As you might have noticed, I have not updated my blog in a few months... A lot has happened so I'm just going to fast forward and hope that I scrape the top of this never ending, constantly changing experience. Well, it's not never ending. More than half my exchange year has already passed. Time has gone so fast!
Me and Kate skating.

I moved out to a farm 20 minutes out from Port Elgin. At first I was really excited to live in such a beautiful area with a barn filled with cats, sheep and goats. But after awhile it got boring since it was really cold and you couldn't be outside for too long and no-one in my family wanted to be outside and have fun. And it was so far from town it was hard getting places, so my social life became pretty limited compared to when I could walk everywhere.
But it was really beautiful there with a large river close to the house.

Blue Mountain was about 1 hour from Port Elgin so I went as often as I could get a ride.

I went for a lot of walks when I lived on a farm to take nice pictures.

This was our closest naighbour...

Luckily my friend Maxeen lived on the same road and our houses were attached by a crosscountry skiing path. I joined the Nordic ski team at school and learned how to ski-skate, which was really fun!

Maxeen and I went ski-skating often.

Maxeen's giant dog always ran with us.

I went to an Owen Sound attack hockey game in the private booth and I won a fan and I met the mascot.

Me and Kate walked almost all the way to my house, we gave up after 2 hours.

There was another conference for all the exchange students. This time at Blue Mountain so it was a ski-conference. We had a lot of fun and we met with the people going from Collingwood on exhcange. And one is going to Sweden!!!

I think the kids from Europe and North America had a slight advantage over the kids from South America and Asia ahhahaha! :) This is Sebastian from Chile.

Annalena, me and Kate.

Annalena, Pony, me, Roman and Parit.

Juho, Annalena, me, Roman and Leo.

It was like the best weekend ever.

Since I lived so far from school on the farm I had to take a bus and luckily I had Maxeen on the bus aswell!

In Sweden one school term goes from the summer break to christmas break and the other goes from the christmas break to the summer break. In Canada the switching of terms ans classes is in the beginning of February. I learned from my mistakes from the last term where I had three sciences. If you go on exchange, don't do three sciences. You will regret it. After the switching of terms I chose trialhalon, cooking, guitar and com tech. In com tech we designed stuff using photoshop and illustrator. Here's a project I did where you had to take a picture of yourself, disguise yourself and then put the picture into a clock.

Kate's hostfamilies were so wonderful to me all the time. They always had their homes open for me and let me stay over all the time :)

This is Hayley my old hostsister. I really started missing living with her, but we met at school every day!

I moved to Markdale which is an hour from Port Elgin. I now started a new school and I knew no-one so it was like starting over again. This is not suposed to happen during your exchange, but it happened to me. So yeah. I'm going to try to make the best of it. I love my host family! They are great! I have a brother, Aiden, who is 9 and Paige, my sister is 4. This is a huge change for me who have never really had very small siblings before, but it is really fun! The first week I lived here we went to Toronto becuase my host dad and host brother were going to participate in a show during the motorcycle show in Toronto. This family is really into motorcycling and big cars.

We went to the famous Ripley\s aquarium in Toronto.

Paige and Aiden.

This is a trailbike and this is one of the obstacles they went over. Ok, Aiden had a mini Himalaya, but it was still really cool.

At the end of the show they bunny-jumped over people with the bikes and two of the shows they jumped over me which was scary!
