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Besides going to the gym once a week with Magda (which has not been going to well the past two weeks due to a severe cold I´ve been having) I have started with Yoga again. I use a special yoga program which is a part of the P90X workout program by Tony Horton. This session is 90 minutes long and works on core strength as well as flexibility. It is a very tough workout but also very relaxing afterwards. I do this every other day, giving my body one day to recover inbetween, and I have been feeling the results. Hopefully this will bring back the core stregth that I had when I was a dancer, when I lives in America.

At every school there is a peer support group, which has two representatives from each class. These people are responsible for reporting bullying and trying to help people in their class and at the school who may not be comfortable or a little outside of the main stream groups. From our class the two chosen representative are Anneli and I.

On Wednesday, there was a meeting for this group of people for 1½ hour in the morning. We acted out a role play about bullying and changed the other groups plays to fix the siutation that was causing problems. We also discussed what we as students can do to help the situation at our school and when it is saf to get involved in problem that we see happening. We were also exposed to how teachers deal with problems concerning bullying.

These meetings happen every 3 months and there is also a class for 50 point that Anneli and I will be attending next semester, to get the required education.

Our class as a whole also helps out the IVIK class. This is a class for people who have immigrated to Sweden and do not have the level of Swedish required to enter into the Gymnasium stage of schooling. We help them once a week with whatever they may need help with from their school subjects. This can be math, chemistry, religion, english, or anything else that they struggle with.

For photoshop there are things called actions. These are recorded streams of editting that people can record themselves or record for others. This way you get the same effect everytime without having to redo it. You simply play the action and it repeats all the steps you did when you recorded it.

A woman named Rita has a photoblog where she shows what she knows about photography and photoshop. She also allows people to download her actions for free and use them on their pictures. I have recently started experimenting with these actions and here are two results of pictures I´ve been working on.

Magda and I have started going to the gym on Mondays during our free period. We´ve gone two times and been there for about an hour each time. My routine looks something like this:

- 20 minutes on a bike, keeping a constant speed of about 115-120 revolutions per minute.
- After that I work on my stomach and back, doing sit ups, twists, back lifts, and other various exercises.
- Finally, I wake on the treadmill to cool off, and then stretch out my legs and stomach muscles.

Also, while I was in Amerika during the holidays, I went running a few times. Each time I ran for about 1.5 hours and walked for one half hour. This was just a small training to keep up my fitness a little bit while on vacation.