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What an adventurous weekend it's been so far! I want to write everything about it but I will totally not remember everything and besides no one is gonna read the whole thing anyway if it's too long... Oh and all the pics will get bigger for you to see if you click on them :)

So, Friday after practise me and Solveig hung out with Rachel for a while before we went home and had a nice evening at home watching the old version of Fame so we can go see the new one some day.
Saturday we woke up freakishly school-early and drove to Lake Powell which was beautiful and huge. The boat trip we went on took us to where the lake turns into Colorado River, and through this wonderful canyon where the bottom of it was water so we were going through like a labyrint of stone... it was awsome. Pics:

     

Then, at about lunchtime, we got back and went to the town Page to join a group of people going down the Colorado River on rafts. On the way down the canyon to where we started, we had to wear helmets haha :P Then we went on a boat with a guide and IT WAS AWSOME. I have never done anything like it, ever before. It was undescibable Pics:

   

So we stopped at this one place and me and Solveig went swimming in the Colorado River!!!!!!! And it was 9 degrees Celsius/46 degrees Fahreneit in the water!!!!!!!!!!! x) Pics:

    

Everybody took pictures of us, and they all watched us screamingly swim.. Or at least I swam and got my head under. It was painful ;P but fun!

Being soaked we left in bikinis, and then after a while we got to borrow some hoodies from Matt (the guide who drove the boat) and also we resqued some people who's canoe had falled over as they hit the rocks and they were stuck there..

 

This random line in the wall of the canyon on the pic above, it was sand dunes on the age of when the dinosaurs first appeared... inpressive right? And the other pic is of me in Matt's huge hoodie ^^

Arriving back home at about 10 pm, I was crazily tired and fell asleep at once. I slept for about ten hours and then today we went rollerskating in our usual park, me Solveig and Krystal. Adorable they are, my lovely friends ^^



During the Peace Garden metting, a duet sung and the girl was Swedish! She'd been living in the US for about three years and she was originally from Stockholm!! So, I talked some with her before we went shopping some dresses (found an adorable blueish one for homecoming) and went home. Planning to do Teater homework, aka work on our caracters, IEs and ensamble lines, we ended up being lazy. It's Sunday after all... ^^

Oh and I also talked to HW on msn just now, which was nice :) She's in Florida for the year. And today I got the scanned pic of my former class (NV08G) from Elin <3 How I miss you guys..!



That's all for now :D

Yo Idahoo det är lisa som skriver
haha ne ja bara driver
är inget bra på rim och sånt där
Men du ska veta att ja trivs här
Maten är bra fasten det är mycket cheese
och i skolan betalas allt med fees
Fast vissa klasser är helt gratis you see
som politik, speech och US history
Många glada vänner har ja hittat nu
Inte lika fantastiska, såklart, som du
Men syrran min hon gav mig direkt ett gäng
Vi träffades en grupp i parken en sväng
Sen dess har det bara blivit mera
Så nu kan jag med många vänner stoltsera
Men varför är det alltid så att lilla jag
inte ses av snygga seniors en enda dag?
När knäppa små juniors, de är mest en börda
frågar om ja vill se på bio på lörda'
En galen kille som bjöd ut mig häromdan
Skröt sen om marujana, lät som ett barn
på julafton när alla paket ska öppnas och se
Varför han röker, ja vem vet de?
Iallafall, jag tappar bort mig lite grann
Juste, ja snackade om seniors och han...
Typ alla killar som går sista året
Och som inte har ett kilo vax i håret
De hittade sin flickvän som juniors, it's true
Så ingen senior care about you.
Min värdfamilj är underbart snäll och rar
Två söta värdsystrar jag nu har..
Sen är det lektionerna, så lätta är de
att jag som foreign lätt klarar mig från ett D
Har faktiskt A i alla klasser utom Körsång
för jag övar inte tillräckligt gång på gång
Och US History är helt enkelt en galen klass
För jag blir överöst med ett lass
argument om varför Sverige är kommunister
Och jag måste ju försvara oss från dessa ligister
som inte förstår vår politik
bara för att de tror deras är unik
Sen har vi de underbara eftermiddagarna som
räddar mig dag efter sega klasserna, dom
härliga människor jag omger mig med, you see
Är folk jag vill ta med hem with me.
För varje dag med Shakespeare Team
övar vi för A Midsummernight's Dream
Pjäsen är fortfarande kaos och oreda men
vi hoppas att det ska bli bättre sen
eller snarare nu för premiären är snart
om en vecka måste allt vara klart
Sen har vi show och tvådagars tävling
Och samma vecka är det kör-konsert (grävling)
Fast vet du vad som är coolt, tycker jag at least
På tisdag är det auditions för Beauty and the Beast
japp vi gör musikalen nu tills jul
Och det ska bli helt galet kul
Antar att nån underbar sångröst blir Belle
Men hoppas kan man alltid, väl?
Det här blir en sjukt lång sång/dikt
btw, vet inte om ja gått upp i vikt
har inte hittat nån våg och vill inte heller
man lever bara en gång, och här de ställer
krav på att äta alla onyttigheter de har
och utan sport stannar kilona kvar
Kan iallafall lätt ha alla gamla kläder än
så ja antar att det är lugnt, men...
Och shit vet du vad som hände häromdan då?
En kille leddes ut ur skolan med handfängsel på
tydligen (detta hörde jag från amber) hade han, vilket snille,
skagit av käken på en annan kille
Vet inte om det är sant men det ryktet har ja hört
Stackarn för honom är det nog ganska kört
Så igår slapp ja skolan för de som vill
kunde åka buss till
ett berg och sitta hela dagen
och rita av fåren i hagen
eller nåt annat trams
eller krimskrams.
Jobbar på med kläder för oss till halloween
ja ska va tingeling, kayla "The Alice-in-wonderland Queen"
Underbara Krystal med vit liten hand
hon ska vara självaste Alice in Wonderland
Solveigs mål är att hinna i denna tid av spänning
sy som hon Giselle, i Förtrollad, en klänning
Söta lilla Solveig, hon spelar Titania i pjäsen
regissören Rich satte bra roller, var kräsen
Han är en helt fantastisk regissör, enligt mig
Energy! Radiate! Focus! Man skärper sig
Och aldrig har jag känt mig så som en del
Teater här får mig att känna mig hel
Så annorlunda från där hemma det är
Alla är så inne i det, som en familj man håller kär
Nu är det sent och om vi hinner
Efter en väldigt sen men god dinner
ska vi se den gamla versionen av Fame
och nån gång den nya, se om den är "the same"
Sen imorgon bär det av hela allihopa
dock inte så långt som till Europa
Men Lake Powell imorgon vi ser
och sen vi med båt, Colorado River ner
Och nästa vecka, helt galet snart
är det Homecoming Week med en rivig start
Måndag är Pyjamas/Hat Day so we
will dress up and hopefully see
a school full of sleepy students, oh yes
That will be a sleepy mess
Also, today in rehearsal we finally got
our team t-shirts, we all look so hot^^
Men men alldeles för långt denna dikt
Hoppas att du har det bra, utan bikt
Saknar dig min gullunge, visst är det så
Men ett litet år ska det nog gå.
Skriver snart mer, puss på dej
Hej hej Leverpastej <3

Sweet Dreams...

2009 HHS Homecoming Royalty

Jenessa Fisher,  Homecoming Queen

Madison Barney, 1st Attendant

Shanon Singleton, 2nd Attendant

Kelly Webb, Homecoming Princess

Dacie Elison, Miss Congeniality

"Once Upon A Dream"

Lyrics: Ben Jackson
MC: "Kazuo"
Producer: The Arcitype

LYRICS

Verse I
Memorizing presidents is gonna take some effort
We'll start with George Washington, Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
Then James Madison and James Monroe
Then John Quincy Adams like his father before

Next up we've got some interesting folks
Named Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, and Polk
The next four presidents that we'll examine
Are Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan

Chorus
44 Presidents, White House residents
From the Revolution to the age of the Internet
(×4)

Verse II
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves
Then we got Johnson, Grant, and Rutherford Hayes
James Garfield, Chester Arthur
Cleveland and Harrison; let's keep going farther

Next up, we got Cleveland again
Then McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
The next four, yeah you know who they are, it's
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and FDR

Chorus

Verse III
No presidents are from Wisconsin
Not Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, or Johnson
We're getting near the end, but its not getting harder
Its Nixon, Ford, then Jimmy Carter

Last few, we're almost done
Weve just got Regan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush the Son
Obama's in the White House now
So hail to the chief and stand up proud!

Started today sunday with getting up, feeling sick, not going roller skating as planned but sleeping for another two hours (thanks wonderful Solveig and Krystal who didn't complain about not leaving as planned) and then went to Peace Gardens. Hadn't had much sleep so the hour-long talk from an old lady about Lucid Dreaming was veeery long... and dreamy ^^

Went to "Donken" and got some french fries for lunch (oh yes we did this once, hello american life hahah) and a milkshake. I had a small milkshake and a medium fries, and they were both like big in Sweden... Me and Solveig then washed the car which turned out to be slightly impossible and we were both panicking about homework and stuff so finally we managed to scrub, wash and dry it at once and get it kinda clean. It was hard. We were only two people after all.

Tonight my adorable hostfamily made me a chocolate cake for my nameday (aren't they the best?) and I'm gonna try and get a pic up here. Will update this post in that case. It was yummie tasty with strawberries on and it said "Happy Nameday Lisa" and Solveig I could totally read it at once it was so pretty <3

Tomorrow it's back to school. Going on to last two weeks of rehearsal now, aaaaah panic!
Btw Solveig found these really funny singing versions of the play haha cute :P

Goodnite!
v: some pics of me, Solveig and Kayla from the Grand Canyon Trip
   

P.S. The title is from a poster that I saw at the subway once in Stockholm and I just liked it so much that I wrote it down and it's been stuck in my head ever since

Update (namedaycake):

Ok so I got come complaint about how what I'd written apparently made it seem like I think americans are stupid. I do not think so. I love the americans I've met so far and my friends here are just wonderful. Some americans are very narrow minded, but mostly I've just met big interest, facination, love and smiles. And even the narrow minded people are interested and slightly facinated by how Sweden is so different.

People here are so open to talking to others, and they never seem to hesitate to talk to you. People can instantly tell if you're feeling low (even people I've spoken to like once) and they will make you feel better.

So what I'm trying to say is that I don't think americans are stupid. I love them for how they are, and I'm so glad that I came here to make such great friends as I've found inbetween these mountains of southern Utah.

And Solveig, I know I've used the title from the song "Don't wanna be an american idiot" before, but I think it's funny ^^

I hope no one took offence in what I wrote, I just love you guys for being so curious and interested, it gives me the opportunity to be proud of my country and tell you about it. And I don't know everything about american culture either and you guys laugh at me when I totally mispronounciate something or just don't have a clue what I'm doing.. So I hope that you don't seriously think I've got a single thing against americans!

Love you people who make my american experience awsome, and you who are just happy parts of my day :D

Now to less serious things. I'm going to sleep NOW, because I recently came home from hanging out at Rachel's house with Krystal, Louellen and Rachel. Solveig didn't come because she was tired from loss of sleep this week. I understand her, I got so tired in the middle of playing Monopoly that I totally lost the game to Rachel...

Tomorrow is the Drama Swim Party at Quill Lake (however it's spelled, it sounds like Quill..) and we're all gonna be there, right?! It's gonna be awsome :D

Oh and btw I heard that Tigers beat the other football team tonight just barely. Our team is so amazing, just great! Too bad we didn't go to the game, but we are going to Homecoming!! It's a part of the american experience :)

Good night, I'm falling asleep noo... ZzzZzzZzzZzz

I get the weirdest and funniest comments some times. Americans are adorable and I love them, but they have their weird habits. Here are some examples of things that I find strange and funny about them:

* They truly DO have melted chocolate and melted cheese on EVERYTHING
* I have found the weirdest ice cream flavors, like bubblegum and cinnemon
* Surprisingly, there's cinnemon in EVERYTHING. Candy, Ice cream... you name it - it's in cinnemon flavor
* All americans think it's weird to put your milk in before your cereal
* Some think that the capital of Sweden is Holland.. O.o
* What's the language? Swedenish? Can you seriously speak it?!
* Do you have things like candy and coke?
* Are you north or south of the US? In Europe? Wooow!
* It is illegal to touch anyones mailbox, and I find that hileriously funny
* Is the M of McDonald's yellow in Sweden too?
* Americans don't walk ANYWHERE. I will never forget Kayla and Solveig's faces when I complained about us getting in the car on the parking, just to drive across the parking lot to a spot about 50 m away and get out to go to another store.. heheh
* Most americans think they're unique in driving on the right side of the road.. Europeans obviously drive on the left side like the brittish.. right?
* A teacher asked me if it was true that Sweden is south of Germany...
* Another teacher thinks that Sweden is becoming a communist country, replacing Sovjet... kinda O.o
* Americans in Southern Utah are surprised at how Un-religious Swedes are
* EVERYONE is impressed by the fact that education is free and you can drink earlier than in the US where the age limit is much higher
* But they are shocked by the driver's license limit of 18
* I have been asked if we have electricity and cars in Sweden... Woh

Swedes are not behind the US in anything. We're in front hahaha ;P



They are lovely people, but not very well education about the rest of the world... ^^

Love,

Found some pretty pics that made me think, thought you'd like to see them...

     

I'm headed to bed now, it's so late. Gotta work on Ballet Termology tomorrow for the test, and practise my fouette turns.... If anyone knows what that is..

Sweet dreams <3

Hos Dig är jag stark
Hos Dig är jag underbar
Hos Dig har jag allt
Där vågar jag stanna kvar
Men när Du inte ser
När Du inte rör mig
Kan Du ha hittat nån annan
Säg nu hur Du ser mig

Jag undrar om Du
Hade kraft o ge Dig av
Eller mod o stanna kvar
Vågat bygga på nåt nytt
Jag undrar om Du
Har kunnat ge och kunnat ta
Kunnat öppna Dig som jag
Vågat vara här och nu
För allt jag kräver är ett svar

♥

Hahahahahaha so freakin hilerious!!!! xD

From the Swedish tv-show Idol, the auditions.. The thing is that these guys are acting really scared and nervously haha and they manage to fool the judges and I just love it when the guy is running into the door haha ^^

ENJOY!

Hahahah *_*

Ok so I've been a little bad at updating.. Here's what's happened in the past few days

Tuesday went nicely. A-day with dance, Government, Theater and Choir. Then on wednesday after school and rehearsal (we actually had to leave rehearsal early), me Solveig Myrna and Steve went to the Vasa Orden meeting in Las Vegas! Here are some awsome pics from when we drove along the Strip, the main street in Las Vegas with all the famous casinos and hotels...

Recognize some of them? I also played at a casino, one dollar ^^ Haha mostly just to be able to say I've done it :P

After trying hard to study once I got home from Vegas (at about 1 am) I fell asleep on the floor and decided that Government tests are idiotic and that I shouldn't care anyway.. Well... O.o

Anyway, I studied this morning on the bus to school (Solveig left early as always on thursdays to be at college by 7.30) and after an interesting and fun dance class where we got to come up with our own combinations in five short minutes, I took the US Gov test. Woow was it easy or what? Just clicking on one of the alternatives on the computer.. Wow. Returning to the classroom people started asking what everyone scored, and everyone seemed very shocked when I told them I got 92%. A-
Most people failed or got like Ds.. And the second best result was somewhere around 70%.. Haha Mr Pearson thought it was rather funny that I, as the only one in the class not being an american citizen, outnumbered them all in US politics.. Hah!

School's been kidna easy lately. Apart from dance of course where splits and leaps and turns and pirouettes and pliées etc makes classes a challenge. But in both US History and US Gov I so far got 100% on everything I've done, and I've done everything.. Apart from the test that was 92% but weeh it's great huh? 12th grade here's kinda like 8th or maybe 9th grade back home in Sweden.. Weird. It makes americans awkward to hear that they are as smart as an eightgrader in Sweden haha ^^ Cute

Don't know what's gonna happen tomorron, it's friday and the first week of September has passed by without me even noticing it. Really gotta start working on mine and Solveig's halloween costumes soon..

Now I have to do the CPE 3 for History class, and then clean my room. Some people are gonna see the house (not selling it, just some evaluation thing I dunno) so it's gotta be clean. There is a risk I will just put everything in the wardrobe x)

Love to the people back home, and hey Pauline started a blog! Go read it at http://shiningeye.blogg.se/ :D



You're so pretty you're so fine Mickey you are on my mind hey Mickey...
Haha a girl was singing that today in the locker room after dance and I almost told her how the original song is Swedish.. But she doesn't really seem like the kind of girl who cares. Well, anyway cute pic huh? People say we look alike, and they actally think we might be sisters for real <3

I've had a total and all-through american day ^^

Started by going to the Peach Day Parade with Solveig in the morning. It was early but fun, and the vehicles passing threw candy to all the kids so I got to try some new Salt Water... whatever they were called x)

Then relaxing at home for the day I got some theater homework done and then at about 6.30 we left to go to the Hurricane Peach Day Rodeo!!! It was awsome, so much fun! Kinda slow to just sit there watching them, but I've always wanted to see the bullriders and it was great! But kinda scary that they had small kids younger than 10 ride the animals (not the biggest bulls but still..) But overall the day has been american and wonderful ^^ Thanks thanks thanks to lovely Solveig for standing to go see the parade and the rodeo, I know you'd rather been sleeping <3

Picures will come here soon, as soon as I have the patience to load them from my phone to the computer. And Frida - I will put a pic of the house here too soon :)

Love and good night =)

Four Day Weekend has started and it's sooo nice to know that you have days to spend just relaxing and stuff ahead.. :)

I started yesterday by having Kayla and Krystal over with me and Solveig for a sleepover, and we watched "The Princess Bride" and "Labyrint" which were two good movies. Krystal slept in Solveig's room, and Solveig herself had to get up really early (ordinary time) to go to college. So Kayla and I stayed up til little after three just talking which was great.

Instead of going to school like I would have any other Friday, me and Kayla woke up at about 8.30 and had some breakfast before leaving to St George to get Solveig from College. Halfway there she called, asking if Krystal was with us because she'd left her sleeping this morning!! It turned out though that Krystal had left before we even woke up.. But we were worried for a while that we just had missed her and left her sleeping in Apple Valley... hihi

The day's been incredibly hot and long, but it was fun ^^ Visiting a lot of stores in St George the three of us found the most amazing things. Shopping, in other words. This is what I've bought (click to enlarge):

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1. Silvery high heels that match my dress
2. Beige heels that were just so adorable I couldn't not buy them
3. Red American Eagle Shoes on sale ^^
4. Sive t-shirt with nice pattern that I'm gonna use for dance class
5. Green dress that isn't the nicest thing but I'm gonna turn it into a Tinkerbell dress for Halloween when we're all going Disney-ish :D
6. Pink shorts that I'm gonna use for dance class too =)
7. My Prom Dress!!! Wiiiie
8. The water fairy dress ^^

Also, we ate lunch at the best pasta place I've ever been too, The Olive Garden :) Such a wonderful place and their pastas were the best ever ^^ We got really good tasty bread and sallad with the best vinegrette ever (except the one we make at home in Sweden hehe) and then when we were almost full already we got our delicious plates of pasta and chicken etc, and then we shared a piece of chocolate mousse cake xP Pics:

  

Gonna go watch another version of A midsummer night's dream now, we have seen an older one but this is Brian's copy of a newer one :) byee <3