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I’m getting really bad on the updates nowadays. I’m sorry.

Here’s what happened this weekend:

Friday, Svenjas host family went to Colorado to go skiing which means we got the house all for us selves. So when I was off from work I went over to her with my big camel bag (the one I bought in Morocco, don’t know if it really IS camel skin but I tell everyone it is :P ). We went over to Shoprite to get some food and stuff before we went home again. Both of us were so hungry we were in such a bad mood, but as soon as we got some food back home it was back to normal. I seriously get in such a bad mood if I’m hungry or really tired, luckily that doesn’t occur very often over here ;)
  Before we went home from Shoprite we also rented a movie from the red box (where you can rent a movie for $1 and then return it 24 h later) but we forgot to watch it so we just kept it and watched the movie the next day instead. The evening was spend in front of  the TV, watching ‘Australia’ instead, first time for Svenja, maybe 10th time for me, but it a great movie! Didn’t I watch it with Pontus in the movies when it came out in Sweden?

Saturday morning we went to the city, we had made an appointment at a salon uptown. It was a special offer we got a couple of weeks ago when we were walking on Broadway. I was so sure it was a rip-off when they asked us but somehow it sounded as a good offer when she told us about all of it (both me and Svenja needed a haircut and new highlights). It was included a haircut, manicure, highlights and some other stuff. We paid $60 to the promoter (the girl who sold the offer to us) but when we got to the salon we had to pay another $20 and then $20 more for some more highlights. I can’t believe I was so stupid. It was the worst thing ever!! The cut took like 5 minutes (seriously!) and the manicure I would have done better myself! So 3 hours later we walked out with a smile (not a good smile, but a “are they seriously these guys?-smile”).
   On the way to the salon we walked all the way from Penn station and it took us more than an hour to get there so on the way back we grabbed the subway instead. The train back to New Jersey was delayed since they had trouble closing the doors so we thought we would miss the train to Westfield which we change to in Newark but luckily they waited for us.
   When we got back home we started making dinner, chicken and some German potato-something and some veggies. Dan came over too and later we watched the movie we rented but forgot to watch the day before.


Outside Nwe York public Library



Outside the Library, took a brake from the walkin n just sat down in the sun!



Svenja



The "awesome" manicure



Dan, Saturday night



If they only knew..



Enternainment



Sunday mornings we always have waked up early (around 11 am) because the cleaning lady comes to Svenjas house. Svenja had a friend over around 10am, so she was up anyway. The girl, she knew from school back home and was an au pair in south New York, so only 20 minutes away by car. I could hear them talk German upstairs while I still was in bed, it’s so weird hearing Svenja talk German sometimes, for me she should talk English: P 
   A couple of hours later we took Izzy (the friend) downtown Westfield and showed her around. I felt a bit tricked because I though we were only going to Shoprite so I was only wearing sweatpants (which I hate wearing, and only do when I’m home or take the kids to school). So I had to walk around downtown feeling like I was wearing pyjamas.
   When we got home again I had some breakfast and then I ended up in the sofa in front of the tv taking a nap. Some hour later I got a text from Daniel asking if I wanted to join him and his roommate for a movie around 7pm. Since I hadn’t done much that day I thought it sounded like a good idea so I got ready in like 20 min and then Svenja took me to the train station. It takes between 45-60 min to get to the city, so I arrived just before 6pm. I started walking down to Tribecka, where he lives and about half an hour later he called me and asked if I could grab a cab because we needed to be there at least 20 min before of something to get good seats (over here you just walk in to the movie salon and grab a seat that’s not taken). I who was looking forward for a nice walk in the (still) so nice weather was a bit disappointed but after a couple of blocks I succeeded to get a cab. The problem was this cab dude had no clue whatsoever how to get to where we were going. I’m just not a big fan of cabs in NYC, I rather walk or take the sub!


     

Me n Daniel in 3D





I forgot to tell you which movie we watched, it was the “ Alice in Wonderland” by Tim Burton ( in 3D). It was cool and I got a bit inspired but the story itself wasn’t the best, after all it’s a story for kids.
    After the movie we got back to their apartment and watched for about an hour on the Oscars before I had to leave and take the train back. When I got back to Westfield Svenja picked me up and came back to my place where she stayed the night. I understand her not wanted to sleep all by herself in that big house. We put all the blankets we could find on the floor next to my bed (I only got a small bed so we couldn’t share as we can at her place). It was an old fashion sleepover!


Today it’s Wednesday, and since Saturday it’s been freaking awesome weather. It’s been no-need-for-winter-jacket-anymore weather. So Monday and Tuesday we’ve been out for a walk and today I need to mail some stuff so we'll probably will walk all the way to the post office I guess (it will take about an hour or more back and forth).
  The last two days I’ve been at the gym too but I think I need a break actually since I got something weird going on in both of my legs, I don’t know if it’s a muscle who’s been overworked or something, but it hurts so I’m going to take some days of to see if it gets a little better.

Tomorrow afternoon I’m getting a Swedish visitor over here!! My friend Staffan is coming over to America for his first time and I’m picking him up at the airport around 2pm! It’s going to be weird and awesome. The last person I had over was my mum in October, when she was celebrating her 50th birthday  here, and ever since I haven’t spoken much Swedish apart from on Skype. But I’m going to make sure Svenjas is around a lot so I don’t need to speak Swedish, it feels so weird. The only time I actually speak Swedish is when I want to annoy someone.

The plans for the following week when he’s here, is to take him to the city during the weekend and show him everything he needs to see and a little bit more. Unfortunately the weathercast says it’s going to rain the whole weekend and the beginning of next week too. Typical!
   During the week we’ll show him around in our areas and hopefully we can meet up with some of my other friends too. The guys from Rutgers collage have spring break next week so hopefully we can hang out with them and I’m sure we will run into a couple of the other au pairs too. I'm sure he will have a great time!


Me outside my house in Scotch Plains.

Catch you on the flip side Staffan ;)