One week of school....done

Today I can officially say that I have had one week of school finished. Yay! It is starting to make more sense. If the teachers use pretty simple sentences I can pick out words and get the gist of what they want. I'm still confused most of the time but it is working out.
My family and I can't find enough to do in our spare time. We spend a lot of time watching TV, which is actually in English with Norwegian subtitles. So watching TV is educational, we learn Norwegian words! We are on the computer a lot too, talking to family, or friends.
It hasn't stopped raining since we got here. It just keeps pouring or drizzling, or threatening to rain. Skylee came home today with her gloves soaking wet. My mom picked them up and tried to squeeze the water out and MUD came out. She had fallen down over and over and over again at recess today and had always landed with her hands in mud puddles.
Tyler keeps walking around the house saying "Neida" "Joda" "Neida" "Joda" (Which is No and Yes, respectively.)
Andrew and Skylee are constantly playing tag and running around the house, much to the dismay of our downstairs neighbors. ;) They are always wound up but it might just be the weather and the fact that we have a mud pit for a backyard. On the days that it will be good weather (and the backyard dries out) they won't want to go out and run around anymore. But that is how they are. :D
The kids at school love talking to me, one girl is learning both English and Norwegian- she only knew Somalian. She knows a lot more Norwegian then English, today she asked me "How you happen?" So I asked her to help me with my Norwegian and I'll help her with her English. But she just laughed and asked someone to translate for her that she will help me, and the first thing she taught me was "Du spise for mye!" Which means I eat to much, of course she didn't eat at all today and I had a sandwich.
So I think that is all I want to say....Oh Wait! I found an English section in the library and so I got Eclipse in Norwegian and English and am now reading it sentence by sentence. I will work my way through the whole book eventually.
There I think that is enough. I hope it was more detailed for a certain person. I really tried to make it more interesting and add some more thought to it. :)

Friday

Today is Friday. Wow. Two weeks ago I had my last day in school, was it only two weeks?  Geez It feels like it has been so much longer. I take the public buses to school and back. That will take a while to get used to. When my stop comes up I hit a button that says 'stopp' and then the bus will stop for me.

School is crazy it drives me nuts to not understand what is going on. I can't talk to the students because a lot of them know very little English and then they would rather talk in Norsk (Norwegian). It is really hard. Hopefully it will get easier, sometimes though I don't even have to speak!

Like today I played Foosball for about 2 hours and didn't have to say much, what I did say were numbers (the boys kept trying to move more then one at a time and I kept telling them 'En! En!' [one one].) Or Yes or No! and spille (which is play). It was fun. I beat the boys (they ganged up on me, two boys to me) I beat them once and then they were beating me when I had to leave to get the bus.
Ah well it was fun. :)

Skole

Today was my first day in and school and it was nuts.
They don't really have a structure in their school, people would just get up and wander out and then come back. Teachers would do the same thing so it was really weird. I am starting to learn the language with the basics one- en, two- to, three- tre....Mother- Mor, Father- Far, etc.
The students are really nice to me probably because they have all been the new kid at one point or another, they are all from different countries. Somalia, Russia, Italy, and other countries.
We had like 3 breaks during the day once to get some free fruit, lunch took like an hour, and then later in the afternoon took a 5-10 minute break.
Tomorrow will be a great day and more school. Hopefully the teachers have my schedule worked out a little better. I think that eventually I will figure out the school and the language until then I hope the students in class don't get tired of translating and pointing out were to go!

What should I title this?

I don't know what to title this it was a lazy day. I just worked on the computer and played games with my fam. My dad was in Oslo for the day (he still is in fact he won't get home for at least 2 more hours.). We had a sister from the ward over her name is Krystal and she is from Texas and married a Norwegian named Rune (pronounced roona). Skylee had a blast teaching her Killer Bunnies. She is really nice and actually is in the Young Womens' presidency. Any ways. Today is also a rainy day...the snow from Sunday and Monday has all melted. hehe. :) I am so glad I don't like the snow. 

Bored and Stuck Indoors

We got really really really bored today. We couldn't go outside because it decided to snow. So we explored a bit of the town, went and saw the Nidoraus (that is not spelled right but close enough) Cathedral. It has a green roof for some reason. After that we got to go and sit in the police station for about an hour, that is where they do the immigration stuff. My dad sat at the counter and talked to the lady and we all went up when it was our turn and they looked at us, looked at our passports, then scanned it all, and told us we could sit down. All that waiting for hardly anything.
 Then we went home and watched Abbot and Costello's version of Jack and the Beanstalk. It was pretty good, but it only took a few hours. We still were pretty wound up. Snowy, stuck in the house days will do that to you.
So we started playing Hide and Seek. Normally that game isn't very much fun but occasionally if you have the right house with good hiding spots it is totally worth it. And this house is defiantly worth it. We probably played for 45 minutes maybe an hour. We all had some really good spots. I hid in the wood box, Tyler hid on A.J.'s bed, Skylee hid in my dad's coat and boots making it impossible to see her, and A.J. hid in his closet. Ty had a really great idea. He took a clear plastic tub, stuck it on his head, and followed A.J. around saying "I'm invisible! I'm awesome! And all three of them put together!"
Then we started to get bored again after that, A.J. went upstairs looking for Tyler. I was hiding in my room so I was privileged to get to hear what happened next. Ty was hiding right behind the door and thought A.J. had seen him. Andrew, however hadn't, he walked right by and into Ty's room when he came back out Tyler said "Yoda" (which is Norwegian for yes). Oh A.J. flipped out. He yelled so loud the neighbors two floors down should have freaked out, and he was stomping his feet and couldn't stand up. Tyler on the other hand couldn't stand up because he was laughing sooooo hard.
A.J. eventually recovered and came into my room....Ty walked in first and saw me. A.J. followed him in and I jumped up and yelled. He flipped out again, just not quite as badly. We went back to Ty's room and Sky popped out from under the blanket and A.J. let out a high pitched scream.
Now we are bored again and waiting for dinner, then family home evening, then bed time. I am actually looking forward to school on Wednesday I don't think i can last much longer stuck in the house with my siblings.

Sunday

Today was my first day in church. Young Women's was in English and I went to the adult Sunday school that was offered in English. Sacrament meeting was a different story. My dad borrowed some translator boxes from the missionaries there. We plugged in our head phones and were able to listen to the speakers in Norwegian in one ear and English in the other. It didn't automatically translate, however, some of the members offered to translate. One man who is trying to improve his English, because he has a really bad accent. An elderly man who speaks without any accent and a sister in the ward. It was so weird to listen to the headphones because I am so used to just listening and understanding.
I got really tempted in the middle of the meeting when my brother was asleep to unplug his headphones, turn up  his volume all the way and then put his headphones back. I changed my mind though knowing that one day I will fall asleep with my headphones in and my brother will love to get revenge.

Norway

I've arrived in Norway. And it is covered in snow and raining. Ugh. I do however have my own room, which is really nice. I am pretty well adjusted already I think. I don't know how excited I am yet, it looks pretty nice. Even Hell looked pretty good. Anyways I have arrived with my family and alles gut! (that is German for all is good)

I'm late!

I know I'm really late by about 2 weeks on one event and just a day late on something else.

So on the 3rd I had Dalon up to my grandma's to say goodbye. We played the Wii for a few hours and I beat him pretty bad on most of the games. It is pretty hard to say good bye, and I wish I didn't have to to it again, but it is what it is.
Last night was the 10th I went to the teen dance. Blakely, Tasia, and I went to it. Dalon was out of town and Jamison was 'fixing a roof' (not so sure about that one, but okay) They played one of my favorite songs: Secrets by OneRepublic, and I was asked to dance by a boy in my grade that I've seen around but he had noooooo idea who I was, It was pretty funny. They played Single Ladies too, I have to tease Blakely, she didn't want to go up and dance on that song, but I told her that technically tonight she was single, since Jamison wasn't there. ;) It's lots of fun to tease her, until she teases me back. :(

Ah, well, it's late I ought to go to bed before my sentences stop making sense. Even right now I'm pushing it about whether or not it makes sense.

Soon

I'm getting really nervous in less than a week and a half I will be in NORWAY! I am moving with my family and it is getting more and more real with every passing day. What an adventure, and what a new experience.