Hannah

Today it was really rainy. I had to do some scary things like write an important summary and do a quiz. But the day really was not too bad. Even though it was raining cats and dogs.

When I got to my psychology class a lovely song was playing. It was a song called Lost In My Mind and the band is called The Head and the Heart. They really are great.

Anyways, thought this song might be more fitting for a day like this. Cats and Dogs.


Cheers from a rainy (like buckets of rain falling from the sky) Vancouver.

Hi!

Today there's going to be a super quick update because I want to update but don't really have time!

There is a lot to do, suddenly there are midterms and papers and so on. I am doing the best I can but studying is just as fun as it's always been. Not really that much fun at all.

Coming 2 weeks are going to be crazy, so much work and so much fun. I just know it. My birthday is next week which means partaaaay. Yay. The week after that I will finally get to see my friend B and it's really been too long. More then a year?! She's the best and I can hardly wait.

But one thing at a time which means that I really have to get back to studying. Jag saknar er i Sverige lite. Bara så att ni vet.


I'm a little bit in love with this song at the moment. Maybe you'll like it?

Bye!

Today was a good day. I was sitting on the Knoll with a phil-friend when suddenly - something amazing, wonderful and spectacular happened. These people (angels? heroes?) appear out of nowhere (read: just around the corner). They were trying advertise their cause and they did this with a BANG! Yes. They had PIÑATAS!

Not even kidding about how excited I was! Me and S both tried to kill it but didn't quite succeed. Many other's also had a go at it and 2 minutes after we should have started heading towards class someone (really great and strong and wonderful!) finally manages to crack it open. Quickly grabbing some candy we then hurried to class.

End of exciting day! Below is good song. Bonus points if you understand how it is connected to piñatas. It's not that far-fetched.



And it's sunny again :)

Cha cha bloggen! (<- Would in English be what?)

I've been so bad at updating but what can I say, must be a sign that I actually have a life outside of the internet. Which is a positive thing, right? Well, what can I say about my week?

The good weather has unfortunately passed and it is now rather cold, rainy and grey outside. My week of classes has been pretty good, a lot of reading but what else is new? I actually can't remember if I did anything special during the week so I'll just go ahead and say it was a normal week. It passed so quickly though!

Friday we went out again, this time to a restaurant called Au Petit Chavignol which was a cool restaurant in a pretty tough neighborhood. Most things on the menu were connected to cheese which I really liked. After that I headed out to meet my cousin who dragged me to a frat party! Woho, so exciting not at all. It was seriously the LAMEST thing ever. I'm sorry, but it was so boring and yes, I was somewhat disappointed.

The next day I had lots of new exciting things to do. First I had lunch with my grandma and then I vacuumed. Then I made then spontaneous decision to invite my friend Tyler (not the creator though) over for dinner. He didn't get food poisoning which must mean that I am an awesome cook. We were choosing between a party and watching Donnie Darko with all our other friends. Obviously, we chose the latter. It was kinda scary I don't care what you all say!

Sunday, today, was homework day. A very unfocused homework day. I also picked up my violin for the first time in a looong time. It was nice. ALSO! It's my mom's birthday. Happy birthday mamma!


I've been listening to Marina & the Diamonds. She's awesome. You should check her out. Start here but make sure to check out some of her older music as well.

Until I write next time, hopefully during the week, I bid you all farewell. Have a good week and you are all wonderful!

Baiiii

Hi!

What a weekend! It's just been great hasn't it? What happened you ask? Ok here it goes...

Friday (after my last update): First I went to this great pizzeria called Pizzeria Farina with my relatives. It was so good, definitely give it a try if you like good italian style pizza. (their website has link to both their facebook and twitter http://www.pizzeriafarina.com/).

Not only was the pizza delicious but it was also in this cool neighborhood which meant that a lot of hipsters were there. I also saw a man with a unbuttoned Hawaii-shirt walk by. But my fashion pick of the night was a lady who wasn't too young, but not too old either. She had blond hair and a huge, wide-brimmed straw hat in bright colours like blue and pink. Her pink wide pants had some strange strings that was tied around her back like an apron. Her main accessory was a small, white, fluffy dog. She only wore a camouflage bikini top with that. Holy moly. Crazy fashion.

After a quick trip to some other relatives I headed out to UBC. I wasn't sure where I would end up (and I had a lot of trouble finding my way too! Stupid building that are hard to find...) but it turned out to be a sleepover cozy time party chill. I had a great time and I have to say, my new friends are so awesome.

On Saturday morning I got a text from my parents who wanted to Skype with me. I decided to go home so I could make the time. Mostly everyone else was sleeping soundly (so cute. No drooling either) so I snuck away in the early morning hours into the sunlight.

The other exciting this I did yesterday was go shopping at this Italian food store called Bosa Foods. Yum. I like food. Oh! And I also got my mattress which is reaaaally nice and comfy and I want to go to bed so I can sleep on it.

After a long and nice sleep I woke up to a sunny Sunday. The day was mostly spent reading/soaking up sunshine. I also did laundry. Very good myself. I went for dinner at my (you guessed it) relatives house. It was good. I am so full right now.

Soon I will go to bed because tomorrow is a new day and I have classes. But first I want to share a music video I saw last week with all of you. I just like the video

Hi!

I have been so busy/tired that I have not updated the blog but today I finally am! There also is a lot to write so here it goes.

First I will show some pictures from Imagine Day (because I read the user manual for my phone and figured out how to move them to the computer).

Go ARTS! Purple power and what not. We rule

Kinesiology were wild and crazy and so loud

Cheerleaders! Go UBC Thunderbirds

Also, basically every single club there is (only like 200+ had booth to get new members). Quidditch anyone?

Band playing in the Buchanan court yard. I like Arts.

Today was Imagine Day and it was amazing. So many people, so much pep and cheer and so much inspiration. It's hard to summarize but I had a great time.

We were almost 6000 first year (+ some second and third year) students that attended Imagine Day. We filled the whole Thunderbird Arena. I took some pictures but unfortunately I can't seem to figure out how to move pictures from my phone to the computer. And I'm too lazy to look it up. Maybe another day. Instead I will treat you with a picture of me and two purple pep towel I got at the pep rally today

Me and the awesome I AM UBC towel.

I'm wondering if anyone can guess what our faculty colour was? 

is an exciting day. Tomorrow will be another day on campus, no classes, but yet another orientation. But really, tomorrow is the start of my university days. So exciting. What I am not excited about is having to wake up super early. I'm going to bed pretty soon, even though it's still early.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a good day but I think it will. Weather's been so good here and tomorrow will probably be another hot day. Today I did dishes (I should stop writing about it because I have to do dishes every day), chilled and took a walk to Main Street. It was great and I found the nicest store ever. Absolutely loved everything. Almost. (Can't love everything, right?)

In the evening I had dinner with my lovely relatives (not the ones I'm living with though) at some place. With really good chicken wings. As always nice to see them too! We also stopped by Sweet Obsession for dessert which was yum.

I should really get to bed now since I have to get up super early tomorrow morning but I'll leave you with a song I like.

Hey!

Yesterday was Saturday (and today is Sunday. hehe) which also was the last day of GALA. Our group kept shrinking for each day and it turned out that the last day was only me and Helen (our wonderful group leader!). But no worries, we had a great time together and saw both familiar and (but mostly) new faces. Also, we got some good blueberry pancakes. So can't really complain.

I returned home right around lunchtime and after we had eaten, my aunt, my cousin and I drove to IKEA. Just like home. We bought lots of new things but the most important was probably my new desk! Yay, I like it. I also couldn't resist buying a jar of herring (sill!) so yeah... That will be dinner one day. Köpte också skumsvampar! Om nom nom.

Assembling the desk was not an easy task and I got my wonderful cousin to help me. It probably took 2 hours or more but we didn't make any (major) mistakes so I'm super happy. Miles was not very happy when he realized he's spent all that time on assembling my desk but oh well.

Work in progress. Us and a thousand IKEA pieces that will make one beautiful desk

Aaaaand we're done! Look what a good job we did. (The garbage can is also new!)

Today has also been an exciting day. I finally got a new phone which wasn't as easy as it sounds. Both of my cousins were also shopping and we probably spent 3 hours or so in the store getting help from the same guy. I feel a bit sorry for him but we all got our phones so yay!

After a quick trip downtown to look at beds (which we also ordered) we finally went home. Now it's family dinner time with my lovely grandma + cousins/uncle/aunt. Actually, I'm going to go and socialize. Right now.

Bye!

Hi!

Second day of GALA and we had lots of activities. Some quite fun and interesting, some not quite as much. Unfortunately we seem to be losing people every day. Tomorrow we'll be an even smaller group! On the other hand we've been recruiting people from all over the place to join our group. They do for a while usually, which is fun. Met some cool people today as well, from different countries. Haven't really met any canadians yet* (it is after all international student orientation) but hopefully I'll make some canadian friends soon. But I'll definitely remember, I am not alone! (As we've been hearing a thousand times these past couple days.)

*EDIT! I have made a canadian friend. He's cool and he plays the double bass which is way cool. So yeah, sorry I lied ('cause I totally didn't forget about him) 

Don't really know what else to say. Too bad I couldn't go partay (darn all these 19+ events!) but I've had a great time anyways. Looking forward to the weekend, we'll see what it has in store for me.

I'll end of this post with a music video I like. It's cool.


Watch this video, enjoy and then go look at nature. Or something.

Bai!

Haiii!

A picture of UBC I stole from the internet (ubc.ca)