Its been one week..

Today i have officially been in Sweden for one whole week!! although, there has been so much happening and so many changes that it feels like a lot longer than a week!

Today i went for a walk around Knivsta and to check out what shops are here.. there aren't that many, but a lot more than i am used to!
I bought something from the supermarket.. and the checkout chick person puts the money in some weird machine thing and then it shoots out (not quite shoots out, but drops out) your correct change at the bottom.. it was sooo cool! the lady probably thought i was a freak... because i just kept staring at it in amazement!! looking back i think i may even have laughed??
i also had a look in the bibliotek (library) and looked at all the books that i couldnt understand... that was nice..

then this afternoon.. mats took me ice skating!! it was a lot of fun..
i've only ever been ice skating once on a school trip to adelaide.. and the whole time i spent hanging onto the walls or hanging onto yolanda :)
i really havent improved since then... where we went ice skating is only a short walk from our house.. and it is outside and a bit smaller than a football field. there were these tiny kids there doing it.. and they were amazing!!! and then there was me... hanging onto mats' arm for dear
life.. i did improve though as time went on.. and in the end i was doing it almost by myself... i had the help of my good friend the icehockey stick..
anyway that was lots of fun :)

Tomorrow i am going to a town called Eskilstuna, it is for a language camp for the exchange students that have just come to Sweden.. I will be there until Friday.. I'm not really sure what we'll do there apart from try and learn Swedish.. but i'm sure it will be good fun. We are being billeted out into the homes of Rotarians in Eskilstuna. So i probably won't write anything until i get home from this camp at the end of the week..
So goodbye for a week :)

gossip girl xoxo
(p.s. ^^ i only did that cos tim said i should :P )

oh and before i went.. i was telling everyone that i'm going to be living in a town called knivsta..
pronounced Niv-sta.... however... this is not how it is pronounced... it is actually said like..
C - Neev - Sta.
so yea, sorry about that everyone! :)