time for litting candles...

New candle holders from Indiska

I must be the only one loving that it's getting darker and darker everyday right now. I love when it's pitch black outside so i can lit candles all over my apartement! Bought a new couple of candle holders form Indiska and tons and tons of candles from IKEA.
Mmmm drinking tea, eating chocolate and listning to good music....

Back to Pauträsk

I've had the best week in Norrköping so far. Mainly because my boyfriend took his car down to visit me for 7 whole days! It's been great weather and we've been taking the car around, eating at cafés and strolling around the streets of the city. I really wished we could live together but apparently this world wants otherwise. Anyway he got home to Pauträsk today after 10h of driving and as i didn't post any photos from the time i visit him a month ago i thought i would do it today. Guess it's abit different today though as the leaves has turned orange and red.

China...

Itmightbeboringfortheotherdrivers

A careful snake is dangerous...

Recycled - for your used pet-bottles
Organism - for your used pets...?

I still have alot of work left going through all the photos i've taken during the last 3 years... I found these photos from China as i was going through that album and i couldn't help but post them...
It's so funny how the Chinese translate words into English and i remember how weird we thought it was that they didn't care hiring an English speaker for that job. In China you are studying English for 9 years, the same amount as we do in Sweden but still our English is 10 times better... I think one of the reasons we talk so well is because we don't dub all the movies or TV-serie into Swedish. So kids get home from school and watch friends, simpsons, 70's show etc with the real sound. We have subtitles but even though you read it i think you automatically listen to the voices aswell. This is not how it works in China...
My brother is travelling in China now and i envy him, it's a very special but beautiful country.

another week has come to an end...

Sunday night and another week is waiting around the corner...
Just got back from a long walk around Norrköping. It was the first time i left the appartement today...Was really tired from yesterday night out. I had a good time, but i think the older i get the less i like feeling wrecked the next day.
Today wasn't that bad acctually and i got some school work done aswell as cooking food for at least 3 days...
It's 9pm now and i'm listening to some good music, drinking tea and eating cookies - a nice way to end a week.

money, money, money...

12 books for 1 semester...

God, I'm spending money right now... and not on things i want to spend my money on but things i have to. Rent, electricity, food etc. that's all things i'm counting to spend money on, but all this study litterature is ridiculous expensive! I've bought 12 books in the last couple of weeks and money i would normally spend on clothes and coffee shops now goes to pay these bills. I did managed to buy them all second hand from older students and if i'm lucky i will managed to sell them all to the new students next year. It's ironical because the one book i had to order online is the one book we have to read this week and it hasn't shown up yet...

It's also hard to resist not going out to eat on restaurants, having drinks, coffees etc when I just moved to a new city with alot of new places to go to and new people to get to know...
We do get money from the government but it's not a huge amount and i'm pretty sure i need to take loans next year...yippiee...

A tiresome but essential job...

Sunset over crater lake national park, Oregon

Fall in Idaho

Statue in New Orleans, Louisiana

White, white dunes in
white sands national park, New Mexico

Goblin valley in my favourite state Utah
(please zoom in the photo, the goblins are super cool)

Hamilton pools, Austin, Texas

Me looking funny in canyonlands, Utah

The rugged coastline of San Fransisco

The one and only,GRAND Canyon

Okey there's been a cleaning day for me today. I've done laundry, cleaned the apartement (it's tiny but it gets dirty very quick, like a little child), and done some food shopping. This cleaning is nothing compared to the cleaning i need to do on the computer. The space is limited and i'm pushing the limits, at least according to my boyfriend. What does really take so much space? 3 years of travelling; photos, photos, photos!!!
Well i spend a couple of hours yesterday and today orginazing and deleting the photos i don't like or like less then others...
I think i gotten more then half way through the US. This is tiresome! Especially when you now it has to be done.
Well i've had some fun too this weekend. We went out with a couple of people from my class friday night and last night me and Fanny took chillin' in her apartement with candy and a movie. We watched "let the right one come in". It was good but weird. I've red the book and didn't like that some parts of it was missing.

School tomorrow (it feels weird saying that after being away from it so long...) which i'm acctually looking forward to. We're only having a group meeting were we're gonna discuss 2 photos/commercials. Everyone likes this and are motivated, big differnce from high school.

haven't slept to much the last couple of night (alcohol does that to me) so i'm going to go early to bed. Good night y'all=)

So much to do, so little time...

The sofa turnes into a bed during the night - the wonders of IKEA

Where alot of hours will be spent...

My paintings from New Orleans

This was when my camera died, not the best resulution

I have today lived in Norrköping for 2 weeks and 4 days. My mum and me worked like crazy the first days to get everything set out in my apartement. Running up and down the stairs, carrying furnitures, sewing curtains, visiting IKEA more then one time...But it was worth it (at least for me...) because i really like my little flat. It's tiny but supercute, cheap and central.

So what about school then? Well I like it. So far at least, i change my mind 10 times a day...
There's alot of cool people in my class and even though most are younger then me we all get allong well. There's been tons of activities going on every day to get us to know eachother.On top of that we're having classes everyday to 4pm so there you have my mainreason for not writing here for a while...

I spend last weekend visiting my boyfriend in the far north. I have never ever been that high up north (not even half way i think...). It was he's birthday but it feelt more like it was mine. I got cooked meals, treats and stuff the whole time! Maybe Norrland isn't that bad after all....

So back in Norrköping and more activities (mainly parties) and actually quite abit of school work.

It's sunday today and tomorrow i have a day off school! Think we're going to try a gym class and then make some dinner at my place (i really need more than one to make food for..).

My camera is no working as i forgot my charger at home. But i managed to take a few photos of the apartement before it died...

desicions, desicions...

men vs women..or?

Why can't i ever make up my mind? there's always going to be desicions to me made and it's not that hard to just choose between A or B or maybe C and Q...
But i always have to weigh all the good things with the bad things and then think abit more and then ask other about their oppinion and then put that on my scale.
I have so many desicions to be made before my move to Norrköping next week and my decison to put this on the future is not the best. This might be a "women thing" because men just doesn't seem to have the same problem; just pick and choose.
But what if it wasn't right, what if i should have choosed...

makes me mad...

"the claw"

U2 just had their concert in Sweden. Great for all of those who saw it, bad for the environment which has to pay for it. Bono claims to be an ambassadeor for third world contries and has got ceveral awards for his work to make the world a better plays to live. Well sorry Bono with your concert letting out as much carbon dioxide as a plane trip to mars and back it might have caused the opposite effect on the planet. It takes 180 trucks to transport the equipement U2 need for their brilliant performance. I really hope it was worth it otherwise we all have to pay a high prize for it.

Showing off the west coast

Strömstad harbour

On the way to the koster islands

Picnic on the north island

Chris and Carrey

Old house on the south island

A rainy Smögen

Eileen and Carrey didn't seem to mind the rain

As long you have umbrellas..

Eating shrimp in Smögen is a must

All the way over the atlantic ocean

Eileen, me and mum

Carrey and dad

A very windy Strömstad

Chris parents Eileen and Carrey arrived Monday night after 38h of travelling all the way from Texas! This is Eileen's first time in Europe and it happened to be in Strömstad of all places. We are a bit sad the weather is not perfect but it seems like they enjoy getting away from the hot and humid weather back home. Chris has taken a week of work and is here to spend some time with hs parents.

Great visit from a good friend

My friend Jojo from Västerås visited me from monday to Saturday last week and even though i was working at least 3 of the 5 days she was here, we managed to do alot. We visited Lotta in Fjälbacka were it was super crowded with sailers from all over Sweden. Friday night was spend at Skagerack as Timbuktu (popular swedish rap artist) were playing. It was abit too crowded for me but a great concert. I just found out that i got in to my school in Norrköping which means i will only be living 1,5h away from Jojo. So hopefully we'll be able to hang out more next year.

Visit to Fjällbacka

Me and Jojo

Going out in Fjällbacka

A guy, Ida, Lotta and Me

Wednesday night out

Philip & Emma

Me, Philip an his friend Emma from Stockholm shared a bottle of wine and went to see the Sweet, a british popband from the 70's. The audiens were mostly around the age of 55 and we didn't know more then one hit but had fun anyway.
My friend Jojo is going to visit me next monday, I'm really looking forward to that espacially as i'm doing nothing but work the next couple of days.

Finally some rain

Favorite chocolate

Yepp that's right, it's FINALLY raining! After 14 days of constant sunshine and heat the fresh air was more then welcome. You learn at a very early age to catch the day, carpe diem, when it's nice weather because who knows if it's raining tomorrow. But catching the day, day efter day, get tiresome and you're feeling bad if you spend some hours indoors even though you're really tired and just want to eat chocolate and read... So after working 10h yesterday and then going out until 4am staying indoors while the rain was pooring down was exacly what i wanted to do to.
Glad to find some lemon & ginger chocolate in the cupboard, my new favorite! Having a good book didn't make my day less great. The girl with the dragon tattoo is written by the Swedish authur Stieg Larson and can be find abroad, have a look for it because it's really worth reading.