London & friends

Two days in London.

Notting Hill, Covent Garden & Oxford Street i got to see this time. Plenty more to come. Can't wait til next time I can go up. I reckon I'll be doing day trips every other weekend.

Not much shopping this time. I got a yoga mat and that's about it.

Got to see some friends and that was great as well. I realise how much friends are worth. Just to be with someone you really like and talk or not talk at all and just be and just feel comfortable and able to be yourself a 100%. It's priceless really.

Now I'm gonna take a shower and cut my hair.

Ciao

Thanks

Just got some good news. Remember I couldn't get rid of my Swedish gym membership? Well, now a fiend of my mum helped me (without me knowing about it) and he managed to fix it for me. Same guy who's been helping me with the missing bags. Big Thank You!!! That's a great start of the day. And it looks like it's gonna be another sunny day. Lovley. Happy happy :)

A little bit of Sweden

Ever since I go over here I've had cereals for breakfast.

Today I felt having an egg and a sandwich.

So, the egg is boiling and I'm going over to the fridge to take out the caviar when I realise, I'm in England! They don't do eggs & caviar in England.

I open the fridge anyway to get the juice, and there, on the top back shelf, is a tube of Kalles Kvaiar.

Bless IKEA for making the world a little bit more Swedish!

Thursday morning

Allrighty. My very hard working day starts at 4:30 pm today when the kids are going swimming.

Up til then, I'm as free as free can be.

I've had a sleep in, I'll have a long, quiet breakfast, and then I'll to inte town for some browsing in the shops before I hit the gym at 1pm.

Speaking about the gym, did you know that there are twentysomething girls with tattoos in the small of their back & bellybutton peircings working out in cargopants and sportsbra's. I didn't think this kind of people still existed, and certainly not over the age of fourteen.

Intense

It's been a long day. Even though I don't spend the whole day with the kids the hours we do spend together are pretty intense. Probably even more so for me since I'm not at all use to young kids. But it feels good to be really tired in the evening.

Today I also went to the gym for some Pilates. Which felt great. I then had some Sushi for lunch. Love that you can get good Sushi without having to pay a fortune on it. Sweden need to work on that one! I also love that I can get all the fab UK edition fashion mags cheap and easy. What I miss, yet again, is the sweets and decent bread. How hard can it be?

Lost in the dark

I think I wrote yesterday that I was gonna go to the gym. Well, that didn't happen yesterday, but today it did. I was gonna do a spinning class at 7:15 pm, and left home half an hour before that.

So, I've been going around Bognor quite a lot these days that I've been here, but always in daylight and never driving myself. Today however I was driving in the dark.

Do I have to tell you I got lost? Big time!

But, when I've been driving around for like, 45 minutes, and I'm about to give up, try to find my way home, and consider it a long test drive, I see, in the corner of my eye, a KFC and a Lidl sign, and, squeezed between those two, voila, Fitness First!

So, I must say, I do find it a rather successfull night after all.

Sunny

Today the sun is shining, and it's very beutiful, so I'm off out for a walk on the beach :)

The shrinking globe

I just found Annas new blog. It's funny how small the world's become since the revolution of the internet. With e-mails, chat's, Facebook and MySpace and then, of course, the blogs. It's just so easy to keep an eye on what everyones up to.

I'm off to bed now so I'll see yous in the morning.

Natti natti

English palmtrees

The rain is pouring down and the palmtrees in the garden look like they are freezing. I've always said I want to live in a place where I can have palmtrees in my garden. However, Enland never really crossed my mind as a place where that could happen. But here they are, and what do I know about palmtrees after all?

I've been out testdriving "my" car today. It's really pretty, a Ford KA in metallic silvery-green. But it is tricky to be on the lefthandside of the road again. At least it's not a truck i'm driving this time. But I'll get some practice later tonight when i go to the gym.

I am also gonna see if can get some money from sweden to enrol on a course. I'm considering creative writing, web-design, spanish, photagraphy or fashion design. It would be a great way of meeting new people. But it is rather expensive so i reckon I'll need to get in touch with CSN or whoever it is I should get in touch with.

First day

I'm now sitting at my desk, in my room, looking out at the water. Bognor Regis, on the south coast of West Sussex, is what will be my home for now.

I rather like it. Lovley family and all.

I've allready got a new mobile number, which is +447551950994, and a membership at the local gym. Which happens to be Fitness First by the way, irony of life. I've also discoverd they have Woolworths here. And although i'm in europe so you reckon things would be like Sweden, it's more like Aussie land.

All good so far. I'll keep you up to date.

Weekend with the girls

Woha, just 2 days left in Sweden. Belive it or not but I'm actually quite nervouse. But in a good way.

Still have my membership at the gym to deal with, not really sure how to solve it.

I purchased a new laptop the other day, so that's fun. I didn't really had the money, but since I got a job I needed one. And the job will get me the money, so thats all good. It's a typing job for a company here in Sweden that I'll be able to do online, so I can be anywhere, which is great (and maybe in the future "anywhere" could be, like, sunny Langkawi rather than cold England)

Tonight and tomorrow will be spent with the girls. The Girls!

But first, some lunch and a bit of packing and cleaning. Can't belive I've got so much stuff. Crazy, loco, gila gila!

Mission very much possible, please

Mission of the day:
Talk the people on the gym in to letting me off the hook of my 1 year contract with them. I really did belive I was gonna be here for a year. Now I ended up using that card for 2 weeks. Hopefully they'll be nice. Otherwise it will be te two most expensive weeks of my life (well, almost anyway)

I am also going to dinner with my brother, father and grandparents to celebrate my borthers birthday (a month late)

Then I have a movie night or a party night to look forward to. Can't really make up my mind which one it'll be.

Small problems in a big world.

Ciao

Say hello goodbye

Just like i predicted, I wasn't able to say no.
So, 10 days from now it's bye bye Sweden and hello England!
I cannot belive I'm so lucky. This family sounds almost to good to be true. Got some pics today and it all just feels great. There are always some new advetures just around the corner.
But (always a but) I will miss my friends! However this time i'm closer than last time. And yes I know I said that about Norway as well, but guess what, it's acually cheaper to buy a plane ticket to London than a train ticket to Oslo! And it won't take any longer. So, I reckon i'll have loads of visitors this time (crossing my fingers for that ;))

Oh my giddy giddy gosh

A couple of weeks ago I singed up at this website for au-pairs. Never really expected anyting to come from it. Today I got a phonecall from a lady who told me there's a family in the UK, west sussex, who might want me to come and work for them for a year. I told her she could give them my number. Now I'm sort of freaking out 'cause if they really really want me I don't think I'll be able to say no....

After that a real nice lady from the Telia Shop in Linköping also called me for a phoneinterveiw.

At least things start moving.

Sun's shining today too, so i'll just go for a walk now.

Time to grow up?!?

I just read Anna:s blogg.
She's decided to study psychology for 5 years. My biggest decison so far today is to wear purple nailpolish instead of red....
Time to grow up?!?

At least i got to the gym this morning, even managed to get Lottie to go with me. Funniest music today, this old lady asked to get one of her favourites so we listend to "Lasse Stefans". Haha, you probably gotta be from Sweden to get what's so funny. It's not realy the music we normaly get on the spinning classes, that's for sure.

Now I'm off to see Jenna and look for a bag to Alex and then to hang with my family for the rest of the day. Ciao

Without keys on a sunny day

I always make fun of my mum and the fact that she always forget things. I'm not joking, every singel time she walks out of the door she comes back 30 seconds later to pick something up. Every time. So it was kind of embarrissing to have to call her today and tell her I left my keys at home and can't get in. Unfortenatley she's in Stockholm and will not be home until late. Lucky for me Alexandra is living just a block away and is boyfriendless at the moment, so I don't have to sleep on a bench in the park.

Gorgeous day today, sun shining and all that. So what did I do? I locked myself in a dark saftey/storage room where my dad's kept all the stuff from our old apartment and packed a fair few boxes for my new apartment. I'm not sure how I'll manage to get it all in. I can tell you for sure I will not have one of those airy minimalistic places that you see in magzines. It'll more look like a crowded secondhand shop. But I have to say I've got loads of beutiful things.

Didn't have time and the forgot to eat today (i've had 2 apples and a latte) but I'll make it up to myself tomorrow. First I'm going to my grandparents for lunch and then to dad for dinner. Since I don't see either of them very much they've both decided to make some of my favorite foods. Can't wait.

Monday

Kickstarted the week with some Body Pump at 6:45 this morning.
Felt like a hero and deserved the big brekkie at the gym afterwords. Love going to the morning classes, even more fun when some of the other girls tag along, so girls, who's on for spinning on wednesday?!

Back home i called up a friend of mum and got myself an interveiw for a job. Going over tomorrow, so we'll se how that works out. It's a computer job, typing, could work.

Now I'm off to the shower before going to my grandparents place for some mid-morning coffee.

Oh, saturday, so much fun! First the trip to Stockholm with Jenna to meet Marjo, awesome. Then the biggest bottle of Asti ever and a great night out with the girls. Great fun. Felt like I was 18 all over again (which in my book i a level A grade)

Apartment? Check! Happy? Check!!

Wiho, I've just got myself an apartment.
It makes me a very happy Sofi!
Technicly I don't have it yet. I'll move in the first of November. Which is probably good since I still don't have a job, sand therefore no money to pay for it. Yet.
It's quite small, one bedroom, a kitchen, a wardrobe, bathroom (with a bathtub :D) and a balcony. 31 square meters. 2500 SEK/month.
Perceft for one person, one Sofi.


The (almost) best part is that it gives me an opportunity to throw a party.
A house warming party. That's always fun.

Other than that, not much new. I'm using my gym card so I'm not as fat as i was a week ago but my jeans are still to tight. I'm still singel, and I'm still poor.

But happy!

And I'm going to Stokholm to meet Marjo this weekend.
And I'm going there next week on a "work in Europe" thing.
And the week after for an interveiw to become a travel guide in Egypt.
Uhm.
Yea well, don't even ask.

Home sweet home

I'm home.
To stay.
For now...
Got a membership at my favourite gym in the world (Nautilus kicks Fitness First ass!)
Don't have a job, don't have an apartment.
But I'll get there, eventually.
For now I'm just enjoying life.
Hope it'll last.
Keeping my itching feet at bay with a promise to myself that i'll go to London, soonish, in my infinate search for those bloody bags of mine.

Hello Norway

I'm in Oslo.
I realise now that it was a long time ago I was a rookie in Sydney. It seems I gloryfied the whole thing about being new in town a bit. It's bloody hard to get all the bits and pieces together from scratch. I'ts a cathc 22 sort of, I need a job to get an apartment, and I need an adress to get a job.

However, since i know from experience that it can work out, and i'm really keen to get my life sorted, i'll just keep trying.

Going to the movies tonight with my friend/one-week-roomie/guide (bless him!).