Individual State Speech

Today was state individual speech. It was a lot of fun, and I was very nervous.. It did actually go okay. I got all 1's, which is the best you can get. There is a few tht makes it to all state. I would guess 1-200 goes. So I'm one of 40 in my group that got all 1's. So the chance that I will be going is very small. But I met my goal, All 1's :D

Dear imunesystem

I don't know if I forgot you back in Norway or what I did, but somehow I lost you. I miss our relationship. I feel so... Sick without you.

I miss the good times we had together, when I could go months without you leaving me. Our relationship was meant to be. I want you back!!I wish we could go back to the way it used to be. You and me, hand in hand. Helping me through snow storms, rain, sun and wind.

Do I have to prove myself worthy of you? I have taken cough syrup and cough drops, but they just don't make me feel the same way you do! I miss you!

P.S

Don't think that I don't miss you my dearest imunesystem, cause I truly do..
Please come back

Love
Julie!

Spring

Spring is finally here. That means that the snow is melting, and poor New Hartford will most likely flood to a degree.

I had individual speech practice today, So I waited around with Jared and studied until 4.45. Then we started practice.. I went to memorize my new changes. Around 5 I found out that I did not have a ride home, so I asked the track girls if one of them could give me a ride home. Meaghan was done, so she could. Which meant that I had to go home without actually having practice. It had it pros and cons.
Pros: I got to go home
Cons: Individual State Speech, and I don't really know my moves all that well..

Here's the story about individual speech: There is 3 people in my storytelling. Me, myself and I. I sit on a chair and tell a story. I have to be all the people in the story, and change my voice. My story is "how I became a pirate". I am Julie Jakobs, and I'm four years old. I failed map class, so my parents make me draw a map to the sandcastle that I'm about to make.
The pirates comes and takes me along on pirate adventures...

I'm going to study for American History and Math... Or I'm gonna "study" I brought the books home, and that makes me feel a lot better :)

It's been a while...

My big plan behind making a blog, was so that I could update people on my life in America. And guess how well that went?! (not too well at all) So here is a little update on my life in america for the two maybe three of you who will read this :)

August:

Started to play Volleyball, which was very hard since I was not only out of shape, but also because my team is VERY good. I am not being modest, AT ALL! when I say good, I mean good. I played on the freshman team, which didn't bother me, as long as I played. I also started school, which was very different from school in Norway.

Ben, Sarah and I went to a wedding in Minnesota and we got lost, so we did not go to the reseption (We got a flat tire, and could not find the way back) so we went to Mall of America for a couple of hours extra instead.

I also watched my first american football game, which last for a very long time.

September:

Most of the time I played volleyball, watched football games and i also had a fun and different experience with something called Homecoming; which is a week where you have a dress up theme for everyday, and at the end of the week, you have a dance. You also have homecoming king and queen.

Themes:

Monday: super star

Tuesday: Dress your best:

Julie and McKaila

Wednesday:

Culture day

Thursday:

80's day

Friday:

Blue and white

The homecoming king and queen

Joe and hannah

October:
I went to mall of America again with my IEC Cecilia McCloud and the exchange students from my organization from my area. I also went to Wisconsin with an other exchange student at my school. We went to Gays Mills, which is an apple orchard, and I fould a store called; Norske Hagen, and I bought a T-shirt saying; not only am I perfect, I am Norwegian too. (it's only for the fun of it, ofcourse)

We also have the BIG event of Halloween. Some rules you might or might not know: No costumes with guns allowed. if their front porch lights are not on, don't go to their door. You chech the candy before you eat it, to make sure that no one has put something dangerous in it.

November:

State Volleyball. Where to begin. it's a BIG DEAL in Iowa. It's the best team competing. we got second in 2008. Everyone had super high expectaions, but we lost our first game, and that was it. We were all very dissapointed. (Don't get me wrong. I did not play, but I watched it)

I also went to the premiere of NEW MOON! We stood outside waiting for two hours in the cold. (it just happened that I was sick too) the movie started at 12. I did not get home until 4 a.m. The movie was awesome though :)

Americans also have the tradition of Thanksgiving. For those of you who do not know what that is, I'll explain: It is a celebration celebrating the immigrants coming over from England. Here in America, it is a time when family comes together and eat A LOT of food. I went to Wisconsin to visit my (Host) aunt. The rest of Sarah's side of the family was there too. it was super nice, and a lot of very good food.

I also witnessed the moving of cows. You'll see 100's of cows running down the road. It's been a very long time since I've seen a cow that close up before. or it was not just A cow, but cows..

December:

the snow started falling. It had been the first time in around 50 years that they did not have snow in November.. I also started Speech, Which isn't holding a speech, but it is more like miny plays. I was in choral reading and readers theatre. where you are a group of people and dramatize the script. It was a lot of work, but it was also a lof of fun.

Some days before christmas, a snow storm was supposed to be coming. So we went over to Sarah's moms house. because we did not want to get stuck at home without Ben. A thing that was very smart, since the power in New Hartford stopped working. It was weird not having a huge christmas meal at grandma Tora's. but it was nice. We opened the packages on christmas morning, WAY too early if you asked me. We were there for a while, then we went over to Sarah's aunt and then Ben's parents. As you might understand. This is a lot of food. but luckily for me.. (or it depends how you look at it) I could only have half of what they offered because of my egg allergies.

On new years eve I went to a friends house and we played play station, Wii, guitar hero and watched movie. Unfortunately, they are not allowed to have fireworks. So we watched it on tv the things they did in New York City.

January:

Was like all Januaries. Boring, cold, dark. I spent most of my time with Speech. we were getting ready for Speech Contest.

We also had an other dance called Winter Formal. Which is just a random dance. We went to Tokyo, A japaneese restaurant. IT WAS AWESOME! I've never seen anyone do stuff they did.. they threw eggs up, fire (they cooked the food infront of us) I was a little sceptical about the whole egg thingy, because of my allergy, but it was delicious!

We also had speech contest, which means up very early on a saturday moring. preform and go home. All Dike- New Hartford teams made it to state without one, which is VERY good.

February:

State speech. Woke up at 5am. not very cool. we preformed, I blacked out, had to "fight" to preform our readers theatre. We made it to All state with our Choral Reading, which is very hard.

Two weeks later we had All State speech. it was awesome. there were so many people there, and so much good stuff to watch. We were all very nervous before our choral reading preformance. We did well, but didn't go all the way.

march:

It is only march 7, so it has not been too exiting. but i had a Soccer tournament yesterday, and that was a lot of fun. We won the whole tournament. Please show your amazement. (I should, I guess also mention that to win, we had to win two games...)

That's the main points of my year so far. Audhild my friend from norway is coming soon. I'm super exited about that. I am also super exited that the snow FINALLY is starting to melt :D

Because I am lazy, Scroll down...

Her er nesten alle norskene på campen. fra venstre nede;
Vet ikke, vet ikke, vet ikke, Julie, vet ikke, Matilde, Linn, Vilde
r2 fra venstre: Emily, vet ikke, vet ikke, Espen, håkon, Gaute, Lars, Alexander, Håkon, Maureen, Øyvind, Husker ikke :P

Dansing ^^,

Camilla, Vilde og Linn med den kuleste læreren. Han heter Kevin og vi hadde han i current issues

Fra venstre:

Anette, Julie, Vilde, Camilla, Kristine, Emily, Linn fra Norge og Nike og ei anna svensking :P

Last day så hadde vi home comming. Alle kledde seg fint og vi danset og greier.

Her er anette og emily. Grunnen til at Emily ser så saaabla brun ut(Hun er veldig brun) er fordi Anette er fra Hammerfest, verdens norligeste by, så hun får ikke så mye sol på kroppen*Intern*

I history class skulle alle lage sin egen øy, med egen grunnlov og hele pakka. Noen var veldig kreative og da så øya deres ut sånn her :P

Frokost og signering av t-shorter :)

GO GRANT WEST. vi var alle delt inn i High Schools. Vi var grant west og hadde grønne shorter under volleyball turneringen. Etterpå kunne folk skrive en liten hilsen på den, men det ble ikke så mange på min, for etter 1 time i glo heit gymsal er ikke t-shorta mi noe du vil skrive på...

Vannet nede med stranda var skikkelig ekkelt, for det hadde vært storm noen dager før og da hadde det kommet masse alger opp på stranda. Ett ord: Stinkbombe!

Siste shopping/fri dag at Newport beach, Rhode Island. Som du ser hvis du ser nøye, så sitter meg, Espen (med den fine hatten)og Martin bakki :)

jeg var nok et par såre rumper etter skates ja :P

Lazer tag. Super fun...

SkatebanenJenter fra klassen på vei til The Skates of America..

Baseball match.

Jeg kunne ikke være med pga de forbaska egg'an, men de fleste syns det var kjedelig å sitte å se på i 3 timer anyway...

Sang:

Take me out to the ball game,

take me out with the crowd.

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks,

I don't care if I never get back.

And it's root, root, root for the home team,

if they don't win it's a shame.

and it's ONE, TWO, TREE strikes you're out

at the OLD BALL GAAAAAAME

Et av mange randomme school bus bilder. På disse bussene fins det INGEN form for air condition eller vifte, så når du sitter der i en halvtime har du svetta av deg et par kilo.

På dette dag steikte sola og lufta var ikke til å puste i. Det kalles wacky-games, og det var veldig gøy :) Her løper Lian og Juliana fra tyskland 3beineren.. De var veldig gode

På grunn av en liten Egge reaksjon jeg fikk siden jeg spiste kinesisk ris, fikk jeg ikke spist på over 24 timer, og de som kjenner meg vet at jeg er nokså dau da.. Så da fant vi det første og beste (Okei, vi leita ganske lenge etter det da) Men vi spiste på hard rock cafe, og maten smakte HERLIG ;)

Vår andre shopping tur til Boston. Dagstur.. Vi var ikke så heldige med været i begynnelsen

Måtte bare ta det med. Et random bilde av ei som heter Ida fra Norge som også skal til Iowa :)
Jeg må bare si Grr...

Så har vi kommet til første dag med Shopping. Vi var på Providence Mall i Rhode Island, Det var et middels stort kjøpesenter, men sava asså. Det var HUGE!

Lian fra Nederland. What a sweetheart :) Hun var bare det koseligste. Her er vi på vei til Boston :)

Martin og Espen fra Norge. Ja, vi sitter tilfeldigvis i baggasjerommet på en bil, på vei til til stranda :)

Her har vi britta fra Tyskland. Blidere og morsommere jente må man lete lenge etter :)

Heldigvis fikk jeg meg noen venner.. Her er mine norske bestevenner <3

Fra venstre; Linn, Anette, Vilde, Kristne, meg, camilla og Emily

Dette er klassen min, personlig så syns jeg det er den beste klassen. Vi hadde så mye gøy :)

I know I'm lazy....

Men men

Vi fløy over island, noe som var en stooor skuffelse. Det så mer ut som noen hadde latt kaka stå litt for lenge i ovnen..

Well. Some "very exiting" pictures of something...
My first dollars :)

Christian and I eating chips. *Notice* Dress and sweatpants... Very nice

Consentrating....

Mommy is testing my new camera

The nice weather we once had, is long gone, and the tanning I started is looong lost..

So I figured I update all (3/4 of you) on my dreams this week. I normally don't remember what I dream, but this week has been kinda special.

1. The first dream I remember;

I was against Hitler in the war, and I once knew him. So to stop him from his evil work I had to have a puppy.. A black and white, named... Puppy

*What a great imagination I have*

2nd dream;

It was camp time in the US. The only thing was that I wasn't in the US, but in Columbia.. We had to go trough a lot of stuff including forest, climbing, glass breaking, swimming, fighting, blood and cocaine.

We all had to listen to a little girl saying that she only had 18 Kg of Cocain per week, so it wasn't so easy to have in her pockets. And then the EF man i met on a information meeting say that he had approx. 186 Kg every year, and that he hid it in his car...

3rd dream:

thing: mermaid

Name: Ariel

Place: in the dead sea

population: 1

hobbies: Swim

Relationship: Waaay to lonely

Age: Didn't know, since no one ever said happy birthday...

That was mostly my dream. I just swimmed around...

PS. 8 days till I'm leaving Norway :)

Sea Side Festival

We arrived at sea side festival on tuesday morning. There was so place for us to camp, but lucikly I met a person I knew so we could camp right next to her.

The main things that happened:

1. I did something gladiator thingy

2. I accendently managed to make Rosie's cell fall into the water

1.

I let the pictures and videos speak for them self!

(I am the closest)

Me and my gladiator time.. What a great time..

2.

I have no pictures so I'll have to explain.

It was very hot outside and we decided to bade in the sea before taking a shower which we desperately needed. Rosie had laid her cell under my towl(which I didn't know) So when we were done bading I took up my towl

And Rosie's cell fell into the water.

*panic*

In the end we managed to get it up (Or a very kind boy did)

*Panic*

Remember that this is sea water which is not good for a cellphone at all.

We did our best, but we didn't have the knowlegde on how to do it. So we found a kind man who knew.

*Pheff*

And now we have no idea if it is working, but it looks dark, so I said she could get mine when I leave norway, which is only two weeks from now.

*Feeling very mean*

Becide that we had a great time.

We came home at 4.1o a.m tonight, so I was pretty tired