After Seven and a bit Months

If I was to leave here on the sixth of January next year then I would have three months and thirty days left. Now I have been here for seven and a half months I am getting the language going more and more and I am making new friends too. In this new school year, which started in mid August, I have begun lessons in a music course at a new school for me. This is going well and I have already made new friends and am having a fairly good time. However for the last two and a bit weeks I have been sick with a common cold which has not wanted to leave so I have had some difficulties in going to school. However things are now looking up so I can't complain.
     I feel fairly comfortable with my life in Sweden now but I do find that increasingly often I find myself missing home a bit. While I've been on exchange everything has been new to me and I've been meeting new people and everything that is expected when you go on exchange but sometimes I miss having familiar people, places and things around me. I think that it will be nice to go back to Australia when the time comes.
    But for now I also am looking forward to the snow coming back to Sweden. The mediocre summer that they had here (they said it was the coldest and wettest in a hundred years) has now gone and in its place has come autumn, which is just as wet and even more cold. So when the snow comes then I will be able to go and do a bit of snowboarding which will be fun to have an activity do that is outside. Nowadays I try to go for walks around the town and around the forest in the hills and that's nice because Falun is a pretty Swedish town.
    I last changed families at the start of August so about a month ago and I will stay with this family for three months in total. They are very nice people who live in a very nice, large house in the old part of town which has lots of nice houses in it. I am about four or five kilometers away from the school I go to and I ride my bike to school. Sometimes I have a break in the middle of the day for three hours so I ride home and go back later on. My host brother goes to the same school as me but we aren't in the same class but still we can ride together in the mornings. I change to the next family in November and by then the snow should be back so I can go to the couple of slopes around here then. I am also looking forward to my first white Christmas. That should be good.


Some members of my host family like to ride horses I took a couple of (unfortunately pretty dark) pictures when i went out there and had a walk while they rode.

Also when I was at my family's summer house(pictured left) on the west coast of Sweden we had a picnic on the bare, windswept rocks of the Swedish coast(pictured right). Disgruntled host brother not pictured.

 Also I had a good Saturday last Saturday as i went and played minigolf and had fun. Here is a picture of me playing, and the ball went in! I like minigolf. That is all.