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Back in Sweden so who knows what will happen with this blog. Perhaps it will continue, perhaps it will die. Time will sure tell. Bye for now.
XXX

Omg, I never thought I would feel that sad as I felt today when I said goodbye to everyone. Almost everyone was crying when we were hugging each other. The worst part was that I couldn't stop. I had tears in my eyes all the way to my house. Then at least it stopped so my hostfamily didn't have to think I was a biq psycho. While a lot of people went to Brighton I had to go home and pack. I was sort of the only one who hadn't packed a single thing of the ones who were leaving tomorrow. Well, now I know at least why I had postponed it. I have 5 kg excess luggage although I have posted home around 15 kg alreday. It's utter madness! Can't believe how I have mangaged to collect this much? Sure I have bought quite a lot of things but I definitely didn't think it was as much as that. It's my own fault so I guess I just have to swallow the bitter pill.

It felt like the whole time Sofia was here the only thing we were deciding was where to go and eat but I am glad. As you know I love food and Sofia has really increased here liking. She can even eat red onions now and that is big :)
Well, so what have we been doing?
- Walking in to Brighton along the seafront
- Strolling around in the Lanes and North Lanes
- Days, pizza buffé, italian restaurant, cafés, pubfood
- Some clubbing and pubs :)
- Speaking exam (okey just me not Sofia, what she did during that time I have no idea ;))
- Shopping (well mostly me I have to admit but at least I have found a dress for the graduation party now, among all other things I bought :P)
- Brighton Pier
- dance machine (or whatever they are called with these carpets with steps on)
- Cyber shop (Sofia and I tried on these extreme dresses with neon colours. The shop assistant look at us angry when we ventured close to the fitting room. "It is a tenner deposit and you can't take pictures". Wtf, that was what we wanted to do :P)
- Yoga and English lessons (Sofia was forced to join me at school but I think she liked the yoga at least :))
- Rain, rain and some more rain (I think the weather is having a payback for all the lovely weather we had the first three months)

It is only less than a week left now in England, if feels so strange. I am gonna miss the country so much but it is gonna be very nice to finally be able to live alone again.

The trip to London was really great. As I said in the previous text I went to Tate Modern and the Parliament on the Friday. Both locations were much more exciting than I had thought. They had a really good exhibiton on pop art at Tate Modern which I really liked. On Friday evening was it time for the opera-ballet which Niklas had so kindly arranged for me, Sara, Fanny, Anneli and Ruth. To our surprise started the dancers undressing at one point, just like that with no forewarning which gave us all a good laught. It didn't last too long though and soon they were back in their clothes.
Ncklas and I went to the National History Museum on Saturday morning. One thing I have learnt is that a lot of the museums in London is so massive, you could spend days there. Unfortunatley I didn't have that much time but I think I saw quite much at The Science Museum, British Museum and Imperial War Museum during the weekend. It is so nice with the musem here since all state owned museums are for free (in contrast to the Swedish ones who started charging for admittance when we changed the ruling parties *grr*).
My biggest mission for Saturday wasn't the National History Museum though. It was time for Friskis! It was so lovely to exercise to right bmp and with a proper warm up and agility as well. I am still treasuring that moment :)

I have also participated in my first sing along. Bunch of us gathered at school and sang to the film Mamma Mia. Althought I can't sing it was really nice.

Last Saturday was it time for Lucia Celebrations. Haven't had any christmas feelings before that but after they were just bubbling around in my body. We hade a proper "Luciatåg, kanelbullar, lussekattor, pepparkakor, julgodis" and a really strong "glögg". Oh it was so cozy.

On the Sunday went some of us with the school's minibus to Cambridge. It was raining quite much but I still got a very good impression of the city.

Well time is running out and I don't have time to write so much more. Will just list some more things I have done since the last time I wrote
- Folk music concert at school
- Farewell party (the folk musicians are leaving earlier so we had to have it this week)
- Visit to the court (with school, not as a criminal :P)

Tomorrow is the big day, Sofia is arriving. Looking forward to it. The weather could have been better but England is England and rain is just what you get this time of year :P And we had suchgood weather in the beginning and all the way through to late October so it was bound to start raining some time.
On Sunday is it time for my speaking part of the Cambridge exam and on Wednesday the other parts. Cross your fingers for me, I need it.
Love

Mental reminder to myself. Never again go out running when it has been raining on and off all day. In the end I was running in crazy torrential rain (so hard it felt it was hailing instead), a lot of mud and wind that was so strong that it almost blew you off the muddy path. Gah

Yes I must admit, this idea with a blog hasn't turned out so well. I have so much else I want to do and the internet at my hostfamily is really not good so I have neither the energy nor the proper time to do this.
I will continue trying for a little bit longer time though but don't expect any miracles from me.

This Friday is London time with the school. I am going to visit the Tate Modern and the Parliament. For those who wanted we had the option of staying over in London and this is what I will do together with some other people. Thanks to Nicklas, I will go to an opera-ballet on Friday evening and almost more important: On Saturday afternoon you can find me att Friskis&Svettis London. Oh, I am really longing for that. Haven't had a proper exercise class with right bpm for ages. It is gonna be lovely :)

Hmm, other things that has happened since I last wrote here. I'll been to one of Moez gig (which is a teacher at our school), I have done some touristing around Brighton including the Pavilion and Brighton Museum, I have experienced almost the worst torrential rain ever, I have been to the pictures a couple of times, experienced Bon Fire Night in Lewes togheter with a lot, lot of other people and crazy loud bangers, been to some more quiz evenings, visited quite a few pub and so on.
The time here has been really great and I am really glad I decided to go here. I must admit I haven't learnt has much English as I had hoped to do. Admittedly, it's mainly my fault since I haven't put a real effort into finding English friends. Shame on me :P  Apart from that it has been nice to feel that I'm not too old to socialise with 20 year old people. As Anna has said to me: "It doesn't feel that you are That old" *lol*

12th December is approaching fast. It is going to be nice to come home to the forest, Swedish food and family and friends but of course, I will miss the friends I have met here at Loxdale.

One day has passed since returning to Portslade from Edinburgh. And what a journey, we have seen a lot of castles. The best one was Tantallon Castle, mostly because of the stunning location I think. You find the castle on a high cliff edge overlooking the sea. Amazing, almost want to return there when I'm writing about it :P

I'm not gonna bore you stiff so here's a short summary of Stina and mine Castle Quest around the Edinburgh area
- Castle, castles, castles (of course, otherwise it wouldn't have been a castle trip would it)
- Haggis (tastes actually ~ like pölsa)
- Deep-fried Mars bar (they are crazy in Scotland, they deep fry everything!)
- Free guided tour around Edinburgh (stingy I know ;))
- JK Rowlings café where she wrote Harry Potter
- "The real Hogwarts"
- Almost no rain, I know it's amazing. Who would have guessed that we would be that lucky. It only started raining the day before we were going home.
- Ale almost every night. We were lucky here as well and found I really cozy pub the first night
- Forced a German lad to drive us from Craigmillar castle, he was gonna drive to the city anyway so why not give us a ride?

I didn't though found out what actully can be find under a kilt, fuck ;P

And here some photos from the trip!

Tomorrow are Stina and I leaving for Edinburgh, Scotland on a Castle Quest :) We are going to visit several castles around the Edinburgh area including the two big ones, Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle.
The trip is part of the Activity Week at school which basically means that every student at school have one week where they can do a project concerning something in the British Isles and hence my journey to Scotland. Since Stina and I are among the older students at Loxdale we have decided to take the flight to Edinburgh rather than going by the awful long but cheaper coach. So mature of us *lol*

Have a great week everyone!
Love, Petra

The two tap syndrome is an expression that symbolizes the English way of thinking (at least according to my teacher Sue :P).
"Sure, we have a mixertap in the kitchen, but why bother with having one in the bathroom? It's so nice having two taps with hot and cold written in a nice font" The two tap syndrome can also be applied for the traditional way of voting in the House of Parliament. The ones who vote no go through the left door and the ones voting yes go though the right door (or vice versa, can't remember precisely) and then you actually have a lad who stands counting the people on a piece of paper. Why bother with installing a "press button"-vote? The traditional way has always worked with us *lol* I must say it gives the brit some character :)

Obviously, this is not the only thing that has happened since I last wrote here. I have among other things been to a quiz at a local pub in Hove with our teacher Mo. Fanny at school had her birthday this Thursday so we celebrated her at an amazing buffe restaturant called Day's. So suited for Crohn, or not... ;)  

Thursday
Finally Murder Mystery evening and a great opportunity appeared. I entered the school this evening dressed in a gigantic mustasch. Why shouldn't I seize the opportunity to take part in the male half of the world? ;) The name? "Mr agent Avery".
Gambling, bribing, eating and finally a murder to solve. Although I convicted the wrong person (I believed the murderer shouldn't be the one most obvious) the evening was lovely.



Friday, Saturday
Night out with Josefine (former colleague to my dad) and her friends on Friday. We went to a Balkan club called Komedia. At a pit stop at Mash Tun I found myself all of a sudden armwrestling *lol*
Saturday was spent at Shoreham's market and Steyning. Absolutely knackered in the evening, the walk to Anna for Xfactor was more than enough for me :P


Josefine mfl

Sunday
Reinactment of Battle of Hastings at the village Battle (not Hastings :P). People dressed in proper clothings for that time period, horses, swords, crossbows and spears. It would have been my dream come true when I was younger. Although now much older it was quite impressive still :) The rain started pouring down just in time for the reinactment but it didn't dampen our mood too much.

Have a lovely night *lol*

I tagged along Sara to look for clothes to wear on our Murder and Mystery evening. What did I bring with me home then? Well, everything apart from things to wear on Thursday evening *lol* Among all things I bought this pretty teapot.



Knockered after all shopping I had to force myself to shower (everyone who knows me, know that I hate to shower when I haven't been exercisning) and then I was off to Helena. We made tacos in her host familys lovely kitchen. It was so good :)



Oh, btw Kent is gonna release their new album in November. What do you think about the first singel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdesx6nGYwY&feature=player_embedded

Hey ya,

I will just dive in and start writing from this day.
Today the school had arranged a trip for us to Stonehenge and Salisbury. When I woked up this morning it was grey, grey and grey. But since this was pretty much the first day with bad weather it didn't feel all to bad.
I really loved Stonehenge. It was pretty much as I had expected (everyone else seemed to have thought that the stone was supposed to be really, really huge) apart from all the tourist but when thinking about it. How could I have thought that it wouldn't have been busy with tourists? I only wish that I could have had more time there but since everyone one else wanted to go it was just for me to obey :P

The trip continued to Salisbury and a nice guided tour by Anna, our principal at school. The day ended with a pot of tea and some browsing in the town.
I'm starting to feel a bit under the weather so I stayed home tonight whilst some from the class went to the lagoon for karaoke.

My goal for this blog is to write it in English. I think it would be a good exercise for me since I don't have improved in English as much as I would have liked to. It's bond to be some grammary and spelling to mark her but I feel if I gonna continue writing here it can't take up too much time and therefore you will just have to ignore my misses.

Cheers!