Class, a workout and some friends!

School started yesterday, and I have to say, so far it's amazing! But, before I start getting ahead of myself, I need to start from the beginning.

Chloe and I decided to meet for luch before our first day of school (because we're 2nd years, we didn't have class until 1:00). We went to our favorite café, Café Mignon to be exact, and then after a short hunt for an umbrella for her we started the ten minute walk to PS (what everyone here calls my school; it's short for Peder Skrivares Skola). The closer and closer we came to the school, the more freaked out both of us became. There were so many students everywhere...and I must say, quite a few of them looked pretty sketchy. Chloe didn't really know where she was supposed to go (Lena took me and showed me my classroom the day before, but apparantly Chloe didn't know where hers was), so I helped her find the principal and then left her to fend for herself or else I was gonna be late for class.

I walked into my classroom and most of the class was already there so the minute I stepped into the room everyone got really quiet and just kinda stared for a minute; I waved and then sat down in the chair nearest me. There were two teachers in the classroom. One was the art teacher I have twice a week in a different building about 5 mintues from the main school and the other is my classes main teacher named Enti (we call all teachers by their first name here, it's kinda cool I think) came in and said some things, passed some papers out and then did a role call. He got to my name last at which point he said "and we have a new exchange student in our class", he then looked at me and said that I could introduce myself, so I turned to the class and did just that, but in English.

We then had a "tour" of the building because it's brand new for everyone at which point a few students came up to me and introduced themselves followed by their less daring friends. After everyone had checked out their locker, most of the class left, not wanting to continue the rest of the "tour". I needed to go see the councilor to try and get my 'individuella' (elective) classes figured out, so a group (Pontus, Julia, Amanda and Frederick) showed me the way and waited for me until I was done with her. They then invited me to go have lunch with them at one of t he many cafés in Varberg. Since I'd already eaten I just had a pastry. Frederick had to go to a wind surfing class, but the other three invited me to a workout session called "Body Pump". The workout was a little intense and my arms are kinda dead now, but overall it was fun and it was great to have some people to do stuff with.

I learned that we all have a lot in common at least with our music tastes and they've invited me to a concert tomorrow, the 24th. I havn't asked the fam yet, but I don't think it'll be any problem. They also burned me some CDs, one of which is titled 'A small lesson in scandinavian music for people from like, Oregon' and it's all very, very good (most of the songs are 5 stars in my iTunes library for those who are interested).

Today in school I had art at 9:20 which was good and the teacher is really nice (I can't remember her name at this time though). We are having a contest to design a poster for a concert that is going to be held at my school for some Stevie Wonder revival band or something...I'm not exactly sure. I then had a 2 hour break where Frederick (he's in my art class) and two girls that I can't remember their names went to the beach for a while, then walked to PS and had some lunch where we were met by Pontus, Amanda and Julia. After lunch we headed to the chemistry room where we were met by Enti. At first it was difficult because I didn't remember how to do the things we were doing, but then it started to come back and luckily for me it was stuff that we had done towards the middle of chemistry last year, so I already know some of it, which means I don't think it'll be too hard. Following chemistry we had English. The teacher was really cool and let us vote on which chapters of the book we wanted to study this term and (obviously) I could understand everything that was going on in this class, a big plus in my book.

After school I went and bought a lock for my locker (they don't have them built in like they do in the US, so you have to bring your own lock and key) with a guy named Wictor (pronounced with a 'V' sound) and then came home.

I'm so happy that I have some friends here and that so far school isn't too bad, but who knows about tomorrow.....