Hello out there!!

So today is the 6th of April, the time is flying by! and I have so many stuff to say!

I'm sorry that I'm such a lier, I know I said that I would starting updating my blog so much more,

but I am so BUSY!! But I guess I have a little extra time tonight!!

So a new announcement is that .... I GOT PICKED AS A RETURNEE!

I applied, and I was 99% sure that they wouldn't pick me, after everything I have been through, but my dad once told me, that no matter what, I always had to try, and don't give up, and thats what I was thinking, and I freaking made it! I'm for the first time proud of myself! Actually my dad thought I didn't applied(asked him right after camp if it was okay if I applied though), so he got a little surprise when I told him I made it, but he wrote that he was so proud of me,

which is what you always want to hear from your parents! My mom and little sister left to Thailand, the day I got the call, so they don't know that I'm staying a extra month longer! If any of you doesn't know what it means to be returnee, I will give a little explanation! The camp I went to this summer, in Vermont each year pick 6 girls, and 6 boys, who the year before went to the camp as a student before their high school year. The students they pick are then gonna be returnees, go back to the camp, and teach the the new students about what they are gonna go through, and preparation for the year! I'm so excited, I really want to give the new students the best start that I never got, and I know, I have to much experience about it after all. So if they didn't pick me as a returnee I would have been back in Denmark 22nd June at 7.30AM, but because I got picked I'm going to stay to the end of June, around the

30rd july!

HAWAII

So, I don't know If I mentioned it, but I won a free trip to Hawaii! And I went there the 21st of March! I knew it was Hawaii I was gonna go to, and it would be awesome, but I didn't expect to get the best week of my live, which I for sure had!! So the only persons I really knew at the trip before I went there was Ana and Fendall from the Norwich camp, and it was so good to see them! I filmed a vlog everyday, because I dont really like to write that much :-D and movies for me is better than books! So If you want to check out what we did everyday, you kind find the vlogs at Youtube.com/Patriciasvlog. I didn't clip all of them together yet because it's a lot of work. Anyhow, about the trip, it was so amazing, I got so many new friends, and we got so close together! I did stof with them that was to embarrassed to even do with my friends back in Denmark (sorry guys)! Some of you who knows me really well know that I dont laugh as much as I'm suppose to do, if you can say it that way :-D I have only had like 6 "grineflip" my entire life! but at the Hawaii trip, I had "grineflip" Laughing flips? every single day, I have never laughed that much! I actually really miss the trip, and I hope I can meet up with the people again! We did different things everyday, which I'm showing in my vlog! :)

So here it comes again, I'm gonna try to update the blog more often! Sorry

Gotta go, asta la Vegas!

Hi people!

So I promised that I would post some more blogs!

And now it's time again I guess :-)

Today is sunday! And I it's my 3 week at Arbor view,

and I don't know why, but I really love that school! I guess it have something to do with it's my high school year? The school is huge 3000 students, and I see new people every single day! I know that the schools in Vegas are in the bad end with the education, but Arbor view is a pretty new school, so it's one of the better one, but still a lot of things going on there! The day before yesterday suddenly everybody started to gather in a circle, and then there were two black people dancing in the circle just like in the movies! But when you see a circle of people at the school can be a bad thing to cause yesterday we had to fights at school, with all the people standing around, but that's just the high school life, I still love it! And it's good to see all my old friends at the school again.

So I want to tell about my lovely family, the Marcos.

I'm so happy for my new family, I wish I could stay with them for longer time, cause they are great! Actually we are right now working on extending my visa, so I can stay here over the summer, cause I really want to stay with the family as long as possible! I think I already said once who the family consist of, any how, they are just a "perfect" match for me! Normally I would be shy, and not feel home, but with them I'm open, and I feel so much home here! They have really just opened their arms for me, and letting me be a part of the family, I got a 2nd family which I am so happy for! I lost my cable to my camera, so I'm waiting for my new one to come, so I can upload the new pictures!

Skiing/snowboarding trip to Brian Head

So the family likes to do a lot of things, and one of the things is skiing, which I have never tried before because my danish family isn't a big fan of the cold weather, or maybe not good athletics, but I have always wanted to try, cause so many of my friends always go on ski vacations. Well last week from the 27th-30rd January we went to Brian Head Utah to go skiing, I was so excited. So around 6PM thursday we left for the 2 hours trip to Utah, and Friday morning we went up the mountain to ski! I loved it, it was so much fun, and the weather and snow was great, actually it was really hot, but it was fun! Saturday they had this deal with rental, snowboarding/ski lessons, and left ticket going on for only $40 which is cheap, so I got snowboarding lessons with my host sister Lauren, we felt so many times, didn't even count it, cause it took us 10min to get down from a hill, which normally only would take 1,30min, so I started to give up, cause my butt and head started to hurt alot, but I took my last turn, and then I totally got the hang of it, I learned the Technique, and I came down from the hill without falling, so I kept going on snowboarding, and I loved it, I prefer snowboarding instead of skiing now! But it was an awesome experience, and I had a great trip with the family!

Sadies

So Saturday there was a Sadie dance, which is kind of reverse. It's this story about Sadie Hawkins,

but I'm not going to go in any details about that, just google it! But It's the girl who ask the boy out for the dance, and the girl have to buy matching clothe for the boy and her self, and because I only have been at the high school for 2 weeks, so I didn't feel I could ask anybody, which is said, cause I had really been looking forward to a reverse dance, I will hope there will be one more before Prom! Anyhow, I went there with Kris and Sharonda, it was fun, we went to the dance party first, and of course we had to do the DJ Casper song, and Soulja boy dance, which is so American! And I have to say, America teens definitely dance different compared to people in Denmark! But after the dance we went to Sushi Loca, and got some delicious Sushi, and then we were suppose to go to the stripe, but we didn't have time for it.

SuperBowl

So today was superbowl sunday, probably the biggest sport even her in America! It was the Steelers vs. Packers, and my family was cheering on the Steelers, which I also did because of them, but my dad already actually said they he though they would lose. Any how we went over to the neighbors to a superbowl party (American style) where there was a lot of other people, and A LOT of unhealthy food! Any how, the Packers won, by 31-25. But I was a good American experience!

THAT'S MY BLOG FOR TODAY!

Have fun out there, and take care!

Love Patti

Hi guys!

Well I guess I'm a really bad blogger? I haven't made a blog for a long time,

and I'm so sorry about that! But I didn't want to talk about all my bad experiences!

But to make it short, I have changed families twice!!! And I just didn't want to write

about all the crap I have been through the last few months! But EVERYTHING IS

ALL RIGHT NOW!

First of all I won the trip to Hawaii! It was this contest EF Discovery tour made,

you had to send a video in by your 3 favorite places in your hometown, and then

they would pick their top 3 which I was in, and then it was all about getting most

"likes" out of the 3. I had a lot of fun, with making the movie!

But I want to say thank you to all of you, for helping me with the votes,

didn't expect to win! But $2400 / 1300kr in my pocket, and a FREE trip to HAWAII!!

From thanksgiving to now I lived with my temporary host family the Carsons!

A really nice family out in Moapa, and hour from Vegas in the desert! I had a lot of

fun together with them, and appreciate that they took care of me! There isn't really

any host families left her in Nevada, so EF couldn't really find any families at all!

So I started to try by myself, but it's not easy when you are 9 hours away from home,

and you don't know anybody! But I asked my friend Kris, which is a friend of mine,

from my old school, if she knew anybody? She asked me to write a letter about myself,

and 3 days later (3rd january), she told me she found a wonderful family for me!

I was so excited about the news! I didn't really know anything about the family,

but the family wanted me to move as soon as possible, so the next day I called my

RC, and asked if she would talk with the family, so she called them! Because of

exams coming up I couldn't move school to after the semester! But the family would

like to have me over for the weekends. So Friday the 7. January my RC drove me

to their home, and there they was, ready to welcome me! Besides that I spend the

next weekend with them again.

Thursday I ended my exams, 5 exams in one day! I'm telling you, it was CRAZY!!

But after my exams, I was headed to Vegas to my new home! So now I'm here with my

new wonderful family The Marcos! My family consist of my mom Kiersten, my dad Keith, sister Lauren 12, and my other sister Sarah 10! I am so happy for them, I know this is a REALLY good match! I know I'm going to have the best half year of my life with them!

I'm will start to make some more blogs! But I'm gonna go now, so I cant spend some time with my lovely family! (will take some pictures of the family soon)

Love ya!

Patticake