Just popping in

To be honest, the only reason I decided to write today is because I wanted to share a song with you. It is called "Was it I?" by a band called Takida. I really enjoy their music but this particular song I also love because of the video so I hope you enjoy! 

Yours sincerely,

Eli

Lazy is mainstream man!

I guess both Olivia and I have been a bit busy and lazy but I am here to break that lazy streak, at least for now. I don't have much to say apart from the fact that I have been relaxing for the last two days and I believe Olivia's been off on a spa weekend... Ow, how envious I am of her but also happy for her. 
It's hard to break a lazy streak so I think that's all I am going to leave you with actually but also, I had a lovely bowl of ice cream today so I will leave you with a picture of that too.

 And as for the song of the day. I was listening to this song while I was in the gym and I really love the song. I hope you enjoy it. "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran. 

Yours sincerely,
Eli

Sitting waiting, wishing that French would be over

For some mysterious reason our first video has stopped working, but hopefully some of you have been able to watch it. We're probably going to put up a new video soon anyway and see what happens. Plus, if we are too lazy to write to you everyday, making a video might be an easy alternative.

We had a French test today that took 3 hours of our precious afternoon. Well, we ended earlier than usual because of the test, so we should actually be happy but we had to really concentrate for a long time and that was rather boring and tiring and we both at some points almost fell asleep. Typical french. Just kidding.

At least we made up for our day by going out later on and having a drink with Felicia. A nice ending to this day.

 The favourite song of the day is "Sitting waiting wishing" by Jack Johnson.

Finally sleeping time!

Yours sincerely

Nasch

Firrrrst viddeooo!!!

Song of the day, "jag är en vampyr" by Markus Krunegård.

Enjoy!

Your sincerely,

Nasch

Must...Dance...

I've not been very good at writing posts this week, but I've had so many things to do so there just wasn't enough time. And right now I'm extremely tired so excuse me if my english is worse than usual.

Eli told me that I was acting funny today before our last class, which unfortunately was french, and by that she meant more funny than usual. I don't know, but I think it was because I already was tired and knew that I had to stay in town until late because of my orchestra, from whom I -by the way- got a couple of strange looks from when I played...

The favourite song of today is "Man Must Dance" by Johnossi.

I'm just going to leave you with the music video.

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Finally

AAAAHHH!!! IT'S HERE!!! IT'S FINALLY HERE!!! See, the thing is, my friends in Tanzania have been trying to get me to get a new phone so that I can have whatsapp so my aunt ordered a new phone for me a few days ago and it's finally here. She wanted to keep it till June because my original plan was to wait till June to get a new phone. It was a personal goal of mine but when I saw the new phone I just had to beg her so finally I have received my brand new white Sony Ericsson Xperia ray and I love it. Actually, it's still a bit annoying for me that it's a touch screen because I'm not a fan of touch screen phones but seriously they do not sell the non-touch screen phones that I want here so I went with the flow. Damnit! I'm mainstream now! Anyway other than that I also finally received an A in history. FINALLY!!! I was getting impatient but today we got our results for the reports we did (If you can remember how stressed we were with those damn things) and I got an A. Actually we got three grades and I got 2 A's and an E so I am quite happy now. 

We've started a biology practical and today while we were picking pine needles (that's our project- to find out how long a pine needle is) Kim's sister made her a flower head band (if you can call it that) and I thought it was so cute- worth sharing! And she is holding pine needles :D

So, song of the day. If you haven't heard it then I am truly shocked but glad I can be the first to introduce it to you. 'Fix you' by Coldplay. Beautiful song and great band.

Ok, I think I have a slight migraine so I am off. Have a great Friday everyone! And good luck with any thing you may have to tackle, I know I have maths to tackle. 

Yours sincerely,

Eli 

Tell my mom I'm gonna be alright

Yes, I know that I've been abscent for two whole days, but here I am, still not finishing my homework. 

So me and Eli have had two maths tests since my last post, and neither of us feel like we did particularly good so in that sense the last couple of days haven't been that great. But something amazing happened to me yesteday morning. I was sitting on the bus as casual as ever when I suddenly see a duplicate of a young(er) version of Gustav Norén (one of the singers in Mando Diao)! As you probably have noticed, I really like Mando Diao's music so this was quite exciting for me. But it gets better; he sat down next to me(on the bus) and awkwardly ate an apple. Actually, when I think about it now it's not really that exciting, but it still made my day.

So to honour this person that looked like a Swedish celebrity, my favourite song of today is "Train on fire" by Mando Diao.

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Poetic license

I don't feel like telling you about my day, 
Because I just don't have anything of interest to say,
I really do wish I had lots to share,
But alas, there's nothing there,
So instead here is my daily song,
I hope you enjoy and feel free to sing along. 


Ok, but on a serious non-poetic note, Felicia and I were listening to this song while in the gym and I really love it so I hope you do too. Some Die Young by Laleh. 

Have a great Wednesday everyone!


Yours sincerely,
Eli

AAH!!! The pain is unbearable!

I've been leaning my elbow on my table too hard apparently because now it really hurts when I rest it on anything so I have to life my elbows every time I type or write, like now for instance. So about my day, there's not much to tell, so I won't tell you so much. What I will tell you is that I went out with my friend, Jule for fika. It was great as always hanging out with her but I promised myself that I would start eating 'healthy' so in that area I kind of failed. Oh well! So that's about all that is slightly exciting that happened today. Sorry if my tone seems somewhat bored but I'm a bit sleepy so I'm about to go to sleep. 

So, song of the day. Chasing cars by Snow patrol. Enjoy! 

Yours sincerely,
Eli

Learn to love what you hate

My apologies for not having posted yesterday. My mind was elsewhere. I haven't done so much this weekend though so you didn't miss much. It's been studying maths, watching several animation shorts on youtube and chatting. Maths has been the most hectic. I really despise it and simply wish to improve in order to complete it and have it done with. Wouldn't it be heavenly though if you could love all your subjects? Actually, I take that back. It would only make subject choices a lot harder so in fact, thank you maths for being the subject I dislike and thus my easy choice :) Ah, but if I don't improve next month then I'm learning how to kick myself in the backside. Ow, wait! I already know how to do that. Ok, sorry I'm going off track now, let me tell you about today. I did the laundry. That's about it. I did try to study a little maths though. Aah! I can't wait till the next two weeks are over, we are jam packed with tests and I just want them to end. Let's hope they do quickly. 


As for the song of the day, I chose 'I move on', I'm not sure by who but it is the music video of the song from the short animation movie 'Sintel'. The song might not be the best but the movie brings me close to tears. For animation and touching story lovers, this is a must see. Such a beautiful 



For animation and touching story lovers, this is a must see. Such a beautiful story line about a girl looking for her only friend in the world, a dragon. 

I wish you people a joy filled week! Please wish Olivia and I luck and if we don't post for 2 days or more, find help! I'm just kidding :)


Or am I...? 

The End

Yours sincerely,

Eli

Why does the weekend have to end?

Now it's decided! I'm going to have a spa-weekend with my sister and mum in two weeks! It's exactly what I need after these next couple of weeks, some time to really relax and take it easy.

Right now I'm doing some homework that I should have started with yesterday since I now don't have time to do any maths and we're having a maths test tomorrow.

The favourite song favourite song of today is called "Oh Boy" by Miss Li, a Swedish artist who I used to listen to about a year ago. The song is a bit weird but the video fits it perfectly.

Sorry about the short post but I really should be studying right now.

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Ordinary day

Nothing happened today. Absolutely nothing that was out of the ordinary. I went to school, went to my classes, went home, went out for a jog, went to bed. Well, I'm going to go to bed right now. Oh, and I watched some episodes of "Heroes", an American TV-series that I recently got hooked on.

Favourite song of the day? "Everybody Loves Me" by One Republic, and I don't really have a good reason for choosing it, I just found it in my archives today and thought "this is a such great song, it should be the song of the day".

Sweeeeeet dreeeeeeams!

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Let's hit the gym!

Friday at last! A great day this was too. Not so much to tell but we did have our Friday Fika and my friend Kim baked a cake. It was cute so hard to cut but also delicious. 

What other thing of interest can I tell you about. The gym! Well, I finally went to the gym with Felicia. We worked out for about an hour and it feels great now but I'm quite tired which is why that is about all I am telling you about my day. 

My song of the day is 'Klimbin'. Another song by Don Ross with no singing. I originally heard it from another artist called Andy McKee but apparently they did it together or something of the sort, I didn't research into it so I can't be sure. Anyway, ENJOY! 

Yours sincerely,
Eli

Fuzzy World

Wow, Eli's favourite song of today is extremely accurate for my thursdays aswell.

The Thursday today have been boring and long and sleepy and useless. The only thing that was good was the sun (if I don't count the absolutely mental people that always brighten my day). I started my day by forgetting my glasses at home and therefore my whole world has been fuzzy today. I had a hard time seeing what the teachers wrote on the whiteboard and so I've got a lovely headache right now (adding a huge amount of sarcasm there).

Anyway, my favourite song of today is "Friday I'm in love" by The Cure, because I'm going to focus on that tomorrow actually is Friday. By the way, sorry about the bad video but I couldn't find anyone better.

Yours sincerely

Friday Lover (Olivia)

Thursdays, where did we go wrong? I don't even like you now.

Agh, Thursday! I used to like Thursdays, honestly but now I always find myself looking for the end of the day but today was actually ok. I had an english test in the morning which, in my opinion, went well and then nothing special throughout the rest of the day. Although, I did see the student adviser (if that's what I can call him) and we were talking about options for taking Swedish summer courses. Not easy. 
The most interesting part of my day though was after school. I went for fika or coffee (I'm not sure how you'd translate that into English) with one of my friends and not the most amazing thing happened, by far actually, but we got a small interview by some reporters. It was just a small thing about what we think about the fact that so many people come out when the sun does. I said it was unusual for me because I'd never seen so many people in town like these recent days. The sun has amazing powers. Unfortunately, I didn't think of taking any pictures. Sorry. Anyway, that's about it for my day. 


As for the song, I like Eva Simons but I'm still not as amazed at her more recent songs like I was about silly boy. Either way, I decided to pick 'I don't like you' to dedicate it to Thursdays. Listen to the words and you'll know what I mean. Ow, but don't get me wrong, that's not the only reason I chose this song today. It is actually a good song, my earlier point was simply that it is not as good as the first song of hers that I heard which was silly boy so ENJOY!!! :D



Yours sincerely,
Eli

I smell summer!

The weather was like a hot summerday's today. Wonderful, except maybe a bit too hot when I was biking home.

My day started with me oversleeping by an hour (a whole HOUR!) but I took my mom's bike and was only late by about 15 minutes. Well, I would have been if the lesson wasn't cancelled. It turned out that all our lessons today were cancelled except maths. So therefore I decided to just go home and work with some homework instead. To conclude; I hurried to school, didn't have any lessons, sat in the school library for an hour and then biked home again. Ah well, it could have been worse I guess.

Because of the sunny weather the favourite song of today is "Summerboy" by Lady GaGa. I know that Eli isn't a big fan of hers but I don't really mind her, she's just extremely excessive sometimes (Lady GaGa that is, not Eli). And this song just gives me a great feeling of summer, I don't really know why.

Summer is coming, at last!

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Still hung over

Short, productive but boring. That's what today was. Ow, and HOT AS HELL!!! Mostly when I was waiting for my bus but it was crazy. I think I should stop wearing jeans soon but I'm sure as soon as I do that the snow will watch me and think "HAHA!!! Now, she is vulnerable. We must attack!" I'm just waiting for it -_- 


So I stole my friends phone today and started taking pictures while we were in the library with one of the apps he had on it. The first one I didn't do anything to but I thought it was cute. 

I love pictures like these. Sure they are easy to take and maybe nothing too special but there's something about them that I really love. 

Song of the day? I'm still hung over The Script so in a likewise manner I choose 'If you ever come back'. I hope you enjoy! 

Yours sincerely,
Eli

Feeling careless

I got home late yesterday night and was too tired to write anything, but I'm going to tell you about the day now instead.

It was a special day yesterday, at least here in Sweden. Every year we celibrate the first of May by not having school or work that day, and the night before (30th of April) we light big fires around town and watch fireworks. Nowadays we say that we do it to greet the spring, but the tradition really comes from the old and supersticious days when the Swedes lit fires to keep witches and other supernatural creatures away.

I spent the night with a gang of old friends from my last class, which was great because it has been a while since we all talked and we had some catching up to do.

Moving on to what my day today was like. First I slept to about 11 then I decided to not let my afternoon go to waste and got up. I did about half of our psychology homework which later proved to be absolutely useless since we apparently don't have to hand it in tomorrow anyway. 

I also had my first driving lesson today and it was amazing! I have been a bit hesitant about learning how to drive because I've felt like driving is for adults and I don't want to be an adult yet. But today when I sat at the wheel and drove around at the carriageway I felt so good and now I'm really looking froward to taking my drivers license.

I also broke my camera today which means that I might not have any pictures for a while.

Gosh, this is a long post, but now it's only the favourite song of the day left. So here it is; "Lucky" by Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat. It's a cute song that is nice to listen to if you don't feel like listening to a song with  extremely meaningful lyrics.

EARLY NIGHT YOU ALL!

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Days like these

Today was such a beautiful day! Today they welcomed spring to Sweden and it truly is spring now. I love it! Unfortunately, I had plans to go to town with one of my friends but due to some communication problems I ended up staying home. At first, I won't lie, I was quite annoyed not at my friend but because the day was so gorgeous that I could not spend it all indoors. So what I did was go for a nice walk with my aunt around the area we live in. It felt really great! I love beautiful days like these. 

I love Plain White T's but this song is more special. It is their beautiful song called Boomerang. Enjoy! :)

Yours sincerely,

Eli

I hear the angels talking, now I'm a dead man walking.

Why is it that half the other classes got to stay home but we did not. That is unjust and should be illegal! I'm just joking but I think knowing the fact that half the school was at home today made the day just that much more boring. I was glad when school ended. I went out for a smoothie with Felicia and then came home and when I got home, after visiting the supermarket with my aunt first, I made dinner. Spaghetti and minced meat sauce, so good! And I'm glad that now I actually know how to make it myself. Other than that I've just been relaxing and watching some of the songs that might go through to the eurovision song contest.


I was not too impressed so instead I'll be picking a different song as the song of the day which is 'Dead man walking' by The Script. Ever since Olivia posted 'this is love' I've been listening to their album and really loving it so I think this is not the last you'll hear of them.



I say hurray to a free day as tomorrow is the first of May. :)


Yours sincerely,
Eli

If you let me

Almost finished with my room now!!!

Sorry about the mess that is my bed... I'm not exactly a neat person.

So on the picture you can see my new bookshelf, and the bright thing on the left is the window if someone wanted to know.

Pretty much all of my day was used to finding a good bookshelf and putting it together and unpacking my stuff. But I also had time for an evening run and some strawberry eating (whoop whoop).

The favourite song of today is "Take Care" by Drake ft. Rihanna. Although personally I like the cover by Florence + The Machine better (surprising, huh?) so I will post both videos below.

Hope you all take care of yourselves this week.

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Stronger

I didn't do much today. I woke up almost at 1 then ran to the supermarket and when I came back I made a salad and then sat with my aunt and had a lovely lunch. After that I talked to my sister for a while which was great because I missed her and finally, I did nothing much. I watched TV and chatted which was also great, especially the chatting part. Nonetheless, I had a great day :D 
That's it from me really :)


The song of the day is stronger by Kanye West, judging by the comments people made it wasn't a very popular song because he 'stole it' from Daft Punk but I actually like it. I love Daft Punk too but this one is not bad either. 



Yours sincerely,
Eli

...or Russia

I have been cleaning and moving things around all day today, but I'm not quite finished yet. My room looks a bit messy right now but tomorrow I'm going to buy a new bookshelf and tidy up the last couple of things. That is why I'm not posting any pictures, I don't want you to see it until it's completely finished! But I can say this much, it looks bigger after all the throwing of stuff that I've been doing.

I thought that I would continue with the Eurovision Song Contest theme and chose a...special song...as the favourite of today. It's from Russia and I really don't know what is going on, but I thought that I needed some new perspectives of music so here it is: "Party For Everybody" by something I can't pronounce. Or write. Or understand.

I'm laughing so hard right now, I LOVE these ladies! Hope you all do too.

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Wooooo! GERMANY!!!

I knew today would be a good day! Went swimming with some friends which was great. We swam for a few hours going on the slides, jumping around and just having fun then we went out for some food. I love kebab! After that some ben and jerry's ice cream. It was funny because we were sitting and just enjoying our ice cream and when we were done this random drunk dude came up to one of my friends and starts asking him something random. I think he was asking for 'the drugs' or something like that. Either way we ended that awkward situation by getting up and walking to the bus stop where I just watched my bus drive away. I had to wait another half an hour but it was ok. We walked to the main bus station, waited a little then I said goodbye and I was off. Unfortunately, I got a really irritating headache which is still lingering as I write which is why I am not filling you with details. Either way, just know that I had a pretty great day! :)


Before we went swimming we passed through town and there was some lady belly dancing. It was interesting. 

 I love these flowers. Makes me feel like spring is really here :)

And as for the song of the day. I picked this years eurovision song contest Roman Lob because he is the German representative. I was sooooooooooooo incredibly happy when I heard this because I really didn't want my own countries singer to sound like crap so when it was actually good, I was thrilled! Not sure if he will win, after all, Swedens representative is also really good but at least I like them both and think that the German singer is good. For now, I am content. 



Yours sincerely, 
Eli

Standing Under A White Flag

I've put most of the things in my room in moving boxes and it feels really empty now. No I'm not about to move, I'm refurnituring my room a bit. It's amazing how much weird and wacky stuff you find! Now I'm laughing at myself for making the most un-funny pun this week -I'm not even sure that it counts as a pun-, and believe me I've made some extremely dull pun-jokes the last couple of days.

Anyway, the best thing I found was the cable to my camera charger, so tomorrow I will publish some pics of my "new" room, hopefully.

The favourite song of today is "This Is Love" by The Script, because we all need to feel love sometimes, or rather all the time.

Hope you all feel loved!

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Everything in moderation

By 9:10am today, I was done with school. I only had one lesson and it was pointless going. If it wasn't for my overly guilty conscience I probably wouldn't have gone, I didn't do anything anyway but at least I saw my friends. That's always an upside. Other than that I've been feeling bad today. I woke up with plans to go to school then go swimming for about an hour or more but I felt so bad I ended up just coming home and sleeping and sleeping... and sleeping some more! A bit too much. I almost literally stayed in bed all day and I have gone back to feeling bad again. Aaaaaah! Anyway let's hope tomorrow is a brighter day. I'll be going swimming with my friends so that should be fun. One great thing of my day though was that I got to talk to my sister who is in Australia. It was great because I miss her so much. 

I played with this picture a little using an app on my phone but this is how I was feeling today. 

So the song of the day. Around the World by Daft Punk, I appreciate the weirdness of the video and love the band so, enjoy!

I hope you have a great weekend ahead of you!


Yours sincerely,
Eli

They stole my name!

I'm so tired so I'm keeping this short. Well, there's not much to say anyway. We finally finished the history reports and handed them in so I feel like a weight was just been lifted. Other than that I've been feeling zombified. Anyway a good nights sleep should fix that so good night :)


And I found a band with my name in it (thieves) so I thought I'd put it. It's not exactly my type of music but it's not a bad song either and... THEY STOLE MY NAME!!! I just had to put it. But they probably pronounce it different because mine is short for Elisabeth. Anyway enjoy!



Yours sincerely,
Eli

It don't matter if you're Tanzanian or Swedish

FFFIIIIINNAAALLLLYYYY!!!!!! That was the feeling I had when I left school today after sending in my history report. So now I'm just going to relax this weekend. I think I might move the furniture around in my room to change things up a bit and perhaps also get my stuff in some order...

My day started with a national test in Swedish. You were supposed to write an essay in three hours, which was a bit excessive since we only had to write between 300-600 words and I took my time (I mean really took my time) and I sat for two hours. Now the only thing I can do is wait for the result and hope for the best.

The favourite song of today is a classic; "Black or White" by Michael Jackson, because errmm... perhaps because my history essay wasn't supposed to be either black or white but in a greyzone inbetween. Okay, that didn't make any sense but you know what I mean.

Early night tonight (kind of)!

Yours sincerely

Olivia

I'm convinced it works

We're not going to talk much about the history essay. Both of us have been working hard on it and the only thing we will tell you now is that by tomorrow we should be done. Both of us.


I'm sure you've heard loads of times that classical music helps when you need to study or when you are doing homework but how many of us actually sit and listen to Beethoven or Mozart when we are studying? Actually Eli does sometimes although not the orchestra versions of it. As both of us being guitar lovers we sometimes listen to beautiful acoustic guitar playing. No singing, no other instruments, just sheer plain guitar playing. The sound is heavenly so the song of the day is Don Ross' acoustic guitar version of Gnarls Barkley's song 'Crazy'. We hope you enjoy. 
A little tip: try listening to this type of music when you are stressed or doing homework or studying and see if it helps. 



Leave us a comment and tell us if it worked for you :)


Yours sincerely,
Nasch

Rumour Has It

I just cried watching "Desperate Housewives". I almost shocked myself because I never cry when I'm watching a series or a movie. I really don't know why I started to weep, I mean one of the husbands on the lane died and had a funeral with flashbacks and sad children and extremely emotional wives, but that usually doesn't trigger my tear channals. Ah well, I'm probably just a normal hormonal teenager with a over-emotional day.

The favourite song of today is "Rumour has it" by Adele, who I think has an AMAZING voice.

I won't take up anymore of your time today because I've got history to do!

Yours sincerely

Olivia

Just want it done

I'll do this now as this is probably the only time I'll have. I've been doing my history work since I came home and am currently still doing it. I just want to have it done with and my deadline is on Thursday so getting it done would be a good idea. As for today, I started school at 11:15 and my first lesson was physical education so it was great. The downside was a two hour long maths lesson where I really couldn't seem to concentrate and do my work. I think the feeling was shared though. So I took some random pictures when we got a break.

And the song of the day is Dressed in Dresden by The Hundred in The Hands. I have no idea what the video I found has to do with the song but there you go. You never know, you might like the video so I hope you enjoy!



Now, I feast on some scrumptious pancakes before resuming my work.


Yours sincerely,
Eli