I spent Christmas and New Years in Nottingham. I flew from Germany to East Midlands where Kim picked me up and we took the bus into Nottingham. To give a bit of background: Last summer I spent two months living in Nottingham at my uncle’s house where his god-daughter Kim, was living. We became friends nearly instantly and thus, she picked me up from the airport and we bussed into Nottingham, where from last summer’s adventures, I knew my way around. It was like coming home, granted, home had upgraded, with a shiny new City Square complete with million dollar fountain [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from Koln, Germany. I spent four days in Germany, visiting my mother's side of the family. I've been to Koln, (Cologne) twice before, but the last time I went was 11 years ago so my memory of the place and the language was a bit rusty to say the least. I arrived on Monday night and met Renate, a somehow removed cousin of my mom's. After missing each other in the airport for about half an hour, I spotted a woman wearing knee high heeled boots and with long blonde hair, I naturally assumed that this highly stylish lady must [View Full Entry]

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What has the month of December brought? A lot of work! Although, not the paying kind so that’s unfortunate though I doubt I would have had time! Christmas in Sweden and Denmark is done nicely - they light up the city streets, Christmas trees are in plazas everywhere and we were singing Swedish, English and French Christmas carols (Jul songs) at the preschool. I’ve since downloaded a Swedish and Danish Christmas CD so I can sing along, lol. I think the best way to explain what I’ve been upto is in photos and videos, I’ve already explained our bathroom switching [View Full Entry]

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See, I told you I’d update it after the weekend; and in this case its a good idea! This week is going to be insane, we have school from 9-4 nearly every day and the one day we didn’t I was working at the preschool (yesterday). So the weekend went like this, Friday night project based outing to a club, Saturday night helping on the barge with a concert, and Sunday night, Harry Potter. Friday night we prepared some ‘interventions’. The project we’re working on currently is to re-establish social connections between people in the night club setting. Currently, pe [View Full Entry]

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So its 1:38am. I’m getting fairly used to ‘this time’. Its my catching up time. It usually lasts anywhere from 1-4 hours. I’ve just paused my work on a paper that I’m writing since I’ve been researching and writing for about 3 hours and haven’t even hammered out a full page. This is disturbing but maybe it means the beginning of a great paper because of the thought I’m putting into it. Maybe not. So I’ve made a list of things to talk about. Its...extensive. I really need to update this blog a few times a week rather than once every [View Full Entry]

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My hands smell like garlic. Yes, I know you wanted to know that about my travels. It’s important, not really, but I was cutting garlic earlier for my dinner (tonight was traditional Swedish food, mos and kottebulle (mashed potatoes and meatballs) yep. I was lazy but I spent nearly an hour and a half cooking eggplant napoleon last night so... it’s a trade off. Anyway, point is, it’s weird, typing and smelling garlic. So I’ve learned some important things. Danish speaking: Jeg vil gerne have flæskeskeg halvsteg. I will have roast pork, rare. Yeah, makes no sense but a [View Full Entry]

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This past week has been full of E. Not the drug, that would have made it far more interesting I’m sure, but Enthusiastically, Exhausting, Exasperating, Emptying, Enjoyably, etc. See, it even ended with an ‘e’. Its been crazy. I finally slept last night, due to a great attempt on my part to relax before bed and the acceptance that my wonderful friend Magda has gone on to Poland, but I’ll be talking to her on Facebook in no time, and that my project is nearly done, and that my life is finally putting itself into some semblance of order here. And [View Full Entry]

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Copenhagen Weekend This weekend was a bunch of events! Again, we barely stayed in our own city, we will explore it…one day. We’ve lived here two full weeks now and have not yet spent a weekend here :D This weekend was my friend Ry’s birthday in Copenhagen so Amanda and I left on Saturday morning and went to be tourists before the party. We walked through most of the main squares and saw the government buildings, the main street was jam packed FULL of people it was like a sea of moving, shopping, money spending madness. There were so many shops [View Full Entry]

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Last week was hectic. Let’s recap. Amanda and I moved in on Sunday. The toilet exploded Sunday night. Oh have I not mentioned that yet? Let’s start at the beginning. We began the move in on Sunday while our landlord was still moving out. As this was the case, and there was decidedly no “hiss” (elevator) at our apartment, hauling all our stuff up the stairs was super-fun. Considering that Amanda and I went for a run that morning, followed by a few sets of squats and lunges, then packing, then hauling up the stairs, we were wiped. Karin and Jojje [View Full Entry]

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Big Entry ... rest your eyes for a second first... Friday at school was hectic, we were shoved into groups (luckily, I’m in a good group of three, everyone is great there, but these two especially I get along well with so I’m happy to be in a good group!) assigned the assignment, told what to get started on, and left alone; a lot of the program is being left alone. I guess its all part of the master’s thing - but its really interesting to see how responsible everyone’s become in such a short time, and how ready for action [View Full Entry]

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