Day 29.

Today was a good day :)

I went and got my bike. It is from my last host family, and they are about Aunt Anna and Uncle Joe's age. Leif (my future host father) is pretty funny. They keep telling me that they built their new house just for me, cuz they want to make me feel special. So I laugh a lot. And my room is attached to the balcony, so its pretty tiight so they told me I am going to have to practice my Royal Wave so when I sit there I can wave like a queen. Bahaha. The view is amazing though. :)


Last night was fun. Old people are so fun when they are all together and laughing. Its fun for me cuz I pretend I know what they are talking about, and make up little conversations about what they are talking about. It works until someone decides to translate for me. And then I realize how far away I was from what they were really talking about.We had some sourcream pudding stuff last night. It was actually really good. You eat it with cinnimon and sugar on it. So that was really good to try. And then I was STUFFEDDDD. haha. And they brought out more food. I seriously thought I was going to EXPLODE. Thankfully I didnt. Oh and then Stynard [that is so not how you spell it, but yeahhhh.] he is a baker, and he made me a really pretty cake, and it was delicious, but I was so stuffed I only had a tiny piece. They make fun of the amounts I eat here. Its kinda weird, but I dont eat very much. Guess whattt??? I've lost 10lbs since I've gotten here!! I'm pahrettyyy hyped. mwahaha.

This is kind of a random thing to put in this blog, but this is something I thought Austin would like. This is the "mechanical" part of the school. And behind where I took this picture, there is a shop where they work with metal and stuff like that. But all of those cars, they work on through out the school year. It's mainly all guys in this part of the school, but there is a few random girls I think too.

This is the house that I am living in and I will be here until November I think.

This is the yard. Martha (host mother) keeps a garden. It looks really nice. A lot of flowers. The yard is quite big. I think they have 4 acres of land, but I'm not sure. :) They live by the lake tho. It's a short bike ride, or a medium walk down to the water, so that is nice.

This is the Kitchen. I haven't cooked anything yet, but I did cut up some potatoes for supper one day. My host brother went to cooking school for a year. So he cooks a lot. He also was a foreign exchange student in Japan, so he sorta understand what I'm going through. Except he said he didn't really get homesick, and that is like all I am. Haha. It's getting better slowly though. My host mother asked why I thought I was so homesick, and I told her about how usually I'm with the friends like ALL the time, so she said there is a way they can figure out for me to go to Oslo once a month or so for the first few months or so. And later too if possible.

There are two tables/Diningrooms I guess. One is used when there are a lot of people over I think. We haven't used that table yet though. The one on the left though is the one we use with the family here. It is comfy, but we also eat in the Livingroom while they watch TV or we use our computers in there too.

The Livingroom. We sometimes eat in here. Depends. But at night (usually) on the weekdays we sit in there and watch random TV shows. Majority of the are American so I understand or have seen them before. I usually go to bed before they do though.

This is the Laundry room. It's kinda messy in this picture. It usually isn't. But the drying rack is the picture on the right. People mostly use the drying racks. There is a dryer, but it isn't like the dryers we have. Martha (host mother) said that the dryers here aren't nearly as good as the ones we have in the states. When the weather is nice though, like today, you can hang your clothes on the clothes line outside. I did that today. That was probably funny to watch cuz I was trying to figure out how to hang Robert (host brother) his tshirt that was kinda wierd. Haha.

This is the bathroom. There is only one

bathroom. Well actually there is two in this part of the house that we live in, but the other one is down stairs. I'm not in the bathroom that much though. I usually just get ready in my room. So it's funny because Eivind (host father) is always like "Emily the bathroom is open!!" and I am already ready except I have to go brush my teeth or something. Haha. But it is the only bathroom that has a shower in it, so I do use it to shower. But that's mainly it.

Okay, so this is my room. I think that the door is pretty tiight. haha. It is the green door. I like it, reminds me of something that people get their pictures take infront of. Haha. My room is kinda messy, so I am sorry, I suppose I could have made my bed before I took the pictures, but I didn't, sorry. And the stuff in my closet, the top three shelves are mine. And then from the white and black dress to the right is mine, the rest is not. Its just random articles of clothing that were left in there, but thats okay. Haha. Yeah I used to think I didn't have much clothes, and now I really dont haha. Its okay though because it doesn't take me as long to figure out what I feel like wearing. Haha. And then I have my desk. But its just cluttered. Its not really organized. I suppose I should probably keep it that way though. Its not that bad.

Love yall honey bunches of oats.

Oooh that sounds REALLYY yummy.

anywayyys, love yall,

Emily