Theadamlife

Travel plans

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I already have stockholm and gothenburg booked in my travel calendar for this summer... But that cant be enough, right?!

That is why im right now is trying to make a master plan a lá the continent which includes Brussels and Berlin!!

I think i have born skill for planning stuff.. or i have just been searching for cheap tickets and finding ways to travel cheap way too many times... either way im now an expert and i think i've found a way to go from home-brussels-berlin-home for only 1300 SEK. 

Sometimes i just get so tired of myself since i can be sitting in front of the computer for hours and hours and constantly be thinking, on the next site, next day, another airport... it will be cheaper!
Annoying

Time will show if i can make it happen!! :)

Brussels





Berlin






Two cities every european has to go to and i think they are two cities perfect for my liking!

aaaand... they both said yes!

Kategori: In English

The TV was on in the Nors' house the whooooole day yesterday! From 8 in the morning with the very first preparation of the wedding until late night around 01.00 when the bride couple had their first dance together.

it was a day when the loved princess found her own love.
TV history was made, never has a royal wedding anywhere been so intimatley broadcasted and this is also why everyone in the country is so moved after this event because the royal family has never really showed so much emotion in public.
500 000 people were gathered outside thepalace when the married came to greet the people.
Half a billion people all over the world saw the wedding!

It was really great to see so much emotion from the royal family and the new prince held a wonderful speach about the crownprincess where he said that once they knew that they were going to be separated from eachother for one month. The crown princess then sat up all night and wrote 30 letters to Daniel, one for each day they would be separated!

Now isnt that cute!!!

What people dont know is that in the moment Daniel said "I do" in the church, he lost all his citizen rights. He can no longer vote or have an own public opinion, that's quite a change!

Im sure they will be happy together anyway :)


And they lived happily forever after!

The crown princess wedding!

Kategori: In English

Today is the big day that the swedish people has been waiting for! The crown princess is finally getting married!

All the worlds royalties has gathered in Stockholm to celebrate and meet over fancy dinners and concerts.

TV is covering everything and its the only thing that they are talking about. There are discussion everywhere about the monarchy and if it should remain or not. I really admire the royal family for the work they are doing with promoting Sweden and i would never want Sweden to be a republic. I think Sweden would loose a big part of its originality in the world and it provides a stability to the political system.

Enough with that statement... !

What is sure that there was not a dry eye in Sweden yesterday when the showed the wedding concert on TV. It was a great program with a lot of romantic music. In the end a children choir came in and sang a beautiful love song in swedish to the bride and groom and then even the king and queen cried (something that has never been shown on TV!).

It feels so good in every Swede that the crown princess Victoria has found someone to love. and it really shows that they are in love! The royal family are so public persons and that is probably why it feels exeptionally good to see them so purely happy. The royal family is like a second family member since everyone has known about them since forever.

Tears of joy will be delivered here around 15.30 when the wedding ceremony starts.

Love is in the air

Long live the love!
(and the monarchy) ;)


Crown princess and her prince to be, Daniel

Absolutely fabulous

Kategori: In English

I love british comedy series and absolutely fabulous is the best one ever! If you have never heard of it, its about Eddie, a totally stupid over weighted fashion editior (that never actually work), her constantly drinking friend Patty. Eddie's daughter and mother are playing the only smart people in the series.

What i love with british humour is that it is sooo evil and sarcastic!! Not like american comedies, it feels like they are more about laughing about geeks and retards (sorry fellow americans!) :P


Dont blame the clothes, blame the wardrobe

Kategori: In English

So now I have fully moved into my house outside Eksjö. Its actually really nice to be home with the parents, they are not too demanding and we are mostly having just fun all the time. The buy me food and pay my travel expenses, isnt it great!

The problem is though all my clothes... This constant problem! On one hand they are always too few but on the other hand they are just too many!

My mom counted that i have over 20 pair of jeans... I didnt listen

Its pretty sick on one hand to have so many clothes and i guess i should throw some...

But its like this (the logic of clothes-keeping philosophy):

- I bought all clothes for a reason
- If i dont use the clothes it means that i had a bad reason to buy them
- I'm not an unreasonable person!
- I have to keep the clothes

Instead of pulling my nerves together and throw out the stuff i took my brothers drawer and now it feels like im living in a castle.


Not too bad of a solution eeh?



The royal sleeping place

Hej då göteborg

Kategori: På svenska

I fredags så åkte jag och mamma till Göteborg för att hämta resten av mina kläder och saker som jag lämnat i mitt lilla rum i Masthugget.

Man glömmer verkligen hur långt bort Göteborg ligger från Eksjö! Det tar sjukt lång tid och jag har åkt den där långa turen så många gånger nu att jag har tröttnat på det extra mycket... Det småregnade hela vägen så det var passande reseväder, så trist att sitta inne i en bil hela dagen om det är soligt ute.

Vi var livrädda för hur vi skulle köra hem till mig med bil. Mamma var extra rädd eftersom hon alltid kört vilse i Göteborg! Men jag hade tänkt ute lite innan hur vi skulle köra så vi kom faktiskt på rätt väg på en gång! okej, jag var tvungen att göra en lite olaglig svängning... Och jag körde in i en väldigt hög trottoarkant... Men vadå!? Man måste räkna med lite olyckor på en så lång resa! ;)

Vi städade upp rummet och packade ganska snabbt och sen satte vi oss att vänta på att mina hyresvärdar skulle komma hem... Tänkte det skulle va lite snällt att säga hej då till dem men vi hade missförtått varandra  med tiden förmin utflyttning så det fick bli ett väldigt brutalt avslut eftersom jag kastade in nyckeln genom brevinkastet och sen stack därifrån.

De fick en blomma i alla fall! :)



Jag städade faktiskt också!

Två feta jätteresväskor med kläder och saker blev nerpackade... Jag visste att mitt rum och min garderob redan  var full.

To be continued!

first day at work!

Kategori: In English

yesterday was my first day at work at the tourist office. I must admit that i was a bit nervous because i knew that i would be all alone and i guess a lot of things happened in the municipality the last year and then i would have no other staff to ask for advice!

On the other hand, I am the tourist office expert... I own that place! ;)

Well the day went by really really slow. They have a new booking system for the youth hostel so i sat most of the day trying to understand it and what they had done wrong with it, because something didnt work out!

After doing almost nothing the whole day (maybe i had 7 tourists in 4 hours that only asked for a map or the toilet) i gave up and started doing even more useless stuff...


Here's a goodie for all the swedish people


LOL!

Graduation

Kategori: In English

My little little little brother has grown up and graduated last saturday! The graduation from high school is a very big swedish tradition and looks almost the same anywhere you go in sweden. It doesnt have so much sense to celebrate it anymore really since everyone goes to high school nowadays. A few decades ago it was a bigger thing to celebrate since not so many studied for that many years.

The white hat is the student hat that everyone graduated from high school has to buy. Girls dress in white and guys in suit. At a certain time the teacher or principal of the school opens the front door of the school and officially declare that there is no more school for the students so then everyone starts running out, shouting and singing their joy out to the many relatives waiting outside.




The brothers :)


After shouting and getting presents from the relatives and family (all the stuff hanging around the neck) the students get up on trucks, decorated with the each class members' names and other fun sentences.These trucks drive around town for a while, shouting or playing really loud music, drinking and everyone is taking photos.



I still remember (some parts anyway, hehe) my graduation, best time ever!! I had tears of joy that day, amazing... :)

After all the driving around town, we took my brother home to meet the rest of the whole family. So many people that day but it was really fun! I talked and talked and some cousins even found my thesis interesting enough to read! Very good day indeed :) The weather was also exceptional and after a long long day and too much eating i went to bed totally exhausted.

I guess next time we will have this much party at home again will be next year when my mom has her 50 years birthday... No more graduations in this family anyway! ;)

NHL feber!

Kategori: På svenska

Helt galet vad det har handlat mycket om Chicago Blackhawks och NHL i lokaltidningarna den senaste tiden. Det finns en helt klar anledning, att lagets back-spelare heter Niklas Hjalmarsson och kommer här ifrån grannbyn. Hela grejen esklareade idag i en hel orgie av lycka när han vann Stanley cup pokalen!

Jag är absolut ingen expert på hockey men jag vet i alla fall att Stanley Cup är en av de finaste pris som en hockeyspelare kan vinna eftersom det är en oerhört konkurrens bland alla lag och spelare att få komma så långt.

Anledningen till att jag skriver ett helt inlägg om hockey i denna oerhört osportiga blogg är att Niklas faktiskt är min gamla barndomsvän och trots att vi inte alls har haft särskilt mycket kontakt påmånga många år så är jag oerhört glad för hans skull att få vinna NHL. Helt otroligt hur svårt det är att nå så långt på så kort tid, jag menar vi är ju bara 23 år gamla i år!

Jag kommer ihåg när vi var små och lekte på landet. Helt overkligt att tänka att han någonsin skulle kunna bli nått så speciellt!

Stjärnglansen kommer ju vara total och jag antar att ingenting kommer vara som förr hemma hos familjen Hjalmarsson... En helt vanlig familj liksom, coolt att få se ett kändisskap växa fram på så nära håll som jag får just nu.

Trots alla miljoner som han kommer tjäna nu efter en sådan här stor vinst så är jag säker på att han kommer vara lika ödmjuk som person som vanligt. Jag tycker inte ens att det är orimligt hur mytcket de kommer betala han för att spela hockey nu. Han förtjänar varje öre, så mycket som han har fått slita för att nå så långt som han gjort idag!

Så grattis Nicke!!


Lady Gaga (again)

Kategori: In English

Yes, this lady just keep on impressing me with her incredible videos!
Its not a new song, just a new video...

There is always so many random stuff going on in Lady Gaga's videos, that is also why they are so fascinating to watch. This time you check out the guys in the beds (they are wearing high heels) and her special "bra" in the end (its machine guns)

I have to warn sensitive readers before looking at this video. No nudity or violence though, just amazingly weird stuff going on... ;)


This woman has one crazy mind...

Home!

Kategori: In English

I've been home now for just over 24 hours and actually... I LOVE IT!

The whole family has been really busy with my little brother's graduation party tomorrow. Like all the relatives are coming! I think we will be around 40- 50 people. Its gonna be fun to meet everyone again. I think my relatives are all very cool and i can talk to everyone easily. We may not have the closest contact with all of them, it would on the other hand be impossible... I mean imagine taking care of all ones friends and aquantancies and at the same time having all the relatives to check up with... No relatives are great to have because they will always be there. Blood is thicker than water after all! ;)

I have been working with cleaning the house all day (especially my room). My room was such a big mess, clothes everywhere from my wardrobre here and from the little suit case i brought with me from my closet in Gothenburg. I have noooo idea how i will fit everything into my closet and drawer i have here in my room... I guess i have to do the unsoeakable again... THROW CLOTHES!

How much it may hurt in my heart, i guess it will be neccessary... ;(

Even though i have been inside most of the day, the weather has been really hot and sooo beautiful! The best thing with the graduation party is that the whole family is working to get the house perfectly clean and the garden looks amazing!

Summer is probably the best in Sweden... It's still sunny outside and its almost 22.00 now.

Here is some pictures from tonight. We sat outside in the sun, had some wine and take away to celebrate my new master degree :)



Here are some pictures taken just now!








This is a milestone

Kategori: In English

And so I am done with school... forever!

I reflected over my four years in university (Yes, its four full years!!). I cant believe time has gone by so fast!

The pages I have read.
The stress that sometimes has been so intense that I have broken into tears.
The joy of actually learning interesting stuff.
The infinite hours in classes being bored as hell.
So many uncountable people I have met.
Tears from laughs.
Amazing parties.
Learnings for life.
Great memories.

Best friends



So many many hours of student living has come to an end and I guess I still can't believe it...


With this insert I guess I only want to say: CONGRATULATIONS to Me and Bob for finishing these many years together!


Four Freakin' Fabulous years!! :D

Love!

Kategori: In English


Just a normal stone in the sea among the dirty algae


Like this stone in the sea
 
you can find love

where you least expect it



Isnt it amazing?