Day 204.

I WENT SNOWBOARDING TODAYYY!!!!
I went all the way down a mountain.
it took me an hour.

Day 203.

Today was seriously AMAZINGGG.
I am in this amazing mood where any emotion other than when i am just blanky, i go and run. its so nice. :D
gotta sleep cuz tomorrow we head out to go snowboard all day :D

Day 202.

Sorry, Im back to one liners, but I am kind out of things to tell...

Day 201.

two words.

EXTREMELY EXHAUSTED.

Day 200.

In Åsker with Sara and Rachael for tonight and tomorrow.

We are going to Oslo tomorrow.

And selling some things to raise money.

:)

Day 199.

Today was a good day.
Actually, it was a great day. haha.
Nothing too spectacular happened.
Camila and her family left for Lillehamer yesterday, so I'm kinda here chillin by myself. haha.
I went and hung out with Fredrik though, we watching tv, and then I totally crashed and fell asleep.
Oh, EUROTOUR IS PAID FOR. :)
super hyped for that.

I went to the post office and picked up Stanley, not sure how to write his daily adventures, but think it will be nice that I get to take him to Oslo. It's kinda funny, but I'm glad I have something like this to do, I feel useful and helpfull, and its fun, so yep.
Tomorrow I leave for Åsker, so me and Rachael and Sara can all hang out and cook desserts. yumm.
Anyways that's all for now. Me and Stanley are going to start our Adventures :D

Day 198.

It is the beginning of our Winter Break.
Don't know exactly what I am going to do though.
All of my Norwegian friends left, and Camila's family is here, so she left.
And now I'm just watching Rumor Has It.
Kind of a weird movie.
Hahaha.

Day 197.

Today has been a lazy day.
It's quite cold again. -15.

I slept until 4, but went to bed around 6 and slept til 12, so it was good.

My dad's brother and his girlfriend...(I think it's his girlfriend, kanskje his wife) but they are here for the day so it's nice. :)

Totally needing a favor from someone :)
If possible could someone send me three sticks of vanilla softlips chapstick, 3 packages of listerine strips (30 little containers), a thing of cocoa butter lotion, a box of strawberry poptarts, blueberry poptarts, and cinimon poptarts, and like 2 bags of regular goldfish, and one of pizza goldfish?
That would be TOTALLYYYY amazing, and I would seriously love you forever and ever :)

Day 196.

Hmm the day has just begun, but I think it might be a busy one, so I will try to write some now, and if I forget, I still will have blogged, but if I don't forget, I can add more later about my day.

Sleeping had been getting worse, I think. I go to bed around 12-3 and wake up around 4-6 depending on the time that I went to bed. I'm totalllllly exhausted all the time, but it's okay, in a way it kinda keeps me going, and when I get to the point of total exhaustion I actually am able to fall asleep easier. Hahaha. I should find something to do with all of my spare time, rather than just let it slip away. Haha.

I went and saw Avatar with two of my Norwegian friends. Haha, kinda funny, last year, I think I went to the movies around 3 times, and this week only I've been to the movies 3 times. Haha. It was definently reallyyy good though. I kinda thought it would be totally amazing, but it was still REALLLLLYYY good. One of the guys I went with told me not to get sad when it was over, cuz some people when they saw it, got like major depressed, and committed suicide because there was not a better world they could go to. But I think it's kind of stupid to think like that, this world we live in is such a beautiful place if you just allow yourself to see it. Yes, there is a lot of pollution in places, and a lot of violence with people, but if you open your eyes, it is possible to see past those things, and see the flower that grows through the crack in the sidewalk, or the child who ever so calmly gives their friend a hug, who is hurting. It's out there, and there is so much beauty, both with nature, and within people, you just have to be willing to see it. That's just my opinion though.

Not too many plans for this week. It's our vinterferien, aka Winter Break, kinda like the Spring Break in the US, so we have no school, woot woot!! haha. Don't really know what I'm going to do, I am going to try to go snowboarding again though. So that will be major fun if it all works out :D But other than that, I really have no idea what I'll be doing, but it works, because most of my plans are made like that.

It seems the days are just flying by, I can't believe that its day 196 of this amazing year in my life. Not much ever seems to happen, and there is never too much new news, but wow, I never dreamed this would be as amazing as it has come to be. I am so blessed to have the few AMAZING friends that I have here, and for those who have been supportive through everything at home. That sounded different than what I meant, I meant like those at home who have supported me. Hahaha. It just makes me a little sad to think that it will someday come to an end. One of my friends said something about being sad when I will leave, and honestly I think it will probably be one of the hardest things I will ever have to do, but you know, this year is totally worth it. It will be hard going from here to Happy though, cuz I'm gonna be so sad and tired, but excited and happy at the same time. I'm guessing the tiredness will probably win, as it usually does, which brings me to the end of this post for now. It's 7 am and I'm gonna sleep another hour or two before I have to get up and clean my room. :)

Love to all,

Hope your day is amazing,

Emily Ann

Day 195.

Today was a good day again.

:)

I had school, so I went to English and I had a test.

It was easy for the most part. A little boring though.

Then I had History and we didn't do anything in History.

And I met Camila's family.

And now I am at Maxi with them :)

All is well.

:D

Day 194.

Today was a good day.

It wasnt too cold, but definently wasnt too warm either.

I wore my summer shoes with a nice pair of black socks, my black pants (no leggings), and a t-shirt. And my summer jacket. I did put on my winter jacket, but only because I was waiting outside for quite a while for my train to arrive.

I went to Oslo Gardermoen with Camila though.

Her mom and sister arrived today from Paris, so I think she was quite excited for that.

We at sushi in a box, and I had some maccoroni and cheese. Hahaha.

I left before her mom and sister got there though. I needed to come home for dinner to eat with my family. So that was nice.

So I have a Rotary Meeting tonight. That's all though.

Then at 21.00 I am going to the movies with some of the girls from school.

Going to see Day Breakers.

Not really sure what it's about, but sounds good to me. hahah.

Anyways,

Guess that's all for now.

All my love,

Emily Ann

Day 193.

How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

-François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Today was good. No class, I went to class, but the teacher wasnt there, so we got to go home :)

But we are going to go to the movies tonight I think.

Around 6 pm.

But yeah. I'm just a little bored now. haha.

Funny story:

Today I was trying to make noodles for Camila and Maria too.

And they have burner covers on the burners. But Id never seen them, so I turned on the burner and put the pan on it, and all, and I was wondering why the water wasnt boiling, and there was this weird smell coming from the stove. Hahaha. So I picked up the pan, and it sparked. And it was all burning and crispying. And so then I realized it was a burner cover that was cooking. So I turned to heat off, and then I took the pan off, and was trying to figure out a way to get the cover off, so I was using a fork, and when I picked up the burner cover, it was so hot underneath it that it like flamed up. It was so terrible, and I felt horrible, but my mom just laughed and said she would make fun of me, and that it was okay since nothing else got hurt. But yeah, I'm just not meant to cook while I am over here, I think. lol.

Day 192.

SOOOO tiired, sorry for the short post, but Im EXHAUSTEDDDDD.

Should go to bed earlier.

Day 191.

(Min momma og meg, min siste mor.)
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

-Tenneva Jordan

Yesterday was Mothers' Day here in Norway. And Valentines Day.
So I went out to eat with my new family and my new Grandma. She is my new mom's mom.
We went to eat out at a Japanese food. IT WAS SOOO YUMMYYY!!!!

And then I went to Camila's house and we talked about everything and all the things that happened at Winter Camp. I'm a little bummed that I didn't get to go, but it's okay because we have a thing in March with everyone again, and then in April and May we have Eurotourr.

Pretty sure everyone can't wait until April, but in a way can, because that means our year is almost over.

That scares me to death. I do not want this year to be over. It has been so amazing, and I think in a way, I have kind of found small parts of me that I never knew were there, or lost parts of me that I thought would be with me forever. But it's been such an AMAZING experience. And if I had the chance to do it again, most definently would do it over and over and over.

Day 190.

forgot to post a blog today.

will tomorrow.

Happy Mothers Day, and Valentines Day, and something that we eat lots of boller, but i dont know what its called. lol.

Day 189.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

-Michel de Montaigne

Today has been good. My brain is dying of tiredness though. I was awake til 5 am, and then woke up at 8. I did get about an hour nap before I had to wake up again to leave.

All of my things are now unpacked in my room, and I am now officially part of my new family.

Not going to lie, it was SOOO weird telling Pappa og Mamma bye. Cuz I dunno how to explain it, but I was thinking about it today, and my life is weiiiirrrddd. Like I just pack up and leave, and go to someone's house that doesn't even know me, or trust me. It's kinda crazy if you ask me. But I totally love my life :)

I feel like I should be like smarter than I am. Actually I do kind of feel smarter, cuz last night me and Martin were talking about politics, thankfully it was in English and not in Norwegian though.

But tonight we have only been speaking Norwegian, and I am DYINGGG. hahaha.

Day 188.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

-Andrew Wyeth

It's been a good week. It actually flew by. I thought it was going to be so terrible because i had no one to hang out with, but I managed to survive. Haha.

Tonight my family is throwing me a "flytte" party, aka moving party. Tonight's my last night to sleep in that bed. I'm actually like not really thinking about moving, I am quite sad though. So we are going to eat tacos, and I am going to make some guacamole :) I love guacamole. Heath and his family sent me some ingredients for enchiladas so I made those the other day, and they were heavenly. I had them for supper that night, and then for breakfast the next morning, and then for lunch, and I was going to eat them for supper too, but they had eaten them all by the time I got home that night. I was a little sad. Hahaha. But we ate guacamole and chips, and that was good. I think I am going to try to make a guacamole-chicken sandwich like the ones you can get at The Back Porch. Cuz those are pretty ammmazing.

I have Norwegian now, so I guess I should head to class.

Love to all,

Emily Ann.

Day 187.

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

-Albert Schweitzer

This is me and one of my best friends, Camila.
(fra Brazil)
Oh, she asked me that if anyone sends a package if yall can send like 4 packages of listerine strips. hahaha. and also goldfish, IF anyone is sending anything. lollll

Wow, time really has flown by.

I remember when I was on Day 10, and it was like OMG THIS IS CRAZYY!!!

haha.

okay, I am going to try to start actually updating updating from now on. It just can be a little hard everyday because I run out of things to say, or I forget what I have done. Usually the blog will be about yesterday because it's easier for me to blog in the mornings than at night when my brain really isn't working. Haha.

Let's see, the Exchange Student come back on Saturday. It's been weird not having them here, but I hung out with a Norwegian yesterday, so I think that's a pro that has come out of it. I think sometimes I depend on people too much, I mean since I have gotten here, I have deffinently gotten more independent also though. I guess I've become independent when it comes to adults, and taking care of myself like how to get to places, ect, but I always have a friend with me it seems. In other words, I dont like to be alone. Hahha.

Anyways OH I ATE ROMEN NOODLES!!! They were heavenly. hahaha. just kidding.

I really want to go snowboarding again, but I'm not sure if I will be able to. I really wanted to get good at it before all the snow melted, but I don't know if it's going to be possible. I really hope so though. Still have to try downhill skiing, I am hoping to go with some friend on the week of our Winter Break. It's funny, they have Winter Break about 2 weeks before Texas has their Spring Break. Hahaha. But yeah, it was a lot funnier in my head I guess. Anyways, my love to all back home.

Emily Ann.

Day 186.

Hmm, it's been a while since I have actually updated to update y'all with my life.

Lets see, um I've changed, not going to lie about that. Don't know if it is for the good, or for the bad, but I guess thats just how life goes, right?

I love it here. I still don't have as many friends as I expected to have, but the friends that I do have are amazing, and I could not ask for anything more.

I do sometimes wish I was back home, but they say that that feeling never goes away. It's not like I despise home, it's just that I have experienced something more amazing than I ever thought possible, and changed, and I no longer am the little Emily that left Amarillo, Texas and got here and was scared to death. I don't want to go back to the perfect bubble that I lived in, where life was so good, and nothing was too hard. And I feel like if I go back, actually, I KNOW, that if I go back for good, I am going to be a major disappointment to many, and before you start getting frustrated with me, I will explain what I mean.

Let's see I'll use an example. Summer of '07 is kind of when me and Rebecca started changing, and it was wierd, because the person that was my best friend, and I totally loved like crazy, was slowly disappearing, the good thing was that I was there to watch her change, so it wasn't such a big shock as it could have been. But what I am saying is that I have changed, you may think you know who I am, because of who I was, and yes, part of that Emily is still in me, and always will be, but I'm not that same person. And when I come home, I know that everyone will probably be in the mindset that they will know how I am, but I have a feeling, I am going to disappoint a few.

I am happy though.

Anyways, sorry to Grandma and Grandpa, and Grandma that I haven't called. It just seems everyday goes by, and by the time I know it, it's the next week.

I move on Saturday, I am actually really bummed about it, but excited none the less. I love my next family also, but I love the family I have now. It gets old moving so much. :(

Let's see, um Winter Camp is this week, but I didn't go, so I am the only one here left in Hamar out of the Exchange Students, but it's been good, because I've been forced to communicate with other people. Hahaha.

Anyways, I think that's all.

Nothing too exciting. Next month we go to Oslo for a ski tournament. And April is EUROTOUR!!! Will be the TIME OF OUR LIVES!!!!

Day 185.

Its cold again :(

its about -17, so im a little bummed about it.

its not so bad if i just stay inside all the time though. haha.

Day 184.

Today is a good day, the weather is getting "warmer"

so its nice :)

Day 183.

det har vært veldig varmt, dette er fint :)

jeg elsker Norge.

Its been warm lately, its nice.

I love Norway :]p

oh, random, if anyone is sending letters, can you wait for about a week or so, i am moving families, and dont know my new address yet. i will let yall know though :)

Day 182.

everyone leaves today for camp. im sad.

Day 181.

I sometimes wish that i could express what i truely feel.

but honestly, i cant, because i know the things that i will say will be taken out of context, and people will freak out, and will start to talk, like it always happends.

and thats just the way that life works in Texas.

but i do want to say this,

Thank you John and Laura for never judging me and always sticking beside me.

And Aimee, thank you too. And Rebecca for being totally honesty about everything.

Yall seriously have NO idea how much yall truely mean to me.

thank you for being the sun on my dark days.

Thank yall four for being who you are, and loving me for who I am, and not for who you want me to be.

Day 180.

Today i accidently stabbed myself.

it hurt.

haha.

Day 179.

i love my life in Norway.

and the people that are here for me.

im not going to lie, its been hard finding out who my friends are.

but glad it happened.

and i plan on living with my best friend when i get back to the states :)

Day 178.

Its cold again.

:(

Day 177.

I think I missed my half mark.

Not sure though.

Today was supposed to be my half mark if my math was right, dont know if it was though.

hahaha.