"Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!"

11/16/2012

Today was the last day of school and it was bitter sweet. I am really excited to go home and see my family again but I am also really sad to leave everybody. Today classes went pretty much as they regularly do, with a few exceptions. Hanna did not have German class today so while Hanna had a free period and studied, I went to Spanish class with Evelina, a girl from Hanna's class. It was really cool to go to a Spanish class because I understood a lot of what they were saying. First off the students took a test and then we read a couple of questions that they would be talking about in small groups next week and we also read an article about chocolate! It was really fun! The rest of the day proceeded as normal: Swedish, lunch, Social Studies, math, chocolate ball, biology, except there was a substitute in math class. It was really sad to say goodbye to all of my fellow classmates, I am going to miss them a lot.

After school Hampus drove Matilda, Hanna, and me to the silver mine so I could get gifts for everybody. ;) Afterwards he dropped Matilda off at her house and then drove us home. Hanna and I spent the rest of the day, or until 6pm when we were going over to William's house with Austin and Ida, we watched what we though was the movie prison break, but when it ended abruptly at a cliff hanger and we freaked out we realized that is was a TV series and promptly continued to watch the next episode.

At a little bit before 6 we headed over to Ida's house so that we could all walk to William's house. At William's we played a game where you had partners and a set of cards. You were then given a topic and you had to pick out the top cards that described that topic, lay them out in order of most to least, and then try and get the same cards as your partner. It was William and Olivia against Ida and Hanna against Austin and me! It was a lot of fun.

After about one hour Ida got a text from her Mom saying that dessert was ready at their house and we could come over for ice cream if we wanted to. Who passes up ice cream?! So we all headed over to Ida's house for dessert. We had just reached the house when Austin said he had seen some people in one of the windows. His vision was explained away by, oh it's probably just one of the family. We hurried inside, took off our hats, coats, gloves, scarves, and shoes, putting them in the pile with all of the others, and then headed into the kitchen, where we were met with the shout "Surprise!" Ida and Hanna had organized a surprise going away party for Austin and me with all of our friends: people from school, people from church, and of course Emma! It was so amazing! Austin and I didn't even realize or suspect anything, although it might have been a little strange that there were people in the window and there were a lot of shoes at the front door. But in our defense, there are always people in the house and lots of shoes at the door! :) It was both Austin and my first surprise party ever, and it was perfect!!! There was tons of ice cream, games, and fun. We even played a game where you competed in groups of three to do silly activities like who can get the Swedish fish on a string into their mouth the fastest using only their tongue - Austin, and who can pick up a piece of paper folded in half with their mouth but no hands the most times as it gets smaller and smaller because of the many folds - a tie between Ida and Matilda (the 3rd grader, not the one in Hanna's class). It was so nice to just sit and talk and laugh with everybody on the night before our last night in Sweden. Tack så mycket everybody for an amazing surprise party! You are all so amazing and I am going to miss you so much. See you soon, I hope.