Valborg

I am soon off to school. Unfortunately. I have to go because we are having individual tutorials today to prepare for the final essay, otherwise I would have called in sick, because I'm still feeling like someone used my head as a drum and then decided to fill it with cotton.

Or something like that.


I wish I was feeling better. Not only is the weather great today, but it's also Valborg in Sweden today. Not that I would have gone to Sweden for the day, but I could at least have been able to celebrate it a little here in London. But noooo, of course I have to be sick today as well...

I've already seen several pictures from the Park in Lund, which is where a lot of people go to celebrate Valborg, and probably where most of my friends back home are right now. People spend all day there, drinking and hanging out with friends (and strangers), just having fun, and in the evening there is a big fire.

This is footage of the park in Lund from 11.30 today, Swedish time:



Oh, I wish I could be there...

still sick

As suspected, I'm feeling worse today than I did yesterday.

 Uuuuhh... WHYYYY? 

I haven't been able to get out of bed all day (except for when I went to Tescos because I didn't have any food at home). I just hope that I won't make Ellinor sick, since we're sharing room. 

Why do I keep getting sick?

My body really doesn't agree with me. As soon as the weather changes, I end up sick. Right now my nose is completely blocked, and I am freezing. I might have fever. Damnit!

Even though I didn't feel very good earlier either, I still went to work. When I arrived my manager looked at me funny and said "Your'e early.". I then looked at the clock, and it turns out that I left home at 2.10pm even though I was so sure that I left at 3.10pm. The rest of the day I felt like shit, having to blow my nose every ten seconds and shivering all the time. I seriously felt like crying.

I don't want to be like this! Why is it that everytime I get any form of illness, my brain stops functioning and making me stay in bed all day? I want to be able to work and go to school. I don't want to be sick!

I hope I feel better tomorrow, because I just can't work another shift like this...

Peeling off the face!

This day started off with a trip over to Michelle's place (which also used to be my place, haha) and I hung out with her for a while before she had to go to school. After that, I went over to the library to try to do some more research for my sketchbook. I then realised that the art movement that I've chosen to work with is very hard to research, and therefore decided to change the angle a bit. Instead of researching Pop-surrealism, I decided to look into Surrealism. I'll get deeper into that another time.

After researching, I went to starbucks and did some sketching in my sketchbook, and after that I met up with Ellinor and we looked around in the stores in Kilburn (and also bought a couple of things)

When we came home, we did face masks. The peel-off kind, which is very creepy to take off. It almost looks like you're peeling off your skin!

Yuuuuck!

From writing to... yeah, writing

"No", I say to myself. "I'm done writing for tonight"

*Submits essay, then open my blog and starts writing*


Well, at least i write in the blog for fun...

Today was the first time that I would rather stay at work than go home. Why? Because of the essay waiting for me at home. I'm the master of procrastination, and my unconscious mind would rather continue working than go home and write an essay due tomorrow. Stupid, I know. But my shift was actually rather pleasant today. Not too many customers, most people seemed to be in a good mood, and the feeling of exhaustion that I've had for a while was gone.

Tomorrow, I have class, where I am going to do a presentation about what I've just written in the essay. I hate doing presentations... But at least it's only the essay that will be graded.

Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed. My head is spinning now. Good night!

weekend

This weekend started off good. Saturday, I worked during the morning, and after my shift I met up with Atsou and we went to a small café and had some coffee. In the evening, Ellinor took me to a full moon party at her classmate's place. It was a lot of fun, and people were wearing glowing body paint and neon shirts.

It was really hard taking pictures in the dark, and most of them just turned out black

Sunday was less fun. I arrived at work and there was a lot of costumers and the bar was chaos. On top of that, I had a lot of cleaning to do in the bar, so I was exhausted when the shift was over.

Soon, she'll be back!

Ellinor is coming back tonight! She went to Sweden over Easter and stayed until today, so I've been alone in the room all week. It has been nice in a way to have some time to be alone, but it's also been a bit lonely not to have anyone to talk to at night. But now she is finally on her way back, and will probably be here in just a couple of hours! ^^

A picture of Ellinor, from last year

What a nice feeling

You just gotta love that feeling when you find something cheap, and when you pay you discover that it was even cheaper than you thought! That happened to me today. I needed new leggings and found a pack with two pairs for £6, then when I paid for my things I paid much less than I thought it would be, and I double checked the receipt and discovered that I only paid £1(!!) for the leggings! Awesome! And where was this? Primark, of course.

I know that a lot of people don't like primark, and I myself try to avoid it mostly because it's usually very crowded (especially the one on oxford street), and also because the quality usually isn't that good. But sometimes you can find some really nice stuff there, and when it comes to essential things such as leggings and tights, primark is just as good as any other place. Let's just face it, no matter where you buy you tights, they will still break after using them only a couple of times, so why spend more money on them than necessary? Believe me, I've tried buying expensive tights in some posh boutique, that were supposed to last longer, but just as any other pair of tights I've had, they didn't last very long.

They will see us waving from such great heights

I sat with a big smile on my face on the train home tonight. Terés and I had so much fun this evening. We started off with a walk to China town, where we bought some snacks that had cute boxes, just to try it out. We then went to trafalgar square and climbed up on the statue and had a mini picnic and sat there until we got cold. After that we walked over to starbucks and had some coffee and we stayed and talked until they closed. After starbucks, we didn't feel like going home so we walked, went into Top shop, and walked, and walked, then climbed over a fence to get to a play ground and we sat on the swings for a while and ate some more of the snacks we bought earlier. A very awesome evening if I may say so, though I think I need to work on my ninja skills. When we climbed back over the fence, I managed to fall down, head first and landed on my hands and my knee. I will probably have a big bruise tomorrow...

Work and school

I've become really lazy with the blog lately. What happened??

Oh yeah... Work and school happened... I will try to be better.


I have been working all easter, and the time that I have had left have been spent either sleeping or doing homework or watching series. So nothing interesting has happened really. Today I had school, which was fun. I had 3D form. When I woke up this morning I was feeling so exhausted and really didn't want to go to school, but I don't regret going. Pattern making is fun and I always learn so much, though after a couple of hours you get a little bit dizzy from all the measurements, darts and lines etc.

Tomorrow I have a day off, and will meet up with Terés after she finish work!

Goodbyes

Today, I met up with Sojin for lunch at flat planet (yes, I went to flat planet two days in a row). It was so nice to see her again, it's been so long since the last time! Though it was also very sad, because she is leaving London soon, so this was the last time we were able to see each other before she go.

It's a lot of goodbyes nowadays... Yesterday I said goodbye to Julia, who went back to Sweden after visiting here for a few days, and tomorrow I will say goodbye to Ellinor, who's going to Sweden for a week.

She leaves me here, all alone in our room :(

Terés and Julia, from when we went to Camden on monday

Planning

I'm back! I've been sick for a couple of days now, but I'm finally feeling better again. Not much has happened really, except that Julia has come to London to visit over the weekend! It was so nice to see her again, I'm just so annoyed that of all weekends, I was sick the one she was here! She is leaving tonight, so she, Terés, Ellinor and I will meet up at Flat Planet for Lunch so that we get to spend some time together before she leaves.

Also, it is now decided that I will go to Stockholm this summer to visit André, and we will go and see Deadmau5, who's playing in Stockholm then! I've just booked the ticket to the concert, and will book the plane ticket tonight! It's going to be so much fun!!! :D