They Call Me Sweden

We quit English class a bit earlier so I’m trying to decide if I should go to the Italian or if I should go home earlier to do some late home work. We’ll see… Anyway at English we’re doing accents right now so I went round speaking  a Birmingham accent (or Brummie accent). I did my best by changing the o:s to u: s, so that I said ‘luvely’ instead of ‘lovely’. I’m not very good at imitating other accents, not even Swedish ones. When I try to do a Gothenburg accent I’m only making a fool of myself. My own English accent is rather mixed by the way, but I guess that’s the result if you’re a student at an International school. It’s somewhere between an English and an American accent with a touch of a Swedish tone. You would probably think  it sounds rather funny.

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Good afternoon!

I’m sitting here trying to decide how I should write the philosophy assignment. I didn’t come so far yesterday and now I have a headache that probably will become worse because of philosophy. I can really see why people think the subject is really interesting and even I like to discuss ‘what if’-questions, but it doesn’t work out for me to have it as a subject in school. And it’s something that I haven’t even chosen myself. This kind of subject shouldn’t be compulsory, I mean, how can we force young students to study philosophers and their ideas?

Perhaps it’s a question about the teacher. It’s not like my teacher is a bad teacher but he’s probably too philosophical for my taste! This man loves philosophy, that’s not hard to see but somehow he fails in making us love philosophy. Isn’t it a teacher’s job to get students engaged into a subjects? E.g. My mum usually says that she has never met such an uneconomical person like I and all of sudden I decide to take a Small enterprises course. I didn’t think I would like it at all but after having a lesson I concluded that the teacher had the will to make the subject interesting! That’s what it takes to make something fun.

We need good teachers who dare to show that they love their subject. Then I think fewer will think that school is boring. I should really continue to write the philosophy paper so that I won’t have to think of it anymore. I’m sorry if it sounds like I’m complaining, but i blame it on headache and that I don’t feel completely okay.

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46 days. There are no more days than that until I graduate. That’s not long at all and just the thought of how close it becomes every day makes me panic sometimes. It would be a lie to say that I don’t look forward for it at all, because I do, but what’s freaks me out is that it’s impossible to know how everything will turn out afterwards. Recently I got employed at a coffee shop in a park here in Stockholm so at least I don’t have to worry for being unemployed. But there’s so many questions. Where will everyone go? Will everything work out for me afterwards, will I be able to have a ‘real’ grown up life? Or perhaps the biggest question; where should I get all the time I need to be able to finish all that needs to be done Before the graduation?

I’m telling you, life as high school student is not easy at all. As I said, there are only 46 days until the graduation and there’s so much to do. I have four essays to write and a big Italian test, to mention a few. Perhaps I won’t miss all the homework and tests.

At the same time as I’m a bit worried, I’m so excited! It feels like life will begion at June 5th! How amazing, from then on I will be free to do (almost) everything I want. After the graduation I’m taking a gap year (who is fit for higher studies right away, really?) and after that I’m going to University of Sheffield to study International Relations and Politics. Everything will probably work out just fine.

Oh I forgot. Who am I then? Louice is my name and I study the third and final year of the Social Sciences program at a high school in Stockholm. Have to run to class, I’ll get back.

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