My life in the US

Report card

2008-06-18T14:43:00.001-07:00

I got my report card (my grades) and here's the final grades!!
English 4C (H) B
Web Page design A+
Chemistry A+
Physics A
Pre-Calculus (H) B-
Government/Econ A

Since the two classes I have B's in are Honors classes, the B's count as A's... So my total GPA is:
4.00!!!!
(the best u can get unless u have all H and AP classes)

I cant believe I actually did it!! I got a 4.00 for my final grades!!! YES!!

Wow.. been a long time..

2008-06-17T15:07:00.000-07:00

Last time I wrote I told u about Grad nite and Graduation.. Well.. that wasnt the last thing that happend since then.. lol..

Fri - 21
Senior Trip - Six Flaggs
*Tristan, April and Veronika + Ina and Lucia

Sat - 22
Senior Brunch - Plaza
All seniors 08' meet up for a formal brunch to be social and have a last gathering before Grad.

Thu - 29
Graduation + Grad nite
- Pics at grad
- Josh Victorino + friends hang out (spray-on tatoos, pic with Elvis, Casino&Black Jack)

Fri - 30
Aaron's last day @ school
- Presidential award (signed by G.W. Bush himself)
- I and Jamie picked up my and Manda's Diplomas + talk to teachers
- I picked up my Hamlet and HoD packets

Mon - 2
Movies 8 - Narnia, Prince Caspian
- Ina, Manda, Alex and Trysten (alex' friend)

Wed - 4
Movies 8 - Sex and the City
- Ina, Chantal, Manda and Angel
- I, manda and Anthonty walk to Starbucks 2 meet Chantal - big news (audition for TV-show)

Fri - 6
Leah Titus had party - I couldnt go
Family drove to Jeff's Graduation (Lisa's son)
- Party @ Lisa's house - Fairfield (Lisa = kami's Sister)

Mon - 9
Movie night @ our place
- Todd, Jean, Valerie, Lucia, Margarita, Kristina, Jaclyn, Chantal, Shawn, Angel, Veronika (and I and Myranda)
- Watched GROSS zombie movies
- Shawn + chantal drove 2 get movies - then I and veronika came with to get pizza
-- Pizza My treat - $5.00 Little ceasar's - We 4 shared
- most people left @ 11:30
- Shawn, Chantal, Jaclyn, Ina, manda + Angel went to Carl's Jr. then to In&Out
--Freshmen cheerleaders dancing to "Britney Spears - Piece of me" we yelled at them
- VERY interesting conversations w/ Shawn & Chantal... hm.. yup.. very strange.. lol..

Fri - 13
Sleepover @ Chantals
- me and Chantal
- Watched movies:
-- "Best little whorehouse in Texas"
-- "Eurotrip"
-- "Legends of the Fall"
- Fell asleep at 6:00am and woke up at 9:00 cuz Chantal had to leave for Sac

Sat - 14
Celebrated Father's day with family
- Round Table - pizza (also went to Jamba Juice)
- I, Manda, Aaron, Todd and Lucia went to see Dont Mess With The Zohan
-- STUPID movie - Adam Sandler is a good actor, but the movie was horrible!!

Sun - 15
Up to Elk Creek to visit Grandparents
- Grandpa's birthday
- All family was there

Mon - 16
nothing other than workin out in the garage..
- I benchpressed 56lb (only 4 lifts, but im proud)!!!

Tue - 17
Jamie's Birthday
- Tracy + her kids Jay and Jayce came down
- I sent off my boxes =S
- Bowling (Free summer passes)
- Home.. Doin nothin - I worked out - I benchpressed 40lb, 5 lifts at a time (total 50)

Graduation and Grad Nite!!

2008-05-30T20:53:00.000-07:00

Yup!! Graduation and Grad nite is over!! We are officially out of school!!
It was AWESOME!!
First, I woke up at 1:00 pm!! yup.. I wanted to sleep in since the night would be loooong.. I cleaned my room (and packed a box to send home) and got ready.. We had to be there by 7:00pm and the ceremony started at 8:00pm.

I arrived and went to the baseball field (where we were supposed to meet and found my friends.. Told Chantal HAPPY BIRTHDAY (she turned 18) and started conversating with everyone and anyone.. Later we had to line up, and get ready to walk the walk.. ;)

We all walked like in the pic below:

Just look at the picture and you'll understand somehow how it was...

First was the welcome speeches, then class speeches, then senior gift speech, then farewell speech... Then Principal Ramirez said his "I hereby present the graduating class of 2008 and recognize that they have fullfilled all the requirements set by the Yuba Sutter Unified School District School Council"-Speech followed by the president of the school Council's "By the power vested in me by the Yuba Sutter Unified School District School Council I hereby accept this Graduating class of 2008 and order them to be individually recognized"-speech...

Then we all got up, one at a time to get our diplomas, smiled to the picture and went back to our seats...

Following right after the diplomas, was the Senior Slide Show (which was beautifully put together) and then the FIREWORKS... The fireworks was so beautiful!!

Then was the recessional (which ended up as a disaster since everyone was out of their seats hugging eachother)... and we met out families on the baseball field.. and took hundreds of pictures...

That was graduation...

Starting at 10:00pm (we arrived at 11:00) and ending at 5:00am...

It was simply amazing.. we had SO much fun... There was a hairdresser, nail-person, photographers, huge slide, lacer-tag, make-your-own-music-video-lip-sync, Spray-tatoos, and a huge casino where you could earn Honker money (which was exchanged for raffle-tickets to win stuff like Ipods, Laptops, kitchen set, cameras etc!!!)... It was a blast and it amazing... I got tatoos too... (only spray paint.. dont worry)...

We were not allowed to bring anythign in there.. All bags of all sorts were left at the entrance in personal bags, and they were monitored by staff.. They even served us food there.. AND the most awesome thing was: THEY HAD A HYPNOTIST!!!! HE HYPNOTIZED 11 STUDENTS!!!!! IT WAS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!

I hope you took the time to read this!! It was so incredibly amazingly fun!!
Love to you all!!
Love Ina - Graduating class of 2008

Yuba City High School

I and Josh Shattner

The graduates in our group!!

back from left: Todd, Myranda, Ina, Pedro, Chantal

front from left: Valerie, Jaquelyn (jackie)

I and Myranda

some of the gourgeous fireworks

getting our diplomas (one row stands at a time)

Hjelp meg a be for henne!

2008-05-22T09:41:00.000-07:00

Denne jenta er en av mine gode venner!! Christina er en kjempe god jente som jeg har kjent siden vi begge var to ar gamle brudepiker i min tantes bryllup! Hun er arrestert i Bolivia etter en tre uker lang ferie. I tollen fant politiet hele 22 kg Kokain i hennes og hennes to venners kofferter til sammen. Det er usikkert om det hele var en misforstaelse, eller om det virkelig var dem som provde a fa med seg dopet til Norge.. Selv er jeg sikker pa at dopet var plantet der, og derfor vil jeg be alle dere om a hjelpe meg a be for Christina.. Hun fortjener ikke dette!! Stakkars jente.. Alle hjemme er helt fortvilet over hva som skjer og na ma vi alle sta sammen for a redde henne fra 20 ar i fengsel!!! Be for henne na!! Ver sa snill!!!

I love you Christina!! Please stay safe and I hope you'll get out of there soon!!

i dag var i morgen i går

2008-05-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

Hamlet is almost over.. one more week now.. and for that matter, only one more week of school as well!! yay.. the countdown has been counting down from January, started out as 99 school days, now it is only 5 school days left.. Yes, we do have gaduation and everything before we are done, but we do not have any more school days after senior finals... YAY!!

Here's my sample at my conclusion essay:
Not knowing what I gave myself into, I started my High School adventure at Yuba City High School in 2008. I was going to have my senior year in another country in a language I was not completely comfortable with. Going to my counselor for the first time, she thought I was ready for an advances English class, and without really telling me what kind of class she put me in, (I knew it was Senior English, that’s all) she ended up placing me in Ms. Priddy’s Honors English class. Little did I know of what I had agreed to or the challenges I was going to deal with the following year, but I did have faith in Ms. Priddy to teach me what I needed to know, and give me some new knowledge I did not already acquire, especially in English language.

Starting my first day was a terrifying experience, new people, new teachers and new classes. I felt like a little kid starting kindergarten for the first time. My first class was English, and the first thing our teacher gave us was a hand out with all the expectations she had for us this year, and she said it would be hard, but she would help us through it. She also told us something I have been trying to keep in mind all year: “Work smarter, not harder!” It is a very good philosophy to remember when complaining about all the work you have to do. Her class started out fairly easy, working on a project, but then it started getting harder for me. My biggest problem was to keep up in our class, being in English and all, every day was full of words I had never heard before and did not associate with anything, so I did not really understand how to translate them. I considered many times dropping out of her class, but my liaison (who happens to be a teacher at YCHS as well) told me to continue the class, it would get easier after a while keeping up on all the English vocabulary work I had to do for my own convenience.

Now, after a year of analyzing works of literature, like; Heart of Darkness, Allegory of a cave, Young Goodman Brown, and many poems, I finally realize it is not that bad after all. It is like a good work out; you hate it while you have to do it, but when it is over and you can relax it feels so darn good knowing you did a good job. During a year in Ms. Priddy’s Honors English class, I have encountered much new knowledge I did not have before. Take “Allegory of a cave” for instance; the story of being trapped in a false reality when the real truth, the sun, is hidden from you because it would be too painful to know it. Yes, it has been a whole school year, and still I remember this stuff from the beginning of the year, that means I actually understood some of it. Also, after six painful weeks of working with “Heart of Darkness”; a story of how corrupted and blind the western world is, and when entering the jungle of the third world, actions taken for being savage can in reality be real honesty and truth, I do feel like I understand more of how the world thinks and how we should interpret works of literature that is coined on this subject.

Back home, in old sweet Norway, I would find myself enjoying a peaceful summers day reading a good book of adventurous stories or scribbling down song lyrics on a sheet of paper, so I must say that I did enjoy reading and writing before I entered the American continent. However, now when I have read many pieces of literature by great authors like Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare and Joseph Conrad, I started thinking I might not have loved reading as much as I thought I did. I realize that it all was because it was; first of all in English (my books had usually been in Norwegian), and second, because it was harder, it made me think. Before I would get really into books like Harry Potter, or books of horse adventures, they would keep me occupied from the beginning to the end, not being able to put the book away for anything. I called that loving to read; now I think of that as loving a certain type of literature. Reading has always been important to me, and now I do imagine I understand harder literature more and that I would perhaps be able to read a Shakespeare play without being a 100% lost. Maybe I am just kidding myself, but we are all entitled to have hopes and dreams, right? As for writing, I have always liked to write certain types of stories, but I have always found Norwegian language limited and I do find it hard to express myself good enough, so when I started feeling more comfortable in English I started getting better at expressing myself by writing as well. And yes, I do enjoy writing a lot more now than I did at the beginning of the year.

Continue essay…

Today - just another day

2008-05-12T09:21:00.000-07:00

Hey...
Yesterday was Mother's day, it is aparently here every 2nd sunday in May, but we did not really do anything.. I and Myranda went out and saw the new movie (came out friday i think) "When in Vegas" with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. It was really good, it contained both funny and good plotted scenes. Although I did get the feeling I had seen Diaz's character before. She is a really good actress, and she is a gorgeous woman, but she does not have a lot of variety when it comes to acting and being funny. Her jokes are kind of the same in all her movies, and that kind of brought the movie down, even though Kutcher did a great job as always.

Senior finals next week!!! 21st and 22nd.
Senior Trip (to Six Flaggs) next friday!! 23rd
GRADUATION!!!! May 29th!!!
GRAD NITE!!! May 29th - at night.. (lasts from 10pm - 5am)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOME!!!

I'm like: Guess what!

2008-05-07T09:16:00.000-07:00

well.. today is Senior Ditch day, and I of course (being a nerd and all) went to school... yea I know right.. but u see my hair looked good this morning so I couldn't waste it;) lol...

So, I was kind researching interesting topics I could talk about and I did not really find any.. So I thought I'd keep you up on some of the Hamlet stuff we are doing in English right now..

I just came from my English class with Mrs. Priddy and we today watched Hamlet's 3rd Soliloquy: "To be or not to be, that is the question".. What he is talking about in this speech is pretty interesting and brings forth some thoughts of existence. "To die, to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to" - The soliloquy is all about existence. To exist, or not to exist, that is the question. Why do we exist? If there is a Heaven that is so much more outrageous and beautiful than this, a Heaven that's perfect, why do we still choose to live on this Earth full of horror or despair? To die, to sleep - When we die we all enter an eternal sleep, all the pain goes away, and there are no fears or redemption.
"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause" - When we sleep we dream, and is death is like sleeping then Heaven is like an eternal dream. When living, we are rapped in a coil of mortality. But why do we choose to live in this coil, this life we know will end some way or another, when there is such an amazing life in Heaven afterwards?
"But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn, no traveller returns"- After death there must be some life, but we do not really know. It must all be up to faith, because no one have ever returned from the dead to tell us about this fabulous place, where only the dead can go, and when there no one can go back.
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all" - because we doubt the beliefs of Heaven and Hell, or are uncertain, we hesitate leaving this earth, this life that can be so painful. The doubts of faith makes us cowards. Not being able to fully believe in Heaven makes us all fonys and cowards. Our conscience do this to us. We are never certain if what we believe in is right, there is always an inner doubt that actions from being taken.

From Wikipedia: Thus, the lines "whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer/the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" is the to be option, and "to take arms against a sea of troubles/and by opposing end them" is the not to be option. The possibly paradoxical concept of equating taking arms with not being is usually explained by that taking arms against an irresistible sea of troubles is suicidal — our troubles, resisted rather than borne, will destroy us.

That actually makes a lot of sense. I will maybe use that for my soliloquy paraphrase..=) G, thanks..

Prom

2008-05-04T21:17:00.000-07:00

SATURDAY NIGHT WAS PROM!!!

May 3rd, 2008 was the senior prom at Yuba City High School

Here's me getting ready ........... here's me outside

The day started at 8.30 basically.. I had the alamrm at 8.00 but when do I and myranda ever get ready on time?? lol.. We had a nail appointment with Brittani and Sadie at Hapiness Nails by Wal Mart at 9.30am. I got a full set of nail with French Maicure. It was very nice.. We all got the French manicure and both I and Sadie got hte full set. Manda and Brit already has nails so they only got the white tip "painted" on.. =) We all looked nice..

Above is a picture of me showing off my nails=) lol.. they are pretty!

After the nail appointment, we stopped by the mall to get some hairthings for Myranda, and while they were at Claire's I went to Java Retreat and got a Medium Blended Mocha with whiped cream!! YUM!! I needed something to drink/sip on while I was doing my hair...

Then I went over to the Beauty College to get my hair done, and they did it vey good. I paid $20 for the updo and I was very careful to tell them exactly what I wanted, but of course I did let them come with ideas..=) When done, I went over to Wienerschnizel and got a soda waiting for Kami and Myranda to show up. We drove and dropped her off at her hair appointment and went home.

When I got home Jean was there (and he looked GOOD.. Some boys ust clean up real good;)lol). I started doing my make-up, then I ate a corn dog and then I decided to get dressed. We went outside and took a few pictures waiting for Myranda to get home.

Here's me and Jean outside our house..=D

Myranda was kinda late so when she finally got home we hurried to do her makeup, got her dressed and we were out the door.. We all met at the fountain to take pictures. And they turned out great btw..=)

A slight problem with the dress;) Fixed it when we got back home..

Some of the pics we took..=) 1st: me, 2nd: Valerie and me

1st: all out us, 2nd: Lucia and her date Vitor (brazil)

So, we took many pictures, but Angel never showed up. (he is Myranda's date). We waited and waited, and after an hour and more he finally came and said his tuxedo jacket didnt fit, so he had had to get it fixed first.. We took a few more pictures and drove home quickly. We were now kinda late. I had to tape my dress since it kept falling down, and then we took a few more pictures.

Finally we headed towards Roseville and the Restaurant we were going to eat at. Buca Di Beppo was the restaurant called. They serve family size meals so we ordered food for our group of 12 and started eating. It was: Ina (me), Myranda&Angel, Valerie&Jean, Sadie&Matt, Brittani and Jaquelyn. I and Brit went alone (single) to Prom, Jaquelyn's date couldnt be at the dinner, and so we were three girls without a date to dinner.

After dinner it was time to head back to the Yuba City Fair Grounds, and in the Exhibit Hall was Prom! I was in the car with Matt (driver and Sadie's date), Sadie and Brittani. When we arrived at the Fair Grounds, we still hd to wait for Myranda, Angel, Jean, Valerie, Lucia and Vitor. Lucia and Vitor came pretty quickly, but we had to wait for half an hour for Val, Manda, Jean and Angel. Angel was the driver so that was kinda odd;) haha.. not that i am saying he's a crazy driver or anything, but he likes going fast.. lol.. No, the reason why they were late was because they stopped by Wal Mart to get disposable cameras.. Yea.. Like they couldnt have done that a few days ahead, right...?

When they finally came we went inside and met up with Jackie and Chantal. We had a good time, dancing, dancing and a little more dancing..=) It was a lot of fun, although a little lame at the same time... Mostly I danced with Chantal if the songs wer slow, (we dont care if she's a girl).. I did dance with Angel once though.. He was funny, talking about how tall I am in comparison to him;) lol.. His a nice guy and all, but he can be kinda rude without even really knowing it.. I am always the "white girl"... The saddest part of the evening was that when my favorite song came on, "she's everything" by Brad Paisley, it was the last song, and I had no one to dance with.. that was very sad.. oh well... You see.. all the guys were taken.. guys never go alone, they only go usuall if a girl asks him or if they have already panned to go, girls however will go no matter what so we go alone too.. Thus there was far more girls than guys there...

We left when it ended, at midnight, went home and hung out for a while, me, Jean, Angel and Myranda.. That night Angel kissed myranda (her first kiss!! yay).. so i dont really know what they are right now.. lol...

Today

2008-04-28T09:45:00.000-07:00

-Did you know that today exactly, it is 61 years ago that Thor Heyerdal and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian Natives would have settled in Polynesia.
-And 56 years ago, Eisenhower resigns as the Supreme Commander of NATO
-This is also the birhtday of Saddam Hussein

AND ladies and gentlemen, today it will probably be up to 90*F in Yuba City.. so watch out!

San Fran Again..=)

2008-04-28T09:21:00.000-07:00

Field trip with art-club to San Francisco isn't too bad ill tell ya=)

The trip was basically this:
6:30 meet, enter bus
6:40 leave YCHS
10:00 enter De Young Museum
12:30 Japantown (food, and shopping, mostly food) and FYI, japanese food isn't my favorite, ill leave it at that.. EW!!
2:00 Enter bus again (lady comes over and says she graduated from YCHS in 1941!!!!! WOW)
3:10 Enter Asian Museum
3:20 Me, Fassel, Chantal and Tucker get lost inside a "restricted" area.. Basically we did not read the sign on door saying that this area was advised to be limited to adults.. which we didnt see.. (it was all about geisha's and stuff).. Mrs. novak comes in and screams "you're not allowed in here" and Fassel was all like "I am 19, I can".. He's in college you see..
3:25 Me, Fassel, Chantal and Tucker start reading every single sign we see
4:05 We leave Museum
4:30 Enter NORDSTROM (HUGE mall) YAY
4:38 Enter Panda restaurant (w/ chinese food) I only have a soda, the others eat
5:00 entering Claires and I got earrings and necklace for Prom
5:20 enter bloomingdales (HUGE 6 storie store)
5:25 have Tucker smell Perfumes with us (me and Chantal) poor guy...
5:30 Tucker is determined one of the male salesmen checked out his butt, and saying: can we leave now...!! lol
5:40 Restroom time
5:45 enter Payless Shoesource, I buy shoes for Prom
6:00 Meeting up at entrance everybody
6:10 Bus shows up and we leave SF
6:30 Stupid Freshmen can't keep quiet
6:50 Stupid Freshmen still can't keep quiet
9:00 After a long busdrive with stupid freshmen that can't keep quiet we finally arrive at YCHS
9:01 call Kami to pick me up
9:20 kami arrives after a little confusion, drive Chantal home and then we go home

FINALLY WEEKEND

dodogagabababo

2008-04-23T10:42:00.000-07:00

Hey.. U know wat's funny.. 2 get some shizzle in da nizzle.. haha... 4 rizzle.
Ok.. so u kinda got the point? Accents, dialects.. the whole deal...

First of all... Try to say "Beach".. Just say it out loud. come on, just do it.. Right now..
Then after you have said Beach out loud to yourself, try to say "Bitch" and compare the two.. When you say'em both, they're almost the same, and usually foreigners don't hear the difference, which is very funny...

hum.. How about trying to say: There, they're and their... Its all the same...

And, here when we talk it is a lot of letters that fall out and are never spoken..
Examples
- I can't find the cat, is it over there?
Normal: [ai] [cant'] [faind] [the] [cat] [is] [it] [ovr'] [the'r]
Cali: [a] [can'] [fain] [th'] [ca'] ['sit] [ovr'] [thr]

Kinda funny huh.. We don't really say the t's a lot.. usually if you don't hear the sentence or the tone in which the speaker is talking, you will not know if we are saying "can" or "can't"
Its just like if you hear the words "know", "now", "no"... hhhahhah lol... I'm trying 2 b funny..;)

Sentences on Myspace and stuff is always written like this...:
Hey gurl.. zup?
nothn, relly.. how bout u? r u goin to dat show 2morrow?
yea, im doin ok, but b4 I go I gotta clean my room.. so whatcha doin l8r?
I have 2 go.. sorry..
ttyl.. <3

that's how we talk and I understand it now.. its not that hard;)

ttyl everybody! thanks 4 reading...
(remember to say things out loud, that's the key to understand it all)
like 4=four, for 2=two, to, too 8, eight, ate u=you
ect...=) oh, and 4 u who doesn't know... <3 is a heart...

Oh My G!

2008-04-18T09:18:00.001-07:00

LISTEN UP!

We had a physics test a few weeks ago, an extremely hard one! (I'm talking 4 pages, on 5 chapters, total of 152 points...) and I not only aced it, I got a 95% on it!! Yay... (144.5 / 152)

Yesterday we had another Physics test, this time on Electricity - you know; Voltage(volt), electric potential, electric potential energy, current(amp), Resistance(ohm) and power(watt). How the electrons move when exposed to elecric potential and so on... I think I did pretty good on it.

I checked with Mr. J (Johnson) what my average grade is in his class, and guess what... Not only is my AVERAGE GRADE 95.9% (1.1% away from A+), it is the #1 grade in all Mr. J's regular Physics classes!! Awesome or what! Well.. I do have to share the glory with Ashley Sanchez, but that's ok.. lol.. We both have 95.9.. that is kinda cool!

Oh, and yesterday we took a test in Government too, and I thought I did bad on it since it was about how a bill becomes a law, and even though it was almost all matching and multiple choice questions, I thought it was bad.. Mr. Cullen graded them before class was over, and I went over to him as the bell rang and asked him if I did bad on it.. he was like: "Yea" and gave me my test.. And on the test it says 62.5/65 which is a 96% which is a strong A.. I was mad at Mr. Cullen then.. for scaring me like that..

I got an A on an English project.. lol.. it was A or F, either it was turned in or not (had to be there 1st period, monday, no late work)... mine was there so I got an A, which I dearly needed..

That is what I can think of right now.. Im very proud of myself for doing so good here.. and I hope to acheive the rest of my goals before I go home...
I AM VERY SORRY IF I SEEM VERY COCKY OR ASSERTIVE (confidently agressive)...
<3<3

Hamlet

2008-04-17T09:30:00.000-07:00

So today we started watching Hamlet in English class, and I thought I'd share some insight quotes from other movies talking about Hamlet.. haha.. Of course I am talking about Freaky Friday where Tess (in Anna's body) has a pop-quiz where she answers what the main conflicts in Hamlet are, and before that he asks another kid who Hamlet was. Here the quote is...=)
Mr. Waters (student) , Mr. Bates (teacher) , Ms. Coleman (Anna)
Mr. Waters, describethe character of Hamlet
Hamlet.
He's, uh...he's one of the big characters.
I mean, he's Hamlet.
He's just bopping around,doesn't know which way's up.
I don't think the guy's got a clue.
You mean to saythat he is a man...
Yeah.
Who couldn't make up his...
mind.
Mind.
Exactly.
Very good.
All right
"B."
Yeah.
Ms. Coleman.
Yes, Mr. Bates?
What are the central conflicts in "Hamlet"?
Well, political, of course,
because Claudius usurpedhis father's throne.
Oedipal, because of theundercurrents with his mother.
Then there is the timeless question of insanity.
Is he really seeing his father'sghost, or is he simply mad?
That is seriously overreaching.
"F"
"F"?
"F."
Mr. Franelli, who is Fortinbras?

Yea, now we are watching Hamlet and we have a huge ass task ahead of us. there is like 20 different assignments at least, and there is, I think, three essays due in a portifolio together with REVISED Journals and previous assignments... So its gonna be hard, but I need to get a good grade (good grades) on this, because if not, I will have gotten a C or less in English, and no one gets a C in English, except for Myranda...

Otherwise, we are soon to get the newest Progress Reports, but currently I think I have the following grades (when they come we will see how correct I am)...
US History - A
English 4C (H) - B-
Web Page Design - A+
Chemistry - A+
Physics - A
Pre-Calculus (H) - B
Government - A+

I know the pre-cal won't go up to an A, but I am very happy with the B because I have struggled hard to get it.. I have worked so hard in pre-cal so I am nothing but happy I have a B instead of a C+...

I'll keep you updated.. don't you worry..;)
<3<3

A new HOT day...

2008-04-12T23:07:00.000-07:00

Today was HOT HOT HOT... 90*F outside!!!!!
I was outside reading a lot trying to tan a bit...

Yesterday I and a few friends went out to see the new movie Prom Night!!! SCARY but cool... It was Me, Reeta, Valerie, Myranda, Jean, Brittani and Sadie.. we all first saw the movie then we went to the newly built (and first in Yuba city) In & Out Burger.. Good fries;) We sat there having fun and prank called people.. Jean was so good at that... He was like: "hey fool, what's up with you getting my daughter pregnant, ha!? Don't try to shit with me bitch, Im not about that.. " in a totally believable Southern accent.. It was totally awesome! =)

Ok.. so today was all about heat... but lets see what other things happened in history.. (it kinda cool right.. knowing stuff that happened exactly this and this many years ago)

1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States.
1955 - The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
1992 - Disneyland Resort Paris opens in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France, and is the second international Disney resort property.

ikke mye egentlig... jaja...

Nattatid.. God natt=)

What's up?

2008-04-11T09:19:00.000-07:00

Hey..
Today is April 11, and I have the strangest feeling.. Idk.. It's just a feeling that this day is very special in some way, or some context.. However, I have no idea where or why I have this feeling..
It might be a special Norwegian day I can't remember, something that happened on a April, 11 once, or maybe it is nothing.. idk.. the point is.. I have a weird feeling..

Today I and about 9 other friends (from our group) are going to see the premiere of the newest movie (comes out today) and its called Prom Night.. Its a horror movie, and its suppose to be VERY scary, but Im going anyway.. yay me;)

Ok, back to my feeling about today... lets see what happened April 11, in history...

102 day of the year (in leap years)
1689 - William III and Mary II of England are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain
1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech
1890 - Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
1900 - The US navy aquires its first submarine
1905 - Albert Einstein reveals his theory about relativity
1924 - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections
1939 - Hungary leaves League of Nations
1940 - Rallying from the surprise attack, Norwegian forces offered growing resistance. Three German cruisers and four troopships were lost in the invasion.
1941 - Germany blitzes Conventry, England
1960 - 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
1961 - Bob Dylan holds his first concert
1970 - Apollo 13 is launched
1970 - Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1986 - Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
1986 - Kellogg’s of Battle Creek, MI stopped its 80-year tradition of tours of the breakfast-food plant on this day, saying that company secrets were at risk with spies from other cereal manufacturers.
1987 - Joss Stone was born
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
1992 - Euro-Disney opens near Paris

After having looked around everywhere on the web I come to the conclusion that there is no National event that has caused me my feeling about today, but I still believe something happened April 11, somewhat year... oh well... i guess ill never know..;)

Love Ina

The poet within me

2008-04-08T09:15:00.000-07:00

I have recently discovered that there lies a poet within me, waiting for a chance to shine. So thus I will print some of my poems below, and hope you will take the time to read them, and perhaps comment them as well..

My man
When I get a man I will hold him tight
and think of him when I sleep at night

I will care for him every night and day
make sure our love never fades away

Because true love and true affaction
are never shown in a skin complexion

so when you dearly hold hid hand
remember that love is like sand

Without your care it will slowly disappear
and then your love will result in fear

You will fear that your love is gone
sifted away from your fragile pawn

If you ever should somehow get him back
Please don't treat him like a war attack

Because I know I would take care of my man
Pain and agony I would forever ban

I'll be there
I'll be there by your bed
when your tears are shed
and your thoughts are dead

I'll be there with you
when your nightmares come true
and your life away blew

I'll be there holding your hand
When nothing is like you planned
and your life sifted away like sand

I'll be there with your tears
When your nothing conquers your fears
and you need me through the years

I'll be there for your mom
When there's no life in your palm
and you were supposed to go to prom

I'll be there hoping you'll be there for me
When heaven or hell I see
and my way is determined my Thee.

The last bell
Ring ring, OH NO!
I am running
I need to run
I have to run
ring ring, OH NO!
I forgot my book
I need my book
I have to get my book
Ring ring, OH NO!
I forgot my jacket
I need my jacket
I have to get my jacket
ring ring, OH NO!
I am trying to make it
I need to make it
I have to make it...
ring ring, the last bell
I am late
I can't be late
OH NO! I was too late..
The last bell
I didn't run fast enough.

So.. Is there a hidden poet inside of me? Yes I do believe so, but you know what.. I think there is a little poet in all of us, just as there are a hidden race driver, adventurer, school nerd, or even a hidden spaceman in us all.. You can be whoever you want to be.. The sky is the limit. (literally) ;)
Thanks for your time=)

FYI, I'm doing great here btw, but I am sad that I've got to go home in less than 3 months... I have really learned to appreciate time here!! whoah.. yea you betcha..

C u l8r alligator...

Wow.. It's kinda been a while...

2008-04-04T09:47:00.000-07:00

Let's see...
March 30th
Today I realized that I only have 3 months exactly left here in California... =( sad...

April 1st
Not really much going on, new month, april fools, not really more than that...

April 3rd
I went to school, and then after I went home, Chantal called me so we could study for our Chemistry test so we went to Starbucks ans studied for 2 hours... When I got home it was dark outside and it was 8 o'clock so it was almost time for bed..

April 4th
Well the day ain't over yet, but it is Aaron's birthday today.. um.. and I just had a presentation in English where we had to roleplay quotes from Oedipus Rex (in groups)...
My quote was: "You will be honored with dances and choirs, for your great kindness to our king. Hail, to the god Apollo. May he be content with all our words." Not hard... Then in my 3rd period I have a Chemistry test, but it will be fine.. I'm not worried.

My favorite song this week: Oceans will part
Song stuck on my mind: Right kind of wrong
Regular outfit this week: Dark jeans and a t-shirt
Regular mood: kinda drifty, not my best week
Grades recieved this week: A's and B's
Favorite class now: US history
This weeks birthday: Mr. Warmee turned 60 @ April 3rd, 2008...

Easter Holiday and Spring Break

2008-03-23T22:26:00.000-07:00

Spring Break started last Thursday. We had Good Friday off, so after school Thursday we started our vacation!! Yay!
Friday we just sat in and did nothing really... Oh well, we drove around town, went to Big 5, Wal Mart, Hollywood(movie store)... Then later I, Myranda and Troy (dad) went to Wal Mart (again) and while they were in there I was at Payless shoe store and looked at shoes=)

Saturday, I and Kami (mom) got up at 6.30 in the morning cuz we wanted to reach the morning sale at Mervyn's (a store that has everything; shoes, clothes, purses/bags, underwear, jewlery, children's stuff and much more). They gave out $10 giftcards, so we were like: HECK YEA! I got a pair of shorts, and two shirts for $20. I saved $48!!!!!!!!!!! The shirts were on sale from 20 -> 10, and the shorts had been reduced too! So add that together and then add on the $10 giftcard, I saved SO much!! it was so cool!!

SUNDAY - EASTER DAY
Today we woke up at 9.30 - 10.00 - 10.30 and 11.30... haha.. someone (myranda and Alex) got up LATE and some of us got up early.. =) We left at like 12:00 and drove off to Chico. Jamie was driving!! (older sister).. =D We found a nice park up there and ate our food, and then we had an egg hunt! SO COOL! See pics!! I got the "golden egg", but it was really blue, or safire as Aaron called it, colored.. haha..=) It was SO HOT!! I think it was up to 85*F!! IT WAS SOOO HOT!!! Wonderful! I am getting tan!
It was all of us: Troy, Kami, Jamie, Me, Myranda, Alexandra and Aaron, and later Nate, Jamie's boyfriend, showed up too, and he was in on the egg hunt too...

THE EGG HUNT:
Ok, so this is a thing I wanna do when I get home! The eggs are filled with confetti, and therefore when all the eggs are found we smashed them in eachothers hairs=D haha.. It doesnt hurt!! and it is NOT messy at all.. Hilarious though... I wanna start doing that as a tradition at home for Easter Egg hunt!! =)

Aaron got me with an easter egg

I got the "golden" egg..!! yay.. $3...=D

Me in front of the creek

Me with a tree (I am a tree hugger<3)

Me girly with my easter basket

I climbed a tree!! Very cool!!

I wonder...

2008-03-20T09:30:00.000-07:00

I just wonder about a lot of stuff...
You know, stuff you rarely know the answer to, but it just really confuses you not knowing...
Like:
Why is the sky blue, (although now I know)
How was atoms created?
How come electrons are negative? And protons positive?
How does life exist? And free will?
How, how, how.. That is what occurs to be so blury on my part.

Kinda like a picture you have taken and it is blurry, but you can still see the edges around the figures in the picture so you kinda know what it is. Connect that to life and these endless questions.
You know what an atom is, you have seen pictures of it and you know how it is held together by nuclear and electrical forces, we can see the picture, but the question WHY is it all like this makes it all blurry!

I do not want to be blurry, but I think we all are. Unless some of us are enlightened to the truth, which I doubt has ever happened.. Oh, that is unless we really live in a false reality world, you know, kinda like the Matrix where Leo realizes that he has been living a lie, but most people never get to know..
Then you can ask yourself. Is it better to live in the unknown and be happy, or be enlightened and knowing you can never go back to the peaceful false reality. When I see all the questions asked and answered by famous scientists I wonder what if we never knew? would we have been less or more happy? Is all this information good for us, or is it making us even more confused...
Honestly I LOVE science and I LOVE knowing more about the world, but sometimes I wonder what good it will do us..

Just look at technology.. If we had not invented technology (electricity, cars etc. ) we would probably not have a global warming problem right now, but then again we would not have had the pleasure of listening to music or watch TV, so I guess there are both good and bad sides and views of every aspect of life.

Oh and by the way... Pre-Cal = Something that should be easier as of right now..!!! haha.. I have a B- in there right now, and I am doing my best, I just cant seem to get a better grade in there... It is very hard!!

.::LovE AnD pEAcE Be wITh YOu::.

POWDERPUFF

2008-03-17T09:15:00.000-07:00

Yay! The day is finally here! POWDERPUFF! I have Zach Larsen's jersey and it is number 53.
I am playing in the kick off and starter lineman...

OK. So I went to school Monday morning wearing my jersey of course, after school, I Chantal, Myranda, Valerie and Jean went to the field to watch the track people do their thing. I and Africa (chantal) went to Warrens Market and then to the locker room to get changed.

When we got back we sat at the bleechers until people started showing up. The rally was at 6:30 and the game started at 7:00.
At the Rally, the senior girls won all the challenges (of course) and then it was time for the game to start..

The game started with the Juniors playing the kick of, senior had the kick return team on the field. And we scored a touchdown after 1.5 minutes. After the first touchdown (7 points) I went in on the kick off team, then I was started defense. As the ball was taken by the juniors after 2 minutes or so, our offense team went in and defense went out. After that I did not get a lot of playing time, but I tried.. In total I went in 2 kick offs and 1 defense before halftime.

At halftime the male cheerleaders had a performance during which our team huddled and had a "pep"-talk.. It started good, as Coach Taylor Denney talked about how good we were and how we had the lead and stuff.. (at which time the score was 32 - 12).. But then a girl Charlotte started yelling at everybody talking about how bad some of us were.
The exact quote was:
"Are we here to play, or are we here to win? Were are here to win, so if you are playing bad, I am going in for you!!!!" She was yelling so loud I bet the entire stadium could've hear her if the music weren't on. She was the one that made it all suck...

In the second half I only got to play defense once.. It was basically only the loudest girls that got to play, because we were 50 girls fighting for the 9 spots on each team (defense and offense). They did not always pick the best girls, so the loud girls became louder and yelled at the coaches even more. After a while the girls stopped waiting for the coaches word, they just did things on their own and if someone they did not like was out on the field, they would call them out, and sub in for them.. THAT'S MESSED UP!!!

The game ended 48 - 20 and we (I, Valerie, Jean, Myranda, Brittani, Sadie, Lucia and Jean's mom) went to Round Table (a pizza place - SO good pizza) to celebrate our victory! Although Jean, Brittani and Sadie actually are juniors, it didn't matter, we had a good time=D yay!
I don't really know Jean that well, but he is in my US History class and Manda and Valeria knows him well.. he's a nice guy..

Well.. Im not on my computer now, so no pictures yet, but trust me....: they will come! moahahaha... =D

Friday and Pi day

2008-03-15T23:15:00.000-07:00

You might think Im crazy or something, but yes, Friday was Pi day. You see, since here they write dates like this: month.day.year, march 14, became: 3.14.08 aka 3.14=Pi.. If you know any math.. lol.. yea so there you have it.. It was pi day and we "celebrated" it in Pre-cal with pies, pizza and stuff.. good.. yum! lol..

Powderpuff practice is going great, I mean really great!! I love practicing with the girls and just playing and having fun.. The game is on Monday, and the Rally starts at 6:30 so the game will start at 7:30 I think.. I can't wait!! seriously.. I've been waiting for this for sooo long and I am ready!! yay.. lol..
I am playing Starter (I start) Defense (tries to get the ball) Lineman (the one that's in front).. It is cool tat they put me in as a starter.. they may think I am doing a good job=)

For you al that don't know what powderpuff is; it is the game where the girls play American Football (a boy sport) and the Guys are cheerleaders (mostly just girls).... So it is kind of like a gender bender thing..=D Very cool!

Oh well.. I gotta go.. It's gettin late and I have practice tomorrow..
I wish you all the best!!
<3<3
Ina

Another day, another hour, another minute

2008-03-12T11:17:00.000-07:00

Time goes by.. Did you know that.. I bet you did..
Of course there are good things about time passing by;
1. you grow older
2. you go fast through puberty
3. Your hair grows out fast
4. you can drive before you know it

But there are some very bad things too..
1. When you are having fun, suddenly its all over
2. When you grow older, so does your already old family
3. You live life too fast, and suddely stop and wonder if you skipped that part of your life

and worst of all.. When you are an exchange student in another country, you will find time to pass way to slowly at first, but then suddenly the uphill on the rollercoaster is over and you start the downhill.. Not a downhill as in bad things start happening, but suddenly everything is happening so fast that you try to hold on and slow down...

Here's a video of me singing Before he Cheats, by Carrie Underwood.. its not the best piece I've ever sung, but it is something right..=) And I love that song too!!

I am SO fascinated!!

2008-03-07T09:28:00.000-08:00

What if SHE is actually out there??????

You know what.. I am so extremely fascinated by the pre-historic animals that lived in the ocean!

I think those animals are just AMAZING..

Look at this picture (copyright by Mike Everhart 2005).. If that shark type had still existed today (which I think it still does) is could've taken out anyone in its path! Just look at it's size!! Sharks have evolved during the years, but mostly it has remained the same for BILLIONS of year, you gotta give them credit for that. We humans, if we believe Darwin, shall have evolved from Apes, that a lot of evolving if you ask me.. The Sharks and the crocodiles are the most fierce and strong animals there are on this earth. At least that is what I believe.

And.. Before you are saying; this is just bullcrap, just listen.. I am not pulling you a leg! Try to believe these animals lived before you, live now, and will live after humans have destroyed the earth and died... There are not really any good evidence stating otherwise.. So I can come with my statement as much as I want..

PREHISTORIC SHARKS

Dont you dare saying they didnt exist.. haha.. because they did.. They have been on this Earth since the dawn of the beginning, and they have unfortunally evolved into a smaller species now that the Earth has more fragile beings living amongst them; us humans.. We wouldnt stand a chance if it was a battle between sharks and humans, face it.. We may not be outnumbered, but we would certainly be outbattled! Let me just make it clear that the picture below is a fake, but is illustrates the prehistoric sharks' size very well!

There is one book thats gonna be turned into a movie, called MEG - Primal waters, its about Prehistoric sharks, and I SOOOO wanna go see it when it comes out.. Its apparently gonna bi kinda like Jaws, only VERY BIG SHARKS!!!! and its gonna be a horror movie.. YAY!!

TTYL

NOTE TO MYSELF!!!
STEVE ALTEN is the author of MEG... http://www.stevealten.com/

"MEG: a novel of deep terror" was commented by LA times: two words; Jurassic Shark

more San Fran!

2008-03-04T20:56:00.000-08:00

Me in front of Lumbard Street

Me in front of the Norwegian Seamen's Church

Me and Veronika in front of the Golden gate!!

Me at the golden gate!!

Showing some Pirate Love.. haha

San Francisco was awesome.. I travelled with Mary and Veronika and their mom! COOL....

Here's me at Union Square

Veronika, me, and Mary at Union Square

Bay Bridge

The Rainbow flag - the Gay people's flag

Me at Twin Peaks, looking out at San Francisco

Guess what!

2008-02-27T09:51:00.000-08:00

Heart of Darkness has got me thinking! haha... Ok, so I am having all these thoughts, and I just gotta put them on paper.. (or in this case thousands of number combinations making you see black words on white background)...
So here we go..

In Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, the main character Marlow is talking about life and says it in a way that was striking to me. When he said "we live as we dream-alone" I thought: what is this man referring to when saying that. He obviously tries to say that the life he is living in the book is like a dream (something we already know since we read the introduction where is says that nothing of the physical expiriences really happends to Marlow, its all a dream).. But also this is not all he says here. Marlow is right, I believe. Life is most certainly like a dream, you live it alone. Not necessarily in loneliness, like many students start writing about, but you live it by your terms in your own way. I have read several essays by my friends here, and they write about how life is lonely, and what Marlow meant was not like that, but more like on your own terms. I would paraphrase this quote in this way: "Living is like dreaming, you yourself are in charge of what is going to happen". Don't you agree?

Oh well.. that was my thoughts at least.. How about you?? Have any of yo read the book HEART OF DARKNESS? (in Norwegian it is called: Morkets Hjerte)

Oh, norwegian.. How miss Norwegian.. Although I must say that English is actually ten times easier that Norwegian, even though there are some extremely hard words in English.. The thing is that English makes sense!!! Especially in Science like Chemestry and Physics and Math!! Take for instance Chemistry.. All the different elements.. You know, like: Cl, Cu, Pb, Fe, O, I....
They are all from Latin, but if you listen to the english word they are so much easier to remember that knowing the norwegian word for it.. Chlorine, Copper, Lead, Iron, Oxygen, Iodine... (I know them all by heart...(utenatt))
And like in Physics!! My gosh, it is SO easier in english!! V stands for Velocity, D - distance, T - time, V = D/T (velocity equals distance over time).. Norwegian: V=D/T (Fart er lik avstand over tid) <- makes NO sense!!
And math.. omg! It was very hard to get at first and there are still many terms that I still do not really understand like coefficiant, and words like that.. But overall it makes so much more sense in english..

gotta go!

Ok.. a little funny update...

2008-02-25T22:12:00.001-08:00

What happened today was REALLY FUNNY!!!! Other stuff that happened was:
- Funny things
- Interesting things
- Confusing things
- Good things
- Sweating things
- Dang-I-wish-I-had-done-better things

Funny things:
Ok, so, in Physics today (4th period), I and Kaitlyn was sitting and discussing as we always do, and she was trying to convince me to join the swimming team for YCHS.. we were talking about that when she said: "You sould definitely join the team! We are a very small team now, and if you joined we would be bigger" (or something along those lines)
and then I said, after half a second of consideration: "Yeah, if I joined the team would be HUGE!"
I must say I found myself pretty hysterical at that moment!! WOW.. we sat and laughed for ever!! I laughed so hard I started crying badly!! haha... she commented after, that "only a person with very high self esteam can say something like that about himself" and I do hope she's right.. if not, I am darn good at faking it!! haha....

COMMENT IF YOU ARE NOT LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY RIGHT NOW!!!

Interesting things:
In physics we are learning all about the colors of light and how their frequencies determines the colors we see... Like for example why the ocean appears to be blueish green.. its simply because the low frequencies (red, orange, yellow) are absorbed as the water bounces off the bottom of the water and comes up again.. the remaning colors are green, blue and violet, creating a blueish green color..
Also, how can red and green light create yellow?? simply by overlapping them!
Red + green = yellow
Blue + green = cyan (turquish color)
Blue + red = magenta (pinkish color)
Red + blue + green = white
White - Red - blue - green = Black
AND! White and black are not colors like red and green and blue because white is not a specific color reflected, its all colors reflected, and black is all colors absorbed by object.. Green is seen if red and blue is absorbed and only green is reflected/transmitted.. Red is seen is green and blue is absorbed, and red is reflected... Get the picture?? VERY interesting stuff indeed!!!

Confusing things:
Pre-cal (math) has not been too hard lately, but still it is hard to remember everything we've learned and still learn a hecka lot of new stuff every day!! That is confusing.. But who really cares.. as long as I do satisfying good on the tests Im happy.. but seriously.. I do have a B in there, so I cant be too sad.. Its not like its a C or D or anything like certain others...;) I should be glad I am doing the best I can and better can I not do..

Good things:
I have A's in almost all of my classes... In US History:A, (english:C), Web Design:A, Chem:A, Phy:A, Pre-cal:B, Govn:A... That is pretty good if I may say so myself!!! hahah.. that is very good.. and this will show on my progress report that will be mailed home soon since the first grading period now is over... I WILL ADD: The reason why my English is currently so bad is because of the FREAKIN Heart of Darkness.. A-students are getting C's too, so its not just me.. but for my defense the grade is a 79.3% so its almost a B- (80%)... Just for the record...=)

Sweating things:
I ran half the Crazy eight tonight... the crazy eight is two blocks that are one o up from our house and one o down from our house and it is a very good route to walk/run.. Well.. I havent walked the whole thing yet, but I do walk half of it usually... and tonight was the first time I actually jogged the whole way!! I stopped at each corner of course to catch my breath, but overall it was very refreshing!! hehe.. However, when I got home I was sweating like a PIG!!

Dang-I-wish-I-had-done-better things:
Ok.. it's not really one of those end-of-the-world-crisis-emergencies-call-911 kinda things, but it was disappointing to me in a way... We got one of our physics tests back and I got a 47 out of 55, which still is like 85%=B, I just wish I had gotten an A on it.. cuz it was just stupid small mistakes all over, like forgetting to lable units, or forgetting a small detail or something... Oh well.. my overall grade is still A so Im not complaining... !! YEY...

LAST WORD:
Im not gonna give you one of those good-night-go-to-sleep-I-love-you-all kinda speeches cuz I know u've heard'em all like a gazillion times now, but I just want u 2 know that I mean every word I say when I do say it...
So I'll just say a little i-hope-u-enjoyed-reading-this-little-piece-of-writing-that-was-created-entirely-for-u-and-I-hope-u'll-come-back-2-read-more-later speech...
GOOD NIGHT<3<3

A little out and about...

2008-02-24T16:56:00.000-08:00

Hello...

.::OH BTW: BEFORE WE FORGET!!!::.
What day is today?? I'll tell you what day it is!! It is my HALF BIRTHDAY!!!
IN EXACTLY 6 MONTHS I'LL TURN F'n 18!!!!!!!!!!

Today we (Dad, mom, Jamie, Alex and I) went to Sacramento to do a few errands.. We went to Fry's Electronics to get Jamie's computer, and I got a Paint Shop Pro Guide, a pack of CD's (to create picture backups) and a CD-case.. Just to be on the safe side;)

I'll make some pictures with my new handbook and show them to you=D

After Fry's, we went to Wal Mart, where just Kami, Alex and Troy went in to exchange a t-shirt..
Then we went to Galleria, a very nice and big mall where we went in and looked around.. I got a Jamba Juice in there too... I chose the Chocolate Moo'd, size: original, free boost: energy... It was really good!! I love Jamba Juice..!!

Then after that we went to Sam's Club and got some pizza and pretzels.. It was good...=)

hmm... that was basically our day today... Myranda stayed home because she was still asleep when we left.. haha... TOO BAD!! lol...

YESTERDAY:
Yesterday I spent the entire day cleaning our room.. Since I share room with Myranda it is not always easy to keep it very clean, but she slept until 4 O'CLOCK!! and after that she snuck off with Valerie, so I was alone mostly all day.. The rest of the family went to Chico to pick up Jamie.. I removed all the dust that had collected over my head (on all Myranda's trofèes and medals) and all the dust around the TV... and that was A LOT!!!

Thanks for your time;) LOVE YOU ALL AND MISS YOU!!

Heart of Darkness is almost over

2008-02-21T10:04:00.000-08:00

Here's my essay on Heart of Darkness.. It's not entirely done yet, but almost..
Just some final editing left now..

I think it is very good so I hope you will read it and then comment it to tell me your opinion ..
Although it is kinda long, it is worth it!!

HEART OF DARKNESS
Heart of darkness, by Joseph Conrad, is a book of many mysteries. It contains the tale of an enlightening tour through the Congo River, where Marlow is introduced to several issues regarding the savagery and slavery in Africa. Along the way he talks about Mr. Kurtz, and says: “The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own”. This quote was appealing to me for the reason that it talks about to whom, what and, where one belongs, how powers of evil can conquer one’s mind. My initial thought when reading this quote was primarily: Wow! This is deep stuff! Then, when reading it again I was curious of what Conrad was trying to say with this quote. By trying to read it in different ways, and in different contexts, I saw a lot of new potential and also new substances of connotations.

When Conrad says: “How many powers of darkness claimed him for their own” I started to think about how, in real life, people are distracted from thinking straight, caught up in so much that they forget what once was right or wrong. The materialistic world we live in reminds me of the setting we find in Heart of Darkness, and also relating to the quote I chose. The powers of temptation have a control over us, and make us disregard our instincts. This is the power of darkness as well. The powers of darkness claim their victims and they make their targets vulnerable by controlling their mind and judgmental abilities.

When talking about materialism, I thought about how simple things in life, can control so much of what one does with his life. “He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land” Conrad says. People do not literally sit beside the devil, but they become more like him, as they do things based on their desires and temptations. These are very specific examples of dark powers, but they are still to be found in any context you can imagine. When talking about desire or temptation we can relate it to Marlow’s journey in the Congo, where his desire to meet Mr. Kurtz blinds him from what is going on around him. In addition, the Europeans in charge of the slavery in the Congo are so distracted by their own desire they act like animals and end up as more savage people than the natives themselves. However, temptations and desire was not only existent at the time Conrad was alive; they still exist today in the modern world. I am referring to all kinds of temptations; the desire to do things like eating, drinking, putting yourself in front of others, and also the temptations of steeling, breaking rules and watching an R-rated movie without permission. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad talks about how people desire to be put first, and how Europeans’ reports of how savage the natives are, gives then authority to do anything they have to do to get the Ivory.

In the Judeo Christian Bible, there is a man who is said to be the root to the Powers of Darkness, the Devil. Mid way into reading Heart of Darkness, I stopped thinking about the different stations in the jungle; they allude to Dante’s Inferno and the three levels of hell. If that is true, then the three stations are also levels of an inferno, perhaps hell. “My purpose was to stroll into the shade for a moment; but no sooner within than it seemed to me I had stepped into a gloomy circle of some Inferno.” With this direct allusion to Dante’s Inferno, Conrad enforces the theory of the levels of hell. If this is so, then Kurtz, who is to be found in the inner circle, can be related to the Devil himself. This is where things in one way ties up. If the root of all evil, the powers of darkness, is the devil, and Kurtz is the devil, then Marlow’s desire to meet this man, is his desire to follow the powers of darkness. Although Marlow does not know all this, it starts getting obvious for the readers that there is something going on. In the previous paragraph, temptation and desire is talked of, but it never really states that the people know they are being lead into a trap as they follow their desires. With this in mind, we can tie it up to Marlow’s adventures. He is perhaps not aware that he is being lead into this inferno of hell; he just seeks some answers in the inner station, as people seek for answers in other matters.

It is very easy to get lost in a world of darkness, and if you go wrong it is good to have something to fall back on. “When they are all gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness. Of course you may be too much of a fool to go wrong-too dull even to know you are being assaulted by the powers of darkness” is something Conrad says, that is, in a way, striking to me. ‘They’ is a referral to something he says a little above “solid pavement under your feet”. He narrates it in a way that, to me, says that if you have a solid pavement, or a steady ground to stand on, you will have something to fall back on if you go wrong the first time. You will have a shot at trying again. How this is related to the Heart of Darkness, is perhaps that when things are at the darkest, and there seems to be no light in the end of the tunnel, maybe you should try to go back, to start over. Marlow realizes during his adventures in the Congo, that the natives are not so much savages as everyone has said they were, and the hunt for ivory is not as innocent as he thought, in other words; what he found to be real before this journey started may not be as real after all, his reality has changed. That is when the ‘innate strength’ is good to have. Marlow realizes that there are many powers of darkness assaulting him, and he knows that he must fall back on his inner strength to survive.

Marlow starts out looking at Kurtz as a man who has all the answers, the one that can enlighten him. However, at one point he refers to Kurtz as “He was very little more than a voice” which is a known form for hypocrisy. The man that puts it all in words, but when it really comes to show, he bails. In this context, realizing that what has seemed like a god leveled phenomenon suddenly is not as great anymore is when one is starting to realize the lie he has been living. That is the start of the falling back that is referred to in the last paragraph; when realizing one’s on the wrong path, and then changes direction to get back on the right track.

There are many powers of darkness that take charge of our lives. There are so many material items available around us that we forget what is right or wrong, or good or bad. Things like technology, clothes and image is what controls our minds these days, and blinds us from what should be in the front seat of our decision makings. When desire and temptation keeps us from walking on the path of truth and dignity we tend to lose ourselves on the way, which is when it is good to have an innate strength and believe that everything is going to be OK! For all the bad things we do, we take a “…higher seat amongst the devils…” and we become more savage than we want to believe.

A little update:) yay

2008-02-10T22:50:00.000-08:00

Just a little whatever and whenever...

2008-02-06T09:41:00.000-08:00

Im here at school and Im REALLY tired!! Ny eyes are about to vlose up on me. I just had a quiz in English, F......'n Heart Of Darkness!!! F'n, freakin heart of darkness... We all hate it!! It is so bad that the A students in our class gets D's and C's.. That is NOT good...

Oh well.. This week is homecoming and we are all 'very' exited about that.. Ehrm... Monday was PJ&college sweats day, Tuesdag was Celeb impersonator day, Today (wednesday) is Snow day (although it is not snowing), Thursday's gonna be class theme (circus circus) day, and Friday is Brown&gold day..
The homecoming dance is at Friday too... Gonna me awesome.. I hope people I know wanna go cuz if not, I dont wanna go alone;).. Oh well.. I could just stand out on the dancefloor and embarras myself I.. haha.. I think that sould have been funny!! lol..

Yesterday (tuesday) was impersonator day, so I, Chantal, Jackie, Valerie (and Myranda) dressed up as the Spice Girls.. It was awesome.. (pics will come of that)..
We also saw someone being Hannah Montana (+ Lilly and Oliver), two girls being Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears, 5 people being the One Tree Hill gang and there was a girl that dressed up as a smurf. that was funny!

Oh, and I am blond now, platinum blond with bangs.. Just thought you ought to know;)

So what else is happening?? I wonder.. hmm.. yea.. Prom's coming up.. that's exiting, although they say its gonna cost a fortune.. I dont know if i can do that!!! We're gonna have a limo and everything.. I wanna do it since this will be my only change, but still... u know..

OH HEY!! EVERYONE!!!
IF YOU HAVE SKYPE ADD ME!!!!!
norway.ina

As for my grades it is going awesome!!
I got my report card, and my GPA is 4.0 (which is the best u can get) and I am receiving an award for that Thursday night.. That's cool..
AND: I currently have;
History=A, English=C(i think because of HoD), Web Design=A+, Chemistry=A-, Physics=A, Pre-Calulus=B-, Government=A... I am the only A in Government AND I also do my Pre-cal homework in there.. that is so funny.. I don't know how I do it.. I don't really pay attention, but when Mr. Cullen asks me a question I can always answer him somehow correctly, I do well on the tests and I turn in all my homework (that Jaspreet and Jonathan helped me with... a lot.. lol)..

Jaspreet and Jonathan are two huge dorks.. they always mock Myranda and me in Government, and when Mr. Cullen wants us to read out loud they always distract us.. (as we do to them too now)... haha.. it is all very funny.. First Cullen asks Myranda to read since she never talks in the class, then she picks Jaspreet to read, he always picks me, I pick Jonathan and then there are others chosen.. it is all so funny.. Those two guys make Government worth being in..lol..
HAHAHA.. I am having a blast if you havent noticed... =D

Now class is over and I am gonna go to break, then Chem, them physics and then there's lunch time!! yay!!
C ya when I C ya...
<3<3<3
HUGE HUMONGOUS HUGS TO YOU ALL FAITHFUL READERS
(ill be home in 5 months...)

AFS camp in Marysville

2008-01-28T16:58:00.000-08:00

'Zup everybody!?!

The AFS camp in Marysville was WILD!!! HAHAHAH... hehe.. No Im just kidding, but it was awesome though.. We had a little get together in groups, then we went outside and played a little volleyball (that's like the big thing here)... Then inside a few of the boys were playin 'football' (soccer) upstairs and a few of us girls wanted to join, so we did..
I hadn't realized until then how tall those guys really are... 'cause Im so used o bein the tall one, that when I actually had to look up to see their faces I was stunned by amazement.. hehe...
Oh well...
After that we were at the middle story and havin fun, playin a game (that's kinda like brainstorm), and just talking and later eating... Later they opened the Friday night live downstairs (its kinda like a club thing for teens) and we went downstairs and were dancing for a little while.. there was also table tennis, air hockey, pool and stuff there so the guys were having fun too!! haha... After a being tired of dancing I went over to Tristan and Malin and talked to them while a few others were playin table tennis right in front of us...

Some of the other kids are apparently still having a few issues and it really enlightened me how fortunate I've been and how lucky I am being as happy as I am right now.. Actually my biggest fear is not anymore being away from my family and friends but actually leaving this place!!
The leaders even said that I would be the perfect representant for AFS.. The reason was because when they asked me how I was doing,: "I am fantastic", they asked me how school was going: "awesome, I have a 4.00 (which is the best u can get) right now", If I had any teachers I hated: ".... hm.. No not really... I love them all!!"...
hahah.. its just funny to me.. how the little shy girl that left Norway now is becoming a confedent, strong and secure woman.. hehe.. Oh well.. lets just call it young lady instead.. Im still just 17... hehe... ;)

Oh.. isn't life wonderful?!!

The coolest thing about being at the camp is realizing that I now actually have friends all over the world.. There's Malin and Helene as close as Bergen, Norway, and there's Yumi and Pat from Japan!! How awesome is that!! Let's see.. who do I know in Europe?? Well.. There's Pedro from Spain, but he isnt with AFS so he doesnt count right now...:)
Tristan, Germany; Anja, Germany; Veronika, Austria; Matteo, Italy; Niviaq, Greenland; Anne Lieke, Holland; Daphne, France... And if I forgot anyone I am SO sorry!!!
Then there's people from the rest of the world as well... Like Nathan, Brazil; Yumi, Japan; Pat, Japan... (Lucia, Argentina) (Chantal, South Africa)

I LOVE U ALL AND I HOPE WE'LL MEET AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
talk 2 u on myspace..;)

Pat, Ina and Anne Lieke

some of us posing for the camera

me and Veronika, the HOT Yuba City chicks..;D

Me and Tristan:) The Rivals from Yuba City...=D

Yay... Me and Niviaq... Awesome girls!!! lol

Embarrased.. I havent't blogged in forever...

2008-01-28T16:47:00.001-08:00

So.. This is coming up:
- AFS camp in Marysville
- movie night (fam)
- Brit and Todd coming over - after Bowling
- Now it is summer here!! (or almost) =D

lol.. whatever...

2008-01-17T09:36:00.000-08:00

I just had to sit down and write this, because our English teacher; Mrs. Priddy, came with suck a funny quote this morning in 1st period.. After a class discussion about happy families, which lead to marriage, which lead to having kids, she said:
"don't you guys know you're looking at the stupidest woman on Earth? I turned down a full ride scholarship to get married! I got married at 18, had a kid at 19, got divorced at 20, and remarried at 21!"

I have never heard a teacher saying something like that, and it was really funny knowing that the person teaching us so much about poetry and litterature actually is pretty stupid.. lol..

Well.. she always says stuff like:
"I have the greatest job in the world; I screw up your minds, and I get paid for doing it"
"You guys are way smarter than I am, I just happen to know poetry and teach it"

and one time she asked me what I wanted to do when I grow up, and I said; something within marinebiology or animal medicine, and she responded by saying:
"Oh, so you are one of those science people"
Yeah we all love mrs. priddy.. I just wanted to say that now, because after the next six weeks (we are doing Heart of Darkness), we are all going to hate her.. lol..

I need 2 get back 2 my work now..
C u l8er, aligator..

B&W dance

2008-01-11T19:40:00.000-08:00

The black and white dance was arranged by The Art Club which I happen to be a member of. We had a lot of fun decorating it, and even though as many people as we hoped for showed up, it was a lot of fun anyway...
I, Chantal, Pedro, Lucia and a few others was the only people I really knew there, cuz there weren't a lot of seniors there, it was mostly freshmen, sophmores and juniors.. but who cares, we had a blast anyway=)
otherwise, there's not really much to tell... It lasted from 9-12...

Me and Chantal

Me and Pedro

Chantal

Bowling and friends over

2008-01-06T20:02:00.000-08:00

We went bowling... (I, Myranda, Brittani, Jean, Todd, Angel, Brian)...
After that Todd and Brit came to our house after we went bowling and they both stayed the night.. =) it was fun!
We had a pillowfight, ate ice-cream and goofed around..haha..

- Brit and Todd coming over - after Bowling

San Francisco baby...!! lol

2008-01-06T15:23:00.000-08:00

Yeah we went to San Francisco January 2nd, 2008!! It was so cool!!

(entering San Francisco)

First we got out of bed, packed our stuff and left at about 11.. Then we drove a detour to Sacramento so Jamie could turn in her computer so they could fix it.. It took us about an hour there.. Then finally we were off to San Fran..
When we drove over Bay Bridge and the city rised before us, we could look out and out there in the middle of the water layed a little Island, and guess what..?!? That little island was the famous island: ALCATRAZ, the island that hosed well so many prisoners in its time.. The prisoner island.. cool!!

(Alcatraz is the little island out there)
We arrived at about 3.30, and then we used like 30 minutes to find Golden Gate Park.. We went in to the Japanese tea garden, and the japanese museum and then to another garden..

(my family in the Japanese tea garden)
Then we drove up to Lombard street which is the street that bends like a snake.. it is really famous, and I ran down there once, and drove down once.. The other onces just drove down, when I and Kami walked..=) it was FUN!

(Lombard street that bends down)
Then we drove down to the main downtown where all the best tourist store were at, and we went to eat.. I got me a fish salad at the marked, while they got McDonald's food.. I don't eat McDonalds, so I wanted to get something else.. Then we drove to see Golden Gate.. We didn't see it very up close, but close enough to get good pictures.. However, it was dark at the moment, so the pictures were kinda dark....

(golden gate bridge)
At the end we went to Cold Stone, a very famous ice cream store and got some ice-cream.. I got Chocolate chunk, and it was GOOD....
Then we drove off.. it was about 9 o'clock I believe.. However, you should not take my word for it, my memory is a little faded.. lol..
But that was an awesome day, even though we couldn't go see too much, it was really cool to see the fary-tale city!!
And guess what!!??!!
The streets really are as steep as they seem.. no wait.. they're WORSE than they seem in movies..!! they are almost steeper than rollercoasters for crying out load...!!

(we drove all the way down there!! from the top to the bottom; at the worst 60* drop)

(here's me in a store bying my San Fran Sweather)

The California storms!

2008-01-04T22:13:00.000-08:00

Oh man, we had some nasty weather here!!
It was so bad, truck actually flew off the highway!! Not here luckily, but over towards Sacramento..
It started Friday January 4th, 2008... I woke up, and there was no power... The clock that stopped at the time it went out said: 06:34, so the power had been gone for a while... It turned out that almost all the power in the entire Yuba City was out!! Even WAL MART was closed!! they NEVER close!! not even christmas day, or thanksgiving! and little ceasar's pizza (best pizza place in town) was closed because they had no customers!! It was aweful!
Oh well... so we sat around doing nothing, because we couldn't watch tv or nothing...
Then I took out my book and began to read for a moment, before I got bored again;)
After a little bit, we decided to go out and drive around to see how the nabourhood was doing, and that was when I took my pictures...
Fences was blown down, road signs were on the ground and huge trees was blown over! And worst, no one had power, well some did, but that was not many!!

In total, our power was gone for 11 hours, because it came back at 5:30pm... yey!! the TV was on again;) hehe.. it was funny since it gets dark at 4.45.. lol.. Movies!! and Popcorn=D yey..

The next day was still bad, and still people did not have power... at the worst someone did not get it back before 5 days later!!! how bad isn't that!! I'm glad we didn't...;)
Saturday was fun too, but that will come in the next blog;) (i am making you read..lol)

(anthony and Aaron outside the car)

(a basketball net had blown over)

(all the branches were on the ground)

(half of this enormous tree was broken off)

(most trees were on the ground)

Christmas holiday

2007-12-27T18:54:00.000-08:00

Dec. 24, 2007 Christmas Eve:
Today was a hard, yet fun, day. I got up at 6:30 and got ready 'cause we were suppose to leave at 7, but of course we didn't leave until 9.. We were going to some of Kami's (mom) family..
The drive was about 2,5 hours and the place was about in between Yuba City and San Francisco. When we came up there, we sat around talking to the families that were there, and after a little while, someone found the 4 wheeler, and we took it out for a drive.. Of course, because of AFS rules, I couldn't drive it, but I sat behind Myranda while she was driving. We had SO much fun!! After that more family came and we started to get tired. Myranda, Alex and Jamie started to feel sick, so they slept for a while. I am still on the antibiotics, so I don't think I can catch what they have, but my throat is still not very good.. Dinner was later, Turkey seems to be the main dish in America for Christmas, however I only ate barely one plate. After that we opened a few presants and then we started our drive home. Myranda had to stop on the way and throw up, and the was sick all night.. Just thowing up all the time. We watched a little TV and then went to bed.

Dec. 25, 2007 Christmas Day:
Today everyone woke up at 7 or 8 and we got our presants.. I went to sleep again because I felt really sick and I had stumick cramps really bad.. I slept till 5 o'clock, Luckily Myranda slept even longer. lol.. Dinner was nice, although I didn't eat anything. It was turkey and potatoes etc.. Not at all as good looking as our Christmas dinners, but I am sure it was very good. Myranda got up later too, and we tried to stay awake.. Funniest thing was that when everybody else was in bed, I and Myranda stayed up watching Narnia. We went to sleep at 3 o'clock.. So my Christmas day was basically sleeping.. I did not feel good at all.. I did not eat anything all day either.

Dec. 26, 2007
I spent all day working on my "broderi" that my mom had sent me!! Love you mommy.. I finished it late evening, and I think it looks good!! Mom; it was very nice of you!! thank you!!
I did not feel good today either, better, but not good.. First thing I really ate was two small slices of Little Ceasar's Pizza (which is SO delicious).. Granny came over as usual too, and as always she spent the night. I don't know why, but she is very nice so I don't have a problem with it. :)

Dec 27, 2007
Today was a relaxing day as well.. I woke up, watched a little TV, we all (kids) went to the park, and I brought my Narnia book (with I bought with some gift-money; THANK YOU ALL FOR SENDING MONEY!!!!!!!!!! It is true, everything is cheaper here.. lol) The Narnia book is about 10 cm thick and it contains ALL the 7 Narnia books in one wrapping.. I love it... After going to the park, I went in and watched a little more Tv.. Then I, Jamie (sister) and Troy (dad) went to recycle some bottles, and buy some bread.. Then we came back and now I am sitting here writing this stuff.. I don't really know how few people that are actually gonna read all of this, but it is not all for you guys, actually this is also my way of remembering everything I am doing over here.. Cause it is kinda hard remembering 5 months!!
Yes, believe it or not, I have been here almost 5 MONTHS!!! only 6 more to go...
But you know what.. I love this family so that will be no problem at all!!

LOVE TO ALL YOU GUYS AT HOME
THE BEST WISHES
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR (to come)
<3<3<3<3

long time - no see

2007-12-20T09:54:00.000-08:00

Hey!
It's been a long time now since last time I updated. I have been doing so much lately.. Last weekend was the Mel Good Tournament which was a charity basketball tournament and we hosted three guys from Lincoln, San Francisco. Brittani slept over at our place too, and at Friday night, the guys invited some of the other Lincoln players over (and they were FINE)... They all wanted to see Superbad...
The guys we hosted were: Desean, Randal, and Ronny. The guys they had over was Devon, Rickie and Mike. Brit liked Devon, Myranda liked Mike and I liked Rickie lol... it was funny... They left around 11, and we girls went to our room to "sleep". LOL...

Anyway... The saturday was very interesting. First we started out watching the last Lincoln game, which they won, then we said goodbye to them and went home. Later that evening we went to see I am Legend, it came out the Friday.. the time we had planned was sold out so we waited an hour to see the next one. We waited at Carl's jr; a popular diner in the area. The movie was awesome... really good... I recomend it!! After the movie we went over to Raley's to buy some rockstars to get some energy;) And then we waited for Angel to pick us up. We were going to Jaclyn's "birthday"-party. However, when we got there the only thing we found was a drunk birthday girl that didn't want to move away from the toilet, guys smoking weed and alcohol everywhere (but almost no people)... So we wanted to leave at once.. We came there for Jaclyn, but she was drunk and made no sence.. Even though we wanted to leave, we did not want to leave her there, afraid of what could happend to her. So after a LOT of discussing and thinking (about either taking her to one of our places or to her own home) we decided to take her home to her parents.. After that (time was about 1 o'clock) we went over to Angel's house. He really wanted to have smores, but his roomate was asleep in the living room so we stayed and talked for a little bit, and then he took us home. He stayed for about half an hour and then he left. That was the end of a special and interesting night.. x)

Overall; I feel like I got to know Myranda and Brit more this night, since we really had to make an important decision together and act like adults would have. We were dealing with a special situation where a girls health could be in danger, and if we did not get her safe out of that house, she could be in trouble.. I must say it was scary, but at the same time, you learn something about yourself in those situations..

The sunday I spent doing my 40-problem long math homework..!! yes, I said 40!! That was all I did for the entire sunday..

Love to all you guys at home! Keep safe!

Santa can you hear me - Britney Spears

2007-12-12T09:58:00.000-08:00

Ooh yeah
Last night I took a walk in the snow
Couples holding hands, places to go
Seems like everyone but me is in love
Santa, can you hear me ?

I sign my letter that I sealed with a kiss
I send it off and just said this
I know exactly what I want this year
Santa, can you hear me ?

I want my baby, baby
I want someone to love me someone to hold
Maybe, Maybe
He'll be all my own in a big red bow
Santa, can you hear me ?
I have been so good this year
And all I want is one thing
Tell me my true love is here
He's all I want just for me
Underneath my Christmas tree
I’ll be waiting here
Santa that’s my only wish this year.

Christmas Eve, I just can’t sleep.
Will I be wrong for taking a peek ?
Cause I heard that you're coming to town.
Santa, can you hear me ?
I really hope that you're on your way,
with Something special for me in your sleigh.
Ooh please make my wish come true
Santa, can you hear me ?

I want my baby, baby
I want someone to love me someone to hold
Maybe, Maybe
we'll be all alone under the mistle toe
Santa, can you hear me ?
I have been so good this year
And all I want is one thing
Tell me my true love is here
He's all I want just for me
Underneath my Christmas tree
I’ll be waiting here
Santa that’s my only wish this year

I hope my letter reaches you in time
woooo yeah
Bring me a love I can call all mine
Cause I have been so good,so good this year
Can’t be alone under the mistle toe
he's all i want in a big red bow

Santa, can you hear me ?
I have been so good this year
And all I want is one thing
Tell me my true love is here
He's all I want, just for me
Underneath my Christmas tree
I’ll be waiting here
Santa, that’s my only wish this year

Ooh Santa
Can you hear me ?
ooh santa
Well he's all I want just for me
underneath my Christmas tree
I’ll be waiting here..
Santa, that’s my only wish this year
Santa, that’s my only wish this year

that´s a great song we should sing it every year !!!

Today is a new day...

2007-12-12T09:16:00.000-08:00

Exciting news!

#1: My family is hosting 3, possibly 4 basketball players from other cities. They are here for the Yuba City charity basketball game, and they needed houses to stay at. They are quite a few people coming, spread around in Yuba City. I have no problem with that what so ever, hosting three tall, athletic basketball players, in our house?? Oh yeah, can't say no to that;P

#2: I am changing my schedule next semester, because I will not be able to get to school at time for pre-period since they only have one car, and Troy uses it to get to work.. So next semester I will not be taking Web Design, but my schedule will look like:
1st: English 4C (H), 2nd: Physics, 3rd: Chemistry, 4th: US History AP, 5th: Pre-Calculus, 6th: American Government..
I will take US History AP, instead of regular US History. AP stands for Advanced Placement, and is a college prep course instead of the regular course, so it will be a little harder, but Mr. Warmee says I'll do fine. I will also have American Government instead of Economics, because they are both only one semester classes that all seniors have to take to graduate.

#3: I have gotten my current score and grade in physics, and it seems like I am #1 in that class!!! How awesome is that... Heath is right below me, and he makes fun of that all the time.. The foreign student has the highest grade in the class:) I have a 93,5% which is an A..

#4: Not only am I at top in my physics class, I am also #2 in my chemistry class..!! I have a A- there, perhaps I just went up to an A since I got 11.5 out of 12 on the last test... I do not know, but I really hope so.. If I did, maybe I beat the first one as well.. that would have been funny.. lol..

Other news:
- Saturday was winterball, and I was planning on going since Pedro asked me to go with him, but the retard (lol) forgot to buy the tickets, so we could not go. I was fine, because I moved to Myranda's that day instead, and then went to the movies to see the Golden Compass.

- For Mrs. Priddy's class we have been collecting food cans as crazy, because she said, if we could beat last years record, we could get out of her final exam.. We took on the job, but is has been hard.. She said that all her classes together had to beat last years total, or if we all together couldn't, the period with the most cans would still get out of it. Only, there is a tiny little problem.. Last years total was 12,248 cans!!! we have to beat that.. So now we have been collecting cans like crazy for the last 2 weeks, and tomorrow (thursday) is the last day to bring in cans. After 1st period today, there was only 1500 cans to go.. And you bet 4th and 6th will bring some also.. I think we can make it, cause NONE of us wants to take that final exam!!!

- Finals are next week... Wednesday, Thursday and Friday..
*Wednesday I have: 1-2 period; English (hopefully we'll make the total amount of cans so we do not have to take it), 3-4 period; Chemistry (that will be hard..) (we get out at 12:20 every day)
*Thursday I have: 1-2 period; Web Design (basically just finish the web pages), 3-4 period; Physics (we will just have a regular quiz as always)
*Friday I have: 1-2 period; Pre-Calculus (Not looking forward to that one), 3-4 period; Economics (if I do good, I'll end up with an A in Econ!!)

OOH.. and one more thing.. Guess what..?
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

so you better watch out, you better not cry
you better not pout, I'm telling you why;
Santa claus is coming to town

Finally - new family

2007-12-08T22:00:00.000-08:00

Today was an exciting day. First, I woke up at 11 o'clock, finding out I had to be ready at 4 o'clock. Mrs. McCaulley would pick me up at 4. I've known for a while, that Myranda (my friend) and her family wanted to host me, but I was not sure if the paper-work came through. So then, I was not ever half ready, so I spent all day packing and cleaning out my room, 'cause of course I couldn't leave without cleaning up first..

It was hard saying goodbye to Layla, Dawn and Brandy, I've had a great time with them, but I am happy it all worked out.

When I got to Myranda's, they welcomed me with a warm and nice home, fully loaded with christmas decorations, both inside and outside.. I LOVED IT... lol.. They are truly great people. They were all so nice, and supportive and they took me into their family at once.. I have met them once before (at halloween), but never really talked to them.. Myranda is a good friend of mine. Send me and e-mail and I'll give you the adress..

When I got there, Brittani was there also, and later we went to go see the new movie; The Golden Compass... It was awesome because a lot of the movie was about Svalbard, which is on Norwegian land, and also there was a lot of Norwegian names & phrases used too!! It was so cool!! Names like; Ragnar, Erik, Eriksson osv.. , names like; Ice bear... were used.. However, the ending was the most terrible ending I've seen in a long time. It ended with a witch telling a man about a great war that was about to come, and then it just stopped.. It was just like Lord Of The Ring, when that first came out.. That movie ends poorly too, but this was just disturbing..

Then after we got back, we had such a great time decorating the tree with lights.. Trying to get the angel at the top of the tree..lol.. That was FUN! I've got pictures, but I do not know when I'll be able to post them. Actually, we did not watch the time, and suddenly Kami said; Wow, it is 1 o'clock in the morning!! We were stunned, glad it was not a school night.. lol.. Then we finished off, and went into the living room to play cards and watch TV.. We played a few games (and I beat Alex in speed: 3 - 2)... At about 3 o'clock we went to bed.. yeah.. I know.. way too late!!

Oh, I forgot my manners.. My new family consist of;
Kami - mom
Troy - dad
Jamie - sister (1989)
Myranda - sister (1990)
Alex - sister (1993)
Aaron - brother (1997)
their last name is Wenham...

That was about it, however I just need to add one thing:
IMPORTANT
The Wenhams do not have wireless internet access, so I will not be able to blog as often anymore, nor write e-mails or such.. However, I'll do my best to keep you updated, it might just take a little more time before I can do so.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM INA

Inspiring quotes

2007-12-05T23:38:00.000-08:00

Here are some inspiring quotes I found online now.. I thought I would share them with my devoted readers;) lol.. I have highlighted the ones I really like!

1) If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity.But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shine like a pearl.so choose the best place where you would shine..

2) Never expext things to happen..struggle and make them happen. never expect yourself to be given a good value..creat a value of ur own

3) Falling down is not defeat...defeat is when ur refuse to get up...

4) Ship is always safe at shore... but is is not built for it

5) When ur successful your wellwishers know who you are when you are unsuccessful you know who ur welwishers are

6) It is great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him/her

7) "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world

8) "Even the word 'IMPOSSIBLE' says 'I M POSSIBLE' "

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -- Bernard Meltzer.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

- If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep.

- The smallest good deed is better than the greatest invention.

-Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

- One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.

- The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime.

QUOTES BY ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
(he's a genious!!!)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
.............................................................

Life quotes:
Living on Earth is expensive,but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.

Birthdays are good for you;the more you have, the longer you live.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. -Lou Holtz

Never explain yourself. Your friends dont need it and your enemies wont believe it. -Belgicia Howell

Aren't these extreemely good quotes?? Try to use them as you go about in your life.. Live by the philosophy of Einstein, or the thoughts of Abraham Lincoln.. Whatever you chose, you need to stand by your actions and believe in them!
- Imag (the wise and intelligent girl who searches for quotes in her spare time;P)

CHRISTMAS<3

2007-12-04T17:18:00.000-08:00

December 1st:

Finally is christmas starting!! Although, it really doesn't feel like christmas, nor winter at all!! It is just starting to get colder here, and it absolutely not snowing.. The song "white christmas" really consists of true statements that goes for this senstational non-white place...

I am truly dreaming of a white christmas.. yes I said it; I, ME, want snow, can you imagine.. I guess you do not realize how much you appreciate things before you cannot have it. And that is truly something you get to learn when away from home.

So, what has been going on in my life recently is not much at all....

Classes is going great.. I just got my report card, and it says something like this:

US History: A

English: A-

Web Design: A+

Chemistry: B+

Physics: A

Pre-Calculus: C+

Economics: B

These grades are pretty good actually.. I am happy if I get a B in most subjects, however, in classes I like, I really want an A because I feel like I am doing a good job and that I really understand what I am doing.. Uptil this moment, Chemistry and Physics is my favorite subjects, and I really feel like I understand.. Physics make sence to me, it is not really hard, it just explains what is really going on in the universe. It explains to me why the earth i rotating around the sun, why there are tides, why I am not floating around in our atmosphere and why ball will roll down a ramp and eventually come to a complete stop.

"An object in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force" -Newton

Chemistry is hard, but fun. It is interesting doing labs, and learning about why the chemicals are reacting the way they are and how thing occur.

December 2nd:

Well.. today I basically just cleaned up my room, did my laundry and bedsheets, and I tried to do a little homework. That was really it.. oh yea, and I watched Desperate Housewives at 9 o'clock. It was a horrifying episode, nothing like I've ever seen before!!!

December 3rd:

Today was first day at school in December and it started with me not having time to do anything else than waking up, dress and walk out the door.. No makeup OR fix hair.. IT SUCKED... I had fluffy puffy hair that was not brushed and a face without any makeup at all... it was not that bad, but I did not like it very much. funny..=)

December 4th:

Today.. hm.. today I had a econ test that I did pretty well on and I hada good day...=)

Nothing really special happened, so not a lot to write about...

My mom is now in Grand Canaria, Puerto Rico!! Awesome!

Camping at Manchester KOA beach

2007-11-25T23:13:00.000-08:00

Alright! Here's the deal:
1. Thangsgiving holiday - Wednesday->Sunday
2. Drove 4 hours to Manchester Beach
3. Lived in camper for 5 days (4 nights)
4. Celebrated thangsgiving
5. Stepped into the Pacific Ocean
6. Saw Pelicans, deers, cows, falcons, and ravens
7. Took a lot of pictures

Wednesday 11.21.07
Today we packed the rest of our stuff and drove off in the Truck with the camper behind us. It took us 4 1/2 hours to reach our destination, and what a painful trip it was.
I loved being out on the road again, getting out to see something more than the flat Yuba City.. It was really exciting when in only 1 minute, the entire road changed from having a 2 mile view every way, and being straight&flat --> having no view at all, mountains all around us and the road was hilly, bends everywhere and it was rocky. This transformation happed the minute we drove into the valleys.. You see, Yuba City is surrounded by valleys on every side, and the valley we drove into was as all the other ones, hilly!! That is when it started not being as fun anymore (although it was only 45 minutes into our drive).. Well.. the freeway wasn't that bad, it was when we exited the freeway, and entered the really big mountains it got bad..
The thing is; we entered the redwood forest and it the road was bent around all the mountains, not over, under, or through, it went around everything with 10% drops and more... So my ears popped a lot and I got pretty sick at some point, but I never threw up luckily (I haven't thrown up in about 3 years and I am certanly not about to start)... The scariest part was when we drove by this enormous cliff!! If Brandy had driven the car wrong at that point we would have been toasted 300 feet in the ocean below.. Oh yeah.. The cliff was humungeous(if that's how you spell it..lol.. at least it sounds like that)!!.. Finally we arrived, we got settled and outside was freezing cold!!! We had some popcorn, watched a little tv on the only channel we got in, abc (a very good channel if I may add)... Later on we went to bed..

Thursday 11.22.07

Thangsgiving day! Today I got up at about 9.30.. We got up, ate breakfast and about at 11.00 we went for a walk down to the beach.. all of us; Brandy (h-dad), Dawn(h-mom), Layla in stroller (h-sister), I (Ina) and Millie (dog).. It was really fun, and for the first time I could actually touch the Pacific Ocean!!! YEEY!!.. Then we went back, and ate lunch, then I went for a walk, taking pictures and stuff... I was gone for almost 2 hours.. I walked down to the beach, and on my way back I went on a trail where I found a few deers I got really good closeups of...! It was so cool!! When I got back I threw on an extra sweater and got ready for Thangsgiving dinner. Dawn made her food and we all went over there to eat... It was hecka good!!
We did not stay at the dinner table long, 'cause the cold were agoning.. Dawn made some extra food for her, Brandy and Layla since they're vegetarian.. We ate till we were stuffed and then went back to the camper..
Btw. The "grownups" here, were basically drunk all week.. Or not everybody, but many of them.. The ones with kids just had a few beers every night and maybe a Margarita or something.. Kinda funny, 'cause it was so obvious that they had been drinking...

Friday 11.23.07
Today we drove to a beach 8 miles ahead and it was so warm I actually regreted not bringing my swimsuit.. I had my feet in the water basically the whole time we were there and I took a lot of pictures too!! The funniest thing that happened in my mind was that I saw PELICANS!! It was awesome.. Well.. After that, at about 2 o'clock we went back to the camping..
Honestly I do not remember very much of what I did the rest of the day except I remember uploading my pictures to my computer so I'd have a fresh memory card for the night. I guess I just hung around the camper, went for a walk with Millie and just relaxing really..
However, as the night came along, and the heat was gone, it was time for a taco-night.. Or, it was not really that much of taco we had, yes it was some tortillas and taco shells there, but honestly; the food was delicious! I ate almost as much as at Thangsgiving.. lol... Really good! And of course, not that the men had been drinking for a couple of days it really started to show, and Charlie (a man in our group) stood very out since his personality is pretty loud usually.. He was funny though.
Later the night there was karaoke for everybody who wanted that, and Brandy said that if I did not go up and sing, I did not have a ride home on Sunday..lol. He himself is big on karaoke, he cannot really sing that well, but he is great at faking it..lol. I went up there and sang Harper Valley PTA. Not long after I was done, I went back to the camper, because it was freezing out there! And the camper has a heater...

Saturday 11.24.07

Today we basically did nothing, but at about 3 o-clock Brandy asked me if I wanted to play a game with the whole gang we were traveling with, and of course I wanted to. The game looks like the picture I added below. It it two sides with 3 holes in each. One player starts at one side and throws 3 rings and tries to hit the points. If you hit a point you get them, unless your opponent cancels your throw. He can do that by hitting the same hole you hit. You also have a partner that stands on the other side and throws when you and your opponent are done with your turns. The point of the game is to hit 21 points first. It was really fun!! I actually hit the holes several times, but it was hard.

After this there was dinner and then karaoke time again. I sang many times today. first I sang Waterloo, second 9 to 5, then I and Haley got up, and made Charlie and Troy come up too and sing Time of my life, and then at the end I sung Because you loved me. Everyone was speechless when I was done with the last one.. It was fun..

Sunday 11.25.07

Today was the home travel day.. The trip was almost as the first day, so not much to write here. I almost threw up twice, but I refused to defeat.. I have not thrown up in almost 3 years, and I am not about to start fresh just yet;)..

Happy holiday!

Happy Thankgiving

2007-11-22T22:23:00.000-08:00

Today was Thangsgiving and it was really fun celebrating this holiday.
When I ask people why they celebrate Thanksgiving, 99% of them tell me;
"It has something to do with when the Pilgrims came to America, but mainly it is an excuse to eat a lot of good food and watch football"
So I did not get very enlightened this week, but I did eat a lot of good food and had a lot of fun!

Since we don't celebrate Thangsgiving in Norway, we really don't know that the students get almost a whole week off and that this is a BIG holiday, and the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest sales day of the year. !!
Unfortunally I did not go 'cause we were out camping all week.. But I had a great time and I am almost a little glad I did not have to get up at 3am to get ready for shopping for the stores freakingly opened at crazy 4am Friday!!!!!

Well.. The sales were huge too!! I heard things were sold for rediculous prices, like 70% off, and 50% off all products in store.. Digital frames costed $399.00 Monday, and $99.00 Friday... Insane..

Well... What I did Thangsgiving was a lot more fun, I'll tell you that..
I'll tell more about the camping part when the weekend is over, but it was awesome.. At the caming they have a traditional Thangsgiving dinner where the camping provides the Turkey (a LOT of turkey) and all the campers provide the side dishes, they make something each and place it at the main table where everyone could go and take what they wanted.
I did not eat as much as I thought I would, but, MAN!, that food was good! I ate like a fully loaded plate and when I was 1/4 done, I stopped for a bit and commented:
"I have no idea what I am eating, but it is delicous!" lol.. It was funny..

hm.. I guess that was it for the day.. Great food, but it was freezing cold! No snow, no clouds, just freezing cold... I guess the Pacific Ocean made it a lot colder than it would've been if it weren't by the coast.

Alright... Talk to you later alligator!
Btw. I haven't heard from you guys in a while..
What's up nowadays?
<3<3<3

What's new..

2007-11-14T09:09:00.000-08:00

Hi ya'll...
So, I was sitting here in Web Page Design class, having nothing to do, thinking of you guys for a bit. I figured, why not go and blog something, that'd be fun! So here I am..

This weekend was a three day weekend because of Veteran's Day (monday), it is suppose to celebrate the end of World War I, but that is kinda weird because that is kinda what they celebrate Labor Day for too.. At least they say so.. lol..

All I did this weekend was really relaxing. I mainly spent all Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday trying to convince myself to clean up my room a bit. Not that it is very messy, but I should've folded my clothes I guess (a big pile in a basket). However, I did it last night, so no biggy.. But I did clean my bathroom on Monday though.. So I actually did something.

For information on Veteran's day, you can look here.

Everyone I've talked to here says they did nothing all weekend too... Nicky even slept 36 hours (not straight but all together).. Even I did not sleep that much.. lol..

Oh, have I told you guys that Dawn and Brandy and Layla are great?? Well now I have.. They are awesome.. Sometimes I hope I am not just slacking 'cause I really like them.. So I try to offer to help them with different stuff, such as walking Milly (dog), clean the dishes, clean my room.. You know.. Different stuff.. And I do must say that Dawn is an excellent cook.. Brandy and Dawn are vegetarian, and that kinda scared me at first, but Dawn can make anything any other family could, and just as good, only without meat.. They do eat chicken and fish, but not a lot of it..

I've been making a few wallpapers lately, so if you want to use them, go right ahead..

You just go like this to make it your background:

click on picture (so it'll appear in large version) -> right click on it and chose "save as" -> save it somewhere on you computer -> go to your desktop and right click, chose "egenskaper", then "skrivebord" and click the "browse" button to locate the wallpaper...

OR: you can right click on the large version picture and chose"save as background"... Then it'll become your background, but if you change it, it is not saved...

Here they are:

Time for more updates i guess..=)

2007-11-03T22:41:00.000-07:00

So.. Let me think, what've I been up to lately..(???)
While I think, take a look at this:

I	Insane
N	Neutral
A	Adventurous

M	Masculine
A	Addictive
R	Random
G	Gloomy
R	Rare
E	Edgy
T	Talented
H	Honest
E	Enchanting

Okey.. Where were we...?? Oh, yeah, my week..:
Well... Halloween is over.. (see own blog for that)

Lately I have been thinking of all the weird codes that are used here in the American teens' daily speaking, and not to mention on msn, and other chatting areas... I mean things like:
brb = be right back
btw = by the way
CUL8R = See You Later
wtf? = What the F....?
Idk = I don't know
Asap = As Soon As Possible
TTYL = Talk To You Later
PDA = Public display of Affection

You know, you get the point=)

So, this week I had one test, it was in Chemistry.. It went pretty well i hope..=)
And then there is always new tests next week, and the week after that and so on..=(
wellwell.. anyway...

Thing I have been thinking about lately:
* Weather
* Turning 18 in less than a year
* Life
* Turtles
* Rockstar (energy drink)
* make up
* toothpaste
* garbage
* I cleaned up my room on Saturday...=) (today)
* candy (from halloween)
* Cheese
* bed
* Heat
* Yellow
* Friends...

So.. What do I wanna wright about now..
Well.. There is the Rivel Valley game on Friday!! We're playing our rivals at their stadium, we expect a lot of rivalery, fights, good game and a lot of posters saying: We love Honkers!

You know. I was thinking the other day about why I can't think those funny, clever thoughts.. What I do when I am bored is not to think about funny things like my friends do, no! I sit down and start translating new words to get a bigger vocabulary! That is funny.. Oh wait.. So I can't think funny thoughts, but the things I do is funny?? That is absurb.. You see.. In English we read all this stories bu Dante, Shakespeare, Plato and Socrates... And when I read, I write down all the words I would like to know what meant.. Here are some examples (see how geeky I am)...:
Illuminate, Prominent, Divine, Astray, Perilous, piteous, flounders, denouement, tourniquets, deranged, cargo and locusts...
And so it turns out.. I am funny after all... hahahaha... Now I am laughing hard now... hahaha.. I am even considering putting in a smiley face right here..:___ oh, no wait.. Here:__ would be better x).... Goodness grachious I am funny!! lol...

Well... Class is over...!
See yah later alligator!<3<3

Halloween

2007-11-01T22:44:00.000-07:00

Halloween was Awesome!

We went Trick or treating and it was so cool!! I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves...

Myranda's house

Sadie and Chantal having fun!<3

All of us!!

Brit, Victoria and Sadie

candy:P yum

Sadie me and Brit outside of Starbucks before we went to Myranda's

Me and Brit

Us!! All of us who went together! It was so cool!! We went trick or treating around in the streets by Myranda's...In picture: in front, L->R:Brittany and Sadie, in back L->R: Chantal, Sara, Victoria, Myranda and me!!

Brit, Victoria and Sadie

This was outside Myranda's House.. They had lights and everything outside their house at it lighted up the entire street (figure of speech)...

New week - new updates!

2007-10-27T12:07:00.000-07:00

Oh yeah! It's finally weekend again..!
This week has gone by SO fast.. But anyway, I love it!

Yesterday was an awesome day; Friday night lights, Football and Victory!
We (the Honkers) beat New-Tomas 54 - 23! It was awesome! Some real action..:D
Just look at the pictures..:D Doesn't it look like fun..?!

Well well... Me and Chantal had a lot of fun taking pictures and stuff..!

Okey.. So let's start with how this week was..
Monday:
Today was a hot day! 83*F outside!
The funniest thing that happened today must have been in Pre-Calc when the word Tardyjuice was invented..;) Funy story..: You know, when you come late to class, or do something you can't do in class (like drink something you can't, eat, gum, cell phone etc) you are Tardy.. Kinda like (anmerkning), but it is like if you have 3 tardies, you must have a Saturday school, or work for a teacher for 2 hours. Anyway, Redman came late to class, so Mr. Berri told him "Hey tardy", which was his way of saying "you are tardy".. Then he said "What is that" pointing at the soda Redman held in his hand.. Before he could answer someone said: "That is Tardujuice".. Haha.. Get it, soda makes him tardy.. so: Tardy juice!.... Haha.. that is so funny...

Tuesday:
Coming soon
*DIG: Laughter - happy

Wednesday:
coming soon
* The lake house
* 96% on test in Physics - best of three classes

Thursday:
Coming soon
* Test in US History

Friday:
* Quiz in Physics
* Quiz in Chem
* Friday night lights - pictures...

Jack-o-lantern

2007-10-21T21:01:00.000-07:00

We made jack-o-lanterns at Tony's
coming soon
(pictures)

Finally Weekend!!!

2007-10-20T16:53:00.000-07:00

So wazzup here? I'll tell ya.. It is weekend, that's it.

Finally I say.. These last couple of days have been like hell.. Seriously! On Thursday I had both a Chemistry test and a Pre-Calculus test! And if that wasn't enough, I had a US History test and an English test on Friday.. It was horrible... I think I did average in Chem, I only got a C+ in Pre-Calc, English went well and US went good... But anyway I was just exhausted and Friday night I fell asleap at 9.30! Haven't been able to study good enough because I have been totally down... It sucks.. And if all this wasn't enought, it also almost rained on Thursday and Friday, and it has been windy all week...

But now it is finally weekend and time to relax!! Today, Saturday, it is sunny, and I can just enjoy right now..

Not that much going on at the moment, but the stores are full of Halloween stuff and even Christmas decorations is in the stores already... Yeah... The stores are FULL of Christmas stuff!! They have been for like a month already... It's sick..

Well well... I had my eggdrop on monday, and that was fun... My egg made it through the first drop, that means it survived once.. We threw them from the top of the bleachers on the football stadium... That is like 25ft or 10 meters up... Very fun though...

Well.. We won over Woodland on their Homecoming game... (football)... I wasn't there but it was last friday... The Honkers are starting to improve!! yeey..

That's all for now you guys... Btw, if I don't answer you guys' e-mails at once it is because I am not on my computer 24/7 and I limit the things I do on it... And sitting down and write takes time, especially if I have 5 - 10 e-mails to write...=)

Anywho... Love you guys... <3<3
LOVE, HUGS AND KISSES FROM INA

Here's some pictures of my new clothes;) Bought them last Saturday...
There's 1 black, 1 brown and 1 grey top, and the jeans.. The last white one is an old one.. (or, 2 months old).. Anyway.. I really like them;)

Some funny quotes I found today...

2007-10-17T17:50:00.000-07:00

Here are a few quotes I found today!
A shout out to goodquotes.com for funny quotes...

- Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich.
- Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to.
- Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.
- To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail. -Michael Jordan
- Life's an Ocean, Sail It
- Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film!
- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
- Nothing is as easy as it looks.
- If the sky is the limit, then what is space, over the limit?
- Aren't the 'good things that come to those who wait' just the leftovers from the people that got there first?

So, today was a minimum day.. We got off at 12.24 and Brandy picked me up after school. Tomorrow I have two BIG tests. One in Chemistry and one in Pre-calc. Those are the two hardest subjects. Usually we have like two - three tests every week.. It's not very cool, I'll tell you that.

Okey so... Yesterday I took my senior portraits and it was superfun. I took 8 pictures and I could choose which one I wanted in the Yearbook.. I really look forward to get the yearbook, it is so cool they have that here..

A macro picture I took..

Another macro picture I took...

Me in the living room at Brandy & Dawn's

Progress reports

2007-10-13T20:28:00.001-07:00

Hey everybody!!
Today is, hm, it's Saturday really, but it is only a few minutes till the clock turns 12. lol.. Well.. Today Brandy let me off at the mall so that I could go and do some shopping for an hour while he took Leila to the park. I ended up buying (at Ross) a pair of Jeans, a pair of cuddly pants, three tops and a belt for only $ 58.49. That is like 325kr. isn't that great!! I was so lucky, because even though Ross is the cheapest place at the mall to buy stuffm you need to look closely to actually find the cute clothes. But I did find some nice stuff, and I am very happy about that.. Although I would like to have stayed longer, it is ok. I don't want to put my own needs in front of everybody elses if you know what I mean...;)

Well.. What else is new.. Oh, yeah.. I got my Progress reports on Friday.. Currently I have these grades in the following subjects:
A US. History
A- English 4C (H)
A Begin Photo
B Chemistry
A- Physics
B- Pre-Calculus (H)
B Economics
And my GPA is: 3,86 and I am really proud of that if I may say so=D lol..:D ;)

Have a great day!!
LOVE YOU ALL!!!
- Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.

Yes I am happy by the way!! ;P

Dawn, Leila and Brandy

Changing families...

2007-10-07T20:27:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody.. So, here's the thing:
I have now changed family and there is several reasons behind that decision that is not necessary to write about here.
I know you may have questions, and if they are considerable you can send me an e-mail or something and I can try to explain... =)

I am fine, and none of you have to worry... Honestly..=D

Love you all, and miss you guys...
Love, hugs, and kisses from Ina

Homecoming and Honker Idol

2007-10-05T20:11:00.000-07:00

HOMECOMING WEEK!!!
Yes everybody, this week was our homecoming week!!! yeey..
So, let's start with the theme for our Football homecoming week 2007:
HAPPIEST HOMECOMING ON EARTH - DISNEY
And the days were:
- Mickey Mouse Monday
- Tacky Tourist Tuesday
- Royalty Wednesday
- Class theme Thursday
- Brown and Gold Friday
And as you can see is says class theme Thursday, the class themes were:
Freshmen: Jungle book
Sophmores: Pocahontas
Juniors: Hercules
Seniors: Alice in Wonderland

During this week there was a lot of school spirit and people had a lot of fun. What I think was most fun was the Honker Idol competition. It is like American Idol, only for the Honkers (us). I signed up for that the week before, and first I sang: Since you been gone, by Kelly Clarkson, and I went through to the next round. Tuesday I sung Angels, by Robbie Williams, and I made it through. Third day I sung Only Hope, by Mandy Moore, and believe it or not, I went through to the next round too! Thursday I sung Mamma Mia, by Abba to please the judges, and they sent me through to the finals!!!! Friday was the finals and we had to pick a disney song to sing, and I chose Colors of the wind, by Ashanti. They anounced the winner at the dance, and the winner was Olivia (something I knew would happen all along, she is simply better than me)...
So I was not dissapointed at all!! I had a great time, and I am impressed by myself too..
Actually, someone came up to me, after they had announed the winner and said things like "you should have won" and such, but when I said that it is okey, I knew I wasn't gonna win, they told me that I had sung better that Olivia in the finals, but since I am an exchange student, I had no chance what-so-ever to win anyway (in case I had to leave the school or something)... And that actually made me a little happy to know...=)

Thursday night was the night rally, also called: Another Goofy rally!! It was great... A lot of school spirit and pep for the following day, and the big homecoming game!! I actually had to learn the National Anthem, since I was in the top two finalists in Honker Idol I had to sing it toghether with Olivia at the Rally, and guess who DOES NOT know Star spangled banner... That's right, I DON'T!! So, I had aproximately 3 HOURS to learn that song.. But luckily I did learn it, and I did sing it in front of all the students that were there. :D It was a releaved me that went off stage after that frightening moment..;) well well... It was over before I knew it anyway... I spent the rest of the Rally with Chantal, Brittani and Nikki.

Friday night, at 7.30, the Varsity Homecoming game started, and our group gathered together and watched it from the bleatchers (benches)... It was me, Sara, Brittani, Victoria, Myranda and Chantal... The game ended 40 - 7 to the HONKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE BLEED BROWN AND GOLD!!! lol... Yeah.. I had a rockstar that night to keep me awake, and I "suddenly" got a lot of school spirit!!! It was AWESOME!

Then there were the Enchanted Blacklight dance! I had to be picked up at 11, although it lasted till 12 because Gina did not want to stay up later. However, the dance was GREAT... We danced, laughed and had a blast all night!!! PARTY LIKE A ROCK, PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTAR!!!! I Love that song!! And Crank dat Soulja Boy! And Cha Cha steps (or something)... well whatever..=)

Well... Good night guys!! I hope you all are having a good time, because I absolutely am!!!
Love you all SO much!!!
<3<3

"alice in wonderland" and "the white rabbit"

me, Myranda, Brittani and Victoria in our arms

Chantal and me (and Myranda)

Chantal on a guy's shoulders (a friend of hers)

The baseball team's float.. (Jackson in the middle) Doesn't he look like Nathan in One Tree Hill?? Up close they are unseperable!! Honestly!

This is our homecoming group! Me, Jackie, Myranda, Chantal, Sara, Victoria, Brittani and Nikki.

Chantal's friend, Chantal, Me and Myranda

The Senior float!! (Alice in Wonderland theme)

Me and Victoria

The nominated for Homecoming Queens... (Lianna won)

Friends and school!!

2007-09-25T18:03:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody!
This is a few pictures of my school.. YCHS Honkers!!!
Sorry for not updating as much anymore, but really not that much is happening at the moment, but more will come, I promise!!
Well.. Catch up with you all later!
Love Ina

This is my locker at the school

Here is the Quad, and the "Senior" Stage

This is the Chemistry Classroom

This is one of the stations in my Physics classroom

Me with the Honkers sign outside YCHS

AFS-Camp at Lake Tahoe

2007-09-23T20:58:00.000-07:00

Key words:

* Camp at south Lake Tahoe, Nevada with afs

* Rode with Carol McCaulley to Sacramento, and then with Kevin and Elana to Lake Tahoe. Kevin is her son, he just arrived from Austria...

* Been to one more state;) (Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada and Texas)

* Met all the people from the last orientation.. (Niviaq-Greenland, Malin&Helene&Erling-Norway, Veronika-Austria, Anna Lieka-Holland, Anja-Germany....and so on)

* Karaoke - dancing -> 1 o'clock...

* Cute guys;)

* Talk with Elana

* Chair game - Do you like your neighbour? No (neighours switch) Yes, but I don't like ------... (the people ------- switch)

Friday and Weekend!!!

2007-09-15T23:26:00.001-07:00

LOVED FRIDAY!! GOTTA SAY IT, LOVED FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, how was my friday you may ask.. Oh, well... I might as well tell you! :D

I started out having a test in US HISTORY.... I had to remember all the states AND capitals of the US, and guess what... I REMEMBERED EVERYTHING!!! isn't that awesome!!

And then all day long, I and the other three exchange students had presentations in spanish classes with Señora Cato. I don't have spanish, but she personally requested us, so of course I wanted to do it!! We spent all day just having fun.. Presenting our country, dancing to spanish music and eating chocolate sra Cato gave us.. Oh yes, and Nachos with sauce.. =D

SO MUCH FUN!! I can't say it enough..

The other exchange students are: Lucita from Argentina, Arturo from Mexico and Pedro from Spain!! He's SO nice by the way... Got to know them all pretty well today!!

Then there was an Economics class which went by just like a cheeta would run past you, and then there was a few hours at home before we went to see the football game!

First there was JV football: Bear River vs YC Honkers (we are the Honkers), and then was the BIG GAME!!! Varsty Football: Bear River vs YC Honkers!!! I know like 4 guys on the team.. Pretty cool...!! They lost though... 28 - 0... No tuchdowns for us... So they lost the first game on the new stadium... Disappointing... but what can you do... We're not aloud down at the field anyway... We gotta sit on the benches watching the cheerleaders go: H-O-N-K-E-R-S, go Honkers go - You're gonna win let's go... Go Honkers...!! I am so sick of watching cheerleaders pretend like they care about the game and the players when it looks like all they want to do is leave scilently...

However... The day ended peacefully (Gina was shapporoning at the Beanie ball dance) so there was no yelling that evening... (finally)... I gotta acknowledge that it starting to get to me.. All the yelling every single day.. Being worried that I am doing something wrong all the time.. Well well... Gina told me that she would probably not yell at me any time soon, or ever.. But still... It is hard listening to all the yelling that's going on between the girls.. and between the parents too for that matter...Well.. Now that is off my chest... Focus on the good day again=D

Here are some pictures from the game!!!<3

YC Honkers are the Brown and Gold, Cameron Foster is #5, Brandon is #52 and Quarterback is #3...

9/11/07

2007-09-11T20:49:00.000-07:00

Libby, Me and Abby

Me and Sara
Okey let's start this day=)

It's been a month since I got here, and that's pretty scary.. But I'm confident the next months will be just as fine as this one. School is great. I've been doing so much fun lately! Oh yes! lol.

I'm joining the art-club, and also (hopefully) the christian-club, I feel so involved right now..:D

I've made several friends here. Heres a short summery of my friends here so far: Kaitlyn (Nice girl from Physics and Pre-calc), Lizabeth (Liz - from English, Physics and Pre-calc), Chantal (south african - Chem.), Cameron Foster (He is a football player - GOOD looking too - Econ.), Brandon (Cameron's friend - econ.), Morgan (Mojo - she's cool - Econ.), Brianna (Bree - Econ), Nichole (Nicky - econ.), Jonathan (Mexican - english, physics, Pre-calc and econ - he's a smart guy), Jonathan (he's cute, I kinda like him a little bit - Physics - smart guy), Jamie (Volleyball player - english), Corrina (talked to a few times - Begin Photo), Sadie (Cheerleader - Begin Photo)...

So you see, I have an expanded choise of friends. I know cheerleaders, jocks, art-freaks, punks, asb's (assosiated student body) and Smart-guys.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot! I know one of the other exchange students here, his name is Pedro Piqueras and he's from Spain!! He's really nice and outgoing...

I've been hanging out at Starbucks quite a lot, mainly because I wanna get out of the house, and because I can walk down there. My host-mom got a little upset about that though because I was buying coffee there, and she cannot give money to her daughters for that purpose. But she came clean, and we talked about it. One thing that I think trigged her anger was something Sara said to her which wasn't even true. She had told her mom (when Gina asked Sara) that I had not offered to buy her anything when we were there and that is TOTALLY a lie. Because every time I had offered to buy one for her too, but after the second time she stopped saying yes so I persumed that she didn't want anything (she doesn't even have a job, althoug she could if she wanted to). I also bought her several things at the store right next to Starbucks.. So it really upset me that se would say something like that... But we worked it out, and everything is fine now..!

Last Sunday, I met Cameron Foster at church! How weird was that.. Well lets say it this way - that was not exactly the impression I had of him until then.. But he's a really nice guy actually. And I introduced him to Sara at church, and she was SO mad at me.. Because she is a fanatic about looking good all the time, and at church she didn't look her best so she told me later that I should've waited to indroduce them, because she wanted to look cute when that happened... I DON'T GET IT!!! Helloo!! It is just the FIRST meeting...!! They are weird here... Have to look good ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!

Oh.. By the way... Sara summery: She's finally dating Rex, she got her first kiss.... (After two whole years of liking eachother...)

Today wasn't really a sad day although it is exactly 6 years since the World Trade Center was hit by the airplanes and collapsed. I pay my respects to the ones that didn't make it, and for the ones that lost their family members.

I have actually gotten comliments all the time here for my clothing.. (I like it;P) Yeah.. and people are always telling me how pretty I am, how great my legs look, and stuff like that.. I don't know if it is just something they tell eachother without meaning it or not... But whatever.. Compliments are always nice..!!

And at the end of this blog, I just want to add that I am going to start reading the book: The murder of Bindy Mackenzie...

BIG HUGS TO EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!

LOVE INA

Me and Abby (Abigail)

Weekly update

2007-09-03T21:35:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody..!
How r y'all doin'?

What's up with me? Well.. First of all, let me say I'm sorry for holding you guys on wait for a while, but I've been busy with all kinds of stuff. You know how it goes.. Homework, things to do, chores, exercise and everything.

Well.. This week started off pretty weird I think. Monday seems like it was ages ago, but whatever.. I got through the week without scratches (or tardys) lol. The classes I'm taking is great, I'm learning a lot.. And I love just hanging around at the school.. And most of all...: I LOVE THE HEAT.... Everybody here but me hates it, but I love being outside on a day where the sun shines at 42*C in the shades... lol.

Hey.. Guess what I've learned this weekend? Time really can fly.. I've already been here for three weeks, which means I only have 10 months and 1 week left.. I feel like I've been here for ever, but still it feels like 3 weeks is kinda a long time.

So, this weekend was like this: Friday was a lazy day.. The regular exercise in the pool, homework, chores... etc.. Saturday was an even more lazy day.. Did nothing really.. Although Rex came over for movienight.. (Rex is Sara's boy friend, but not her boyfriend. They love eachother to death, but they are not going out... COMPLICATED)... However... The Sunday was a FUN day! We went to Orville to a real American Barbeque. We met so many family members that even this family hadn't met before. SO FUNNY. Well.. We ate the best barbeque food I could ever imagine eating.. We had ribs, pork, thousands of salads and even one of them was kinda special.. Watch this: It was a Marshmellow Jelly salad..!! And besides the dinner, we had m&ms, Diet Pepsi, chips, cake and everything at the same time... No dinner then dessert.. oh no.. Everything was just one BIG meal... Greatest day ever! Love their family by the way...!!!!

Then today (Monday) was Labour day.. One extra day off!! YEY... Well.. Today Mrs McCaulley (my guidence counsler with AFS) took me out to lunch. We went to this place called Red Robin and I had a Chicken Salad with ranch dressing. After lunch she drove me a little around the part of town I hadn't seen yet. We went to see the other High School in Yuba City, River Valley... Before there used to be 3000 students at Yuba City High, but after they built River Valley they splitted the students, so now there are 1900 students at YCHS and about 1100 at RVHS.

So... Now when I am sitting here ready to go to bed.. (it is 10pm now..) I am watching Shrek the Third on www11.Alluc.com... I am SO sick of High School Musical 2, so I had to see something else.. Every kid here is fanatic about that movie, seriously, they have seen it like 15 times since it came out!!!!! Well.. Whatever.. As long as I don't need to..

Well... It's been a blast writing to you all, but now I really gotta go.. I am tired, Shrek is in trouble and I gotta go and get some water... lol. =D
Love you all SO much and I can't wait to hear from you all!! PLEASE send pictures at any spare time! I want to see how you guys are holding up!

TTYL - remember I love you all and so does the Holy Lord...!

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

Birthday!

2007-08-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

ME = 17 YEARS OLD!!!! YEY..

Well.. I won't write too much, but I'll tell what we did at my birthday..
At school my sister said 'Happy Birthday' to me all day, and then at the Rally I was introduced to the entire school... Yes we had a RALLY!!! AWESOME!!! lol...
Well anyway... There was a dance at the school in the Quad this night, but I and Sara went to the movies and saw the movie Stardust! I really loved that movie and I will recomend it to everybody!
Well... That's pretty much what we did today...

Thanks to all of the congratulations I got!! Love U all!!!!!!!!!!!

Back to school!

2007-08-23T16:00:00.000-07:00

Hi ya'll!
Well I've started school now and it is FUN!
I am taking:
- US History (Pre)
- English 4C (H)
- Begin Photo
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Pre-Calculus (H)
- Economics B

My Student ID-Number is: 97496 and I have the locker number 1646.. But I ain't telling you the combination though. I am in the 12th Grade by the way, so I am a senior.

I have made a few new friends. Katelynn from my Physics and Pre-calc, and Morgan from my Economic class. I have also gotten to know some of Sara's friends (sister). In my Economic class there's this guy named Cameron (whom Sara has a crush on) and I kinda get the feeling that he's trying to fix me up with his friend Brandon. I don't really like him so that ain't gonna happen... But anyways...

My usual lunch is salad with carrots, apple and pear. Am I healthy or what...?? =D

You know, our periodes lasts for a whole our almost and there are 6 periodes each day, but I have a pre-periode also, so I have 7 periodes a day. And at the top of it all, for me school starts at 7am!!!

Love Ina!
- Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

School supply shopping...

2007-08-19T15:51:00.000-07:00

Hi guys!
Today I went school supply shopping.. School starts soon, so I have to be prepared. We also started to do our chores today. I have the diningroom this week (sweeping floor and taking our the trash). Next week I have the dishes.. That'll not be fun! Called mom too, to tell her about the things that happends here. Well.. That is all I bother saying right now... TTYL...
Love U all!

Bekky's cheer debut and birthday party!

2007-08-18T22:00:00.000-07:00

Hi, sorry I haven't written this in sentences until now... =)

Well.. The basic things I will tell you about till now is that Bekky (sister 11) is a cheerleader and she was cheering at a game today. While we sat in the sun watching her, I got a MAJOR sunburn. Then later on Bekky had her birthday party, with a High school musical theme. We saw High School Musical 2, ate a High School Musical cake and sung HSM songs.. Everything was High School Musical... Look at the cake!!! It was HUGE!

So, because it was a slumber party, the chics were going to spend the night.. And after the sun went down, the girls went out to swin in the pool! It was a blast! and when they were done, I went swimming for a little bit, only to cool off and relax...

Meeting the school counsler!

2007-08-16T12:41:00.000-07:00

What's up today?

Well.. Today I am going to meet the school counsler. I'll tell you more about that later.
You know what..! School here starts at 8 o'clock right, but I need to take extra classes which means that I'll have to start school at 7 o'clock. That means I'll have to get up between 5:30 and 6:00. So don't you come to me complaining about how early you have to get up!!

The meeting with the school counsler was FUN! I am so excited to start school now. My locker number is 1646 and I am not telling you the combination.. hah.. lol. I have also gotten my temporary ID-card, and in my locker there was an invitation to the first dance of the year.. And guess what date it is at.. (??)..
The invitation says:
Looking forward to a break already?
We have the cure! Here is the deal...
Who? YCHS Students only
What? Back-to-school dance
When? This Friday, August 24th 8-11 pm
Where? Outside in the Quad
Price? Free admission! No charge!
Entertainment? Music, Ping pong, Guitar hero and more!
Don't forget your temporary ID-card and another form of indentification!

Doesn't that sound like fun? And I mention the date once more... It is my BIRTHDAY!! I don't know if I am going to go, but we'll see. It really depends on if Sara and/or Katie will go.. Or maybe I'll have made some new friends already that wants to go..

Oh.. by the way... now it is only 21 hours, 41 minutes, and 05 seconds till the new High School Musical movie starts... There's a countdown on Disney Channel you see..=D well whatever...

Bekkys birthday party is at Saturday so I am looking forward to that.. And she is going to cheer at a game too that day.. That's SO cute!! She's a cheerleader...

You know.. Sara, my oldest sister, is a really nice person.. And she can read like four lines by looking at one word.. And guess what she told me today...(??)... She said that she has both ADD (ADHD) and Dysleksia.. WOW.. well ... I need to go to sleep now.. so..
Nighty nighty...

Meeting my host family

2007-08-11T23:08:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody!Now it has been about 4 days or something since I arrived in California and I am enjoying the heat very much. It is like HOT all the time and I am getting a really big tan, but not a nice one because of the clothes that I am wearing.The day we traveled, I and 29 other AFS students traveled from Gardemoen and we flew to Amsterdam. There we took the plane to Los Angeles, from where we flew to Sacramento. In Winters (outside Sacramento) we got settled with some voluenteer families and they took us all around Winters and Davis and showed us around. In Davis I bought some new shoes (flipflops) and I and Malin (another afs student from norway) got a manicure. I spent about $25 on my extended nails because now I will stop biting them. Today, well here it is aboiut 23:00, I met my host family. They are great people, but I feel like the mom are somewhat their buddy or a teen mom or something... anyways.. I have been talking to Sara (oldest sister, born 1991) a lot, and she is a great person. She is a person I could be friends with, so that is like a really good thing because otherwise I would be all alone right now.Abby (abigail) is pretty much stuck to my feet right now, but they say that it'll cool off after a week or so.. lol. She is my youngest sister.We went to have chineese buffet for dinner and I tried to eat some of the food, but is was so unhealthy so I did loose my appetite a little. but it was okey.I am missing home a little bit, but I feel like I am going to fit in just fine if I give it some time, so we'll see.By the way, these guys have the greatest pool like EVER! It is shapet, it is warm and it has a waterfall and everything... And, Sara has her own bathroom, the parents have their own bathrooms and the other girls have a bathroom to share. That makes it three bathrooms in one, not too big house.I am kinda tired now, so I'll see yah when i see yah! btw: we're going to church tomorrow.. that'll be a nice expirience. love you all SO much!

Leaving soon

2007-08-03T15:46:00.000-07:00

Today it is only 4 day till I leave for the US. Or, actually it is technically only 3 days, but it sounds like more by saying 4 days. I am leaving for Yuba City, California, USA and I am going to live there for a year. I am SO excited!!
My family sounds like awesome people, so I hope there'll be no worries fitting in.
Places that I would like to see while my stay is:
-Hollywood (of course)
-Los Angeles
-Sea World
-Palm Springs (??) (see, not necessary to go inside)
-Universial Studios and Disneyland =D

We'll see... But now I need to go to bed.. Wedding party tomorrow, so I'll need some sleep.. (probably smart i figured).

TTYL
love yah all