From Puerto Jiménez to Falun

I  thought I should share some photos of my family with you, last friday my sister graduated from high school and now in june it's also two years ago since Frida, Olivia, Helene and me graduated aswell. That was a wonderful day, a bit sad of course but most of all a day of freedom. I remember it as if it was in yesterday. This week I've been helping out home at the farm and next week I'll start to work for real, it's also the week for midsummer celebrations wich makes me think a lot about you guys. In six months we're going to Costa Rica but before that in August the Swedes will do a trip together from the south of Sweden up north to visit Ivan! Love to everybody, let's keep in touch!


Me, my youngest sister Lisa and our father

Some updates from a student's life...
from the bright side


Växjö goes summer feelings

Champagne breakfast

Living la vida loca

Champagne shower

Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the economy student's association

Beautiful decorations

Me with some friends, all dressed up

Chicas lindas

Last weekend we had a big reunion at my place in Växjö. Five people crasched in my small appartement at campus and we had a lot of fun. Helene was the first one to arrive on Thursday and later we went into town to meet Emma and Frida at the trainstation. We had a lovely weather and we went to a greek restaurant to have dinner, before we took the walk back to campus. It was a wonderful night and we all appreciated to see each other again, since it was several months ago since the last time.

On Friday, we took a long walk around the lake, bought an icecream and did some shopping at the supermarket. Later Emma baked bread and we all prepared for the barbeque that we had later in the evening when Olivia finally joined us. We sat on a blanket on the hill outside my house until the sun set and it got too cold to be outside. Especially for Olivia who had forgot about the Swedish cool climate!

So we went in, had a glass of wine, watched a movie and talked all night long.

On Saturday we got up and some of us went to a shopping center to buy Olivia a new camera and stuff,  Emma and Frida went for another walk and prepared the eggs filled with candy wich they later hid in area around the castle. So when we got home we started searching for our eggs and I found mine first! yey

Later we had a delicious meal of traditional food before it was time to say goodbye to Olivia. Next person to leave was Emma, so Helene, Frida and me went home to dress up, have a drink and then take the bus into the city for a night out. We went to Oléo and danced a lot, took the bus home and decided to call some of the ticos. Sorry that we didn´t had time to call everyone. We talked to Fofo, Andrey and Eylin. It was so great and so strange to hear your voices, I kind of started to cry, when I realised how much I miss you guys. Everyone of you, Marcela I'll write you an email, and Emma has got me an Skype, so that we could be better at keeping in touch!

I think we went to sleep after five o'clock in the morning, so tired and Helene went to take the train early in the morning so Frida and I decided to sleep a little longer :) Later that Sunday even Frida and I had to say goodbye and I got very lonely :(

It was a great weekend, lots of love to everyone, see you in December!

Frida will put up more photos from the reunion, especially from our eastern celebrations...

Decorations


Sunny evening


Eating greek food


At the restaurant




Frida and me


Me, Frida and Emma


The lake


Frida and Emma in front of the castle


Friendship


In the smoke


Barbeque


Bananas with chocolate


Looking for eggs



Partying at Oléo

...which made me try my webcam for the first time :) this is only for you! 

Now the spring has arrived to Växjö and all the students enjoy the sunny weather. It's lovely and it makes me realize the charm about having different seasons. There's nothing like a Swedish summer and I've really started to look forward for the holidays. But for the moment and the coming two months it's best to focus on my studies. 

Lot's of love for you, especialmente para los ticos. jag saknar er mycket.

Okey, I'll stop being silly!



Greetings for everybody!

Frida is the winner of the challenge



Mau's photo



What do you say Swedes? wanna play minigolf this summer?

Do you Swedes remember our joy and happiness when we saw the first small flowers last April at Kärsögården?
Now I'm challenging you, the first one to see one of those miracles (some kind of flowers) this year, takes a picture and puts it up at the blog! There will be a surprise for the winner...
This is a reason for Ivan moving down to the south!

Hi everyone! The time pasts so fast and there are a lot of things going on in my life, studying, parties, sports, work and of course the hunt for the man in my life :) but still that doesn't stop me from thinking about you! You are always on my mind, not forgotten! and now me, Helene and Frida are planning for the return to Costa Rica, probably in december, until then we can just count the days...

Last weekend we had a great reunion in Lund and Malmö, me, Helene, Frida, Emma, Karin and Juana. It was so nice to see everybody again, I had not seen Emma since the day we said goodbye at Kärsögården, and she appeared tanned and had a lot to tell from her journey to Mexico.

We arrived Friday afternoon and went home to Helene's appartement and met her roommate Seiram ( I'm not sure that's the right spelling) but she was just as nice, as Helene had told me before. We went out to eat at a restaurant and ended the night at a bar called Ariman were we had a beer or a glass of wine and just talked for a while.

In Saturday we woke up late (everybody except from Helene who was writing an exam in school, poor girl!) I'm not going to tell you about Karin's crazy night. haha. Later this day we walked in to town, for some sightseeing in central Lund, we saw the beautiful church and went to systemet (the liquer store) to buy alcohol. We got really hungry and bought bread to eat, haha, typical students with not that much money, walking down the street eating bread, holding a plastic bag from systemet! Alcohol is always a priority...

Well, we took the train to Malmö, where we met Juana, ate indish food, played a party game, with geographical questions. Frida was really talented, she knew a lot about flags and different destinations :) We changed  clothes and got a little prettier than usual ready for the nightlife in Malmö city! We went to a club called Inkonst, which was really cool (much more cool than me) but as cool as Kaaaarin!  The music were something called "dubstep" and had a lot of base and beat. Around half past three in the middle of the night we got out, ate a falafel and walked the street, it was really cold and snowing, we were all freezing so it was rally nice to get into Juana's appartement and get prepared to get to bed.

I think we fell asleep around 05.30! Us girls and Baltasar (Juana's sister's dog, who by the way is sending a special hello for you Mau :-) ) Sunday, we had a delicious brunch at "glassfabriken" before we said goodbye to the ones living in Malmö and went back to Lund. After drinking tea and coffee at Helene's place it was time for me to leave with the train for Växjö. So we had another sad farewell on a train station :( but hopefully we'll meet again for a trip to Berlin during eastern!

Tomorrow Ivan is returning from Costa Rica! I'm sure that he has a lo to tell! Karin is leaving for Africa on Friday to follow her dream about african dance, good for here!

Lots of love to you ticos! kärlek from suecia

Six months have passed since we said goodbye at Kärsögården, can you believe it? And it's also like one year ago since we first met eachother! In a couple of weeks a new exchange will begin between Falun and this time India, the new participants must be very exited and I think we all know that feeling. I 'm happy for them but also a bit sad that there are coming new people to Falun to replace us, but as I said most of all I'm happy for them and I wish them three exiting months in India and a lovely time in Falun.

As Frida said to me "you can live your life, light or right" and now I've finally found some courage to make contact with this guy. Om my good, maybe it was a terrible mistake, but it's better to find out what he thinks, than walking around just hoping that he would like me. So we'll see what happens... I hope I can inspire you to do some ELD:ing again.

It's already December, the months have passed so fast, I can't believe it. I have quite a lot to do in school so I'm keeping me busy. What about you? How are you doing?

Today's my youngest sister's birthday, she's turning thirteen wich is quite special, but she's also in that age when you think your older sisters are just embarrasing and you want to be cool with you friends!

Right now in this moment, I'm jumping around, like a crazy person, he just send me a sms, ahhhhhh!
What should I answer?

Take care all of you! I can't really focus on writing more now. It was a positive sms, so I won't jump out from my window! No don't worry i wouldn't have done that anyway. haha

Love

This weekend Frida came to visit me in Växjö. During the Friday we went to "After School" at the pub at Campus to eat dinner and later in the evening we went to see a movie; "Bond - Quantum of Solace" with a friend from school.

When we got home, pretty late we went to bed, talking for hours and then I tried to sleep. Frida was dreaming a lot! She took all of the quilt and talked while she was sleeping, but I couldn't really find out what she was saying.

During the Saturday whe went to Växjö city and did some shopping, I bought an iron, wich I really needed, now I can use my nice clothes again. I showed Frida around the University area, called Campus. We cooked, a way to spicy (!) chicken stew with an influence from India and later we got ready for a party. But of course as always in Sweden we must have a preparty. We met some of my friends, drank some wine and later we partied and danced for hours at Sivans, the pub. Around three o'clock in the morning we went to Statoil to have a french hotdog ( do you swedes recognize yourselves in these habits?).

On Sunday we woke up at 12.30 and we went straight for the lunch! Since it was raining (as always in this town, the climate reminds me of England or something) we watched tv, played Yatzy, enjoyed a fika con Frida and finally I said goodbye to Frida at the trainstation.

Now, i'm just counting the days until we'll see eachother again.