I have a lot to say but nothing to say. I'm to tired of saying what i feel about anything right now and i just want to go home because of my serious homesickness. I'm just very tired from being away from home and i know realize that i'm not yet ready to move out of the country which i've concidered before after school. well well i haven't really tried yet. i guess i would need my own place to be able to feel how it would be living out of Sweden. well well...
Home soon and that's a good thing
Sunday 3 August 2008
Thursday 31 July 2008
The comment
Off course you could see the whole thing in different ways right?
More people would think one thing and the rest another...
One way of seeing it is that you go there very excited really looking forward about going there because someone somewhere has told you about the place in a very good way. This person tells you that the whole experience was so amazingly beautiful so that everybody should go there and try the healing surgery. You get there brainwashed by this person giving you huge expectations about something that seems so little but also so fantastic that you really start believing in it.
Another way can be that you're just curious about what will happen when you go there. How the whole thing will look and what the healing medium will do to you. You might not be very excited and believing about it but you feel that something like that is worth experiencing.
And then you can be the one who are not spiritual at all just going also because of the curiosity about what they will do and what will happen even though you don't think anything is going to change after.
You get there and however your feeling is the curiosity drives you in to this experience.
If you are very excited and then get the book to sign your name and your problem, you really consider what you want to be cured inside your body. If you feel a pain or something that is instable in your body you write it. If you're very serious about this you consider your answer and don't do any mistakes. Then you only write one place in your body where you feel there has to be a change. If you can't find anywhere in your body with an illness you go deep and think about the past and then write down one organ or part of your body where you want to feel a difference.
You believe it and get the surgery and after the treatment you feel better. Why?
Not because of the surgery, but because of that you believed in the process.
This is what i think. You become what you believe. If you believe in a change that you are going to feel better... You will.
People feel different every day. One day you can have a bad headache and one day you can feel healthy as a celery plant. Every day is different depending on how your mood is. Maybe if it's raining you can feel very bad and you find places in your body that hurts, or it can be a beautiful weather and you will feel fantastic.
Off course if you really do have an injury in your body or a bad lever you can't change it in a day, but if you believe that you're going to be better you will if you live right and don't push your self down in to the ground when you feel bad.
I've heard of people having a very weak heart going to faith healers and then gotten rid of their heart disease after a year. After this just living on as any human beings with no problems at all. Things like that sounds unreel and a little bit weird, but if it happened it happened. I still don't believe that it was about the surgery. Maybe a small part has to do with it like the medium gave you some advices like: Don't eat cholesterol, Don't use tampons, listen to others more, don't swim when you feel uncomfortable or lower your voice.
These tips she gave us. The thing about cholesterol anyone could say. Even my mother. What you can take it as is that you might should worry about your diet and care about what you're eating. That's a good and simple advice. Just like Jesus with his clever and simple advices helped people and still does 2000 years later. Respect for that.
Don't use tampons. Same thing. A very simple and clever advice if it were from your mother when you're 13.
All of these advices: Very good advices to use further on in life. think about what you're eating, doing and saying.
Anyway. I think it was very interesting, but not good at all because the days after i just felt bad and my stomach hurt so that's that.
Talk to you soon.
More people would think one thing and the rest another...
One way of seeing it is that you go there very excited really looking forward about going there because someone somewhere has told you about the place in a very good way. This person tells you that the whole experience was so amazingly beautiful so that everybody should go there and try the healing surgery. You get there brainwashed by this person giving you huge expectations about something that seems so little but also so fantastic that you really start believing in it.
Another way can be that you're just curious about what will happen when you go there. How the whole thing will look and what the healing medium will do to you. You might not be very excited and believing about it but you feel that something like that is worth experiencing.
And then you can be the one who are not spiritual at all just going also because of the curiosity about what they will do and what will happen even though you don't think anything is going to change after.
You get there and however your feeling is the curiosity drives you in to this experience.
If you are very excited and then get the book to sign your name and your problem, you really consider what you want to be cured inside your body. If you feel a pain or something that is instable in your body you write it. If you're very serious about this you consider your answer and don't do any mistakes. Then you only write one place in your body where you feel there has to be a change. If you can't find anywhere in your body with an illness you go deep and think about the past and then write down one organ or part of your body where you want to feel a difference.
You believe it and get the surgery and after the treatment you feel better. Why?
Not because of the surgery, but because of that you believed in the process.
This is what i think. You become what you believe. If you believe in a change that you are going to feel better... You will.
People feel different every day. One day you can have a bad headache and one day you can feel healthy as a celery plant. Every day is different depending on how your mood is. Maybe if it's raining you can feel very bad and you find places in your body that hurts, or it can be a beautiful weather and you will feel fantastic.
Off course if you really do have an injury in your body or a bad lever you can't change it in a day, but if you believe that you're going to be better you will if you live right and don't push your self down in to the ground when you feel bad.
I've heard of people having a very weak heart going to faith healers and then gotten rid of their heart disease after a year. After this just living on as any human beings with no problems at all. Things like that sounds unreel and a little bit weird, but if it happened it happened. I still don't believe that it was about the surgery. Maybe a small part has to do with it like the medium gave you some advices like: Don't eat cholesterol, Don't use tampons, listen to others more, don't swim when you feel uncomfortable or lower your voice.
These tips she gave us. The thing about cholesterol anyone could say. Even my mother. What you can take it as is that you might should worry about your diet and care about what you're eating. That's a good and simple advice. Just like Jesus with his clever and simple advices helped people and still does 2000 years later. Respect for that.
Don't use tampons. Same thing. A very simple and clever advice if it were from your mother when you're 13.
All of these advices: Very good advices to use further on in life. think about what you're eating, doing and saying.
Anyway. I think it was very interesting, but not good at all because the days after i just felt bad and my stomach hurt so that's that.
Talk to you soon.
Saturday 26 July 2008
Breaking news!
Yesterday I came back from something you'd either hate, love or just find interesting. The "Psychic surgery" up in the north of this country was in a little village/city with a three storage mall and almost nothing else.
We arrived to the Medium in the simple little chapel on Friday around noon. 20 people were sitting and watching the surgery up on the podium in the front of the chapel. What you could see on this place was first of all before we went inside a family with kids and grandparents sitting around like totally normal people(not that i can define normal but...), a front gate in an alley with a gate door that was in the height of up to my chest. And when we went inside the chapel.. Back to the podium. The "surgery" was already going on when we got in so we just sat our selves down to wait for our turn. Anyway, you could see the podium, on the left side below the stairs up to the podium you could see a sign with rules like: If you have had a spiritual injection during 24 hours do not: Shower or bath, sponge only. No sexual activity for the next 36 days. No cold or sour food, No chicken and beef or any kind of red meat.
Ha ha... I took a shower the morning after.
Up on the podium you could see a desk where the patient was laying to get "healed" surrounded by three people healing the patient. There was one woman who was the actual medium for St. Luke and she was the one doing the main work in the surgery.
The first thing we did when we came in to the chapel was to write our name and something that was bad with our body in a big book. I didn't know what to write because i didn't really know what is wrong with my body so i just wrote: Benjamin Lindh Medin, Back, Stomach.
Then we waited for our turn to get up and get our treatment and finally after one hour it was our turn!
We got up together as a group me, my dad, Jessie and Vijaya and I was first up. The medium lady told me to lay down on the desk and take off my shirt. Then she started moving around her hands on my stomach with oil and tissues. I didn't really understand anything in the beginning because she didn't say anything, but after a while of massaging my stomach she said: Your lever. I went: what about it? And then she didn't answer with more than that it wasn't clean, so she had to clean it. After a period of five minutes she said that i should eat less cholesterol and then she said i was done. I was about to leave, but than another guy sat me down and i got a massage for a couple of minutes then i was able to leave the podium.
I'm not going to tell you what they told all the others because that would take to much time to read, but what i can say is that the medium lady said kind of the same things to them and some more personal. Another thing about what happened to all of us was that they pulled out red colored tissues from the stomach and said it was blood.
During the same day after this we were all a little confused about what just happened, we went to see The Dark Night in this big mall in the middle of nowhere called Magic Mall. It really was a magic mall! The movie was great but what happened during the movie was magic. Three times during this action filled film the whole theater turned black. All the lights went off...
The reason was that it had been raining and storming a lot in this little village/city so that there had been a power cut. You could actually hear the rain more than the movie at some points. Very interesting!
Where we stayed was not important, but it was a very nice simple place in a beautiful tropic area. Very good fish in the restaurant too.
Well well.. The day after we all went back to the faith healer one last time just for a quick in and out thing before we left. We turned out waiting for two hours for our turn. When i got up on that desk for the second time she started the same way as the first day, but this time she didn't do that much. After two minutes she said: Oh interesting! You're clean.
Then she worked a little bit more on the stomach and around the ribcage and then i was done.
Three and a half hour ride to a middle of nowhere somewhere in the Philippines getting a massage for nothing than tip money in a very simple chapel. I'm not going to leave any comments.
You can please leave your comments and tell me what you would think about the whole thing.
Nice experience huh ;) ?
After this whole thing I was very tired and just wanted to sleep when i got home but what to say.. Back to work for two more weeks. This is Tuesday. Please let me here stay where i lay without moving further away on the day.
We arrived to the Medium in the simple little chapel on Friday around noon. 20 people were sitting and watching the surgery up on the podium in the front of the chapel. What you could see on this place was first of all before we went inside a family with kids and grandparents sitting around like totally normal people(not that i can define normal but...), a front gate in an alley with a gate door that was in the height of up to my chest. And when we went inside the chapel.. Back to the podium. The "surgery" was already going on when we got in so we just sat our selves down to wait for our turn. Anyway, you could see the podium, on the left side below the stairs up to the podium you could see a sign with rules like: If you have had a spiritual injection during 24 hours do not: Shower or bath, sponge only. No sexual activity for the next 36 days. No cold or sour food, No chicken and beef or any kind of red meat.
Ha ha... I took a shower the morning after.
Up on the podium you could see a desk where the patient was laying to get "healed" surrounded by three people healing the patient. There was one woman who was the actual medium for St. Luke and she was the one doing the main work in the surgery.
The first thing we did when we came in to the chapel was to write our name and something that was bad with our body in a big book. I didn't know what to write because i didn't really know what is wrong with my body so i just wrote: Benjamin Lindh Medin, Back, Stomach.
Then we waited for our turn to get up and get our treatment and finally after one hour it was our turn!
We got up together as a group me, my dad, Jessie and Vijaya and I was first up. The medium lady told me to lay down on the desk and take off my shirt. Then she started moving around her hands on my stomach with oil and tissues. I didn't really understand anything in the beginning because she didn't say anything, but after a while of massaging my stomach she said: Your lever. I went: what about it? And then she didn't answer with more than that it wasn't clean, so she had to clean it. After a period of five minutes she said that i should eat less cholesterol and then she said i was done. I was about to leave, but than another guy sat me down and i got a massage for a couple of minutes then i was able to leave the podium.
I'm not going to tell you what they told all the others because that would take to much time to read, but what i can say is that the medium lady said kind of the same things to them and some more personal. Another thing about what happened to all of us was that they pulled out red colored tissues from the stomach and said it was blood.
During the same day after this we were all a little confused about what just happened, we went to see The Dark Night in this big mall in the middle of nowhere called Magic Mall. It really was a magic mall! The movie was great but what happened during the movie was magic. Three times during this action filled film the whole theater turned black. All the lights went off...
The reason was that it had been raining and storming a lot in this little village/city so that there had been a power cut. You could actually hear the rain more than the movie at some points. Very interesting!
Where we stayed was not important, but it was a very nice simple place in a beautiful tropic area. Very good fish in the restaurant too.
Well well.. The day after we all went back to the faith healer one last time just for a quick in and out thing before we left. We turned out waiting for two hours for our turn. When i got up on that desk for the second time she started the same way as the first day, but this time she didn't do that much. After two minutes she said: Oh interesting! You're clean.
Then she worked a little bit more on the stomach and around the ribcage and then i was done.
Three and a half hour ride to a middle of nowhere somewhere in the Philippines getting a massage for nothing than tip money in a very simple chapel. I'm not going to leave any comments.
You can please leave your comments and tell me what you would think about the whole thing.
Nice experience huh ;) ?
After this whole thing I was very tired and just wanted to sleep when i got home but what to say.. Back to work for two more weeks. This is Tuesday. Please let me here stay where i lay without moving further away on the day.
Thursday 24 July 2008
heeey
after a couple of days with non writing i'm back to life in this blog world 15 minutes before i start teaching a class. The late few days i've been working very hard, being very tired, but also very happy because i've got fun people to hang out with. I went to a japanese a couple of days ago and i don't know if i've said this but all restaurants are very cheap to eat in even if they are very nice. I had some very good sushi in this japanese restaurant right and the price was kind of 5 times as cheap compared to the places i've been in Sweden. So to spoil myself i'm now gonna go to this restaurant many times and live as a king in the Sushiland as much as i can. In this way i can be tired of sushi when i get home and then maybe wait a year until next year when i might get here and eat more that time and so on and so on.
Sushi in Sweden is nothing compared to here. Wonder how it is in Japan right?
In the weekend i'm going with my father, his future wife and Vidyaya to a "Psychic surgery" up somewhere here in the Philippines. It sounds very creepy because i heard it's extremely Christian and that they do all these weird things on you. anyway gotta go !
Sushi in Sweden is nothing compared to here. Wonder how it is in Japan right?
In the weekend i'm going with my father, his future wife and Vidyaya to a "Psychic surgery" up somewhere here in the Philippines. It sounds very creepy because i heard it's extremely Christian and that they do all these weird things on you. anyway gotta go !
Friday 18 July 2008
first weekend
Yesterday it was friday. yesterday it was awesome. First part of the day wasn't so smashing. I tought some classes and ate some food. In the evening there was something called Trance Dance at Pulse yoga.
I was teaching a hot flow class before, so i missed thirty minutes of the trance dance class. Since i was teaching a hot class before i came in to the class a little hot, right? When I got in to the Trance Dance class everybody was laying down doing different stretches in a circle. I layed down beside the teacher who was with no coments very beautiful and we all started moving more and more to the music. Closing our eyes at all time and just listening to her voice telling us what to do and how to move. And then after a while the music started to play faster, we started to move more and then with no directions of how to move, we all started dancing and moving around on the floor to the music and flowing to the beat. Sweating more than i've ever done in my whole life i think and it was wonderful. All about heating up the room together in the beginning and then just dancing away with our feelings and energies floating around in the room. The whole feeling of not really caring about how we moved and just about how our instincs, feelings and hearts took us through the room not caring about how it looked. It was exactly like yoga, we did a lot of movements for about one and halfhour and finished with Savasana which is when you lay down and rest after a practice.
It was an awesome experience. The only thing that i always have a problem with was all the spiritual talk about yoga that a lot of teachers use. To talk in a specific way with a very smooth voice and talking about the gods and the letting go and surrendering and all that. All the talk like: Now let us all feel grateful about the reason of what took us to this world, this place in this time and so on and so on... hope you get my meaning.
The rest of the night was very good when me and some friends from the studio went out to a dance club dancing of course the most time of the night through and we had a good time!
A good thing about this event in the night was that a Dj aka Dj Elmo came. He is a member of the Tiesto group and is awesome. So that was a great thing. I can now say that i've seen Elmo live which is quite cool.
At least i think so!
I'm tired of all the rain in this city and i hope it's going to clear up soon.
I was teaching a hot flow class before, so i missed thirty minutes of the trance dance class. Since i was teaching a hot class before i came in to the class a little hot, right? When I got in to the Trance Dance class everybody was laying down doing different stretches in a circle. I layed down beside the teacher who was with no coments very beautiful and we all started moving more and more to the music. Closing our eyes at all time and just listening to her voice telling us what to do and how to move. And then after a while the music started to play faster, we started to move more and then with no directions of how to move, we all started dancing and moving around on the floor to the music and flowing to the beat. Sweating more than i've ever done in my whole life i think and it was wonderful. All about heating up the room together in the beginning and then just dancing away with our feelings and energies floating around in the room. The whole feeling of not really caring about how we moved and just about how our instincs, feelings and hearts took us through the room not caring about how it looked. It was exactly like yoga, we did a lot of movements for about one and halfhour and finished with Savasana which is when you lay down and rest after a practice.
It was an awesome experience. The only thing that i always have a problem with was all the spiritual talk about yoga that a lot of teachers use. To talk in a specific way with a very smooth voice and talking about the gods and the letting go and surrendering and all that. All the talk like: Now let us all feel grateful about the reason of what took us to this world, this place in this time and so on and so on... hope you get my meaning.
The rest of the night was very good when me and some friends from the studio went out to a dance club dancing of course the most time of the night through and we had a good time!
A good thing about this event in the night was that a Dj aka Dj Elmo came. He is a member of the Tiesto group and is awesome. So that was a great thing. I can now say that i've seen Elmo live which is quite cool.
At least i think so!
I'm tired of all the rain in this city and i hope it's going to clear up soon.
Monday 14 July 2008
First full week
The first morning was soo hot during practice and i could hardly breathe but it went well. This teacher training course started on sunday and there were so twentytwo people in the room. I thought it was steaming when we were ten people in that room but now when there was twice as many it was of course twice as hot and you sweated twice as much. If there is one country with the most biting bugs in the world it is this one. I see ants biting me, flies and all different kinds of bugs kreeping up on me all the time and it's itching everywhere all the time. Do i sound cheeky? It's only bugs, but it is enoying having to scratch yourself all the time even when you practice. I'm feeling more and more home sick every day. It doesn't mean that i don't like it here but i just want to go home.
Practicing has been to hard in a room with twentytwo people so now i'm only practicing with one old friend from India who is also teaching here at the same studio as me. The reason is simple. I'm lazy and get to sleep more now when we're practicing at 9 everyday. I could get up at 5 as i did every day until this tuesday but that wouldn't be as comfortable and nice as working three classes per day, finishing at 9.15 getting picked up by a private driver and then come home ten minutes after. Have a snack, chill out a little bit, go to bed and wake up randomly around 7 Oclock and sit here for a while just chilling and then leave around this time 8.30am and get in perfect time for practice at the yoga studio.
Give yourself a cheese breeze
Practicing has been to hard in a room with twentytwo people so now i'm only practicing with one old friend from India who is also teaching here at the same studio as me. The reason is simple. I'm lazy and get to sleep more now when we're practicing at 9 everyday. I could get up at 5 as i did every day until this tuesday but that wouldn't be as comfortable and nice as working three classes per day, finishing at 9.15 getting picked up by a private driver and then come home ten minutes after. Have a snack, chill out a little bit, go to bed and wake up randomly around 7 Oclock and sit here for a while just chilling and then leave around this time 8.30am and get in perfect time for practice at the yoga studio.
Give yourself a cheese breeze
Saturday 12 July 2008
Okay, fresh information
now, i've been here for about two days and it's good :) I've found out information like i'm not teaching a workshop but a whole lot of classes every day here in this city. I'm going to teach around four classes per day and when it's about yoga, it feels like a lot.
Yesterday I taught two classes and it wasn't that bad. It was good and I think I will be alright. I've been feeling very nervous about teaching something i've never taught before but it went quite okay! I don't think I should complain. It will take time to become a good teacher in yoga but it was fun and I think I will have a good time here in this city.
Dancing. Haha Joelle who is the owner of this house and who is the woman that I am staying at asked me yesterday if I wanted to do anything during my spare time here in this city. I couldn't think of anything else than danceclasses so that was what we decided for me to do. We called a dancestudio and checked what classes they had and what kind of levels. Since I brought a par of tapshoes wich i borrowed from school i thought that I could take a few lessons. I got do the dancestudio today and guess what. The class that I wanted to take was a tap class. A good teacher was there and the studio was very good too. Nice wodden floor so that you could hear the sounds of the taps well and then there were about five girls in the age of ten who attended the class. When I came in everybody including the teacher was hardly taller than up to my chest. I felt like had fallen in to a class for kids and that I was the big giant in the group looking down on everybody.
Anyway it just felt strange practicing with kids 8 to 12 years younger than me so I took the class and left even when I was supposed to take a contemporary class after. They were as young as on the tapclass. And no it's nothing wrong with their skills. I guess they're good i don't know but I just wanted to be able to practice with a diciplined group with people maybe three years younger than me and older. I might seem silly but i just wasn't able to practice together with kids that age if i'm taking the class myself. Hope you guys understand.
I'm tired and hungry hope i'll get the energy to write more here soon and knowing what to write because i don't
Yesterday I taught two classes and it wasn't that bad. It was good and I think I will be alright. I've been feeling very nervous about teaching something i've never taught before but it went quite okay! I don't think I should complain. It will take time to become a good teacher in yoga but it was fun and I think I will have a good time here in this city.
Dancing. Haha Joelle who is the owner of this house and who is the woman that I am staying at asked me yesterday if I wanted to do anything during my spare time here in this city. I couldn't think of anything else than danceclasses so that was what we decided for me to do. We called a dancestudio and checked what classes they had and what kind of levels. Since I brought a par of tapshoes wich i borrowed from school i thought that I could take a few lessons. I got do the dancestudio today and guess what. The class that I wanted to take was a tap class. A good teacher was there and the studio was very good too. Nice wodden floor so that you could hear the sounds of the taps well and then there were about five girls in the age of ten who attended the class. When I came in everybody including the teacher was hardly taller than up to my chest. I felt like had fallen in to a class for kids and that I was the big giant in the group looking down on everybody.
Anyway it just felt strange practicing with kids 8 to 12 years younger than me so I took the class and left even when I was supposed to take a contemporary class after. They were as young as on the tapclass. And no it's nothing wrong with their skills. I guess they're good i don't know but I just wanted to be able to practice with a diciplined group with people maybe three years younger than me and older. I might seem silly but i just wasn't able to practice together with kids that age if i'm taking the class myself. Hope you guys understand.
I'm tired and hungry hope i'll get the energy to write more here soon and knowing what to write because i don't
Thursday 10 July 2008
Calm and steady
The musical "Wicked" was awesome! The effects, the singing, the harmonies and the acting was great! Of course I was very tired so I almost fell asleep in the beginning but falling asleep was hard. There were so many effects and such powerful songs that I just had to see everything! A good story. Sad, but funny sometimes too.
I arrived to the Philippines today. I'm in Manila right now. Right now I'm sitting watching the view of the city from this great house. I can't see that much of the city right now because there are trees in the way, but i saw it from another house before and it was a beautiful view. I don't really feel like writing today. I'm very tired so I'll write tomorrow or the day after instead :)
Flees like the cheese
I arrived to the Philippines today. I'm in Manila right now. Right now I'm sitting watching the view of the city from this great house. I can't see that much of the city right now because there are trees in the way, but i saw it from another house before and it was a beautiful view. I don't really feel like writing today. I'm very tired so I'll write tomorrow or the day after instead :)
Flees like the cheese
Tuesday 8 July 2008
London
So now i'm in London by Arsenal and it is really nice to take a day rest before the next flight up in the air.
Very nice to see Sara and tonigh i'm going to see the musical Wicked! Oh yes. I got here this morning, we checked tickets just for fun and guess what! Two tickets next to each other was the only tickets available for tonight. We were very lucky and I'm very excited since i've heard a lot of good things about that musical. Well I can't be to excited then i'll might be disappointed laiter when I see it, but it's always fun to go see a big show like that. Destiny isn't it? two tickets left when you usually have to order a ticket like three months in advance! Yey lucky Lindh and Litton!
I'll write more as soon as I've got time.
Please say cheese
Very nice to see Sara and tonigh i'm going to see the musical Wicked! Oh yes. I got here this morning, we checked tickets just for fun and guess what! Two tickets next to each other was the only tickets available for tonight. We were very lucky and I'm very excited since i've heard a lot of good things about that musical. Well I can't be to excited then i'll might be disappointed laiter when I see it, but it's always fun to go see a big show like that. Destiny isn't it? two tickets left when you usually have to order a ticket like three months in advance! Yey lucky Lindh and Litton!
I'll write more as soon as I've got time.
Please say cheese
Monday 7 July 2008
Cincinnati Airport
Okay!!
I'm not in Fort Lauderdale anymore. It's a strange feeling. I don't feel that i said good bye to everybody I wanted to meet before I left. Well well what to say. Good bye everybody in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida!
Happy? Good for you!
I'm really going to miss some of the guys from in and outside of the Lovewell group. I had a great time even if didn't do much else than to watch tele and doing yoga outside of the workshop. Oh yeah! I ate a lot too.
As I think I said, my way of hanging out with everybody was a bit lame. I was always to tired to hang out and do stuff when the days finished so I always just went home and turned on the tv. Before I got it my dormfriends took my word no for granted so they stopped asking me if I wanted to come do all these things in the afternoons. I did some fun stuff like going to Miami in the middle of the night with the staff to see a guy play the piano and sing in a bar once. I also went to a typical American house party once. It was kind of like in those highschool movies. Big house, rich guy owns it, a lot of young students and everybody's drinking.
Except for those things a hardly did anything. I always said no and I'm kind of proud because if I would have said yes I would have been soo tired all the time! (kind of what they were)
The worst thing seems like the most pathetic thing. I didn't get any tapshoes!
I one way or another I will get a pair anyway one day :) Since I realized that tapping is the best thing in the world I will learn it more and I will get better than I am now. Good stuff
Cya
I'm not in Fort Lauderdale anymore. It's a strange feeling. I don't feel that i said good bye to everybody I wanted to meet before I left. Well well what to say. Good bye everybody in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida!
Happy? Good for you!
I'm really going to miss some of the guys from in and outside of the Lovewell group. I had a great time even if didn't do much else than to watch tele and doing yoga outside of the workshop. Oh yeah! I ate a lot too.
As I think I said, my way of hanging out with everybody was a bit lame. I was always to tired to hang out and do stuff when the days finished so I always just went home and turned on the tv. Before I got it my dormfriends took my word no for granted so they stopped asking me if I wanted to come do all these things in the afternoons. I did some fun stuff like going to Miami in the middle of the night with the staff to see a guy play the piano and sing in a bar once. I also went to a typical American house party once. It was kind of like in those highschool movies. Big house, rich guy owns it, a lot of young students and everybody's drinking.
Except for those things a hardly did anything. I always said no and I'm kind of proud because if I would have said yes I would have been soo tired all the time! (kind of what they were)
The worst thing seems like the most pathetic thing. I didn't get any tapshoes!
I one way or another I will get a pair anyway one day :) Since I realized that tapping is the best thing in the world I will learn it more and I will get better than I am now. Good stuff
Cya
Friday 4 July 2008
4th of July
Today's when the United states of America celebrates its birthday. The Independence. The day when the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress.
I don't know much about that day except for this and that there was a war between the british colonies in USA. It was when everybody in the colonies had signed the Declaration when they won and got free from the Great Britain.
Anyway...
The premiere was yesterday, and the audience was great. The show was great, I can't complain at all. It was a wonderful show. The only things I can complain about is my acting, but it will be better on Saturday. I wasn't concentrated enough i guess. One in the staff told me and Celery not to smile at all during the whole show an hour before we were supposed to start. I thought that was going to be easy, but what i didn't think of was that i had been very strange in a smiling way during the last ten days of preparing the character. So when I got up on stage yesterday i wasn't prepared enough for not smiling at all so i accidently started smiling and almost laughing a couple of times. So what to say? Better luck tomorrow.
Wednesday 2 July 2008
Premiere tomorrow
It's going to be very fun tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to how it's going to be. We've been working hard today trying to get all the scenes together and it's really a great feeling knowing that we're going to perform something after three weeks that we've written all by our selves. Some scenes are amazingly good especially some of the big numbers that we've written. I'll write more after tomorrow when we've done our first show and when I have more spare time doing other things than only thinking about the show.
Good night!
Sunday 29 June 2008
tap shoes
Today I was very excited because I had planned to buy a pair of new tap shoes. The plan was that me and the dorm-gang (Wanna, Lauren and Ali) were going to get my tap shoes at this dance store that is closing down, go shopping and then go to a barbeque party that a girl from Lovewell had arranged.
We left the dorms around noon and headed for the dance shop. It took a while to find but once we got there it was closed. It was closed! Of course! It's sunday right? Why didn't I think of this earlier? Now I don't know when I'm going to get ahold of those shoes. This is important for me, so I guess i have to find a way to get my precious beloved another day. The problem is that i wont have time for going anywhere this week because of all the rehearsing during the days. We will work from 9 to 9 every day all week except friday. I could go on friday but apparently everything is going to be closed on that day. We also have the day off that day so it would be perfect but what to do. I hope the shop is open on saturday.
The rest of the day was good, nothing to say. fun fun see ya soon
Saturday 28 June 2008
Saturday night
Just celebrated my awesome friend Lauren's 18th birthday. Actually her birthday was yesterday but who cares right? If we celebrate our friends birthdays every day it is great isn't it? Today I was at this charity event for the american cancer society. The main event was a bunch of dancers performing in showcases. Some of the dancers were fantastic and some were not. I went there with some friends from Lovewell including the birthday kid and we got free tickets so that was really nice. I also saw some very nice paintings. I love to watch paintings sometimes because you can really just stand and watch the same one for a long time looking for something really rare in the painting. Finding inspiration in all kinds of arts is always interesting and if you think of it you might just find your inspiration too.
Well well i don't know what to write today. Next week it's time to finish and perform the show and then i'll be off to Manila.
cya
Thursday 26 June 2008
moving on
Time is running short and in a week the show will have its premiere. Everything is going well around here and the scenes of the show are almost done. Me and Eric who are doing this characters called Vaangee and Dr. Celery are the belief keepers, and we are kind having the main part in the show but we have hardly practiced anything for our part. Hope it's going to be more work tomorrow.
I went to the biggest mall in Florida two days ago and man it was big. well well i'm watching a movie so talk to ya soon pzz
I went to the biggest mall in Florida two days ago and man it was big. well well i'm watching a movie so talk to ya soon pzz
Sunday 22 June 2008
Lake Placid
I just arrived from the lake house and this weekend was really something to remember.
On friday when we got there i was amazed how beautiful the place was. We came in and it was like a typical beautiful lake house with one floor of many rooms for many people to fit in. I could see the big kitchen combined with a room with a big wooden table and a hallway with three bedrooms next to each other on both sides. Anyway, I'm not going to tell you how the house looked. It was big and beautiful. They had a big duck by the water with many boats that we were going to try out.
There was a group of wake-boarders there that we did a lot of fun stuff with. They took us out tubing which is when a bunch of people sit on a big air-mattress trying not to fall. That was fun! specially when the huge waves come and you really struggle to stay on that tube.
I had asked the owner of the house about alligators and snakes if there was possible to see any during this weekend and he said that there almost was no chance that we would see any because they're very shy around humans. But this saturday I saw more than one. If I'm right i think i saw an alligator four times. Twenty meters from the duck on the same spot that creepy big thing showed up four times. Very fun to see now when i've never seen a gator. I also saw a turtle in the water isn't that exciting ;)
The wake-board was hard to get up on in the water but when i learned to get up it was easy to balance. It was almost exactly like snowboarding with the turning and jumping. The only hard thing was handling the waves and getting to know the technique how to jump and land right but it was almost the same.
So I felt like I was treated like a king during this weekend living in a beautiful house, eating delicious food and learning to wakeboard. Perfect.
See ya soon
Thursday 19 June 2008
Good times
It's been more fun the last three days. On tuesday and wednesday we had our talent shows. It was very fun and there were a big mix between fantastic performances and very bad performances. We have started to dance more serious on tuesday and just finished a great jazz-dance rutine, but our main dance teacher is leaving today so that's quite sad. We're going to have another dancer as a teacher who's also very good so that is good :)
About the musical. We have been working much more creative with trying to get a storyline for the musical we're doing in three weeks. When it's a musical we're doing it's quite obvious that we should get going with our creativeness so that is good isn't it?
So I am very happy and tomorrow me and some other people are going to lake placid here in south florida. When I heard the name of the lake I suddenly started to think if that was a name of a movie or if it just sounded like one. Well the movie that I thought of is about these monster snakes in the lake who kills all humans that comes there. That they are cleverer than humans and that they can sneak up on them and kill them very easily.
Wouldn't that be fun if it happened when we went there tomorrow so that when we go out on the boats we start seeing all these snakes in the water and after some hours they sneak up on us and pull us down in the water. Interresting right?
well well gonna go.
peace love and hamburgers
About the musical. We have been working much more creative with trying to get a storyline for the musical we're doing in three weeks. When it's a musical we're doing it's quite obvious that we should get going with our creativeness so that is good isn't it?
So I am very happy and tomorrow me and some other people are going to lake placid here in south florida. When I heard the name of the lake I suddenly started to think if that was a name of a movie or if it just sounded like one. Well the movie that I thought of is about these monster snakes in the lake who kills all humans that comes there. That they are cleverer than humans and that they can sneak up on them and kill them very easily.
Wouldn't that be fun if it happened when we went there tomorrow so that when we go out on the boats we start seeing all these snakes in the water and after some hours they sneak up on us and pull us down in the water. Interresting right?
well well gonna go.
peace love and hamburgers
Monday 16 June 2008
Fort Lauderdale
At first i was very happy about getting here to Fort Lauderdale to do this workshop with my friend and a lot of other teenagers from America. I thought that the workshop was going to be about making a musical and work hard for three weeks and then do two shows on this.
The first day when i got here i was very excited. I got to the campus and in to the dorms where i'm staying now. My dormroom is very big. It was very surprising to see that they gave me one big suite with four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Everybody else got one room each and is sharing the suites.
This is good, that I have one suite for my self with no one else in it. Kind of unfare isn't it? Someone should be able to get one of the rooms that i'm not using.
Me and my friend so called Wanna are very bored of this place and we think we're dying. The workshop started today and i think it was the most silly day of our lives. Everybody were just playing around with different games getting to know each other and most of the time we were just sitting there like dikes wondering what the hell was going on. We didn't know anyone exept our precious song teacher Maria from Sweden. I thought we were going to dance today but once we got to the dance part...
We warmed up with some stretches and after maybe fifteen minutes it was over. Both me and Wanna definetly hope the day is going to be more exciting tomorrow and through the week or else I don't know what i'll do.
The travel to the US was quite funny. I had to take of my shoes around three times and i mean that was only on JFK new york airport. I also had to do it once in London hah wasn't that something? Why not just take of our clothes so that they can see if we didn't wrap any drugs around our bodies?
The city is very nice thou. It's like this very american city where all the malls are spread out all over the city with no typical center. Yesterday we on the campus went to the biggest grossery store i ever been to. It was almost as big as a football court and they were selling everything there is in foodway plus a lot of clothes and even big tv:s. Crazy crazy US and A.
I'm already starting to get a bit homesick, but i hope everything during this summer's gonna be all right.
Talk to ya soon =)
Super B
The first day when i got here i was very excited. I got to the campus and in to the dorms where i'm staying now. My dormroom is very big. It was very surprising to see that they gave me one big suite with four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Everybody else got one room each and is sharing the suites.
This is good, that I have one suite for my self with no one else in it. Kind of unfare isn't it? Someone should be able to get one of the rooms that i'm not using.
Me and my friend so called Wanna are very bored of this place and we think we're dying. The workshop started today and i think it was the most silly day of our lives. Everybody were just playing around with different games getting to know each other and most of the time we were just sitting there like dikes wondering what the hell was going on. We didn't know anyone exept our precious song teacher Maria from Sweden. I thought we were going to dance today but once we got to the dance part...
We warmed up with some stretches and after maybe fifteen minutes it was over. Both me and Wanna definetly hope the day is going to be more exciting tomorrow and through the week or else I don't know what i'll do.
The travel to the US was quite funny. I had to take of my shoes around three times and i mean that was only on JFK new york airport. I also had to do it once in London hah wasn't that something? Why not just take of our clothes so that they can see if we didn't wrap any drugs around our bodies?
The city is very nice thou. It's like this very american city where all the malls are spread out all over the city with no typical center. Yesterday we on the campus went to the biggest grossery store i ever been to. It was almost as big as a football court and they were selling everything there is in foodway plus a lot of clothes and even big tv:s. Crazy crazy US and A.
I'm already starting to get a bit homesick, but i hope everything during this summer's gonna be all right.
Talk to ya soon =)
Super B
Friday 13 June 2008
London Gatwick airport
thats right, im at the gatwick airport waiting for my flight to departure. i got two hours to wait in with nothing to do so i thought i could sit here for thirty minutes checking my mail and stuff. I got very confused at the check in because i thought i was going straight to fort lauderdale from here but now i found out i am travelling to jfk airport in new york, that i have to pick up my baggage, send it in somewhere else and then take another flight that goes to my destination from another gate than planned.
I hope that everything is going to be okay i mean i don't want to miss the flight do i?
Everything is always very confusing when it's about flying. Why couldn't they just let me fly all the way to fort lauderdale from here as it said on the ticket? silly isn't it?
I am starting to feel a little bit better about this whole thing that im away for two months. The day in London yesterday was perfect just to settle down and realize that i wasn't in Sweden anymore. I mean it wasn't to far away to feel sick and anxious just wanting to get home and sleep.
I almost slept all day and then we had fish and chips in the evening.
A very good start for my vacation :)
//Super B
I hope that everything is going to be okay i mean i don't want to miss the flight do i?
Everything is always very confusing when it's about flying. Why couldn't they just let me fly all the way to fort lauderdale from here as it said on the ticket? silly isn't it?
I am starting to feel a little bit better about this whole thing that im away for two months. The day in London yesterday was perfect just to settle down and realize that i wasn't in Sweden anymore. I mean it wasn't to far away to feel sick and anxious just wanting to get home and sleep.
I almost slept all day and then we had fish and chips in the evening.
A very good start for my vacation :)
//Super B
The first two month trip
Now when i'm not in Sweden where i'm actually from i'm going to write in English.
It is summer and the wheather is up and down all over the world. Right now i'm in London for a day right before i'm going to the states tomorrow taking part in a performing arts workshop called the Lovewell Institute.
The summer is going to be intence. The course is for three weeks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and after these three weeks i'm travelling to Manilla in the Philippines to work as a Yoga instructor. I don't know how this is going to work because i don't feel prepared enough. As me as a dancer i think it is going to go quite well anyway. I can do what i am good at and be very friendly
and clear with the things i am showing.
I left Sweden yesterday in the evening and during the last few days i could not think of leaving at all. I hear about people who travel and stay out of their home for years, i am travelling for two months and i think that is hard.
When we are home, two months does not feel like a long time but when we travel for that amount of time it feels like ages.
Is there really no place like home? For some people travelling is freedom. In one way I agree and feel that when I leave my country for a long time I can feel free and live another life not to think about anything else than just relaxing, but usually one week of total relaxation is enough. One moth for the maximum.
When i visit my dad in Hong Kong or India where he lives I usually stay for a month. The last days of the month I usually feel like I just want to get home. Maybe because I miss my friends and all my other beloved or just that I can not be out of Sweden more than one month at the time.
Let us see how it goes now when I am out of my loving country more than one and a half month for the first time in my life.
It is summer and the wheather is up and down all over the world. Right now i'm in London for a day right before i'm going to the states tomorrow taking part in a performing arts workshop called the Lovewell Institute.
The summer is going to be intence. The course is for three weeks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and after these three weeks i'm travelling to Manilla in the Philippines to work as a Yoga instructor. I don't know how this is going to work because i don't feel prepared enough. As me as a dancer i think it is going to go quite well anyway. I can do what i am good at and be very friendly
and clear with the things i am showing.
I left Sweden yesterday in the evening and during the last few days i could not think of leaving at all. I hear about people who travel and stay out of their home for years, i am travelling for two months and i think that is hard.
When we are home, two months does not feel like a long time but when we travel for that amount of time it feels like ages.
Is there really no place like home? For some people travelling is freedom. In one way I agree and feel that when I leave my country for a long time I can feel free and live another life not to think about anything else than just relaxing, but usually one week of total relaxation is enough. One moth for the maximum.
When i visit my dad in Hong Kong or India where he lives I usually stay for a month. The last days of the month I usually feel like I just want to get home. Maybe because I miss my friends and all my other beloved or just that I can not be out of Sweden more than one month at the time.
Let us see how it goes now when I am out of my loving country more than one and a half month for the first time in my life.
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