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Let’s start from where we left off..

Thursday:

Last day to get the dress done, I had no pattern for the skirt part but I wish I did because It was impossible to get it to work nicely. I also have to tell you I got a stain in the front of the dress, in the middle of everything. It was some black oil from the sewingmashine and to try to get it of I used water, stain remover and flour (to suck the oil up)… Do you think I made a bigger mess of it… YES! I was close to tears at this point after putting so much time, effort and money into it. Finally I came up with the idea to just cut a piece out and sew it over the part where the stain was… It turned out okey.

To do the last fitting I had to go see Sophie again, Fatmas hostkid. She’s the only one I could come up with being my size, and I was so right.

 
Sophie


Friday:

In the morning I went over to Svenja again and to fix the last, last thing for the dress. I was trying different solutions before I got it right. I had already packed my weekend bag so when I was done around 11.30am Svenja took me to Rahway station and from there I took the train down to New Brunswick where Dan picked me up.

We didn’t leave until 4ish and because of all the traffic we didn’t get down to Atlantic until 7ish. Usually it takes about 2 h.

Waiting for our ride



  We checked in to our hotel with Dan’s Frat brother Mike and his date Kim (same people we drove down with). We got ready and I took the longest- surprised?

Shoot of some pictures before we headed down to the place the Formal was at (still at the hotel though).

  We had to show id’s if we were over 21 so you could get a wristband and go on the open bar they had set up. I didn’t bring my so we went upstairs again to get it. No problem getting in, no one knows what a Swedish driving license looks like, - and what it shouldn’t look like.

We had some to eat and I had to pass back drinks back to Dan the whole night since he’s 8 days younger haha. We danced, got shirts, got glasses and got tipsy!

 
Guys getting ready




Dan's lookin nice




We were the only matching couple




Mike and Dan




Me and Dan




Dancefloor








On the boardwalk




At 11pm it was over and we went upstairs to the hotel rooms for a while and then me, Dan, Mike and Kim went out on the Boardwalk (AC is right by the Shore). We had plans where to go but we lost Kim and Mike somewhere during the walk and me and Dan ended up at a pizza place where I tried for a long time to convince him not to order two plain slices of pizza, just because I think it’s gross. I got a pepperoni slice to shut up.

At the pizza place



On the way back we stopped by another hotel casino since it was a bit cold to walk around in just a dress. I took the last picture at 1.34am and I guess I was asleep before 2am!

 
At one of the casinos

Saturday:

The next morning we took a shower before we packed up all our stuff and checked out. On the way back we stopped at a diner to have breakfast.

   Something funny, on the way down to and home from AC we pass this very orthodoxy Jewish town where 100% were Jewish. They were dressed in black hat, black coat, black pants and white shirt. Almost looked like the Amish people. Looked hilarious!

When we got back to Rutgers around 3pm we took a nap and later we where suppose to pick up Svenja at the train station but something weird was going on with the trains so she wasn’t allowed to board the train when it arrived. There were cops everywhere at the platform. She would have to wait for at least 1 more hour and wasn’t sure there would be a train arriving so she called and said she would just going to take a cab home again instead. Kind of sad because I haven’t seen her in like 24 h by then and that’s a long time being away from each other… weird.

We went by McDonalds’ (Dan’s wish came true) and I had my first McD, meal for this year and it was actually good, the burger, the stripes where kind of bad. I still have to go to White castle, Wendy’s and Sonic before I can say all American fast-food chains are gross!

  Back at the college again we went upstairs and said hi to Eddie who was totally a wreck since his formal Friday night (he’s in a different Fraternity).

Sunday:

Svenja picked me up in Rahway around 3pm and took me home since she had to work. I had bought a ticket to Westfield for some reason so I think I had to pay more than dubble price. So stupid!

 Back home I was just relaxing, took a nap and hoped Svenja wouldn’t be to tired to go out for a coffee after work, but she was so we talked on Skype for almost 2 h instead. How are we going to live in two different countries in the future?

Monday:

Since I took a nap Sunday evening I didn’t fall asleep until late and after dropping of Brian at school (Annie still drives herself to school) I went back and sleep until 1.20pm!!! What happened?

Just when I was about to text Svenja she texted me and said she just woke up as well. I put on some clothes and went over to her for about 45 min before we had to pick up the kids again.

Tonight we’re going to the gym; we only have until May 10^th before our membership ends.  So these two last weeks before Mexico (still can’t believe we’re going) we have to get in shape and lose at least 1-2 kg (about 4 lbs).

Tomorrow Thea’s mum is coming to visit her for a week, so I think we’re having breakfast together before she’s going to the airport and pick her mum up. We have to go to the mall so maybe I and Svenja will go tomorrow after breakfast since it’s going to be rainy tomorrow as well.

On Wednesday it’s going to be up to 23 C, and it’s going to stay warm until Sunday at least. On Friday Ellen, her boyfriend and two of her friends are coming to NYC for a week. She emailed me and we’re talking about meeting up on Saturday. Sunday she wants to go to Jersey garden mall so I’m going to see if I’m going too, or I’ll go home and then drive there so Svenja can come too, I want them to meet each other.

Friday we might go back to Rutgers, it would be the last weekend we can go before they are off for the semester, and I have to get a last visit to the dining hall that I’m so crazy about for some reason.

Thursday we’re going to take the driving license test hopefully, so it looks like we have some plans for this week at least!

This was a massive update…

One more thing, this week I’ll know if the Danish school of Design wants me for an interview, I’m so nervous about the answer, I really, really hope they will!!!! Even though I don’t miss Sweden at all I still want to have something to come back to and not just “hang around” until I find something else to do.

Catch you on the flip side!