They Call Me Sweden

Oh gosh, please readers, comment more! I mean it’s nice to get some response . Anyhow, the job interview went… Yeah that’s a good question. Job interviews are not part of my favourite things to do, perhaps because I’m more used to ask the questions. It felt like I talked not concrete enough and didn’t give the perfect answers. Come on, please God, make the job mine, I need the money! And I have a meeting at my café job tomorrow, my boss wanted to talk with me about me working there, hope it only concerns positive things… I like working there! I don’t have a good patience. Must work on that if I want a career in telemarketing/customer services… Keep your fingers crossed for me!

So now I’m sitting here writing on my final religion report that I need to submit tomorrow. Have about half of it left. I’m soon heading off back to town again, I’m going to meet my mom and my sister for dinner at some Greek place. Just love Greek food, thinking of taking moussaka and a dessert. Yummy.

Then I have a question to you, my readers; What should I write more about? My interests? My work experiences (the café)? Or do you perhaps want to follow my personal life more in depth?

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Today there have been more visits to other blogs (mostly some of those super blogs…) than my own. Must change that! Today has been a good day (thereby I’m quoting Anna Ternheim’s song with same name) and you could really tell in school that there’s only 17 days left of school for us who are in the third year. I had my last natural science presentation today and afterwards when me and my group were done it felt so good! No more natural science presentations. Our subject was ‘evolution of  the nervous system’.

Then after school I met up some friends for a ‘fika’ (hate that there’s no good English translation for that word) and after about an hour I went home to write my final social studies essay. I’m proud of myself that I have written more than 1000 words in total. You guys seem to be interested in what subjects I’m writing about. So, for this essay I’m writing about when Lars Johan Hierta created Aftonbladet and what kind of changes this brought to the media environment. In order to explain I’m using the filters of Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent – A propaganda Model.

Enough about my essay. Yesterday an intern from The Local interviewed me about my blog! I must say that it was very strange being the one who answers the question as I’m used to the opposite. During my three years as a reporter at my school paper (KZINE) there has been a lot of questions asked to a numberous of people. I love to interview people and have the opportunity of hearing a story! But… Being interviewed… I’m not used to that part at all…

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You know what, I think I will do some exercise this afternoon! My religion essay is (sort of) finished so now I have time to do something good to myself. I’m thinking about treating myself to the top. What about spending some time in the sauna after working out! My mom has begun complaining about the fact that I haven’t used my gym card so much this semester, but have been sick basically whole term so hasn’t been all my fault. Change is gonna come. Spinning and core sounds lovely. From now on I’ll be Miss Athlete!
   By the way, the feeling when an essay is finished is pure lovely. It’s over and soon when I have handed it in there’s nothing I can do about. A bit scary of course, but still a good feeling.

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I was so late, embarrassingly late actually for my Italian class. Came more than a half our after we started… My teacher was a bit annoyed with me, especially as I’m having a presentation today. “You can’t be late when you have a lecture.” A five minute lecture… I guess she’s right. Even though I hate being late I’m always a bit late when I start 8.20 in the morning. Try to wake up at six when you have been up writing an essay the night before!

Anyway, I’m having my presentation about the lovely city Assisi in Italy, a little city famous for st. Francis. So there’s a lot of churches there, I’ve been to at least seven of them (went there last summer as a confirmation teacher). The ice cream is lovely there too! If you’re in the region Umbria in Italy, you should defintely go there.

“You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.” – Matthew 5:14 (many people connect this bible verse to Assisi)

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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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