Renee's Blog

I really enjoyed my time in Sweden. I’ll miss the trails, football, and our neighbours. My favourite part of living in Sweden was riding the subways and buses to school. I loved going on the trips to Egypt, France, Italy, Spain and Estonia.

When we first got to Sweden, we were going to a school called BIPSS (The British Primary school of Stockholm). In the summer, we visited Canada for one month. After that, we started going to a big school called ‘Rodebergs Skolan’. There was many children from grade nine to one!

There we all had really nice teachers: Graeme had Vasugi, Elise had Mr. Wilkinson, and I had Mrs. Simonsen. Vasugi is from Singapore, Mr. Wilkinson is from New Zealand, and Mrs. Simonsen is from Ireland. On October 24th, 2009 we jumped on a plane to Spain, Barcelona. There we stayed at a amazing new hotel, the ‘W’. We got settled in our room and then went to the beach.

We walked along the beach to where all the shops and restaurants are to eat. Once we ate, we walked back to the hotel and explored. We got really tired and went to bed. In the morning, we ate breakfast at the hotel.

When we were full with food and energy, we hurried to get the tour bus. The ride was seriously boring. I highly recommend that you skip it if you go to Barcelona. After that boring ride, we got another ride to the cruise ship.

Once all that boring checking in was over, Mom and Dad bought themselves wine for the trip. Finally we got on The Voyager of the Seas! Mom and Dad took us swimming.

Yeah! (NOT) The water was freezing cold! Even the hot tub was like a ice cube!

At dinnertime, we had to seat with people we didn’t know! We sat with a really nice family: Robin, Ashley, Rose, Fiona and Paul. Our waiters were Andre and Yenny.

The rest of the week was really fun!

I really liked Sweden, I think I’m really going to miss it. Everyone in Sweden is really going to miss us! When we told the Oscarssons, they almost started to cry! It was really random when Dad told us!

I think Sweden was a good experience for all of us. I really missed Canada! But, soon I’ll really miss Sweden!!