Hello everyone!

Well not alot is going on right now with our student we are still just emailing back and forth getting to know her. She went to a meeting this past week with the EF organization and they talked to them about their departure, expectations, rules and practical information. The main rules that she told me about was that if they are caught drinking, smoking or doing any drugs they will be sent back home. She really seems like a great kid so I don't think that we will have any problems with any of those rules. She did find out that they like to have the kids come to the American homes about a week before school starts so she should be here the week of August 16-20. She said that they like for them to only have to travel for one day so she will be leaving her home around 4 in the morning so i have no clue what time she will be getting here. We are supposed to be having a meeting sometime this summer also with the local EF people and they will be going over all of the rules with us too. And then I think that we were told that once the student gets here we will have another meeting with the parents (us) and the students to go over the rules again that way we all know that we were told the same information.

When I talked to her last week we were talking about school clothes and I was asking her if she was going to shop before she came or if she was going to wait until she gets here and she said she was probably going to wait until she got here to do her shopping. I was so so happy I LOVE to shop for school clothes and school supplies....i am so excited. I am probably going to take off of work that week she comes in so we can spend some time together getting her ready to start school.

CJ has been playing a little game with her. He has been sending her US trivia questions and then she sends him a Norwegian trivia question. So if anyone has any trivia questions they would like to share with him please comment. I think it is his turn now.

Well I guess that is all for today talk again soon!

Patrice & CJ

Norway Independence Day

I learned from Katrine this week that Norway will be celebrating their Independence Day on May 17th. It looks like everyone walks together she explained it that they celebrate by going in a train (the picture above). And then the community gather together on their soccerpath (she didn't know what it was in english). After this she will go to her friends house with her family and they will have a barbecue. She really likes this day. It sounds a lot like how we celebrate our Independence day also.

The picture of her in a dress is the Norway national dress called "bunad". She says that Norway has many different national dresses depending on where you live. Her dress is the one from Vestfold which is the county she lives in.

It is so cool to learn about how other countries celebrate. I can't wait to learn even more from her as the year goes on. I am sure once she gets here we will learn a lot more.

CJ is looking forward to learning Norwegian. We will see how that goes.

Our Student Katrine

Hello everyone!

These are some pictures that I got from Katrine.