Since my last post, I have experienced my first round of 18 holes (in golf), gone to my first Swedish party/ies, had my bike stolen, started practicing with a fotboll team, and started school! Everything is really starting to get exciting.
School has been the biggest thing on my mind. I am going to Karolinska skolan, which is known for its arts program. The first day of school, I was truly overwhelmed by the other students at the school. In the US, when people tried to have their own style, they usually ended up looking oddly similar to everybody else striving for individuality. At Karo, people seriously succeed in achieving individuality. However, I've really come to love that aspect. Everybody is so accepting of absolutely everything. I think I lucked out, being in the third year. Everyone in my class (ES3A) is completely comfortable with who they are, and so they're really easy to talk to and get to know. The kids are full out willing to translate everything for me and help me out with any schedule questions. There's always someone I can talk to. It's just neat how nice and relaxed the students are.
The classes I'm taking are Swedish, English, Religion (learning about different religions around the world), and my "specialty" course is Musik. I considered specializing in art, but I think the music class offers more opportunities for someone who's only here a short time. My electives are Spanish 6, lovely, and a cooking class I take at Gabe's school. Next semester, that block period will be art, taken at another school. It's interesting because the school system in Örebro is so connected. Students can truly take whatever class they want. If it's not at their school, they can take it at a different school. The schedules are created to allow opportunities like that; it's really more similar to a college-type schedule, rather than a high school-type set up.
My music class is what I'm most excited for. It's about a four hour long period, all specialty classes are, and during the class time, you can take Music Theory, Audio engineering education, and Arranging and Composing. I'm going to start out taking all three, and if it gets to be too much, I'll just drop one or two, simple as that. Also, my school doesn't have a cello or cello teacher, but they can hook me up with the local music school: finding a cello teacher to give me private lessons, and hopefully playing in the city's orchestra. Lastly, I have the opportunity to sing in the school's choir, which meets Friday mornings before school. This year, the choir is going to take about 40 students to LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND to perform a Luciadagen celebration. (Saint Lucia Day) So I know that this year is going to be so great :]
This weekend I made a new friend! Linn received a scholarship from her school to come to Örebro to practice with the best woman's club team in the city, KIF. I also practiced with the team, thanks to my Rotary counselor. Being the loners on the team, I asked Linn about why she was there and what she was doing this weekend and such. She lives in Lycksele, which is about a 10 hour train ride north from Örebro. She was just staying in a hotel here by herself. So Saturday night, we went and saw Toy Story 3, an adorable movie, and took a fika :] For spending so little time together, I thought we became pretty good friends. Today, we met up for a fika again, feasting on the first mint chocolate chip ice cream I've seen so far, and then met up later to watch the A team girls for KIF play. At 7.30 Linn had to get on her train back home. Hopefully we'll get to see each other again someday. haha. It was a cool experience- being able to really meet someone from a different part of Sweden. It was odd knowing more about Örebro than she did.
That's about it for now.... Adios:]
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