Rock Paper Scissors

Zup guys,
Another week is coming to its end. My 6th week here. Yup 6 weeks really.

This week has been really overwhelming, with our courseworks (assessments) coming up, it makes me super stressed out. It's not that I'm stressed out becuase it's a lot of work, but I just don't know how to strucutre/present it all, where I find information and some of the assessments I just don't really get at all. S T R E S S!

So I don't really afford sitting here bloging (and believe me it makes me stressed) but I am. After my cousin left on Tuesday I got had this really, really bad case of home sickness, that combined with feeling hopeless in school made me cry, and cry and cry. I hate it. I always do this, I always put so much pressure on myself and when I don't have everything under control I lose it.

On the up side of the week I've come far on my socializing. :D I've been seeing and studying with this girl from my Fashion Industry class (she's really normal I promise XD). I can be really relaxed around her and we can talk, it's nice. :D Then my flatmate asked me (today) to join her for dinner today,then antoher flatmate joined. So the 3 of us went, it was really nice. I had korean food for the first time. (Spiiiiccyyy)

Although I hugely miss everything and everyone in Sweden, I'm not miserable in London. :) I'm coming home soon.

Pictures from today:


1) My future home, Notting Hill XD
2) Korean restaurant at Tottenham Court Road

I'm really in London

1) The Sherlock Holmes museum. One of the coolest things ever. The staff wears these victorian dresses feels like you've stepped into the 1800s. (Now Kajsa's gonna correct me of all the historical wrongs in that sentence XD)

2) Agatha Christie books in comics. Ok these are also one fo the coolest things ever. really want one.

3) Harrods, harrods, harrods. Need I say more?

4) H&M at Oxford circus. I really missed Sweden being there.

5) Headless man in Covent garden.

Absence no more

Hi there,
I haven't blogged in more than a weeks time and that's not really OK. No it's not. It's mostly because my cousin has been here but then I've also so been too depressed to write. (I ALWAYS tweet though, so keep checking that :)

Soo my cousin arrived on friday evening and the very moment I saw her I just felt things were so much better. I've been alone for too long, I thought.
We had a blast, mostly shopping and watching movies. It was just really nice to have someone there to do things with you and to talk to you. It has been a long time.

On Saturday we first did Oxford Street (a lot of walking), my cousin went crazy at Primark XD, then we went ate at China town and finished the day with watching Up in 3D at Trocadero. Up is really good, one of those smart cartoon movie that suits 7 year olds as 40 year olds. So I strongly recommend! :)

On Sunday we did more shopping now in Covent Garden (probably the most cozy place in London) and then at Harrods. I've actually never been to Harrods, I mean what am I suppossed to do there? I can't afford anything. XD But we went there like as an experience, it was really cool actually, all these designer clothes and the archtiecture. The place is HUGE however and even if we strolled around for an hour I think it was only a very very small part of Harrods that we did see. Going back soon? XD Then we went to Leicester square originally to eat dinner at China town but then we got an urge for pommes frites so we ate at Burge King instead. At the same evening they were holding a movie premiere at Vue (leicester square), we later found out it was for Eva Green's new movie Cracks. And I actually saw her through the window in Burger King.

The next day would be her last whole day and I had school, which was really blaaah. Didn't do well in class that day. XD We then went down to Angel and saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasuss (hate writing it everytime) at Vue. The movie was very peculiar. It was Heath Ledger's last movie and he passed away right in the middle of shooting so they decided to cut and change the whole storyline to fit and keep heath in it. I must say i think the original story must have been better, the one in the movie now is confusing and doesn't really have a red thread. but however I thought it was wonderfully weird and watch-worthy.

I'm really bummed out that I didn't brought my digital camera with during these days, blaah so here you have some mobile pictures.

First pic. dinner at China town, second pic. is from Covent Garden.

I wish I could..

....watch a never-ending movie in the cinemas.

Get your flying carpet now!

Zup,
Just wanted to write some before I go to bed. I've been studying most of the day today, I want to get things over with so that I don't have to do any homework when my cousin comes on friday. :) I'm basically done with this week's homework, but I got this article I have to write 'til next monday. So I have to write that too. "Localizing the postal strike", so we have to like get quotes from neighbours and postmen. I even jumped at one of them postmen today, but he was all like no I don't have time. I have to get to work immediately since they're going on strike on thursday and friday. I only have tomorrow and wednesday to get quotes. No pressure at all....

I think things are getting better in school. It's the 3rd week now and I start to get to know people. I've started to see this difference between my classmates and....classmates. The ones in my journalism classes tries to out-smart each other while the ones in my fashion industry tries to out-dress each other. XD I just can't really be myself around those out-dressers, feels like they're so "superior" and I'm just a joke. Maybe it's just all in my head but...I don't know. I guess there's a lot of getting used to. XD

Otherwise I'm just really glad my cousin is coming and I'll get some company. :) I've planned some crazy shopping and cinema. Looking forward to it! :D

Anitque market in Angel.

Let me see that body bounce

I basically woke up, had breakfast. Checked my Twitter and BOUNCE! what have the JoBros posted? This is possibly the most epic thing since......(Alice in wonderland in 3D)..ever!

As you can see I'm totally spamming Bounce on my twitter, but I really can't stop talking about it. XD When I first saw the video, I was like that sounds just like Nick, wait what? No?!

Crraazzzzy, Nick letting his inner rapper finally coming out! XD I can't possibly decide on what's the most awesome in the video, EVERYTHING's awesome. All from Joe's wig to Big rob's cheese and ham dance. Totally epic.

Now I'm the kinda girl who likes to bounce. ;) Just bounce!

A good week

Good evening,

What more can I say? This have been a good week, well I only have a really horrible one to compare with so this was a good week. Something bad might possibly be when I was like the only one in Introdruction to journalism class that hadn't a "newsworthy" story about myself. (Although i think I could make a story out of it)

Yeah, what can I say? I am a person with no stories to tell. Sad, but true.

I'm also failing making friends at school. Don't know why it is so freakin' hard. Feels like no one wants to know of me, like I'm the nerd in class. Well maybe I am but....is it that obvious? XD I know now how much of a granted I've taken my friends in Sweden. I'd do anything to have you all here in London. Come and visit!!! XD My cousin from France however is visiting next week, YYYEEAAAAYY! A familiar face! :)

So the thing is I can't say I'm very fond of my Uni (YET!). Mostly because of last week, their admin is really terrible. I'm not really fond of the halls either, the library is really bad. It's like it hasn't been touched since it was built like in 1970. It's all grey and like dirty and stuffy, the mood level sinks to below 100 just when you enter the library.
Most of the rooms I have classes in are like vintage, you think you've walked into the set of a 80's movie. The computers! Don't even wanna talk about them. XD But I can live with all of this, most of my teachers are really good and really know what they're talking about. People in my classes are bright and certainly has motivation (which gives me even more motivation XD).

I knew I haven't chosen the best Uni but I'd thought it'd be fine, but sometimes I wonder..... XD

Several teachers on strike yesterday. Like what have gotten into? XD

We don't burn rabbits

Hi there,

Juste came across a really disturbing article at BBC's website. It's an article about that Swedes burn rabbits to use as fuel. It says that there are these "rabbit hunters" administrated by the city, who hunts down rabbits and freeze them down, to then burn as heating for homes.

Isn't this the most absurd thing you've ever heard? How wacked was the person making this up? The thing is nothing in the article seems truthful, the names in it aren't Swedish and the quotations are just so weird. I don't believe my eyes, it's in BBC for crying out loud! What will the Britons think of us?

Read and see for yourself: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8309156.stm

Weatherman says snow but it's burnin up outside

Good evening,
Just wanted to tell you about yesterday, which was a good day. XD (Haven't have those in a while have I? XD) Don't know if I told you I had this article for my journalistic practices class for monday (yesterday). I totally sat on sunday evening panic writing. It was supposed to do a local news article, so hmm, yeah what's going on in my area? I've only been here for bloody 2 weeks how should I know? And I didn't know. I tried to look it up, even read local newspapers, absolutely nothing, nada. I went around thinking about the article every day, didn't know what to write.

In the end I had the crappiest idea, but my ONLY idea, writing about the road constructions (which is still the only thing I know going on in my area). I thought I could get some funny lines and be done with it. I started writing in on saturday evening, continues Sunday-all day. It must have been my crappiest, or the crappiest article in the history of crappy articles. I couldn't even get the funny part right. Panic. Started to run this other idea, which was starting London met. Started writing, turned out crappy, so I thought I get some quotes to lift it up. I "interviewed" (more like asked some questions) my flatmate, who luckily goes to London met too. I practically got nothing out of it. Panic. My parents calmed me down (through MSN XD), I calmed down, altered some details and added the quote. Still crappy but it was at least viewable for the public.

So in class, the teacher starts to go around to the students and ask to read the articles. Gulp. I hear everyone got great ideas about ATM problems, something controversal and blabla. Geesh, my article was a joke. My article was the last one to read by the teacher before we started class. OMG. I knew I'd get run over, I even told him my article was awful. He started reading I couldn't even look at his direction, didn't want to see the frown on his face. After literally 3 seconds he says: "This is exactly what we're looking for" and hands me the article and moves on. Really?! Seriously?! I don't know what happened but I'm sure I didn't dreamt it. XD

Anyway, that was the beginning of a good day, later on the missing module appeared on my timetable. YES! Finally things started to clear up. :)

News flash: New Jonas Brothers song! It's called Summertime anthem and it's for All wrapped up 2 (disney holiday album). I think it's really good, was surprised at first it sounds so much like It's about time. Love it! :)

A week I don't want again

Hello,

This was definitely a week I wouldn't wanna relive again. I'm just glad it's over. :P Socialsickness is not something you joke about. So my japanese flatmate has sorta become my wall of talk-myself-off. I even made him eat with me today, haha poor dude. XD

Anyway I went down to Angel yesterday. It was just one of those really cozy sunny autmn days only London can get right, you know. ;)
The second picture is at the N1 shopping centre at Angel, I found ShakeAway soo crazy. Haven't had one since Bournemouth '06. XD The third picture is from the antique market I just randomly walked into. It was really cool with all the vintage stuff but the coolest must have been the Frozenyoghurt bar I found. XD

I could use somebody

Good mornin',

Felt like my recent blog entries has been really grumpy and kinda boring. So I'm gonna post some pics for ya. :)

The first one is my school (one of the buildings) from the inside court, I know the 80's called and they wanted their school back, I know. ;) Thanks for all your concerns and nice comments, it feels better now. There's still one module that's not on my timetable but whatever I've just stopped caring so much. I just show up on some class and I try to do my thing. As you can imagen my first journalism class kinda scared the hell outta me, but after the week I know that this is what I wanna do. My classes in the Fashion industry and introduction to journalism are really fun and interesting.

I was around Oxford street last sunday, went to this Mid-autumn celebration thing at the buddhist temple my mum made me go, then afterwards I just strolled down Oxford street solitarily. It's not the same doing it by yourself, the people looks different then. XD The second picture's from Disney store, see who's on the big screen? ;)
I'm actually looking for some autumn shoes, yeah can you imagen?! I'm not in need much of a new pair but my parents keeps telling me to buy stuff because I'm being so cheap over here. XD So guess a pair of new shoes wouldn't be wrong. :P

I think I've gotten used to living by myself here now, making dinner and buying groceries and all that stuff. But sometimes I feel really socialsick, I could really use my friends and fam. right now. XD I guess I have to buddy up with my flatmates that's all.

Cheers for now!

I'm still alive..barely

Hello,
I know I haven't updated for a while now. I've had too much on my mind and too much to deal with the last (NOTE) two days. My god, felt like an eternity, but it really was just two days.

As you know this Monday was my first real day in school, with lessons and all that. My first module (they call subjects modules over here XD) was Journalistic practices (loads of homework btw). The class was pretty small, probably because most of them couldn't find the place. It's not surprising.

I don't want you to think I'm exaggerating but it is actually almost impossible to find your way around without getting lost in the Tower building (main building). Even the people who are there to help (there are severeal help desks all over the place) get confused, I asked this guy once for directions to a room. And he was like no that room doesn't exist it must be this one, and showed me to a room. I thought, well maybe I copied off the wrong room, but since I was a bit early I started to explore the place, guess what? I found the room I was supposed to be in. Thanks for that. Anyway, besides from that additional story of mine XD, what I'm tring to say is, it's really really difficult to find your way around because the Main building is also connected with other buildings but you must go through the main building to get to those other buildings. It's like a crazy maze of corridors after corridors after corridors.

But that's not the main issue in my past 2 days. The thing was my modules and my time table. As I said even last week, there have been some problems with my timetable, not showing all of my modules etc. but the nightmare just got worse and worse. It turned out that they had registered 5 modules (6 even) to me, and I'm just supposed to have 4. I kept email attacking a teacher (module leader of my course) about my modules problem, and it came clear to me that not even she knew for sure what modules I was going to do.

So I went to the horrid Undergraduate Office (those of you who haven't seen the UG office on my uni, don't know what a horrid place it is). There is always, ALWAYS, a insanely long queue to the UG office, we're talking like up to 50 students queuing in a sweaty, bad aired corridor for around an hour each. I thought I'd be smart and go there just as they open in the morning. I even arrives 10 minutes before they openen and there were already like 20 people before me. I waited 45 minutes before it was my turn. Even the staff there don't know what have happened with my modules and he was like, yeah this is screwed up you have to re-register the correct ones. And he didn't know which was the correct ones, so I had to look them up and fill in this re-register form. Which was so not worth waiting 45 mins for. The guy told me to just come in from the other side and give them the form when I was ready, so when I returned they guy was not there of course. Instead there was this stare-y angry woman, she wouldn't believe I was there earlier and if I hadn't kept talking she would have sent me back to queue in that insane line. She was very reluctant to help and when I asked here something she would answer me very bitchy way. After she scolded me for implying it was it wasn't my fault that my modules were wrong, I set off. I said to myself that I never wanted to go there again unless someone forces me.

The nightmare continues with me attending the class that was registered on me although I'm not supposed to do. Several people from my course (fa. marketing & journalism) was there and they had different timetables and modules from me, and that made me really anxious if I had registered the right modules. I was just generally really anxious and frustrated. Because it felt like no one could or wanted to help me, I didn't know who to turn to, I had no one to talk to. It was really stressful, not knowing which lessons you should go to and not. It was hell.

And on top of that I had thousands of things to do after my first lesson in Journalistic Practices. Pressure, lonliness, helplessness is not a good combination. If it weren't for people around me keep encouraging and tellme to keep fighting, I don't know what I would have done. I was a wreck, but hearing people tell me that it'll be fine and that I would make everything alright, made me realize that I being alone is not always a good thing. We need people in our life, we need to know that people care about us.

I had a breakdown, but after really positive comments and so on, I'm better now. I just stopped caring so much. Like whatever!

No more fooling around

Hi thar,

So now the welcome week is over and hard core school (lectures, lessons, seminars etc) will start on Monday. Gulp.

As far as I know, I'm having Journalistic Practices at 10 o'clock as first lesson. But since there were a problem with my timetable and they couldn't hand it out to me, I can't be 100% sure. It is also accessable on the web but on my timetable there are only 3 subjects, but I'm supposed to have 4. XD

So after my failure to retireve my time table I went to check out the library and hopefully find some books I need. The library was huge, it has all this different floors and rooms, it was confusing. XD I logged into a computer however and looked up the books for my different subjects and chose some of them, those who sounded good like introduction to journalism and son on. I was kinda surprised how easily I could find the books and that they were even available.

Checking them out however wasn't that easy, it was not like borrowing at Stads biblioteket (draw card, click password, scan books), no they had to come up with this almost impossible system. Scan studentcard (barcode precisely under red light), wait 30 sec, do not remove card and scan books. You scan the books under the red light but how were you supposed to do that when your studentcard was placed there? Just the slightest touch of the card and the machine says I ahve to remove everything and start from the beginning. So the whole process was like a game of multitasking, balance and patience (because it took the machine 30 sec to scan the books). Anyway I managed to check out my four books (took me like 10 minutes XD) but I realized now I forgot my notebook at the check out or somewhere in the library. Crap XD.

I then rushed home to leave the books and to go to Camden town to meet up a friend. One of my ex classmates where in London visiting her sister so we decided to meet and stroll around Camden. I've thought of going to camden but never went. It is very different from like the high streets elsewhere in London but it's nice, alot of cheap store. ;) It was nice however seeing a familiar face (it feels like since forever) and chatting in Swedish. :P

I'm gonna get some reading, not showing up in journalism class utterly unprepared again! XD