To Hundre dager fest!! (two hundred day party)

This is a bit late, but it is one of the first times I've been free!
Two hundred days! That is a long time, So to celebrate here are some intresting facts about the number. 200 hundred miles is the average amount that the pony express would cover in a day. Each dandelions can produce 200 seeds. In Greek mythology Typhon the Titan had 200 red eyes, two for each of his 100 heads.

Two hundred is also the number of days that we have been living in Norway. The time has seemed to both fly and go incredibly slowly. It was September 28, and I planned a party

In order to celebrate I thought it would be fun to do a themed party. 200 days deserves something right? So I set up a movie with dad and mom, I created a shopping list (of course we had food), I assigned out jobs to the kids, and we were set.
Movie: Monster's Inc.
Shopping list: Candy (of course!), Hot dogs (our first meal in Norway), pop (there is always pop on airplanes), and I would have liked peanuts and pretzels but that got vetoed in light of all the candy available. ;)
Jobs: I was head attendant and Miss Boss, Tyler was our Captain, A.J. was a chef, and Skylee helped me out as flight attendant.
I even made Boarding passes for the flight! We loaded up about 5 o'clock, dinner was served (by A.J. and Sky) Skylee served everyone drinks, and then the inflight movie showed! It was a lot of fun.
Oh, almost forgot Skylee told everyone what to do in case of emergancies. It was a good list that she came up with herself:
"In case of fire, go out the window, and flap your arms and fly away like a bird"
"If we land in water, hold your breath and swim away like a fish."
"When your done eating load your own dishes"
All in all it was a lot of fun, but I don't know how I am going to top this when we have been here for a year, it wasn't to hard to come up with this one, but what else can I do for the next one?
(P.S. I welcome any suggestions for the year party, in the comments below)

Tyler "crash landed" the airplane

Skolen/School!!!

My stack of textbooks!

     So it is official school has started. To be even more correct though it started a few weeks ago on the 21st of August. I have just been trying to settle down and begin the school year.
      As most of you know I have been accepted into the IB program. It is an all English program based in a Norwegian High School, which means I still have Norwegian surroundings most of the day. There are some really nice kids in my class, only 7 of us are only English speaking the others speak Norwegian.

This is Sky with my books, showing how tall the stack is. It is huge!

     I have two or three classes a day, but that is enough! My books are HUGE, with just my textbooks in my bag it weighs in close to 30 lbs (14 Kg).
I am up and about by 6:15 because I have early morning seminary on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and some Fridays. (Wednesday is after dinner at the church, which is nice.)
School starts at 8:15, each class lasts for 90 minutes. I typically have two classes before the hour lunch and then one more afterwards. I have English, Norwegian, Physics, Math, Chemistry, and a wonderful class that called "Theory of  Knowledge" which questions everything I have ever learned.
     The school has supplied me with all of the textbooks, and a computer that at the end of the two years, will be mine. Everyday I get more homework, each assignment is due within the week. It is a lot of fun.
     Since I am part of the regular school system I have the opertunity to join in the clubs offered here. One such club is the school Newspaper- Kattastrofe (means catastrophe). I went to the first meeting just to hear about it. I ended up being voted the Secretary! The Editor-in-chief is an only English speaking boy in my IB, and the treasurer is also an IB member. So the IB is taking over all of the programs. We also have sent an only English speaking student to the Student Council.
     So there you have a look at my school schedual, and a good idea of what I do each day. If there are any questions about my school LET ME KNOW, I will answer you!!!

Summer

I know I haven't blogged since right after of EFY so I am going to do a really quick thing. Let's see how this all works.

One day we took a trip through town acting the Tourists. This is an old bridge we saw.

They have a fort here with real guns "just in case." We checked it out one day.

This doesn't look like much but this is an old church that they built the library on top of. That is my dream to be forever in the library, except I would like to be alive!

We visited a castle from the 1800's this is where a cannon used to be. The walls were really thick.

This is the castle that we went to. Sadly, it is one story smaller then it used to be. They recycled a lot of the brick on another building.

These are wild blueberries and wild strawberries, they are TEENY, but really sweet.

We went on a hike and found this river and rock dam, all four kids are here somewhere.

This is Monkholmen. It was built from the castle rock. At one point it was a prison at another a monastery.

I played in the water at Monkholmen, this is the closest thing to an actual beach in Norway.

I had a lot of fun, reading on the beach.

Another day in the woods. Berry picking for some of those mini wild blue berries.

We had a great day at the Science museum. A.J. is trying to get the ball through the loops using a fan.

This is the same day we went picking berries, while the girls collected berries the boys collected frogs.

They have a festival here to celebrate some king. They dress up as nights and have jousting tournaments.

Here we are at the festival. If you click on the picture you can make it bigger and see the swords and daggers they are selling, A.J. is holding some chain mail.

 

This is at the fort with the guns, A.J. and I had a Umbrella Fight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, now that you are at the bottom, comment on which one you want to know more about! I will post a full blog post about the one that gets the most comments on!