September 2009
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Way to go, self!
I’m so proud of myself today. After an intense weekend and then a very lazy Monday, I was actually productive! Who knew I had such motivation? Not to mention, I’m actually writing this blog entry the day of.
I had economics from 12:15 to 2pm today and we began our unit on macro economy that will only last 3 weeks and yet it gives the same amount of credit back at UO as a full term...
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Oops.
I just realized I hadn’t updated since last week. I hope you all understand!
This weekend was study central for me as I had to prepare for my economics midterm (in Swedish, no less) that happened this morning. I had been planning on going to a party and brunch but after some neighbor of mine blasted music for 12 hours straight, that went out the window AND I’m starting to feel ill. So...
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Jag hoppas att mitt svenska kommer inte att bli...
Nothing terribly exciting happened yesterday. I went to class to get divided up in our small groups for our large economics project and I was feeling incredibly nervous. For some reason, I was even nervous as the TA was calling roll in our 20-person small group for fear that everyone would figure out I wasn’t Swedish so I kept repeating “ja” in my head so when I finally heard him...
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Sunday to Monday to Tuesday
Blah. The days run together.
I honestly haven’t done much these past few days. I was kind of tired on Sunday cause I went out with Sarah and her friend Elena and Linda the night before, but I spent a lot of time studying and cleaning.
Monday and today were filled with more studying and class. Yesterday, I went to IKEA to replace some plants and when I came back and opened the containers...
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All about the gasque
Ack, I really need to get back into the habit of writing properly everyday. I always mean to but then I get caught up with other things…you know how it gets.
But yes, all about the gasque! I took the bus over to town around 3pm because I didn’t want to risk sweating or messing up my hair and makeup…oh well if it was 30kr. The price you gotta pay to look nice. I wore a black...
Swedes = Ultimate Bike Riders
Something I forgot to mention in my post last night:
I saw a girl biking yesterday with a heavy gym bag over her shoulders while texting without any hands on the handlebars! Talk about skills. I can’t even ride my bike no-handed without anything else going on.
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New Study Strategy
I’ve decided to opt for a more independent study strategy for myself this week and let me tell you - it’s been going well! I don’t attend the lecture (I know, I shouldn’t skip but when the professor speaks in a monotone in Swedish for two hours and repeats the same thing with 34589 examples I don’t need to understand, it gets boring) and instead take my ENGLISH...
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Just livin'
Nothing much to report about yesterday or today. I spent almost all day inside yesterday and cleaned and relaxed. Sadly, I had to deal with someone blasting music on their bass for 4 hours so that was fairly unpleasant…
Today I had economics and then I went and bought my ticket for the reccegasque this Friday. It’s for new members only and it begins at 3:30pm and goes until 1am or...
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From bad to great!
So yesterday started off majorly boring and depressing. I didn’t feel like doing a single thing and I had nothing to do so I stayed in my room for the majority of the day and rested after my long week. I did a bit of cleaning, which is good I suppose. But overall, I just wasn’t feeling my best.
But then Sarah and invited me to meet up with her and Julia for the annual Culture Night in...
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A Loooong Week
Ugh. I never meant to wait this long to write (4 days!?) but I became so busy with everything else and then by night I was too tired so I hope you’ll forgive this belated post.
Monday
I can’t remember much of what we did that day, shoot. Sorry. I had class in the morning and then went and met Nick and our friend from Swedish class at home, Leif-Erik/Dylan (I’m not sure which he...
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It's the weekend!
So I was too stressed out to write anything the entire weekend. I’m feeling better now so I’ll get to writing I suppose.
Friday
Like I mentioned before, Manda and I went to IKEA. I know this is probably the 4th time I went there since arriving, but I only buy a few things at a time. Of course, we had lunch and I had some delicious meatballs and a princessbakelse. Then Manda and I...
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I'm a quitter.
I did it. I’ve decided to drop my economics course. I went to class at 9:15am and stayed for an hour and in that time I realized there is no possible way I can pass this course with a decent mark. Especially on days like yesterday when my head was aching and I couldn’t focus well enough to understand most of what was going on -sigh-. At least I tried, right? I promtly left during break...
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Bicycles for the win!
Sorry this post is a bit after the last…I’ve been trying to get laundry done for the first time and these washers are half the size of ones back home, so it’s taking me longer than usual.
Despite not having class today (yay!), I got up way earlier than I would have liked…I ended up doing a whole lotta nothin’ until around 2pm when Amanda and I went to town. We walked...
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Of school and dinners
Sorry for not writing yesterday…I got home much later than I anticipated and was much too tired to even think about writing. Hope you all don’t mind too much!
So I actually had to get up early (8am!) to go to class yesterday and I was definitely not looking forward to it. I won’t bore you with what happened during my school day but I did find out a few things:
1. Yes, it was a...