Karin i USA

Now i will sound like a 80 year old lady and all I do is talk about the weather. But i am SICK of rain. We have now had a total of 2 days of sunshine during April and they were last friday and saturday and according to coach have we had 3 outdose tennis practises this season (we have been playing for 2 months). Today in school i was and some other people in 3D design and we started talking about national anthems and another girl asked me if we had the same national anthem in sweden as in the US, just in a diffrent language, she had apparantly not grasped the idea of the national anthem was that each nation have their own national anthem.

Idag borjade bra, vaknade, at frukost gick till skolan. Skulle spelat tennis efter skolan och jag sag fram emot det eftersom det var forsta gangen pa lange som jag spelar match eftersom det varnligtvis bara ar varsity som spelar match men sa manga var borta idag att jag skulle fa chansen att spela och de hade ocksa ett par junior varsity spelare som jag kunde fa mota:). Sa mitt under 6 lektionen av 7 sa fick jag och resten av laget lamna for att bege oss mot Molalla for att mota deras lag. Sa vi begav oss av mot Molalla men halvags dit sa borjade det regna eller som man sager i Oregon the banned R*** word. Sa vi kom till Molalla efter ung en timme och far reda pa att matchen ar installd och sa beger vi oss hem igen for ytlligare en timme i skolbuss Jippie :(. Men imorgon ska vi forsoka igen och forhoppningsvis blir det inte bara en lang bussresa utan en bussresa och lite tennis.

Igar (20de) sa hade jag en playschool lektion, playschool ar en kurs i hur man blir en dagislarare och tre dagar i veckan driver skolan ett dagis for 20 st 2-5 aringar som vi far ta hand om for en lektion. Det ar roligt men en konstig lektion, iaf igar sa var det en kille (Mason) som rakade kissa pa sig, tyvarr sa hade han glomt att ta med sig ett ombyte denna dag sa Ms. Krieger ringde hans mamma sa att hon kunde komma med klader till honom men medan vi vantade pa henne sa gick brandlarmet sa vi var tvugna att ta med oss alla barnen ut, leka konstiga lekar med dem medan vi vantade pa att fa komma in igen och medan detta pagick sa stod Mason utonhus i det ganska kalla vadret i genomblota byxor, jag tyckte synd om honom. Men vi fick iaf ga tillbaka in efter 20 min

Ha det bra
Karin

Rain, rain and some more rain. That is just about everything that happens in Oregon right now, was supposed to have a tennis match yesterday, rained away. Was supposed to have a tennis match last monday, rained away. Was supposed to have practise wednesday, rained away. But we did have a practice tuesday, but that practice was only for varsity (people who accually know what they are doing and have been playing for a long time). And today the school is closed so no practice today either and if it would have been school it still would have rained away. Hopefully next week will be better cuz i m starting to get sick of this constant raining.
Ha det bra
Karin
P.S. eventhough it just sounded like im having a awful time i am accually having a good time over here D.S.

Nu var det ett tag sedan jag uppdaterade bloggen senast, men det har inte hant sa mycket nytt. Samma rutin, skola, tennis, laxor, sova :P eller om jag ska vara arlig, inte sa mycket laxor. Idag var det dax for yttligare en tennismatch, som varnigt fick jag spela sist och mot andra fran stayton, dock vann vi :) (8-4). matchen bojade inte forens 7.15 men jag var tvungen att vara vid planen redan klockan 2.45 sa jag fick mycket traning i att undvika att bli uttrakad. Igar
 sa spelade jag en annan match, min forsta med riktiga set tillsammans med Barbra Ball (passande namn for en tennisspelare :P), aven denna match var mot stayton men vi vann med (6-4)(7-5) i bast av 3 set. Denna match tog nastan tva timmar att spela eftersom vi var valdigt jamna men det var kul att spela "pa riktigt".

Ha det bra
Karin 

Idag har jag spelat en tennis match, jag och min partner vann med 5 games mot 2 :) hela laget spelade jattebra idag och alla utom 1 vann sina matcher. Tyvarr sa har philomath ett litet lag sa jag var tvungen att spela mot ett Stayton lag men det spelar inte sa stor roll eftersom vi vann den matchen :). Igar sa hade jag ett mote med min AFS fadderfamilj och vi at glass. Idag at jag en brownie sa jag kommer deffenitivt ga upp massor i vikt :( men det smakade gott iaf. Skolan gar bra, det har inte hant sa mycket nytt, men det ar bara lite mer en 1 manad kvar tills prom :)
Ha det bra
Karin

Nu ar jag pa "spring break" pa Eagle crest pa andra sidan av bergen sa att det ar oken har men trots att det ar en oken sa ar det inte varmt. Har finns det ett gratis gym och jag kanner mig valdigt duktig varje gang jag anvander det. Idag har jag varit pa ett museum som hade en fjarils utstalning :P. I kvall ska jag ga och bada bubbelpool och bada bastu, tyvarr sa ar bastun knappt varm men alla amerikanare klarar pa att det ar for varmt
Ha det bra
Karin

Nu har tennis sesongen antligen borjat och jag har hunnit med 4 traningar hitills och hunnit skaffa ordantlig traningsverk i vaderna och i min hoger arm, tydligen rackte det inte att vara lite tranad efter simningen :(. I gar var var forsta langa traning, vi tranade i over tva timmar. Idag tranade vi inte lika lange eftersom vi hade utomhus traning och det haglade och regnade, inte perfect tennis vader da alla bollar blir dyngsura och tennis planen blir till en sim basang :( men alla i laget verkar vara jattesnalla sa hitills ar jag glad att jag bestamde mig for att spela tennis

Today was the first day back in school after finishing third at districts and NOONE who said anyhing about it, i know that swimming is a tiny sport but i woul have appriciated atleast one of the teacher saying something :P But that is all i have to comlin about so I guess it is going pretty well over here :). Today there also was a power outage in school so we had a wierd class were we had a whole class dicussion about everything between obecity and how toilets work but iguess that is the problem with the american school, no one can focus on school work :P but given that the bells went nuts it might be understandable that it was hard to work. 

Today during my english class there were some guys sitting at the table infont of me litterally a meter away looking at a class list and seeing my name and very loudly debating how to prenounce my name without reallicing that i was sitting just behind them and debating weather or not to ask the teacher how to prenounce it. It was very funny to listen to and they were to cought up in their dissucion to listen to me when I tried to tell them that it was me they were talking about, anyways it was very funny back then :P

Ha det bra
Karin

Senior jump in
Over raden:Jessie, Coach Curtis Nedre raden: Angela, Jill, Emma, Bailee och Karin

Lite tungt att simma i :P


Varan troffe efter att ha tagit 3je platsen totalt bland alla tjejer
I bilden: Sara, Krysta, Julie, Jessie, Angela, Bailee, Coach Curtis, Jill, Emma, Ashley och Jag.
(Tack Bailee for bilderna)

Idag var jag varit pa districts i simmning :) Det var den forst roliga simtavlingen jag har varit pa nagonsin. Pa fredagen sa var det kavl for att ta sig till lordagens finaler. Forst sa akte hela laget buss till Albany community pool. Vi traffades vid skolan redan klockan 07.30 pa morgonen :( sa de flesta sov hela vagen till albany. Pa bussen fick vi ocksa bagles och cream cheese till frukost :P. ASB (elevradet) hade ocksa satt ihop en overaskning till oss som bestod av, en flaska blabarssmakande vatten, musli bar, fisk formade kex och en "sandar handuk som absorberar jatemycket trots att den ar jatteliten". Sa att det var en trevlig overraskning :). Nar vi kom fram till Albany sa varmde vi upp lite och sen var det bara att vanta. Min dag borjade med att jag simmade brostsimms strackan i 200 yard medley relay. Tyvarr gick det inte sa bra men vi blev inte diskvalificerade och det ar jag mycket glad over eftersom jag tyvarr borjade simma frisim nar jag skulle simma brostsim, inte en bra idee men somtur va sa kom jag pa det sjalv innan jag han komma upp till ytan. Men dar var det ett par jobiga timmar innan jag fick reda pa att de inte disqualificerar ifall att man gor for manga kickar under vattnet.

Efter medlyt var det bara att vanta. Medley relay ar event nr 1 och mitt nasta event var nr 15 om ar 200 yard frisim relay (B). I detta event visste jag redan att vi inte hade nagon chans och vi lyckades knipa nast sista platsen istallet for sista platsen och det ar bra nog for mig eftersom coach Curtis hade satt ihop att lag av de smsta simmarna i laget sa att vi skulle fa en chans att simma lite mer. Men jag ar ganska glad att han gjorde det annars hade det blivit an annu langre vantan.

Efter detta var det dax att vanta lite till men denna gan inte riktigt lika lange, nu behovde jag bara vanta till event nummer 19 som ar 100 yard brostsim. Hela heatet var ganska handelsefattigt bortsatt fran att jag svalde nastan hela poolen och holl pa att fa en hostattack men annars gick det ganska bra. Jag lyckades till och med sla person basta (1.28.29) trots att jag svalde nastan hela poolen. Efter detta var det dax att vanta pa att tavlingen skulle ta slut. det var totalt 22 events men det som var kvar va den langa lagkappen sa det tog ett tag. Det slutade klockan 3 men curtis hade sagt at buss chafforen att komma halv 4 sa det var ara att borja vanta lite mer.

Idag sa var det dax for finalerna for de som lyckades komma pa plats 1-6 pa fredagen vantade A finaler och for de som lyckades ta sig in pa plats 7-12 blev det B final. Ifall att man tar sig till B final och far en battre tid en nagon i A finalen kan man anda inte klattra hogre an 7 i resultatlistan och samma sak om man far en dalig tid i A finalen kan man inte falla langre en till en 6e plats (man blir inte placerad alls om man blir DQ)

The second day we had to get to the meet on our own so I and Patty went there by 8.15 in the morning and we started up with warm ups. Now we had to chare a warm up lane with cascade so it was REALLY crowded and i had a girl keep swiming into my toes which was kinda enoying but not really a big deal just not the gratest start of the day. Then i swam the breaststroke part in the 200 yard medley relay because we managed to make it into the 8 th place with a time of 2.22.15 witch wasent a great time but we did make it until the 2 day so I am pleased about that :). Today we did even better and we won our heat and klimed up to the 7 th place in total witch is really good and I got a pretty, little purple ribbon.

When I was done with that it was just time to start waiting again because all I had left was the breststroke witch ofcourse was one of the last events taking place today but luckely there were many close races to watch while I was waiting. In the breasstroke I was lucky to have made it into the top 12 because I was ranked 13 th before the start but I improved my pb and took the twelth pan final place to the second day of districts. But I was 2 seconds behind the girl infont of me so I had no chance of improving my score. Unfortunatly did my teamate Taniaya get astma attack earlier that day so she only swm to finish so i got 11 th place and a even smaller ribbon.

That was the end of my cometition day but not the end of the day. First it was the senior dress up jump in and we dressed up as the flint stones. It was kinda hard to swim dressed as a flintstone but it was fun :) I think I might post pictures later :)

Even before we had made it out of the pool it was time for the award ceremony and Stayton Girl swimming took an over all 3 de place and it was the first time EVER in the history of styayton swiming that we got a place in the top 3 so i am very happy about that. I am so happy about that :D

Ha det bra
Karin

Fick ett mail fran pappa som ville att jag skulle svara pa ett par fragor har pa bloggen och det passar utmarkt for att jag vill inte borja med min Economics laxa. For det forsta sa har vi borjat med ett nytt schema i skolan, jag laser fortarnade Engelska 4 forsta lektionen for dagen, vi ska precis borja med sakepears Macbeth, jag tror att det kommer att bli valdigt svart att forst vad den handlar om for att vi laste en forenkald sammanfattning under lektionen idag och jag forstod ungefar halften av orden trots att det var en foranklad version. Andra lektionen for dagen ar sports medicine och det ar presis som det later vi ska lara oss hur man tjepar stukade vader och handleder men forst sa kollar vi pa en film om forsta hjalpen, inte jatteintressant eftersom filmen ar gammal och mycket av informationen ar gammal och beskriver inte de nya riktlinjerna om hur man ger hjart och lungraddnig men det ar alltid bra att ga igenom hur man gor.

Now i think I will switch to english just because thats what I m here to practice and I lack some of the keys on my key board. Well third period is Trig and now my class is slowly starting to approch the level that i left of at in Sweden so it is almost interesting, or as interesting as math gets. My froth period is Playschool and thare we will learn how to take care of kids, we will accually get a flouer bay to take care of for a couple of days, I guess it is a way of keeping american girls form wanting to get pragnent but from what i ve seen it is not working out for them, there is accually a kindergarden in schol for att students who have a baby. My fifth period and tha last one befor lunch is Economics for Mr. Kirch, he and Mr. Kirby is the only teachers at the entire school that i would say are good teachers who actully know what they are doing when they are infront of a class of 17-18 year olds and don't treat os as 5 th graders like many other do.

My first class after lunch is sociology for mr. Kirby, I was originally supposed to take fire and forestry for a second semester but i managed to switch out of it and Im very happy about that :) I have no idea what we will do there but from what I have heard it is a great class and from what I saw today I ve got high hopes. My last class for the day is 3D design, it is basicly art but with more glue and less painting but it will probobly be a good to end the day with something rather relaxing.

And now over to my dads questions, a gallon of regullar gasoline costs 3.12 dollar here in stayton, that is just about 20 kr/gallon or 5,2 kr/liter. So quite alot cheaper then back home. I will not watch super bowl if every thing goes according to plans because we will hopefully go the Mt Hoodo and go skiing but other wise i will be left home while Dave and Patty goes to her boss to watch it. A hamburger can cost anything between 1 and 10 dollar depending on kind and where you buy it, i haven been to Mc donalds so far this year so i we got no idea what one costs there but it is not alot anyways.

I m doing pretty well with the swiming, i can do 100 yards (91,4 m) pa 1,28 en av de tiderna jag hittade pa internet fran innan jag slutade var 1,49 pa 100 m brostsim, det klarar jag till och med av under ett traningspass om jag simmar fort ( stayon pool ar 100 m) sa det a gamforbara tider. We wont have a meet this week but next week is districts, the ontl meet of the year thet accually matters, the rest is just practise befor that one. So far stayton girls swimming have finished second in one meet and won the rest so we got a chance in district eventhoug the other teams will inprove throug sending there top swimmers :(. When it comes to making a fool of my self it also got to do with swiming, during the meet on friday i happend to listen to the wrong coach and jumped into the water at the wrong time, but I realised thet in the air and it turned into a beautiful belly flopp :P luckelt it happend during warm ups so i did not get DQ :). Another thing that has happend acouple of times is that people don't expect me to know what words like f*ck meand and ask me to repeat after them and it is kinda embarasing for them when I tell them that I know what they are saying, there is also many questions asked about the candy called Swedish Fish and if we call them swedish fish in sweden too. One of the biigest grammar error I ve heard so fare fron one of the other exchange students at Stayton High was when Chei were supposed to ask Mrs Wallice if she was bored but instead she asked her if she was boring luckely Mrs W reallised what she mentto ask and she just started to laugh and inform Chei that it is supposed to be borde not boring.

One of the things i am most happy about so far is my A in Am Gov't we were only two people how got an A on the final and it was me and the son of the vice principle (hmm...) no just kidding he is one of the smatest kids in school. I am also rather happy with starting to exercise every school day of the week and also starting to get some muscles in my arms, they are still tiny and very wimpy but way better than they were befor I started swiming. I ve also gained a way better self confidence (once in a while on the border line to bragging :(((. )But apart from that major detail i think it is something to be proud of :)

I think I have covered everything dad asked about and for once it is a long text but as usually my grammar sucks and I dubt that half the words got the right spelling but if the spelling were perfect how would you know it was from me :P

Ha det bra
Karin

 Patty and Diana in Hollywood infront of Sunset Gower Studios

Nu var det lange sedan jag skrev pa bloggen. Jag kom nyss hem fran en simtavling och Staytons tjejer van stort over alla andra lag (jag lyckades inte samla nagra poang sa det va inte min fortjanst). Men jag lyckades iaf sla personbasta i 50 yard frisim sa jag ar nojd :) Emma, Jessie, Krysta och Julie lyckades med att radera ut skolrekordet i 4x100 m frisim jag ar jatteglad for deras skull. Efter at sa tankte vi aka till Red Robin for att ata middag men det var minst en timmes vantan innan vi kunde fa nagot bord sa vi akte istallet till Appelbee's och dar sa det att det skulle vara ca 10 min vantan innan vi kunde fa ett bord, efter 45 minuter lamnade vi och bestamde oss for att ata pa hometown buffe. Nar det antligen var dax att ata var alla totalt utsvultan eftersom ingen hade atit nagot sen tavlingen. Jag tror att det var de godaste och samsta pomes frites jag har atit nagonsin :P

Under jullavet gjorde ajg inte sa mycket jag simmade, simmade, simmade och sov. Vi hade traning 2 timmar varje dag och Coach bestamde sig for att vara lite elak och tvinga oss att simma jattemycket och fort :( Pa julafton var vi hemma hos Daves familj det var trevligt och alla var jattesnalla :D. Igar pratade jag med Ebba och imorgon ska jag prata med mamma och pappa :D :D
Ha det bra
Karin

Idag hade jag min forsta borta tavling, vi var i Sweet Home. De har vardens minsta simhall, det var valdigt trangt och man var nastan tvungen att sta tryckt mot varandra :(. Dock blev mina tider jattebra tills nagon sa att det var en 25 yard(22.86 m) pool istallet for 25 meter. Jag lyckades ocksa forlora alla mina heat utom ett :( men trots detta ar jag ganska nojd for att jag gjorde mitt basta :)
Ha det bra
Karin

Kom nyss hem fran min forsta simtavling pa minst 4 ar. Det gick helt ok, jag simmade 50m frisim pa 40.18 sekunder vilket inte ar jattesnabbt men jag ar ganska nojd men jag kanner att jag kunde ha simat lite snabbare och kanske kommit under 40 sec men jag ar nojd. I lagkappen 4x100m medley lyckades staytons B-lag som jag simmade i bli disqualificerade men vi har manga tavligar kvar. Jag simade ocksa 100m brostsim och det gick bra, jag van mitt heat men jag simmade i det klart langsamaste heatet :P
 efter tavlingen var avslutad foljde jag med nagra fran teamet till A&W och at hamburgare :D
Ha det bra
Karin