I LOVE SWEDEN

Exams are finally over! yiippeeeeeeee! I've been studying my buns off for the last couple weeks, so not many fun things have happened :( I mostly hang out with Johan everyday and my roommate Annakarin. I tried cooking again and this time I DIDN'T give myself food poisoning!

Halloween is coming up here and I've finally decided on my costume: Captain Underpants! Today I got my costume (boys boxer briefs and a red cape and tank top)and I put it on when I got home and I've been wearing it for 3 hours now because I feel like this is who I AM. I accidentally answered the door with it on forgetting I was wearing it and thank god it was only Elin.

Johan's girlfriend Anna came here for a few days and I was lucky enough to get to hang out with them on Sunday! We went for lunch at Kaffe Paus (one of my favourite places to eat) and then we came out and realized we missed the bus so we walked to the next bus stop. Then we went back to my place and Anna made this really good swedish cake called KaddaKakka (i think) it's like a moist cake while Johan and I studied. the next week was unfortunately dedicated to studying!

However, Duncan arrives tomorrow and then we leave on Wedensday for Barcelona!! I get back on satuday afternoon and that's when we have the Halloween party and then Mark arrives on Wednesday and we leave for Paris and Rome! And when I get back it's time for SENSATION WHITE!!!!!

These next few weeks are going to be crazy! Today me and Annakarin had a really nice day walking around the mall and going for IKEA Swedish meatballs :) I can never leave this place <3

Friendly Visits

I recently started suuuper duper stressing out about school and realized that I should NOT have spent an entire week only partying, going to the gym, and watching dragons den, because I have royaly screwed myself for exams! However, now that the pressure is on I should be fine.

Last night I experienced something I've never experienced in my life..and it was amazing! I was just laying in my bed thinking about how stressed out I was and missing home quite a bit and all of a sudden (turn away those of you who don't believe in this ghost/spiritual stuff) I felt Geggs hug me. I literally felt my heart fill with this energy or something and to describe the feeling of a "full" heart is next to impossible. I could feel her around me literally hugging me. I just felt her everywhere, and I just knew it was her. I said to her outloud, "Hi Geggs, I know you're here and I can feel you. I miss you everyday and I know that you would be proud of me". I felt her for about another 30 seconds, and then I felt her leave. I felt my body become cold again and actually felt my heart empty of whatever it was that had filled it moments ago. It was as real as the fact that I'm in Sweden right now (..or am i?). That was just what I needed, though. A big, warm hug from Geggs..someone who is truly with me wherever I go, even across the world.

Isabelle's birthday

Well yesterday was Isabelle's birthday. She turned 19 (although I thought she was 19 all along) so me, Elin, Derek, Brett, and Joel went to dinner at this place called "an Italian and a Greek". It was a really quaint, warm place! It was dimly lit and nice music and I don't know what it was about the night but it just seemed like we didn't stop laughing the whole time! Most of us got pizza (which again, is never cut for you here and is super super thin) and I ate the cheese! Which I think I will never do again because I felt really sick the rest of the night. The six of us had a blasst and then Elin drives (a mini cooper) so the 6 of us all squeezed in like it was a clown car (since we all live in Raslatt) and went back to Isabelle's for cake. her mom made this craaazy good cake for us so we just talked around the table for about an hour. It was really really fun. My friends I've made here so far seem like family! It feels like I've known them my whole life--it's amazing how close you can get to people in such a short amount of time.

I shall never cook again

So most recently I've been learning how to cook and moving on from just pasta and sauce in a can. Last Wednesday I decided to make Jennie's recipe of goulash for Johan and I (I thought he could be my guinea pig). So Dad sent me the recipe and I followed it step by step (I had to improvise with some of the foods that they don't quite have here, like no mushroom soup in a can and no tomato paste). I was SO proud of myself because it tasted soooooooo good and thought wow, I really did inherit the cooking gene from dad. Well, it turns out I think I mildly food poisoned both Johan and I. We both woke up in the middle of the night that night with baaaaaad bowel movements and really sore tummys that lasted the entire next day. Needless to say, I won't be trying to cook that again, and idiot me ate the leftovers the next day, but halfway through decided it maybe wasn't such a good idea.

Then Thursday it was Club Caj (which is only every other Thursday) and we had suuuch a fun time!

Oh, also, Dragon's Den has been ruining my life. Well, both ruining it and making it better. I watched this show pretty much 24-7 for a solid week until I ran out of youtube video clips of it. And as much as it distracted me from doing anything else relatively productive, it also enhanced my presenting skills and ability to deal with investor's objections! I discovered this on Monday when we had a "trade show" at school where we had to present the businesses we've created for our project (ours was the student discount for taxis), and I found myself being able to deal with objections and situations I saw on dragon's den! Sooo why do I subject myself to the student life when I could just watch dragon's den and get an education?

So this Friday I went to the movie theatre for the first time! We went with Elin, Isabelle, Brett, Derek, and my new Canadian friend, Adrian (CanadRian ..haha) he's suuper funny! We saw "the other guys" with will ferrell.it was soo funny! The movies are most expensive here (about 15$) but you can get popocorn AND a drink for 7$. The movie theatres are a lot smaller too, but SUPER comfy seats and lots of leg room!

I'm having a blast here and still love it so much! I'm catching up in my classes and our lectures are done this week!! Exams in 2 weeks..it's going so fast!