I made many new experiences and learned a lot more about Sweden.
•I’ve been to a „Chelbi“ as we would call it in Switzerland. It is like a little fair where people cell candy, knitted gloves and scarfs and so on. My host siblings and me even participated a race.
•I’ve learned a lot of swedish, what makes life easier here. I also can participate better in school, it’s more interesting if you understand more.
•I also made my first difficult experience here in Sweden; 4 days ago I moved from my first hostfamily to a temporary one, where I stay until a new one is found. The main reason for this change is the long and complicated way to school and also the independance it causes. I’m glad that I will stay in friendly contact with my first family and that my temporary family and me get on very well with each other. Yesterday for example, we cooked moose together, what I really enjoyed.
I make so many wonderful memories here and I’ve got different ways to keep them. I have a little booklet where I right in what I do here and I also glue in stuff like tickets or receipts and so on. Another thing I do, is an picture album on my phone named „324 days“, the plan is to take a picture everyday and save it in that album. Until now I’ve got 66 pictures, for those 66 days I’ve spent here. Another way of saving memories is, that I exchange letters with my family and best friends in Switzerland. We write eachother about what’s happening in our lifes and how we feel about this.
I can’t wait for the real swedish winter. I’m curious of the darkness and also especially Christmas and I hope that it will be a very cold and snowy one.
Today I’m going take a walk through the nearby forest with my temporary hostfamily. It’s a wonderful sunny day, the trees are absolutely worth it to look at and take pictures of! Later I will see a volleyball game of my team here in Karlstad.
I have found much more knowledge in this time than I ever did in school. I’ve learned about myself, others, our society and the connection between all three.