Today is exactly 2 months since I leave home. 7th July I started traveling with Up with People and I feel that it’s been even more than 2 months. Is it because I learned so much so far or is it because I visited so many different places and meet so many different people, I don’t really know the right answer to that question. Only thing I know is that I have time of my life and I’m for sure enjoying it.
So, what happened yesterday? Yesterday was all working day. At 1PM we had an interview with local newspaper. Interview went great. It was more relaxed interview and I didn’t felt any pressure. I think I’m kind of getting used to popularity.
We left our work at 5.30PM to go to Stockholm to see music show with our host brother. Our host mum got a ticket for the show and she gave tickets to us. It was really fun show. It was a lot of music and a lot of jokes which we didn’t understood as they were all in Swedish, so we just enjoyed in music and movements.
It was really fun night especially as we spend it with our host brother. Spending time with him is such a fun. We came home late as we had to travel from Stockholm by train.
Today was a little bit different day. We had 2 presentations in the morning in high school of arts where students learn dancing, music, photography, film etc. It was really fun. I received question from one girl and she asked if we miss home. I didn’t even thought about that question before that. Do I miss home? Well, of course I do, but being with host families and other cast members, you just don’t have time to feel home sick. There are times when I feel home sick but they are so rarely.
After coming back from schools we continued working. Florence and I, we went to see FootbalArena one more time and we went to arrange hotel for our staff. It was fun trip as the guy from SodertaljeKommun doesn’t understand English, but he drives us around and we always laugh as he is really funny guy, no matter that we don’t understand a thing what he says.
In the afternoon I was working hard in arranging host families. We really deserved some rest and nice dinner which was waiting for as at home. Our host brother and his mum are leaving for vacation in Turkey tomorrow so we had kind of good by goofy dinner thing. We laughed and we really enjoyed just spending time together. They are luckily coming back next Saturday so this is not good bye. :)
Few minutes ago my host brother teaches me how to play piano. It was really fun. I didn’t even realize that it is so easy. I mean… I was afraid that because of so many keys, playing piano would be really hard and learning chords would be really hard, but it’s actually easy. I know few chords now and I will continue to study that a little bit more.
Funny thing happened the other day. I think it was 2 days ago when we had presentation at Nature High School and when we were doing crossing the line activity. That day, before entering the school, as we were passing close to some girls, we realized that their language sounded exactly like Thai. We weren’t sure, but I really wanted to know if they come from Thai and we asked them and of course, they were from Thailand. We talked a little bit but we were really impressed how Thai language comes into our ears and we could really easily recognize it.
Well, it’s been a long day and long evening. I think I will go to sleep finally.
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