Welcome to my blog!

Swedish girl brought up on the country side. Now living in Linköping, 5th biggest town in Sweden. Been studying photography fall 2010 and enjoyed it much. Living at the moment with 9 other young people at the boarding school. Used to be active in politics some years back, but today not at all.

Spare time is often filled with painting, photographing, music and TV shows. Got a half Siamese cat named Bitchen. Favorite holiday is Christmas. Three women who are inspirational: Beyonce, Isabella Löwengrip and Mom.

Friday, January 21, 2011

New semester, new class

So i have a new class and a new theme this semester! Last semester my theme was "Photography", but now it is "The human being". This will probably be very interesting and i am looking forward to get started!

The main elements we are gonna study are:
  • The human being's origin and evolution
  • The anatomy and function of the human body
  • Fundamental human needs and group dynamics
  • Ethology (includes a trip to the biggest zoo amongst the Nordic countries to study apes)
  • Health perspectives
  • Genetics and genetic engineering

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

It's been a long december




Right so... it has been a long and nice holiday. Spent it at mother's place in Söderhamn together with her, little brother Jesper and big brother Christoffer plus his girlfriend. We all absolutely LOVE christmas and we had some nice couple of days together. Also spent some time at granny's place and looked after Sigbritt, our family's dog, for a couple of days. After New Years Eve, i traveled together with Christoffer and Annika to Skövde to spend a couple of days there with them, before going home to Linköping to start school again. Had a total slack time with PC games and some Call of Chtulhu rpging.
Finally went home, looking forward to start school again, on January 11th.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Ending of this semester

Packing my things to go home over the holidays. This semester ends tomorrow and after school, i will take the train to Söderhamn. I bet 100 SEK that the train will be late. So typical. :)

My little personal exhibition of photos has been up for a week, and yesterday i had two paintings in the painting class exhibition. One painting will be a Christmas gift for my big brother and his gf. The photos will be taken down tomorrow before i leave. will see if i can bring it with me to show a few of the pictures at home. I also have to remember to empty my mac computer and save all photos i have taken! It has been a fun semester indeed :)


Thursday, December 09, 2010

Can you hear the horses?

Coz here they come


Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over

Monday, December 06, 2010

You've got mail

Been a couple of hectic and very stressful days lately with loads of school work due to the end of this semester closing in. Exams, two exhibitions (one is the group project we've done, and one is a solo exhibition), ordinary schoolwork, and more that has to be done. People have been sick or just absent in my group as well, so we are way behind schedule :( Even i am sick at the moment with a dry cough. I am sipping hot milk with honey every morning when i get up, every day when i get home from school and every night before i bed. Good thing it doesn't only make your throat feel a bit better, it is kinda yummy too :3

Today I got some goodies in my pigeon hole :D I had ordered a poster online some week ago, and it arrived today. Sent all the way from Moldova :)

This is what it looked like :D

Sorry for bad quality on the pictures. Took them with my phone :)
So yeah. Everyone in class got super interested in what it contained so i had to open it to show them. When i got home i put it on my wall. Or well. It isn't my "wall" exactly. Just a huge ugly orange message board. Yes, the more i have to cover it with, the better!


So there she is now. The Queen. The one and only. Beyoncé. :)

Monday, November 29, 2010

New photos

Hai guys :) I took a couple of new photos today. Studio ones :D Head over to my creative page to see more.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Wedding

Hooray! Been home this weekend cos my mom got married! Was a really nice celebration. Intimate and warm. Congrats Billy and mom!
I put up a few of all the pictures i took on my creative page. I am home in Linköping again, going through the pictures to see what to use for the slideshow i will create in class. :)

Friday, October 08, 2010

Fika tournament

Went to café Myran this evening to be social with the people there and see what people would challenge Kristofer who was the one who won the Fika tournament the past two years. Last year he was there fikaing non stop for over 40 hours or something. Crazy stuff. i am not even gonna compete cos i feel old and i get tired and wanna bed at 10pm. But i was there for a few hours, playing games and eating goodies like sandwiches and pie and cookies.

Friday, October 01, 2010

Anniversary and trip to Söderhamn

Today school celebrated its 50th anniversary. Had some performances and tenderloin for lunch, and cake after. I had to skip the cake though cos I had to catch the train to Söderhamn! First weekend going home after i moved here. Mom will be in Sthlm over the weekend, so i will be at her place alone, looking after her cats and Bitchen who is staying there whilst i live in Linköping. I miss Bitchen :(



Billy is coming to Sweden this weekend, that is why mom is away to pick him up etc. I will go home on Sunday but i have already booked tickets to come back here in two weeks. That's when they are getting married. :)

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Norrköping

Today we've been to Norrköping on a field trip to take some pictures! We also went to a museum to see a big collection of black and white photographs. Was nice to see a new town. Took a couple of pictures around the industry landscape and downtown. Got a few pictures on my creative page.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Welcome dinner and open air activities

Today the school had arranged an open air activity day. We had a football ("soccer") tournament and a kubb tournament. This was going on the whole day and afterwards there was a big taco buffet for all classes with music and quiz entertainment.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Classmates and Roomies

So. I have been living here for some time now. Gotten to know my roomies and my class mates a bit better. They are all nice :)

I live at Ormbunken together with 9 other people. We have our own rooms and bathrooms, but share kitchen/TV room. In total we are 3 boys and 7 girls staying here. 5 of them study on the global program, so they will leave us after Christmas to spend almost three months abroad. Some will go to Cuba and some to Tanzania/Kenya. I am having Spanish classes together with the Cuba students :D

This is a picture of my house(the fern). My room is the window to the left of the left side door.



One of the girls here is my class mate. She is from Bollnäs which is super close to my hometown Söderhamn. Sometimes the world is super small. One of the guys is from Sandviken, not too far away that either.


All my classmates are nice. We are about 16 students studying Photo. We had a fun class party at Nima's place some week ago. We had superfun.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

My new home :D

Using mom's miniPC to blog a little. I have now moved into my small 14 square meter room. Unpacked almost everything. Everything is pretty scary with the other people also living here, but i guess it will feel better in a few days time.

What my room looked like when i got here:






The room is a bit shabby. Old scrub furniture and all that. My toilet is also leaking water when i flush. Also, I wanted to change curtains to make it a bit more homey, but i couldn't cos they were screwed onto the wall and i couldn't take them down.
Tomorrow for breakfast i will try team up with others from this house (i share with 9 others) and see what kind of people they are. At 13.00 tomorrow, i will meet my new photography class :D


Put up some of my things :)



Weekend

Worked like an animal saturday-thursday to get everything out of my apartment and finishing cleaning before the inspection before i leave for Linköping. The inspection of the apartment took maybe 10 minutes and there was nothing the guy wasn't happy with. I handed over the keys and went home to moms to relax after all those hectic stressful days.

That thursday night i packed my bags, and the morning after i took the bus and the train to Linköping. Met up with sofie and thomas at the train station and they helped me carry all my bags. Went to their apartment and spent the night in their sofa.

Next day was javascript:void(0)spent playing Götterdämmerung and drinking alcohol with sofie, thomas, jonas and sofia. After that we all walked to Ryd from Lambohov to get to Café Myran. We had a welcome party for me and had some nice drinks and 7 hour long Trivial pursuit session.

Today sunday i will move into my new place :D Boarding school here i come!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Moving spree

Have had Sofie over and she helped me start moving all my heavy boxes to the storage room i am renting. 15 square meters big, which is about twice what i need but space is always good, right? Anyhow, we have been good girls today :) We will continue tomorrow.

Lite grejs i förrådet

Friday, August 06, 2010

New books

Listening a bit to The Killers and enjoying some really good dinner. Planning to start packign most of my things after the weekend. Thomas and Sofie are coming over a little bit later, and we're gonna have a nice time on my balcony with some liquor and then head downtown for the club to see what is happening this friday night.

Also went to a second hand store a couple of days ago and bought two old books. Neato :)

Kroppsvård och Folksjukdomar

I like the one to the left, and hope to find books from the same series in the future as well.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

New running shoes

Drog till Valbo köpcenter idag och besökte löplabbet. Helt klart värt resan dit! Fick mina fötter inspekterade och sedan filmades dem när jag sprang på löpband i ett par neutrala skor. Det var ju lätt att se sedan på replay att jag överpronerar (vilket jag redan funderat ut), och den vänliga kvinnan som hjälpte mig hittade perfekta skor på en gång. Fick provspringa igen och nu liknade det mera en rät linje. Köpte ett par Saucony ProGrid Omni 8 för 1400 kronor. Jag rekommenderar Löplabbet till folk som letar skor till löpning eller walking.

Went to Valbo shopping mall today and visited Löplabbet. Totally worth the trip. They took a look on my feet, put me into some "neutral" shoes and let me walk and run on their threadmill. While i did so, they recorded it and after some minute the pressed on replay to analyze my technique. They went to get a pair of sheos they thought would fit me, and amazingly enough they did. I ran again and this time when we pressed replay, i was runnign much better with my feet. So i bought a pair of Saucony ProGrid Omni 8 for 1400 SEK. I reccomend Löplabbet for people who want to try out new walking/running shoes.

Saucony ProGrid Omni 8

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Today

Today i drove the sofa+armchairs and some mattresses to the recycling area. My apartment feels atleast three times bigegr with all this furniture gone. I used to use an armchair when sitting at my comptuer and since it is gone now, i use the sofa table to sit on. Yeah, very unconfortable. :(

Took a trip to Trönö yesterday and went thru some more stuff that was mine. Threw away a whole lot of crap, but saved some toys in a big box that i will give away to the asylum seeking kids living on my yard. Got a couple of dolls, games, puzzles, books, etc. My dad gave me 10k SEK, so i will try get a trip down to Valbo in some day, and buy shoes and other things i can find useful.

This evening the dog i have been lookign after for a week has been picked up. As a thank you i got Beyoncés perfume Heat. I think i have been waiting for it to come to sweden since may :P Awesome.

Bitchen

Money money money

10 000
I think i will buy a new pair of running shoes. Maybe get a haircut. And modernise my whole wardrobe. Buy a few books and more boxes to pack in. Some dark chocolate with orange crisp. New ID would be useful too. And new school material. And canvas to paint on, plusmore acrylics. Pref. white and black. And more.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Cake

When my dad moved to Karlskrona, some ten years ago or so, he decided to rent the house out. Now he has sold the house to the family who was renting it, and that means we had to go there and get all our old things out of there. I was there yesterday sorting out some of the thigns that were mien and my older brother's. I was a bit surprised and relieved that i didn't have as much things i could have. Most of the things i brought with me to moms place when dad and mom got divorced. The things i found that was mine, i decided to either take with me home or store at my grandparents old barn.
I also saved an old photograph from moms and dads wedding. I wasn't born when they got married but my big bro is on this picture.

Massa gamla leksaker


Today mom and i went to second hand and looked for books from the 30's-60's. We found none and went to the grocery store to buy stuff to make a cake instead. Little bro Jesper liked it too.

Jordgubbstårta