Best Western Baltic Sundsvall

... events. To make a difference in people that we don't know and with whom we have no connection is even more powerful than when we do the same with our host families and alumni connected to the program. But it's so different look out in the audience and see your host dad with a camera in his hands, or to lock eyes with your host sister as she sings along to the songs. I ...

Creative title, eh? Get it? Similar to the popular sci-fi phrase, "To infinity and beyond!"<br><br>What is Boda Borg, you may ask? Well, friends. I will tell you!<br><br>Boda Borg is the place where I spent 6 hours of my host family day today :) In Boda Borg, one must journey inside real quests of physical and mental challenge and pass each quest before the time runs out.<br><br>It's basically like being inside of a video game! It ...

... is about 5 hours from Stockholm. We were able to have some free time in Stockholm before departing to Sundsvall which was great!<br><br>We arrived in chilly Sundsvall and I met my new host family until Tuesday! I don't have a roommate, something that I have really come to enjoy. Now, don't get me wrong. I love living with fellow cast mates. It's always nice to have someone to hang out with. However I love being able to do my own thing during free time... time to journal ...

Design month at Museum of Sundsvall<br><br>Read about the Plasticks concept on <br>http://www.jennylundgren.se/portfol io/plasticks/<br><br><br>

We tried to do it all in those last days in the lovely town i called my home for 4 months. It was true it flew by. I am ready to come home to my love of my life and be with my family for christmas. i went to church with Brooke and Jana where we fika'ed for an hour afterwards in the church basement. then went sledding with my amazing roommate and Jana! I will miss this place every once in a while and look back on all that i learned during my time here.

... soup and jana can't eat the lactose in the cream. So I went down to the store to get some lactose free cream and made my own cream of mushroom soup. It actually turned our pretty dang good with fried onions on top and everything. Jana did great at cooking the chickens and sewing them up with skewers, we use what we have available. I made a fruit salad with vanilla pudding that turned out to be a bit more massive then planned but still delicious ...

... after looking for half an hour, i forget how much harder it is to find something when it's not in english. :) So we improvised with our cookies and did what we could. they came out as a very gooey tecture but we were pretty proud of ourselves for what we were able to compromise with. The recipe asked for chocolate chips, but they didn't have any dark chocolate chips for jana's lactose allergy, so we bought a dark chocolate bar and smashed it up for ...

... life for a couple hours and it's such an amazing life we have! Time is flying and in almost a month and a half i'll be home. I'll be leaving to go find a halloween costume soon Parri and I have talked about taking the train to southern sweden for the next few days and staying there until saturday and come back to sundsvall for our halloween celebration here. She has a boy "friend" there who we'd be staying with and he'd be showing us around.

... for the students here. I feel like I am just right back at Green River again. I've spent a day at the beach here playing volleyball with new friends , I have hiked to the top of the north mountain. Sundsvall lies between two mountains and faces the baltic sea with a river flowing right down the middle of town. I have walked down and spent an afternoon on the boardwalk, as well as ...

... obviously didn't sleep well that night and looked rather tired. I was relieved it was morning and we could leave! I was beginning to think if we were going to be scared like this every night! The answers? Yes most of the nights! My body has tensed up so much over the last few weeks, from the cold and being scared, that I feel I need a Swedish Massage for the next 3 weeks! Well that was Henrik's second scare for the day after my driving on the other side of the road!