Winter Is Here

Week 15:

Hello Followers! This week was not as entertaining as last week but it was still good!

Monday and Tuesday were the usual school with Innebandy after. Wednesday night I went with Christer, Åsa and Inez to Leksand to see Leksand play against Mora. I wanted to go to to Leksand since they have a much bigger arena than Mora.  I also wanted to go since when we were here in 2011 we went to see Leksand Arena but we only got to see how it looked as it was summer, so I wanted to see a game! Leksand has a very large cheering section compared to Mora and you can definitely see that when you first get in.  The cheering section is usually packed for games and it should have been for the game against Mora because there is a rivalry but there was less fans than they usually have. Mora played a great game and won 4-1 if I recall correctly. It was an upset for Leksand since they do not like getting beat by Mora...especially when they are on home ice. The rest of the week was the normal week.
On Saturday not too much happened. It was a very laid back day. However, Sunday I went to watch H2 Innebandy which is the higher level team compared to HJ which is the team I am on. I do not believe there is an age limit for H2 so the opposing team had a few guys who were a lot older than some of our players on H2. It was a dirty game for an Innebandy game and the teams did not let off on each other that much even after they were spoken to by the refs.  I believe the score was 11-4 to the opposing team by the end of the game. Then Maja and I went to Morfar's apartment to help Åsa and Tomas a little with getting it ready. After we did that we went to a village outside of Mora for a Christmas Market. It was an interesting thing to see since I do not believe we do that in Canada. Then Sunday night I went to see the Hunger Games.
It has gotten colder here but there has not been snow in our area.  The North has a lot of snow and the South has a little. The sunrise right now is usually 8:30 am and the sunset is at about 15:07 pm, so a little earlier than we have in Ontario. I do not mind it but it is definitely different when it is dark when you go to school and dark when you come home from school. But it is an experience that I will remember!

Leksand's cheering section

The cheering section as the players come on 

At That Moment Tucker Knew He Screwed Up.......

Week 14:

Hello Friends and the other people who I do not know and just drop in for a read. This week was more entertaining....especially after my incident on the weekend. I don't think it was funny but my (heartless) mother & aunt thought it was.
The week was the usual with Innebandy practices and all that fun stuff, but for our one Innebandy training in school on Tuesday we actually got to go to the pool and learn how to save someone who is drowning. We had fun since we got to go swimming and it was a change up from the usual training every week! Then Thursday after school I went over to a friend Richard's and played FIFA 16(a video soccer game, for those that do not know what FIFA is).  When you do not know anything about soccer or have never played the game it can be quite entertaining to play a match while trying to remember all the controls! I also had supper there before practice and we had macaroni and hot dogs, which I know all of you will agree is a great pre-practice meal!
To really put a spin on things, this week Friday was not the end of the school week. We extended our school week into Saturday since we had an open house for the Mora Gymnasium. The community and the students that are coming next year can come to see what happens and what we do in the school. They also get to talk to the teachers about the program and all that fun stuff! So our weekend was moved to Sunday and Monday!
Sunday I went to watch JAS(Innebandy). JAS is like the "All star" team were they have the good players from the club and the guys can be up to age 18(I believe this is the max. age).  It was a good game to watch and after I planned to go over to my friend Richard's again. This is where things got a little more entertaining. So there are two ways out of Unihoc (The Innebandy Arena), one is a steep incline but when you get to the top you can glide down it on your bike or the other way you need to pedal most of the way. So the three of us decide to take the steep hill. We all made it up perfectly fine. When we got to the top we slowed down to start going down the hill but yesterday(Sunday) when we were in the arena it was freezing rain out. We start going down this hill of course teenagers being teenagers, we wanted to go faster. We started pedaling faster but there is one point that there is a quick turn in the road and I thought to myself, "there is no way I am going to make the turn if that corner is as slippery as the rest of the road and I am not going to be able to stop...", so I start slowing down but I pressed the brakes too hard which caused my back wheel to stop and as the title says...."At That Moment Tucker Knew He Screwed Up...", I definitely did. The back wheel went to one side and I tried to get it back under me but it did not work so the bike and me hit the road and slid a good 8 m, since it was that slippery. Then as I am laying on the ground dying (not really but kind of), I see Fredrick slide right beside me....I thought to myself, "that is a little weird". However, he said if he did not do that he could not brake in time to not hit me. So, needless to say Fredrick is a friend for life because he saved me from being ran over by a bike. Then I got up and tried to turn around and yup, I fell again right on the same side I did before. When I got to Richard's, my right hip hurt a little and my jeans were white where I slid on them. Later when I got home, might I add by car because I was not biking again and let's just say my hip was swollen and it hurt to walk. Even today it still hurts to walk...so that was the weekend fun! And yes I do have pictures......
Hope you enjoyed that as much as my heartless mother & aunt did! I will post next week, hopefully without any added bumps or bruises!

The swollen hip

Pants got a little discoloured

Physical Training & Father's Day

Week 13:

Greetings Followers and those of you who jut drop in. Week 13 had some entertaining moments in it! During school, Innebandy is built into your schedule so you practice during school hours. I have 3 training spots in my school schedule which are Tuesday morning (8:30-11), Wednesday afternoon (13:30-15:45) and finally Friday morning (8:30-11). Tuesday morning was diet theory and physical training, physical training is where we do a workout. Well I do not usually get bothered by the workouts but this week was a little crazy. We had 6 different exercises and you do each one for 20 secs. six times each then move onto the next exercise. So after the first three I was done but there was three more to do! Just lovely! So, I managed to survive through the whole thing but then it turns out we have to do the whole thing a second time...let's just say when I was done I thought I was not going to be able to eat considering my arms really hurt and I had visions of not being able to lift my fork to my mouth.  So that was the Innebandy fun for the week with three practices during the evening too! Wednesday afternoon at 13:15 I had an interview for the CELP Co-op position! It was a good experience.  And really, how many people can say the got interview over Skype for CELP Co-op?! I think I am the first, haha!  I have another interview this week, so I hope it goes well. Thursday night Åsa left with her girlfriends to have a girls weekend near Orsa (I forgot the place they were at) so Tomas, Maja and I had to fend for ourselves...it was not that bad actually. Tomas is a good dad haha!
Sunday was actually Father's Day over here. Definitely a different time of year than ours but to celebrate Åsa, Tomas and I went to Farfar and Farmor's apartment.  
Quick Swedish lesson, in Sweden you usually distinguish between your mother's parents and father's parents. So Åsa's dad would be Morfar and Tomas's parents would be Farfar and Farmor instead of them all being Grandma and Grandpa! That is all I have for this week! So hope it is a good read!

Fall Vacation & A Bike Ride in the Woods

Week 12:

Hello all my Followers! Week 12 was interesting considering something that never happens in Canada happened, and I think it would be cool if it did. During Week 44 or the week of Halloween, Sweden has a vacation week. So obviously there is no school during this week which was weird since I am only use to having Thanksgiving Monday off during the fall months. But here is Sweden they do not have Thanksgiving, so that was also a little different! During fall vacation some students go to their home cities since some of the students that go to Mora Gymnasium are not from Mora. So those students go home during this week to visit with their families. I however did not have a lot going on throughout this week except some Innebandy practices and some of Åsa's family came over for a belated birthday party I guess you could say. Now, doing nothing all week is not my thing so I was hoping to go hiking on a mountain with Maja, but she had to work so that did not work out for me! So I decided I would go biking on Friday. I made a little video with my Sony action cam that I will put on the bottom of this post. It is 9 minutes of me biking so I do not think you will watch all of it but skim through it and you will see how a forest in Sweden looks since it is mainly dominated by the Lodgepole Pine (I believe)...either way it is still cool to see!  Before watching, you can turn the blog music off so that you can hear the music on the video.

During the weekend Tomas, Åsa and I went to watch the new James Bond movie Spectre and just so you know, a Swedish movie theatre is a little different than a Canadian. You can pre-order tickets but when you pre-order them you can pick where you sit.  so that I do not think we do in Canada, but I could be wrong. The movie was 2hrs and 40min long so it was a lot of Bond for your buck and also a lot of sitting! On Sunday Åsa, Kerstin and I (Kerstin is related to Åsa but I forgot how, I am sure I will figure it out soon) went to Grandpa's to pick mushrooms and some berries since everywhere you look there are always blueberries. So we were out in the Swedish wilderness for 1.5 hr I believe it was and then we had some fika before we left for home! That rounded off week 12...I can not believe it has been 12 (now 13) weeks!