August 2010
4 posts
On the Road Again
I arrived in Stockholm around 8:30 Sunday night after my bus was over an hour late, this type of thing seems to have become a theme with me on this trip. However, everything else went very smooth. Jill helped me call my next host family and talk to the bus driver so I could borrow his phone to call them when we were about an hour outside the city. The Hemingstam Family are very nice. Annika is a...
Farms and Castles!
This week has flown by! Monday Jill had to go back to work so Jessie and I just slept in and then took a bus to Kalmar. She took me to her favorite restaurant to go to with her friends and we just shopped around until Jill got off work. They have a lot of little shops and things so it was fun to look around. That night one of Jill’s cousins and her husband came to stay a couple of days, so...
The Island of Örland
Time is flying by and it’s getting harder to keep up with everything. It seems strange to be starting my last week in Sweden. I’ll be sad to leave but very happy to be home!! I’ve done a lot with the Hedlund Family sense I’ve writen last so lets see if I can get it all typed out! Upon inspiration from my grandma I have been doing a good job of keeping a journal of my trip...
A New Family & More 4-H Camp...
This past week has been very busy, but I loved it all! I am now staying with the Hedlund Family on the island Örland. It takes about two and a half hours to drive the length of Örland but only ten minutes to drive the width. Jill, the mother, use to work at the 4-H Farm in Kalmar (Kalmar is only about 15 minutes away, it’s just across a really big bridge from Örland). They have hosted four...
July 2010
4 posts
Life in Kalmar, Sweden!
Sorry it has been so long sense my last update, but I have lots to share! The closer to the end of my trip that get the faster time seems to fly by! For the past two weeks I have been living in Southwestern Sweeden in an a town called Kalmar.
I arrived on Saturday, July 17 at about 1:30 A.M. to the Burvall Family. The mother, Tina, works for the 4-H Farm in Kalmar. In Sweden they don’t have...
4-H Camp - Part 2 (Tuesday-Friday)
It was taking me too long to write all about camp so I decided to split it into two parts so here is how the second part of camp went.
Tuesday morning we woke up to rain again. They said it got down to as low as -3*C (that’s 26*F) in the night so it was very cold. But today we got to choose between several different activities and I had chose to go to Ostersund, the closest city, to just...
4-H Camp - Part 1 (Thursday-Monday)
I have been to the depths of the Swedish wilderness and back! Last Thursday I took a train about an hour and then boarded a bus and started my two day journey to Sweden’s National 4-H Camp, which was held in Jämtland. Don’t worry I remembered all my bags this time! The bus ride wasn’t anything too exciting we would stop and pick people up along the way and I mainly just slept...
More from Sweden!
Last Thursday (July 1) we went to their big farm show. Elna had to work a tent for her job so I went around with Johan, David, Lars. They also invited one of their neighbor girls who is 16 but speaks English very well so it was nice to have her their to talk to. I enjoyed seeing all the tractors and test plots, but I don’t think anyone had as much fun as David, he was on cloud 9 all day with...
June 2010
6 posts
Out and About
The Anderssons have been keeping me busy and they have gone out of their way to show me around Sweden. Each day I do something different. Last Thursday I stayed home with they boys and we worked in David’s garden pulling weeds and then made chocolate chip cookies, which they had never made before, but they seemed to really like them! I also taught the kids to play Slap Jack, which was a bit...
The Adventure Continues
In my last blog I left out a rather big part of my trip. I was/am very embarrassed about what I did, and I didn’t want to worry everyone. Last Sunday when I went to get off the train from Stockholm in Lund, I left my purse/Roo sitting under my seat on the train. We (Simon, the IFYE from Englandand I) where on the train and didn’t realise it was our stop so we rushed off. When I flew on...
Stockholm and Getting Settled
I spent my first two nights in Stockholm, as a welcome weekend. The first night because it was pretty late and I was very tired, we just went out to eat and then to bed. We stayed at a 4-H Farm. In Sweden they don’t have projects like we do in the U.S. The bigger clubs have these farms where they keep a couple of cows, horse, sheep, and other animals. This gives the kids in the city a...
Traveling
Getting to Sweden was quite an adventure to say the least. It started out at KCI Airport. My original plan was to leave KCI at 10:45 fly to Chicago and then on to Stockholm, Sweden. But the travel agency and the airlines had a disagreement about whether or not there was even a ticket for me. The airlines won and the travel agency tried to put me on another plane but they only gave me 15 minutes...
Getting Ready To Leave
I’m getting excited to leave for Sweden on Thursday! I want to use this blog as a way to share my IFYE experience with all my family and friends. Wish me luck!
