Leawood, Kansas City - My new life so far

Sorry that I haven't updated for a while. These last couple of days has been so overwhelming. I think I have to cut this up in pieces if im gonna be able to tell all this.

First of all, my arrival went great. Lauren, my youngest host sister had made me a poster with the norwegian flag and my name, she is so lovely. And the rest of the family is fantastic! They take really good care of me and they do everything to make sure that I'm ok. The first thing that we did was to go to an restaurant to eat some dinner. Then they took me to a big and typical "Kansas mall". And then we drove back to their house, and gosh!! it's enormously! My room is beautiful, I also have a king size bed so im quite happy about that. They have a lot of animals compared to what im used to. My favorite is their two dogs, Cookie and Andy. Shelbi is quite sick though. She have glandualar fever (kyssesyken). She's been ill for over two weeks now. But we have watched TV together and talked a lot. The first night we watched Juno, brilliant movie!!

Yesterday I went to go and see my American counsellor, we picked classes and talked about the school. My favorite class is of course choir! (and clothing, photography and team games) im so excited about my classes, I certainly got to pick something that I like and also subjects where im able to make friends. I hope that my Norwegian counsellor approves it. We ordered my yearbook and my graduation gown. My graduation is in May ( im sooo counting down the days). Later that day I also got the chance to walk around at the school building. I made friends with two junior girls and one senior guy, so they showed me around. The guy looked like a typical American football player. So when he told me that he was in the choir I thaught to myself; common!! he must be joking. But he wasen't. Apparently, choir is a big thing here at the school, so good for me.

Garry took me to this laptop store on Sunday. And I finally got my longing laptop! and it's reeeeeeeeed!! (Totally Serena and Cassie, hihi) It's the best birthday present ever ( Thank you mom and the rest of the family)

My brand-new laptop, wohoooooooooooo

ok ok, ma roe ned egga. I'll catch up with you later, probably on Thursday (it's my first day at school).

Mariell