The first flower

This is the first flower this year that we have seen. It is a good sign for the spring. The spring comes slow but it's worth it. This flower is called "Blåsippa" in Swedish, it's a beautiful flower but we can't pick it up because it isn't many "Blåsippor" left.

Have a great day!

// Martine and Le Ly

Sunny in Tanum

Today's the weather really sunny, you feel glad when you walk outside. The spring has arrived in Tanum. It's a bit cold and windy, but it doesn't matter. The pupils are sitting outside when they don't have lessons. They haven't done that in the whole winter. So we can say, the winter is gone!! // Annie and Anna Clara

Halloween

In Sweden we celebrate Halloween on the 31th of October and we usually dress ourself in scary costumes and walk around in the neighbourhood and do Trick or Treat. In Sweden were not taking Halloween too serious but it's still something we take a part in and come together and celebrate. Halloween came from Ireland in the beginning but is shaped to what it is today by Americans mostly.
I think you have Halloween in most countries too but I am not sure if it is something you celebrate much or if it is something you just have.

/ Callie

Waiting for Spring

When I look outside the window I see small mountains and trees. It is snowy, and so slippery outside. I get this feeling... are we never going to have spring this year? Today it is the fifth march, and we here in Sweden are hoping for some spring signs. I have heard some birds singing, and that's something I really missed.




Don't get my wrong now, I like winter. But not for to long. I like all the seasons, I like that they are so different to each other. Here in Sweden we can go and take a swim at the summer, we can go and pick “kantareller” (a sort of mushroom, at English called Chantarelles) at autumn, we can often throw snowballs at winter and we can pick beautiful spring flowers at spring.




I guess that some day, very near now, we can wake up and really feel that today we can go out and pick some flowers, finally! But until then we don't have much of a choose to “Gilla läget.” In English that mean that there is nothing you can do about it, you just have to like it the way it is.

/Rebecca

Job training

Soon will all the 8th graders in our school go job practising. Everyone have to find a place, it can be really hard, many companies and firms say no. We will go job practising for a week.

Everyone have to write a statement about the place of work. The 7th graders don't go job practise and the 9th graders did it before Christmas. We do this because we should know a little bit of what we want to do after school.

Do you go job practising? //Anna Clara