Moved

I have a new blog called the Dreamer and Escapist.

Feeling both sad and nostalgic

A looooong post - with nothing but pictures

I'm gonna make a fun little update with pictures. :) I'm starting to get better at bringing my camera for fun moments.

This was a huge wasp-like thingy on the window of Burger King right outside Entré. September 24th when Sebastian, Jessica and I went to see Inglourious Basterds ;)

I re-dyed my hair a week before school started so it had the proper red. Think I'm gonna have to do that again soon... :/ September 25th

Saw some blackberries when I was walking the dog and thought I'd go pick some. This whole neighbourhood is full with wild-growing blackberries :) Turned out there weren't that many. The effect with the blue and green on the second picture was cool. They looked a little like blueberries, but I'm pretty sure they're poisonous xD September 28th

Then there was a flee market and of course I had to buy something. The painting I thought was cool and the bottle is a blue version (they used to be brown) of an old medicine bottle. Love old things :) Then the book Eragon. I didn't like the film very much so I never wanted to buy the book. But if I could have it for 10 SEK (€1) then why not? ;)

Just a fabulous sunset a few days ago. I can look at sunsets for ever :) They are so beautiful!

Yesterday we went to the beach with our dog :)

And here's the result :)

Time to dance a little. You try doing that dance four or five times after one another without a pause a few days a week and you'll have your work-out :) Very comfortable not having to pay anything or go anywhere ;) Then it's shower-time :)

So... first week at uni

The new term starts at a Tuesday, September 1st. Together with Zoy and Martin I take the bus(es) to Lund and there we meet up with Mia, one of Martin's friends. She was quite nice and we ended up in the same group so that's nice. At 9am there was the introduction meeting, which we had together with those who were going to study Mandarin. It was quite interesting to watch the people. I guess the average age is between 20 and 30. But some of them were definately over 30 and there were even two ladies around 50-60 who were going to study Mandarin. That's cool! :O No doubt I'm one of the youngest, not having turned 19 yet xD After the introduction meeting we had our first lesson. Grammar lesson. How someone can talk for two hours about nouns I don't know, but he definately managed! After lunch we had our first real Japanese lesson; Sentence composition. The sensei (teacher) is Japanese and most of the time she spoke Japanese all the time (what a beginner's course! :O). The speed at which you are supposed to learn at uni is incredible, but I like it! The hardest part was that we spent this day at the Maths house. The place was kind of old with chalkboards and no Air Conditioning! Imagine 90 people in one room for two hours with no A/C! In school: 9am - 5pm

First real day at uni was the hardest. I'm in the same group as Martin and Mia but not the same as Zoy so we hardly meet. School started at 9am and now we finally started having lessons in the Lingustics house where we're supposed to be. We met a new sensei at our first lesson; Writing. It's kind of frustrating to know all the easy signs and then having to read it in alphabet. It looks...weird. Two hours break where I got to know Dan, Jakob and Eduardo. Dan is a cousin of Martin's girlfriend xD We joined a student union during the lunch break :) Then we had our first lesson with our fourth and final sensei. This lesson is with no doubt my favourtie; Conversation. The easy conversations we're having now quickly empties your alternatives of what to say, so soon everyone starts adding Japanese words that they already know and have picked up from different animes. xD Real fun! After that we had a 5 hour break so most of us decided to go home for a while. Mia had a long way home and wouldn't be able to go home so she asked if she could come with me and I said she could. We went home and had time to watch Finding Neverland before going back for a lesson which basically consisted of info about scholarships. Had to call and ask to be picked up in Malmö since it was more than an hour until my bus would arrive. Got to know Sara and Emelie. In school 9am - 8pm

Thursday was a relaxed day. Only Conversation for two hours between 3pm and 5pm. So I slept until noon :) That was much needed. Got to know Tina and Ellen.

Friday was also a relaxed day. Only Writing for an hour (11am-12). After that we decided to have a study circle. I didn't really need to but I thought I could be there and actually do all the homework we had been given :P Did that quite fast and then started working with the language test I had recieved from Blueberry, the language course company with which I'm going to Japan. Since I had applied to a non-beginner's course I had to do this language test and send it back so they know how much I know ;P Stayed at the study circle for about two hours and then left for Eslöv, where I spent the weekend.

Saturday Sebastian and I spent at Skånes Djurpark; a zoo with only Scandinavian animals. That zoo is quite underestimated. People want lions and tigers when going to a zoo not your everyday Scandinavian animals. But seriously I don't see lynxes, wolves and bears every other day. Elks I have seen for real ofc, but otherwise those animals feel kind of exotic although they aren't. And the European Bison, the Muskox and the Visents are extinct in the wild so where else could you see them? I would've taken pictures but I forgot my camera - I'm really not a camera person!

Today I only had one lesson: Grammar for two hours. Today he spent one hour babbling about nouns and one hour babbling about verbs xD Let's see where this will take me. I should probably read through one of my course books to learn loads more, but I'll probably do it in the wrong order so I don't know if I want to ^^;