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Tuesday, there was a lot going on in the city. There's something going on this week called Ung 08 Festivalen which is a festival for young people living in Stockholm. It's really mostly for people not of age. So they have something to do and don't have to go to parties and drink. So me and my friend Anna are really too old for that but it's still a nice concert, outside in the middle of the city, and it's free. So we went there and we had fun.

Here's Bounce from Ung 08 Festivalen.

 

But before that we saw another free outdoor concert (somebody tell me if I spell concert right or wrong). It was a tribute concert for a very famous artist called Ted Gärdestad. He made very popular folk rock songs but died of suecide in 1997 while he was still very popular. I didn't see the whole Ted Gärdestad concert because I don't like slow music that much. But Ted Gärdestad's songs are good so I did se a couple of them. The ones in the end of the concert.
Here is a part of the concert with a song called The sky is a innocent shade of blue, sang by Johan Boding.

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My sister Lena is getting a rabbit. She took care of Bamse while I was gone and when he died she was very sad. Mom decided that if she wanted she get a rabbit of her own.

I'm trying to make Lena want to name the rabbit Skalman. My rabbits name Bamse came from a swedish kid cartoon. And in the cartoon Skalman is Bamses friend

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This is the three main character.
Lille Skutt, Skalman and Bamse

The comic is super famous in Sweden but you can't find it anywere els in the world wich I think is very sad ;)

Of course I don't want Lena to name her rabbit Lille Skutt (the name of the white rabbit to the left) That would be to boring since that's a traditional rabbit name XD

My blog entrys are so far apart that it feels ridicoulus to write at all. But it still pretty fun so Ill still write.

Ive been some more at Gotland.
Here is a picture of how Visby looked in the begining at like the 10th century or so. At that time it was at its peek. One of the biggest Towns in Sweden. :)



Andreas, Lotta and me on a Rauk. In the north of Gotland.


I'm climbing on a Rauk (a kind of rock that is made out of Limstone and has been torn on by waves)

Today was my last day in USA. It started out pretty slow. I packed the last of my stuff and just surfed around on the internet. It rained a lot outside and that made me feel good because it would already feel weird to leave and it would have felt harder if the weather were as good as it has been this past few days. My tan speaks for itself about that, even though it's not as strong as Shellie's tan :P

Elizabeth Bitney came by at one o clock. She had missed my good bye party that I had on Thursday because she been in Hawaii with her aunt. She gave me some cute shell necklaces and one of those cool Hawaiian flower necklaces. I got to see some pictures of Hawaii. It looked really cool. There was lot's of pictures of volcanoes, mountains and wild forest. Also pictures of city's they'd visited and local markets filled with fresh, exotic fruit. It seams like Bitney had an awesome trip. I hop I can go there someday.

After a while Bitney left to get to work at Economart. Then Shellie came home and we all ate grilled chicken and yoyo's (potatisklyftor). When we're done we left for the airport  :(

After two and a half hours, we arrived at the airport and I checked in my bags. I had been a total nervous wreck about the weight limit of my bags. I'd been packing and repacking, making sure the my to suitcases were not more than 50 lbs and my carry on baggage and my purse were not more than 13 lbs each. But when I got to the airport they didn't even check the weight of my carry on bags at all. I'm not even sure that they checked the weight of my other luggage. If they did, I'm sure it was under the limit, I controlled it a lot of times at home. Lbs is the shortening for American pounds by the way. I think that makes no sense at all since there is not an L nor a B in the word pounds.

My host family and I were in good time so we wandered around in the airport for a while. Then we went to the airports coffee shop and bought ourselves some coffee. Once we'd finished our coffee, it was time for me to go through security. It felt very sad to say good bye to my host family. But I didn't cry, because I only cry for stupid reasons like when I'm stressed out about a school exam or have great trouble packing all my stuff into suitcases. Now, when it was an actual sad moment, it just felt kind of unreal. It feels sad to think about it though.

When I got through security I wanted to e-mail them instantly. When I opened up my lap top there was paper letters from laying on top of the key board. They had somehow managed to smuggle them into my bag without me noticing. Pretty smooth of them. So I read the letter's and they were so nice and they made me happy. But also sad, because I had to leave. So then I wanted to send an e-mail even more. Unfortunately, there were no open networks available at the airport. Then I tried to text them but my money was to low.

So instead I spent my time walking around by the gate until it was time for boarding. My estimate is that it was around 250 passengers in the plane. (Might intrest Steve) I also estimate that almost all of them but me were Norwegians. All the Norwegians were part of a big travel group that were going back from a trip to North US. I talked to two of them that were sitting next to me and they told me, they'd been going with a chartered buss through North and South Dakota and Minnesota. And now they were all going back to the city Bergen in Norway, were they all live.
My flight between Minneapolis and Iceland was pretty cool because I got to see Midnight sun while I was flying. The sun disappeared under the clouds beneath us. And then it reappeared again at half past 11.

Det är början på slutet på en helg med mycket bra väder. Soligt, varmt med svag vind. Jag och min värdfamilj ver och campade. Vi åkte med husbilen till Steves pappas tomt på fredag eftermiddag. Han har strandtomt vid Shell Lake. På lördagen kom familjen Stone och Emily's kusin Zach. Vi badade och solaade och åkte tubing. Alla brände sig. Shellie brände sig värst för hon och Bri Stone har startat en tävling över vem som är brunast i slutet av sommaren. Jag brände mig minst, bara lite i nacken. På lördagkväll åkte alla hem och nu på söndagmorgon åkte vi tillbaka hem.Vi var tvugna att åka hem tidigt nu på söndagen för Emily ska på Stout.

Stout är en sommarskola som Em går på varje sommar sedans sexan. Hon hade bäst resultat i sin klass på ett allmänt test så hon fick en plats på den sommarskolan. Om hon går alla åren får hon sitt första år av college betalt. De får massor av läxor och Emily är sur över att behöva gå i skolan halva sommaren. Men shellie sa att hon kan ändå inte sommarjobba eftersom hon inte har körkort än.

Igår kom jag hem från min resa till New York (staten, inte staden tyvärr). Steve åker dit varje vecka för sitt jobb för Kanutsen. Eftersom jag är klar med skolan så åkte jag med, för att se lite mer av USA.
Vi åkte från Spooner till Minnesota, utmed Mississippi river. Sedan in i Wisconsin igen. Indiana och sedan Illinois, genom Chicago. Cleveland Ohio. En kort bit i Pennsylvania. Och vände i staten New York.



Det var kul att se några fler stater än Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pensylvania, D.C., New York, Washington och California. De var de staterna jag sett förrut. Nu har jag sett fler många. Chicago var coolt också. Den bästa delen var nog ändå i början. Utmed Mississippi river, väldigt vacker vy.



Det där är inte min bild. Jag hade inget bra foto av Mississippi så jag laddade upp det här från internet.

Den här helgen har varit full av studentmotagningar. Jag tror att jag var på runt 15 stycken under lördagen och söndagen. Jag var spenderade en timme eller mer på varje och det var mat på alla. Efter den tredje mottagningen var man ganska mätt så jag åt mest frukt då. Massor av vattenmellon och vindruvor. Studentmotagningarna här är allt om pengar. Alla släktingar som kommer ger ett kort med pengar i, för att användas till hösten.

Alla mina kompisar ska till olika college. Några ska stanna i Wisconsin medans andra har kommit in på ett college i en annan state. Det är inte en särskilt stor sak vilken stat man går i, det är samma land alltihop. Men på ett annat sätt är det ganska stort. Att gå på college flera hundra mil hemifrån. Det är inte så vanligt i Sverige som det är här.

Idag var jag bara på en studentmotagining. Det var hos Jenny Van Etten. Hon hade en studentmotagning med bara paj för mat. Det var ganska coolt. femton olika pajer. Rabarber, körsbär, blåbär, jordgubb, marräng, choklad, chocolatchip cokie, citron och mycket mer.

Fredagkväll var det senior lock in. Seniors var i skolan på kvällen och vi kollade på en slide show med foton av alla seniors. Sedan hade vi olika turneringar i air hockey, biliard och bingo.

De flesta seniors var där och det var kul. I slutet av kvällen var det hypnotist förestälning. Jag har aldrig sett en hypnosismsförestälning förrut och var verkligen överaskad för försökspersonerna var verkligen hypnotiserade. De gjorde alla möjliga superpinsama grejer som jag är helt säker på att de aldrig skulle ha gjort frivilligt.

Två av killarna dansade huladans på scenen (de var inte särskilt bra på det). Och en annan kille blev instrukterad att vara Britneys spears, han gick ut i publiken och pussade några killar på håret och dansade sexig tjejdans. Sedan var det en annan kille som blev hypnotiserad till att tro att han var gravid och hade värkar. Det var urkul.

När the lock in var över åkte vi till restaurangen Perkins i Rice lake och åt frukost. Sen åkte jag med hem till Shelby och sov över där.