If I had the money

Everything I want for myself cost a fortune. I want to travel, buy expensive clothes, expensive magazines, live at fancy hotels and buy presents for everyone. I want to have a good education, perhaps abroad and that cost as well. And I really don't have a lot of money. 1050 kronor a month, just like every other students my age (unless they're spoiled by their parents). That's why it's really nice to find cheap and beautiful items that makes me happy (at least for a while).
Today me and Linus went to Hageby Centrum for their one year anniversary. And there I found one thing that I first regretted but later enjoyed. It was the book "1000 places to see before you die". It's a guide over remarkable places worth seeing. And that's one, just one, of the reasons I'd like to go travel a little more today.
We later went to "Myrorna" because Linus wanted to look for an outfit for our monologue project at The museum of Art. And they just got in some brand new shoes, and I found one pair for only 50 kronor. I got them right away and I really like them. Maybe I have to live a little bit parsimonious for the rest of the month, but at least it made me happy. For a while.

They might look brown, but they're actually yellow.

Parsimonious = snålt

In some way, I just feel done with school by now

I will soon be finishing my 11th year in school, and that is with no finished education, which means a job is hard to find. Which means I have to go to university.
Maybe I'd like to go the estate agent education at Malmö Högskola but I don't know. Yesterday, I saw this school for courier abroad which seemed interesting. But I don't know. They say aim for the stars, and maybe that's what I need to do. Actually, tourism is a subject I'd really like to learn more about. And also I wished that someone could just magically inplant Spanish in to my head and then I knew it. I'm working hard on my English, I should be working twice as hard in Spanish but there's just no time!
So many dreams, so little time. Maybe I should just venture to take over and the world, and rule it. Where's the university with that education?

Me llamo Sally y yo tengo muchos sueños = My name is Sally and have a lot of dreams

Picture by Sally Mann.
A photographer named Sally is worth attention

Me and Linus chillout weekend

Me and Linus has just been chilling out the whole weekend and I'm not looking forward going to school tomorrow. But I guess everybody has to do it.
And I'm still a bit sad that I don't have a job for the summer yet. It really sucks, actually...

We were having dinner at the balcony this evening. It sure has been hot today and we've been working on our tan out on the countryside. Now we're home alone and about to brush our teeth. Time to get back to reality.
Good night everybody!

The Notebook

Right now I'm reading the novel "The notebook" by Nicholas Sparks. I must say I'm loving it so far. I yet haven't seen the movie and I'm looking forward to it. The book is just what I like: A lovestory with difficulties and limitations. It's about 250 pages long, just enough, because I'm having a hard time finishing a long book when I know there's a lot more left to read while reading the book. I know the movie is loved by a big audience and I hope the movie won't disappoint me after I finished the book.
I recommend this book for people that need to read to practice their English, such as I have to. There are simple diauloges and my only issue with the book so far is that their using American English. I know that it's not a great difference but I do get a little bit irritated when they use words as "color" instead of "colour" or put Z in many words. For me, I enjoy British English and the British accent.
And speaking of that, I'm longing to go to London again.

Me and Linus took the first dip in the ocean yesterday and it was so cold it hurt. But I'm glad we did it. I believe it's the earliest dip I've ever taken.
I hope you don't follow my example and stay inside, the weather is just lovely and we have to enjoy it while we can. Have a sunny day, everybody. And remember, Easter ain't over and there is still a lot of candy out there to be eaten.

Goodbye!

Limitations = begränsningar

Words of the day

Immerse - fördjupa sig i
Ostentatious - vräkig
Narrate - redogöra, skildra, berätta
Advantage - förmån
Occupational pension - tjänstepension

Celebrating Easter

We spoke before the easter break in English class about how we celebrate Easter. I certainly don't believe why this should be a special holiday to celebrate or even do something special about.Sure Jesus was crucified and resurrected but does that make it a reason to put up feathers and chickens in every window, and eat all of this food that we just ate, this Christmas! For me, I just want an excuse to eat more candy than I should and maybe get some money in my easter egg as well. And that, people, is a good reason to celebrate Easter!

Have a happy holiday!

Resurrect = återuppstå

Words of the day

Encounter - möta, träffa på
Occupied - upptagen, bebodd
Affectionate - hängiven
Occasionally - emellanåt
Prejudice (sub) - fördom

working as a telemarketer

...and quitting as a telemarketer. For three days I stood out, I hated that place. My job was to sell underwear to men over the phone, and I tell you, it didn't go well. I sold two pairs of underwear and one pair of socks on three days. And not only did I hate the job, just sitting on a chair and call phone number after phone number, but I also hated the boss. He seems sleazy and I have no idea what he and the arabic girl were doing when they both went away to another room for a while. He seems like the kind of guy who could pay a little bit extra for a blowjob. I really hope not.
I had enough when he passed me, touched my shoulder and asked "did you only got those numbers that aren't being answered?". Shut up, you dirty old man and get out of my face, I thought over and over, angrily in my head. So me and Adela (the girl who also started working this week) packed our stuff and I told him "Me and Adela are quitting on immediate effect" and so we went.
I'm pretty sure he got angry but I really don't care, because he can sit in that apartment and look over his slaves. I'm not one of them anymore. Thank God.

Have a nice day!

Immediate effect = omedelbar verkan  (direkt översatt, bör nog inte användas formellt. Use immediatly instead.)

Words of the day

Use these at National Tests and Jesper will be impressed

Reluctantly - motvilligt
Beautifying - förskönande
Terrifying - skrämmande
Posture - hållning
Rekindle - återuppväcka

The first and perhaps most important inlay of all

My name is Sally and my goal for English B is to get a MVG. My (gorgeus) English teacher says I'm close to it, but I need to develop my writing and vocabulary. That's why I thought of the idea of starting an English blog. I hope this will help me write a whole lot more in English and by that improve my sentences and texts. When I use a word even I needed to look up in the dictionary, I will underline that word and put the meaning of it at the bottom of the inlay.

As a start I thought I'd write a bit about my present project in a course called modern art. I've decided to write about the biggest fashion lines and designers, and what their signatures are. I'm writing about Dior, Prada, Gucci, Chanel, Roberto Cavalli and Ralph Lauren. The project has to be done in a week and really don't have a lot of time on my hands.
So what is the signatures of these great designers? I decided to go deep into the spring collections and I'm reading Vouge like crazy. You can borrow British Vouge from the library for free for a week and that's what I'm doing right now. There I can look at the ads and by that find out how the designers were thinking this season. Also I use Internet to find out more about the past, present and future looks of this fabulous fashion gurus.
Some are really easy like Chanel (which use a special fabric for most of their garments) and Roberto Cavalli (who is really in to animal print, mostly from snakes, and fringe)
I need to hurry up with this assigment in order to get it done. I've got one rapport and one powerpoint to do, preferably before easter.

Have a nice day!