Eskilstuna

I got back from Eskilstuna about 6.00pm tonight and i had a great week!
All the exchange students stayed in different host families.. i stayed with a family in a town just out of Eskilstuna called Kvicksund.. There were three of us exchange students staying with this family, all from Australia.. There was me, Jessica and Eliza (who is actually living with this family for her exchange).
The host family was Eva and Peter and they had a 15 year old daughter called Alice.. they were all really lovely and made us feel very welcome..
They also had a really awesome house!!!
We had swedish classes each day from 8.30 till 3.30. We had an hour off for lunch each day where we went to different rotary club meetings. They were always at the same place.. so each day we would walk about 2kms up and back in the snow to get to the restaraunt place.. the food was always really good there, and we didnt have to pay :)
There were 12 exchange students at the course and 10 of them were from Australia... there was a girl from new zealand and a girl from south africa. We had two teachers the whole week.. and then another exchange student who is from canada and has been here for 6 months was also there to help us learn swedish.
We had a different activity each day as well as the swedish classes, on the monday, we didnt actually have a planned activity.. but we all went to a cafe after class for 'Fika' ( it is like going for coffee and something sweet to eat, and is very very popular in sweden!).
then on the tuesday evening, we went bowling.. and beforehand got all you can eat tacos.. which was fun..
The wednesday afternoon we went to the pool house in eskilstuna.. which is really cool and has a wave pool, a waterslide, and spas and saunas..
Then we had no lessons after lunch on thursday and we all went to the Parken Zoo, it was very weird going to a zoo here.. because the entire zoo was covered in snow! the zoo isnt normally open to public in the wintertime because there is not many animals you can see.. so we were pretty much the only ones in the entire zoo.. we did see some cool animals though.. and my favourite was the spider monkeys!! then that evening we all went to one of the rotarians house for dinner and to watch a movie... we watched.. Mamma Mia.
Then friday at the end of the day.. we all got picked up and went home..
During the week we got to spend a fair bit of time just walking around the city, which was pretty cool and was good to be able to see a different city.
It was a really fun week.. and was so good to meet all the other exchange students, we all became really good friends and are heaps excited about euro tour now!

oh and last sunday, before we left.. mats took me cross country skiing in the morning.. i'm starting to get better at it.. but i am still pretty bad! im not very good at getting up the hills, actually im REALLY bad at getting up the hills.. i always end up just sliding back down :)
we skiied for about 2kms.. which was really good.. and i was bright red by the end of it!

I dont think i'm really doing anything this weekend, which is good.. and i can just relax a bit :)