Christmas at Holsby

Well there are only 19 days until I go home. Here at the school we are getting right into the Christmas spirit. We have our Christmas tree (one in the main building as well as another outside the main building). We have decorations (at least in the girls dorm) and everyone is excited about Christmas. This next weekend we have our Christmas concert for the people around this area to attend. It will be tons of fun and really good. Everyone is working really hard for it to be amazing. Class work is slowing down, we had a lot due this past week so now we find ourselves getting bored or not knowing what to do exactly. We are all either excited to go home for Christmas or go on our adventures. Looking forward to seeing everyone

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25 Days to Go

There are only 25 days till I go home for Christmas. It seems crazy. I still have a lot to do before then. This past little while has been full of lectures, outreaches, and trying to finish my homework on time. I still have a lot of reading to do before its due but I'll get it done or way or another. I booked my train ticket to the airport for when I leave, so I am all set to go. Its very exciting knowing ill be seeing a lot of people in less than a month but at the same time crazy. I went Christmas shopping although I didn't get very much. I still have another month, but I know that will be gone before I know it. Although going home is very exciting i have a lot to finish before then. A lot of reading! 

This past Friday I went with my outreach to a youth group so we make a program for it. We did a lot of games, one of the girls did a devotion, we did worship, then we just had fika (food/snack) with the youth and just hung out with them. It was a lot of fun. Some of them go to the school we were at a couple 

weeks ago so I recognized them and that was very cool. Its nice knowing Swedish people around here. Makes it feel more homey. In February we have a week of outreach where we go somewhere else so there are a few different places you can go. So we will have to decide where we want to go for that and start to raise money for it. That will be fun. This place is a second home for me, since I've been here for so long. It will be weird going home but I still cant wait to. I miss everybody a lot. 

We got snow here finally...but its not very much at all. But it's nice cause it feels more like winter then and more like Christmas. 

We are also in the midst of practicing for our Chri

stmas concert. Its fun and going really well. We are doing one main piece, then we have two other worship songs that we are changing up a bit. In the two worship songs they're are duets for verses, done by students, and then the choir singings the chorus. Its going really well. We have only started two songs though...and the concert is in two weeks! Its crunch time. Lots to do and not a whole lot of time to make sure they get done.

London England

I just got back from my London adventure today which was amazing. So many things happened! The stories start off right from the beginning when we almost missed our first bus. We thought we were taking a train but my friend noticed it was a bus and that bus was about to leave. So we had to run in order to catch it, but we did. When we got to our hostel in London we found it to be very very sketchy! When we walked in the door there were two cops there with some people reporting a theft. The people were just sketchy. So one of the girls told her mom about this hostel and her paid offered to pay for a hotel for us girls to stay in since she didn't like the hostel either. Our first full day in London we went to the movies along with other things that I cant remember. When the movie was over we came out and saw a huge crowd around and we heard someone yelling about Leonardo DiCaprio being a normal human being. It was his movie premier for his new movie and we were there! We saw Leo DeCaprio in person, it was awesome. 

The following day was taken up mostly by trying to find our hotel. At first we had gone to the wrong hotel in the wrong part of town. So we had to find out were the hotel we were reserved for actually was. By the time we actually got to the hotel we had missed the walking tour and changing of the guards that we had wanted to go to. That afternoon we toured around England, saw Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Buckingham Palace. We spent a lot of time walking and taking the subway. Then we went to a restaurant and ate Fish and Chips, thats right. It was pretty good too! And no we didn't end up riding in a double decker bus, we just took the subway. That evening we shopped a bit, we couldn't spend too much money, but I bought a European scarf and shoes! It was fun. The next day we went on the free walking tour around town that took us by Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the home of Prince Charles and Lady Camilla. However that day it was raining so after we lost our tour guide on the tour we just went back to the hotel and hung out and watched movies the rest of the night. Overall it was a ton of fun!

London

Wow I can't believe I'm actually going to London in 2 days. Its so amazing. Im going with my roommate Kaeli and my other friend Colleen. We will stay safe! So no worries. But its going to be fun. I've always wanted to go to England somewhere, I was thinking more Paris but London is amazing as well. Im not sure what we will do but I can bet we will be going non stop for a while. We are staying at a hostel in London together. We leave from the school Wednesday morning and don't get back until Sunday afternoon. So we will have 3 days in London so it will be tons of fun. Going sightseeing, trying to see anything and everything that we can. I am very excited and can't wait to leave!