Senioritis
Welcome sweet month of love. February is here! Looking forward to the middle of it, with Valentine's day and Trevor's birthday, and the end of it with Sports break, but till then... it's all just a whole bunch of school work and lots of boring tests and essays to write. I'm soo sick of school right now and Senioritis is getting to me fast. Feeling awfully bored by most things and not very excited about stuff. Guess being semi sick doesn't help either. Ugh, can we just move on to March??
....or even better, have May come along at once!
Revenge
I've started watching a new TV series because Desperate Housewives is at the end of its last season and no matter how sad that is (ok I'm really not that sad about it just a little "well that's too bad"), I am really liking this new show :)
I got Life
This past Monday we finally sent in the papers applying for a Residence Permit for Trevor. This would enable him to come live in Sweden for a bit longer than the 3 months he is currently allowed. I am so excited, nervous and happy! But waiting is a pain, and my patience is my weakest quality.
Sorry about how long it's been since I last wrote. I knwo it's not that bad but still.. I'll try to keep it more to a routine. I'm having a rough time at school keeping up with everything, and lots of friends that I haven't seen for weeks that I'm now hanging out with. Also, I'm having one heck of a weekend right now. Busy busy, no rest.
Went with Soso and saw Hair the Hippie musical last night and it was great! Lots of good songs and an amazing group of people acting it out on stage. Lots of nudity (which came as a surprise but was a part of the story) and lots of applause.
American goodies...
Some things I do not understand, and yet somehow, for some reason... I like them :)
I mean... just check this out ;) hahah
Oh and just to be clear... those are buttery popcorn ;)
You're a mystery, you're from outer space, you're every minute of my every day
Couldn't sleep all night and stayed up till 5 am which resulted in sleeping through most of the day and not even opening my eyes before 1 pm. Since then I have worked on emptying my bag which is a sad business and only results in more chaos in my chaotic room as well as more heart ache and feeling all lonely and lovesick..
Do you remember this?
I'd do anything to go back to this summer with you two <3
Good news is I have come back to a Sweden that is at full speed.. School and work, Physics Test and nice friends who try to cheer me up. Going out today with Tessan and Vivvi for dinner :) I have to pull myself together and put on the smile if I'm gonna survive till next time I can hug you (and do everything I can to make the waiting time as short as possible!)
In the same picture
Home. It could be a melancholy feeling of being home but missing where I was, but mostly it is just a heart ache and a sad face, some tears and a head ache. Flying through time zones that make you end up across the world has its downsides. I am so tired and yet... I couldn't sleep last night since for me it was midday, but today in English class my head easily fell down on the novel Dracula because to me it was close to 2 am. Hate the grey and the rain here.
I don't know how to describe what amazing wonderful two weeks I have had. I can proudly say that I have the best boyfriend in the whole world and if anything, this vacation has made me love him even more. All the great experiences we have had and the memories we have made.. Thank you for being in my life and thank you for being who you are.
Photo time! Selected favs:
We realised we owned semi matching shirts and had to get a pic
Tiger and Rose who I shared a bed with * Beating Reeda, Kyle AND Trevor at Pickleball
Minigolf with Trevor and his sister Lydia * Trevor's brothers Kelvan and Dallin
Playing Settlers with Kelvan and Reeda * At Olive Garden with Kevan and Shellie
Ribs at Chili's <3
Fun at Walmart
Night skiing!
Minigolf at the A-maze-ing place with blacklights
I love you
I'mma be under the Mistletoe
I'm off to Utah. I'll see you when I see you! :) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Sara and the Gingerbread House of Malmer design :)
Quick recap of the last preparations...
Monday: Last Drama class of the year. Excited to keep the play going next semester!
Tuesday: School 10-12 then went with Louise and got Christmas yummies, sat down to exchange gifts and made Christmas cards all afternoon.
Wednesday: Christmas Ceremony at school, then off on break! I started it by going home and cleaning the entire day. Erik stopped by to drop of my films, but besides that I was busy cleaning and decorating the christmas tree all day!
Thursday: Got everything in place for the Little Christmas we have with my brothers and their families. My nieces were adorable, all three of them, and the food was great and it was all wonderful till I had to go work at 4. But now I'm off work till I get back from the break :)
Today, Friday: Got the last presents in the mail so I can now wrap them up and be excited!
Now I just hope I've been good enough to get some presents tomorrow! :D Merry Christmas Everyone!
Victory is Red
Wohooo big congrats to both the girls team and guys team from my school who both won the annual game of american football against our green rivals, the Killers. Long live the Hooligans! Check out this great trailer video thingy :)
Also had a great evening, first getting ready with Pauline and having marshmellow santas.. then in town in light snowfall and the football party was fun too :) Danced for a few hours there before heading home. Tiring day, with grandpa's 80th birthday party and all, but fun fun :)
I do find it amusing that my high school in Sweden shares the same colors as Hurricane High in Utah :) We might be the Hooligans while my fellow American students were tigers, but the red and black shines through both. And how strange yet exciting that both Hooligan teams won the annual game this year, the very year that the Tigers finally got their state championship title in the snowstorm :) Isn't it?
I'm the kind girl that would love to be yours
I can't believe I leave for Utah in a week. Next Sunday I will spend the whole day on a plane and then at 6ish pm I will land in Las Vegas to meet Laura and Trevor, and though I feel sad about missing out on traditional stuff back home I will have the best time possible and I know it's cheesy and stuff to go on and on about it but I am so excited to see my love again because it's been way too long since I hugged him last. Today I get to be the cute silly teenage girl who is so in love it makes her smile at everyone and walk around humming sweet songs all day. Today I get to be the girl who feels pretty in baggy jeans and no makeup, the girl who knows she is loved and the girl who can't wait to be a few thousand miles closer to her boyfriend. I love being this girl and though I try to keep her somewhat contained most of the time because I don't want people to start puking rainbows, I love being her some days.
Royal Opera Ballet
Went to see the Nutcracker at the opera last night :) A very beautiful ballet where they had taken Elsa Beskow's story about "Aunt Green, aunt Brown and aunt Purple" and "Uncle Blue", and added the music from the famous nutcracker :) There were dancing gingerbread cookies, dancing christmas candy, dancing rats and various dancing ornaments. And the two playing the children were wonderful too. A very nice evening, big thanks to the girls who went with me :D
Today my school's american football team plays against our rivals in the one game a year! Gooo Hooligans!
I am off to my grandpa's 80th birthdayparty though. But tonight I come back for the (hopefully victorious) party :)
Sweet Sugar Candyman
We made Christmas Candy in Chemistry today! So much fun and ours turned out great so I'm superproud of Louise, Sebastian and me who made the best ones ;) hahah and they tasted great too!
And here's a pic of Louise with our oh so very Christmasy Chemistry teacher Anders, and one of Louise and me;
Playing Christmas music and singing along while making candy really made it my fav chemistry class ever :D Then the whole day continued in a happy sort of dream state ^_^
Next year I'll be just as good
There are few joys as great as wrapping christmas presents to christmas music with less than two weeks to go till the day in question :) Heading off to a Christmas party with the family soon, and the only sadness in the world is the lack of snow still..
"Santa buddy" by Michael Bublé
Yesterday Solveig, Louise and I had the end-of-semester dance show with our belly dance group. I think we did great and we looked so hot ;) hahah and when we came home Solveig and I did our performance number for the family and Elsa took pics... here are some...
Love the sound the hip scarves make when doing the movement shown above... ^^
Ragab... sahbak aho shafni
Here are a few pics from the belly dance show yesterday :) I'm the one in the front, to the right from the audience's (and your) perspective. We're awesome! ;)
psst: The title is from our performance music Ragab and it means "Ragab, I Counted To 100"...
aDORKable <3
Piglet and the Heffalump
I was reading some in my Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie the Pooh and I came across these two poems that I find adorable :) They are both from When we were young (which is a one of the books within the book) and here they are:
Brownie
In a corner of the bedroom is a great big curtain,
Someone lives behind it, but I don't know who;
I think it is a Brownie, but I'm not quite certain.
(Nanny isn't certain, too.)
I looked behind the curtain, but he went so quickly-
Brownies never wait to say, "How do you do?"
They wiggle off at once because they're all so tickly.
(Nanny says they're tickly too.)
Halfway Down
Halfway down the stairs
is a stair
where I sit.
There isn't any
other stair
quite like
it.
I'm not at the bottom,
I'm not at the top;
so this is the stair
where
I always
stop.
Halfway up the stairs
isn't up,
and isn't down.
It isn't the nursery,
it isn't in the town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
run round my head:
"It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
instead!"
said the night wind to the little lamb
Been visiting the Christmas Market in Old Town today, and done some shopping. Really hoping for snow now, because this grey weather is getting me all worried about the white christmas I want :P
Today is also "Andra Advent", the second Sunday before Christmas and so we light the second candle. Beautiful. Getting closer...!
At the market I tried some really tasty Blue Cheese and Raindeer sausage.. Yum!
Hahaha might not look like it but it is really good ;)
Aw memories to this song... anyone recall it? ;) I miss those Choir Days <3
stole me a dog-eared map and called for you everywhere
Awe Breaking Dawn was so pretty! I had no idea it would be so emotional and pretty.. So for this one post I get to be a total Twilight fan and then I'll stop again I promise :)
Let's just say the film was great, teary eye moments and breath taking moments and cute, silly, funny, intense, exciting, romantic, dreamy, horrifying, lovable moments. It was better than expected and I totally Adored that they put the song from Prom back into the wedding it was so cute how it was like in their heads and like no one was there but those two.. Here's the soundtrack of that part, wish I had the clip but couldn't find it.. however, it's better with the rest of the movie with it anyways. Check it out, it seriously made all three of us teary eyed :)
Thanks sweet Pauline and Louise for a girly and wonderful evening <3
Scent of Ginger
Now me and my girlies are off to see Breaking Dawn at the movie theater! :D
"You're the world's best dance teacher Lisa"
I had SUCH a fun day today! Half sick and tired, but soo proud of my ADORABLE WONDERFUL AMAZING little dancers and how well they did at the show! They are just amazing!
Out of about 30 of the 2-3yearolds, 5 showed up with their parents. They were happy and excited and did great :) Then the 4-5yearolds were so nervous and they got somewhat scared of the audience but when they crawled across the stage on all four, wooffing, the whole audience melted. And the cute way they jump up and down clapping their hands got the whole place clapping along ^^
My big ones, the 6-8yearolds.. wow. everyone found their places by themselves, and they knew it all and they were true little stars up there!
Then after the teachers' dance and the final number with all dancers on stage, I got soo many hugs I couldn't count them, and tons of "bye Lisa I will see you this spring" and "I'm going to miss dancing with you" and "You are the world's best dance teacher" and "I want a picture with you Lisa!" and "Thank you for a great semester, we will be back in the spring for sure!".... quite the confidence booster but really I just feel soo happy that they all had a great time and though not everyone will come back many will and I am looking forward to it!
I even got a sunflower and that made my day ^^ <3
