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We've started practising for Lucia! It's fun. It's just the Year Nine classes, and our Lucia is going to be the last Lucia ever done by Åbyskolan. I've been showing people that picture of me in Lucia clothes from last year (if you want to see it just ask and I'll email/iMessage it to you considering it's hard to do photos on this site). Also it just takes a maximum of fifteen minutes on the bus now to get to school, much shorter. Also I'm the only one on the bus to school. Anyway, hope you're having fun in Australia and sorry about the lack of update-y-ness

Today we went to see a live professional innebandy match. It was Linköping vs Warberg. Linköping won 5-1 (or 6-1, can't remember). I was amazed at the control they had, considering when I've played it was a case of swinging your club and hoping for the best. And the ball goes everywhere when I play. It was really fun

I may or may not update what's been happening, but today in English, we had to choose a subject for a project. I chose, surprise surprise, netball. And since I was reading the Wikipedia page in Swedish, it mentioned that Sweden has one netball club, Stockholm Netball Club, and it was founded by an Australian in May 2008. So Linn, you can totally play in Stockholm on Wednesday nights when you come back to Sweden, right?

So today between Food and French, around a quarter to two, an ear-splitting shriek occurred. Everyone outside the French and German rooms put their fingers to their ears, picked up their stuff, and began walking down the corridor. I had no idea what was going on, so I followed. Halfway down the corridor, I realised that it might be a fire alarm. I much prefer Albert Park's fire alarm, because it isn't a high pitched, piercing, constant sound.

Anyway, we got to the grassy area at the front of the school where we have our sport lessons. The sport class was the only group of students to get there before us. As we watched students just walked calmly without teacher direction to the grassy area, showing it is possible. We also lined up in class lines. Everyone exchanged stories (I thought someone was screaming/I thought it was a whistle/It was so loud etc), while I asked the girl next to me if this was the whole school. It was. I knew it was small, but seeing everyone in front of me really made it hit home that yes, one year level at APC has more students than Åby's whole school.

Niklas, one of my teachers came and counted us, everyone asking him what happened. Suddenly we heard the siren of a fire truck, and everyone was suddenly quiet, thinking "wait, this is real". As soon as we saw the fire truck, I began explaining the two times this has happened to me before, once in Year Seven and once earlier this year. Marianne said afterwards that their teacher dumped them off (somehow they were in a car bus thing) and drove away, and three minutes came back in the fire truck (because he's also a fire fighter).

After this point all our order collapsed. As one, we all surrounded Niklas asking questions, and then, still as one, walked to the shade of the tree. At this point it became like lunchtime would be if the whole school had it at the same time and had to stay on the grass.

After a while, a fire fighter came out, and all the students cheered and clapped (after all, we were missing our last lesson of the day). The fire fighter spoke to a teacher and went back inside, and the sport class began asking if they could go and shower now. After another ten ish minutes, with ten minutes left of the school day, the all clear was given, the sport class could shower and change, and the rest of us could go to our lockers, get our bags, and leave.

So, in Year Seven, the food class burned fish. Earlier this year the food class burned chicken, I think. This time, it's rumoured that a boy in Year Eight pressed the fire button, calling the alarm. The scary thing is, we could smell smoke anyway...

And this time you haven't heard from me because I've been lazy and also nothing major has really happened.

I think I'm settling in to life here, but I still sometimes miss you all like crazy. On Tuesday we had school photos. The class I'm in is the opposite of my class last year. Last year was six girls and fourteen boys, this year we have seven boys and sixteen girls, so pretty much the opposite.

In English on Friday, Åsa, my teacher, asked me to talk about about school life in Australia to the class. She encouraged questions, but no one really asked anything (I think they were shy of their English, since that's the language they would have had to ask in). After class however, some people came up to me and asked me questions (in Swedish), so I knew I wasn't speaking too quickly or anything. One of the girls, Jenny, said "you speak really good English" and I just said "I hope so, it is my first language" and then her friend, Amanda, said to her "you speak really good Swedish." We all laughed at that.

I don't know what else to say. Questions, please (here or email, I don't care), so I can tell you more

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Since you don't know when I reply, (because you're anonymous and don't have accounts), I suggest you check the previous post to see if I've replied. Especially since school just finished in Australia, and you need something to do, so check the replies from the previous post!

So, I haven't mentioned anything for a while now. Welp. So I'm going to update you under the cut. Also, please ask questions about anything

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Don't you agree?

Today was my last day of school in Australia this year. We had a party after school. We ate a lot of food, played Ninja (I can't remember who won out of Lydia or Ash, though), played Duck, Duck, Goose (which people failed at, running to the food instead of around the circle), and talked. And hugged. A lot of people were quite sad and emotional giving me the final hug. Remember, guys, you'll see me next year. I'll be back in 140 days (as of Monday). I'm not gone forever. I'm coming home soon.

Anyway, all day at school, I was just smiling, I was so happy. I was stupidly happy, smiling and not knowing what to do. I'm just so excited, only three days left to go!

Don't forget to comment, guys. I don't care if what you say has nothing to do with what I said. This is going to be my primary form of communication (after email). You need to get used to using it. Please. Also, don't forget to sign each message (assuming you have more), not just your first one. Thanks!