! 

Le clown blanc et Auguste!

 Homard, je veux prendre un homard! 

 Le clown de théâtre! 

This group we're so awesome, but the kids didn't really get the jokes, like when Philippe said in his creepy voice, et moi, j'aime ma famille, the rest of us laughed so bad, but the kids were like meh, whatever. 

 Me and my fellow mimes!

Once we got back to school me and Andrew (the guy in the middle) walked around all school looking in through the doors and I'm sure we made pretty many of their days haha. 

 

Friday night I was out in the barn helping Alan milk the cows, and then I got to witness a calf being born, that was pretty cool! 

Yesterday I hung out with Ann and Em, and we had a really nice time.

 

Bisous!

 

 

 

Back from easter celebration in Toronto! Or well, I've been back for a couple of hours, but I've done some other stuff, amongst others filled in a form for the recruting in case they reimpose the national miltary service. Seeing as I don't suffer from any of those weird sicknesses and put 'no' on pretty much everything, I think I might be called in. Creepy... 

 

Anyways, that wasn't what I was going to write. So I spent easter weekend in Toronto, and I'm gonna explain my relation to these people again. So when my dad was my age, he was also an exchange student in Canada, and so this is one of the sisters in his host family, therefore "my aunt". She and her family also lived in Sweden for a couple of years when I was really small, but anyways, they come back to Sweden every few years and we've visited them once in Canada too, and I went there for a weekend in the end of november too. It's not too complicated eh? 

 

So I went up friday morning, sleeping on the way (of course...), I got there around eleven. We went for a walk in a forest which they might turn into a national park some day. Anyways, the weather was beutiful and the snow was gone, except for some shady places (there's still snow here in Cornwall, but only like a few cenimeters). Saturday we went to a cute little place in the middle of Toronto which was called the destillery district, where there was cobble stones and old buildings, really cute. So these buildings were empty for a long time, but then some hipsters came and made them into a art gallery. It was a really cool place, they had some pretty fascinating stuff. 

 

Saturday evening, we went to a play called Arigato, Tokyo. Its japanese nd means thank you, but as they pointed out in the play, there's three japansese words for thank you, but none of them really mean thank you. Interesting. All in all, it was a really interesting play. The theme was love; like, is there such a thing as love or is there only our image of what love is supposed to be. Naah, I can't really explain it, but it was really good, quite weird, a lot weird actually, but fascinating. 

 

Sunday, beth's younger sister Jackie and her boys came over for easter dinner. Jackie has taken a cake decorating class, so we decorated a cake. It was really fun, it's like playing with play dough, but you can actually eat it!