Postcards from my life

Quite a lot of stuff going on at the moment. I guess this is what uni is supposed to feel like... The problem is that there's so much, too much. And it's kind of paralysing me. Instead of just doing it, I run around like a dizzy hen (always fun to translate Swedish expressions to English :P). I should write a list. It's going to be a long list. But I should do it. And then just take on thing at a time. Like today. I will allow myself to NOT work on my 10-page essay. Because for tomorrow I have to read a text about the Vietnam War, prepare a presentation on the same war, read another ten pages for Geopolitics and find an article for Geopolitics. Thank god I've already done my Spanish homework. And I'm going to the gym. And to some government institution to finally register Benji as ours. I should just take a deep breath, slow down a bit, and focus. Tick things off my list. See how it decreases. I'll never forget how during IB I wrote all the essays and assignments and finals I had to do on post-it's. Then I put them on my wardrobe, and then for every thing I submitted or completed I moved it from one door to the other. And the feeling when more than half was on the completed side? So amazing! And then suddenly all of them were on the completed side and I had done it. Just like I know I will this time too. Sometimes it just gets a bit overwhelming.

Last night I went to Mandy's after spending a whole day studying in my room. Needed to get out of the house for a bit. We were supposed to study. She studied. I lay on her bed and read Lonely Planet. Which is something I need to do as well to plan my parents visist. And it was nice to lie there and read about it and know that soon they will be here and we will explore a new part of Mexico together. And I chatted a bit with Rosanna. And we bought ice cream. It was nice.

But yeah. Back to that list I guess....

We went to Times Square and were impressed and fascinated.

We strolled around in Central Park enjoying sunshine and snow.

We went to see Hair which was amazing.

We went over to Brookelyn at night to get to see the impressive skyline and the Brookelyn Bridge.

As two McDonalds employees, of course we had to visit McDonalds. The one by Times Square is worth a visit for the decor!

It was weird... It was 33 degrees AND snowing! America truly is a strange country...

When we went to see the Statue of Liberty we realised that she is lifting her foot.. Who knew...

Look how tiny she is! And there's something missing! Oh yeah, two giant towers....

We went to see the Tim Burton exhibition at MoMA which was pretty darn cool.

We got orders from our own private NY-tour guide (tack Sarah!) to take the Staten Island Ferry, so that we did!

I have to say it was a truly amazing week.

We had so much fun and we did not want to leave when time came.

 

But now I'm back in Gdl and it's back to business so to speak. But in five meeks mum and dad comes so that's the next focus! Today is a lazy day of doing laundry, fixing my photos and just relaxing. Quite nice I have to say...

 

Partials are over and the general feeling is 'good job Lisa!' Must say I'm quite happy with my results.

And now the packing is done and early tomorrow morning we're taking me to the airport! And tormorrow at this point I'll most likely be sleeping. But I will be sleeping in New York, with Lina in the same room. Can't be much better than that =) I am so super excited, although I still can't really believe it. It seems so unreal that I actually will be talking to Lina tomorrow! TOMORROW!! Haven't seen her since July! We talk on Skype quite often, but it's obviously not the same. So I'm counting on many café visits and loooong fika's. And a lot of fun and just hanging out in New York.

The excitement is slowly seeping into my extremely tired body after this hectic week (of me miscolouring my hair so bad I had to go to the hair dresser and is no longer blonde, and of Benji breaking down and then starting again and then being taken to service, and partials of course). So yeah. I am tired. Extremely tired. But now that all is done. Including the packing (many thick sweaters), I am slowly setting my mind to 'vacation-mode' and starting to plan the coming week.

I'll get back to you in a week with awesome memories!

31 years since the Islamic Revolution.

Awareness needs to be spread.

The oppression is still present.

People are being persecuted for saying their opinion.

People are thrown in jail for demonstrating.

 

Amnesty has a campaign today for spreading awareness about the situation in Iran.

So talk about it! Write about it! Blog about it!

Scream about it.

Tell the world leaders about it.

Let people know what is going on!

 

The excitement is gone. Lately I've been really looking forward to going back to Nottingham when the summer is over. Been planning which classes to take, how I will go to the gym, and how nice it will be to live with the people I miss so much now. But now, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be turning out like I hoped. And now I don't feel like going back at all. I mean, I am looking forward to coming home. Definitely. And coming back to beautiful Nottingham campus. But I don't know anymore. I don't know what's going to happen. And it doesn't work like at home. That's the problem. In England, you either live in university accommodation, or you live in a house with several people. One or two, no. There's hardly anything available for that. And since the few people we know in England already seem to have their lives sorted we're stood empty handed.

I don't know. It will work out, of course. It always does. It's just frustrating.

I'm sitting working on my essay for Lund. Actually going okay. But now I'm stuck so I decided to give it a rest. Am gonna look at my history notes for the exam tomorrow. Shouldn't be too hard. I hope.

I want this week to pass by. I want Saturday to come. I still can't believe it. Probably won't until I stand there face to face with her. Amazing.

Went to campus today to get an assignment done, and I have to say that Malin and I were very productive! We sat down. Got the job done. And then went to Starbucks. Good job! And now I'm supposed to study for my online class from Lund, but too much exciting stuff has happened so I can't concentrate. Lina and I have booked our tickets! My wonderful amazing Lina is flying to New York to hang out with me for a week! So amazing! Get away just after partials. It's going to be freezing for me, but I could not care less at this point!

It does mean though that I have a lot of work to do this week. But the essay for Tuesday is done. So that's taken care of. And now I have one essay left for Friday, and then exam on Tuesday and on Friday. And in addition I have an essay to write for the online class. It is due on the 19th, but since I will be in New York all that week I'll get it done before :D And it will be so worth all the work this week! Because on Saturday I will see Lina!!!!!!!! Whom I haven't seen since July!!!


I could not be happier =) The sun is back, the clouds are gone, and I'm taking off in just a weeks time.
I cannot stop laughing!

Finally this weeks is over!! My Thursday exam went well I think, didn't seem to hard. Today's presentation went okay. I even said something! Proud of myself. (It was in Spanish about geopolitics, just to explain and not make people think I usually brag about speaking :P). Then the Spanish exam today... I don't know. It felt okay, but then again, Spanish verbs in past tense is my hate topic so we'll see.. Finished off the week with just over an hour in gym with Malin and Sarah. Felt good!
And now I've just finished writing the first part of an essay that is due Tuesday, so I am officially taking Friday now! I'll go into Tec tomorrow and study hard. Essay due Tuesday, want to finish it tomorrow. Exam on Tuesday. Essay due Friday. Exam Friday. God. HATE partials!!!

But atleast the sunshine is back which means I can sit outside in the sun tomorrow at Tec!

So, first partials of my second semester are coming up. And it feels. Currently sitting with two articles from a Spanish newspaper and trying to understand them. Have read one now, with SpanishDict.com right next to me. It gets a bit tricky when I don't even know the word I get translated to! So I'm working with both SpanishDict AND Dictionary.Com. Thank god internet is behaving tonight! I have a group meeting tomorrow about these two texts. We're supposed to write a conclusion or summary or something like that and present it in class on Friday.... In Spanish. It's a bit scary having class in Spanish. But I've learned a lot of new words tonight :P Which is kind of the point so I just have to keep pushing.... Who knows, maybe by the end of the semester I won't have any trouble reading a poltical science-y article in Spanish :P I wish.

And I have an exam on Thursday. In Spanish. And Spanish exam (actually me learning Spanish) on Friday. So I need to revise for those. And I need to write a museum report for Friday as well. And then next week I have one essay due on Tuesday and an essay or exam on Friday. I'm not quite sure... Don't really understand what the teacher is talking about. Will ask her on Friday. Would be stupid if I misunderstood the exam :P

And it's raining. And it's cold.

But as soon as I am done with this text (five pages A4) I will go to bed! No matter what time it is. So I better bite the bullet (or the sour apple as we say in Sweden) and get going.