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Hello again I am sorry for not updating my blog lately, and there are two reasons for that: The first and most important is that is vacation so the rhythm is different, I sleep long and have lazy days chill and enjoy the vacation… I started the vacation Friday morning by tripping on the bus stop with my hands in my pocket soooo I fell right on my knee, when I think back on the situation it must have been hilarious to watch me trip, hahaha

Saturday it was planned for those who wanted from the AFS group to collect apples for charity, it was great, but honestly we AFS youngsters weren’t much of help, we just talked the whole time. At one of the apple picking places we were picking apples in the garden of some really rich people, I mean they had a collection of cars; I only got one word, incredible. At lunch we ran through the cornfields and it was a lot of fun.  It was really awesome and I had a BLAST, I bet the other AFSers also did. It is really awesome that we have the possibility to have weekends like this. We have so much in common, and we have already started to plan a trip in the end of the year, hopefully it will work. However there’s a lot of planning to do!!

Let the planning begin like an investigation!

From the back: Fernanda, Melissa, Arthur, Phoebe and Payton!

Almost everyone of the AFS bretagne group.

Woods near the cornfield...

The fields!

CRAZY CAR COLLECTION!

TACO!

Fountain of youth!

Saw this kid in town, he's a boss!

Saturday night I went to the cousin of my host mother for his 40^th birthday, it was sad because I was extremely tired after the apple picking and it was distant family, so as a result me and my host sister watched Game of Thrones almost the whole evening, hers idea..

Sunday I had a day with the parents of my host mother and her family and it was nice, I enjoyed getting to know her family. 

THE PACKAGE!!

GOT ANOTHER PACKAGE!! THANK YOU!!

The rest of the week I originally had planned to go to some friends in my class, but poor planning resulted in a lazy week, with homework, movies, GTA, TACO, planning of trip and TRESOR!!! Today I woke up early for the first time, went running and now I’m here ;)

By the way yesterday I watched a hilarious film with my host siblings – BRICE DE NICE!!! hahahaha

TRESOR<3

Two great Experiences!

Hello, this time it isn’t long since last I wrote, less than a week in fact!

Since last time there has happened two experiences in particular that I want to write about:

The first thing of interest happened on Saturday where I had my first match of handball, disappointingly enough I didn’t play well at all. But I got to say I miss my handball team in Norway... We have a much better team spirit, I mean here when we lost, afterwards they were blaming each other for who were the reason. I really miss my old team because there we had the real team spirit! I also miss the organization and the different play we had, because here it’s literally Hawaii..! In addition to this I amazingly enough miss the hell trainings with Steffen and Krabbe, hahaha! Yes we lost this match, but I also got injured… I had a strong head-butt with a guy from the other team and as a result I cut myself pretty bad right above the eye.  After the match I went in to Rennes and had a nice evening with Jakob, first we ate in a creperie and then we went to the Movies and saw Sheriff Jackson, a bizarre and funny movie. This was, though a preparation for Sunday.

Sunday was a special day because it was the first time I went to Western riding and it was an incredible experience! In 2 and a half hour I learned many things about horses and the western technique I would never learned otherwise! I learned how to control a horse and to read the horses behavior, and then respond correctly to that. It was an amazing felling to ride the horse and have control, and also the contact you got with the animal was amazing! I am really glad I chose to do something new, this was worth it!   

Ice skating, fastfood and Amnesty!

Hello, I am sorry for not posting in a while but this week has gone extremely fast…  I can start with Tuesday where I went to my first Amnesty meeting, it was an interesting meeting and I am definitely going to the next meeting.. It was thanks to Jakob Semb Aamundsen that I had the opportunity to go to this meeting. This night was also the first night I ate in a fast food restaurant in town. It was good but not even near as good as French restaurants in general. In this meeting with Amnesty International we discussed how we could engage more youngsters into Amnesty? Youngsters in France are not by far as active as for example the Norwegian youngsters. So I have been given the mission to talk to my history teacher and school to ask if Amnesty can have a stand or and come to talk about the organization in the history class.

My meal at the fast food place Quick...

Wednesday as always is the best day of the week starting at 9AM and finishing at noon! Often Wednesday afternoon I go do something with my friends. Last Wednesday it was the movies, and this Wednesday we went ice-skating! It has been a long time since last I did that and it was awesome! I mean no one knew how good I really was in ice-skating, so I owned the ice-skating hall like a boss. No not really, there were quite a few that did ice-skating regularly, but I was at least on their level. What’s cool here is that it is disco on the inside with ice-skating and on the outside warm comfy temperature. When I was in the ice-skating hall I felt a bit at home and a lot of memories from Helset and Hauger bandy, when breathing in the cold winter air, the sound of the skates tearing through the ice, it was lovely.

ICE SKATING!!

The ice skating hall :)

Thursday was a rather long day with class until 5PM, and when I came home I had a calm night where I watched Hawaii 5-O (season one) with my host sister and host brother.

Friday yet again was a long day, but in the evening we went to a seminar of a guy that biked from France to New Zealand, incredible story and images of how different the countries and people are!

Saturday was a wonderful day! It was time for an AFS weekend! 

Saturday we went 930AM to the south of Bretagne, we went with a young Chinese girl and Wilma from Finland! When we came to the place we were supposed to be there were other AFSers there, and oh my god what I weekend, I had a blast! It was so great to share my experiences with the other AFSers! It was an awesome weekend and we had a lot of fun! We had activities which involved making a role play of a poet and a rapper playing cards in a sauna in slow motion, hahaha! I was in group with Arthur from Brasil and Tibo from China, it was hilarious because Tibo didn’t understand what slow motion meant, so he didn’t understand a single thing during the play. In the evening we talked until 230 AM, I HAD A BLAST! 

Sunday the parents came and we had a great lunch with the best food ever!!!!!!! OHHHHHH! SO GOD!! We also had arranged a sketch where we played all the different schools in the different countries, we had china with the strictest school then France, Italy, USA, NORWAY and Brazil going from strictest school to slackest school! 

Croissant for breakfast Saturday :)

Stores in France... full of cheese !

Monday I had a presentation on Norway in English, and I asked for half an hour to do my presentation, but after this half an hour I wasn’t even halfway through…  Afterwards I got many compliments that my presentation was very good and very easy to understand and that’s a god thing!

Tuesday the only thing that wsas spesial was that the fire alarm went, when we had physics :) 

FIRE ALARM!

Untill next time! :)