JMA Armstrong

If anyone want to see what my schoo,looks like, just go on youtube.com and type in 'JMA Armstrong'. You'll get a movie from 1987, watch it, everything looks almost exactly the same today, that's the scary part. If you pick the Yearbook-one you get something even more accurate, it's made in the fall of 2007.

By the way, I got excempted from all my exams. So, next week'll be a swee week.

Exams and 'Guys and Dolls'

Hey there people! Now it has already been a while since the last report. And it has been the busiest of times, next time I'm complaining about high school work in Sweden remind me to think back on these times. It is crazy. Such a thing as student democracy and two major pass-ins or tests a week etc... Screw it! Here you can have the math teacher telling you on tuesday about atest on thursday and if you have outside school activities that make it impossible for you to study, then it's too bad so sad. And the same time you can have two english research papers and one or two other tests. Noone cares, teachers don't talk to each other or anything, it's the students problem.

I'm not saying that it is necessarly a bad thing that they are more strict here and concerned about University and Collage after graduation. But eventually it got to a point for me that I had to spend like every afternoon/night a week to study and get all my things done. Otherwise I would have been screwed. And then I can only imagine what it is like for people in the basketball team or on the year book staff. But now we had a snow day yesterday actually, so it's thanks to that I'm able to sit here and write this now.

Next week is exam week. If you have a mark of 85% and over you can get an Academic Exemption. I've got two of those so far. If you've got only six absenses and a 75% or more mark, then you can get an Attendence Exemption, but you can only have three of those in total. I have to write math for sure. That would be on Friday. I was right on the edge but today I bombed the math test, so now the battle's over. I have to write it. I got an exemption in World Issues and Music (hm, I wonder why, anyone see a logical pattern here? :P). I don't know about Political Science, but I suspect that I might have to write that one too. That would be on Tuesday in that case. I don't know about English either yet. Tomorrow I know for sure.

Monday I tried out for the JMA spring musical, 'Guys and Dolls'. It was ok, I'd practiced my speech all weekend with Baukje but despite that I messed up a couple of time. But after talking to people it seems like more people did the same thing so it might not have had a devestating effect on the impression of my whole performance. I tried out for a major part, so that means that I had to sing a song too. I chose "Maybe this time", from Cabaret. It sounded different, I don't know what made it sound like that. But anyway, I'm so glad it's overwith, now I just have to wait.

A lot of people are trying out for the musical ll of a sudden. People who before were scared that people would make fun of them for being in such a thing are taking there chance now, since almost everyone is trying out. That means a lot of competition of course, but I'm so glad that people finally have the courage to just go for it, and don't care if it's for cool people or geeks or what. Although I doubt that they will get enough guys for the male parts. Why is it always girls going into things like this? It's retarded.

Well, that's all for now. I don't really have any new interesting pictures so I'm just going to add some from Baukje's birtday party two weeks ago. And one from the dance before Christmas too =D

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope you all have had a great start of the new year, 2008. Wow, time flies by...

A little too fast sometimes actually, I was thinking this morning and it hit me that our christmas break soon is over, only a week to go. That's a little sad, but that's life I guess :) Christmas was wonderful. We celebrated christmas day 'cause that's what they do in this country. It started off with opening of christmas gift in the morning. That was sweet, like the whole family gathered around the dinner table, with coffee and tea and cookies and candy and the ginger bread house. And I think people were happy with their gifts too, that's always nice.

Then was the big christmas family dinner. That was nice, they had like a frying pan in the middle of the table and a lot of pieces of raw chicken and pork and meat balls and stuff. So everyone kind of cooked their own meal. Excepst for me who sat by the and of the table and couldn't reach. So I got people to cook for me.

I like the christmas break so far. I've been at home mostly, you know, relaxing. We've been playing a lot of ping pong since that table was Auke's christmas gift for everyone. It's sweet! I love it. Last week me and Baukje went ice skating in Moncton. That was cool, shaky in the beginning obviously but I regained my balance after a while. And I've been walking a lot too. Like on the side of the roads since the fields are covered in snow.

Well, that was all for this time. Happy New Year again everyone!