First Strand Sundsvall

Wow. What a fantastic day. Everyone was so excited to play for our host families and alumni of UWP! It would be our first show of the kind since Mexico - playing for our host families. Singing our songs and spreading our message of peace and hope to families and friends with whom we have connections and relationships was great. Now, don't get me wrong. I love playing for ...

... day! There was actually a fika room in Boda Borg!<br><br>When we arrived home, Kent and Karin started to cook dinner, and Fanny, Sofie and I went to the grocery store to get drinks for dinner... and chocolate! I bought some Swedish chocolate to bring home and... chocolate coins for Hallie and Camden! Shh, Alyson and Joe. Don't tell! It's a surprise!<br><br>When we returned home, Kent and Karin had prepared a typical Swedish ...

... project, we went to the gender roles presentation.<br><br>Who would have thought that Disney movies could teach us so much about our society? Now, I still watch Disney movies for face value... to be merely entertained. But those movies are so much more than children's stories.<br><br>Take Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for example. Walt Disney's first movie was released in 1937. First, think of the name of Snow White. What words come to mind? I think of innocence, purity, and ...

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.

... we were happy to share with them our tradition of the American culture. The turkey in the market was a bit too costly and too frozen for us to make on Thanksgiving day so we compromised with 2 small chickens. Jana and I have never cooked a whole dinner for anyone before in our lives so we were nervous about how our impression of Thanksgiving would portray to our friends. I made a green bean casserole, but when I went to start it we had no cream of ...

... chips! we felt so creative! We both are enjoying the cookies in the stores called pepparkaka! it's a lot like a ginger snap but very very thin and crunchy. It's delicious to eat with tea! Saturday night was the school halloween dance party. I was a flight attendant for that evening. I bought the dress at the local second hand store and the rest i kind of just through together. We are busy working on our Movie for our narrative forms of media class. This and ...

Yesterday was Sunday and it was such a lovely day for me! It kind of really made me miss home but it got me really excited about my short time I have left here and all that I still want to do while I am here. Saturday night I spent the night at one of my best friends here. Her name is Jana Fischer and she is the most fun person to be around! Saturday I was getting a bit of a cold from lack of sleep from Friday night, and she gave me extra ...

... me to a new group of Swedish students that were all in the journalism program at the university. She had to get up early Saturday so we went to bed pretty early, and for that it made the rest of the weekend incredibly energetic. Saturday morning I woke up bright at early at 9 am to a blue sky I hadn't seen in 3 weeks. I jumped up and knew that my goal for the day would be to see the South mountain. I started hiking into the woods alone. Once I got to the end of the ...

8-28-08 I'm settled down now in a nice apartment with my mentor. Well a few days ago when Parri took me to sign my contract for my empty apartment I learned that I had to rent every piece of furniture every month plus the rent. Then I also had to move it into the apartment myself. This was ridiculous because people were living across town in already furnished apartments for the same price I'd be paying to just live in an empty apartment. I refused to ...