boston

last day of spring break, and it was a great one. so sunny and me and martina went to the south of boston. we felt completely lost and martina pushed the emergency button before we finally found the shuttle to the JFK library. it was so cool and interesting. (I felt like a mixture between an intellectual citizen and an amazed tourist) then we took the bus back and saw some of the
"real" boston and then we crossed some roads to get to the charles river where we took wonderful pictures. I love boston! it's crazy beautiful and I'm so happy to be here.

tomorrow level 7 starts and the nerd in me is looking forward to it.

did I mentioned that I love boston?

collide

I've done half of my stay here. it scares the shit out of me.

yesterday didn't turn out as I thought it would, but it was cool anyway. we went to wentworth university to some internationell talent show. then we bought pizza and watched atonement. today I've been practising doing nothing. fenway is the best place for that, and martha is the best teacher. I've accomplished; eating salad from city kitchen, walkin to whole food, eat one pint of ben and jerrys, cooking wholegrain pasta (for the first time in three months!!!) watching american television and to do my laundry.

mika - happy ending
aaron - u-turn
howie day - collide

different ways of kickin' ass

- I'm on the internet!
- is that good or is it porn?

ah, my mood today is so good that peter even said "I liked you better when you were depressed". the weather is cold and rainy so martina and I postponed our planned freedom trail-walk and I went to see eliot and his kid instead. her name is astrid and she is adorable! more personality than I've ever seen in a three year old. we went to the hilton hotel pool and I had such a great time. I'm gonna babysit her next saturday. :D (and it's just like in the alchemist; the whole freakin universe is conspires in helping you to achieve it)

and tonight I'm going to this party, don't know where, why or when, but it sounds good :)

the warm rain

ah! dave picked me up and I almos fainted when I saw the studio. it was amazing, and for real. I sung background to a guy named eliot, who was really cool. 53 years old but sounded like 18. he has an adorable kid and he offered me to babysit her. dave was great, coaching me in the right way, boostin me and I harmonized and did everything I thought I couldn't and it was so so great. and there is this werid wonderful feeling that I can actually do this.

check out myspace.com/eliotwilderdreams and look for the warm rain. (it will probably be there in 24 hours)

lately

goatie has arrived! I got so happy. she has met all my crazy friends, tried cappuccino from starbucks, had a typical ef-lunch and been to the local bar.

tuesday:
I dyed my hair, with help from martina and put on a facial mask. had the usual great update with larissa. slept eleven hours.

wednesday:
had coffe with lauren at starbucks, great as always. watched the constant gardener with sacha and hung out. went to porter bellys and drank wine with will. larissa and some other people came by. I found out that I apparently have a great russian pronunciation. walked to a houseparty with arnaud. walked in to a pole and hurt my head. ate granola, talked to christian, drank corona and watched people throw caps.

thursday:
woke up and had lunch. sat outside in the most wonderful weather. went to starbucks with sacha and arnaud. walked to cvs with sacha and then sat outside on the stones and talked.

now I'm gonna call david and tonight I'm gonna record backgroundsinging in a prostudio!

spring, movies and prudential

ah, I love this thing about springbreak! the weather is wonderful here. yesterday we walked all of newbury street to the cinema and watched meet the browns. I love hanging out downtown. we watched two more movies, derailed and cruel intentions. then me and arnaud went for a long walk in the middle of the night. the city is so quiet and peaceful. today is sunny, me and martha went for late breakfast at starbucks and then we took the elevator to the 50 floor in the prudential. oh my god! the view is amazing and boston is more beautiful than I already knew. we sat in the window, amazed, just talkin.

now I'm gonna take my lovely 57 bus back home, call my beloved jeff and dye my ugly hair.

easter sunday

- starbucks with cristian
- one hours walk in the sunshine with hiphop in my ears
- dinner with martina
- cookies from athans
- organizing itunes
- practising being alone
- painted toenails
- two hour phone conversation with caroline, which totally made my day. it was like an eight hour flight away didn't matter and that we haven't seen each other in three months didn't made any difference.

and I think I just realized I made a mistake. and I don't hate myself for it.

new radicals - you get what you give

springbreak!

I'm on my first spring break! wehey!

yesterday we met for one last time, level 6 and lauren at athan's. it was lovely. then I tagged along with martha and nathalie to fenway. we watched john tucker most die and ate at spike's, which is so american. they gave me 50 options and my tounge got green when I ate artificial salad. later, we went to crossroads, an irish pub. me, nathalie, carol, alexander and arnaud. it was great. I got a great deal of good music, funny pictures, cosmo, people, chocolate and never have I ever.

and fenway is my oasis right now. we woke up this morning and it was sunny and we ate lunch at teryaki house. and the first thing you see when you walk out the door is mass ave, berklee and prudential. it gives me hope.

today I've spent in a car. larissa, me, martha and nathalie went for a roadtrip. what was supposed to be a 45 minute ride, ended 4 hours later after a lot of "guess what? we're driving in the wrong direction.. again.", music, laughter, jokes, sunshine and snacks. finally we arrived to wrentham outlets which is huge. more like a small village. we ate dinner at uno and came back after getting lost a couple of more times. I love it love it love it.

but most of all I love it when people surprise you. with their sweetness, with their sensivety, with their understanding. there is hope for humanity.

dreaming with a broken heart

when you're dreaming with a broken heart
the waking up is the hardest part
you roll out of bed and down on your knees
and for a moment you can hardly breathe

survival guide

- a wonderful class that boosts you
- a teacher that knows you too well
- a person who makes you laugh even when he tries to make you cry
- a psychiatrist that questions you at the exact right place
- john mayer
- a best friend that's always there for you

rain

it's been raining all day. boston is not that amusing, but it is still boston. I love massachusetts avenue. we had our last intrapersonal communication today, and went a very small group to café nation. such good food and the cashier thoguht I was german (insult or not?). then analyzing the alchemist and discussions in class again. fredrik and I can't stop mocking each other and I love love love my class. then we did a do you remember-test of level six and I won. afterwards, I went to taco bell with martha and nathalie and this evening I've been hanging out in fenways livingroom. studying, laughing, talking, watching a movie and massaging each other. just what I needed. as long as you make it better, right?

tomorrow; final oral exam on the alchemist

converse all stars

I got an A+! and class today was great, we were all so silly, lauren tried to teach us grammar and fredrik said shepard in swedish and we were irritated over prepositions togheter. today is just a day when everything is funny and I laugh about everything.

and me and larissa sat all dinner making up signs for our silent language and then we sat on the stairs in the silent spring evening. I'm so glad I have her.

st. patrick's day

(I should have written yesterday, for some reason, I did not. )

st. patrick's day. another holiday I have no idea why we celebrate even though I tried really hard to find that out last night. we went to whiskey's on boylston street, me and the frenchspeaking company. irish, green and beer. lovely! arnaud carried me over the treshold, two guys from michigan tried really hard to find out what song that was playing, a girl in the bathroom taught me all about the boston-accent, we met a cool homeless dude and the gaurd in the door explained about st. patrick (basically just another reason to get drunk)

and; I got a 6 out of 6 on my criterion-essay! damn I'm good! this week is the last week in level 6 and it was so good to be back in class again. I had to hug everyone and there is no room for my geekness. I had to be twice as sarcastic just to get it out of my system.

and this is a great day, even though I don't hink I have slept at all (remember som vauge dreams about a bar and a dry cleaning) and I have so much to do, (100 pages to read, visit one museum and write an essay) cause the best thing is when you the day after can laugh until you die in larissas bed about everything that has happened and talk with the best friend in the world over the phone and shrink the distance.

manhattan

11.05 PM

lisa in new york

central park

you don't know what you got til it's gone

578 pictures later, 105 833 steps later and I'm home! my boston, my bunkbed, my ugly hallways, but most of all; my larissa! we've spent the night in her bed, with update and good luck chuck. martine is our personal shopper and she bought me crazy amounts of ice cream at cold stone since the russian guy digs her, and none of us (me, merel or martine) could finish. and we laughed laughed laughed. larissa ate frosties and I was just so happy to be around them again.

but I hate to say goodbye. new york has been so great and today it was so warm and sunny. me and david walked through all of chinatown which is crazy and then we sat in the park talking about the past and the future. and even though it was a beautiful moviemoment when we said goodbye and all of new york passed in front of my eyes while I was listening to drops of jupiter, I still hate it.

the verve - bittersweet symphony

new york state of mind

today's been a slow, lovely day, but now I'm totally exhausted again. we have strolled along fifth ave, and I bought my first pair of converse and my first pair of levi's. then we decided to go to the museum of modern art, and since it's free on fridays the queue was humongous but we finally got in. I felt very arty and it was so fascinating. tonight we went for dinner in times square at an italian place called sbarro and then we went to m&m's world. it's the crazyiest store in the world with m&m's in every colour. after that we took the metro all the way to brooklyn to get the greatest view of mahattan and all the skyscrapers with all its lights. it was so worth it, even though it rained, was very windy and the train took like two hours.

tristan prettyman - madly

I am NY

today we've been walking through all of central park. it's like an isolated island in the middle of manhattan without all the noises. it's so peaceful, and so so beautiful. we saw a really tall obelisk, went up in a small castle with a great view, saw turtles in a pond and we rode a really old carousel. my childhood came back when I was flying around on the horses. then we went shopping! manhattan mall, and david wanted to kill me when I said "but it's only five dresses!". I ended up buying two dresses (a brown one and a yellow one) a bag and a t-shirt.

right now I'm at the hotel in my sweatpants, eating banana and yogurt, pretty satisfied with life.

sightseeing

ah, I'm so exhausted. exhausted after 17000 steps, exhausted after all the impressions that have made me breathless and speechless. there is to much to take in. we've been walking along fifth avenue all day. we went into fao schwars, which is the greatest toy story in the world. me and david had a great time, looking for squirrels, trying on wizardshats and building animals. then we have been by radio city music hall and moma, to rockefeller plaza where dean&deluca is were we ate the best brownies in the world. we went up 70 stores in rockefeller center. it was amazing! I couldn't speak. we also went in to st. patrick's cathedral. for some reason I love the atmosphere in places like that. it was spectacular, the art is gothic and I took lovely pictures. afterwards, after a lot of blocks and a late lunch/early dinner at McDonalds me and david went to empire state building. we bought a ticket for the new york skydive which is a showing of new york when you're sitting in a moving chair flying over manhattan. impossible to explain but unbelievable. then up to the 86th floor and then the 102ond floor. the sun was setting and it was so beautiful. you can see everything and everywhere from there, and I just stood there, amazed.

now; jacuzzi.

shouting out loud

there's a first time and a second time, you've got to hold on
did you know it could happen to you?
your love is something I cannot remember
I don't want to see the same pictures all over
and I've been standing on the same spot now since it's been over
cause someone promised me a new chance, yes you promised.
impossible, your love is something I cannot remember

stay out of love until you're ready, stay out of it 'cause it scares you

new york, new york

26991 steps later;

oh my god! yesterday, after a lovely, sunny, efficient morning we went by car to NY. carmusic, and I taught david swedish and he taught me spanish. we went to central park and saw the sun set over the lake, we went out to eat and hanged in the pool and took nightpictures in the street. todays it's been sunny and warm and we have walked and walked. went to brooklyn to walk over the brooklyn bridge and it was so magnificent. I almost fainted when I spotted the statue of liberty. we walked around in southeast of mahattan and ate lunch at pier 17. then we went by ground zero and took the ferry out to the statue of liberty. it was so.. BIG. and beautiful. tonight after relaxing in the pool me and david went to time spuare. he tried to prepare me but it's impossible. it's just crazy, with flashes and light all over the place. we ate great food at hard rock cafe and took pictures pictures pictures. and I just looked up in the sky (where the are no stars cause all the lights make them fade away) and was so satisfied.

and it's crowded; cars, people, shops, garbage and noise everywhere. it's a total different atmosphere than boston but it's new york and I love it. not a thousand words or pictures can describe it.

sunny

I've just spent 22 wonderful hours on the Marriott hotel. it was so luxurious and so far away from EF. crazy dinnerbuffet, desertbuffet and brunchbuffet. extremly comfortable bed and nice view and a pool and aaah. and yesterday it was warm and windy and it felt like everything but Boston. now I'm back home and it feels so incredibly much like home.

and ohmygod, I have so much to do! (internal joke) cause tomorrow, tomorrow I'm going to New York for the whole week! after a lot of consideration and advice from everyone. my heart is gonna burst of all the excitement, but it's worth it.

goo goo dolls - here is gone

my heart

david, larissa, lisa, jeff calloway

and then there were three

we just dropped off jeff at the airport.
it's so weird, it's only two months since I arrived at logan international but a whole lifetime has passed by.

augustana - boston

bittersweet

there are so many feelings around here that they don't fit anymore. yesterday was graduation. it was a beautiful sunny, warm day with going away-party for pal, david and olga in class. me and david had coffe with his parents and I walked along washington street feeling on top of the world. graduation at 3 PM and we just sat in lecture hall, cheering. it was so sad and happy and I'm so overwhelmed. we took pictures outside in the grass and shared a bottle of wine as a peace pipe in my room. at night there was a graduationparty and as always we gathered in my room, playing never have I ever (never have I ever flashed myself? :P) and I danced like crazy with sacha. it's EF, it's crazy, it's lovely.

after five hours of sleep I stumbled down to class and we were so few so we mixed level 6 and 7 and played times up! spanish team against sweden and it was hilarious with all the gestures. tonight the calloways are going for drinks with davids parents to porter bellys. and tomorrow.. tomorrow is saturday.

it's just.. you know.

everything's just wonderful

ah, great day! late sleep in and david and I stole cookies from the cafeteria. we had debates in class and I just love the people around me. there are little things, like Marthas laughter in class, Larissas squirrelface, like when we clean davids room cause his parents arrived, like when we're all hanging out in each others room and just walkin in the hallways. tonight there was what has become the traditional porter bellys night. beer and lovely people, picuters and david and I played for the last time. it was perfect. and I've never laughed as much as when Larissa flashed herself in the window.

I'm having the time of my life

le petit bistro

ah, lovely day! for some reason I've had energy today and my grammarfinal went good and then we did 2minutes presentations without preparation in class. me and paul talked about hungarian foodculture over lunch and it has just been one of those days when I'm effective and get all these small things done that makes me feel that I have my life in order. I went out for long walk in the warm weather. I love the feeling of knowing my way around and still always find new streets. I've also bought a black dress at Urban Outiftters (I love UO). tonight was the last real calloway-night. we went to le petit bistro at kenmore for chicken and wine. we held speeches, reminisced about our time togheter and talked about plastic surgery and EF.

I love them, and the feeling they're giving me, so much no words can explain it.

easy rule #1

(according to paul)
if since is in the fucking sentence use the fucking present perfect.

aaaah, study study study STUDY. we're hanging in classroom 142 eating slices of pizza and trying to figure out everything for the big final grammarexam tomorrow. it has its charm but I'm so stressed out.

tristan prettyman - madly

moviemoments

it's march! it's spring! (and I've been here for two months!!)

friday was such a good day. I actually took a shower and the sun was shining over boston. we hade a big vocabularyexam and I got the best letter from Lauren. then we read scenes from plays in SPINclass and Liz and I was talkin with alabama-accent during lunch. me and david went downtown and I spent money and then we ate at quiznos (I can order myself now; mesquite chicken on rosemary bread without bacon with extra cheeze and guacamole) we spent the night in Liz's bed with her new baby and watched Accepted and I laughed. yesterday was a slow day, I spent half of it in bed and then I went to fenway and when I walked along Mass Ave the sun came out and I listened to good morning joan and it was a moviemoment. me, christian and david hung out in my room that night, playing never have I ever. today is laundryday, studyday (even though I haven't studied that much) and a great day. me and david went for a walk without destination, around the lake, along washington street and I had the biggest foodcravings ever which ended up with eating cherry tomatoes and chips along a sunny wall. david smashed a tomatoe in my cheek and I can't explain the feeling I sometimes have here. I just know it's more than great. we did our passport assignment and compared YMCA to beacon hill athletic club. on the way home we took a shortcut and climbed a treet and I looked up in the sky and aaaah. the harmony and peacefulness and the calmness. tonight me and Liz went to starbucks for a big update. even though we see each other every day we haven't talked for real in a long time and we just sat in their big green armchairs talkin and talkin and laughing.

I love life.

drops

and tell me, did venus blow your mind
was it everything you wanted to find
and did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there