Texas Longhorns

We left school early on Friday to go to Austin. We were going to see a collage football game. Texas Longhorns against Kansas Hawks. Austin is a 6 hour drive from here so we had a long drive ahead of us. The trip actually went by really fast. We did not drive all the way to Austin on Friday through we spent the night in a small town called Gruene which is about 40 min from Austin.


Gruene was a super cute town. It had a lot of old buildings, like the oldest Dance hall in Texas. They also have a market there every third Saturday of the month were they sell hand made jeweleries and homemade sauces and a lot of other things.

From Geuene we went to Austin to get a hotel room and then we went to the game. We stopped by the Texas longhorn store we bought stickers to put in our faces and my host dad bought a football that he wanted to get signed by the players.

We knew that our seats were going to be high up but i was a lot higher than i had expected. We had to take 11 escalators to get up there and after that we walked up some stairs almost all the way to the top. We were saying that we would probably not come out on TV because then they would have to get a Helicopter to film all the wat up there.

I ejnoyed the game very much even though we were high up. The band were doing all kinds of cool formations before the game and i halftime ad it is actually better to see that from were we were sitting. Texas won the game in the end of course. When the game ended we went outside of the stadium to see if we could get autographs from some of the players. I didn't have anything to get signed, but i got to take a picture with some of them and my host dad got the signature of about 20 players. I felt bad for the players though because when they left tha stadium it was about midnight and they had practice at 6 am the next morning.

Basketball ++

Hi again first of all I want to thank you all for reading my blog. I have almost 1000 unique visitor now and that is super cool. I did not know when I first started writing that so many would be reading it. Awesome!

Two weeks ago was Halloween. We started the day with cleaning the house before we went to Sarah's last soccer game for the season. They won 11-0! We had brought our costumes to the game because we left directly from the game to a family friend's house. We changed before we all went trick or treating. Here people in all ages go. In most of the houses there were people sitting outside to give out the candies and all the houses were decorated. I was dressed up as little red riding hood, Renan was a Rockey Balboa, Sydney was the little mermaid and Sarah was a zombie soccer player. We got a lot of candies we went back to the house for a little while before we went back home and ate all the candies :p
I'll post a picture from Halloween later.

This week the basketball season started I had my first game on Tuesday. We also played a tournament this week. We had one game on Thursday and two on Friday. We lost all our games, but I had a lot of fun. We'll do better next time ;) On the game on Thursday i made my first foul and the ref came up and congratulated me. In the first game on Friday i finally made my first basket in the game it felt so good hopefully there will be many more of those later.

One ting i have noticed is that all the teams we have played against have a lot taller girls than we have. I'm actually the tallest girl on my team. Good excuse for why we haven't won yet ;)

Busy life

You think your life is busy you have a lot to do? Really? I Used to think my life was busy, but it really wasn't. I always had a few minutes here and an hour there, now I have nothing. Last weekend I took my ACT test from 8am to 12pm then I went to my host grandmothers house to set up tables and chairs for a party we were going to have for my host great grandmother later. After that I went to my other host grandmothers house to make food for the party. We got home at 5.30 pm and then we had 30 min to shower and get dressed for the party. At the party I was busy all the time serving people drinks and cakes.

On sunday I went to my host sisters cheer leading show. After the show I went with my friend to her church and afterwards we went to McDonalds with all her friends from church and we had a great time.

Then another week started and also basketball practices. I'm at school from 8am to 3.47pm and than I have practices from 4 to 6 EVERYDAY and on Saturdays from 10am to 12pm. On weekdays I'm home between 6.30pm and 7pm. Then I take a shower eat dinner do my homework and go to bed. Home in Norway I would watch a lot of series like Desperate House Wifes, Gossip Girl and Grace Anatomy. I was looking forward to see all these shows before my friends in Norway, because they come out earlier here, but I don't have any time left over to watch TV. The life of an exchange student is busy.