Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures i took today:

Taken at grandma's party; (from the back, Blake, Grandma, me, Brailee. Front; Bowen, Brooklyn)

It was raining like crazy today, so Bowen and Brooklyn decided to go for a mud bath.

Party at Grandma's!!

Today our grandma had her 53th birthday, so we went over for a little party, and I have to admit, I did not see that one coming.. If you are wondering what kind of madhouse this is, you are prob not alone. It is tradition to cover the birthday boy/girl in toiletpaiper. Yes, toiletpaiper. Though it was kinda weird, it was fun =)

Fastfood eyy??

I figured I would make a little post about food, and by food, I mean fastfood. After 2 weeks in USA I have no problems understanding why 50% of the american people are overweight. There are 1000 different fastfood places all along the road, everywhere. When you are driving through a small town, you see some houses, maybe a school, 4 differend churches, 2 McDonalds, 1 Burgerking, 1 Wendys, 1 tacobell, 1 Arbys, 2 subways and 10 other random resturants. That is a lot of food...

When it comes to my own diet ill give you a typical day for me:

- Starting off with breakfast I often eat wafles, pancaces or french toast. (with atleast 1L maple sirup, the others eat it with a sugar as well) I also take a glass of orange juice and a vitamin pill.

- Lunch at school varies, but it is often salat, pizza, cheese toast or tacos, all with fires and a milk.

- When it is dinnertime, pizza, burgers and chicken are aten atleast twice a week. (Americans done eat fish, ever) The picture above is taker from this evenings dinner. Pizza's at 5$ a piece, in other words, the same a frozen pizza at home.

In the fridge I'm guessing there is 10 frozen pizzas, 10 different ice cream flavors, and 100 kg other microweave food I've never heard of before.

As you understand, americans are fat for a reason.

First week

This first period of time, I have been extremely bussy, with tonns of stuff to do everyday. I will therefore give you a summary including most of the things I have done. I won't go very deep into each topic, simply because it would take forever.
Starting off from wednsday; This was my first day at Delta High and things went very well. I met a lot of new people and got to know the teachers. My scadual goes as following:

1. American Goverment
2. Study Hall
3. Study Hall
4. Physics
Lunch
5. Sports Nutrition
6. English 12
7. Pre-Calcilus

The reason why I am having 2 study hall periods are because I have to study Norwegian, German and norwegian history in addition, so I have plenty of work to do. When I started school here, students had been going here for 4 weeks already, but after 1 week I have caught up with them in almost every subject, so school isn't too hard here. And the tests or quiz as they call it here are very easy. It is eighter true/false, multiple choises or a couple of sentences as an answer questions, which is pretty easy as well.
After school I play baskettball from 3 p.m - 4.30 p.m 4 days a week, and baseball from 5-6.30 4 days a week. After practise I usually go home and eat some dinner. (I'll get back to what I am eating during the day later on) Tuesday and Thursday the volleyball team play games, which I have attended to so far. JV startes at 6 p.m (classes 9-11) and varsity at 7.30 p.m (the best players from classes 9-12). Fridays the varsity football team play and JB play on saturdays (football as in american football, there are no soccer teams for guys in Delta. Besides all of this I was in Fort Wayne, Indiana on sunday to watch Brailee's baskettball tournament, as well as Blake playing JV football. Even though Blakes team lost 28 - 42, Blake had 3 touchdown receptions and a total of 300 yards during the game. The remaining part of sunday we watch football on tv. I've also watched almost every twins game so far, so as you may understand. I am very very bussy all day long!

Still haven't taken the time to take pictures, but as soon as I find the time in all this madness, pictures will come.

If there is something you are wondering about, just leave it in a comment, and I'll include it in the next post.

Arrival

After 15 hours on the plane going the route Bergen --> Frankfurt --> Detroit, I was looking forward to finally meet my new host family. The very first second I met them, it was instant chemistry. We were talking and having a great time already. I mentioned on an e-mail that I were a Twins fan, so I were give a twins cap :) About halfway to Delta we stopped on a steak house where I ate a chicken-bread soup, fried onions, french fries and a full lenght rib, called 'badass back boar rib'. Richard told me that his math did not add up; "How can that fit in there?"
As we made it back to the house I met about 30 new people. And each time I met a new person, I had to say my name slowly atleast 5 times, sometimes more. I did not make it to bed before 11 pm, 26 hours after I left my home.

I have a lot to tell you, but i've been writing for 1 hour 15 min now, and I need to start on my homework before I'm off to basketball practice (ligger godt an til aa komme med paa high school laget, pappa ;)

The beginning

Hello friends and family!
Welcome to my little blog site where I will keep you updated on my year in the USA. I have chosen to write the blog on english for various reasons. Among them are because I do have many international friends which I want to keep in touch with. Another is that I am over here to improve my english constantly, and what better way to do that than to write here in english as well. I am aiming for 1-2 contributions a week, but it might go a little slower as time pass on by.
I hope you will enjoy the site, make some comments and pop by every now and then!