NEW YORK
Publicerat 2013-05-31 05:49:19 i
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Here we go, New York.
We went up early friday morning and Annun's area rep Joseph picked us (me, Annun and Em) up from their house and drove us to the place from where the bus departured. Also on the trip where the other two exchange students from school, Elisabeth and Yoland, with a few friend each.
Nick, Yoland, Jenn's mom, Elisabeth, Jennifer, Gab, Joseph + 4 of his friends, Annun, me, Em, David, Mitchell
It was a long bus ride, with a lot of stops, but seeing as I'm a natural at sleeping, it was all good. The tour bus we were on, was one for french retired people and the tour guide Robert was really nice and funny.
Honestly, this trip is now so far away I might not be able to put everything in exact chronological order, but never mind. We arrived late at our hotel, and the first thing we did after dumping our bags up in our rooms was eating. Welcome to America, where a pancake is the size of a pizza!
We stayed in New York until midday monday, when we went on the long bus ride back again. During our time there, we saw Central Park on the only sunny time of our trip and walked around. It was so peaceful in there, and we saw the big Imagine sign and there was a hippie sitting by the side of it playing the song. We went shopping on 5th avenue, taking pictures with the hos Abercrombie&Fitch models. Yep, they ligit had a guy standing shirtless in the door with another person taking pictures of the tourist and the guy with the old kind of camera that prints them our right away. I felt a little bad for the poor guys...
We ran up and down the streets in the rain, saw the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, went on a guided walk through the city; wall street, where the twin towers used to be, some kind of bull of good fortune. We walked around in Chinatown, almost getting lost on the way there. Ate some dough-thingies from a stand on the street and took a yellow cab. Believe me, it's not as easy to find one as it seems in the movies. Turns out you have to stand on the right street.
I was surprised at how cosy and friendly New York was. I mean, it's huge, but it didn't have the whole big city feeling to it. Like in a way it did, but at the same time it was just like this nice friendly place. My favourite place out of the ones we went to was central park, it was so pretty and harmonic.
Central park
At Pier 17 there was this cute little story with the coolest hangers I have ever seen, all covered in pearls. I didn't want any of their clothes, but I wouldn't have said no to one of those hangers. Just imagine your closet like that. Oh wow.
New York Stock Exchange and the Statue of Liberty
When you're not looking for a cab, they're everywhere, but when you are... None.
FOR A SMILE THEY CAN SHARE THE NIGHT
Publicerat 2013-05-27 02:22:23 i
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I was going to post earlier, actually, I was posting, but then it erased everything so I did a brave attempt at the homework that I've procrastinated all weekend. Let's just say I now need I break from that.
I was going to post about NYC when I got back too, but I wanted to wait for Nick/Yoland to send me the pictures from central park, so well, I'll post about that eventually. I had an amazing trip, and for now, youäll have to make do with that.
Anyways, we arrived home around midnight monday, so tuesday in school I was tired - even though I slept half the bus ride. Then wednesday, nothing special, then thursday we got soaked when we went for our usual lunch walk, me and Annun... And friday was prom so we were more or less excused from school. (Which means the teachers know there's no point in planning class cause no one will show up anyways...)
So prom.
We started out thursday night, when Julie came over after school. We talked, chilled, watched a movie and ate cake as well as put her hair up on rollers to save time in the morning. She has about seven times my hair, so curling it takes time. Then friday morning Annun came over too, and we all got ready together. We slept in, made brunch and then I did Annuns hair, and then the two of us took out the rollers from Julie's hair (took a while...) It didn't exactly turn out as planned, but since we're creative, the end result was pretty. That's what you get from art class haha!
At 4.30 our dates came over, so we took a bunch of pictures and the off to dinner with some other people, all organised by Natasha! So we ate at St Huberts, and then off to the Civic Complex were the actual prom was. It was very nicely decorated and they served very good chocolate covered stuff! By the end my feet hurt badly, but I survived haha. We mingled around a lot, I talked quite a while with Anne from my art class last semester, lovely girl that one!
All in all, I had a fantastic night!
Chantal, Annun, me, Julie, Dan (Annuns date), Stephen (Julie's date), Christian (my date), Alex (Chantal's date) and Nate (Natasha's boyfriend), and Natasha took the picture so she's not in it. A little later Ashley came too.
(Natasha in white, and Ashley in light blue)
Otherwise there's not much more to say, I've spent more time with this post than I care to admit, and I'm still not done my homework... Heja mig!
SEXY AND WE KNOW IT
Publicerat 2013-05-16 22:55:08 i
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Tuesday was le général costumé down in the gym, wednesday we did three plays, in the morning for grades 7-9, after lunch for 5-6, and in the evening for the parents. This morning we did gor our grades; 10-12. So this was Le Festival des Arts, where all art classes performed. My class did L'Avare (by Molière) but we rewrote it to our time and called it L'Avare, version deux mille treize. It's about this old greedy man, Harpagon, and his kids, Cléante and Élise. It's a complicated play, there's some love affairs, some stealing of les codes des comptes de banque en Suisse (told you it's a complicated play - try saying that fast, in the right order...) In the end too, it turns out we're all related, some messed up things there. And not to forget, some me beating up Andrew, my favourite part after Phil's solo, cause that was just amazing.
So this is my lovely drama class, adorabe bunch!
Mat (le commissaire), Aimée (Marianne), Kristen (Élise), Eve (servitrice), Bria (servitrice), me (Valère)
Andrew (Maître Jaques), Gab (Froisine), Dan (Dame Claude), Phil (Harpagon), Cass (Anselme), Ann (LaFlèche), Krystale (Cléante), Madame Piché, and in the front we have our special kid Guy (Maître Simon)
Yäää det är bra upplösning på min kamera...
Ma clé, ma clé, elle est où?! Elle est disparu, elle était juste là! On m'a volé, on m'a assassiné, au secours, à l'aide, on m'a tué, on m'a engorge. Je vais trouver le voleur et je jure sur la tête de ma mère qu'il va le regretter. Personne ne vole du parrain de la Mafia. - Personne - ne vole - d'Harpagon.
And all wednesday when me and Annunziata were walking around in our sexy eye brows... Let's just say other people raised theirs. But yeah, all this week's been pretty much this play. And for all of you that noticed that it is not sunday, I will agree, no it is not. Tomorrow (friday) morning we're getting up early to catch the bus to New York City! I'm so excited I would swear if it wasn't inappropriate. So yeah, New York it is! I'm going with Ann and her group, so we're seven people from school plus a host brother plus our coordinator and his wife. It's gonna be amazing!
My bus driver pointed out there's only four weeks left of school and I was like seriously? So I looked it up and yep, 50 days, then I'm home.
S'il suffisait qu'on s'aime, s'il suffisait d'aimer
Si l'on changeait les choses en peu, rien qu'en aimant donner
S'il suffisait qu'on s'aime, s'il suffisait d'aimer
Je ferais de ce monde un rêve, une éternité
DANSE NÉON
Publicerat 2013-05-13 03:42:57 i
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Friday night, we finally had that school dance, theme neon. Me and Annunziata mixed and matched our striped socks, god were they ever comfy! We had a fantastic night, jumping around like fools with the other girls. Yes, there was probably about 96% girls there, but who cares. Afterwards, me and Annun went to my place and watched a movie with an english speaking danish prince, interesting... She stayed here until this morning.
I had a really good friday, started out good with spare in socio, the teacher next door was like oh Monsieur Nadeau wanted you to watch this video - shows us some kind of kids program with a song, and he sings along for a little bit, and then he was like, nah, vous avez un spare, bonne fin de semaine! Awesome. Anik has a car, so her, Kassia and I went cruising as they call it haha. Real nice!
Amy (the oldest sister) has been home since thursday, and it's been really nice, she went back to hers about an hour or so ago though. Today it was mother's day here in Canada, so me and Annun went up early to pick flowers back in the bush and make boquettes for our adorable host mothers, happy mother's day!
(Till min egna lilla mamma säger jag inga grattis nu, för visst firar man väl inte mors dag förrän sista söndagen i maj hemma i Sverige? Och om jag har fel nu, då hoppas den dåliga dottern att mina sjuhundraelva mors dag-kort från tidiage år väger upp det hela...)
So today we went on a cheese route in Québec (the province), and mmmh, they were good. Yesterday evening me, Annun and Amy watched a dance movie and then something called Ted Talks. Very interesting stuff that, people talking about different things.
Thursday I actually went up early, to go out running before school. There's something quite magical about the morning mist and the rising sun... Second period thurday, we went to a place close enough to school to watch MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) do an reinactment of a car accident. It was really touching.
Tuesday me and Annunziata walked home from school and I burned my legs reeeeeeeally badly, they were so burnt it hurt to move for a while there, but some after sun and it's all good. We saw Monsieur Lacelle (physics) biking, and god is it ever weird seeing teachers outside of school, especially Lacelle, he looks so different without his bow tie... I guess having your socio teacher being a former underwear model is even weirder though. Sounds interesting? Google Pierre-Alexandre Nadeau.
Monday we had a spare in physics, so me and Julie went down to the river, sat on some rocks with our feet in the water and enjoyed the sunshine.
HEJ HEJ SOMMAR
Publicerat 2013-05-06 04:37:23 i
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I know it's late, but in my time zone it's still sunday and in the middle of the day it'a just too warm to do anything haha. So yeah, the weather here is nice, 25+ and not a cloud in sight for the last week now, and the forecast predicts more of that. Oh yes, I'm enjoying the sunshine! I've been using sun screen, but I still managed to get nice red shoulders...
Earlier today, I wen for a walk back in the bush with my camera, on the trail where I usually run. So I've spent the last, i don't even know how long, putting them and some pictures from the week together into collages, all for you my dears. So here's some flowers! Mmm, it's just so so beautiful back there. My camera can't really capture it though, but you know the feeling when the sun comes down through the trees and it's all just a magical green...
I'm thinking these are maybe the fleur de lys from the emblem, but I'm not really sure... Pretty though eh?
Otherwise this week, I don't even know. It's too warm to think. I'm not complaining though, I'm loving it all, sunburns and everything. Me and Annunziata went with her coordinator to fix out passport so we'll be able to get into the States for the NYC-trip. So pumped!
In drama class we're preparing for our big play in two weeks. I'm playing a guy, so I've been practising my manly walk; shoulders back, one hand in the pocket and the other one swaying. I'm so manly... Other classes, meh. We do stuff of course, but it's mostly just taking notes, nothing too interesting.
Well anyways my dears, goodnight, and see y'all in two months. Yep, crazy, that's exactly what it is.
