Easter soon :D

Hello world! You probably haven't heard from me in a while, mainly because I have been so busy procrastinating with things. On the brighter side however, I've learned to cook rice really well, and it doesn't go lumpy, soggy or sticky :D
Also I've finished with my Japanese course, which was, to put it simply, EFFing amazing.. and also very inspiring. I even bought a Japanese lunchbox thing and some chopsticks and now I'm gonna learn some Japanese; which reminds me, Emma make sure you don't forget to remind me to learn some swedish or I will forget :D
Ok, that has pretty much been my week so now I am gonna answer some questions and move onto our theme.. We are just trialing this..
I asked myself, what am I doing over the holidays? Nothing much, chill, celebrate Easter (It confuses me why our country, and america, have adopted thier countries religion's festivals as a national thing that everyone does, religious or not, but still, presents for christmas and chocolate for Easter, what's there not to like?) I also have tons of homework to do :-(
Do I eat anything special over Easter? I can't think of special food.. Chocolate.. and thats really it. Oh, this Easter I am eating lots of chinese/ oriental food that I'm learning to cook, because it is fairly healthy and tasty.. the only tasty & healthy thing I have ever come across. I think that answers what the questions asking, but I'm not sure.. Let me know :D
Wow.. Chris' question was very long.. but probably better than any questions I could come up with right now xD
I have never celebrated Easter in another country so I will answer the second part of the question: Is easter a big deal in my family? hmm.. Not massive but fairly normal.. we used to have massive Easter egg hunts and hide all the eggs, but this year.. none of us re that young any more xD.
When I get older, will I continue with family traditions? I don't know.. Maybe, depends..
My quesiton (S)
1) Do we think we should keep the themes? (I vote no, and btw, who is theming next week.. I presume it's Emma?)
2) I need your advice.. I wanted to move abroad when I am older, but I am now thinking of becoming a barrister, however, I know (or think) that there is no other legal system (The English one) I'd rather be one in, and if I decided on another one I would probably hae to learn another language.. I might be able to do it very well, but I have, when I try at least, a natural instict with the English language, that I have developed over my entire lifetime, that I don't think I would ever be able to develope in another language, at least not quick enough to go to uni in that country and get the qualifications to become a barrister there. So what should I do?
3) What job do you want to do when your older and why?
I know that's a lot of questioning. but sorry.. and I know it doesn;t really fit the theme either.. sorry..
Bye!

I should be revising but I'm not...

I've been so incredibly exhausted the past few days that I just can't be bothered to do any revising tonight. I think I did ok on my quiz today and I don't have anything major to do for tomorrow. I also finally got one interview set up. It's going to be this saturday on campus for a university summer camp program. They offer camps all summer long for primary and secondary school students, and I'm being considered for a instructor position. This currently is the closest thing to my degree, and I'm not complaining since at least I will get some teaching experience, sadly the wage is nothing to exceptional but right now it's better then nothing.

On the one hand I can't wait for this semester to be over, but on the other I can't believe it's less then two weeks till final exams! Which means I'm going to be in major stress mode for the next 3 weeks! Hopefully it all pays off though and I also manage to get a summer job.

Due to my lack of adventure and exciting news I shall move onto questions:

My own: I'm not really sure that I have a preference, but if I were to choose, I would have to go with fiction, just because it's a good way to get away from the world and enjoy ones self.

Sam/Emma: We don't really get a break for easter in Uni, we used to up until the end of secondary school, but because the semester ends at the end of April it would be silly to place a break right at the end of the semester. We usually get a break in mid February. Anyway we still get good Friday off but thats about it. My parents and I might go to church on Easter Sunday but thats about it. Traditionally we get our food blessed and have a big brunch. I especially love the sweet bread we always have during easter.

New Question: Have you ever celebrated easter somewhere else, like a different country or something? If not, is easter a big deal in your family, and do you think when you get older you will continue your family traditions?

Because tonight will be the night…

So apparently we decided to start with themes on the blog and I got confused and still probably am. But I asked Chris about it and after that we’re doing themes for the questions. This week’s theme, chosen by Sam, is Easter and I’ll get to his question soon.

Right now it feels like I’m gonna be crazy busy for the next 8-9 weeks due to my double economy classes so we’ll see how tired and worn out I’m gonna be. But I intend to keep writing my blogs anyway. The last couple of days I’ve done a lot of quizzes on facebook and the title on this post comes from the lyric of my “theme song” Fall for you by Secondhand Serenade.

Since it’s late and I’m tired and have to get up for class in the morning I’ll move on to the questions now.

To answer my own question about savings I just started a savings account and I put away about 600 SEK, 50 GBP, 90 CAD a month. I also have a savings account started by my dad and some money invested in shares.

Chris wanted to know if I prefer to read fiction or non-fiction. Well, to be honest I haven’t had the time to read one single book since I started college last fall. But when I do read, and I love reading, I prefer fiction.

Sam asked if we get a break over Easter and I think I have two or three days without lectures but I’ll still have schoolwork to do because technically we don’t get an Easter break.

My question related to Easter is “Do you eat any special food around Easter?”

Themes and stuff.. interesting & Hello two week break!!

Thank God it’s Friday! I’ve now broken up for two weeks! But I have crap loads of homework, because the teachers think it’s ok to give us 5000 word essays on our holiday.. Like seriously from every single teacher we have like a 5000 word essay. But, I still have a holiday. Also I think I’ll steal Michiel’s stolen idea; That I’ll do a blog every day of April, Well, every day of the holidays. I’ll call it BEDEH (Blog Every Day Easter Holidays). So hopefully that will be on my blog.
Also, We all got together on msn and decided that we would try and theme our blogs, so this week is my turn to set a theme. It is really difficult to think of one, so.. Easter.. I have no idea what we can do about Easter, but we’ll see how it goes. So my question will be, do you get any break over Easter, if so what will you do in it?
Michiel also told me (if he’s reading- sorry for stealing all your ideas) that he has a button on his website where you just type in your email, then click on a button and then his blogs will be sent to your email. I was wondering if we could do that on here, and how we’d do that? If anyone has anyone knows how, or thinks that we shouldn’t do it then lt me know via email or twitter or comments or something.
Now, the questions:
Emma- I try to save for things, but I never succeed. I don’t plan on ever having to worry too much about money.. So, I’d rather ‘live for the moment’ and blow it all on books and stuff :D I suppose though that until I am rich it would be sensible to start saving money. Also, I have decided that it’s very likely I will end up as a lawyer, but I hope that’s before I do something like writing books or something (factual books), but anyhow becoming a lawyer means studying for a long time, and also quite expensive fees but when you do become a lawyer you get payed LOADS!!
Chris- I prefer non-fiction. I am a fairly factual person, I value information and treasure it more than money, so I love anything that fascinates me. I actually dislike a lot of fiction, mainly because I think if they are poorly written books then they’re just terrible! And I find a lot of fiction isn’t that good. Feel free to try and convert me, but for me fiction books are normally terrible or absolutely genious and the best book ever.
It looks like that’s all for this week, Bye!!

FUCK YOU EYES!

For some strange reason my eyes have gotten very sore over the past couple hours. I have tried taking off my glasses, but that doesn't appear to have helped much.

Anyway, I have just returned from Fall Orientation Kickoff, which probably means nothing to you. Every year during the week before school starts we have a Fall Orientation (formerly known as U of C: 101) for all of the new incoming students. The thing is, is that we have about 6000 new students every year, and at least half of them attend orientation week. This also means that they need people to organize and run everything. So they get about 200 volunteers to run the event, on top of the University staff, I believe it's one of the biggest orientation programs in the country. Anyway, due to the large scale of the project they start getting volunteers many months in advance, and today was the first official event to get everyone together.

In related news, they have also created multiple paid positions for the summer to do all the behind the scenes work with the various orientations throughout the summer. So in my on going desperation to find summer work I applied to all the positions offered, and am really hopping I get one of them. Especially since the orientations are really fun, and I would love a job on campus with normal hours. I miss having a job with normal hours haha. I also might have a part time job at the astrophysical observatory.

On a side note, I am potentially planning a trip to San Francisco Pride which is very exciting, and I really hope it works out. It's at the end of June!

On to questions:

My own: I think my favorite things to buy would be electronics, books, shoes in that order haha. I've literally doubled the amount of books and shoes I own in the past year. Now I just need to read them all...

Sam: I didn't entirely understand the case, but it sounds like you have the upper hand with this.

Emma: I try to save money for the future, and can do it if I really want to. But as a student it is very difficult to do. That being said I am forced to save money, since I have to make enough money over 4 months to live for 8 months. The last two years I have just barely made it, but such is life as a student. Fortunately I have not needed to take out any student loans as of yet.

New question: Do you prefer reading fiction or non-fiction?