Feeling like a tourist for a day

A few days ago I took a 2h train to a city named T. (I'm not going to write it here, because of privacy :))  I was going to spend a day there to meet my friend S. who work there this summer. This was one of her few days she had off from work.

We had fun in a city we both new very little about. I felt like a tourist in my own country, fortunately S. new a little more about the place ;) Sadly, it rained the whole day and I wasn't that clever when I chose my clothes in the morning; I froze all the time. Well, not when we were inside different stores; stores I wanted to visit (mostly) to feel warmer :-P

One of the last things we did before I had to take a train home, was to go on a café. We bought (expensive) carrot cakes which tasted good, but looked even better. It was great to meet S, we had so much to talk about. I wanted to know if she enjoyed working there, in a foreign city, how her apartment looked like and mostly how she was doing. Everything was fine with her :)

The new signboard!

A few weeks ago I bought this CUTE signboard !!! I had to get it, the money even went to charity (for animal protection), so it felt good to buy it. The flowered heart in the background is another signboard from before. But they seem to match together on the front door.

The pics quality is not the best...sorry

Six days

The last couple of weeks I've mostly been away from home. That's why I haven't had the time to update my blog. July 14th I went north to meet my Grandparents and cousins with my family. My dad is on holiday so we all went. It was nice to meet my relatives again, after being apart for 6 months. But it's always been like this, we live far away from them. Anyway, we were there a couple of days, the first day we hiked in the woods. The weather wasn't the best and the mosquitos bothered us, but otherwise it was very beautiful there.

This is from the hiking.

To get over to the other side of the river, we had to use this.

My dad and my brothers had a goal to bike about 450 km on a couple of days. That's the distance from my Grannys to our home. So they tried and almost made it! They biked about 320 km on three days. That's incredible!! :D Then they decided to give up, 'cause we ran out of time and we all had to get home. Mom and I had the car, we tried to be as near the bikers as possible. If something happend, we were there.

A cute camera jewelry I found in a store on the road.

We were six days away and it felt nice to be home again. Mom and I were a little bored from the "sitting-in-the-car" journey, so it was good to be home and be able to do other stuff. To come home we had to drive through the countryside for hours and it made me realize I wouldn't feel at home there. The hours of each day they biked, my mom and I sat in the car, hiked, went to museums and shopped. But honestly, in small villages there wasn't much to see. It made me think I'm so lucky living in a (big?) city.

Picnic in the city

I met two friends in the city yesterday. The two first hours I hanged out with M. and then Hanna nr. 2 came to join us. We were at a park, sitting on a blanket on the grass. It felt so nice to be in the nature, but at the same time in the middle of the city. M. and I took many photos, not only of ourselves, but also in a more artistic way, like the ice cream we ate and the strawberrys. It was a perfect day.

In the evening I met Hanna nr. 2 & nr. 3. We had a snack-and-talk-night. It was also fun. I tested two ciders; one without alcohol and one with. Suprisingly they tasted nearly the same! Sadly I have no photos from the night.

Here's some artistic pics from the picnic! (Click on them and see as bigger)

Day 9: Something you crave for a lot

This is easy, everybody crave for something! And I crave a lot for graduation :D and good scores in my final exams. But I know I have to work hard for those things to happen. I actually started reading in one of my psychology books two days ago. I have only two final exams left; Psychology and Spanish. The exams are set in September.

When I was a little girl my greatest wish was to get a dog, but I'm more realistic nowadays. I buy or adopt a dog when I'm truly ready to take care of it all by myself. It might be in a couple of years or longer, but it doesn't mean "when I'm moving out" as my motto was for many years.

Somehow I also crave for the half year of "freedom" after I've graduated. I'm not going to do whatever I want. I just want to feel the freedom from school. I've made plans to work (at kindergartens) a half year and probably take my driving license. It feels nice to take a break from school and do something else instead. Next spring I'll apply to a few Universities and then I crave a lot for an opportunity to start my studies in one of them.

Work + sleepover

I've taken a break from my blog again... Sorry. A couple of months ago I thought I would have so much time to write when having summer holiday, but no, there's so much other happenings at summer. Last week was awesome! So much I had to do, but it was pleasant.

Monday I went to a new kindergarten, one I didn't know from before. I worked in a group of 1-3 year old children for five days; Monday to Friday. It was a very nice kindergarten, with other great nannies helping me with doing the right things. My work started every day at 8.10 a.m. and ended 3.49 p.m. For me that felt like a long day. I had to wake up 6.30 a.m. every morning to catch the bus in time, that's earlier wakeup than days when I'm going to school. My dad is also working, but the rest of my family has holiday. Some mornings I had company by him at the breakfast table.

This is not from the kindergarten, just a random pic from Internet.

After work I was always very tired and wanted only to entertain myself by watching tv or doing something else at home. Only after the first workday I was able to convince myself to go to the gym with my friend. After that day, I didn't do much after work. Until Friday, of course.

Friday evening I went with bus to my friend S. and met her and Hanna nr. 2 there. I had packed with me some cookies, a sleeping bag and changing clothes. It was ment to be a sleepover. I forgot my camera, but my friends had their cameras, so the night was not going to be forgettable. While waiting for Hanna nr. 3 to come, we went to a beach nearby and watched the sunset from the jetty (=bryggan). It was very beautiful out there, only negative thing was that I got cold, it wasn't that warm in the evening. When Hanna nr. 3 came, we went back to S's place.

This is about how we looked like with the masks :)

We clinked glasses and drank a toast of sparkling wine and juice. By using facial clay and peeling masks we made the evening more feminine and funny. At 2 a.m. we started watching a movie called "Game Plan" (2007). It was okay, but not the best movie ever. I almost fell asleep during those two hours. But I had a reason; I (and Hanna nr. 2) had been up for over 22h, without any sleep. That's why we were so fatigued. I fell asleep at the bed couch after a couple of minutes.

I think this is the first time I've been up so late, until 4.30 a.m., if I don't count New Years Eve. We slept about 6h and the next day we all went home again. It was a memorable sleepover. Although we didn't sleep much. Thanks guys <3




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