Dinner and drinks

After a long day of uni Mia and I went out for dinner and drinks :) I've missed my margaritas!!




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Beer lunch

Projects from 9-17 today! We just had a great lunch (with beer) in the sun. The amazing life if a student!




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Happy, happy, happy!

Today I had an oral exam that was based on the essay I wrote last week and I passed both! Didn't get amazing grades but couldn't care less considering I'm one step closer to graduating now. I've actually only got one deadline left and I'm not too stressed about that one so it should be fine! I've got a presentation tomorrow and then a week left to finish an article I've started.

I'm so proud of myself! I'm just having such a happy day now! I've only got good things to look forward to; England and Greece in June, an awesome summer job in July and August and then the big move in September!

Ok that's enough happiness, gotta start preparing for tomorrow! :)

I cannot wait!

I can't wait for these last two weeks to be over!! 14 more days of intense studying ahead but then I finally get 3 weeks off! And after that I'll be working the rest of the summer, work feels like a piece of cake after this! I mean yes, work can be stressful but at least you always have the nights off, no matter what!

This summer I'll be working at the school where I do the grading, I won't be teaching English though but SFI (Swedish for Immigrants). They don't have any classes in July and August so it'll mostly be tutoring and also grading online. I won't only be grading English during the summer, I think they said it'll be history, religion and tourism courses as well! History is my second subject so that should be fun! I haven't studied religion at uni but it's sort of related to history and I do find it interesting so that should be ok as well. I've also done a tourism course in the past and worked in hotels for many years so that should be good too! Looking forward to it!

Ok...time for more uni work!

Exhausted

I'm finally on my way home. With one book left to read and eight more pages to write I'm starting to realize I might not be able to do it.
I just emailed my teacher asking to postpone the deadline. He probably won't agree but I do think it was unfair to start with. It's just an possible number of pages to read in 10 days! Not feeling very positive right now. But I'll do my best anyway...


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Busy day

I've been to teacher training and a seminar today, right now I'm at the uni library.

Got my coffee, got my raw bar and got my smoothie, I'm ready for some serious reading!



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Thank you Boots!

I always try to get shampoo and hair products from England because it's so much cheaper there. I got all of the stuff in the photo for £15 (160kr). Just the shampoo alone would've been £10 in Sweden.

Can't believe it took me this long to realize that I can get stuff from Boots at Stansted as it doesn't affect the hand luggage liquid restrictions.




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Homebound

I'm on the airport buss heading home now. The visit felt so short so I decided to stay two extra days! It's been a really nice week, busy but nice. I've mostly been studying during the days and then spent the nights with Andy when he got back from work.

These early morning flights are terrible! We had to get up at 3 am this morning as the flight was at 6 am.




My airport breakfast this morning
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A scary movie

Yesterday we watched Sinister. It was among the scariest movies I've ever seen! And I don't usually get scared easily.

When we were going to bed Andy's parka (or scary rapist/fisherman coat, as I called it) was hanging in the bedroom. I thought it looked so scary that I made him put it in the closet before bed time :O


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Back in Berko

I just love waking up here and looking out the window.



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Tough weeks ahead

I was up bright and early this morning! I got up to do laundry at 7, I sometimes book the earliest time just so to get myself out of bed.

I've been thinking about this uni course and whether or not I should try to change it, there's this teaching course which has a later deadline that I think could do too but then I'd have to e-mail and see if I can change and waste time on waiting for a reply. So I decided to just go for it! I stayed up last night making a study plan for the next couple of weeks and I think I can do it, it wont be easy but it can be done!

Today's plan then; laundry, gym, packing for England and at least 8 hours of reading! Exciting!

Crap!

Ok so ever since I submitted the English essay (which I did very good on btw) I've sort of been chilling and only doing one full time uni course.

Last Tuesday I emailed the teacher of the history course I never did last year to ask when it starts. There's four weeks left of the term and it's a four week course so I figured it'll start around this time. Today he emailed us saying the deadline of the essay is next Friday! I don't even know what to do?! How am I supposed to read 1300 pages and write a 10 page essay before next Friday?! There's also an oral exam the week after that so you really need to know the books!

I knew something like this was coming! This term has been way too easy considering I'm studying full time + half time and working 1 day a week... :(

It's just the crappiest timing ever too cos I'm going to England Wednesday to Sunday. I haven't seen Andy for three weeks so it would be crap to have to study the whole time! But then if I don't do the course, the next time I can do it is in December, which means no graduation in June...

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New favorite bar!

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Studying on the balcony

I'm cat sitting at my mom's this weekend. I've mostly been studying today, it's been nice to be able to sit on the balcony and read! It's really warm out :)



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Friday night in Södermalm

Yesterday I met up with Camilla, the girl who I studied with in London. It's weird to meet up here in Stockholm now that we're both back. When we were in London, we used to have this thing of only speaking English with each other, yesterday we switched to Swedish, it was strange!
We went for sushi and a few drinks on Söder, it was a good night!

It was even warm enough to eat outside!

We went to an English pub before heading home. Yes, the Stella is mine, I really wish I had learned to drink ales in England but they're just too still for my taste.

Great day!

I had such a nice day yesterday! Mikaela, Jasmin and I went for lunch at TGI Friday's in Kungsträdgården. After that I went to Frida's for some Indian takeaway and wine :)

Kungsträdgården was packed!

Cherry trees

Mikaela and Jasmin

Jasmin, me and Mikaela

Me and the cherry trees

Mr Muffin was very excited to see me

So excited he fell asleep drooling on me

Guilty pleasure

Ok, confession time... Every day when I'm at home studying I watch half an episode of 90210 while I eat my lunch. I just love my crap tv-shows! ;)



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Good morning!

Mornings like this make me happy <3


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Summer!

I've been sitting in and studying all day so decided to go out and read for a bit. It's about 20 degrees in Stockholm!! Finally! :D



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And another fresh start!

I've been eating too much sugar lately, and carbs! So, it's time to go healthy again! Which means loads of healthy food, avoiding sugar as much as possible and stepping it up at the gym!

Morning porridge with walnuts, strawberries and coconut flakes

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Solstugan!!

The weather has been absolutely amazing today! Me and Mikaela went to Solstugan for dinner and some wine!






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Relaxing weekend

Trying one of this years new ice creams, Strawberry daim :)

Me and Mikaela are having a weekend in, two movie nights in a row!



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Good morning!

This Saturday will be spent at uni. I'm going to start writing that article and hopefully have time to do some grading work as well :)



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Formative Assessment

I'm doing this project about formative asssessment at uni. The idea is to create a sort of information booklet for the teachers at my teacher training school, the booklet will contain information and ideas of how to work with formative assessment.
So, my job is to create this booklet. I am also observing my tutor's seventh grade history classes every week, he's teaching the lessons but I get to try some formative assessment techniques and exercises so it's really good! While I'm doing this, I'm meant to be writing an article about the project for uni. I'm pretty excited about this project, it's so interesting! I'm going to start writing the booklet and the article during the weekend and I'm actually looking forward to it in some weird way?!

The lessons I'm observing are on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 to 11 or 12. Now, this is pretty much all I have scheduled for the next month or so (plus a few random seminars at uni). I have loads of writing to do though as I have an additional course that should start soon too. This all means that I have to be really diciplined!

Trip booked!

Andy and I booked a trip to Greece yesterday! I can't tell you how much I need a sunny holiday right now!! We're leaving mid-June for a week. The plan is to lie in the sun, read loads of books, eat loads of all inclusive food and drink loads of all inclusive drinks! I cannot wait!

Another sunny day in Stockholm!

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Spring!!

The weather was amazing yesterday! It's really starting to feel like spring in Stockholm. I went to my mum's for a few hours and then for a walk after. It's really nice to go out walking around where she lives.

Sunhine

:)

 

A sure sign of spring

More flowers

And the best part: the ground is dry!! Hopefully they'll get rid of the gravel soon too...

 

 

Walpurgis night

Walpurgis is one if those holidays that I haven't celebrated since I was about 16. For two years in a row now we've been at Frida and Zakarias' and had loads of wine on their balcony. Well, last year we sat on their balcony the whole afternoon/night, yesterday we were there for about 5 minutes because the weather was crap. It was a good night in spite of bad weather!

Photo taken during the 5 minutes of sunshine

 

Sausage and potato salad

Me and Zakarias, after many glasses of wine

Never a good idea