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Today is really one of them! I think it all comes from only having 1 more month left here in Indiana, coming here is one of the best things I have ever done and that made me think about what other things have I done that have been really good for me?!

The best thing I have ever done was to start play handball, friends like the ones I have got from that is priceless! Number 2, 3 and 4 on the list all involve moving...moving to Mallorca, moving to Indiana and moving to Helsingborg...why is it that moving makes me happy? Is it the freedom of not being judged or my constant desire of meeting new people or what, am I just that restless and will I ever stop moving around, if that is what makes me feel good why should I stop?! Maybe I am just not suited for staying in the same place?! Right now the thought of having children or family tying me down scares the shit out of me and having to give up the possibility to spontaneously move to another country because of someone else totally freaks me out!!

I have no idea but right now I actually don't want to move anywhere! I want to stay right here with these amazing people I have met and keep meeting all the time, it is like a never ending stream of interesting people! Today I just feel like crying actually and at the same time as I wanna be around all these people I have got to know and love so much all the time I also just wanna be alone 'cause I don't want to get more attached or meet any more wonderful friends that I just will end up missing like crazy when I have to go home...:(

Crappy, shitty day!!

I don't know what I want and I don't know what I don't want anymore, everything is a blurr and I just want to take a break from it!!!

Instead of studying for my stupid exam as I should do I am now in bed trying to figure out where and when I can go next time just to keep my mind of the fact that this fantastic time is coming to an end! So things that are going through my mind right now except all the boring things are things like Can I do my final student teaching at the swedish school of "somewhere" and Can I do my final big essay somewhere else????????????????

TOTAL BRAINBLURRRRRRR!!!!!!!! :(

And as if this wasn't enough, WHY am I ALWAYS sick?!?!?!? I love going to the gym but I can't 'cause I'm always sick!!!

Wow, I was just gonna do a short note to complain a little and feel sorry for myself but I guess it turned out I had a lot more on my mind than I thought...probably gonna regret putting all these emotions on the internet tomorrow but I guess it doesn't hurt trying a new approach to deal with this...

I have been and still am sick since we came back from Miami and last week it kind of reached a new level...

So despite my attempts eating/using all of this I am still sick!!!!!

I guess I should give you a massive picturebomb alert in this post!!

So we rented a car a took and headed towards the Floridasun!

Our Miamicrew 11.30pm before take off!

Me, Amin, Kari, Caren, Line, Toby and Caroline

I took the first shift of driving so that I could take my motionsicknesspills later without causing any accident since they make me really drowsy!

After a bunch of hours in the car we stopped for breakfast!

Finally made it to Florida! Getting closer to our final destination South Beach Miami!

We arrived at the Hostel at 11pm:ish and went straight to bed!

The day after we headed to the beach!!

All of us pale as ever and those of you who know me well also knows I am a bit of a sunscreennazi and for the record it payed off! I did not get burned as some of the others! Not a big surprise the brittish guy got burned the most! ;) Poor Toby had to wear t-shirt for the rest of the week!

South Beach

We played in the water as well of course!

And if anyone is thinking of going to Miami I definately recommend Jazz Hostel on South Beach! http://www.jazzhostels.com/jazzsouthbeach.php It was great! Every day they offered delicious lunch for $4 and dinner for $5 and every night they had great offers and took us as a group to awesome clubs!

We went out for delicious dinner one night, I had wild mushroom risotto with grilled ahi-tuna...the only way to describe it is mouthgasm!

Of course we payed this place a visit! ;)

One of my "things to do while in the US" was to go see a basketballgame, so why not go see two of the best teams this season?! Miami Heat - Los Angeles Lakers in American Airlines Arena!!

We got to see an absolutely awesome game in a BIG arena!!

88 - 88 with 3 minutes left and in the end Heat won!

They gave us t-shirts! :D

Last day of sun me and Line walked a couple of (60!!!) blocks and stayed on the beach by ourselves the whole day taking silly pictures and having fun!

Here are a few of them!

Since it was only me and Line there that day and Line don't want most of her pictures uploaded this has now become a huge egopost...

Last night in Miami was a calm one!

12-pack of Yuengling on the beach - Life could be a lot worse! :P

I met so many amazing people from all over the world and of course I also accidently ran in to 3 swedish guys also studying in US, one from Rättvik, one from Helsingborg and one from Stockholm and of course x2 I had different mutual friends with them! Crazy!

The roadtrip back home was looong and the worst part was that we left a sunny Miami and when we came back home to Indiana it was snowing...

Anyway springbreak in Miami was totally awesome thank you everyone who made it that way!!

Getting closer to now-time now! Stupid exams keep me studying and steel my time though...

My beautiful wife Line woke me up coming with birthdaycake and birthdayshot 9 in the morning! :) By then I definately got the feeling this would be a good day and a good night!

A little extra happy after that perfect start we went to our classes and then to the mall for some girltimebirthday mani/pedi pampering with Line and Ashlee! :)

Later that evening I got the best birthdaycake in the history of mankind, many many thanks to Djordje for choosing the writing!! ;)

A little buzzed from the champagne we took off to the restaurant Ashlee booked for me and my 26 FANTASTIC friends for dinner!

After an amazing night out we went back to our doorm for some cake!

I took the first bite...

...and then everyone else joined in! :D

As if the cake wasn't enough I got presents as well!!

Beautiful bracelet from Lene & Caroline!

Ashlee gave me this wonderful bracelet!

Koolio gave me this really cool necklace!

Mom sent me socks with Dalecarlian horses!

Perfumes from Kari & Caren! :D

Perfume, lipgloss, bodylotion and more from Famke, Justin, Myrthe, Sophie and Maria! :D

This beautiful necklace with the inscription "Onle life, One love" meaning the international love from Line, Beckee, Louise, Oscar, Djordje, Lena, Patrick, Stef, D, Fabricio, Amin, Lauriane, Toby and the King of Indiana!

This is how pretty my wall is now from all the wonderful birthdaycards!!!

Mom, Dad, Torbjörn, Eva, Gunvor, Caroline, Stefan, Marianne, Line, Beckee, Louise, Oscar, Djordje, Lena, Patrick, Stef, D, Fabricio, Amin, Lauriane, Toby, the king of Indiana, Tina, Ashlee, Caren, Kari!

Thank you all so much for being a big part of my life!!!

I love you all!!

I have to say that this was definately one of my best birthdays ever!!! Thank you all for making it that way!! :D

First of all my birthday was amazing! I'm gonna do a seperate note only about that later I have really not had one minute left this week!

Saturday me, Line, Ashlee and Jonathan want to the mall in Greensburg for some serious shopping and then movienight with the rest!

Sunday we didn't do much during the day and in the evening we watched the Academy Awards!

Monday I got my quiz back, 28 out of 30 so that was good, tuesday was studyday deluxe, christianity all day for the exam on thursday, wednesday was crapday as usual but I got my exam back 100 out of 100 so that made me soooo happy! And later that evening the International Buisness Association meeting!

Thursday was examday and the exam was harder than last time, frustrating in the way that I knew all the answers on my studyquestions but the questions on the exam were a bit backwards so it made everything really hard but I guess we'll see after springbreak, I am actually happy as long as  I pass the classes!

After classes me and Line went to the mall and spent way to much money and way to much time!

Friday I went to the hairdresser and made my hait short! :) Took her 3,5 hour and 175$ but atleast I am really happy with how it looks! Lets just hope the Miami sun doesn't make it white now!

After the hairdresser Casey took me, Caren and Kari to Pittsburgh to go pick up our van. We thought the trip would take about 2 hours, it took 3,5...so I just got back and hopefully we will all be leaving for sunny Miami in less than 30 mins! :D

I better do this chronologically, good thing I am good at taking pictures to remind me what I've done!

So after the hockeygame and the Hookah Bookah bar on friday it was saturday and time for party at the by now famous Taz and it was a lot of fun!

A lot of beerpong with my lovely teammate Amin and sooo many people!

We stayed there for a while and then went on to another party the Internation Buisness Association had and it was also so much fun! I have met such amazing people here!

This is Djordje from Serbia, Beckee from UK, me and Amin from France

(and that is Amins hand touching himself not me...:P)

and here we have Famke from Holland, me, Beckee and Louise from UK!

So that was that weekend, the monday after was Valentinesday and we decided to dress up for eachother in dresses and have a girls dinner at the most unromantic place in Indiana so we went to Grubs and had hamburgers!

It was really nice and we had a good time!

I got the sweetest gift from Ashlee, a photoframe with the words "Friends are flowers in the garden of life" and Jonathan gave me a cd and a beautiful valentinescard where he had written the sweetest things it made me cry at the restaurant!

So here we are, Sophie from Holland, Caren from Malaysia, me, Lena from Taiwan, Famke, Caroline from Norway and Line! :)

When we got to the restaurant there were roses on every seat that our amazing, fantastic friends Koolio and Elliot had been there and placed for us!

I should also say that I got a pretty thing from mom and dad and a beautiful beautiful bracelet from Martin!

<3

Ok so that was Valentinesday what else happened that week, I had my first quiz and got 29/30 so that made me happy!

Caren finally turned 21 so she had her birthdayparty at Wolfies and it was a blast!!

When Wolfies closed at 2 me and my lovely Beckee weren't tired so we out exploring Indiana central and took crazy pictures before we went home!

Me and Line

Me and Lene from Norway

Djordje, me and Oscar from Sweden

Ashlee and Jonathan from US and me

Beckee, Fabricio from Honduras and me

The birthday girl Caren and me

Me and Line had a cuddle and talked about all the fun we had when we woke up!

I know it looks like we just party but that is not the truth, that is just the only time I take photos! We actually only party once a week and the rest of the time we study and we study A LOT! A lot more than at home I tell you!

It's good that it actually does pay off sometimes though and on monday I got my ethics exam back and got at B! :D Yay! Really proud of myself!

This week has been insane though! Both me and Line has been completely antisocial and really stressed out!

Last sunday I panicked and called a tutor to help me and Line with the christianity and african religion for our first midterm exams in those classes! She was great and helped us out so much that afternoon and Fabricio helped me with the christianity on monday as well!

So tuesday was the day for the christianity exam and it went well I got another B! :D

Wednesday, the day I really hate normally was worse than ever! For once I was up way to late calling and texting and stuck in the middle of two people i really love here fighting! So when the alarm rang I was barely human...so anyway I was off to my two classes before lunch, helped out a friend during lunch, studied an extra hour before next class, fell asleep during class which made me miss the lecture about christian symbols so the quiz we had at the end of class probably didn't went to well, definately not another 29/30...and after that class straight off to exam in african religions 5pm-8pm...and when that was over i joined the International Buisness Association and by the time that was over both me and Line literally poured ourselves into bed and slept for 12 hours!!!

Haha so that brings us to today!

And today was the day our lives started again, we kind of put EVERYTHING on hold til after the exams so now the laundry is done, we cleaned the whole apartment, even the livingroom we have not had access to because of all the other girls things that are just lying around!

Today I hinted I wanted to vacuum and asked her if we could put her things somewhere else and she grabbed her computercable and said yes sure and left...so me and Line put all her stuff on a table and pushed the table into a corner and hopes she takes the hint soon, we really don't wanna have people over cause it is so messy!

And those of you who know me from home knows I am not the best at keeping everything in order but this mess even freaked me out! :P But now it's clean!

Oh and another good thing that happened today was that I could watch the world cup i skiing from Holmenkollen and saw the mens sprintfinals woohoo!! Good job Sweden!! :D

Now I'm going to get my beautysleep cause tomorrow is my birthday! :D

Just gonna show you some evidence that we do study, and we do it mostly at the library and this is from our favourite spot! :)

See studying! ;D

Oh and by the way I have to show you this this was just crazy!

See the wheater on the previous pictures, we were so happy the snow was gone and it started to feel like spring and shortly after those pictures were taken we went to class and when we came back out after two hours this is what we saw...

CRAZY!

Well that was all for now! Told you it was gonna be a massive note so I hope you read it all and feel free to leave a comment!

:)

IUP is in the second division meaning they're actually pretty good so that was fun, the cheerleaders not so much!

That was wednesday and on friday we went to the IUP icehockey game aswell! Casey was nice and took us so we didn't have to walk as we intended to do, looking back at it now I will NEVER walk over there! It would have been atleast a 45 mins walk...if you didn't go wrong anywhere which in my case certainley is NOT guaranteed plus it was -12 degrees and freezing wind!

The hockey game was nice though! We watched the Penguins game between the periods, they lost with 9-3 but the interesting part in that game was th 360 penalty minutes!! They were fighting th whole time! I think that 3 players combined in both teams did not get a penalty! Crazy! And still missing Crosby, I'm gonna be soooo disappointed if he's not well and playing when I go see them!

After the hockey game we went to the Hookah Bookah bar and just sat and had a good time together! It was really nice! It's not like a bar bar, no alcohol people just smoke hookah and chill out, and no I did not smoke still holding on to the fact that if I never try I can tell the kids they don't have to try either! ;) 'Cause that worked perfectly with my handballbabies...hrrmm...

All for now!

Hasta luego!

But anyway last sunday it was time for Superbowl! Pittsburgh Steelers - Green Bay Packers!

We went in Ashlees Batmobil to go shopping! Everything black and yellow, cups, plates, napkins, nachos and a football balloon! :D

We had soooo much food, me and Line made Toast Skagen and meatballs!

I think we were almost 30 people in Ashlees apartment and we had a really good time! Unfortunately we lost the game...

Ashlee, me and Stef properly dressed to the occasion of course!

Feels really good and now me and Line are roommates which is exactly what we wanted from the beginning! And since we share things and has they same schedule and friends it feels a lot better 'cause we go up and go to bed at the same time and we don't have to sneek back in since we go to the same parties and things like that. I will upload a photo of our room when everything is done! The walls look so boring but I don't know what to do with them though, don't feel like buying a lot of stuff I just have to throw away in 3 months...

After all the moving yesterday i think about 20 of us went out to dinner at a mexican restaurant. A lot of fun as always with these people and the brittish and americans taught me a lot of new words and expressions that I'm not going to share, blushing just by thinking about them!

After the dinner we went to kind of a fratparty at what we thought was the swimmers house 'cause the guy inviting us is a swimmer but I think it really was the runners house, anyhow we had a lot of fun and met so many people! Great night!

Today we took Ashlees batmobile to go shopping for tomorrows BIG event SUPERBOWL XLV! I'll take pictures tomorrow of everything so you can see! I'm making köttbullar and toast skagen for everyone and it's gonna be a lot of fun! We'll start of at Ashlees and then after they win the game hit the bars! Luckily we don't start 'til 11 on monday!

Tonight everyone's going to some party but me and Line actually stayed at home to study and try to catch up on the missing sleep...boring but necessary!

So goodnight!

The thing is it's a 4 person apartment and that means 2 people share one room and there is like a livingroom in the middle and they are staying there by themselves and therefore live in seperate rooms and me and Line are supposed to have one of the rooms to ourselves and they really refuse to move in together even though everyone we have talked to says they have to and this one girl after e-mailing with her on facebook about the situation got really unpleasant and mean and eventually removed us from her friends on facebook! Hahaha so childish I don't even care but maybe not so fun if it ends with one of us having to move in with her...:S 

At least I got an e-mail saying I've got mail so heading for the post office after on my lunchbreak! Probably just my books though...

Soon I'm off to the hairdresser though...so preparing for sobfest tonight...

If you're not interested in pictures you might as well stop reading now cause I have a feeling there's gonna be a few!

We did have a few bags...

We got really lucky on the flight and got 5 seats to ourselves!

After flight to London and then to New york and a silly load of papers to fill out we were finally allowed in to the country!

Then it was time for a 7 hour busride down to Pittsburgh with an hilarious busdriver who eventually welcomed us to Pittsburgh - City of Champions!

Since we took an earlier bus than planned we had to wait for our ride for 6 hours on the busstation...so we watched a movie and some friends episods!

After a real swedish raggardusch our ride showed up and we went to the airport to pick up 2 brittish girls

1 driver and 4 girls in 1 tiny car...this is how that looks!

And because of the wheather the 1,5 hour trip took 3 hours...

We then had an intensive first week with soooo much information we couldn't remember half if we tried to...

But most importantly I met amazing people!

The first little group we formed was Stef and his harem! Me and Line from Sweden, Beckee and Louise from UK, Lene and Caroline from Norway and our alphamale Stef from Holland!

Stef by the way was amazed that we could speak with the norwegians and wanted to learn so he came up with the word swedgian! Hahaha!

Naturally we had to explore what Indiana nightlife had to offer so a couple of rounds we've been to Wolfies!

On the first saturday we went on a bustrip to Pittsburgh and that is when I fell in love with football! This amazing, fast, physical sport! It was the quarterfinal and Pittsburgh Steelers beat Baltimore! Wohoo!

That is also the day we all walked around singing this song unintentionally after we had heard it a couple of hundred times!

What else...we have been playing pool and table tennis, and had movienights and just hanging out.

Classes our tough though and it took a whole week before we even knew if the classes would be approved by Malmö University so that was kind of frustrating...but now we know what classes we're taking and two of them I like a lot, Introduction to Religion and World Religions, the Ethics class is interesting but really hard and in Christianity and African Religions we have a professor from Ghana with a really thick accent so we're having a hard time understanding him...as if these classes weren't hard enough already...

There is a girl and a boy from France here and the second weekend they hosted a party with the theme your country's colors and as you know I am a big fan of theme parties so me and Line went all in with the yellow and blue!

The party was awesome and when we were leaving Wolfies later that night a saw a guy with a Steelers T-shirt and when I told him I liked his shirt he took it off and gave it to me so I was extra happy the rest of the night!

That sunday Steelers were playing the semifinal against the Jets so we went out to watch the game at a bar and they won!!!

This is the T-shirt I got btw!

It is like constantly snowing here so one evening Stef, Fab and me had a "build a snowman" competition, which I won! :)

E = Elisabeth, S = Stef, F = Fabricio

Last saturday we went to a party off campus, since we are not allowed to have alcohol on campus and learned how to play beerpong! Turns out I'm a natural and me and Amin, the french guy were 6 times champions!! ;)

Now it's bedtime but I think I'm going to upload some more pictures of all the wonderful people I surround myself with soon so you can see who I'm talking about! :)

Oh yea we spend 4 hours a day eating...4 HOURS!!! But it's just beacuse we are always so many and everyone wants to talk to everyone and we're just having a great time! And also I've heard that the canonball is the beach 11 look...

The food is whole post itself so I'll get to that some other time!

xx