Marianne's Birthday and Stockholm at Christmas

Friday night was Marianne's (France) 16th birthday. A group of us went over to her house and had a nice dinner and then hung out and danced the rest of the night.
It was really nice because I hadn't seen a few of the other exchange students in a month or so!

Saturday morning, all the exchange students got up bright and early to go into Stockholm for a Rotary planned day of activities. We started by going to the Cosmonova (Imax) to see a Swedish movie about Mars. After that everybody
went for lunch at McDonald's and ordered lots and lots o food (exchange students like free food)!

The highlight of the day was going skating downtown at an outdoor rink (which they have to specially make because there's no snow yet and it's still quite warm out). It was really fun to go skating with a group of people who had never been before(although I have to admit that I struggled a bit in the beginning as I've never used hockey skates before, which was a bit embarassing because the Canadian's are supposed to be pro skaters)! Everyone spent at least a few laps going around with the 2 Japanese girls which as really nice - by the end they were getting quite good actually!