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This Saturday we went to long Branch again, my choice. To learn from last time we wanted to go early this time instead but didn’t go until 9.30am, which actually wasn’t too bad.

Dan the man was so pissed because of the traffic, funny thing was; there Was no traffic, almost!

So this time we got there around 11pm, found an opened place and then it didn’t take to long before we went into the water.

The water is so nicer now; refreshing and you can easily stay in for a while without getting cold, way better then the ocean back home that never seams to get nice and warm.

The man who says he hates Traffic n Shopping!

Long Branch beach

Long branch beach

Sand was sooo hot we burned our feet, well dan did, i stole his flipflops!

I always wanted to know what I look like with no hair

Waves were crazy fun!!

Danna

We stayed at the beach for 5 ½ h before we went home. On the way back I picked up the delicious frozen drink at DD.  Mmmm it’s so good!

Strawberry-Tropicana!

Sunday we went over to Menlo park mall so I could return a cardigan I got a week or so before. I went home with more money than I had in my pocket when we went there. That’s something new!

It started to thunder and I think it might started to rain a bit too later that evening. I came up with the idea to go into the pool; we stayed in there for about 32 seconds before we decided the pool is for sunny hot days instead!

Sooooo americano, pancakes with butter (urrk) n syrup ( at least he's drinkin milk with it).

Today Monday I went to do to driver license test in Rahway and when I get there I mistaken the line and ended up in a line with about 30 other cars for an inspection. I had to call someone who could tell me if I was right or wrong. I tried to call Dan, but he worked, so I called Ryan, the guy at the skate shop. He was sleeping! Haha. But he told me what to do :).

These moments I wish I had Svennyboy around!

So, when I finally get into this place they tell me my visa expires soon so I can’t take the test. It has to be at least 90 days before. So I had to put my butt back in to the car and go home. On the way home I picked up some stuff at ShopRite.

Tomorrow I’m going over to Fatma during the day. I want to see how she’s doing. I saw her for like a minute last week but I think it could be nice to hear what she have been up to lately.

Tomorrow night there’s this free outdoor movie thing going on in a park in Fanwood. They are showing ‘Ice age 3’. I’ve seen the other movies and they are really funny, I think it could be nice to do something outside at night, and it’s free as well! Thea and hopefully Denise too, are coming.

Wednesday I’m thinking of going to the mall, but I’ll see what I feel like. I got something going on at night too.

Thursday the family is taking me out for dinner since it’s the last week I’m working. I wonder where we’ll go.

We’re not leaving for Canada until Sunday morning since Dan’s moms birthday is on Saturday. Maybe I’ll go to NYC during Sat day then.

Today it's 3 more weeks in the USA!

Catch you on the flip side!

Another week just passed by but I felt like I haven’t done much though.

This week Brian had soccer skills and drills for only 2 h every day, which means I had to stay home all day since he didn’t hang out with friends during the afternoon.

At night I’ve been hanging out with Thea and Dan. I think Tuesday, I and Dan went out for a run. I’m still so out of shape but at least I got around the block twice. Then we went into their pool which is perfect warm/cold now, first time I couldn’t feel my leg when I put it into the water to see how ‘warm’ it was.

Yesterday I took Thea to see bike Mike’s and Ryan’s skate shop since I couldn’t see it when it was done last Saturday. It looks sweet, really nice I must say. He hung out for a little and on the way home we picked up an ice smoothie at Dunkin Donuts for me and a vanilla smoothie for Thea at Rock n Joe’s.

Today Curt’s working form home and is taking Brian to the doctor after his soccer practice around noon so I only have to go to ShopRite today. Tonight I’m going over to Dan’s, no plans but we’ll figure something out I’m sure.

Next week will be the last week for me to work. It’s really getting closer to the end now! I got 5 days left to work, 4 more weekends, 25 more days and I will be home in 26 days.

Before I go home I have some stuff to do. I have to go to the city a few more times, get some souvenirs (for my self), and go shopping at Jersey gardens Mall. Get my driver license (I think I’ll have the time to go next week). I also have something going on next week but I’ll tell you guys about that when I go home instead.

I don’t know if I wrote earlier that I started to pack all my clothes and so on the day after Svenny left. Everything is in one of my suitcases and outside it. I just had to see if I could fit it all, and also get an idea how much more I can fit ;)

That means my whole wardrobe is empty and everything is nicely folded into the suitcase, waiting to go home to Sweden.

Last year packing For the trip..

I really can’t remember either if I wrote I booked a flight for Svenja?!

She’s arriving half an hour later than me to the same terminal in Copenhagen. Even if I did write it I guess it just tells how much I’m looking forward to see her!!!!

Catch you on the flip side!

This past week I only worked Monday and Tuesday since Brian Wednesday morning went to soccer sleep away camp. I spend my days sleeping till noon and then hung out with friends. I think it was Wednesday; I was hanging out with bike Mike when I got the brilliant idea to go to ‘Fuji’, the half price sushi restaurant (half price Sun-Wed). We had each two rolls and shared one special roll (Edison roll, the one Svenja had last time we went there), it became the favorite one! We were sooo full when we left, and it was only about $ 10 each!

Thursday I met up with Thea and we went to Woodbridge mall during the day. I found one top at Forever21 which I really liked, and since I had a store credit card it was already paid for!

I also got a new pair of aviators (sunglasses) since I lost the last pair. I think I’m on my 6^th pair for this season; luckily I never spend too much money on them.

Friday I didn’t do too much, in the afternoon I went over to Garwood and met up with bike Mike and his friend John and they went up to Johns place and did some jammin.

Since I didn’t have to work I went over to Dan’s place after dropping Mike of in Westfield around 6pm.

Mike n John

Around 10pm we went to pick up Dan’s friend Jesse and from there we went over to Menlo park mall (no shopping unfortunately) to see the premier of the new Leonardo Dicaprio movie, ‘Inception’. Sooooooo good! I don’t know when it will get to Europe but you must see it!

I don’t know where to start describing the movie, but it’s mainly about messing with your mind as you dream, and when Leo can access the mind of another person he can get or plant information that can’t me reached in real life.

It totally mess with your mind trying to realize what’s really the dream and so on, but it’s not impossible to understand it’s just a movie when you have to think and a great movie to analyze. I defiantly need to see it again. There’s so much though behind the whole movie and the guy who wrote it took 10 years to finish it so you kind of get it’s not an ordinary film just knowing that.

Leo is a damn good actor, and totally rules in this one! See it!

So after watching the movie we had to analyze it for a while and I think we all had some good ideas but as I said; I still need to watch it again!

Around 11am I and Dan picked up bike Mike in Cranford and we went over to Elizabeth where Mike’s friend is opening a skate shop and had a free BBQ and an organized skate competition in a nearby skate park.

I’ve been to the store a few weeks ago with Svenja but this time I didn’t see the result of the shop since we hung out in the skate park instead, so another day I’ll go there and see.

This was, it was insanely hot this day, me and Dan got each a chair and sat down (far from all the crazy skate kids) trying not to get in the way.

We saw Mike skate around with a megaphone trying to get all the kids organized for the competition. We stayed around for about 2 h before we realized this might be the end if we don’t get out of there soon; the sun went crazy!

Kids signing up for the skate competition

Mike skating

Kids skating

This is Dan just remebering he's actually a skate pro

When we got back to Dan’s place we went into his pool, and finally the water is nice-cold instead of paralyzing-cold.

At night we went over to a party to one of his friend where also Dan’s twin sister Becca went with friends. It was mainly friends from high school which meant everyone knew each other except for me! It was fun though.

Sunday ‘morning’ we packed some towels, Sudoku book (the one I gave to Svenja and she 2 seconds later give to Dan- that book) and some sunscreen, and went down to Long branch.

It took about 2 h to get there since the traffic was crazy. When we get there we were suppose to pay an entrance (to the beach- craaaaaazy) of $10 but for some reason we didn’t had to pay, Dan said it was because they though we were to awesome; and I believe him!

I burned my feet so bad in the sand getting down closer to the water. We put down our towels and stuff and then went up to the boardwalk trying to find some breakfast/lunch.

Dan had had his eyes on a burger place but when we passed and saw what they served I got a bad feeling (probably as bad as if I would have eating the ‘food’ there) and instead convinced him to go to the Greek restaurant next door.

I had a plate of gyros, tzatiki, pita bread and fries, unbelievable good! Not as close as the Greek place back home in Malmö (which I’ve been dreaming of going to for so long now) but far enough (after one year it’s fine, trust me).

So after having one of the best meals in month we went down to the beach again and into the water. It was really nice, not cold at all. The waves close to the beach were crazy so we hung out just a few meters out where it was a slight bit calmer.

After a while I realized there was some nice looking stones on the bottom so I picked out a couple for my mum since I know she loves stones in all shaped and colors (me, myself like Candy in all shapes and colors, but we all have different devotions).

The time we actually spend On the beach tanning was not enough to get me a tan as nice as I wanted, but I’ll give it another try soon!

On the way back we stopped by a place called the light tower, if I remember right, and had some ice cream.

Ice cream break in the grass

Look at me with all that money..

Around 8pm we got back, took about 1 h to get back, no traffic. We chilled for a while and then Dan took me home.

This week I think Brian has some soccer day camp for just a few hours every day, so I feel, just like all the other weeks it’s going to be a very relaxed week.

Since I know Svennyboy is reading my blog now when she’s back home in Germany I want to tell her I miss her very much!

It’s so boring not having someone to call, text and hang out with, doing girl-stuff (poor Dan has to stand a lot, but still haven’t got him to get a manicure with me at the nailsalon).

Best thing though is that last week I booked the flight for her to come to Sweden, she’s arriving 30 minutes later to the same terminal as me, in Copenhagen. Just can’t wait to see her there!!!

Catch you on the flip side!

Wow, it’s been quite a while now since I updated, I can’t tell you why I haven’t but let me just tell you a bit what I’ve been up to lately and let the pictures speak for the rest.

Weekend before Svenja left we booked a bus tour to Boston for each $ 31 back on forth. We had to take the bus from china town in NYC and from there it took about 4 h to Boston. We walked around, watch a baseball game in a park and realized how clean Boston is. We stayed over at a friend’s house and the next morning, while watching Germany win one of their games in the world cup, we got ready and later went to Harvard University!

At 3pm we took the bus back to Jersey.

The last days before Svenja went back to Germany we had the time to go to the city one more time, celebrate 4^th of July with a lot of fireworks and had a small dinner with her host parents And of course packing!

Monday night, day before leaving I had organized a surprise party at Dan’s house and Svenja had no idea what was going on. I had planned it for more than a week and that means I had to lie to her for more than a week, just small lies but luckily she never had a clue.

The party/BBQ went great I had a lot of help from Dan and we had a big cake problem that he solved, thank God!

Last day I mainly drove her around and made sure she had done everything she had to. At 3 pm we went over to the airport and 3 hours later she went on the plane back home to Germany.

It sucks being here without her since I spend most of my year with her. But I’m not going to sit around and be depressed, soon I will see her at the airport in Sweden and I just can’t wait.

What I’ve been doing for the rest of the week? Packing! Crazy I know but I want to get an idea how much clothes and stuff I actually bought over here and of course I want to bring all of it back home.

So I folded all of my clothes and put them in to piles, and the result: I think I can get more stuff! Hehe

I also got my flight, after a lot of work, first they wanted to give me a flight with a polish airline (LOT) but everyone told me it’s not the best, also I had to wait 4 h in Warszawa. So two flights later the best they could give me was with Lufthansa, 2 hours waiting in Frankfurt. Feels better so now I know when I’m going home and it feels so close, believe it or not.

This weekend I’ve spend with Dan at his house. Friday we went to his place at Rutgers and met up with his friends he now shares his house with. We played some beerpong and I think I manage to drink maybe 2 beers, I’m proud!

Saturday we went back to Edison, and we got some stuff so I could make him some Swedish pancakes. What did he think about them? He hated them! Just because American pancake sucks!

Anyway, the weather was bad so we didn’t do too much only thing was probably when we walked over to rent a movie, Shutter Island, a movie we already seen. The walk was about 20 min to get there and we kind of regret we didn’t took the car because it was so hot outside.

Sunday we went for a morning (noon) swim in their pool and then watched the final game in the world cup. I also manage to force him to go to the mall to return a cardigan, ended up buying a new one and a pair or pants instead. We also got a bottom up shirt for him that was fresh to death, but all I heard was complains about how expensive it was and how many McDonald’s meal he could have got for that money.

This week I’m only going to work Monday and Tuesday + Wednesday morning, so I have no idea what to do for the rest of the week!