Sweet misstakes
Don´t know where to start telling you about my day, or the last 24 hours more exactly! It all started about 10 pm yesterday when I got on the bus to Stockholm. I had two seats for about an hour then a very big man jumped on the bus and sat next to me, he tooked not just his own seat but almost half of mine. After a while I got angry and told him to move over because I couldn´t get room. Luckly after another hour or so the seats behind us were free so he moved back and I got the two seats for my self again, but I didn´t get any sleep anyway :(. 6.30 am the next morning we were in the Big city. I didn´t feel very fresh but there were nothing to do so I wnet to find the bus who were going to take me to the ambassady. I found the bus but when I got on it I couldn´t buy the ticked onboard and the busdriver was not very helpful. A woman who got on at the same busstop as me told me I could get an sms-ticket and showed be how to do :)
I went to " Gamla Stan " ( the very old quarters in Stockholm ) and then went to a coffe shop to buy a coffe and sit down for a cupple of hours whit a book and kill som time, WHEN I got a phonecall, it was the Swedish Au Pair cordinator, she had some bad news she told me, the father in my hostfamily had lost his job and they were now not able to have an au pair. She had to tell me a cupple of times before I understood it was true what she was saying, I got a chock and started to cry ( I Never cries ), but this were the worst that could happend. She told me there were other familys already who were intrested having me as their au pair. One family in Pennsylvania and one in California who had 4 fourlings ( is it called fourlings ) who were 4 years old. I still couldn´t belive it, I had found the perfect family and now where were trying to find a new one for me, I don´t want anyother family!!
After a while my battery on my phone were done and I now sat in totally chock and didn´t knew what to belive. I sat down for an hour or two trying to read my book, drink my coffe and trying to understand the situation!
I went to 7/11 where they had internet and I logged in to my mail, I might have got 10 mail justed from familys and information about my new situation. BUT in the top threre were a mail from Janis, by hostmum. She asked if I had got my international drivinglicens. There were something wrong about this, I got her mail for about 20 minutes ago and they called be for about 2 hours ago, I mailed Janis asking what´s going on and told her what they have told me. I got an answer back were she told me there must have been something wrong, Curt still had his job ( of course ) and I was still going. My heart just started to function normaly again. I looked up the closest phonestore, went there and then asked if I could borrow a phonecharger and then could call the organistaion and tell them they must have done something wrong. Then my phone was out of battery again. When I was on my way home with the train I manage to turn the phone on and at that moment I got an call, it was from the American organisation in California. She told me they had mixed me up whit another swedish girl called Anna and who also were going to NJ. She said she was very, very sorry, I told her it was okey as long as I had my "old" hostfamily to go to. Well to make a very long story short, it turned out to be a big misstake and I can´t tell you how relieved I am now when this whole nightmare is over!
I can´t tell you either how nice it is to be home again. Get a good nights sleep in a real bed before it´s time for work tomorrow again. I´m very tired, so I won´t read this trough and look for spellingsmisstakes and gramma today, Sorry.
P.S Today Ida´s being picked up by her hostfamily, I´m so happy for her :D, soon it´s my turn D.S
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Dear Ida
-CATCH YOU ON THE FLIP SIDE!
Photoshoot
As you understood it started great and I can tell you it keept that way too. We went down to " Västra hamen", close to the water and tooked some cool pics there. We were in the right time for the sunset so the light was really nice. There were people looking of course but we didn´t mind. The only thing was that I was only wearing two dresses since it was very windy so the other dresses wouldn´t look good. It was really fun, cold but fun, and I hope the pics turns out really good! The photgrafer told me it would take about a week before we could get them. I tooked one pic on my way home so that´s what I have to show you right now...
When photografing, Joel ( a friend from Hassleholm who just moved to Malmo ) called and asked what I was up for, told him we were photografing in Malmo and asked him if he would like to come and watch. When we were all done I droved everyone home and then me and Joel went home to his new flat. It reminded me of my small flat I had in Hassleholm but his were a little bit bigger. We* made some coffe ( I made it ), he had never made coffe before and I don´t think he will remember how to do when I showed him either :P. Oh by the way, we came up with a great Idea for the next photoshoot, just wait and see ;) :P
Tomorrow ( Monday ) I was intended to go to a tivoli in Denmark with André ( my brother ), Pontus, Sabina, Henke and Jimmy, the Lunda-crew, but they had decided to go to "Bakken" and it turned out to cost a lot to go there ( about 70 dollars ) so I decided for about 2 hours ago not to go. I think it´s to much money to spend on just one day. I have a big study-loan I must get rid of before going to the U.S so the time was not the best. It´s a pitty I miss hanging out with them tomorrow but they will be around alot before I´ll leave so I just hope they have a great time tomorrow , without me:)
Now it´s getting really late! I might go visit my grandmother and grandfather tomorrow insteed, long time since I saw them, so I think we might need some qualitytime together. I call them first thing in the morning to see if they´re home.
Gnight!
Catch you on the flip side
Shrimp sandwich whit coca cola..
We started the morning by laundry washing ( WOHO?! ) at 10 pm :P and then we went down town to see if we could found a nice watch for Edvin, but all the watchstores were closed of course! Then we went back and he asked me if I was intrested in buying an i-pod, and that´s just on of the things I really want before going to the US. I don´t know why he didn´t used his anymore but I got it for a nice price:) , he also helped me put som music in the i-pod, so on Wednesday when I´m of the Stockholm I have some good music to listen to all the way up. I had one i-pod for a cupple of years ago but it got stolen 3 weeks later from when I got it :(
At 4 pm I went to "Osby" ( it´s about 20 min by train from Hassleholm ) to go to Idas goodbye dinner. Ida and Noelle, Idas friend, meet me at the station and we went home to Idas place. Her mum and dad were all busy whit barbequing and get the dinner ready. And I can tell you guys, the food were an 11 out of 10! ;) . We eat and talked and I also got the chance to meet Idas dear friend Andy. I can´t belive she´s leaving on Monday!! Leaving all those nice people back here in Sweden, but I got the feeling they all will come visit. I aslo saw all the things she had put out, later to be packed, and saw the beeest thing EVAHHH; "Kopps", yes it´s what it sounds like, a funny movie about swedish cops in a smalltown making shit happends :P Must be seen!
I just got home to Malmo from Osby and then went to get the car at "Rosengard", can´t tell you it´s something I will do again when it´s dark, it´s not the most safest place in town :P Tomorrow after work we´re having the photoshoot so I hope the weather will be okey. I also hope I won´t be to tired too.
Now it´s time for a shower and then pick out all the outfits I´ll bring to the photoshoot. Gah, feels like I never have a minute left to chill out anymore..
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The Pretender
Today at work the time just run away, anotherthing that runned today was me :P, I missed the bus this morning, it was 3 minutes early so when I saw it drive by me I started to run as hell ( I can say I was quite tired afterwards :P ), but the bus didn´t stopped to pick up other passengers and probbably didn´t see me running either. Anyway I had to wait for 25 minutes for the next bus and was 15 minutes late. But I called so they knew I was running late.
I got home for about an hour ago and at 7 pm Pontus are comming to Malmo and we´re going down to the asian resturant I´ve talked about before to eat som good shit :D. My mum went to Stockholm on vaccation two days ago and won´t be home until late Sunday, which means I have to do all the cooking ( and everything else ) these days, I´m not very good in the kitchen so I will keep it to do easy things like pancakes and reheeting all the meatballs mum did before leaving ans sandwiches:P
At 10pm I´m going to take the train up to "Hassleholm" ( were I used to live during Hig School ) to visit a friend. The reason why I´m leaving tonight is that I know Í won´t be up in Hassleholm tomorrow before 1 pm ( the day for one week I´m off work and will probably sleep for a whiiiiiile ) anyway, I won´t have to travel for an hour tomorrow and we might have tome to do something fun together insteed:)
Anything else, well on Monday Ida´s going to the U.S, can´t belive it, when she´s off I only have 3 weeks to go :S. I´m glad I´m done whit almost everything, just the visa left I think.
Right now I´m looking at " Americas funniest home videos " - hope I won´t run in to people like that in the U.S xD haha.
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4 weeks to go..
Ida is still in Budapest, and I hope she and Andy have e great time :) But I still havn´t found out when she´s having her goodbye party, the one I´m invited on ;P. I hope it´s on Friday and not Saturday because I´m working Sunday.. well well.
It´s also fun hearing from all the other Au Pairs who´s written a commet on my blog :). Today a gril who also is going to Scotch Plains wrote. How cool isn´t that?? The same place! I try to link all the Au Pairs who makes a comment here so we can have an own net :P :)
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Hard work, work!
Yesterday after work I went to see Jessica, she picked me up in her cool purple car and we went town to " Västra hamnen". She also had lend her sisters dog so we tooked the dog and ourselfs for a walk- in tha park ( I just had to ;P ). Just when we got there it started to rain so we had to sit in the car for a while before we could step outside ( I had sandals and just a sweatshirt and hoped for... well anything expect rain ).
Next week it´s time for Stockholm to go to the US ambassady. I´m done with all the paperworks which feels great, no more running errands and filling in forms and so on. I have to go directly after work next Wednesday to get to the bus who departs 10 pm but I get of 8pm so maaaaaybe I get time to go home for an half and hour to get a shower and pack some stuff, quick as hell I must do it in that case.It could be worth it since I have so sleep at an bus all night and then go to the ambassady, then maybe wait for an cupple of hours before I can take the train home. The train departs at 3.45 pm and I´m home in Malmo 21pm- something - to get to work next day. GOSH what an day it will turn out to be! The visa is ready in just a cupple of days then so that will complete almost everything ( just the planeticked left then ;)
I must be rememberd bringing a book to Stockholm so I have some entertaining during the day.
By the way, if you read this Ida - I hope you have a great time in Budapest, Hugary :) It´s only ONE week before she´s leaving! I wounder what I will feel when it´s only one week left in Sweden, hopefully - " I wanna go now! I wanna go now!" :P Who knows !?
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The big bag
Since the bag is only made of fabrics I went to get a thin board to be put in the bottom of the bag so it would be more stable, beneath(?) I will put small metal pins there alswell so I can pull it on the floor if it´s to heavy for me to lift :P
The straps are made of nylon so they can carry the weight whitout breaking.
The other bag on the pics, the red one, is the one I´m going to pack all my other belongings in since it´s a little more vulnerabel to be handle when flying. I will probably have more things when I´m going home but I will make all the people who´ll go see me bring something back to Sweden when they´re going home ;P
Could mum fit in the bag perhaps? ;)
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32
I woke up this morning beeing very tired. Nothing to do about that but going up and go to work. Yesterday I went to see a friend, Pontus, he lives in another town so I tooked the bus a cupple of hours after work, it tooked almost an hour to get there becouse the bus stopped in all the smalltowns on the way, but for me it felt like ten minutes, because I fell asleep as soon as I got on the bus :P
We were both tired from work so we just looked at a move, "Knocked up". It´s a comedy about a two persons how meet at an nightclub, ended up in bed and then found out they ( she ) ´s pregnant. It´s a funny movie and perfect if your brain is taking a nap :P I went home at 11 pm I think so I wasn´t home in Malmo until 12 pm, might have been the reason why I was so tired this morning :P
Today, work. We had a new member offer today so we had quite many costumers at one point and sold a lot I must say. Good to be rid(?) of all the old stuff so the new could take place. When I got home I just chilled for a while, eat, tooked a shower and then me and my mum went down to " Lilla torg" ( a place with resturants pubs and there´s also an outdoor theater ) we went to se a act who was called " The sneeze ". I didn´t enjoyed it at all so after 20 min, I went home again, mum had her friend there so I didn´t leaved her there all alone.
Tomorrow´s my day off from work, then I´m workning a hole week and isn´t free until Next Saturday. It´s Alot of work nowdays but soon I´ll get my reward and will go the US and have a great year and don´t have to work at this mall anymore. Looking forward to it!!
Only 32 (!) days to go!
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I won!
Otherwise I´ve been working today ,3 pm - 8pm. There were not many costumers today so it was very calm in the store and we mostly just unpacked new clothes. Before going to work me and mum went to do some errands. We ended up whit each an icecream. I like!
Tomorrow, back to work.... Only 34 days to go...
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I´m out of the Closet
It all started months ago when my friend and classmate Ellen told me about her year as an au pair ( it´s about 7 years ago when she worked as an au pair ) and told be all these stories about the family she worked for. I opend my ears and started to ask her more questions about her time in USA, what it was like being an au pair and staying in a family who´s not your own. I found it all Very interesting. I have been thinking about going as an au pair before but realized I had to take care of young children and then realized I have no idea what that would be like.
Anyway. Ellen told be about her hostfamily and asked me if she should ask them if they were in need of an au pair this fall. First I thought it would be awesome but didn´t wanted to get to hopeful. She mailed the hostmum and got a positve response. That´s how it all started. After mailing for some weeks I started to fill in the application for the organisation the family already was a member in. It felt like the Perfect family I´d now found!
They have two children, but they are almost not children anymore but teens. One boy at 13 y and one girl at 16. I thought this was perfect since they were older and I belive I´m better whit older children than small children. I´ve also
But let me say this, there´s a LOT of pappers to be filled, photos to be taken, insurance to be fixed and lots and lots of more when you´re applying for beeing an au pair. Just the visa is one hell of an job. You must fill in several of papperworks and send inall sort of important pappers and get an policerecord of yourself. You must also take a photo which is 5*5 cm and luckly I found an photographer today do to the job. I aslo must go to Stockholm to the US ambassady to get my visa. So I´m going to Stockholm the 29th July, to go to the ambassady the first thing in the morning.
What more to say? Well, if you have read Idas blog you would read the story about her going aswell. I kind of hooked her up whit another family. And for you guys who don´t
we don´t see eachothers very often but have a close contact anyway. It feels Great having her in the US so close to where I will be living, then we can share happy and mayby less happy days aswell together.
The only thing is that Ida is leaving 3 weeks before myself, so she´s departing the 27th July and I´m the 19th of August.
Hopefully she will give me an warm welcome and help me catch up whit her. Although I´ve been to the
US ones before, I would be nothing like it. I also hope she´ll spend her last time well with friends and family and don´t forget to pack a lot of swedish candy whit her so she won´t eat all of mine when I get there ;).
Well now I´ve been carried away, if you have any questions please comment this input and I´ll answer you. I also hope I´ll get some au pairs blogs aswell who will comment so I can follow them too.
You migh ask why I write in english, that´s becouse I want to work on my spelling and I also find it easier to express myself in eng. I promise you I´ll consider writing in swedish insteed soon, I know there are some who´d like me to change so there´s a big chance. I want to take the chance to say sorry for all my miss spellings and gramma.
Well hope you´d enjoyed my first input as an Au Pair.
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Collectivetraffic(?)
Soo, what I meant about going out of the country, was just going to Denmark, Helsingor as I wrote yesterday. I was up at 9.30 and got ready. Before going to the centralstation we went to Rosengard to leave our car (it´s to expencive having the car stand outside our apartment all day long so we put it outside my mums work were we have a free parkinglot, my mum work at "Svenska Latmännen" its a swedish agriculture company and it´s situated in a part of Malmo where probably 90% of the immigtants lives and is therefor a known place for most people in our country, the south at least, I think it´s so funny having one of the most swedish companys at that part of Malmo :P ) Anyway, anyhow. After leaving our black little pearl at Rosengard we tooked the bus to the centralstation and there the train to Helsinborg. When we got to Helsingborg we bought a ticket to the boat who would take us to Helsingor ( I know the names look pretty alike ). When we got to our final destination we just walked around looked in some small stores and had a really nice time. When we got back to Helsingborg the time was only about 3 pm so we decided to take a short walk inside Helsingborg aswell, it all ended up at "Väla", a shoppingmall outside Helsingborg we´re I heard I could take my visa foto, which is really hard to find a photographer who does I´ve realized.
After going back to the station in Helsingborg and taking the train back to Malmo, we only got to "Kävlinge". When leaving "Kävlinge"station the train suddenly stopped about 200-300 m from the station. The reason was the engineer who had drived ( do you say drive when it´s a train? I don´´t know ) despite he had a red light. Then they told us, throgh the information "radio" that the driver had drived despite he had red light and was now taking out of duty! WHAT!?! We had to wait for 1½ hour before we got back to Malmo( it takes about 20 min from "Kävlinge" to Malmo, so we stood still for over an hour). Everyone was calm and I didn´d heard anyone was angry or very upset about the train beeing so late. The passengers who had a flight to catch in Kastrup ( Kopenhagen) had to evacuate and walk back to the station, I don´t know if there was a taxi wating for them, anyway I really hope they didn´t missed there flights!
can travel for free a hole day, so that will be our compensation :).
Well.... Tudelooo
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I´m on the left and Ida´s on the right :)
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Today I´ve been working all day, just like yesterday and just like tomorrow - Work. Seems like I only work these days. It´s only 37 days left before takeoff and I´m going to work 29 days before going. Luckly I don´t work 7 or 8 hours per day every day, sometimes it´s 9.50 am to 3 pm, those days are the best days :P. If I start working at, lets say, 12 am, I won´t get up earlier to do something I should be doing anyway. We´re open to 8 pm every weekday so the last two hours you earn dubbel up ;)
On tuseday me and my mum are going to Helsingor in Denmark, I´m free from work and she´ll start her vaccation tomorrow so we´re taking the chans to do something together. Since both of us have " sommarkortet " ( card for free treveling in the south of Sweden ). We´re taking the train to Helsingborg and then the boat over to Helsingor. It only takes about 20-30 min by boat and the time is always spend in the candy/alcohol/souvenir - whatever it´s called-shop.
I have a thing about foreign supermarkets, I looove to look at all the diffrent food and ALL the diffrent things there are, and even doh it´s only to Denmark we´re going it´s still kind of intresting, doný ask me.
For us in the south part of Sweden it´s more "exotic" going to Stockholm, our own capitalcity, than going to Denmark, but it´s much closer so it makes sence. And Stockholm is only about 3 weeks away.
Tomorrow´s another day, workingday, but anyway.
Catch you on the flip side!
Spend your last time well
I just went down and picked up some Thai food. We have a little resturang one small block away and this is the second time I´ve eaten there and it was just as good this time as the first. And the best part, It´s not very unhealthy and it only kost 45 swedish krone, sweet as hell! One other place I love to eat at is "PLAKA" or the "greek" as I usally say. It´s about 10 minutes away and they have greek food as you might understood. The greek is right now in Greece on vaccation and won´t be back until the 27th July, but that will give me plenty of time to catch up again all the meals I´ve missed ;)
I must tell you something more that happend today. When I got to Malmo this morning by the train, I waylay to buy my busticket to Stockholm. BUT! When I got there ( the ticketservice lays a little bit away from the station ) the lady behind the counter was really unpleasant and when I told her which day and time I wanted to travel and also told her I had an offer of 20% on the tour she told me it was only reduced if you bought an adult ticket. I told her that there was nothing in the add about which kind of ticket it referd to so she would have to give me the reduced price on a youth person ticked aswell. Did she? NO! I was angry at her for the unpleasant treatment she gave me from the start and also becuse she didn´t helped me att all. When I walked out of there, it had started to rain aswell. Ahh haha. I was not on a good mood then. So when I got home I called their servicenumber and talked to another woman how told me she couldn´t help me eighter. God! But she told me they had made a misstake writing in the add that it Only was a reducing price on adult tickets. Anyway, anyhow, I´ve send them an email now and hopefully I´ll get my rights. The main reason why I did it was so they won´t do the same misstake again and get more irritated custumers, and also, hopefully I´ll get the reduced price on my youth ticket ;)
Long time no seen
As you might understood from all the work we´ve put down I´t all ended up Great! I´ll put in some pics aswell so you might get a hit how it all looked like :)
Before you read more here at my blog I want to excuse my spelling and my grammar, it´s not always correct but if you don´t practise you won´t learn, right?! And the reason why I´m writing is mainly to Learn how to write and practise spelling.
Anyway, The time between the fashionshow and now I had about three free weeks before I started to work. If ya don´t know were I work, it´s at Lindex at burlöv center, or burran as we also call it. It´s a shoppningmall just outside Malmo. I start to like it more and more for each day that goes and I think it´s because I learn something new everyday and therefore feels more involved like the other girls.
But It really sucks working at a shoppingmall when it´s (finally) sunny and warm outside! Luckly I have very diffrent workingtimes so I can be out in the sun and manage to look like I don´t live on the noth pole.
Tomorrow there´s a lot of fixing to do but I will for sure end up at the beach for a cupple of hours! Right now it´s time for bed. G.Night
