My day has probably been one of the best days of my entire year! So happy I went here! I even saw a celebrity, wiho! Kim from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills! She was picking up her kid from school. Yvonne saw Lisa from the same show in her car but unfortunately I missed her. But we drove around in Beverly Hills, on Rodeo Drive, on Sunset Blvd, around by the massive houses in Beverly Hills and Hollywood. Now when I got home I saw that Justin Bieber had been in West Hollywood at exactly the same time we were there! Didn't see him but still, we were in the same place! We also drove by the Beverly Hills hotel. Really cool!

Tomorrow we'll go down to one of the beaches, and hopefully to Santa Monica Pier! I LOVE L.A! This is probably the only place I would want to move to here in the US! I just love it here!

Actually had a great birthday! Our hotel here in California is super nice and we had my birthday dinner at Yard House. I had ribs and then I got a chocolate soufflé for free! So it was really nice and the company was great! Just wishes that my family and friends from Sweden could have been there too! Doesn't really feel like my birthday though, but yep, I'm 17 now. Only one year til 18!!

Byyyyyye!

Off to California in about 10 min. I'll tell more about my birthday when I'm there, but so far, it's been really good! And thanks for all the birthday wishes! :*

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I got my flights yesterday, or the flight wave. I'm in wave 4, which is June 11-13. School ends on the 5th so then I have a week before I go home. Feels so unreal. Feels like I'm never gonna be back home, feel like I'm gonna stay here forever. But it was the same when I was gonna leave Sweden. It felt like I would never be in the US, but now I'm here, and I've been here for more than 6 months.

I felt so smart in school today!!! In US history we're talking about WWII, and who's a pro and knows everything about it? ME! I'm so thankful that we worked with it in ninth grade, cuz now I'm already ahead of everybody else in my class. And we're gonna have a test on it in two weeks and who's gonna ace it? ME!

I have an essay that's due on Thursday. I'm gonna write a persuasive essay about gay right. That's in English. And on my report card I got a D in English, 69,8%, 0,2% away from a C. So Yvonne called the school to make them change it, but apparently they had done something wrong! I didn't have 69,8%, I had 77%!!!!!!!!!! Wiiiiiiiiiiiie! Almost a B!!

So today was a really good day! Now I'm gonna finish my beautiful salad and then continue with my homework!

Wish I could've been home today to celebrate my mom's birthday with her, but at least I was with them when my sister woke her up so that was nice!

Woke up around 9 today but stayed in bed until 12. Then I had breakfast and then I was on my computer for a while. Now I'm watching football with my host grandpa and Marissa. We're waiting for people to come over since it's my host grandma's birthday today. Everybody's birthday is today, my mom's, my host grandma and some other people that I know. And my birthday is in 4 days!

I'm totally in love with my gym! Marissa and I went there again today. And today we went up to the indoor track too. And OMG! LOVE IT! And we found an Adonis up there. A tall black guy running like a god, amazing. I just feel like hanging out at the gym all day everyday!

On Wednesday both Marissa and I each have our own private trainer (!!!). Mine's name is Brandon! Really excited about that!

Tomorrow I'm gonna Skype with mommy, record a music video @ Irene's with Alyssa, Tia and Irene, and then dinner out with the fam!

And gosh! Have you guys in Sweden seen the video of the girl that eats her own tampon?!?!?! RATCHET!!!

Today I went to the gym for the first time since camp. SO NICE! They have everything! Classes, gym, pool, indoor track and more, love it! So now Marissa and I are gonna go there three days a week, yay!

After the gym I had a healthy dinner and then I cleaned my room and took a shower.

Städat rum, nydushad Emma och nytränad Emma! Toppen!

Yesterday there was a new guy in my Spanish class, and when he found out that I was a Swedish exchange student, he said exactly what the rubric says. Kinda funny.

After school I did nothing, just slept. Then I watched Hannah Montana the movie before I went to bed for the night. Couldn't fall asleep until like 4 though and then I had a bad dream. So no sleep for me.

Now I'm sitting in English class writing something about Thomas Jefferson. After school at 5 we're gonna go to the gym. FINALLY!!!! I miss the gym so bad!

Me and Tia on the bus on our way home yesterday.

So yesterday I was in bed until 2 and then I went out for a run. And OMG! It was so nice out! 18-20 degrees! In January!!!! So I only wore a t-shirt and tights, so nice! It's just like Swedish summer! Right now it's 17 degrees! Wiiie! Then at like 7, we watched the presidential inauguration from D.C. It was boring.

Second semester started today. We got our new schedules (mine didn't change though) and then had normal classes. There was some new people in some of my classes though, some nicer than others...

After school we went to Del Taco and then home. Now I'm gonna sleep and then print & fax some stuff (my gymnasie-application, yay).

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So nice to be off from school! I'm just gonna lay in bed all day watching movies. Maybe I'll try to get some workout done later too.

And I'm almost done with the book I started reading at camp!!! Wiiie! If anyone wants to Skype, don't hesitate, cuz I'm bored.

Tomorrow's Martin Luther King day so we don't have any school!! Wiie! Today I woke up waaaay to early because of a craycray bad dream. 6:50... Way to early on a Sunday. So now I'm watching Eclipse and eating Swedish candy.

Yesterday I went to bible study with my host family. It was.. interesting. Not really for me. Then we went to meadows mall so I could buy some birthday gifts.

Don't really know what we're gonna do today. I need to get some workout done.

So my semester finals start tomorrow. Tomorrow I have in English and algebra, Wednesday in biology and US history and on Friday in video prod and Spanish. We end at 11:45 everyday for the rest of the week though so that's nice! The finals kinda started today though. Wrote an essay in history and when I handed it in, I figured that I had been writing a 5 paragraph essay about the completely wrong thing haha. Fail. But whatever. We're gonna write another essay in English tomorrow and I'm gonna write about a typical Puritan. Don't ask me what it is though.

Now I gotta go and get some studying done!

All the trouble, everything's okay now!