Karin i USA

At the moment are we watching the movie Bowling for columbine in English class and the part we have seen so far is hillarius, I can really recomend it or mabey not, i might only think it is good for being a movie watched in class but it is a movie that makes fun of the 'right to bear arm'.
This sunday I spoke with Ebba and we had a great conversation about our lifes in America
Ha det bra
Karin

Monday again...
This week-end I've been making pumpkins, first with my host sister Stephanie and then with my i guess he is my host cousin Cameron. It was fun I made a foot on one and a a happy smiley on the other. We also went to Woodburn company outlet, it was great it was like 'Barkaby factory outlet' but bigger and without sales tax so everything was pretty cheep. I bought a winter coat from Eprit and a shirt :)

Well after a request i think I ll wright something about the weather and other things that i hardly egnolishes cuz they are pretty normal to me. The weather is really clod in the morning, not freezing but cold but in the afternoon the weather is great, you can walk around in a t-shirt. Unfortunatly will it start raining tomorrow or friday :( When it comes to things to make u jellus about it ishard to come up with a specific thing.

Today I ve been to a parent/teacher conferanse it went pretty good and LaMarch promised that we were done with group projects after this one and i look forward to it cuz I m tired of doingwork with a group that dont do their chare.
That's all for tonight
Ha det bra
Karin

Idag har jag antligen fatt en forklaring pa vad folk vill veta nar de halsar med 'what's up?'. De vill egentligen inte veta nagonting sa det finns inte nagot ratt eller fel svar men ett par exempel pa svar som skulle kunna funka ar 'nothing', 'on my way to class' eller 'I've had a good day'. Jag fick ocksa veta att ett korrekt svar skulle kunna vara 'selling', 'wall' eller 'sqirell', men dessa svar skulle uppfattas som korkade och du skulle fa en konstig stampel. Tyckte bara att det ar ne ganska dum fraga eftersom man egentligen inte fragar om nagot utan det anda man vill astadkomma ar att vara trevlig, varfor inte bara fraga how are you eller nagot annat som har ett riktigt svar...
Att jag har haft tid att tanka pa sa har viktiga saker kanske visar ungefar hur mycket vi gor pa vissa lektioner.
Men jag har ialla fall kommit fram till nagonting idag
Ha det bra
Karin

Today I've been in corvallis for a make up meeting for the Sky camp i happend to miss because i chose to go to homecoming instaed. I think I made the right desicion. My goal here is to experience the american life not the Afs camps. Dont get me wrong I think the camps will be fun and a great oppurtunity to learn more about different cultures but in order to learn more about america and make more friends I have to take the oppertunities thats given to me. So during the make up session we dissused how life is going so far and what things we have dicoveres that are host family and native family does differently.

After that we went to Pattys friend Denice in Phylomath. She lives in a really neat house with 2 dogs and 2 horses. One of the horses were accully born in the wild but is now a trained horse. He is really pretty :D

Now it's been quite a while since I last wrote something here but nothing new has happend since the last time. I've been in school, doing homework and not much more. To behonest it's accually been a pretty boring time. On the other hand I really start to feel at home over here in America, it is not like Sweden but it probobly never will either but the longer I stay the more at home I ll feel.

Today I also learned that you can get detention for leaving the campus during lunch time (I did not do it). I think that is a pritty wierd rule, when you are 17 or 18 years old you are old enough to leave school during lunch to eat were ever you want to as long as you are back on time but I guess I just have to adapt to the school Im in. It is also against the school rules to kep your phone on at the campus, so you cant call or text during lunch or during breaks between classes. I dubt that anyone follows that rule but it gives the teachers a reason to steal cellphones the see. Another wierd rule is that you are not allowed to leave the classroom before the bell rings eventhough the teacher has ended the class so everyone has to stand by the door waiting for the bell to ring. This's probobly not a wierd rule it is just that I m used to leaving the classroom when the teacher ends he class not when a bell tells me to leave. And for your information does the bell sound more like a dorrbell than the bells in high school movies, but there is a bell that ends every class and you have to leave even if you wright a test and you did nopt have time to finish (it is possibel for a teacher to give you a note which allows you to stay and finish a test).

That's all for this time
Ha det bra
Karin

For ett par dagar sedan provade jag att vara med pa Foothills baptist church youthgroup och vi skulle gora en liten kortfilm och tavla om vem som kunde fa flast traffar pa youtube. Vi fick ocksa ett par teman som skulle vara med i filmen, vara var, Person: Cinderella, Stalle: Pig N Pankace och Citat: there's a snake in my boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLrOMMNaB7w
Det har var vart bidrag i denna tavling, fortjanar inte direkt en oscar eller ens att bli tittad pa men jag hade kul nar vi gjorde den :P
Sa titta om ni vill
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Karin

Nu ar det ater igen tisdag kvall. Jag har idag hunnit med en hel skoldag  utan att fa en enda laxa :D JAg trodde inte detta var mojligt men tydligen ar det sa. Eller jag hade mattelaxa men jag han klart med den under lektionen sa jag behovde inte gora nagot nar jag kom hem. Just nu haller vi pa med funktioner och deffinitionen av vad en funktion ar. Hitills verkar det inte sa svart men det blir sakert varre.

I ww2 haller vi pa med ett grupparbete om en ogrupp i stilla havet och va och varfor den blev attackerad under ww2, jag arbeter med Nya Guinea. Det ar ganska svart att hitta information om detta :( men man for gora det basta av situationen :P

I fire and forestry haller vi for tillfallet pa med lax uppfodning. Detta ar mycket ointressant och det blir inte battre av att lararen ar mycket dalig. Men trots detta tycker jag om amnet eftersom det ar ett av de amnena dar jag far tid att prata med folk och lara mig mer om den amerikanska kulturen. Jag har ocksa lart mig att namn ge tradets delar: The crown, the trunk and the roots. Kansken inte en total nyhet men bra att veta :P Och till amma och pappa det ar inte allt jag har lart mig i denna kurs.

I English 4 laser vi fortfarande den rellativt trakiga boken, Frankenstein. Idag fick vi i uppgift att hitta tre ord vi inte forstod, jag hittade tre ord i det forsta stycket. Ett annat problem var att nar jag skulle sla upp dem kunde jag inte forsta forklaringen men med hjalp fran lararen loste jag detta problemet.

I psykologi haller vi pa med hjarnans delar och konstruerar ett kollage over hjarnan. Detta kanns lite mellanstadie niva men det var ett effektivt satt att lara sig och det ar det som raknas. Idag gjorde vi ocksa ett par expriment och jag kom fram till att jag ar introvert, kanske inte en nyhet men men...
Vi gjorde ocksa ovningen nar man ska korsa sina fingrar och sa ska nagon peka pa ett finger, det var svart att lyckas lyufta upp ratt finger.

I keramik haller vi for tillfallet pa med en mask. Jag tror att jag kommer att gora en haxa men jag ar inte saker vi far se vad det bler men keramik ar kul for att det ar fritt fram att prata och man far gora nagot med handerna, jag tror faktiskt att jag har blivit batter pa att rita och mala sen jag kom till usa men det sager inte sa mycket eftersom jag aldrig har kunnat varken rita eller mala tidigare iallafall far jag mycket traning eftersom Ms Lamarch alskar att lata oss rita pa lektionerna (eller sa ar det bara att jag gillar att farglagga de stencilerna vi far).

I am goverment halle vi for tillfallet pa med the amendments, pa mandag har vi ett test/forhor pa alla 27 amendment och i vilken ordnig de kom till. Jag tycker inat att det raknas som viktig info men jag far val gora mitt basta och plugga pa detta.

And that's about all of my subjects i school. It is quite calm at the moment but I guess it'll get worse as we get in to new stuff in math and start to wright more in english
Ha det bra
Karin

This ll be a boring poating cuz today i do not know what to wright cuz it s been a rather boring day, nothing exciting happend apert from the facet that i got an A on my rather ugly pot in ceramics but i wont complain :P So thats about it
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Karin

Ett stort trad i "the redwoods"
Fran vanster:
Patty (vardmamma), Jag, Isabella (vard brorsdotter), Trisha (Vardsyster), Dave (vardpappa) och hunden Pok Pok

Idag har jag varit pa ytligare en field trip med Ms LaMarche. Hon ar den minst bra lararen jag nagonsin har haft och de som har haft antingen Ann-Marie i engelska eller Casper vet att det kravs ganska mycket for att fa den titeln. Dock ar hennes resor mycket underhollande och jag lar mig mycket om amerikanska traditioner, idag bestamde hon sig for att det var passande med ett 20 minutersstop pa McDonalds. Tyverr kunde inte skolbussen kora in i drive Trugh mn det var ganska kul anda. Meningen med feild tripen var att vi skulle aka till ett satlle dar de foder upp fisk for att slappa ut i floder och dammar sa att fiskare far nagot att fiska upp. Det var faktiskt ganska intressant att se. I ovrigt har det varit en ganska bra dag
Ha det bra
Karin