Hej
Jag har saknat dig.
Det har varit så mycket nu de senaste veckorna så jag har blivit helt førvirrad, så førvirrad att jag fått koncentrera mig på att gå upp på morgonen och æta tre gånger om dagen.
Intryck intryck intryck intryck. Nytt nytt nytt nytt. Det har varit påfrestande.
Location: Borups højskole, Copenhagen
Studies: Politics, Journalism, Painting, Dance, Theatre
Adress: Mysundegade, c/o Cecilie and James
Nu måste jag gå, vi ska høra på en filosof som ska prata om KÆRLEK.
Efter det ska jag ta min cykel och åka till min blivande adress..
Plans and changed plans
It's been a while.
One funny thing; for the first time Maja and I (mostly Maja....actually, when I think of it, only Maja, I just tried to give her some artistic directions) created the header to this blog we both thought it was the absolutly most ridiculous creation we've seen. And I thought I would change it the day after. But I was too lazy.
But now I'm here, one year later and I've still havn't done anything about it.
SERIOUSLY. This header. It looks like I'm a gic in a advertisment who belives that she knows the way for YOU. The text doesn't help much either. "Each day counts Hanna" in cursive. Come On! Well, well I can be romantic sometimes, but I don't understand this header. So why do I give this pitcure?
To my defense I can say to you that it hasn't been the priority 1 for me. If you've read my blog, you know me much more. And if you havn't the patience to read after the first impression, than......you have missed something.
Our world is so quick nowadays, there seem to be no time for being still for a moment and actually see. I've realised it makes me sad. But when realising it I can see it and change it.
Songs are like memories-boxes for me. When "America by Simon and Garfunkel" plays I close my eyes and i'm on a road in Israel. When i hear "Nation by Laleh" I'm underground in London. When I hear "Viva la vida by Coldplay" i'm on a bus in India. When I hear "Somliga går med trasiga skor" by Cornelis I'm in a car with my family, I', five years and we're driving thrugh the landscapes of north sweden. I could make this list very very long.......................................................................................................
I talked to my mum last week. Thank god someone can take me down to earth when I mostly need it.
I miss Maja who is in America right now. I really do miss you Maja.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLcw4juIMk&ob=av3e
oh jeg helt glemte å fortelle deg at jeg bor i Norge akkurat nå. Long story short: I'm working in a pirate costume in a restaurant in Norways biggest Zoo, I'm staying with my old good friend Anna and her flatmates. It's great to be with them, but we work a lot. Good to survive, too bad we don't have much time to live. But that's all about attitude. Who says I can't be free? Who says I can't live when I work?
Love
Kära blogg
Time is a definition. Anna said to me "-Compared to Israel, the way I interpret it, Brighton seem to be a in-between period for you." She's right. Even though I was in England for a little bit longer period it feels like I can't even compare the two. Israel was an adventure in every category, it could have end up in any way, It is defintely the most rewarding, intersting I've done after graduation. Brighton was more predictable, not bad, I'm glad I've actually been living there and have seen great cities and beautiful countrysides. It is interesting to watch people's life in different parts of the world.
I'm in Kristiansand, with Anna. It feels good. In two days we (all six in out sweidsh collective) goin to have our first workday in Sjörövargrillen på Dyreparken.
Oh God Oh Dear Help Me See
It's hard to precise what it is exactly that makes me blind. Maybe it's studys. Maybe it's the bubble I'm living in. Maybe it's my own attitude and the ways I choose to follow. But that is not really the important part. The important part is that I see now.
A week ago when my very best friend Maja visited me I had the best time. Times of sitting in the sun on the beach of Brighton with some food and my guitar, it's life. One night when we were sitting at the pub, eric said to me "I really like the question you have on your bedtable "DO YOU READ STORIES OR DO YOU LIVE THEM?". And then he contiuned "Do you? I see you reading when you laying in your bed". At that point I woke up a little.
Every class with our british teacher ulf seem to make me feel down and every class with our american teacher nat seem to make me leave the classroom with a head full of questions and inspiration. That speaks for itselfs. Now. Why is it so hard to tell the people that are really important and great that they are really important and great? I just want to stop him and say Thankyou for making my day. Shy is not an acceptable excuse. Come on, everyone can be shy, you just have to find a way to deal with it. (im trying to convince myself if thats not clear enough)
So after Nat's lecture today I woke up again.
I don't want to see the world with these passive eyes anymore. No no no. Not my style.
Lynn Hirschberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X_gjhZNGaI&NR=1
So, so, so, so.
Me - "What if you feel like you're coming nowhere all the time....."
Sara - "hahhaha, then you have to go for many, many beers. All you can do!"
... I love you as exiled souls love each other when they meet in the middle of the desert." Paulo Coelho
Seven sisters



מאמין

Home is where you are
Now I'm sitting here in the Libary, after a grammar lecture, sorrunded by other students. I wonder what they're doing. Studying? Are you sure? Well yes, some of them are for sure doing serious studies. But many of them are just sitting in their own thoughts just like me... All day long I've felt this need for being alone. That's the disadvantage of being a poor student, you have to accept to share your accomandation sometimes. Means it's hard to get some privatcy. Now I sound like a maverick (ensamvarg), but I don't think people here would call me that, because I usually act very social. But maybe I need to be alone more than I think.
Anyway... My love for my friends and everything that make me feel at home, have appered very clear to me these days.
Our american culture teacher says that many americans have identital crisis, like they not belong anywhere. I think many are..... The source, of where creative music and art emerge, is very often where a lot of different immigrants from all over the world collide. As in New york, London, Israel. As a foreigner you are the most vulnerble alien, desperate of finding you way. But they are indeed also the most innovative and open people.
I had one tea bag left from when Anna and Anna were here, we drank yogi tea. A little message hung from it..... Challanges create strengths.
This song is stuck inside my head
You got to give a little more than you take
You got to leave a little more than what's here
You may be frightful of the strifes you will meet
But keep one thing clear
You're just a player in a much bigger plan
And still you got to give it all that you can
The very measure of your soul is at stake
You got to give a little more than you take
The title of my essay: "If you can master the language, you can master the world"
We've read the play "Educating Rita", which is about an young woman of the working class wanting to live and control her life.
My secondary source is an text about speeches of Hitler and Churchill.
INTERESTING, you think?
Well, well, well you... Some words can do much in some situations.
I saw Prince of Egypt this morning....I flew away back to Israel for a while. The music in Disney films is incredible. ..... There can be miracles, when you believe..... DON'T ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN YOU ASKING FOR IT....AND IT'S EASY TO GIVE IN....BUT A SMALL BUT STILL RELIEVING VOICE......SAYS AID IS VERY NEAR....oOOOOO!!!! I had my own little show here for my window, hahahaha!
....Life in Brighton....








i wish i was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
The best film I've seen in months is.....no dout about it.......Breakfast club. It's basically about an 8 hour long detention. How much can happen in a classrum, somewhere in Chicago in the 80's, between five totally different students? A geek, a princess, a criminal, a sport fan and a completely weirdo. Everyone has their own story. You better see it!!
The first two weeks in Brighton I went to the cinema four times and saw Black Swan, Never let me go, Kings speech and Brighton rock. I know, it's a special part of my character, I just have to go all in sometimes. The only memorable experience I've got was from Black Swan, in a bad way, I was feeling sick literally. But it wasn't really bad, it was fascinating in a scary, wonderful way.
Homever (OH MY GOD, don't tell me I'm using that silly word our grammar teacher force us to use instead of BUT, It makes me so annoyed!) I've missed films like Breakfast club.
Almost famous is also a good one. I'm nostalgic because that film was occurred in the 70's.
I wonder if a new hippie period is going to come soon. Hope so.
firework
And let it shine
Cos you're a firework

A guitar and a bedside table, what can you more wish for?
Yesterday was my lucky day. After a day of walking around in all the small streets of Brighton by myself, (I was hunting a cheap guitar, that is harder than you can imagine).... But I took a break when I met Bianca and took a cappucino with her. On my way home to Hove we past the musicshop and guess whaaaaat, I found my guitar there :) And while walking up for Lansdowne street, with the guitar on my back, I found a little bedside table beside the container. Someone had abandoned it there. So now it has its place beside my bed, perfect.
.....
your eyes are on the waves of silver. People and birds and thoughts and colours and your memories are passing you by. Do you see? The sky is endless above your head, while you're walking. You hear music. You hear voices. Sounds. The wind is coming, the wind is going
, do you follow? You feel, but can never explain.
Make my day
Here comes a message I want to live for every day of my life. You only live once. Once. Life is way to short to have boring och do something you find meaningless. It really is. IT REALLY IS, SO WAKE UP. Why are you doing something you don't want to do? To be good? For who? Sooo tragic. Why do you choose to whine when you can laugh about all the comic situations of life? Why do you worry instead of beliveing that everything is gonna be ok.
(I don't think it's a good idea to smile-like-we-mean-it-smile 24/7, but that's not really my point at all. To be down sometimes is a essential part of life. I talked about this while eating my breakfast in the most cosy english cafe with my friend Bianca this morning. Our conclusion: There is no more terrible thing than a constant fake-smile on someone's face. But a pure smile for less than one second, a smile with your eyes can make your day. By the way, I ate a toast banana cake which I LOVED).
Occasionaly I just wake up and thinking about when I'm old, it would be a nighmare if I sat there and ask myself why I didn't dare to live. And by the way I want to live when I'm an old lady as well.
Ok then. Where is my sense of homour? Serious serious Hanna, ease up. My funny stories I used to tell....
Well here is one.
Me and Bianca at a party.
We ate a lot of cakes and sat in the sofa for hours and nothing seemed to happens. No really good converasations. No really good music. We looked at each other and we both knew we were thinking the same thought. This atmosphere is so killing all kind of creativity.
-Is something going to happen here? Bianca asked me.
-Seems that this tea party never gonna turn to something else. I said.
-Why are we here then? Bianca asked.
-We're in fucking Brighton, have we forgotten? There're lots of pubs. I said.
-Let's go then.
I waved gentle with my hand to the rest of the party members.
-Where are you think you're going?
-Out. I said.
-But we're coming with you.
-Sure, I said.
-We're going now, Bianca said, NOW.
-But we must wait for everyone.
(Everyone is including 20 different persons wishes)
-Goodbye. I said.
And we went. Took our bottle of wine and walked to the south lanes. It was so much nicer to talk about weird and right-on conversations, so tierd of going around the real point.
Sun
I think I got the inspiration from yesterday, when me and my class where on a guidetour thrugh the english countryside. I was amazed of the beautiful nature and the small villages and towns we saw... it's like scenes from Pride and Prejudice or scenes from the hobbits villages in The Lord of the Ring. But even more genuin. I didn't expect that, so I was overwhelmed.
Today I'm going to enyoy this sunny day. (rainy days are standard otherwise)
I miss you. I hope you enjoy your day whereever you are.
Have patience...I'm learning
It can be hard to live with people and it can be hard to live without people. That's what I've learned today.
And I've even learned what concord is when it comes to correctness in the English language.
What have I learned more?
That it's beautiful too see the flowers grow outside this university window I'm sitting next too.
That thoughts about traveling and friends of mine make me feel warm.
My learnings for today. Lets see if Im gonna learn something more before this day is over.
I would like to learn how scones and tea taste on a day like this. :)
Time to write.....
Hey dear friends,
I've in a period when I have to write and listen to music constantly. My poor ears never get a break and my fingers gonna be affected as well......hahahahaha. No, I think I know when enough is enough and enough isn't reached yet. I still have more words in my head, and they have to get out in some way otherwise they gonna stuck there and I will never be able to understand them.....
Enough analysing......
Two days ago I spend my day in.... LONDON. I loved it and I realized that I live so close to London.... amazing. I have to go many times. See theatres and musicals....drink too much cappucino and nice drinks. And eat sushi!!!
I asked some friends, last time at the pub, if they thought I was half-french or half-american or if both my parents were swedish. A little exmperient of mine. Most of them thought I was half-french, one thought I was half-american. None thought I was "full-swedish". Interstin, beacause I am. And know you wondering about the people involved in this experiment, backgrounds, relationsship to me, about the environment and the time of the day ect ect......I can have something to do with the way I asked the question....if I asked a special question like the one I asked, people may think it has a special answear. They we're all my classmates, except from one Norweigan guy....
History is intersting. I've always thought so. Imaging how other people lived their lives before me. American, swedish and british culture and history have a lot of similiarites, but they are created thrugh ages and many factors is involved when explaining why cultures are as they are.... We're very good at drawing borders, we human beings. (When you say human beings, doesn't it has a negative, condescending tone? It's like we don't belive in ourself. Too destructive way of thinking I think!)
Think about all lovestories of this world. All the children of the world, in the past, in the present and in the future....borned to this planet...all the stories. There's a million stories and a million ways. (sorry If I sound fuzzy and waaaay too much , but I've always thought that the one who is against fuzzy subjects are actually the most naive one....because he never questioning anything, he just buy the science or facts or religions or whatever).
Enough for today fellows :)