I've had a great birthday! :)

What a wonderful day! Maybe the best birthday ever! Life is so great :)

I started out the day with an (two) exams --> one in chemistry and the other one in physiology. I was nervous in the beginning but I got calm pretty fast as I read the questions and realised that I was prepared enough for it. We will find out in two weeks how it went so if it turnes out that I didn't pass them, then I guess I will need to take my words back, but for now, it defently felt like it went really good.

I biked home in the sun (!!)(never had sun on my birthday as long as I can remember) and had sushi lunch with my parents who celebrated me. For one, I got a Simon and Garfunkel album with 5 of their cd:s that I really really wanted (my favourite!). I have bought all of them before but as the years has gone by, I only think I can find one of them. It's so wonderful to listen to their songs again!

Anyways, then I went to the gym and meet Whitley there.. It was an easy "workout", we only walked on the treadmill for an hour but it was really nice to just walk there and talk with someone (as I've been burried in books lately).

And then my whole family and Whitley celebrated me in the evening and we ate the traditional swedish sandwish cake with smoked salmon.. :) And the day ended with a service at the church. So a really nice day!

Tomorrow, me and my mom are going to a spa about 1½ hours away from here where we will stay one night to celebrate a little bit more and to hang out! You have now idea how excited I am, especially as I've been reading and studying until it felt like my eyes was on fire.

Oh yeah, I shouldn't forget to tell you (again) that today we had our cat Alex for 10 years! He is so precious and so adorable! And also, after today, I've had my sugar fast for 9 months (I dont count the cookies I ate in the airport in New York.. I seriously was not aware of what I was doing.. who gives someone cookies in the middle of the night anyways?)! Yes, that means no birthday cake. We actually kinda stopped with that in our house anyways as no one wants it.

Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes I got on facebook and through texts! I have so many good friends :) :)

Todays weather is ludicrous!

I had to share this with you. 29th of September and it's 34 degrees celsius in the sun, which is 93 in fahrenheit and 70 in the shadow. This is so weird.. We can compare it with that next week it will be 5 celsius (40 fahrenheit) which would be much more normal for this time a year over here. So shorts and flip flops today and winter jacket and gloves in the weekend?

Exam, spa, birthday and 10 years with Alex



A old photo with me and Alex!


This weekend contains a lot of fun things for my part. First of all, my exam will be done at 12 on friday, which means I will be able to have a social life again, or at least for about a week :)
This friday is also my birthday so I will celebrate it with my family and Whitley in the evening. And another thing I am looking forward too is to go to the gym without being stressed in the afternoon after the test!

I have a cat that I got when I turned 15, which means that now on friday, we have had him for 10 years. He is very special and he druels a lot but we still love him. He also craves attention all the time. His name is Alex and I namned him after a model that I had a crush on when I was 15... And no, I wouldn't have done that now. We call him other names too - master of seduction, prince G, old G, lion king etc..

And then saturday-sunday, me and my mom are going to spend some mother-daughter time at a spa too celebrate my birthday which will be great to relax after these intense weeks of exam-studying.

But first 2 more days of studying :)

Do students gain weight?

What a wonderful day I have had! First church, then going to our big Ica maxi (grocery store) which was a lot of fun. I don't understand why I love going around in grocery stores so much but I really do like it.

The usual sunday nap obviously happened as well, and then we played some (american) football. We were 3 americans, 2 swedes, one from holland and one from nigeria (i think he is at least). I was so confused and didn't know what was going on but it was still fun. And then hanging out with Whitley the rest of the day and preparing myself mentally for all the studying I will have to do the coming 4 days..

One VERY good news (hopefully) is that two of my best friends Amos and Nandi that I got to know when I lived in England, are coming to visit in November! You have no idea of how happy I am to meet them. It's not 100 % sure that Nandi will come but I'm trying to nag on her about it so she will book her tickets :) I can not explain how happy I am too see them. They are so amazing and so wonderful people. I just wish I could live close to both of them again, and also share a room with Nandi again :)

About the posts topic. You know people normally gain weight when they are studying? I can kinda understand that now. It's a lot of sitting still and also a need of a fresh mind all the time. I do not have time to go to the gym as often and I miss it badly. BUT life as a student is still great, this would be the only downfall..

Okay, give me a good luck for next weeks exam :)

How amazing are we?

I have lost my social life. There is so much to learn, not only to the exam in less than a week, but for life.. I want to learn as much as possible and remember as much as possible after the exam. I know this is such a great opportunity to be able to study full time. I want to make the best out of that and as I said, learn as much as I can.

I'm nervous about the exams next week but I still think I will pass them. But seriously... where did my social life go? This week I've studied alot and I still have 2 more hours that I want to do today.. Tomorrow is sunday - which always means day off for me. Would be good as my eyes are hurting from all the reading. But it's also sooo interesting! And fun!

When it comes to the title of this post; here are some amazing facts about humans. We have 100 000 000 000 000 cells and 200 different types of cells. We have 600 separeted muscles and about 200 bones (I almost wrote legs there as leg and bone is the same in swedish.. good thing I didnt). Just imagine how complicated 1 cell is. I do not understand how people can believe that this just ended up like this, that there is no God who made us. I believe in a God who created us and I get more and more amazed the more I learn. How our bodies function so incredibly well, how it all goes together with all the hormones, enzymes etc.. For one thing, how our bodies cleanses our blood, gives it oxygen and how it gets rid of the carbon dioxide. And I know that all we are learning in school now is very basic and not even that complicated compared to all the aspects and depths of how it really work. I am so sure of that there must be a creater of this.

Today I took a break from school work the whole morning and half of the afternoon. We and Whitley went to aerobics with a bunch of bibleschool people. That was a lot of fun and it was so nice to sweat and get some energy. Tomorrow church, ica maxi and american football are on the "schedule".

Back to my studies. :)

My tuesday - studies, gym and butter!

One of my gyms

I have my first exam on friday next week so now I try to study as much as I can. I have spent the day with the nervous system, the cell and the hormone system. I also realized that I have an old book from high school that is about all these things we have the exam on - but much more basic and easier explained. I looked through it today and got so happy because even tho it's not very deep, I still understand all the deep things in my physiology book better after reading the easier stuff.

I also took a break for working out today.. I tried a new class at the gym and I didn't really like it. It was very easy and didn't feel at all that I had worked out afterwards.. Well, at least I got to move a little bit and a break from the books.

Have I mentioned about the "butter crises" we have here in Sweden? People have started to eat so much more butter (and other high fat things) here in Sweden the last years and we also got less farmers so now there's not much butter left in the stores. They say the crises will go on until new years, so until then, I think we will have to import from other countries. Both my mom and I went to the store today but two different ones, and they didn't have any butter in the one my mom went to.. And I got the last one in the one I went to but it was the extra salted one, so still no normal one.
Speaking of butter... when I have looked for butter in America, I have only found butter that is around 40 % fat if I don't remember wrong.. Real butter is around 80 % but I couldn't find that anywhere.. Any americans who knows if I was just looking at the wrong places??



Last butter from the store



This makes me happy

Here's an artical about that all the schools in a certain area in Sweden might end their contract next summer with the big "catering" company they now get all their school food from. With the food they get now they have to heat it up twice, once when it's made and again at the school. I would call that food plastic food and it's so far away from how food should be like. Most of Swedens school has this system, and I'm guessing many other countries as well as you know. The artical is saying that they are trying now to make the politicians make a desicion that they will be able to cook their own food in the school from next fall so it will be fresh instead and it's looking promising. That makes me so happy and I hope that will spread to the rest of the country.

http://www.dt.se/nyheter/ludvika/1.3904906-koka-kyl-pa-vag-bort-fran-skolorna