Hannah

Hi!

As usual, the busier I get the more frequently I blog. So because I have five midterms next week I am obviously going to update my blog. Today I'm going to write about hugs.

But first I need to share this amazing song. Absolutely obsessed with it at the moment.

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Today is my 20th birthday. Which is exciting.

At first I thought that maybe I'd feel like that guy in The Metamorphosis. The guy that wakes up as a cockroach or something. That this morning when I'd wake up I would feel different. Like a changed person. I haven't transform from a human into vermin (thankfully), but I have transformed from a teenager to an... adult?

Truth to be told, just as all my other birthdays I feel exactly the same as the day before. I guess that change is more gradual.

Me and little sister, ca 2002

Me and little sister 2012

Look how much has changed in 10 years!

Anyway. I just want to take this chance to get really sappy and sentimental. I'm so thankful and grateful that I have such great family and friends. Big thank you to everyone who told me happy birthday (on Facebook, by text, in person, on Skype, etc). I adore you all and honestly don't know what I would do without so many wonderful friends and such a supporting family.

I'm just the luckiest person ever.

PS. To all of you freaking out about "getting old". Even if 20 is two decades, it's really not that old.

Just ending this post with one of my favorite songs

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Hi!

Please patiently wait for me to get my act together and tell you all about my Italy trip. Actually. I will go and write that update right now. While I do that, please enjoy my four favorite songs of the week. 

Hi everyone!

I realize that the last time I blogged was a while (almost 3 months) ago. Unacceptable, I know! But I'm good, I've been doing good, first year at university was fun and hard work and I'm way to lazy to summarize what I've been up to during these months.

Instead I'm introducing to you the blog's new theme that will last us the whole summer. Some of you might have guessed by the title that the theme is "Swedish Summer". I am rather excited and I hope you all are too.

So, without further ado, here we go!
2. Artist: Panetoz
       Title: Dansa Pausa

Ibland blir det svårt

3. Artist: Icona Pop
       Title: I love it

What it's about: Since this song is in English I don't really have to explain what it's about. But for those who still want to know it's basically about not giving a shit, having fun and being young and free.
My opinion: I love it!


4. Artist: Ivi Adamou
       Title: La La Love

What it's about: It's about love or something. The video is quite interesting though. It's like Snow White and she looks really pretty. There are no dwarfs, instead she becomes friends with ladies that are dressed in white body suits. There are some really big fruits. Spoiler alert: No one dies.
My opinion: It's so catchy...
Other: This was the song that Cypress sent to this year's Eurovision Song Contest. I personally think it's quite a good song, but it wasn't good enough to win. That honor went to another country. Which one? Oh right, Sweden!

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So that's a few examples of songs that will continue making us dance/make us leave to room and give us pleasure/be tortured for the rest of the summer.

But personally, the song I will be playing this summer is this song.


The beautiful and talented Jessie Ware singing 110%. I've just fallen in love with this song.

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That will be all for now, I hope everyone is having a great summer. I promise to update soon again, I have yet to decide what it'll be about.

Until next time,
Hannah

Hi everyone!

Wow, it's been a crazy week hasn't it. For everyone wondering how my finals went I think that they went pretty well. That's a lie. If I were famous and a paparazzi asked me about my finals I would say "No comment". But either way, I've done then and no matter how it goes there's not much I can do about it at this point.

Nobody wants to hear about me studying so instead I'll tell you about what I did today. First I went crazy and cleaned for a few hours (Parents, bet you never thought that would happen!). After that I decided to go on a crazy adventure. By crazy adventure I mean take a walk.

So I walked to Granville Island. It's really not that far from my house, around 5 km, at least the route that I took. It was a gorgeous day, sunny and warmish. When I got there I went to the public market and bought food. At the place where I bought nuts and lentils the owner told me that I was a very smart young lady. That most people my age didn't eat healthy, but everything that I bought was very good indeed.

When I got home I made these really yummy granola bars (I changed the recipe slightly) and it was delicious. I actually want to eat it the whole pan but I have self control so I won't.

Other than that I discovered the best thing on the internet right now.

Once, another time when something big was happening I posted a jj song.

Tomorrow I have 2 finals and I'm pretty sure the first one is going to eat me alive and only spit out bits and pieces to complete the second exam. But never mind because I'm really liking this song and video right now so who cares.



If you don't know what I was talking about up there, here's that other time I posted a jj song. And I love that song too. A lot.

I hope I'll survive. If I do I promise to let you know. All of you readers out there... Jokes, jokes. Not that many readers are there.

Sleepy time!

Hey everyone!

A while since I last updated my blog, as usual. What has happened in my life since last time? I can't remember but probably a lot of exciting things. I took a walk last week I think, I might post some pictures of the pretty cherry blossoms in the future.

This post basically exists just to tell everyone that I, Hannah, is almost done with her first year at university! What?! A whole year? Yes. First year. Done. Finished. Gone. Of course there's still finals but... still!

I think I deserve a pat on the back, a big hug and maybe a pinched cheek or two.

Not one to come with empty promises, I will not promise you another update in the future. But that doesn't mean there won't be one. So keep an eye out if you want to read more of whatever is going on in my life.

(Happening right now: A freaking huge insect flying into my window multiple times. Exciting. And now, back to the post...)

I will leave you with a song I'm currently obsessed with.

Hey!

Today it's Valentine's Day! If you've met me you know that I absolutely love Valentine's Day.


It's just such a lovely day. I like that it's cheesy and tacky and commercialized. I like that people either love their darling or hate everyone (it's Single Awareness Day!) or hate everyone hating on Valentine's day or just being totally neutral. I like that people get so obsessed with this during this one particular day during the year. All in all, I think Valentine's Day is hilarious.

O maybe it's just because I love spreading love and liking other people and that is why this day makes me happy.


As you see I've done heart-themed nails in honour of this wonderful day. I was also wearing heart shaped earrings, a heart bracelet, pink socks and cardigan and lastly my "All you need is love" shirt.

So, summarizing: lots of kisses to all my friends and to my family who I miss very much on this particular day!

Much love,
Hannah

Hello!

What might have happened in the exciting life of Hannah you may ask? Well, not much. Most of the week I spent studying like the good student I am. But Friday afternoon, after we had taken our first Psychology midterm of the semester I decided to take a break.


So me and Kiki decided to go on an adventure, just as we always do when we hang out. Off we went, into the unknown wilderness. Emphasis on unknown because it was not exactly what would be considered wilderness. However, we did find a quaint little cluster of houses known as Fairview Residence, explored the posh Hampton Place (complete with a stroll through private property looking for Grandma Anita, she does make the most wonderful cookies) and finally ending up in Westbrook Village.

I had never visited Westbrook Village before Friday and I found it quite delightful (I'm writing in such a strange manner today). Me and Kiki inspected the whole "village" and when we saw something called Sail we were intrigued. So we went inside, and turned out it was a presentation something or another. Either way, we ended up looking at how future apartments will look like. We kinda wanted to get one.

My Friday night incredibly exciting since I started baking my sour dough. Making sour dough bread is a very long process. First you make the pre-dough. And then you let it rest for 12 - 20 hours.

Bread yummy yummy. No not done yet!

Hi!

and may it be a good one.


Love to you all, thank you for being a part of my life.

(A summary/review of 2011 may be in process)

Much love,
Hannah

3 down. 2 to go.

there's no stopping us right now


5 days

...est en français. Oui. Foux du fafa.

Hi!

I had a really ambitious plan for this post. It was going to be grand and spectacular. But as Robert Burns so nicely put it,


A Tuesday: A birthday party

A Sunday: A celebration of the first of Advent with family and a friend. We made a traditional Swedish meal (meatballs, mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam) and glögg. It was a nice evening indeed.

A Thursday: One Acts Vanier. Good theatre

A Friday: Last day of classes. Time went unbelievably fast, it feels like I've barely been here. I was a part of the Lucia performance at UBC. After that: One Acts Totem. Also this night there was some amazing acting and directing. Then it was the last party (before finals).

Things I am thankful for:

Having people that I love; having people loving me back; my mother, father and sister; all my other family, closely related or really distantly related or just anyone I consider family; mina fina vänner; my wonderful friends; my UBC family; music; unicorns; TA hours; sunshine; rain; the two Thanksgiving dinners I've had this weekend.

There are a few more things I'm sure but I don't have all night. Really, I'm thankful for everything good in my life and some of the bad things too. Because really. It shapes you as a human being. (<- Not cliché, nope, not at all.)

Hi!

Do you know how I know that I'm really liking it here in Vancouver and at UBC? I have had a week with midterms and papers but I still had such a good time. It has been stressful but every day I found that there was at least something I could smile about.

Done is done, I'm sure no one wants to hear about my school work. Except computer sciences. In our lab we were going to make snake. (You know that game where a snake eats food and grows. No one who reads this should be so young they do not know what it is.) It did not go well. Whatever.

But what really made my week was Friday, which, generally is a really good day. When I left the building of my last class, it was sunshine. Lots of it! I had earlier forced convinced asked my friend Michelle if she wanted to go for a walk with me. Since it was sunny (but still rather cold) we headed down to Wreck Beach. After hundreds of stairs we came across this funny sign.

Avoid staring and gawking

Wreck beach with mountains in the background

Hi everyone.

I have so much to tell you and so little time. I'll dive right into it.

Wednesday I had my first midterm. It was kinda scary and kinda exciting. But what's even more exciting is that when I got home it turned out I'd gotten a package from my lovely family. There were not only a couple of awesome letters but also this lovely dress/top.

Lovely wednesday surprise!