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!).

Back from Paris

Paris.
Ah.
Paris!

It was great. Really it was.
We did a lot of walking, covering most of the city.
We found second hand & vintage shops, the biggest fleamarket in Paris, and loads of other fun stuff. We ate baguetts, croissants and we did drink both good coffee & red wine. (We also drank beer & candy shots when we ended up in an irish bar one night!) We went to the movies and, ofcourse, we saw the Eiffeltower, Mona Lisa & Moulin Rouge. Just some you-gotta-do-it-when-you-in-Paris-stuff.
Great fun.
Unfortunately we had only a disposable camera so I won't be able to post any pics for you.

Next up is a trip to Oslo for a few days to work out a place to stay and a job. I'll be going over on Sunday and catch up with Johan who's brave enough to lend me a couch.

But for tonight i'm happy to enjoy the quiet life of Norrköping. It can be pretty awesome as well. At least when you have good friends to share it with!

Stuck with the laundry

I like clothes. Clothes are fun
Washing clothes. Not so fun.
At least not when it's 8 machines.
My mom made a reservation for the washing room.
From 7 am to 9 pm.
What a lovely day.
If you need me, you now know where to find me!

some paris & a lot of newness, coming right up

It's my last day at work tomorrow. After that, freedome.
It's a lot of Paris in my head right now, paris paris paris paris.
Fleamarkets, coffee, shopping, choclate & loads of red wine.
But it's also a little bit of Oslo on my mind.
Apartments & work.
New town, new experiences.
New people, new bars, new coffee shops, new shopping.
New life.
Again.
A little bit closer this time than last.
6 (?) hours on a train. Not 24 on a plane.
But still a lot of newness.

Draem away

While i'm doing this (which is what i've been doing for five hours today), i'm dreaming about this!

BFF

Friends.

You can't beat the feeling of 11 girls around a too small table talking all at once about a trillion different things. It's quite amazing really. I have to pinch myself to realise it's for real.
I'm so lucky. We all are. To have eachother.

It makes me think back to other times when i've been surrounded by amazing people.
On pantai chenang, friday night drinks at F&B, dancing at the Royal in Bowral, highschool, Jerry's basemant, way back then.

At times i've felt like all the fun's already over.
Just like A said today.
I've been lucky so far, and now i'm getting old and this is it.
No more fun for me, i've had my share, and now it's someone elses turn.
Again I'm lucky.
Cause I was wrong (something I normally don't admit to being).
The fun's just started. And it feels gooooood. Let me tell you, for example, saturday, this week, Göteborg, whoha, that's gonna be fun allright (and i better tell you that now because of the possibility I don't remember it on sunday)

I think it's more about letting go of the "fun" we had as 18 year olds and welcome the 20+ fun and live with that for now. Maybe sitting in a park drinking cheap vodka and dance all night long and make out with strangers on the dancefloor twice every weekend isn't the best thing to do any more. I should probably let that go, shouldn't I.
It can be fun having a glass (or three) of wine and a chit chat with the girls, flirting, just a little bit, with the cute guy in the bar, and get home early.
We are young, very young indeed, but we do get older. Time's are changeing and so are we and that's fine. Cause as long as we do what we do together, it will still be fun.

And if we by accident happen to end up with a bottle of cheap vodka and a stranger on the dancefloor, well, then someone else probably just had a glass of wine and can tell us what happend the day after.

That's what friends are for!

I'm suffering from the itchy-feet-syndrome

This is not my first blog. Probably not my last. Why I choose to make one now, i don't know.

Maybe I miss bellaragazzi, maybe i'm bored, maybe I feel like being a bit creative, or maybe I just miss the english language so much i felt obliged to come up with an excuse to use it.

Whatever the reason, dear reader, this blog is about to begin.

First I want to tell you a littel bit about me. Just so you get a picture, an idea, of who I am, what I have done and where I'm heading next.

I was born i Sweden, I grew up there, and I refer to it as home. But however much I liked it, it wasn't quite enough. Which is why, after finishing highschool, I packed my bags and left.
What started out as a four months holiday, turned in to a sixteen months adventure. I have seen beautiful places and met beautiful people. I now consider Sydney a second home and feel the same way about Langkawi.

But all good things come to an end, and so did my trip.

I've been back in Sweden for a while, but since I'm suffering from the itchy-feet-syndrome, I cannot stay much longer and have decided to move on. This time my plan is to go to Oslo. I still don't know when to go, where to stay or what to do. However my motto in life is that "everything works out if you want it to", so i figure this will as well.

This is just a start, let's see what follows....