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I can't stop snoozing. i can't. Today it took 20 minutes before i even heard my alarm go off... uuuuh sick of school? maybe?!
I'm thinking about packing now. 20 kilos plus 5 kilos carry on. HOW do i fit my life in 20 kilos... hah i shouldn't care so much about things. I have my pictures, so i'll be okay ^___^
On saturday two friends turned 18, and had a hawaii-themed-party :P i cant say i went all in for it... but i leave you all with this retarded picture which for some reason i really like hmm. not my glasses but i love them. they bring out my inner dork :] yesssssss

After having stayed up until 2 in the morning working on a school thing, i woke up at 6. It was okay until i sat up and looked outside the window to be met by a whirl of white. Snow. Lots of it. And i just sat there completely apathetic feeling sorry for myself for about 15 minutes until i decided to get up and do something with my life/day. I missed the first bus on purpose, and then for the second bus i was running late, so i ran out the door and was swallowed by the snowfall, and since i was late i ran/power walked the whole way to the busstop and when i got there i was all gross and hot from running, but in fact i was early and oculd have taken it easy. I always think its a little embarassing to run to the bus and then not be late after all, i don't know why.
Anways, then after school i met up with my Nathalie, Henny and Jenny :D because we were responsible for the "fika" at youthgroup, so we shopped and made grilled cheese sandwiches! Everyone loves that. In sweden too! Aah i can't write everyting that happened tonight because that would take too long and i'm quite tired.  Anyways, here are some pictures from our walk!

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Tonight i was asked the quesion: Whyy are you a christian? It is so hard to answer that one on the spot...
But it's because in this crazy chaotic world, God is the only thing that makes sense and never fails, it's because i can feel completely safe because of him, it's because of a personal relationship, because of things that can't be explained on human terms, because of things that can't be described in words.
It's possibly the hardest question i know, because i don't have one concrete answer, and i wish i did.

Okay this was supposed to be written on Wednesday, so pretent it's Wednesday just for this one time. Great!
As i bet aaaall of you already knew, today was the swedish annual Waffle Day! Which is when we eat waffles. MMMM. soo in honour of this swedish tradition Sylvia, Ingrid, and Pix came and stayed over and we... well first we made 4 pizzas, and then we talked and helped me with my spanish homework, and then at 11 pm we remembered the waffles. Ah, late night waffles with these wonderful people beat many things in life.

Woow today i acctually made real dinner! instead of coming home from school at 6ish and eating sandwiches and stuff i was good and made real food! Spaghetti and because meatballs are boring i made them sweet chili. This is totally irrelevant by the way.
Oh and guuuueeees who's back? WINTER. Guh. Woke up today to a beaauutiful sunrise and then i sit up, look outside the window and see white. Everywhere. Sure its pretty and all but... sigh. I cannot wait for warmth!!! Just the other day it was soo nice, i sat outside in just a tanktop and shorts and now theres enough snow that in America the schools would be closed. Hah.
Oh and a side note, i land in PNG in... 2 months and 23 days!!!!!! :D That is soon. Very soon. But uuuuuuh im gonna miss people here! Stupid distance aall the time. But still, SOON!
Aaaah i have nothing worth writing! So i will give you random details of the recently's. This morning i realized i had locked my cat in the bathroom the whole night. she was a little upset... I just finished season 5 of Scrubs, big accomplishment i know... my mascara is running dry... this morning i only snoozed 3 times... i was in school for 9 hours straight today. 8 to 5. no candy... today i have surpressed the urge of biting my nails! all day! and tomorrow Sylvia, Ingrid and me are having waffles. It's the annual waffle day! waffle is a funny word. okay i'm done wasting your time and procrastinating now.

Last night was prettyful. I was walking home at like 9 at night and it was all starry outside and it was reasonably warm ( a couple of degrees above freezing) and i was listening to good good music and i was thinking a lot. And i was thinking pretty deep stuff too but now that the moment is gone i can't recall any of my thoughts... don't you hate it when that happens? i should carry a diary with me at all times and then when i feel inspired i can plop down beside the road or wherever and scribble my thoughts down in it so i can read them later and laugh at myself at how not-deep i am :P

There's not really much to say... Nathalie, Henny and Jenny crashed here for a couple of days mohahaha. ALWAYS fun! I can't really describe the whole weekend with words other than that we spent an unhealthy amount of time in front of my webcam taking pictures :P and sang David Beddingield - If You're Not the One passionately :D
Now what you've all been waiting for: Pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Umm yes.... sort of an inside joke so sorry for posting this but i like this picture! :D


Mohahaa moustaches!


BUBBLES!!!


And haha this makes me laugh. Me: crack happy, Jenny: Emooooo


If any of you have seen the show Joey, thats what this is from. And you've just been hit with our sex rays! :P


So uuuh, happy next week everybody!

I love these kids! Ella is 7 and Olof is 3 and they are soo cute! And they love me :P haha.
This might look dangerous but.... kids are allowed to have some fun, right? I remember i did this when i was little except for Tobias and I would jump from the loft/attic onto matresses... aaah good times good times.

Look at this! Happiness and exitement and with the hair(!) i love the hair :D


Look at Olof's face. That is pure joy and exhiliration right there. And he's superman.


This is HAPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!


Look at this kid, how can you not love him!? plus the green leprachaun pj pants ^^


Oh the fun you can have with a couple of blankets and pillows.

Oookay so i need to get better at updating this thing.
Good good weekend! I think all of it was good. Except for the part where the alarm didnt go off... anyways. On saturay Henny and Jenny came! And we watched Blades of Glory (love that movie!!!) and we ate junkfood, and played the guitar, and for some reason the only music listened to the whole weekend was by The Early November :P good band by the way! Yeah, so now all those songs are forever etched into my memory haha. We didn't do much at all but time still fleeew away. stupid time. Anwyays, church the next day on sunday so i set the alarm for 8:30. Do you think it goes off? Nnnoo of course it doesnt! Haha so Nathalie calls her mom to come pick us up and she did because she is amazing, but we had had no time to get ready or anything, so let me tell you, there was some serious hair-straightening-action done in the hallway there at church. Not me of course, no i was waving my already curly hair in their faces smirking and laughing to myself. Muahahaha.
On the walk home: genious idea! We bake a cake! It was for Markus who just turned 18, and we're trying to get on his good side so he'll drive us places now that he has a drivers licence. Define baking.... does it involve buying a ready-made cake crust thing and then whipping up some chocolate mousse as a filling and then wipping up more whipped cream for the top? In that case yes, yes we baked a cake. And decorated it with Smarties. All by ourselves! :D so proud.
And ate a real dinner - spaghetti and meatballs. Basically a productive afternoon! And Markus loved the cake bytheway. it was good. I mean, duh it was good, WE whipped the cream!?
Sunday ended wtih getting a ride to Annas where i am going to live this week.... just because i can. And because Anna is cool! :D And Nathalie came too and many hours were spent with something which can only be classified as girl talk :D
Aand school on monday. Monday will be another blog update thingie which i will do when i get the pictures off my camera which i forgot at my house. Hehe.
And now some pictures from the weekend :D

A typical walk: We tried getting everyone in but.... yeah :P So for you who dont know, it goes Jenny, Nathalie, Me, and Henny(s nose).


What my kitchen looks like :P notice messy table,
computer, bowl with chocolate mousse, cookie jar, etc.


And this is the cake!!! :D
 

THE END (of the weekend. sniff)

Helloo people! okay i have nothing to say so i'll tell you about my day! Oh the exitingness of it all. Well yesterday i had my spanish presentation whiiich i didnt fail! That was because the day before i had recorded my whole presentation thing and put it on my iPod and then i listened to it the rest of the day and then on the bus on the way to school. Do you know how annoying it is to listen to ME talk for hooours??? I bet you do, but don't agree with me :P So yeah. I have come to the conclusion that my voice is funny.
Theeeen Nathalie came over! Woo party party! Hah basically we ate, Youtubed, talked, were being stupid... somehow time flew away and we went to bed at 3... and then today we woke up at 12!!! Ugh! I hate waking up that late because then my whole DAY is ruined and there isnt time to do anything so i just end up sitting on my bed in my pjs all day eating cereal playing with my toes.... or something equally lame. haha. okay now i that i have wasted a little bit of your day... by the way i just now was a hero. I convinced Nathalie not to commit suicide by jumping off my tv. Yes, thankyou thankyou thankyou. I dont knwo how, but somehow i... im just at the right place at the right time... okay i'll stop being stupid now sigh but its so much fun! Muahahaha.

So lazy. This is from baking 4 days ago. plus some more dishes. Yes i am lazy. I'm sure you all wanted, needed, craved to know that, and that i have enlightened your day. Hm yes don't you feel lucky to be included in the inner circle... or something. Anyhow, you're included. And don't judge my mess It's what happens when you live alone! Hehe :P

Todaaaaaay has been a good day. Tiresome but good. Do you know why? I FOUND THE FIRST LEAF BUD THING ON A TREE!!!! And do you know what that means? SPRING!!!! Okay so the bud can't accually be classified as open or a leaf but i saw something that gave me hope... hapiness!

So yesterday Sylvia, Ingrid, Linda and I decided that... the mall was slightly more appealing than math and swedish... hehe sooo we went to the mall! :] It happens and i dont think our teachers mind too much. i think they think we deserve it. or thats what im trying to tell myself ;) so we ATE at this place called SO YA (which stands for soya if you didnt get that) and i bought two new gauge earrings which i cant get in quiiite yet but i'm working on it! And we went to IKEA and dreamed away to when we get our own place away from home (i'm already there suckerrrs :P)!

And then we had FIKA! *Sigh* you americans don't know what fika is but its a swedish expression that i will be using a lot and it means sitting down and having coffee and a cookie or a pastry of some sort, and it can be done anytime, anywhere, and it is a big part of the swedish culture. So basically what we do when we aren't in class, we are fika-ing. Such a waste of money but good stuff! And theen we had a bus adventure! First we almost missed it and then when we were on and had driven quite a while there was construction ahead of us, so we had to back all the way back to the bus stop place. It is really hard backing a bus, not that i know but it seemed difficult. Anyways, afterwards when the busdriver had backed all the way up a loong hill with a bus we started an applause for him and (almost) EVERYONE clapped with us! I was so proud.

Then home home at last, and we ate sandwhich pizzas and danced around matches. Because i told them that's what we do in the jungle where I come from. The call me Jungle-Elin. Pretty spiffy huh?

Then today i woke them up when i was snoozing my alarm hahHA. The power.

Yes, these beautiful cookies you see in the picture are in fact, my creation. AND I didn't burn anything! except for one cookie which was all alone and small, so I ate it. Muahaha.
The sad thing is though, is that I'm giving them away. Our ex youth pastor guy is turning 25 sooooo... we (Malin, Henny, Jenny, Anna, Carro, and Nathalie for those of you who wonder who "we" are) are going to be nice to him today.

It is snowing. Again. Hard. I mean come ooon it's March already! Spring should be here by now... or something. Hah, well maybe i should go play out in the snow for all you snow-deprive people over there on the other side... naaah I don't think so. Go outside?!? When it's COLD?????? no. Not unless i mustmustmuuust.

Haha! it is 3 in the morning, and Nathalie and I just got finished making the lamest stupidest most amazing quiz on Facebook :P haha i hope nobody finds it because nobody will understand it mohaha. Anyways, so this weekend i haven't been home except for 5 minutes to get some clothes. Yesterday after school when i failed my spanish presentation and my teacher basically told me that i suck and compared me to a bunch of other students who did amazingly or something went to Annas to write her english report for her haha and then from there on to Carro's birthday! Mmm tacos. and we had a ton of fun and basically talked most of the time and just had a good time and... there was so much candy... anyways, I followed Nathalie home hehe and this morning i got woken up by a big slobbery tongue belonging to their dog Don. Awww
   And thEn wow. so she is remaking her room and her mom told her to vacuum the floor a little bit because it was really dirty, and we ended up cleaning her whooole room dusting and sorting and curtains and mopping and rearranging the furniture... and that was our afternoon haha :P but still so much fun!
Then we made fun of this swedish thing called the Melody Festival where crappy swedish artists perform and sweden votes on the best ones. And they were all either wearing golden body socks or feathers... sweden ya know. and then we watched Bolt! holy cow we laughed soooo much! As in gasping for air crying type of funny. After Finding Nemo all the animated movies went downhill but this one is in the same class as Nemo, and that is not something i say about a lot of movies.
Anways. it is 3 in the morning. again. why do i do this to myself? And my hair is gross and greasy but i'll take a shower tomorrow. yeah you all needed to know that. okay goodnight!!!
i leave you with this: