My first latte

Today I had yoga as I do every Monday, and I tried to leave at the perfect time so that I would catch the bus home just in time. However, of course I'm an idiot and looked at Saturday instead of the weekdays so I had 15 minutes to kill. So I walked down to Coffeehouse by George and got my very first latte! And it was delish! They also gave complimentary ginger bread cookies.

I also got a little bit of culture shock..while I was waiting for my latte I saw onoe of the workers come up to the counter, open a drawer, and pick up a snoos (chewing tobacco in a little packet) anda put it in his mouth right in front of me! That stuff is everywhere--I even saw kids with it on their desks during exams. Craazzay.

Tonight Johan gets home..he was in stockholm with anna this weekend. When he gets home I think we're going to play hide and seek in all of Raslatt :)

The most amazing sight I've seen in Sweden!

Sunday I lounged around and went to the gym and when I came out of the gym I saw the most amazing sight ever! The stage in front of handelsbanken was all set up and decorated with different performances going on. There were people dancing to Christmas songs and some girls even did a dance to lady gaga bad romance! There was also live Christmas music and even jazz versions of the songs. The city was decorated beautifully with white lights hanging from the high parts of the building. And it was the perfect soft snow fall that just dusted all of us walking through the town. An there were ppl everwhere! Kids with balloons an cotton candy singing and dancing. There was an “American donuts” stand which me and issy obviously had to go to...even though I had just finished at the gym. There were also these little stands selling random stuff like hats, scarves, necklaces, watches, purses, kids toys. I walked around for a little by myself with a gigantic smile on my face. I probably looked kind of creepy just walking around with this retarded smile. I called issy and told her she needed to get to town asap but she was luckily already on her way to go to the gym—which she ditched to walk around with me :) It was funny because both of our purposed for going to town was the gym but then we ate an insane amount of bad food! We walked around for a good two hours just looking at everything an going into the stores and stuff. We also got hot dogs and hot chocolate to help the homeless, even though it makes me super sick. It was such an amazing evening just listening to the Christmas music and seeing all the decorations, walking through the snow, and seeing all the people :) Then we watched eat pray love at issys! An excellent evening.
I don't have a picture of the festivities..but here's a picture of the snow we have!

Workin' for the Weekend

Friday we went tobaganning! There’s this really awesome hill about 5ish minutes from raslatt. It was just me Julie Shannon em issy and joel but we had a blast! We all bought toboganns for the occasion of course and brought along good old mr. bag in a box. The hill was pretty big so it was quite the treck up each time but so much fun on the way down! Most of our sleds were super duper fast and we ended up having races and battles down the hill. The battles started to get pretty intense pushing each other off the sleds on the way down. Then we started doing doubles down the hill and this is where is got dangerous and painful! We were there for about an hour and a half probably,, then started to get cold and super tired so we headed back, all of us with nice bumps and bruises. I insisted we take a short cut even though it involved climbing a “little” hill. Hoewver, the last time I took that short cut I was running by myself during the fall…so this hill we all now had to climb in knee deep snow all carrying tobagans and a highway beneath us. It was difficult, but we made it with a little help from joel pulling us up onto the bridge. Joel took off to hang with the guys but the girls went back to issys to watch a movie. We REALLY wanted pizza but nowhere in jonkoping delivers or is basically open passed 9! So we just broke into Derek’s place and stole his pizzas and watched “he’s just not that into you” (hopefully Derek doesn't read this...)

Saturday was super fun. We went to the last Club Enkelt! We did a little preparty at forss’..just basically the raslatt crew at his place an we played some kinex soccer game. Issy got in a little bit of a fight at the bar when I was cuttingi n the coat check line and some girl got mad and for somereason hit Issy in the face. After that we were trying to grab a cab and we finally got one but it was already filled with a group of guys! But they were headed to raslatt so we were lucky. So we had to drop off his one friend at a girls house and everyone was congratulating him and pumping him up…turns out this kid went to the door and the girl thought it was one of the other guys which we thought was hilarious. It was a good, fun and chilled out weekend!

Thanksgiving

I went with Derek and Elin on Thursday to the ICA Maxi and it was like heaven! They had so many of the foods from back home and I got poptarts and peach slices! Thursday was also thanksgiving! Which was so much fun! Everyone made something—I brought the ice cream for the apple pie that elin and issy made. Julie brought green bean casserole which was AMAZING, stuart even made yams! James and Joel did corn and Shannon and Em brought salad. Derek did mashed potatoes and Brett & Claus did dinner rolls. It was so nice to be with the whole Swedish family eating awesome food! It was funny b/c since we were so many there would be a few conversations going on, and when one would end those people would just jump to the next one and then from time to time there was just a huge startling silence, which all ended up laughing at. We all just hung out at Bretts for a while and talked after dinner. The boys started watching football and me Elin an Issy ended up falling asleep all spooned on Claus’ bed until they woke us up at about midnight. It was a really great night!

bits and pieces of Movember

I was really really really sick last week..I had a seriously gross throat infection and fever and pretty much laid in my bed for 6 days and watched all seasons of Californication and the Office. Not one of the best ways to spend my week.

Saturday, November 20
Club Sliver and Shannon’s birthday!! We all went to Shannons to preparty because it was her birthday and we had a blast. We played kings cup for a while and their door frame which had broken off fell down on Julie, which was pretty funny. We were worried we wouldn’t get in because the age was 23, but we all made it in just fine. It was fun because Shannon and Julie and Emily came out with us which they usually don’t! Derek got in a fight with some Persian dudes because they kept grabbing Elin’s butt—so him and Elin left pretty early in the night. Then I lost my friends, but they were getting food at Evergreeen, a restaurant by the school so we walked over to meet them and ate a retarded amount of pizza salad, which I’m obsessed with and will miss so dearly!

Sunday, November 21
I had a really cool, calm, and relaxing day today. Me and Johan basically spent the day together just chilling out. We cooked some food, ate dinner, and just hung out and screwed around pretty much. Then I was about to watch he’s just not that into you and he asked if he could watch it with me (I don’t think he knew it was a chick flick). We also went over to Joels for a bit and just chatted with him and James. It was a good day :)


Monday night Johan insisted on doing Micro together and I actually thought I was going to murder him with a knife. He and I cannot study together—I just started getting so frustrated at him. It wasn’t his fault really, he was just being inquisitive and asking questions but there is definitely a language barrier that was making us want to kill each other. And then more I got frustrated the funnier he thought it was so he just kept being a little shit! God, I’m gonna miss him.

Barcelona & Duncan's visit

First and foremost I apologize for not posting in forever! Turns out I really hate this whole blogging thing. But here's the story!
Well well well Duncan arrived Monday October 25. I met him at the train station with Adrian who I randomly bumped into. Monday there was a pirate party at Oleary’s so we obviously had to get costumes. So we went to the mall and found some decent pirate stuff, went home and ate spaghetti with Annakarin, and then went to Brett’s for the preparty. It was suuper fun and there were lots of people and so we headed out to Olearys and had a blast! Small dance floor, but enough pirates there to make it fun. It went downhill, however, when Isabelle fell on a table and broke it so then everyone decided we had to take her home and that was unfortunately the end of the night :(

So Tuesday I thought I’d go out and show him the town. Now originally we were supposed to go to Barcelona Wednesday-Saturday but he heard from someone in another contry that he just HAD to go to our student pub Akadamien which is on Wednesdays so I suggested we switch out flight to leaving Friday morning instead so we could party at Aka. So anyway, Tuesday we slept in quite late, went to lunch at lingon with annakarin (my favourite favourite restaurant), I showed him the town a bit and then Tuesday we went to the gym with Johan and AK. Johan and Duncan worked out and me and AK did kick box! Then we just went back to mine and watched a movie and hit the hay. So Wednesday I switched my flight over the phone and signed him into the Akadamien. But when we went home to switch his flight the flights were full! So we had to do some serious problem solving so we decided we’d go to Aka and then he’d leave right from the bar to the train station to catch the flight..and we did just that! Chaotic and exhausting, but worth it (I hope)

So Thursday I was to do exactly what Duncan did--leave for the train to Stockholm after having been out! So I forced Johan to to take me to the bus and he was SO mad that I wouldn’t let him just abandon me at the bus. We were literally sprnting and running around looking for the bus and he was screaming out how much he hates me, but I know it’s pure love. So I got on the bus at 1:45 am! Tried to sleep as much as I could but it was quite crammed! Then off the bus and onto another bus to get to the Stockholm airport that I took to Barcelona.

So I get into Barcelona after a loooong trip and 2 days with a very minimal amount of sleep. So I met up with Duncan and Barcelona was SO cool! It was so warm and all along the streets were people doing really weird stuff for money. They would sit in these weird costumes and just sit still ALL day and people would drop money in their hats so we walked around looking at that stuff for a while. Then we went to some humungo church that has taken 150 years to build and it’s STILL not finished. The inefficient and waste of mmoney and human resources made me SO fricken mad that I didn’t even want to look at the church any more because I was so pissed at how stupid the gov’t was being to continue building this church! So then we went to the beach where we found a cool Irish dude who took us around on a little bike thing and showed us the places you can purchase cannabis which are apparently located on the official Barcelona map (we didn’t buy any, obviously). And we got REALLY amazing ice cream at this place on the beach and all along the beach they had these people who would spend like a whole day making this CRAZY INCREDIBLE sand sculptures (for money, of course). Then we went back to the hostel to regroup where we met this crazy Australian who came in talking about all the cocaine he did yesterday and so generously offered to do some cocaine with us, which we politely declined. Then we went into the downtown Barcelona area looking for stuff to do. We ended up going to a flamenco show! So we got a buffet of really traditional Spanish food (I ate mostly kiwi) and unlimited wine and Sangria. Then we went into this quaint, cozy little room, probably only like 50 people and we were right up next to the stage! The dancers wer AMAZING!!! The woman were quite luscious, which I liked! It really added to the culture and feel of the dancing!! The show was just incredible with only a guitar, tambourine, and the female and male singers. So after that it was 1 am and I was POOPED! And had to wake up early the next day to head home (Yes, I was only in Barcelona 24 hours). So the next morning I went to take the bus to the airport but they so politely informed me the bus wouldn’t get me there in time for my flight so I had to pay a cab 200$!!! To take me to the airport! I was pretty bitter after that.
Long story short I got home to Jonkoping and then went straight to Forss for the Halloween preparty! (I was captain underpants). It was fun but i was a bitter girl because of all the stupid money I had spent and how little sleep I had, but then we went to Club Hollywood for a huge Halloween party which was kind of lame, but kind of cool.
So Sunday was a laaazy day. I had tacos with Elin, Brett, and Derek for dinner though which was fun then watched night at the Roxbury with elin and isabelle.
Monday I had school (Micro, which is gonna be hard). But I lost my phone (but then found it without a battery) So joakim (isabelle’s lover) said I could use his phone. So we met up at the Student Hause to make the swap and ending up sitting there and talking for 2 and a half hours!

Me and Johan pretty much hang out every day. He's the best!I feel like we’ve known each other our entire lives. I honestly don’t know what I’m gona do without him, but I really try not to think about it. He and I will be good friends for life, I can tell :)