Sofia_That_Is_Me

No Internet

So I'm leaving tomorrow (I'm almost finished packing, hehe), and I just thought that I'd tell you that I'm not going to have access to Internet where I am going (I mean they have Internet there, but my grandparents don't so...)

Just so that you didn't think I was going to leave you, or something like that.

Until I'm back...

Ki o tsukete mina-san (^ _ ^) Matane

Recharge

Soon I'll be off.

It's one day left and that's to be filled with packing (and most likely checking the bag again and again and again for things I might have forgotten...oh and perhaps a power-walk to have something else to do)...And then we're leaving for Kjøpsvik...Most of my family at least, Sarah's not coming (she has other things she has to do).

It's going to be very nice, I am to be completely honest, to leave Trollhättan for a but. No one is placing any demands on you up there (well except for the ones you place on yourself of course), you can just be, without thinking about anything but the present and having a nice time. A beautiful environment, calm and people I love to spend time with, it doesn't get a lot better than that for a vacation. I'm going to have a nice time, I'm going to try as hard as I can to (meaning I'm going to try not to bitch about unnecessairy things and such), even if it is 10 degrees cold and rains all the time.

When we come home it's going to be about 3 weeks left before I'm going back to Lund again, and during these 3 weeks I'm going to kick my exercise into high gear (I was going to write that I was going to try to, but I'm not trying this time...I'm doing it). Because I want to come back looking (if only) a little better than I did when I left. 

So it might be a good thing to recharge a little (or a lot) before that. And if there's one place to do that properly it is (as I'm sure you have gathered by now), it's Kjøpsvik. I'm going to try not to think as much as I usually do, to take the day as it comes for once. Yep, that's who it's going to be.

Oyasuminasai mina-san (^ _ ^) Matane

I'd rather...

I'd rather be too cold than too hot. So the weather lately has sort of bothered me.

(Note: the temperature has been circling between 72/73 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and the air has been really damp and sort of odd.)

The weekend in hindsight.

Slightly decadent, sunny and spent with a lot of nice people...that's how all weekends should be (although I wouldn't have minded if it had been a little less sunny actually, as I guess you know by now I don't really like hot weather that much). It's almost 11 p.m on Sunday night and I am looking back on the days that's passed and smiling. I'm not just bored here, from time to time I'm really happy too.

This weekend it's been something called "Fallens dagar" (directly translates to "day of the falls", or something like that) here in Trollhättan, which is like a festival of some sort. We have falls, and locks, here you see, and once a year we celebrate...I guess having them (haha, it sound quite silly thinking about it).

This is a photo taking from a bridge just over the falls. The water would pour down from under the bridge (and over the stone towards the bridge in the far end):

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There's also a lot of partying during this weekend (hence the festival "label"), and yours truly never turn down a chance to have some fun, so Friday and Saturday evening was spent with a bunch of other people drinking and laughing...and just having a really good time really.

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Me and Jenny on Saturday evening (it was about 10, or something, and I was still sober hehe).

She's my oldest friend, we've known eachother, and even though we're quite different in a lot of ways it's always so nice to spend time with her. It's safe and comfortable and I feel like there is no pretences. When everything else (including myself) has changes, she has remained the same. I love that about her.

Hehe. It's dark and I am sentimental, so we'd better move on...

Today was my grandfather's 72'nd birthday (happy birthday!!!), and so we were at their (his and grandmother's) house and had some coffe and cake. It was nice. I love my grandparents house, that's another thing that never changes. And they have the best garden.

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Hehe, Sarah likes the garden too.

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And I do as well (they're growing peas - which I really like - in case you're wondering about the photo).

And I think that was pretty much it. I'm going to get back to some other things now, before I go to bed. After all they say that it's good to go to bed at a decent hour, and well...since the rest of the family sort of does I am sort of trying to (a decent hour is about midnight, for me not for them, in case you were wondering), so...

Oyasuminasai mina-san! (^ _ ^) Matane!

Humor.

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Rain.

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QotD: First Day of Summer

Summer is officially upon us. What fun things do you have planned for the next couple of months?

Well...next week I'm going to Kjøpsvik to visit my cousins...and grandfather and grandmother, they have a house there as well as an apartment in Trollhätta, since my grandfather used to live there when he was a child. So I guess you can say that I'm going back to my roots, so to speak. Kjøpsvik is a tiny tiny village that I could never live in permanently (only about a thousant people live there), but it's amazingly beautiful and a great place to spend one's vacation.

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This fall.

So the first admission for the fall semester came today. I already knew that I would get to take industrial and organisational psychology (or something like that, it's a pretty liberal translation of my own, hehe), since I'm guaranteed a spot because of the program I'm studying, but the other course that I had applied for wasn't 100% sure (event though I had confidence that I would make that too).

And what is this other course then? you might ask. I'll tell you (haha, why on earth would I write this post if I wasn't going to). It's a night class in french for beginners.

I know, I know, I already know french. But not that well, and besides I haven't used it in quite a while...not to mention the fact that the last french teacher I hade was a total nutcase who didn't teach me anything and said that everything I did know was wrong (and that I had a problem). So I think it's safe to say that I don't remember much.

Also the course for beginners was the only one that was available as a night class, and since I'm studying a program too I wanted it to be just that (it wouldn't be smart if I had to skip the classes I should take because french comes in the way)...so I'm learning it all from the beginning. And hopefully I can be the smartest one for at least a few months (and we all know how much I like being the smartest hehe).

Over all I have a good feeling about the fall. I think it's going to be fun (I'm going to make it so)...and I think that was all I had to say for now.

Ki o tsukete mina-san! (^ _ ^) Matane!

嵐 To be free [Mステ]

Sugoi!

嵐 To be free Mステ

So hot! So sweet! Such great singers!

I know that I sound like a crazy fan-girl (well I sort of am so...), but I honestly don't think I'll ever get tired of listening to and watching Arashi. They're just amazing!

Being able to buy their cd's (and not order them from Japan for a huge amount of money) is just another reason that I want to go to Japan for me exchange term next year (fall 2011 is open for studies abroad) (and hehe, I was a little bit serious there you know, it is one of the millions of reasons I have...not one I should include in my letter of application though I don't think). I have to go! It doesn't matter how much work it takes, I have to get one of those spots.

You're all rooting for me, ne?

Like you can answer anything but yes to that...Oh well. I'm going to leave you with that thought, because I think it might be time for dinner soon.

Ki o tsukete mina-san! (^_^) Matane!

Going to Gothenburg!

Ohayo mina-san.
Genki?

I am really tired, because I have been up since 06.45 (it's now 07.38), and that's not an ideal time for me to wake up (trust me on this one)...especially not when I didn't go to bed until like one last night (that's not unusual of course, but usually I sleep a lot longer than to a quarter to seven).

Why? do you ask, did I have to get up this early. Well because I'm going to Gothenburg! with some friends...and though I love them they have zero understanding for the ones of us who needs like two hours in the morning (and hence decided that we should leave with the bus at nine).

It's going to be loads of fun though, I'm sure. I haven't been to Gothenburg since this Christmas (at least I think I was there then), and I really like the city so...YAY!

Anyways. Here's a photo of me from earlier this morning. No makeup and coffee in hand...the real me, hehe.

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Peace out guys!