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...