Happy Easter!

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Easter Holiday

starts tommorow, so I have just finished my last day of school for a week and 3 days.
This will give me tome to work/play on... well, everything! yay!

Things to do:
-start assembling my B-2 Stealth bomber (model, not a real one)
-get and set up my new surround sound system
-get a case & power supply for my new/old computer. I'm gonna make it out of my bror's old motherboard & graphics card, a sound card and CD drive I got for my birthday, an old HDD or two, etc.
-install new memory in old computer, see how it works.
-go sledding, maybe
-meet friends, do stuff wit them
-remote control stuff
-homework - yeah, 3 teachers gave us stuff to do during the break :-(
-Music
-more!

Mom and Dad are in Dublin until tommorow, so it's been just me, my Bror, and the dog here since Tuesday.

Great B-day!

I Love laser tag!!!

Yesterday (Friday, 18 March):
-wake up early(5:50) because the sun is coming up sooner in the mornings :)
-take the train to school, get there way early(~7:40)so I can practice for the talent show
-8:30: talent show begins, the audince is amazingly responsive
-my band, whose name is still UDC, or Undecided, does their stuff- Tears in Heaven and Californication
-my class (9S) does their performance, without a hitch - we play Take 5 and Tequila
-talent show ends
-10:45: planning and filming for my Spanish project
-lunch: chicken nuggets with muffins
-after lunch: filming for Spanish project
classes...
-after school: waiting for everybody (about 15 9th graders) to assemble in front of school
-4:20 start walking to laser tag place
-4:30-5:10 play laser game SOO FUN!!
-5:10 Snickers cake, people singing Ja mar duleva ute hundrade ar(Swedish birtday song)
-presents: B-2 bomber model, sound card & CD-rw drive from Carro- very thoughtful, thanks! now I need another computer to put it in!
-5:30 or so: go to internet cafe' with the guys, play Call of Duty and Counter-Strike
-6:30: come home

It was an awesome Day-after-birthday party!

Paragliding pictures

The pictures have been sent to Snapfish, so I'll have to wait for them to come back to scan 'em in.

Busy

Man! I'ver really got a lot going on, even without counting actual school work! Barely any free time...
- School from 8:00 to 4:00 every day, have to get on the bus around 7:10
- Working on the Student Newsletter during lunchtimes
- Doing Community Service by creating an inventory of all the computers in the school in all extra break/lunchtime.
- Flute lesson until 5:15 or so on Tuesdays
- Piano Lesson until 6:15 on Wednesdays
- Band practice on Fridays (plus this Thursday)until around 6:00, half an hour to get home
- Flute and piano practice
- this blog
- running the web server, getting more familiar with Linux
- stopping to smell the roses...

*sniff*...
- learning Java (in my currently near-nonexistant free time)
- doing the International Award
- having fun
- taking advantage of the winter (sledding, etc.)
- my birthday tommorow, and birthday party on Friday!

continuation

We asked him what his job was and he told us he was a paragliding instructor. Apparently he had been looking for customers, saw a promising-looking family get on the lift, and ran after us. I, for one, had expected to have to make reservations or appointments beforehand, but he told us that we could paraglide immideately on reaching the top. We would have to fly tandem with an instructor, since it was our first flight.

We took him up on his offer and he showed us to the 'paragliding hut' near the top of the mountain. One of his colleagues who was there, a member of the national paragliding team, was to take my brother up with him and take pictures. I was to go with the instructor we had met, Mr. Andersson(a typically Swedish name). Mom firmly rejected the offer and Dad stayed behind with her.



After we were strapped in to harnesses so as not to fall out of the paragliders, we were instructed to run down the side of the mountain, with the instructors behind running right behind us, connected to the us and the chute. After only a few steps of running, even in our clumsy ski boots, the harness simply pulled me and Mr. Andersson off of the mountain to soar. The flight was wonderful. Paragliding is exactly like sitting on a flying chair. you have a perfect 360 degree view of the world below you and the sky above you, only interrupted by the instructor sitting behind you and the parachute above. Mr. Andersson let me control the flight a little bit, by pulling on two cords to adjust the amount of drag on either side of the chute.

The landing was pretty easy, like the takeoff, but I can see how it could be very uncomfortable if the ground isn't covered with snow or there are strong winds.

this picture isn't from our flight, I should be getting some of our pics up soon.

Ski story

I probably don't have enough time to write a story, but...
On the last day of the ski trip, my family was going up the lift to make our first run down. My brother and I planned to show our parents a new slope that we thought they would like, one that went all the way from the top of the mountain to the bottom. It was an easy slope, but there were extra-large areas on the side for 'off-piste' skiing for my brother and me. We got off the first lift, a chair lift which only went halfway up the mountain, to switch to the mini-gondola lift.
It was a beautiful clear day, with one of the bluest skies I have ever seen (It's hard to beat the ones we had in Brasil.) it was no less than -5 degrees C, so it would not be too cold to ski fast.

While oing up the gondola lift, however, A man jumped on with us, wearing a red uniform that showed he was some kind of official worker there.

more later-no time now.

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Back from Skiing

I'm back! don't have much time, but I had a great time skiing, and even got a surprise paragliding trip into the deal! Are is definitely a better place for serious skiing than Salen, where my family and I went last year.

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