Jon Richardson and uni

I like uni. I'm starting to really enjoy uni as a matter of fact! But sometimes I painfully recognize myself in Jon Richardson's stand up;
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Partying

It's uni, so aint gonna lie; there's a lot of partying.

Monday - Sobering up from hangover.
Tuesday - Party night. Why? 'Cause it's cheap entrance at the clubs in town on Tuesdays.
Wednesday - Pretty chill. Sobering up from Tuesday.
Thursday - Party night. Same reason as Tuesday. The clubs have cheaper prices.
Friday - Woho! Weekend! Party!
Saturday - Still weekend!
Sunday - Monday tomorrow, let's enjoy the last day of the weekend!

Now, of course this may be somewhat exaggerated, but it's what it bloody well feels like at times when people insist on buzzing the door at 4a.m despite not even living in this apartment. And the facts about Tuesdays and Thursdays are true.
I still haven't gone into town or gone clubbing. Nor do I really feel like doing so, although I was jokingly told by a friend that "it's a fresher's responsibility," Haha, yeah... we'll see about that one. I'm still pretty good with just having a drink with my friends in the flat or possibly go to the pub. I'll keep it at that for now.

Reading week

Two more seminars and then it's reading week. Reading week is pretty much what the title says; a week to read up on your upcoming tests, finish your essays, read the compulsary and recommended texts that you haven't even looked at yet. It's also the week where people just go; "woho, we don't have any classes. Time to get drunk!"

Going to the pub!

Just got home from the pub where I had a great time with the karate club :D Brilliant group of people, so happy I found them in the ocean of associations here at Stirling. We basically just met up at the campus pub and had a drink. It's really handy to have a campus pub to be honest... It was good and it was a lot of fun! Unfortunately for me, someone tickled me and I responded like I usually do. They're never going to let me forget that one...

Curry ♥

So, I've gotten a package in the mail and not only did it contain much needed and wanted clothes but five packages of Blå Bandets Curry ♥ Thank you dad!

oh, and I also got my computer that I ordered so now I will be able to update and put up pictures. (If it decides to work properly, that is...)

L.A!

In a month! So, I'm heading to L.A to visit Agnes in November! And have an absolutely awesome time in the US :)

karate!

Have started with karate, sen no kai, here at Stirling and let me tell ya, so far, so brilliant. These guys are awesome ^_^

getting settled

So, I've now been here for approximately a month and I'm slowly settling in. My room is getting more and more personal so it's getting more comfortable to stay in and although I lack certain kitchen utensils, I've cooked, done lunch boxes and planning for the coming month! :)
Today I paid my rent, and after the flight tickets to la, I feel broke... Thank the gods for my summer job. Now I'm off to get my gym card, which also was frighteningly expensive as well, but which I will make sure is well used!

My room :)

Edinburgh! ♥

Två veckor!
Det är så länge som jag varit här. Det känns inte som det men jag har det uppskrivet på min vägg. Igår var jag in till Edinburgh för att träffa en vän från KG. Vad kan man säga om Edinburgh?
Det är en sån jäkla fin stad!
Hela staden är i princip som ett stort campus område, gatorna påminner om diagongränden från Harry Potter och hälften av alla män vi mötte bar kilt. Dock så verkade det som om vi hade valt fel dag då vi hamnade i mitten av en slags "yes to an independent Scotland"-kampanj och demonstration. Det var en sån mysig stad att jag blev halvt övertalad att se om jag kan plugga där istället. We shall see. I shall be back, om inte annat bara för att handla julklappar ;)

A week's worth

Two posts after a week of silence? Well, dunno when I'll get to update the next time...

So what has happened first week?
First day I went from Edinburgh to move into my new room in Stirling. It didn't take long to move everything and I was done before the majority had even arrived. Then I went exploring the atrium and some of the stalls, which I also finished before many had even arrived. So I was then kinda stuck in my room, just longing home and had come up short with finding food I could eat due to allergies. (There's been so much pizza handout during fresher's and it both saddens me and makes me glad I couldn't have some...) Then there was a party in the evening that I went to with one of my dorm mates. I got to say that I've been real lucky with my dorm mates, they're pretty bloody great. We've had movie nights, gone shopping together and gone to parties during fresher's. And next week awaits a surprise for the birthday girl. I've only met a few people other than my dorm mates (I did go to a dorm party the first night and met a lot of people, but didn't get to know many of them as we got past the introduction and then more people rolled into the small kitchen.) but the people I have met so far have been sweet :)
My lectures have started, or at least my Law module has. Social Differentation and Language and Society start next week on Monday. But law so far has been interesting! I'm just dying slighly when it comes to all the "facktermer" that I have trouble understanding.
The following days I signed up interest for associations and sports clubs (some of which I'm not sure why I signed up for... spur of the moment?)
Associations I signed up interest for: (of what I can remember signing up for...)
- Medieval society
- Comics club
- Drama club

Sports club
- Volleyball
- Shotokan karate
- Muay Thair boxing (...why?)
- Trampoline and Gymnastics (alright.)
- Equastrian (whut. I miss riding, but probably not.)
- Fencing

Now, I've not joined anything yet, just signed up interests for next week when it's "Give it a go"-week. I'm all hyped up for volleyball and if I have time for more sports, the choice is between karate, fencing and maybe, if gymnastics are fun. And I can't really decide between the three associations I signed up for and there's one more I would like to join but couldn't find :/ I feel like this will be one busy year...

A week.

So, I've now spent a week here in Stirling, at the university and I must say that I feel much, much better since my last post (which was incredibly depressing due to lack of food and sleep and longing home.)
It's not all sunshine and daisies yet, especially not since my computer crashed on the second day of getting here... But! Friends and family have been ever so sweet and supportive, so I'm getting on track again. My dorm mates are four other very kind girls, who I have spent some fun time with :) I'm finding food I can eat and after multiple trips into town (and a student freebie fayre) I now have stuff to cook with! My energy is popping up again and videos from my friends, skype calls, emails and a much, much appreciated food package from mother dearest ♥ which came in the mail today, is raising my mood even higher. So my lost pounds will surely return as I now have food to eat, candy to sweeten my evenings and sports that are coming up next week! And my stress level has gone down a notch or five since CSN gave thumbs up (with a little help from mum and dad) and even though getting a new computer will take a while, it's on its way. Also next week, I'll hopefully get a UK bank account fixed.
Now I'm instead looking forward to meeting people for associations and clubs and start living uni life a bit happier. I am still going to consider it all and my options between staying and just studying a year, and there will be days when I want nothing more than to go home, but I'm looking positively at it all :)

Reality slaps back

Stirling!

I'm sitting in my new accomodation, slightly decorated with my stuff from home and some newly bought books for my modules. This is where I would happily show you the pictures but the cord that belongs to the camera I originally took the pictures with lies forgotten on a desk in Stockholm. I'll update with pictures asap.
Almost everyone seem to have brought their parents along today. And as I write, the cars that drove into campus this morning are now leaving. It has died down a lot since noon when everyone was getting their stuff and moving in. It still dribbles a bit but has stopped raining. I guess it's true what they say about Scotland:
"If you can't see the mountains, it's raining. If you can see the mountains, it's about to rain."

I've done a lot of shopping today, or at least some expensive shopping... The uni hoodie, some books for my criminology module and some basic food and hygiene articles. Looking at the store on campus I'll either survive on apples or I'm going to have go into town and find a proper food store. They didn't have salad, but they sure had candy, chocolate and alkohol. There are a few hours until the first party of fresher's starts. My uni life is about to begin. I'm about to study criminology and sociology in another country. All my choices.
And never have I felt this lonely.

Packing for tomorrow!

PACKING!
Pack. Repack. Weigh. Reweigh.
GAH!

There's so much I want to bring and I'm trying to get everything down in a bag of 20 kg. Since it's Ryanair I don't want it to actually weigh 20kg in case some steward is in a lousy mood and wants to charge me £60 due to some misunderstanding. The most recent Ryanair stories worry me and I wish I didn't have to fly with them, but it was the cheapest option : /
But tomorrow is the big D-day! I leave rather late in the evening so it'll be a fidgety Friday...

Hello goodbye

I leave for Stockholm tomorrow morning. It's goodbye childhood town and hello capital!

Lyskväll!

It's lyskväll-time bitches! BD

Or was, yesterday :) For those who don't know, lyskväll is a night when we put out big sort of tealight-like candles around the shores and by the river side. It's beautiful. And yesterday we went out with the boat during the evening, after we placed and lit our our own candles on the bridge and beach. It's a dark sea with lights mirrored in the water. It's a pretty nice sight :)

Me, sitting in the boat. Picture taken by my visiting uncle. I'll try and find a more illuminating picture of the actual lights.

Work, work, work!

Had my last day at work yesterday! It was a slow day but the wait paid off at the afternoon coffee break, as I served mudcake with chocolate cream as goodbye fika. I'm slowly regaining my human emotions, for better and worse, since I'm now getting slightly nervous for university.

But even without my summer job there's work to do. Today I've packed and organized most of my stuff for when I'm leaving on Monday. This is the second stage of my packing. The third and final stage is in Stockholm next week when I have to repack once again. I have some final adjustments tomorrow and I'll still be packing in and out some stuff since I'm not leaving for a couple of days but at least now I'll have time to be social before I leave :)

My friend made me look up different links of my university and I have therefore already found some of my flatmates-to-be and people in my programme through facebook :) It's less than nine days before I actually get to meet these people in real life. Interesting.
There are so many clubs and associations I would like to join at Stirling University! They have such a broad range of communities, manga & anime, sci-fi, drama, lgbt, paintball, photography, etc. And then there are the sports clubs; volleyball, fencing, basketball, swimming, badminton, underwater hockey and although I haven't read anything about a judo club I'll keep my fingers crossed. I have kinda gotten my schedule, I'm not sure how things look timewise and how much time each activity take, so I'm trying to decide which ones I would prioritize. Drama, judo, volleyball and manga are the four most important ones, definitely.

It been kind of interesting to see how my anticipation for university has presented itself during the summer. My first worry was about the judo club, in a rather childish manner. "Is there a club already?" "Are they all blackbelts with 4 dan and I'll be the complete newbie with brown?" "Have they the same as me?" "What if they're all newbies?" "Should I start one if there isn't one?" "I haven't trained in a year, I'll be in such a bad shape and won't be able to remember anything."
Of course, this is when it's brilliant to have friends who basically mentally bitchslap you with a reassuring, or repremanding, response. My latest worry was regarding cinema. I mean, really? But when my worries have seemed to get a bit out of hand, I've often written them down to read later when I have regained some sense and can see what complete bullshit I'm worrying about and laugh it off. In the end, there's not much I can do about certain stuff anyway, so why worry? All I can do is prepare the things I can and then see what happens.

Three weeks.

It's exactly three weeks before I leave Sweden for Scotland! And I'm just sitting here... doing shit :D (It's Friday and I'm tired after work, sue me) At the moment I'm too tired to feel anything for my departure. CSN and SAAS have been mailed, tickets and flights have been booked. All I can to at the moment is wait for these three weeks to pass. Then again, still got stuff to do! I have to repack my bags and make some arrangements. Tomorrow I have stuff that needs doing and a check list to go through. I have been a lazy arse all week but I've gotten home from work and it's been all; "eh... fuck that shit, I'll do that tomorrow." Hence: tomorrow! :D

I just finished watching Wreck it Ralph (Woho! Procastination ftw!) Jane Lynch's character was probably the best part of the movie and of course I got stuck on that pairing ♥ Kick-arse adorable.

And on the third day it was born!

It has taken me approximately three days to come up with a decent name. And what do I end up with? The criminal drama queen. Future occupation? Well, maybe.