Sunday, February 7, 2010

Iowa student Global Leadership Conference 2010!

Friday 5th I went to Iowa Student Global Leadership Conference 2010! We spent the night at an awesome hotel that had a pool ;)

I met so many awesome people and it was one of the best weekends in my life!!!
There is so much to say that i don't know what to say! When we first got there we got separated in countries, i sat with the Swedish, South Korean and Chines people! :) We we're 3 people from Sweden and I knew one of them before but I didnt know that she was coming! So that was pretty awesome! Then every table got a subject they were going to act out! We got terrorism and I came up with this awesome idea :) take a look! haha! it was soooo funny to act out!



This is the Swedish crew ;) Me, Linnea and Ebba!


There was this Norwegian guy that i like really connected with, his name was Kristian and he was pretty awesome! It was like I had known him for years so that was pretty awesome! We have been talking about hanging out sometime in march So we will hopefully do that :D


After that we got some time to just chill and get to know each other! And i got to know some awesome people!

Later we ate dinner.. and of course we ate American style, Pizza ;) It was pretty good but i didn't want to eat that long because the dance got going and i really like to dance! :) The only bad thing about it is... that I sweat A LOT when i dance! But oh well it's worth it!! Me and Milicia a Sirbian girl that was pretty awesome on the Dance flooR!
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I wish i could've danced longer but some of the people i danced/hung out with and I decided that we wanted to try out the Swimmingpool :) It was pretty awesome!! But there we're like only guys swimming, all the girl's was sitting down.. So I saw a this mexican girl called Maria that I danced with, so I said to my norweigan friend.. I'm going to lift her up and throw her in to the pool.. And so I did ahaha! It was pretty awesome and she didn't get mad, she thought it was funny so that was good ;) We just swam together and talked! It was a lot of fun!

After swimming i went to my room and dressed again. The time was like 12.00 and the curfew was 12.30 so the time remaining I was going to hang out with Kristian, his friend from Costa Rica, and the other Swedish people + some other people! We we're trying to get up on the top floor where the girls rooms where! Anyway so i met out Kristan and Coasta Rica and some other guys, we tried to get to the girls floor but there were chaperones "protecting" the floor.. So we could not hang out with the girls... :( But Maria and her friend managed to get to our floor so we hung out with them! Still We had to be in our rooms by 12.30 so we couldn't hang that long! I took Maria's number so we could hang after the curfew but the chaperones were guarding the hallway all night to 7...! So we didn't do anything.. :( I think they protected the hallways so that no girls and boys wouldn't make out or anything.

Then we had a cultural sharing, so we were shared in to groups and it was really interesting to hear about all these different cultures! some people wore dresses from their countries like, China, Japan, South Korea! IT was really kick ass!! :D I talked about some of our traditions, like midsommar! They thiught it was funny when i told them that we dance around a maypole and sang songs! :) This is a girl from South Korea! Cool ha!


Then we listened to a speaker that had traveled for 2 years straight and he talked about all the places he had been too and the relashionships he had developed and the love he shared with the people he had got to know!! It really inspired me to wanna travel even more! I really hope I will! :)

Then we ate lunch.

We got Diplomas for beeing exchagestudents ;) haha! Maria and I :)


We did some other stuff after that like played a creative game about world economy it was pretty fun! Haha we lost though!

Linnea, Ebba and I with some African People and we are wearing their hats :)


Time went way to fast and i wish we could have stayed at least one day longer! But we had to leave so they gave us on hour to say goodbyw to everyone and talk to everyone and get names and stuff! I will meet some of the people again.

Saying Goodbye! :_(


I will homefullyl go to Des Moines some time to meet Kristian and some other people, there was some brazilian girls that i met that lives in Des Moines so that will be awesome! The swedish girls will come when I go to Kristina and My Swedish friends Sanne! :)

Anyway then it was time to leave! But I had so much fun and I met so many awesome people! I will always remember this weekend!!!!!!

If you want to see more pictures just check out Facebook in a couple of days! ;)

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