a 5 minute walk

this is all the nice stuff i see when i walk to school.
come here and take a walk with me!

i bought this today!

doesn't it look great?

vad gör du ikväll?

another week has past, here at hyper island. and again, it has been a very interesting week. we started working on our first project, creating a database for
future internship companies. my team has to do research on berlin, and we also decided to do research on companies in amsterdam. after all this researching and investigating i have found so many cool and interesting companies around the world, it is very inspiring! next week we'll have presentations from all teams. countries covered for example usa, uk, japan, spain and of course sweden. it will be good to see what everyone has come up with!

last weekend we had some drinks and snacks on the island with the red house, here in karlskrona. it's an art project on a tiny, tiny island. i didn't quite understand what this project was about, but i think it has to do with the rise of the same looking suburbs around sweden. please correct me if i'm wrong! anyway, the house is completely red and it looks so surreal. i love it!

amazement?
i have to start paying more attention on amazing stuff!! there's so much happening around me, and i should take notes!!

tada!

meet the neighbours

jag har inte barn

well this past week has been quite an experience. actually the week before this one too. the first 3 days of school, last week, was all about presenting yourself to your crewmembers. 70 presentations in 3 days, i thought i died! so many people, all swedish and i don't understand swedish that well yet, understatement here.

so last monday we left for 3 days of teambuilding. the weather was great, warm and sunny and the camp was surrounded by water, as is everything here. we have learned a lot during these days. a lot of different assignments concerning our expectations, future dreams, basic guidelines we want to have at hyper island, so many different things. it was really hard for me with the language. and i'm glad that so many speak really well english. after every assignment we had to reflect on what we felt during the assignment, what we had learned and how we will use it in the future. i sometimes felt very lonely since i couldn't really participate in the discussions, since i didn't fully understand what we were talking about.

although it has been hard, i have learned a lot of swedish already. i hope i will keep up this learning pace so i can start focussing on 'real' learning.

right now we have 4 days off and the weather is just amazing. i went swimming yesterday! and it was COLD! but i'm stubborn, so i loved it! and i got the keys to my room last wednesday after camp! it's still a bit smelly but in a week it will smell like me, sweet apples. or i might have gotten used to the bad smell by then...

i'm homesick at the moment. i really miss my friends a lot. i wish they were here, or i could just fly home for these 4 days. but i can't go home, i just had a going away party! so, i'll be here, waiting for someone to visit me. and call a lot of people.. oh have to check if i still have some money on my phone.

so expect new pictures in a couple of days! i still have simen sleeping on my floor till sunday, he will then move out to his appartment, and i will start decorating my room. i'll show it real soon!

amazement, for real:
karlskrona is so nice, calm, picturesque and it feels so safe here. last week i wasn't paying attention when i crossed the street. i turned my head and i was almost on the hood of a car, but it stopped! and not with screaming brakes, no, and the man behind the wheel was just smiling!

to get a taste of hyper island life

hej allehuppa!

i am in karlskrona sweden now!

i left mondaymorning to rotterdam airport with too much baggage. it was too heavy and i had to pay extra, some people think it's because i carried a danielle steel collection..

the trip went fine and i got there in one piece. at the moment i'm sleeping at a crewmember's place at bredgatan, where i'm going to live as well next week. the rooms there are suuuuuper cute. small, but with your own little kitchen and little bathroom.
this room is a different one than the one i spoke about last time. i got this one offered just before i left for sweden. i figured it would be better for me to live with a lot of hypernauts in the same building and learn the language and have nerdtalks and parties.

yesterday was the first schoolday.. oh boy.. swedish can be so hard! when people speak slow i can understand most of it, but of course it isn't slow at all. damn, it takes up so much energy and i fall asleep before midnight every night.

right now i'm at school, and it's 21h45, starting to become a real nerd here.
well, the first impression is: super nice people, cool crewmembers, i got my own 'cell', and my hyper island e-mailaddress woohoo!
i'll try to take some pictures really soon, i wish you could all see it by yourselves!

untill next time!
x

my last couple of hours..

..before i leave for hyper island. i had the best party last night and i think everybody had a great time. cooking food, drinking beers and some cool runs in the hallway.

i wish someone would take me to the airport tomorrow, or fly with me. not just to carry my stuff, even though i'd so appreciate that, but it's all a bit scary. i know i will have a great time, and this is what i want to do, but still. it's hard to explain.

i'll miss everyone so much..
i love you miu miu

amazing:
not amazing but sad, stupid and annoying how time can go so slow on some days and ugly fast at moments you want to last forever.. or, at least a bit longer than they last.

why isn't life all about eating apple pie and drinking café au lait?

and why is it i understand everything people think and how they act? i wish i was just stupid and could hate people for their actions but i don't, i just always understand. and in this case i would be a mongoloid if i didn't get it. i am moving for like a million years, but just met someone i had the most fun with for a long time and sometimes wish i met him earlier. but this is life and this is the way things go.
maybe i should stick to my motto, time will tell. i'll be back for some time in october, and if not, i'll learn.

still, why isn't it all about eating apple pie and seeing what happens?

or maybe i'm just a too naïve almost 27 year old.. or just a dreamer.. who knows.. time will tell.

just amazement!

a couple of years ago an old man called the bookstore asking about an old comicseries that was being published again and he was collecting it for his grandson. it always took about 6 months before a new part came out, so he was always a bit early asking when it would arrive. he said: i want to give this to my grandson and hopefully complete the series before i die.

so it has been about 1,5 years since i spoke to the man and i already thought he died.. it's such an amazing thing when the phone rang and the man on the other end said: 'hello, this is mister valkenburg'. on my last day at work! mister valkenburg, you're still alive!
such an amazing thing.
almost made me cry.
again.

idiot me.

the last 7 hours of comics

things are just so strange right now. and time is slipping through my hands. like tonight with my best friend: let's eat together, yeah sure.. oh maybe i'm too tired, let's do this some other time? but there are no more nights we can share this week, people and lives to live. maybe this autumn?

my stomach is tied into one big knot and tomorrow i'll probably cry all day, i'm such an idiot.
x

20,5 hours to go

the last three days of work coming up now. kinda strange, and i don't like goodbyes at all. i just started working at the children's books section, well they placed my comics department next to it and i was happy about that, i really like that section a lot. before this, my comics were next to the literature department and so today i was chatting with a colleague there and this is such a typical joy thing, i saw a shiny glittery card on the desk and was about to pick it up and got slapped on the fingers by her.. MWOAHAHA i know by wednesday this shiny piece will be mine!

did it happen today? did something amaze me?
not really.