Getting there...

We seem to have stumbled into the month of May rather quickly, and in 5 days it will be June!
Okay, how is this possible? As much as I want my exams to be over and to be home in Örebro, I am not ready for it to be June. Mainly because I don't like how bloody fast time flies, and that the weather here is proper shite. We have our sunny days of course, just like any other country, but I'm stuck inside with heaps of revision…
My first exam is on Monday and my second is on Tuesday. Wednesday will be spent packing up my room to put into storage for the summer. I then leave early in the morning on the Thursday to fly back home.

I've planned my June to be a chill month. Mostly I will be hanging out with friends, relaxing, and a bit of traveling (hopefully). Helen is arriving on the 16th which means we have 6 days to faff around Stockholm and Örebro. We are planning on cycling, kayaking, possible visiting Grönalund, having picnics in the park, going to the cinema, eating food, going out for drinks, visiting one of the many islands in Stockholm's archipelago, and most importantly making sure to show Helen how Swedes celebrate Midsummer!
I then hope I can catch a train down to Copenhagen to visit Christel. I think Sofia, Matilda and Lauren will also be there, which means we can all explore Copenhagen together.
I then start my work experience in July.

As a distraction from this term's exam revision, I have been planning my holiday next summer. A little bit ambitious perhaps, but I like getting excited for things!
I want get a 22-day rail pass to go Inter-railing around Eastern Europe, starting off in Berlin and working my way down towards Split, Croatia. Stopping in Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana and Zagreb, before getting to Split. Hopefully it all works out as I've been wanting to go inter-railing for quite a few years now!

Results

Piazza del Duomo, Milano, Italia

The sun is shining and the sky is blue which makes me extremely happy! It was so nice to sit and enjoy the warm sunlight today with Christel. Even yesterday after our counselling class, the sun was shining, although it was nearly sunset, but it made me perk up after the long day at uni! I was in from 9am until 16.30… When I got home, all I wanted to do was sleep, but I hindered myself from that and instead baked lemon drizzle cupcakes.

We got our psychology exam results back today, and I passed! After a lot of anxiety and prayers, I opened up our student portal and saw that I had received 15 for both of my psych exams! RELIEF!! I cannot tell you how awful I felt after the concepts & theory exam… And my answers to the three questions were complete bullshit! It seems that the markers were a lot nicer this year… and thank God for that!!

Tomorrow evening it will be time to celebrate my birthday as well as Alice's birthday, as well as the exam results! We are having a few drinks at home, with a round of Ring of Fire, before we head into town and meet up with some more people and a few more drinks. We are then most likely heading over to Institute for some dancing! I'm excited :)
On my actual birthday, I'll be having dinner with a few of my friends at Yorokobi by CJ. It is a Japanese/Korean restaurant in town, and I hear it's really good. For several years now, it's been a tradition for my family and I to have sushi for my birthday, followed by a pavlova. Sadly, I think I'll have to skip the pavlova this year.  Nevertheless, I cannot wait to eat some sushi and sashimi! Yum

Library

The library is pretty much my second home at the moment. I feel like I spend more time there than anywhere else. I am so tired that I could easily fall asleep right now, even though it's only seven o'clock… Ugh. I cannot express enough how much I despise exams. They are the silliest piece of crap ever invented and I freakin' hate that practically my whole future depends on how well I do during those hours. If I get below a 12 (out of 20) on my psychology I won't get into honours. Christ… This is a sick, sick world we live in. Okay, I'll stop my rant now.

The good news is that I am going down to Aberystwyth next Thursday to visit Helen! I haven't seen her since August, so I really can't wait to see her! I don't know what she has planned for us to do... probably nothing, haha. I know we're going out and that we're going to look at the town and the campus. When she came up to Aberdeen last April, pretty much all we did apart from a tour of the campus and town and a few study hours in the library, was watch Wallander, eat Doritos, drink beer in the sun and laugh so hard that we cried.

Peace!

Revision...

Howzit bru? (I've been practicing my SA accent and slang these past few days, don't ask me why)

Man.. studying really does suck! Today I was at the library with Katrina for 6 hours straight, studying sociology. When I got home my head was pounding and my eyes were all red and itchy (what the heck?), so I wasn't able to do any more work. My body then proceeded to think that feeling ill, almost carsick, was a good idea! I made some dinner and felt a little better, but now my head is throbbing again. Christ… I think a long sleep-in tomorrow is needed to make up for all these early mornings in the library.

In other news, we have found a fantastic flat for next year. We went to a flat viewing yesterday and I couldn't believe how nice it was! It's within a 5 - 7 minute walk to uni and a 3 minute walk to the gym; absolutely perfect. We get our own washing machine, which is like heaven for people like me, who have to live in halls and have to fight over the communal washing machines!

January 8th

Wouldn't say no to this! Christ...

Usually when I make these kinds of updates, I have something to actually say. Embarrassingly enough, my life is quite boring as I spend my days studying, watching TV and playing GTA5 (<--it's da bomb). This is what I have been doing since New Year's, and sadly the stressful studying will continue until the end of January when all of my exams are done. After the exams I will most likely take the train down to Helen for the weekend!

I have also occupied myself with researching holiday destinations for the summer. Isn't that a little early you say? It's never too early! I get so extremely excited and it gives me lots of motivation to march on. No plans are certain at the moment, but it's looking quite promising.

Also, I have been getting these really nice spring feelings rushing through me, you know the ones you get when spring has just started and it finally gets a little warmer? Yeah. But of course I'm just imagining it, it's cold and grey outside and merely 7°C. This is what usually happens to me after New Year's; I think that spring is going to roll around and the birds will be chirping, but it's sadly three to four months until that will happen…

Peace!

Finals

Yo!
First off I want to congratulate Denmark because they won the Eurovision song contest last night with the song Only Teardrops performed by Emmelie de Forest. I actually quite like the song :)

This past week I have been studying every single day for my sociology exam that I have on Tuesday (kill me now). As you might understand, my life is rather boring and mundane at the moment, and it will continue to be this way until I fly back home to Sweden on the 1st of June!
Thankfully, I only have two exams this term as I chose to take a Sixth Century course (don't ask me why they named it that) as one of my modules, and I only had coursework to do for that! My psycho exam is on the 31st so I will have plenty of time to study for that.
Other than that, the storage unit is arriving on the 30th, which means I will have to put all of my things into that, and then camp out in my room with nothing but my suitcase full of clothes for two nights- meh -.-

Study, Study, Study...

EXAM schedule:
Sociology: Tuesday 15th Jan. 9-11
Management: Tuesday 15th Jan. 15-17
Psychology: Thursday 24th Jan. 11-12

UPDATE:
Music Mondays will be uploaded on their usual schedule, so expect #22 on Monday the 14th!
What else? Oh yes, I was pleasantly surprised by how warm (if you even can call it that) it is here. I've been so used to the very cold weather back in Sweden. It was 8-10°C today and the sun was shining brightly all day! It was so nice :)
Other than that, I can't wait for re-freshers which starts on Friday the 25th of January! My flatmates and I are planning on going out for dinner together in the evening and then enjoying the freedom for a while! :D
Have you peeps seen the new One Direction music video for their song "Kiss You"? the first time I watched it I laughed the whole way through it! It's very amusing, especially the scene when they're skiing ;)