Okey, I didnt´run, I walked, but it still felt a lot of good and I´m planning to do the same thing tomorrow. The bad thing is that it can start raining at any time. Guess I just have to take a chance.

It´s going faster and I´m having trouble keeping up. I´m falling behind on the homework and I don´t talk in class. It´s the stupid words that´s keeping me back. I´ve got to get over that barrier.

I really like my new room, it feels warmer and brighter. It also feels smaller, but then again, what would I do with a lot of space.

I hope I look happier now :)

Btw, the room does not have a small kitchen. I only have a fridge (which I had in the last room too) but I bought my own frying pan and cut board, so it may look a little kitchen like.

Me and Mr. M went cultural today and went to see the Picasso museum they have in Malaga. I wanted to try and see if I can see what the fuzz is all about. Aperently he's brilliant because he painted like a five year old. I can understand the difficulty with that but I still don't get the point. I don't see it, I am not impressed. If you wonder what his paintings are, here's a google search.

I'm more like a Dalí person, you know, like crazy imagination (kind of like Tim Burton, I'm excited about Alice in wonderland)

Me and Mr. M went to the movies. And as usual the time optimism was excellent. We hadn't even got to the mall when there was ten minutes to spare. I wa convinced that there was no way we were gonna catch the move in time and when I saw the line for buyin the tickets there was no doubt left. But a woman in front of us kindly told us that the ticket window next to this one didn't not have a line so we hurried with the tickets, more or less ran by the ticket man and deicded to skip the popcorn. As we entered the auditorium the movie had started and we had missed the first five minutes. But as we sat down, we relized we were at the wrong movie. They were speaking Spanish and we wanted to go to the English one. So, after a fast desicion, Mr. M went to change the tickets and I went to buy popcorn and as we ran into the right auditorium, the commercial were just about to finish.

It's easy to be a time optimist when luck is on your side.

Btw, We saw Daybreakers

I'm now sitting in the same apartment but in a slighty smaller room. The other difference is that I have two doors that I can open to the outside where I can se the sun and the street and let some fresh air in. Which makes a huge difference. I don't need space anyway, I'm just sitting in front of the computer anyway. The downside is that is is raining outside so there's not a good idea ot have those doors open right now. There's gonna be pictures soon, I'm jst waiting for some sun.

This weekend is kind of slow and dull. Later, me and Mr. M is gonna go to the movies, but that is pretty much it. No exciting parties, no exciting trips...

It can't all be fun

I've just refilled my fridge, there's no more feeling more comfortable than that one. I really like going grocery shopping, I guess I like it a little more than "regular" shoppin because it comes without the pressure of using and wearing the things later. It is food that is gonna be eaten so there's no way you can waste money. I do the whole thing with writing a list and counting the total amount and comparing prices and buying stuff with an offer. In Sweden, I have grocery cards where I earn points.

I still haven't changed my room, it is getting frustrated.

I'm gonna walk/run again, weee (the rain has stopped so I'm seasing the moment)

Today has been a busy day indeed. I woke up at like seven (7:15) to be able to take the bus at eight from Mr. M´s place and I did it. I told you that I would catch that bus some day, that day was today. The thing that keptm e going was a promise to myself that I will have a nap when I get home. But I felt so bad for not doing all the homework I should have done during the week (I did it on the bus) so I decided to stay behind in the cafeteria and do some work. Which I did and I managed to go through all the exercises we had for today.

Kind of.. I don't really know when I'm gonna move into the new room. I would like to call my landlord and ask her if they are gonna repaint it, cus if so, I can't move in today. But, the language barrier is kind of big. I did, however, start packing my stuff. Even though it is like 10 meters, I thoguth it would be easier to pack the suitcases and move a lot of stuff at the same time, and I get to see how much crap I have here. Which is a lot. There's no way I'm gonna be able to take all of this home with me. I knew that beforehand but now it is reality. It's a good thing that I'm not gonna do any more shopping here.

THe worst thing about moving is that I neer to clean a whole new room. I am not a big fan of cleaning, especially not places where it is hard to reach.

That is all that is going on today folk's.

Maybe I post an interesting story about a virgin (and they apparently have a lot of them here)

Someone told me to have a walk. And, actually I had it. I went out to take some pictures and shop for lunch or dinner, or whatever. Basically I'm just wiritng to tell you that I'm gonna publish pictures later.

But first, I'm gonna eat (I stopped by Burger King) lunch, dinner, breakfast (hence, the first meal of the day), brunch or whatever... food!

As I said, pictures :)

I should take a walk, the sky is blue and +16C outside but I really don't have any motivation

Everything is more or less deep fried here, I mean, they don't even consider it deep fried, it's just fried. But instead of potatoes it's on the meat department. Like croquetas, eggs and sauseges. Everything that has the yellow deep fry cover, has to be deep fried and is eaten with an egg (deep fried of course, but without the cover). Rice, pasta and potatoes is something that is not so common here. Not according to my experience atleast, you basically focus on the good part of the meal. If you have rice, pasta orpotatoes, they are like a meal in itself and the you have meat to it. There's no such thing as the "plate model" (maybe that thing is only in Scandinavia anyway) where sallad and potatoes, rice or pasta is the big part of the meal and then you have some kind of meat and sauce to that. If you have sallad, that is the only thing you have, not on the side to the food, that's crazy...

It sounds like I'm complaining but I really like the food here and it's only the cheap side of me that struggle with the whole balance between potatoes and meat. But I don't dare to try and make lasagne becasue I really like lasagne with a sallad on the side, and if there would be a sallad, it would be a whole meal sallad (on the side) with chicken or tuna or something. It easily gets a little wierd when two different ways of eating are mixted.

I really enjoy the snack food they have. Like before you eat, you have olives and shrimps and jámon serrano (right spelling on that one?) and other stuff. I'm a big fan of snack eating and there's no way you can do that in Sweden, that is called "spoiling your apetite" and are sentenced with death.

But I do miss boiled potatoes sometimes.

The only sickness I am sensetive to is the cold. Nothing else gets to me exept from that virus and when I am cold, I am extra sensetive to it. As you know, the weather has been quite cold here, atleast inside... so I´ve been walking around cold as a stiff and greeting people. And the greetings here is not really non transferring freiendly. One kiss on each cheak (if you´re a girl) with everyone you meet, basically all the time. Not with people you meet every day but if it has been a day, you have to kiss. And it doesn´t matter if it is two or twenty people, you just have to do it. Needless to say, the hello and the goodbye can take an eternity. It doesn´t either matter if you´re sitting down at a table, in the corner and no way of getting out. The kisses finds its way, always.

In the beginning, I always found this really akward, I don´t see the point of going to so much trouble just to say hello to someone but I am used to opsessive hugging from my family so as soon as I got used to the whole kissing thing, its kind of nice. I mean, you get to talk to the people immidiately and the akwardness happens instantely and you don´t have to wait it out.

I feel like I deserve today. Yesterday, a friend of Mr. M was in town so there was  party. It's not so much the alcohol that makes me feel bad, but the cigaretts. I use to smoke but for the last years I've been smoking off and on and mostly when I party. But, it seems that, because I'm not an everyday smoker, I get a really bad headace from just five or so cigaretts. I used to smoke a package at parties but now I feel sick just after three. I still smoke, however, I guess that is the last drop of the addiction I don't seem to overcome.

I've actually finished one of the many pages I need to do. It´s a really tidious work, looking up words all the time, and despite the fact that I've use a dictonary my whole life and usually looks up words and stuff, I feel that I am really slow and I never seem to learn the alphabet by heart and I always go from A-Z in my head. I feel really confused, I'm talking to myself in English and in Swedish to be able to understand Spanish. Some stuff is similar to English and other in Swedish so I go back and forth. I got the Nordstedts dictonary for christmas and I felt a little skeptic. I remeber that I discovered the Norstedts dictonatry for English containing a lot of faults and being more or less useless. But, there's a difference. In English, I'm good enough to use an English to English dictonary. I'm not quite there in Spanish, so, Norstedts works actually really good. I like the list of the verbs in the back and the reference number by word in the translation part. Over all, I recomend Norstedts for a language you don't really know. If you're fluent, get a dictonary in the same langague. Oh, and another thing, I write and highlight in my dictonary. At first it feels like a big no, no, I mean, these books are expensive. But the dictonary gets more helpful with your own notes, highlights and comments, I promise.

Picture from Norstedts

For the last couple of days the extra blanket has been less and less needed, it seems like we're going towards warmer degress, yesterday it was 20+ and today 17+. I shouldn't say that it gets better, cus then it's gonna drop to 10+ and start raining again (I'm stressing the + cus I know that it is snow caos and minus degress in Sweden :))

I don't understand why I insist on being in school when I never ever study

Yesterday I had a goodbye dinner with one of my apartment mates. I'm starting to get use to the whole meeting new people for a period of time and then probably never gonna see them again. Unfortuanetly, it doesn't make it less sad. I tell myself that I am gonna see most of this people again and I truly hope and wish so. It is hard to have you friends spreaded across the world and across Sweden, it seem like none of them are in the same place. But, on the other hand, I always have places to visit.

In more or less two weeks, I'm going to Dublin. Still don't know what to do there.

This week is the "semana blanca", white week, and is between something. I don't really know what but I do know that I have the week off. So there's no classes for me, which I like because it's no fun to go outside when it rains. But it is not really good for me because I don't do anything and I have a pile of paper with excersises I need to do. I hope I can pull myself together tomorrow cus today it is not gonna work. My focus is somewhere else

As you know, the bunny turned out to be a disapointment and Mr. M changed it and bought me a new gift instead. I wish that the bunny would have worked but I am really excited about my new gift. I got an artist package with a artist manikin, color pencils, blending stomps, pencils and erasers and brushes. So what I want to do is to draw (and what I need to do is Spanish) today, what I want wins the fight.

I took some pictures of my current room to upload right about now. I had made it look kind of nice and thought that, why not, it can be fun to see what I´m leaving behind. Of course I´m gonna post pictures of my new room later.

But, as you can see, there´s no pictures. The reason for that is that I´m having a computer meltdown, it is not working and I seem to be unable to re- install the system. It´s a big mess but I hope I will have it sorted out before the weekend ends. Bare with me, I´ll be back with pictures and uppdates in no time

So this is how the phone call went (in Spanish, of course)

I fell asleep. Sorry, but when it is cold inside, i don't feel like really doing anything else. Besides, I have some stuff i have to do, that I don't want to. I want the result, but not the phonecall (I'm gonna call my landlord and ask about changing room) so I guess I'm avoiding that by taking beautiful naps.

It is really stressing to be in a room where everyone talks at the same time. I understand that everyone is eager to learn but I understand even less when everyone is talking. I guess it is good, because if I can somewhat understand in that caos, I can probably understand if one person is talking to me. And I don't really like to talk in front of the class, but whenever there's something about different coutnries, there's always a guy who calls out Sweden. And when I'm the only one from that country, I have to answer. I guess that is good to, so that I have to say stuff. Today we talked about different languages in our country. My answer was a bit messy, but I'm really trying to just talk and not translating sentence by sentence.

Something that is new at home (as far as I know) is that you weigh your own fruit and put a barcode on it. This is very common here and everytime I forget to do it. The lady in the register was not happy with me and she got even more unsatisfied when I didn't give her the right change in the first two tries.

I was thinking of taking some pictuers of the rain and all. And then it stopped. It's still cold (10+) but the rain has stopped. It's interesting how my weather report that it is gonna rain just a little bit and it is as god haven't peed in a year. The river that goes in the middle of the city is half full (normally it's empty) and the puddles on the street are not puddles, the street is a puddle. Well, I guess it's gonna come more tomorrow.

I know my blog is no fun right now. It is gonna change. When the weather gets better, I´m gonna take pictures to show you (so if there´s anything you want to see, tell me!) and the language school entry is gonna be written.

Food pictures!!

I applied for jobs, I actually did it, and now comes the Spanish study

Lunch and go to El Corte Inglés and change my bunny and buy a buscard

I think I got that right, I'm not sure... but Spanish is hard. I recently discovered that Swedish doesn't have an ing-ending that English does. Spanish has it aswell and now, it really pays of, knowing English. Then I have two languages to compare with and then understand better. But it is a lot with the verbs. Another thing I thought about is that, when it comes to communicating, verbs and nouns are most important, then comes the pronouns (is that right?) to make it sound right and then the adjectives to be able to express something. But for basic communication, vers and nouns are most important. Please correct me on this, if I'm wrong (which we know that I never am ;))

... is what I said this morning when I missed both the buses I need to take to get from Mr. M's house to the language school. It doesn't help that the rain is pouring down either. I hate it when my feet are cold and wet and when I mostly wear converse, that is definitly the case when it rains. I've been so lucky so far with the buses so I guess I've been wearing it out, so now, when I actually need to be lucky, I'm out of it. The bus seem to always have just gone when I get there, hence, I lose ten minutes here and another ten min here. Sure, now, you're thinking that, why don't I look the bus sceduele up and go in time for the bus to departure, rahter than just go. But, there's no such thing as a bus sceduele, there's a frequency, 10-20 min depending on where the (f-ing) construction works are, so there's actually no way of knowing. But, for now, I'm up around eight and I don't think that is too bad for someone who have gone up around ten for the past year or so. I'm gonna get to the early bird, in time, in time.

As I said, it is still raining, so there's not gonna be too much interesting pictures, but I'm gonna see what I can dig up, and maybe I try to get a picture of the rain, maybe (it's not fun out there)

Because of my bad mood (being cold the whole time) I don't find the will to study, apply for jobs or anything actually usefull. But today, I'm gonna pull myself together and do those things. And, I'm still blogging, so I am far from rock bottom (where I usually end up when there's no will)