I have now paper and stuff all over my room and I love it. Feels more like me!

 

We wanted to play a boardgame but since Julia always loose at chess and hates monopoly there wasn't much we could play since my family only have wierd games. So - why don't you make your own FIA!!!?! I won, of course and we had beads as our things to move. It was great! After this we went to Michael's.

 

This Tuesday I was off already at 4pm, so I made some chickensalad and put it in containers for the rest of the week. I have my healthy week this week, I do my workout like a crazy and eat healthy things only. So proud of myself!

 

Lighted up some candles and watched "hypnotisören" this monday. Niiiice!

After the New England Aquarium we went home to my house to make a fancy dinner. We went to whole foods to buy the ingredients for "skagenröra" with baked potatoes in the oven. We bought shrimps, red onions etc.

Julia brought some ice cream for dessert. We watched Magic Mike, an okey movie. Great night.

 

We had a great time, it was too bad they were under construction, but it was great to see the animals and fishes. Fun!

 

We had lunch at Au Bon Pain; sallads and wraps, before we went to New England Aquarium.

 

We ordered food for two persons instead of three, and shared it.

We have experience of eating too much.....

It feels like my wierd stomach is back, I am starving but as soon as I start eat I am full and almost feel sick.. It is just strange! But this was yummie!

After that we went to my place, my family had already gone to Andover, so we watched a movie "the Town" in the family room in our house. Me and Terese had already seen the movie but it was supposed to take place in Boston and it totally did! It was so great to see Harvard and North End. They are inside Fenway Park and it is so cool to see it in a movie when you have been there. I am going to watch Legally blondie and some other movies with scenes from Boston. Love it!

 

 

 

I have realized that I have absolutely no interest in clothes anymore. I just grab whatever I have and buy new things cause I need them..

I got so excited about Miami in March, so I bought both a dress and a skirt (believe it or not!!). Felt like I needed something different this vacation! It is one of these skirts that is short in the front and long in the back. I liked it!

 

 

 

The weather was beautiful, but a little bit cold.

After this Julia and I said bye to the girl and went to Fenway Park Light Show.

 

 

 We went to Brown University - the university were Summer studies season 4 in the O.C.

 

 

I made a little tart/cake as my first real crochet thing.

 Just got home from a lunchdate with Julia, Ebba and a new girl - Madeleine.

We had burgers and wraps and ice cream/frappe as dessert (I'm so full now). It was great!

Julia and Ebba.

 

 

 

 

 

 Woke up at 7 am, took a shower and then got ready for breakfast downstairs.

Today we only had two classes - american social life and american holidays. Both were really chill, we mostly sat and talked around and laughed, on american holidays we had to make up our own holiday. Our group had a mexican and a german girl too (and us ofc) and the german girl made up something about dressing up trashy and look however you want to look on this day. We agreed since nobody really cared, even though this was a pretty silly idea. However, the classes were over and we picked up some lunch and packed our bags. This weekend past incredible fast - I don't know what happend. It feels like we just got there...

We hit the road and drove to Albany city - we had some time left since we were out of the hotel at 12pm. We walked around in Albany and went to Washington Park. Then we hit the road again and went to Springfield (on our way home) for some food and just look around a bit. It was a really great trip. Julia drove most of the time, I took over when it was an hour and a half left until we were home. It was dark and foggy but it all went fine. (She has a volvo by the way!!!).

 Today we got up at 7 to have some breakfast buffet. It was really great, an american breakfast. I will post pictures as soon as i can. The breakfast room was also pretty fancy, as the rest of the hotel. Our first class for the day was digital photagraphy - pretty much like my course at njudung, but in english so it was still fun, but i can't say i learned a lot. But still. The next one was american pictographs - completely unnessecary! It was just stupid to draw signs like these from old times. We were going to make up a story and then we came in the same group as two other swedish aupairs. Alex and Louise. The next class was manage your life to control time and money, also completely unnessecary since they pretty much told us to save money and to make lists if you were busy at work... Weh, hello!? 

The next one was song bingo with a handsome guy (!) and we had to make up lyrics to a childsong. It was pretty crazy to hear all the songs, but fun! Our song was the worst though. We had lunch and dinner in between here some time too. we went to a travel class too - the only class that actually gave something according to me. We got a lot of tips how to travel save and cheap, which places to visit etc. Now both julia and i really want to go on otur vacationmonth..... After that we had melodrama, something the teachers had made up, a roleplay were some of the aupairs were actors. Luckily for us we didn't have too. It was so much fun! Then we had this latin dance session which also was fun, even though both julia and i suck at it. But we had a great time and laughed so much, that is all that matters. It feels like everybody here on silver bay are happy and knows how to be a funny person. Everybody are so easy going. It's chill. Everything is chill! I will write more tomorrow or some day. See you!

 Hello!

Now we are in Albany at the silverbay course. This was so much better tham i could ever have imagined. The car-ride wasn't that bad, only about 2,5 hours and we had a good time, we listened to music and just chatted. We hadn't seen each other in a week or something soooo.... Well, not exactly but that was what it felt like.

We got here about 3.30 and walked around a little just to make the time go since the check in was from 4-11pm. As I said, we were very early, but we didn't mind. The hotel we were staying at (i didn't even know we were going to stay at a hotel) was superfancy and luxury - not expected!! I will post pictures of it when we get home. We watched some episodes of friends on Julias iPad and explored the hotel a little before It was time for dinner - south western soup as an appetizer and chicken with some rice as entree and chocolatecake as dessert. Wow, what a fancy restaurant, napkin in the lap was like a small thing compared to this. Which knife will i use first? Which glass can i use etc. White ballroom was it called. we even had servingpeople! It is a big hotel and we are about 80 aupairs according to Mike, one of the leaders. He seems to be a funny old man.

Our room is big and nice, everything here is clean and fresh, our beds are soft and cozy. Tonight at 9 we had a welcoming-meeting that was going to last for 2 hours, but we only had to stay for 30 minuters, so i think this will be kind of chill. Now we are going to bed, just watch some movies on the iPad or read a book. Tonight I will fall asleep happy. Goodnight everybody! Xoxo

 It always feels like I have so much to say, but when I am sitting here writing I kind of forget it all.

 

I am soon leaving to go to Silverbay. Julia will pick me up in about an hour and a half. It turned out that the people we were going with had changed plans. I guess that was a good thing because Julia and I would die of that girl - she didn't stop talking...

The kids were really sad that I was leaving, it's cute even though I don't understand why. We spend so much time together, they should just be happy to get rid of me?! When I drove Arno to school (he wanted some extra time to play a game...and I had some stuff to take care of) he kissed me on the cheek before he went out of the car - both of them told me to have a great weekend when we said bye when they were going to school - how thoughtful isn't that? I mean, they are kids after all...

Both Lori and Charlie said the same, they are really supportive and always wish me good luck with things. They are awesume! This morning when I drove Arno to school (he wanted some extra time to play a game...and I had some stuff to take care of) he kissed me on the cheek before he went out of the car

 

Now I am sitting here, I just took a shower after a 25-minutes workout. It feels great. Now I am ready for a 2-3 hour long drive. I will try to take some pictures during the weekend, I can imagine it will be like training school.. I am not very excited, but I don't think it will be boring either. It is nice to go away for awhile, just do something different so we'll see what I think afterwards.

 

Well, now I don't have time to sit here and waste my time. I will pack some lunch for the trip to avoid the fastfood restaurants next to the roads.. I will talk to you later, bye!

 

 

 I walked in the corridor with Arno when it was time for swimming. Suddenly a man opened a door right at us and almost stepped on Arno. Arno, by reflex, said "Oh, I'm sorry" (even though it wasn't his fault) and the man just walked away like nothing had happend. Yes, that's how we want it in our future. He is so well behaved!

 

 

 My day today was pretty good. I made Arno a cheese sandwich for lunch and walked him to school. When I got home I studied for a couple of hours, so now I am done with all my schoolwork. As you may know I am going to this weekend course and had some homeworks to go with it. Finally done with everything, now I am just hoping they will accept it. I kind of copied a little from this blog. The task was to write 2000 words (each) about myself and a daily journal about expectations etc...

I skyped with Frida to say "happy birthday" and just chat a little, then I talked to mom and dad for awhile. Time goes fast when you're having fun. I watched some episodes of Friends and had tomato soup for lunch, peanutbutter cereal and an apple as desert. Yummie!

Then I went to pick up Arno from school and we sat and were just playing around during snack-time for a moment. Mirea went up to the attic where Lori was. Then the kids had to get ready for their activities - gymnastics and dance. While I waited I read my book (I park next to a big lamp on a parkinglot so I can see - how smart is that?!) and then I picked them up and we all went home.

When I got home Lori came to me to talk a little. We don't really talk much about stuff usually (it sounds so boring and sometimes we dooo, but usually I am tired or they are busy) and she said that she had seen my note on our internet calendar about my parents visit. She was so positive - she is just great! She also mentioned that I can always go to my room when the kids are in their rooms - that I don't have to "sit and do nothing just to show that I work" which felt so good for me. Usually I make up something to do so they won't think I don't care.. I mean, it's not like it's hours, but still, it felt good. She also told me I don't have to get up exactly at 7 every morning any more if I don't want to, which also felt great!! It feels like this is something we should have talked about before, but it seemed like they wanted to change their schedules since the kids are getting older. I also have sooo many free weekends these comming months, I am so happy. I almost started to cry before. I am happy. This family is great, life here is great!

Now I will watch some episodes of friends and then go to bed. Tomorrow I will sleep in a little bit. Yeeeeeeeeeah!

 After Blue Man Group Julia and I went to her house to continue our Millennium-marathon and I slept there.

The next day we went in to town to meet a girl we are going to go to silver bay with, Maffe - a colombian girl.

We were going to go to a museum at harvard, but then we deciced to meet at starbucks instead (I hate museums). Both Julia and I got surprised of the girl - she talked non-stop and had been here 9 months. She extended her year with another so she are going to stay here until 2014. After awhile her friend came, she went to harvard, and we had a nice chat over a cup of coffee or hot chocolate.

We said good bye to them, after more than 1 hour (we had only planned to say hi and then go), and then we went to Newbury to go shopping. They said they had sale today for some reason.

 

 I just felt like writing here, so why not?!

Today is just a regular day. It was really cold outside, the snow is still there. I drove Mirea to her busstop (2 minutes walk, but she was late and it was cold), Lori said it was better to drop both the kids off with the car, so I drove Arno too. Then I went to Whole foods for some grocery shopping. Lori had written down a lot of asian things, that I usually don't have on the list, but things she used for all the cooking during the holidays. It was so hard to find eveyrhing, I still couldn't find the sambal oelek.. It took me about an hour more than it usually does, just because of that. After awhile I decided to let it go, and I drove to Mobile to fill the car with gas.

When I got home I did some laundry, it's crazy how much laundry they have (and Mirea even wash her own clothes), but I did their sheets too. Feels like I did all of my weekly duties today.

I am also going to take a shower soon and after that maybe watch some episodes of Friends. Make some lunch too - Lori's chicken noodle, vegetable leftovers.

Yesterday Julia and I went to cheesecake factory. I took Red Velvet ( my new favorite) and brought the rest of it with me home - dessert for today!! After that we went to my house to watch a movie. Double Jeopardy - a good movie, but I fell asleep before it ended. Maybe I should watch the end now instead of Friends?

I am also going to write a little in my diary since New York - still haven't done that.. shame on me.

Hope you all are enjoying your day!

 

 

 Our plan was to go to this party place, but when we got there it looked so trashy so we didn't want to go inside.

Instead we walked around a little, we went to Copley.