Hey
I want to tell you about my everyday life here in Sweden. For me it's nothing special anymore, obviously,but it's the thing I get the most questions most about, so I decided to do a blogpost about it.
School starts 8:30 for me everyday. Except for monday. On monday, it's 10:25. So I usually get up at 6:30, get ready and eat breakfast, then I take the bus at 7:30 to Uppsala. I have two or three lessons before lunch, which I eat at about 12am. We have to walk 10 minutes through the city to get to "matsalen", the cafeteria. The lunch is free, as I might have already mentioned a few times. Then we go back to school and have a few more lessons. My swedish is going okay, I guess. There are people that I talk only swedish with, like my little hostbrother Aaron and most classmates. But there are also people, that I only talk english with, like most friends and exchange students. To my hostfamily I speak both, swedish and english. Same with my teachers. But I write most of my tests in english at the moment, like psychology and sociology. That might be a little too hard in swedish, at the moment. Beside that I also wrote an english test- in english obviously, a french test- in french, and an italian test- in italian and swedish. It is quite a lot to study for, but my teachers are super sweet and supportive, so it's fine.
My school ends at 4pm two times a week, at 5pm once, at 2pm once, and at 18:15 on mondays, because I have an extra swedish course in my school after my usual lessons with 10 other exchange students. After that, we often have fika together in my favorite café, vox.
I do parkour and gymnastics on wednesday. Also I sometimes go to a church youth group with my older hostbrother David. I started painting, though I have never been a big fan of art, but it's very fun though. I meet up with Noemi (hungarian exchange student) and a friend which is in her class once a week in vox café's atelier and we spend one or two hours painting, talking and having fika. Last week, I found out that the school has a gym. It's not open yet but it will open soon, so David (my older hostbrother) and me bought a gym card. Also I go dancing with Noemi. I'm considering to join the scouts, because it seems like a fun thing to do, but I don't know if I have time for this.
After school I take the bus home and eat dinner with my host family.
On the weekends, we often do things with the family, like visiting relatives (most of them live in beautiful Darlana), going on short trips, or going other places, like museums, the swimming pool or eating out. Chinese food mostly. And sometimes we stay at home the whole weekend, so everyone rests a little, I meet up with friends and watch netflix a lot. We watch many movies together as a family, also on weekdays.
Today is saturday and we had one week of autumnholiday. I had a few days, where I did nothing but resting, but I also met friends, went to the swimming pool with my family, went to the naturhistorisk museet with them and had a good time.
By the way, I don't know if I will write my blog in german and swedish, or english. It's good for practising swedish, but I can't really express myself and tell everything I want to tell. I think I'll just change, and do it however I want to. Plus, it takes such a long time!
The chaos in my head with a these languages is not so bad anymore. German and english are the languages I think with. I also started thinking in swedish sometimes, which is pretty cool, but maybe 1% of my thoughts. Writing or speaking french or italian is pure torture for my brain still. The swedish word is always the frst thing that comes to my mind, when I tell my brain to think in another language than german or english. And then I think of the french or italian word. So my french is far from being fluent! When I wrote an essay in french, I even forgot the french word for today and couldn't find it until the essay was over. But it does not matter anyway, because my french class is very bad, they ony speak swedish, not a single french word. I can't blame them, all they do is watching easy movies in french with subtitles and writing essays. They never get to speak the language. The teacher speaks 50% french, 50% swedish during the lessons. It took me a while to figure that out, I can't exactly tell if he's speaking swedish or french, because the languages are about at the same level for me.
I'm gonna eat breakfast now, and then read a book for my english class, later I will go to the recycling station with my hostfather, probably. Maybe I will tell you about it, if it's not exactly like the german recycling stations. They say it's a big thing here, you go there sometimes on saturdays and you meet many neighbours or friends there. But as I think of it now, it does not seem to be any different from Germany. Well anyway, I hope you have a good day.
