Sometimes I wonder...

... if anybody reads this. Not that it really matters, I write mostly for my own sake, and if somebody wants to read it, well... The more, the merrier... :)

I kept a diary when I was younger. I didn't really write like this, but not far from it (but in Swedish of course). It's just nice to read afterwards, you know. Yes, I do exist. Today I have done this...

Today's Swedish lesson: Diary = Dagbok

Midsummer

Oh yes. The biggest Swedish holiday (besides Christmas) is now over. I thought I should show you some pictures from the blessed event.

The days started in Bonnstan which is an old "church town". You see, in the 19th century and before that, we had something called "church duty" in Sweden. Everybody had to go to church. How often you had to go depended on how far away from the church you lived. People who had one Swedish mile (= 15 miles) or less had to go every Sunday. Two miles (=30 miles) every other Sunday and so on. But people who had a really long way to go only had to go a couple of times every year. But since they couldn't go all the way there and home in one day, they had a little house close to the church where they could stay when they went to church. So small "towns" where often found around churches before and some of those, not many, are preserved today. Now people have them like small vacation houses, and mom and dad has a "chamber" as they are called. It's only about 60 sqaure feet, so we're talking small. Some holidays, like Midsummer's Eve and the weekend after at the market, there are thousands of people there to celebrate. So that's where we started our day.

Erika, Elin and Annelie (two friends) in front of "church chambers".

The raising of the maypole. After this, people dance around it, as you will see.

Me and Erika in the crowd.

Mom, Erika, Elin and Annelie are dancing around the maypole with a couple of houndred other people.

Doesn't it look like they're having fun?

Later that evening we went to Lars' (Annelie's boyfriend) cottage by a lake. We had a barbecue and some people tried their luck at fishing. Here we have Punte, Annelie and Mattias.

Lars is talking to his sister (left) and Hengo and Ola is watching the grill (right). The grill is that black thing standing on the ground.

David and Erika out on the bridge. Here is the result.

My very own bus driver

Yep, here he is:

If you look really closely, you can se Snutte behind the wheel. The picture is borrowed from this page which belongs to a man who has, as his biggest interest, to ride around on the busses and take pictures of them.

On another happy note: My thesis is now approved and I have recieved all my other points to finish my bachelors. Wonderful!

Sweden rules!

I know you Americans don't care about fotboll (soccer) but a World Championship is actually happening right now. Sweden played a tie against England last night. 2-2 means that Sweden is moving on from the group play and are one of the top 16 teams. We are of course hoping for a gold, even though I don't think that will happend. But maybe a bronze, like in the USA 1994? I'm sorry to say that USA's team is not doing as good. One tie, against Italy 1-1, and one loss, against the Check republic, 0-3.

Since the game last night ended 11 pm, we got the material for the last sport pages around 11.15. The pages are supposed to be finished before 11.30. Talk about high pulse and adrenaline! But we almost made it and the new paper turned out ok. :)

Happy midsummer's eve everybody!

Working 9 to 5...

... but not really... These past two days, Wednesday and Thursday, I have been working a total of 25 hours. Twelve hours as an editor yesterday, eight hours as a webreporter today and then five hours at the movie theater. But I will be laughing all the way to the bank next month when the salary comes ... :)

Picture time again

I have now uploaded a small percentage of the pictures I took for prom. The couple with the girl in the green dress was the couple I was supposed to photograph, the other two couples are sibling of my friends. Enjoy!

Hot, hot, hot

I am not complaining, but it is really hot here today! Our thermometer (in the sun) is showing almost 100 degrees! Wonderful. And I even have the day off. Or off, I went to the chiropractor at 10, have one meeting at 4 pm and another at 6 pm. Then me and the "girls" are meeting at Irene's tonight to watch the season finaly of Grey's Anatomy. I love that show! Just can't belive it over for the summer.

Snutte has now started his new job, as a busdriver. He started Monday and are still just riding, not driving himself. And so far he really likes it, much better than his old job as a detailer at a car dealership. The sad thing is that I works night and come home around midnight, and he starts at 5-6 am, so we hardly ever meet. But today he has some hours off in the middle of the day, so we went and bought lunch and ate it down by the river. Wonderful! :) He's taking a nap now, I'm going to wake him in a couple of minutes so he can go back to work.

Crazy busy

Now that school is over, I had pictured a couple of soft weeks before my summer job starts June 18th. But who am I kidding? I got some extra shifts, actually started Thursday. And inbetwen that is everything I didn't have time to do during those hectic weeks when we were writing our thesis. Crazy, crazy...

This weeks was prom and graduation here. Dressed up people everywhere. I acted as a photographer and took pictures of a prom-couple. I will show you one when time comes.

Today is dad's sister's husband's 70th birthday. 70! Congratulations.

Finally done!

Well, almost anyway. We turned in the finished version av our thesis Monday. It hasn't been approved yet, but since we changed the stuff we were supposed to, it shouldn't be a problem. Weird though, I thought that I would have all the time in the world now that school is over, but I seem to have every day fully booked anyway.

Friday was the engagement party. I was really nice with good food and good company. I have some pictures, not that many though. But dad took some more, so when I get his, I'll put them on here.

Today is prom-day here, in about one hour I'm going to photograph a girl that I work with and her date. Exciting! :)

Picture time!

Here are the chosen ones.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hanna_moren/my_photos

I will survive...

And I did! The exam that is. Our opponents had the shortest critisism of all, simply because they found so little to complaing about. All we have to fix are some spelling mistakes and smaller things, then we're done! I can't belive how good that feels! Three years finally over. :)

Today is the engagement/graduation dinner. Final headcount: 25