Sorry!!!! D:

I am apparently technologically impaired. I was informed by an inside source that my new blog wasn't public yet. I am so sorry! I thought I'd changed all my settings right on it, now I believe I have. :) Try it again and if it doesn't work let me know! :) I think it should work now though! :)

Finnnnally.

New blog "louisaabrahamson.blogspot.com". :)

St. Daniele Festival.

This week has been the St. Daniele Festival, here in Belvedere. It's been so much fun. Today is the last day of it. This last week I've had fireworks out my window twice, and heard them 4 times. It's been really fun dressing up, going out. I've spent more money than I should have. But I have about half of my gifts for people now, so that's good. :) I also found out that I am switching host families sometime in December. I have met my other host family though, and I like them, so I think it will be a good opportunity to experience different types of Italian households. Sometime next spring I will be moving back in with my current family again. :) I love it here, and I'm finally getting use to the language. I can understand almost everything in conversations, but I never know how to respond. I don't know how to piece together sentences yet. I guess that will all come in time.

Me and my current host sister Elisa(blonde)

 Me and my future host sister Elisa(Brown)

 Me and my current host sister Silvia!!! :) Cooking American Brownies!

 One of the sets of fireworks. :)

"Where I come from there's a preacher man in a cowboy shirt."

I have now been in Italy almost a month. It is so beautiful here. My host family is amazing and kind. Tonight my host sister and I are going to make American Brownies!!! :) Hopefully it will actually work, we had to switch up the recipe a bit, but I am sure it will be fine. :) I don't really want to explain every little detail that has happened over here, so I think I will just post some pictures and you can figure it out for yourself. If I even have anyone reading my blog. :)

This one is to show my tan. I am pretty proud of it.

 The castle I pass every day on my way to school.

 The skinny streets in Old Belvedere.

 Me playing in the water <3 br="br">

 The Cathedral in Milan.

 My class.

 Beautiful view

 Old something.

 My friend and me :)

 My other ASSE exchange students all in Milan!!!! :) They're the best!!

 We're being weird. :) Classmates.

 Some raw meat that we eat over here. :)

"Don't forget to remember me"

I love my job, it's amazing and I love the residents, I work as a nurses aid.

I'm also super excited because I'm flying to New York with my friend Matthew from school, we were in plays together. :) Once I get to New York I'm meeting with other exchange students going to Italy. It's going to be an amazing experience, and I'm so excited. I have an amazing host family who I've gotten to know a little bit over facebook.

Last Thursday my mother, father and I had a meeting in the cities to get my visa, that went pretty well. I have so much more to do before I leave it's going to be crazy seeing if I can get it all done in time.

I'm going to Italy.

I officially am leaving for Italy September 10th.

Lammmmme

Blogs are lame. I always feel super unorganized when I don't get the chance to post. But sorry to say, I'm a teenager, and I kinda have a life. I currently have a job at a nursing home. That's like the only news. Okay bye. :)

Duluth

Thursday was my high school's choir concert. After that was done I spent the night at Rachel's! :) Along with another one of our friends Alesha! :) It was really fun, but we didn't get as much sleep as we should have.
On Friday we left in the early hours of the morning to go to Duluth, for our choir trip.
The trip was lame.
We spent all morning in the bus, and then in the afternoon we went on this tour of a place, which probably would have been fun. But I was tired, and crabby. And the weather was gross.
Then we had two hours to walk around Duluth, but the weather was still disgusting out. I stayed in the bus and slept. After that we went to eat and then went to a concert. The concert was the only cool part about the trip.
Friday night we got home at like 3am and Alesha and I went to Rachel's house again. When we woke up in the morning on Saturday we celebrated Rachel's brother, Brian's birthday. :)

My first ever bonfire.

Last night I had a bonfire! It was pretty fun! :) Brooke Gustafson came over with me after school our friend Jack gave us a ride home so we could get home fast to set up. We made a cake that we forgot to serve. But I ate it for breakfast so it's all good. :)
Also! I got some super exciting news yesterday! I got the 90% scholarship for my year abroad in Italy! :) So I only have to pay for a few things! :)

Sad post.

I failed my driving test today. I ran a stop sign and hit a pole thing on the corner backing. My badddd. :/ haha!

"I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it! I'm about to loose my mind and I think I like it!"

Today I sent in my application to be an exchange student in Italy. I am super excited! :) I have a really nice rep. who has helped me with so much stuff! I hope I can get a scholarship!

Weekend.

Friday, I missed school because I was sick.

Saturday, I stayed home and cleaned all morning/early afternoon. In the evening I went to babysit! Then I got home and slept.

Today, I was supposed to go skiing. I woke up to mom saying "skiing is cancelled and we don't know about church yet." Which that pretty much explains my day. Skiing, was cancelled. Church was cancelled. I sat at home doing nothing all day. The roads were terrible in spots I guess. I made muffins for breakfast, because since the day was destined to be bad anyways, I figured I might as well have one good thing. The day didn't end up as bad as I had guessed it would. It was boring, but sometimes boring is a good thing. I rested a lot this afternoon. The only bad thing is I had really been looking forward to skiing.

Thank yous. :)

I'd like to thank a few people in this post. Thanks to Quinten Nelson for putting a wall up in my room! Thanks to Rachel Roue, for helping me paint and clean my room! Thanks to my parents for getting me paint. Thanks to my siblings who helped me paint. I hope to get pictures up eventually, I'm still trying to figure out how to get them though, since I don't have a camera.

Lousy day.

The student senate summit was today. We had to get up early for that, which was annoying. It was an okay day though. Brady entertained us with his amazing magic tricks whenever we got bored. A speaker came up from the twin cities. We had some games. Rachel had to play musical chairs, I wanted to but she got up there before I had the guts to. We had a rock, paper, scissors competitions too. The food was pretty tasty, and we didn't have school those were the two highlights of my day. I have a quiz and a test to make up tomorrow for missing though. That is not cool. I'm in a bad mood tonight. I feel kind of sick, I think that's maybe because I'm hungry/tired but I don't know because John threw up all over last night while I was babysitting him. I'm going to bed now, who cares if it's only 9pm.

Happy Valentines day. :)

Happy Valentines day! I hope you all had someone special who treated you great today! :) I had my mommy! That's the only person I got candy and a card from. :( But that's okay! The one act play went out to eat at TJ's tonight! That food was pretty tasty, well any food is good compared to my mothers, love you mom! :)

Tomorrow it's a Student Senate summit thing in Bemidji! :) I'm sure that shall be a grand old time.

"There's one in every crowd, brings a party in the house."

This morning my parents sent me to school. I rode with Matt all the way to school. When I reached school, I was called to the office. My mom had called and said that I was leaving at 8:30 to go to the dentist. I could have just stayed home and slept in. Instead I had to go to school, for absolutely no class time. I also had to miss Phy. Ed. my favorite class. I'm back at school right now, and I am at river watch currently. On Wednesday I have some student senate thing, and Thursday there is knowledge bowl. :) Friday we don't have school. I'm painting my room this next weekend hopefully. I'm doing it kind of a blue theme! It'll be cool! :)

"Don't you worry your pretty little mind! People throw rocks at things that shine."

Yesterday I went to Grand Forks with Stephanie! :) It was pretty fun. We went to Bdubs for supper and had to wait almost 35 minutes to get seated! It was so full. The food was good, but I still have half my meal in the fridge because it was so filling! We also went to see the movie "The Vow" it was a really good movie! I might have to get it once it comes out on dvd, it was definitely worth watching. We got lost in town a few times, but it was just because we couldn't find where we were trying to go!

Working towards bigger and better!

Right now I'm working on making a new website. Once I get it done I'll post the link for it on here, but I'm not sure how long it'll take me to get it completely ready! I just figured I'd let you know! :)

"No one get me like you....you rock me harder than some downtown band"

Tomorrow is knowledge bowl again! :) Today I had river watch.




Some people in my class told me today that I'm never in class and always skipping! That kind of bugged me, because I don't even skip that often! I am sick. I have ditched class, but that's usually only like once a month. A few of my friends also say that I have teachers get me out of it when I do skip and get caught. And for the record, that's false! They said one teacher in particular who always excuses me, which is 100% not true. That kind of made me mad, because they were saying that I can get away with anything with that teacher, and that she favors me, because we are really close. That is not true, we are really close, but that teacher is a very fair teacher, she would not give any student special treatment. We are close because I've gotten to know her more than any of the other teachers over time. She is always there when I need her. I respect her, and she respects me for it! But she would not go against the school rules, and let some students get away with whatever. So to set the record straight, I don't get away with everything! I must just be a lucky skipper and that's why I haven't been caught before.


I hope my country music titles to my blog posts aren't irritating anyone! I just always have songs in my head, so I use whatever one that's in my head for the title.


I also wanted to post a picture from pajama day last week! :) This is a picture of me and Rachel. :)

"This is our temporary home, it's not where we belong."

Friday was the snowfest dance. It was okay I guess. That's what the picture is from!

In this picture is Me, Brooke G., and Lindsey E., they are two of my friends from school! :)

"keep me in mind! Somewhere down the road you might get lonely."

I love the song of the title. :) Haha! :)

Today is the start of the snowfest celebration or whatever. :) Today is pajama day, and since my mom got me some amazing footie pajamas for Christmas I figured I should put those to good use. I kinda feel like a freak though, but I really don't care! I'm wearing my bathrobe over it too. Maybe I'll post a picture of them once Rachel R. posts it on facebook, but who knows. :)

Tomorrow is team day, and Friday is 80s day. I'm not dressing up for team day, because that sounds kinda boring. I might dress up for 80s day, but I'm not sure. Then Friday after school is the dance! I'm sure that'll be fun!

Today in a few minutes I'm leaving to go to TRF for some SADDs thing. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but we go to pizza hut afterwords so that'll be way better than school food. :)

"We are the champions, my friend"

No not really.

We got 5th place in the one act competitions yesterday. It was out of six plays. I didn't really care though because I'm in it for the fun. :)

After the play, Kelly M. picked me up in Bagley and I babysat for her last night! It was really fun, I always have fun with her kids. :)

Today I have homework, chores and cleaning my room to do, which is why this post is really short!

"Would you walk to the edge of the ocean Just to fill my jar with sand?" -The band perry.

Snow is stupid.

I've been wanting snow really bad lately. Because I want to go snowmobiling and skiing and stuff, and that's kinda hard to do if there isn't snow.

Well, we got snow today. Of course,it had to come the day my grandparents from southern Minnesota were going to come up to visit. They had to turn around and go back home because the roads got to bad.

It was really pretty outside though durring the storm! :) My friends Lindsey, Brooke, and Me decided to go outside durring Phy. Ed. and have a snow fight. We got kinda wet, but it was worth it. It is also really warm out. Which is kinda nice! :)

I wish my grandparents had been able to get here though. :( Ahh, well someother time.

I have twitter! For anyone who reads this blog who has twitter, you should follow me! My twitter is "louisa_38" should be pretty easy to find me. :)

Oh, the title to this post has no relevence at all to anything, it's just like my new favorite song. :)

One act play competitions!!!! :)

Yesterday there was knowledge bowl in Thief River! :) My team, RLCC Red, Tied for last place. That was partly our fault though. We weren't taking anything seriously. It was kind of just a fun day of skipping school, and then we didn't have to eat at school either. We ate at pizza hut! :)

This morning I didn't go to school. I had a headache. I'm going to school in a little while thought because I have to be at play practice tonight! Tomorrow is a half day and we are performing our play for the school sometime in the morning. Then on Saturday we have one act competitions! They're in Bagley, and we are against 8 or 9 other schools. We have to get 1st or 2nd place to go on to the next level. I don't think we'll make it on, but that's okay because it's all for the fun of it anyways! :)

In the mood for cooking.

I am a fatty. I love food, and right now, I am craving Trifle, so I'm gonna make it! :) We don't have pudding. So I'll make it from scratch. We don't have cream, or whipped topping, so I intend to make whipped powdered milk! And I also plan to invade the neighbors house, to get some chocolate chips. Because although I could just use coco powder as my mother suggests, I really don't want too! I like to cook as my escape from life. I don't have to think while I'm doing it! Or maybe I think so much about cooking that I forget all my other problems. I'm not sure what it is, but I don't care. Sorry this is a kind of pointless post, but I really have nothing to say. Oooh and it snowed today! But still not enough snow for snowmobiling, or cancelling school. Which really those are the only two reasons snow is good.

Quick update and shoutout!!

I've been a lazy bum for the last three days I've been home sick. No school was nice, but I honestly don't think it was worth as gross as I felt. On Saturday I am going to grandforks with my youth group! We're going to some Canada hotel or something? I'm not sure. Anyways, we are going swimming. After that I'm spending the night at Whitney's house! :) That's gonna be pretty awesome! :) I was planning on going snowmobiling. There is still no snow though.

AND A SHOUTOUT!!! :)

It's my best friend Rachel Roue's birthday tomorrow, she is an amazing addition to the Abrahamson family, and I'm so glad that I have been blessed with an amazing friend like her! :) If you haven't met her, you might have to some day! That girl is craaazy, but I love her. Happy birthday Rachel! <3