Watch out, I've got too much soul for the world

On friday and the first half of next week there's (were) midterms. I get tested in everything I was taught the past semester, and for some classes half of it is gone a long time ago. But since my grades have been good so far I have quite some room for error.

I've been doing pretty good for track. We had our first big meet last week (the conference meet), and I was only put in one race... However, I surprised everyone and got a 2.16 for my leg in the 4x8 (it was actually the first time ever that I ran it). And our anchor did really well too, so we got second place, a stupid little medal and "all conference". Also, coach put me as an alternate for the state meet, so I'm still running even if half of the team is done. Tomorrow we're going to Yale to practice at their indoor track.

Yesterday Trym and Terri were over and we planned our California trip to some more detail:

Sunday: Arrive in LA & hit the bars (sleep in nice hotel)

Monday: hang out in LA & see Hollywood etc (sleep in same nice hotel)

Tuesday: Drive up to Las Vegas & The Hoover Dam (sleep in scetchy roadside motel)

Wednesday: Drive over to the Gran Canyon (forgot where we're sleeping)

Thursday: See some really cool looking national park thing & drive to Terri's friends in Phoenix (sleep there)

Friday: Drive down to Terri's family in Tucson (sleep there)

Saturday: Hang out in Tucson for a bit and drive up to her friends in Phoenix (sleep there)

Sunday: Go to church in Phoenix & hang out in the city

Monday: Home again :)

So that looks pretty enjoyable!

Next weekend there's a yfu sleepover in the forest somewhere, which is going to be pretty cool.
Also, my new headphones will probably arrive soon (Grado Sr80's), and I ordered a really cheap polaroid camera to see if its cool. I paid twice as much for the film as for the camera..

When it comes to other things, I'll miss out on graduation, but since I wouldn't graduate anyways I don't really care. (Even though my chemistry teacher wanted to talk to the guidance councelor and change his mind for me!) Also, Prom is going to be interesting since I have no group to go with yet, nor ANY ideas for dates.

Big hugs and thanks to dad for the snowboardstuff and mom & Edward for the cookies :D

:( :( :(

Dagen etter jeg betaler for Arizona turen (og dermed blir tvunget til å selge Ryan Adams billeten min) går han ut og sier han skal slutte å drive med musikk den 20. mars..
Ødela dagen min, og sikkert helga også.
Jeg hadde nok ikke dratt på den turen om jeg visste.. Trodde han kom til å holde på i årevis jeg.. =/

http://www.vg.no/musikk/artikkel.php?artid=539776

Arizona & LA

So, today, Trym, his host mom and me booked tickets for a trip to LA (Erin) and Arizona for the winter break! I'll get to see stuff like hollywood and the gran canyon :)

Hove?

Departure June 17th at 10.03 am.

'09

First, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
A week late :)
I hope '09 will be even better than '08, for me and all of you.

So, a snowday saves me again; I've been way to busy lately to write my blog, so it came in very handy. It's so good to wake up in the morning, turn on the tv and see "Rocky Hill Publis Schools, Closed" roll across the screen.

Anyways, I've had a good Christmas break that felt really short even though everyone here said it was a long one.. (24th of december through 4th of january, shortest ive had).

My host sister was home for Christmas, and she reclaimed her room (which is now my room), and since I like my room, I just stayed. She still got my bed, so I had to sleep on a cott (aka, en sammenleggbar seng).

American Christmas is a little different than Norwegian Christmas in several ways, first of all there is almost no advent, secondly there is no days off school before Christmas eve, and then you go to church and unpack your presents on Christmas day morning! But the church looked magnificent, the music there was good, the food was great and being a grownup like me, who cares about when you get your presents as long as you get them, huh?

The day after I went to Nicks beach house with him, Chris and Melissa, it was pretty dark there, and cold, but I bet it will be a good place to hang out in the summer :)

On Monday one and a half week ago I went to lunch with Nick and some of his friends that lived kinda far away, and on our way home we picked Trym up. He slept over at my house until new years eve. We hung out with Nick most of the time, we went to New Haven and had pizza and hung out in his house.

On New Years eve we got another snow storm, great. The snow storm led to a parking ban, so at first we were talking about canceling our grandiose party. But then our neighbors said our guests could borrow their driveway, and since we had a lot of driveway ourselves too, we figured most guests could still come. Then our neighbor announced he was sick, so he couldn't snowblow his driveway. So I spent two hours snowblowing in the snow, cool.

Many people came, including Daniel from Sweden, a couple of the pastors from church and loads of people i didn't know. It was a nice night, even though we didn't have any fireworks!

Last weekend I went on a yfu weekend trip to New York with Trym and Daniel. We spent most of the time shopping. And we went to Taco Bell in a cab at 12:30 at night.

And that was my Christmas/New Years, and now school has started again..
I have two track meets on friday and saturday, so that's gonna be exciting :) On the saturday one only half the team is going, and I'm running in the 4x8 relay :D

peace.
(I really appreciate comments folks, keep up the good work!)