Gahhh! I just slept with my contacts in!

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I'm going to be a teacher in English and French. Should be fun. It's been a hectic week of dropping classes and adding others but I'm settled and now planning my trip back for Christmas, since my trips back home are what keep me going during the semesters here ( Read more... )

Every semester I have crazy professors. There is always one or more of the following types: the quirky one, the brilliant one the nice one, the slightly big-headed one, and the one with the voice that no one can stand ( Read more... )

At the introduction to my semester of English a a large, tall man walked in all dressed black and, in a clear Brittish accent he excaimed:

"You'll notice I'm all dressed in black. This is because I'm the executioner. I also am nasally and have tissue paper stuffed all up my nose. THis is to stop my nose from bleeding."

A few people chuckled but only ( Read more... )

I feel like the more time I spend with my family, the easier it is to define myself. This week I felt like a twenty- year- old for the first time. I felt that with each step I discovered the way that I walked, my motives, my skin and my eyes were all mine. It's amazing what ocean air and apple trees and wearing the same pants everyday will do to ( Read more... )

I'm finally beginning to get my head around the concept of loss and death. It's taken some time since my grandmother's death in March to realize that she isn't coming back and I can't visit her and we can't gossip about her roommates. And I still find it hard to accept that I can't call her anymore, since she left me right when I began to do my own ( Read more... )

Usually we have registration in the middle of august and then begin school around the 20th. So I came to Sweden on the ninth so that I could get things in order before I needed to buy books etc. I said difficult good-byes so I could be here. And now I find out that I don't have registration until the 30th and classes don't begin until september 3rd ( Read more... )

I'm back here. In this small, empty, quiet apartment. And I've cried more these past three days than I ever have. Every word of "good-bye" and "see you later" and "oh I meant to do this before I left but didn't" made my throat tighten until I couldn't breathe. And after the most stressful flights of my life (i almost didn't make it here!) I'm all ( Read more... )

after some bittersweet inheritance money from my grandmother, i finally purchased a laptop. well, a macbook really. it's lovely. what's not lovely is that i leave august 8th and have been very anti social against my will. have no fear, though, i think i may have more time to hang out soon...

So Eurovision was a joke this year, as usual. But at least it was entertaining. The ark didn't win, Serbia did with a song about a lesbian woman's fight for her rights which was unexpected. Britain came in last, as usual because they were more of a joke than Eurovision was.

And then, a friend of mine from choir became my hero when, after an ( Read more... )