End of school

Now I am looking at about 2 months left so little time so much to do :) school is out, we are ready to have a wonderful summer with lots of golf and bball :) I will be leaving on my west coast trip in 8 days I can't wait to get going :) other than that do I have some other travels and probably some relaxing  in the sun too this will probably be my last post in here because I am ready to turn of the computer and go enjoy my summer see all of you great people when I get back home in August thanks for reading my posts :)

An Dinosaur in ABQ wauw :)

found somebody taller than me :) haha :D

Great people will miss them all :D

my boy ANDY ;D

Silver Foxes Basketball Locker room 

A new Home, A new Family

Hey Everybody
I know it has been a while two months almost, but there has been so many things to do :) After I started on golf I have spend almost every day on the golf course I have approved a lot since I came here but I will get to that later on. March was my birthday and we had a lot of things to take care of at the end of March because I was moving to a new family on the 1st of April it has been a great time with the Marquez family 7 long months and I will miss them incredibly. But life is moving on and we have to move with it so I moved to the west side of El Paso almost a completely new culture and a long way to school :) I live now with my host brother and his parents he has an older brother who goes to MIT (a university) so he is not home it is in Boston. After I arrived here with all of my stuff which was so much I couldn't even relax because the 2nd and 3rd was our district championship in golf, I made all district which means that I am in top 10 in my district in golf and my school got first place so, we were going to Regionals in Abilene TX, two weeks after in those two weeks I spend between 4 and 5 hours on the golf course daily when it came to regionals we were not even close to make it to state we got 13 out of 16 and the winning ball was 71 68 on a course that was 71 so they were good but it was a great experience and I really loved going with my teammates, I have improved a lot on my skills in guitar as well as basketball so I am not sitting still even now after I am done with my sports I still practice basketball in the mornings and golf after school on Mondays and Wednesdays, this week we were TAKS (Texas Assessment of knowledge skills) testing which is an exam of a kind it is done by everyone in Texas and if you don't pass you can't get a diploma when you graduate I look forward to see who I did compared to the rest of the students here :) I haven't taken any pictures since my last blog so that is why there is a lack of pictures on this one but I'll be sure to take some for the next one :) We are going to the talent show at the district convention in May I look forward to see all the exchange students again :) only 5 weeks left of school one week of finals and then of to break which also means that there is only 3 months and 4 days to my departure I look forward to see my family but there are many people I will miss :)

That's it for now.
Sé onr sverdar sitja hvass!

Time for the spring, time for golf

Hey
It is now time for a new update for my blog. I have experienced a lot of stuff but first things first. :)
in the beginning of February we were with all the exchange students in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is the oldest city in the US and the capitol of the state of New Mexico :)
In Santa Fe we visited the capitol building which is the house of the senate and we met with the NM Governor, a state senator and a lot of Indians because the day we where in the senate was native american day in New Mexico and now because of us also Rotary youth exchange student day but that we will get to later on :D

 This is the New Mexican seal inside the house of representatives where all the minor laws of NM get's approved each state has a lot of their own laws different from all the other states. When we where in there it was Native American day so there where a lot of Indians in their "costumes" and we saw some of their rituals we even heard the national anthem in native american :) we where in the senate when it was active but not allowed to take pictures when people were in there off cause. 

This was a buffalo head made of scrap by an Indian lady there were a lot of figures, paintings and other work from the Native Americans in the hall ways. while we were in the senate on the floor, the senator we had spoken to presented a new bill which stated that February 3. should be Rotary Youth Exchange Student Day as a celebration for the 100 years rotary youth exchange has been and the bill was approved without any objections it was huge to stand there as an exchange student and see it happen.

Everyone in front of the governor's office she is actually from El Paso hehe :D

After the trip to the state capitol we went out to get some food which was actually quite good :) and that was what happened that day of interest :)

The next we all went skiing it was a little cold and unfortunately it started snowing but we had a lot of fun a ran for a couple of hours before we headed on home :D

Mountain Climbing twice in a month that is actually pretty exciting and a really good view you can get :) we went up one of the many mountains here in El Paso with a tramway and then we had to hike down it is a fun trip the first we invited all the exchange students here in El Paso the second time it was with the family :D

I really loved working out there in the nature with all of my family :) I wish one day to take my brother on this hike :) it is a great view :)

And then we had Presidents day last Monday which also where Leo's birthday we had some great food :) and it was over all a great day :)

 Leo and Julian, Julian who still is sad that he is shorter than his dad so he has to stand on his toes when pictures get's taken :D haha

Leo and Liz the only girl in the family but loved by her dad :) 

Me and Leo :D I am very happy to have had the chance to know this man he has been a great inspiration to me and has taught me things I would never have been dreaming of when I was younger :) 

And then to finish off apparently we have a new house member this peacock have decided to basically live on our cars this is taken in our garden where we found it one morning but usually it is standing on top of the cooler of our cars a beautiful bird :) 

New Year, New Day, New Schedule

HEY EVERYBODY

I hope you guys haven't missed me to much :) I now it has been some time, but there is a lot of stuff that needs to be done :) Now when I am in both Basketball and Golf I have a lot of stuff I practice I need to do so it is hard to get to the computer.

But what have I experienced since last, let's see there was Christmas :)

We celebrated Christmas on the evening on the 24th of December and we were all gathered at my aunt's house where we had our presents and some very good food. When we finished at my aunt's house we moved on to my grandma on my mom's side of the family to get the presents from that family we didn't stay there for to long but just long enough to get some food :D at last we went home and got the last presents from each other it were some really good presents :D the 25th we went in the morning to celebrate and have some good food :D a great new Christmas, but no dancing around the tree


New Years Eve was a lot different from back home, there were almost no firework and no champagne and no jumping down from chairs but we had a lot of fun with the family playing poker and getting to wish everybody a happy new year :D it was cool to see how they did it here and we went to fire of fireworks on the 1st of January so it was all good :D

Then we went skiing in Ruidoso and it was so great I just love skiing :D actually it was crazy how good the slopes where I thought - oh we are in America they don't ski over here. But I was wrong they were really good :D and I am looking forward to going again in two weeks :D

And now to one of the coolest experiences I was at the Sun Bowl it was so crazy a full Stadium to watch the football game I loved it :D we had a lot of fun :D 

It was packed but fun :D a great game also exciting down to overtime :D and since my dad was working with the cameras and stuff I go to see the inside of the press box :D

Me in the press box :D

That would be all for now my friends hope you liked it :D I do not know when next time will be but have fun and don't get caught :D