Another exam result back

And another exam passed :) I'll keep the result to myself but lets just say I'm very happy!

I need a man - preferbly before I need to change the tires on my bike again in spring

I changed the tires on my bike today. It's getting slippery outside and the snow will come soon so I need winter tires on it. Men should do those kind of things. What about the women cook and the men change bike tires? That sounds like a perfect idea to me... After about 50 min, I was finally done with the back tire and dad saw that I had done it wrong. I was not happy at this time and dad had to help me.

It's all done now but I decided during this process that I need a man to do these things for me. I also have two lights in my room that aren't working and the back light on my bike isn't working that good either. Maybe I should bribe someone with a cooked meal in an exchange of getting these things done?

Change of course in school? - a post about my thoughts

I've been thinking about if my education is leading me where I want to be. I want to educate people about nutrition and sometimes it feels like the program I'm going now is not sharp enough or however I could explain it.. I want to go so much deeper in things and learn so much more.
This semester has been really great but when I read about some courses I will have in the future, I don't get too excited because I doubt they will teach me what I need to know. I've been thinking about maybe putting together my own program, with courses I believe will take me where I want to go instead of just taking all these courses in this program to get a "proffesion name". That name won't help me if it's not what I need for what I want to work with.

As a part of our course, we had to interview a person who works with food in different ways in different counties. I was not excited about it because it would be my nightmare to get one of those jobs.. But many people who goes this program that I'm on end up there so our teachers wanted us too see how it could look like.
Today I talked to the person I was going to interview. We talked for about 1 h and 20 minutes, and maybe 15-20 minutes of those were the actual interview. She was amazing and it was like having a personal mentor for an hour. She was really honest and told me that the program I'm taking is not going to lead me where I want to go.. She even didn't think this education was good preparation for the job she has now! She told me about another education that I had actually been thinking about before in Stockholm (but I could do it distance) that is much better and we also talked about that I should maybe create my own program, picking courses that would be more relevant. I would still be done by the time I'm suppose to be done now.
Seriously, the whole phone call was so amazing and I felt so inspired afterwards to rethink my education. I really feel that it was from God that I got to speak with her.

So what will happen now.. I will pray through the whole thing and I will continue on the program I am on now until I figure out what courses would be good to have and then I will probably customize my own program. This means I could read more physiology and other things that I believe are more relevant.
It is to late to apply for other courses for the spring but I will talk to my teacher and see if there's anything we can do because there will be much more time in the kitchen next semester and that really feels like a waste of time as I already have an education as a chef and I have already taken courses in things like gluten-free food etc, (things I'm guessing we will do.) I would so much rather write papers or do something else those days that I could actually learn things from!

Swedish classes - pictures

Today I had 8 students in my swedish class. They are doing so good! Today we started with step 2 which was about animals, buildings, times etc..

Pictures from dads phone

Found some old pictures from dads phone. Mostly on our precious cat.

The siblings.. Sorry Sanna, you were blurry on all of the photos

Alex working

Alex at work again

Alex with his food

Christmas Alex!

gos gos

Me and Sanna planting all the seeds last spring

Health exhirbition plus my oxidative stress result

Me and Whitley had a great day at the health exhirbition in Stockholm today. We took pictures of famous people and ate free healthy samples.

Magnus Nylander (nutritionist I've talked about) was there and he took a blood test on me to check my oxidative stress. Short explanation: Free radicals are not good for you (you need some, but too much isn't good) and they can react with other things in your body and make you sick. This is why we need antioxidants - because they will make the free radicals harmless. The oxidative stress is what damage the free radicals have done to you. If you get 200-300 on this test, then that's good. I've done this test a few other times a few years ago and I then had about 460-480, which is way too high. This time I got 361!! Which is MUCH better, but still a bit high. I'm so motivated to eat even more healthier now to get it down below 300.

Here are some pictures from the day.

Magnus about to take the free radical test on me

Famous person no 1

Plastic free bottles!! Yay! :D

Tea from America... obviously made me think o Texas were we drank these every day...

Famous person no 2 from yorkshire (?)

Famous person no 3

... no 4

We also went through the food/wine exhirbition but as me nor Whitley drink alcohol, and most of it was wine, this wasn't as good as the health exhirbition

Famous person no 5

Whitley with the Swedish horse!!

And we walked through the boat exhirbition

Oxidative stress article by Magnus Nylander

My dad was at the health exhirbition today that me and Whitley are going to tomorrow. He got this newspaper with him home and Magnus Nylander (the nutritionist I've mentioned several times before) has written a 2 pages long article about oxidative stress in it.
I haven't had time to read it yet but I will still recommend it already because I'm pretty sure it is a great article. And a very interesting subject! If you want to know what antioxidants are good for then you should read this. The magazine is called STARK and its number 3 this year.