Part of my world

Third Christmas away from home was celebrated with Wes family in Melbourne. It felt odd to not have it during the day as in Sweden, with Kalle Anka at 3pm and then Santa. This was in the evening, and we didn’t have any prinskorv. Haha. It was nice to celebrate it together with Wes family compared to the two years before when I was with my hostfamily. Later in the evening me and Wes skyped with my family from my grandma and grandpas place. It was nice and I got the chance to see my aunts and their families again too.

 

I got Wes a lesson in how to fly a little airplane and days after Christmas me and Wes, Caroline and Wayne drove out to Lilydales airport




♥ Rebecka

As I told you in my earlier post I was planning on participating in Melbournes Swedish Lucia train. And so I did. I was excited after three practise times to go to the Scandinavian Market. As I arrived I met up with Wes, who I was happy to get to come along, and I got myself ready to perform. I managed the day before to get a few more Swedish au-pairs to join which was fun. It was a very warm day and I got a bit sticky in that long white dress. Overall the day was nice. We sang and people were sitting having a picnic on the grass while listening. After the performance Wes and I ate some waffles and I was desperately looking for some lussebullar and got disappointed when they decided not to sell that in the café. We bought ginger cookies to bring home and entered a competition to win a trip for two to Sweden. Unfortunately we didn’t win, but I never do that anyway – so no expectations.

     

The weekend afterwards we had performances again. This time we were to go to IKEA in the city and the other IKEA in the other suburb and sing. Morning started at 10 and finished at 3. At the first place we got free lunch after singing which was really nice.. Swedish meatballs, mash potato and brown sauce. And a chocolate ball on that. Yum! After performing at the other place we were all given a 50 dollar gift card which was kind of them. It was funny how people stared, especially as they had no idea what we were singing. Haha. And I must say, I felt very Swedish!

♥ Rebecka

      

    

  

Quick update.

 

14 of july I got my second year visa granted. Yeah thumbs up

7 of august Wes came home from America and I was one very happy girl.

8 of august I started my extra job. More money – less free time..

29 of august my hostfamily got me a car. Woho being able to go wherever I want is such a freedom.

14 of september I participated in a study of the brain, our thinking skills and memory and had to do a MRI. At least now I know nothing is wrong with my brain. haha

24 of september I was playing fulltime mum again for 10 days while the parents enjoyed their cruise.

2 of oktober I took Wes horseriding for the first time in his life. Because I’m such a good girlfriend :-)

24 of october I had a one day defensive driving course in pouring down rain and soaking clothes. Result- had a cold for over a week!

28 of October I handed in my final essay. Fingers crossed that I will pass. And a 2weeks break before my next course starts!

 

This weekend just passed me and Wes went to Luna drive in and watched a movie from the back of his van. On Saturday it was great weather and we took a trip to the mall and later on in the evening we went to the city and to eureka skytower. My crazy cookie and I now have a picture from the edge with views over Melbourne. We went strolling around the city after that. Ended up at a club with not that many people and owned the dancefloor. They even squeezed in a salsa and bachata. Had thongs but still got blisters underneath me feet….

 

Coming up

 

Next weekend my ex hostmum has a 30^th birthdayparty and I will also be starting my Lucia training to be with and perform in Melbourne this winter/summer(Which ever way you see it. Hahaha) Going to be exciting to see what happens.

I have a festival to attend which is called Mind, Body, Spirit. Reminds me of what mum and me used to go to at home.

Me and Wes got a 21^st birthday party to go to as well. And yes I’m still crazy in love with that guy and by this time we will have been together for 7months.

 

Then we are already in December. Plans are like this. Studying studying studying. Double up nanny work. Swedish market and Lucia practise and performance. Christmas shopping. My 21^st. Christmas and NYE.

 

Then its already 2012. Can you believe it? Time flies.

 ♥ Rebecka

It’s already end of June and I’ve been in Australia for 10months. To be honest this year has gone so much faster than my year in America! And talking about America… Wes and his sister were at this time getting ready for their trip to America that they had planned for a very long time. We had a goodbye party on Saturday evening that went a little overboard when some guys showed up. But it was a nice evening, with a lot of laughter and dancing!

 

After that I went back to working and left for a short visit up to Sunshine Coast at the same time as they left for America. The flight was one hour delayed but went alright. I came to the coast and was surprised how nice the weather actually was for being winter. Took a walk on the beach and took in old memories. That day I went salsa dancing at Montegos, which wasn’t as fun as I remembered it but it was nice to see familiar faces. The next day I met up with friends twice at a café and later in the evening for dinner. And on Saturday I went to watch my friend get married which was absolutely amazing. The bride looked stunning and the atmosphere was breathtaking. I couldn’t help crying and dreaming of my own wedding. I also got a text from Wes saying happy two months which made me even more happy. Oh and did I mention he got me a beautiful Pandora charm?

 

It was mostly family invited to the reception so afterwards I went with three of my guy friends to a restaurant. After that they headed to two other guys home and I decided to bolt, me alone with 5 other guys wasn’t really something I was looking forward to. I texted my girlfriend and met up for a quick chat before I headed back to the hostel I was staying at. Back at the hostel I met three Swedish people celebrating midsummer. What a surprise. Had a chat with them and got teased for talking ‘svengelska’. I got the number of the Swedish couple thinking of moving down to Melbourne. So I will see if I ever meet up with them again! Sunday morning I woke up feeling like crap, had a fever and a cold. I suppose it was after staying at that hostel.. I relaxed most of that day so that I would have energy to go dancing in Brisbane in the evening. In the evening I got picked up and went to the city. Dancing was fun, it was a lot of people and everyone danced with everyone. Towards the end I felt how sick I was and headed home. My friend was so tired that he couldn’t stay in the right lane while driving. I insisted on driving even though I wasn’t feeling good. At least this way we came home safely!

 

The next day I met up with Kristin at Starbucks before headed to the airport. And after arriving at the airport I found out my flight was cancelled. The next available flight was the other day and I could choose to fly from Brisbane or Sunshine coast. I first decided to fly from Sunshine coast the other day but later on changed my mind when a person told me his flight had been cancelled for several days in a row. Because I was feeling sick and really wanted to get home I decided to travel to Brisbane. They had a free bus leaving and I jumped on it. At the airport I checked if there was anyway to get home that day but it was simple impossible. I started to realize that I would have to spend the night at the airport as all the accommodation was a pretty far taxi ride away and I didn’t want to spend that money and then try to get back early in the morning for my 8 a clock flight.

 

I found all the good spots at the airport and which shower I liked the best etc. I sat down by the gates feeling miserably for a while. The boarding started for Sydney and Melbourne and I was watching with envy. The Sydney one finished and I went up to talk to the girl. I asked what would happen if someone doesn’t show up for the Melbourne flight and if I could take their place. She said it would take too long time to get me on the flight and fix with all the paperwork when everyone else would already be onboard the plane. I sat down again happy that I at least asked. Five minutes later the woman came running to me and said that if I hurry up they would be kind enough to wait for me and they could get me on the plane. In the blurriness of 5 minutes I had grabbed all my stuff and they had gotten me on the plane. I was feeling terribly sick but extremely happy knowing that I would soon be home. But it was not over yet. Because of my massive cold I had the worse flight ever. I cried throughout the whole trip and during landing I seriously thought my head would explode. I guess I’m happy I could keep the kids around me entertained as they wouldn’t stop staring at me. I don’t blame them, I was a total wreck. After landing I tried to reach my host parents with no success.  I started finding my way home myself taking the airport bus and then I train. It took 2h instead of half an hour if I would have gotten picked up.  But at that time I didn’t care, I knew that I was on my way home and I was thinking over and over again; I’m soon there, soon there, soon home!


♥ Rebecka

I kept on studying. My exam was coming up. Tuesday evening I was sitting in front of my computer. Papers spread out over the entire table and the clock ticking down. It was much harder than I thought and I was tired. I did my best, had a talk to Wes on the phone and went to bed. Skipping forward, over three weeks later I got my result back and I passed! So I passed both my courses this semester and I couldn’t be happier!

 

That week I also took one of my host kids to visit the Swedish Church which is not far at all away from me. It was nice to talk some Swedish and hear the old familiar Swedish children songs.  I gave the pastor my two Christianity books and he thanked me. I knew I wouldn’t have any use for them now that I passed the test and I was to lazy to try and sell them from here.

 

That weekend I spent at the movies and a whole day watching Wes do his salsa medals. I want to do salsa medals too ^^  we also went to a birthday party and I felt that I was finally getting to know some people.

I went a second time to a salsa class in St Kilda just to be disappointed that they did the exact same thing as the week before. I talked with the other people and they have apparently been doing the same thing for quiet a while. I don’t feel like paying money to do something I already know. Bummer my work hours don’t work with the intermediate class…

 

The week after that my hostfamily went to Hong Kong quickly and I got 4 extra days off which was very nice.  I also had my boyfriends best friends 21^st  the weekend afterwards which was fun and that was my second 21^st party in Australia so far.  Mine is coming up too but it’s nothing special to me. I will see what I plan to do.

The weekend after that was a really fun one. My boyfriends mum and stepdad asked if we wanted to come with for dinner and bowling so we decided to join them. Was great spending some more time with them, i sucked at the bowling but I did have fun. The day after that I went shooting with my boyfriend and his dad for the first time in my life. It was actually really fun and I’m looking forward to doing it again. That evening we went out for dinner with his dad and stepmom and his sister and her girlfriend. After that we went to a club and we had a really nice evening. I was lucky and got Monday off because it was the Queens birthday so we went out for dinner and a movie with his best friend and his girlfriend. They are a really nice couple and I’m sure that I will be doing much more things together with them.   


♥ Rebecka

After the Latin festival I met up with Wesley again, we went to the Crown, which is a Melbourne Casino slash mall slash bowling slash a little more. Quite a big place.  We had something to eat and went to the play arcade and fooled around. I sucked at the car games but I did beat him at basketball! In the evening the crown has poles outside that are shooting fire. It is really big and you can hardly look straight at it without it hurting your eyes. You can also stand really close and feel the heat! It was pretty cool. Or maybe it was only because I’ve never seen it before! After that we went and checked out a bar that had a zouk evening. At first we thought we just crashed a birthdayparty. To be honest I still think we did. Haha. But alittle bit later the zouk dancing started. Not much dancing for us as neither one of us knows much of zouk. But the other dancers were amazing!

Coming back home again I found out my hostmum is thinking of becoming a stay at home mum again. I was disappointed because I really liked it there. But I knew that it was for the best as I hated the location. So I started looking for new jobs.

 

I had my first interview on Easter Sunday. How funny isn’t that? A little disappointed that I didn’t get a chocolate rabbit when I arrived! Haha This family didn’t work out.

 

The rest of the Easter weekend I spent with Wesley. I had the option to go with my hostfamily to the beach but I decided not to.  I got to meet some of his family and we spent 3 great days together.

 

The weekend after that I had 3 other interviews, a christening reception, 40^th birthday dinner with Wesley and some salsa dancing with a friend. It was a busy weekend and it was the first time I really experiences the horrible Melbourne traffic- was stuck for ages!

 

Had another working week and decided to say yes to a family in Hawthorn and I felt really good about that decision. It was much more central than before and I would live in my own guesthouse which would give me much more privacy. That coming weekend Wes and I had a great evening at a place called Cococabana where he had got invited to join his dance teachers table. So we had dinner and danced salsa. :) And on that Saturday I moved to Hawthorn and then spent the rest of the weekend with Wes. Yet again a new family, new kids, new job!

♥ Rebecka 

I found myself in a suburb of Melbourne. With the cutest baby boy of 6months, a 2,5 year old boy and two young parents made it very different from my Sunshine Coast job. I started out with a few very busy days, working 40 h a week, trying to learn the baby routines as well as trying to catch up on my studies. It was a very intense first two weeks. I did my exam Saturday evening from 7pm-1am and was unbelievable happy when I found out I passed! Right after that, not being 2 weeks in Melbourne yet, I took the bus into Fitzroy to go to a salsa club, in hopes of making some new friends. I almost didn’t find my way but eventually I stood outside the club, a bit nervous. The dancing hadn’t started yet and everybody was sitting down having dinner – making me feel very uncomfortable. I stood in a corner for  a while until the dance class started. It was all very basic but I enjoyed it anyway. Afterwards I started chatting to the salsa teachers who organised the evening. A girl introduced me to Wesley and we spent half the evening chatting around and having a few dances. When I later on got picked up by my hostmum I had his number with a promise of showing me around in Melbourne. I also got a few offers of weird stuff on the street while I was waiting for her to come, and I had a bit of sore feet.

 

I had another workweek and was getting ready for my busy weekend to come. I bought a whole weekend pass to the Melbourne Latin Festival and I was super excited. It started of Friday evening with a party and I had a few dances and watched some performances.  On Saturday the workshops started at 10 and went on to 5. I did some zouk, bachata, salsa, samba de graffiera etc. and met a lot of people. On the evening the party started at 7 with a 3h show in the big theatre that was simple incredible. After that I had a couple hours of dancing before heading back home to sleep and get ready for a similar day on Sunday with workshops and finish up party. Easy to say I was exhausted after the weekend, but very very happy!


♥ Rebecka

This was not how I planned for it to be, but as always you have to try and make the best you can with what you have. I also want to warn that this is a very late update. In end of February beginning of march I lived on a camping for a little more than 2 weeks that ive already told you. My family I was with planned to move to Toowoomba but didn’t get the house they wanted. Meanwhile we where packing to move out of the house on sunshine coast. We ended up standing without a house and anywhere to live and decided to go camping until we find a new house, not knowing how long time it would take. The family lived in their caravan and I shared a tent with the 9 year old boy… the first two nights there were storms and the tent got flooded. Easy to say I did not get any sleep. We were camping near the beach and during the days the mum was cleaning out her spa to get ready for the move. Me and the boy ended up sleeping in the back room of her spa for 3 nights on air mattresses as the storm went on. When she handed in the keys we had to move back to sleeping in the tent. I didn’t work as much during these weeks as the mum was not working. So I only worked for my food and getting to sleep in the tent... 20h a week… 

I was really unhappy and began to think that I couldn’t go on like that. No one knew how long they would be unemployed for and how long I would go on without pay. Even do it was said that I was suppose to stay until end of may, and then they would reimburse my flight ticket, I thought it would be best to leave earlier. I left about 2 months earlier and I haven’t got reimbursed. I suppose that will never happen, I did leave earlier… But circumstances did change too, that was not my fault. I don’t know, life is hard… 

 
I started to search for families all over Australia. I finally decided for a young family in Melbourne with a baby and 2,5 year old. A new challenge! But before I could move I still had to stay until they where settled up in Toowoomba, So 2 more weeks I had to wait. I moved with them up to Toowoomba and took care of all four kids for a few days while the parents took the car 11h away to the mines to search for jobs. Then on Saturday morning 19 of March I left to fly to Melbourne. A lot of trouble and I ended up missing my flight, but managed to get a new one only 3 hours later. So everything worked out in the end. And yet again I find myself in a new town, new family, new work and no social life. Just to start all over again!


This is the picture from the 21^st birthday party. I have never had a dress like that on before!



♥ Rebecka

I haven’t written in a very long time now. There have been a lot of things going on and everything hasn’t been on pink puffy clouds. The floodings in Queensland created a lot of suffering for a lot of people. We got it around us and were very lucky for being spared. But on other places the water covered houses and a lot of people lost there homes. Crops got destroyed and you couldn’t buy fresh vegetable or fruits in the shops anymore. Milk and milk products were almost impossible to get hold of and the fuel price got more expensive. Maroochydore where I live got spared and didn’t get as much water, but it still got more than 1600m.m. rainfall from 1 of December until 1 march. Which is a lot!

 

My hostfamily announced that they where moving to Toowoomba. The town that got flash flooded and had an inland tsunami. But also the town where they have family.  They gave me the choice of coming along or staying here on the coast. I decided that it would be a fun experience to come along. And the process started with the move, and it didn’t really go as planned and we have been really busy with that and I’ve been feeling a bit depressed and everyone has been over the top stressed about the situation.

 

Right now we are camping while we are waiting for a house. We have been ‘homeless’ for 9 days. And during the first days of camping we had major storms which made the tent leak in and that one got flooded as well. Not the best start. It’s too much to write down here but in the end now I have some mayor decisions to make. That will change everything. And I am really struggling with it as the decision I make will be lifechanging! I hate having to make decisions! But I know that its part of life and life is not always easy.

 

Back to something a little happier. About three weeks ago I went to the Gold coast with a friend for two nights. It was really fun. I got a giftvoucher at a hotel at Surfers paradise for me and a friend from my hostfamily. So during those three days we went to the beach and got burned, we went up the mountain and got lost hiking on a track that was closed because of danger. We went walking on the evening and got sore feet and we went to Draculas cabaret restaurant and watched an awesome show. We also checked out the casino. It was a very good and well needed vacation in the middle of a time with a lot of stress and worrying.

 
  
 

Last week Miranda and Louise came and visit me here and I had a good time. It felt really nice to have some friends from back home visiting and it was nice to show them around. Greatest was the salsa evening at Montegos which all of us really enjoyed and I got Nathan to help them out dancing and now I’m just waiting to see the pictures from the evening!

 

Two days ago I went to a 21 birthdayparty with dresscode. I got to borrow a really pretty dress from a friend which fitted good, lucky!

 

From all of these events I have tons of pictures. So after along time here and very few pictures, then finally I few will be posted! I’ve got some from my Gold coast trip but from the Salsa dancing and 21^st birthday party the pictures will come later once I get a hold of my contact cable which is packed down already.


♥ Rebecka

 

After my birthday life just kept on going as usual. Kids in the morning, work at the spa, kids in the afternoon, friends in the evening. Pretty much the same all days. Some days I didn’t work that much at the spa and I would have time to go to the mall to buy my Christmas presents.

The homegroup that I started every Wednesday had a secret Santa and Christmas dinner which was fun :) I got chocolate… yum.  I was planning on meeting up with them every Wednesday next year as well. But as they made it a project to try to read the bible during one year, I’m now considering not going anymore. I wanted to read the whole bible during this year but as I now made the decision to start studying I need to put down my reading time on that. And as one of the courses is Christianity I will have to read the Swedish bible every day. So reading both bibles a lot of passages every day without mixing things together, seem like an impossible task. I might still go to the homegroup… but I wont be able to follow in discussions, which might not be that fun.

I’ve also been out clubbing for the first time here. It was good! And I came to realize how hard it is to know the age of people. When I was 18 and going out I always knew that the youngest guy would be the same as me. But now you can end up dancing and talking with one that’s way younger… So this makes clubbing a not as good place to meet people on as it used to be...

I’ve also been getting to know new amazing people, as always :-)which I love. One guy lives in an apartment with a shower in the bedroom... cheaper rent huh? He didn’t seem to mind, but it looked kinda funny ^^

So Christmas has just passed. I wasn’t really in the Christmas spirit as we don’t have advent, lucia or those kind of traditions as we’ve got at home. And of course, we had no snow.  We celebrate on the 25^th here as well. Just like in America. I had a party with my friends on Friday evening and took my computer with me to Skype with my parents. Because of the time difference that was the only time to Skype while they would have Christmas and be at grandma and grandpas place.  I also ended up skyping one of my friends and my hostfamily from America which was really nice!

Then on Christmas I woke up early at about 7… exhausted as I didn’t get to bed until 2 and woke up by a phone call at 4… I started by making Swedish pancakes for breakfast for 13 people. It was the family, dads sister and her boyfriend, the mums mum and her new husband and the mums brother and his wife! We had breakfast and opened up presents. Then people just chilled out before we started getting ready for lunch. Most of the lunch consisted of seafood which was a huge difference from Sweden. I did like It though and stuffed myself full. Then we had dessert and we had toffees and saffroncake with almond icing in the middle which I had been making on Friday. We also had a another cake and a gingerbreadcake and rumballs and coconutballs… we had way too much and got lots of leftovers.. which we nibbled on later in the evening.  I was so tired at around 4 that I ended up watching Donald the duck wishes you a merry Christmas and almost fell asleep.  For people that don’t know, in Sweden, Donald the duck is tradition to watch every Christmas.

Today, boxingday, has been so boring. I suppose its good in one way as I got tons of stuff done. Cleaned my room a bit, did my laundry, put some stuff in my travelling book, and writing an update here. Its poring down rain outside… but is still warm and humid outside… and inside!

Tomorrow is a new week and I hope the sun will be back... isn’t this suppose to be sunshine coast?? This week it’s been more of a rainy coast….


♥ Rebecka

There are those days… Those days when nothing seems to work out and everything seems to be going against you. Those days when you really want to do something but end up being bored to death. Those days when you feel like lying in your bed crying for no major reason, while its poring down rain outside. Those days when you realize that we can’t get what we want. Those days when you’re not alone, but feel lonely. Those really crap days. Today is one of those days. And in a lot of ways it’s not right for me to feel this way. And a part of me has a hard time knowing were all this comes from. Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side? Cheer up dear oh dear. Because I don’t like feeling this way. Smile oh smile that bright, happy smile, where did you go?

To something positive now! I wanted to tell you all about my 20^th birthdayparty that I had two days ago. It was truly amazing. I had 20 of my wonderful friends showing up to celebrate with me. We were 8 people at 6 a clock all making pizza together.  At 8 a clock I had more people dropping in and people continued to drop in for a while. People mingled around and Nicole and the kids came home after being away during my dinner. The kids were all over the party running between our feet having no boundaries. I thought it was super annoying but when no one else seemed to think it was that big of a deal I started to relax.  People jumped in the pool, people danced and people mingled around. Everyone seemed to be having a great time, and so did I. Every person that came had to write in my travelling book before they left the party so I would have some memories. And great that everyone remembered! I had the last people leave at 2,20 and then I did some quick cleaning up before I went to bed. It was a great evening and I saw how great this venue is for having a party as well. Another one soon hey? Lol



   


♥ Rebecka

I breathe...
I don't even think about it.
It's part of being human.
I didn't deliberately start it... it just... well it just happened.
I don't breathe depending on the conditions... I just breathe.
The conditions I find myself in might change the way I breathe...
In times of stress or higher exertion I breathe harder...
In times of weariness I breathe deeper...
In times of sadness my breaths comes out as deep sighs...
In times of rest my breathing is shallower...
But I breathe.

I don't breathe because I've become 'good at it' over time...
I don't breathe because it is a recreational past time...
I don't breathe because it is a time-developed discipline...
I don't breathe because it feels good...
I don't breathe to be recognized or heard...
I don't breathe just because it somehow refreshes me...
I don't breathe to be 'seen as alive'...
I don't breathe because I've been told to...
I don't breathe because I've been taught to...
I don't breathe out of habit...
I breathe

I breathe because it is an inescapable part of my existence.
I breathe because if I don't I die.
It doesn't matter what reason I have for stop breathing.
If I don't breathe I die.
I might have a tantrum, hold my breath until I'm blue in the face...
If I don't breathe I die.
It doesn't matter how 'good' my breathing is...
Weather in short gasps, rapid pantings, deep measured draws or intentions...controlled...meditative...contemplative...breaths
I breathe because if I don't... I DIE

But compared to some my breathing is weak...
I may have weak lungs...
Past illnesses have made it difficult to breathe...
Past injuries have made it hard to breathe...
Past breaths have been stale...
There are people I have been so offended by I don't want to breathe the same air...
But I breathe...
I breathe because if I don't... I DIE... 

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Our pastor at church wrote this and I just wanted to share it.
I have a time of challenge. But I do not worry.
I trust that God knows what is best and that he knows what he is doing.
So therefore. I do not worry!

This is amazing



♥ Rebecka

A friend told me yesterday; it’s hard to talk to new people because you always end up asking the simple questions as, what do you do, where do you live, how long have you been here..

Where do you go from there? How do you come to the part as really getting to know a person. If you think about it, it’s a big process. And looking at all the friends we’ve got, imagine the time we spent getting to know the person in the first place. This has been such an intense 3 month for me. I’ve gotten to know so many people that I have more friends here than I have in Sweden… How weird is that?, as Sweden is where I grew up. It might be that friends come and go when you are younger and you are changing and growing. When you then start finding yourself you can find your friends. And keep them. I reckon it’s been even more essential for me to get great friends here, as they play a part as my family when my real one is to far away.

I’m grateful for the people I’ve meet here. Without you it wouldn’t be the same!

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These last few days I’ve been feeling exhausted. I’m on my way of recovering and was so looking forward to a relaxing campingtrip this weekend. When.. the mums told me it got cancelled. Or not really cancelled, but they apparently needed to work one day of the campingtrip and thought it would be to stressful to go up to rainbow beach. So instead, to keep the kids happy, they are going to the caravan park next to the mums shop. The kids won’t really notice a difference. But I will. I was supposed to have a friend with me and everything was planned and we were so looking forward just getting away from everything. I’m not going now as I’m by that beach every single day. He is not going now as he lives down there. I know the parents didn’t mean for this to happen and I understand. But you can’t help to be disappointed. But I suppose they are as well. Now I’m free to make other plans for the weekend, so I will see what happens. 

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This week has been pretty okej! Monday I worked in the shop and did reflexology and detoxbath on my feet. The reflexology is a machine you put your feet on and it shoots electricity up your feet. Really uncomfortable the first time I tried it. On Tuesday I had the kids in the morning and afternoon, during the day I just rested because I was so tired. In the evening it was salsa class and I did my second attempt to pass the dance test to come in the intermediate class. And I did :-)

Yesterday I did a facial on the mum and she did one at me at the spa. I had the kids in the afternoon and on the evening I meet Kristin and we went to a biblestudy/Lifegroup. None of us had been to that group before and we where around 20 people. I knew some of them. They had a big buffet on the table as everyone gets asked to bring a certain thing. Me and Kristin didn’t know about this, but we didn’t eat any dinner either as we just ate before we came. But now we know till next time. Anyway, It was really fun, we where there from around 7 until almost 11. People ate and talked and in the end we did a few prayer together for anyone who wished to speak. They told us that normally they also read some in the bible and discuss it but somehow time just flew away this evening so we didn’t have time for that. But if I have time next Wednesday and Kristin has to I reckon I will join again.

Today I had the kids in the morning, then went shopping and bought a few things for my birthdayparty as well as a few very early christmaspresents. And now I’ve been at home trying to plan for the party. People that know me know I don’t throw parties. Haha. Well this is going to be my first birthdayparty that’s actually more than just a dinner with a few of my closest friends. I reckon it will be around 30 people, a few more guys than girls but pretty even which is good for latin dancing in the evening ^^  But gosh, I didn’t know it was so much work organising it all. I will have some fait in myself. I know I can do it!  In 1h I’m off to pick the kids up and then when I end tonight I’m leaving to Montegos to dance the night away :-)

Btw. 30 degrees during the days… what is it in Sweden? :P

♥ Rebecka 

 

with dancing!! I've always liked it alot. But now im really deeply in love with it. Montegos is a restaurang with latin thursdays. I've been there two times. Going again. And headed for a havana dressout party there on saturday. There are alot of awesome dancers there, just looking at them makes me smile and think. I want to! I know it will take a while but I'm going to try. At Kristin and Nathans place last night together with Andy we briefly mentioned filming when we are dancing.. would be pretty cool huh?

Anyways, yea thats what I did yesterday.. about 6,5h at there place and time just flew away! The rest of the week i've been busy with the kids. Reece had his birthday and he turned 10 so I got him 3 simpson magazines. I also went to the mall with Kristin and did some needed shopping! And Nicole fixed with the advertising for my training facials. So now we are searching for models and i'm really excited!

Last weekend Chris was turning 21 so he had a party and I shared a present of two t-shirts. I still don't know if they fitted him though :P And it was church again and once again I meet more people, which is always nice!!

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And Nicole told me we are going camping in 3 weeks. Down Rainbow beach which is suppose to be an amazing place. with tents and the caravan.. i hopefully the jetski as well. Rainbow beach is just by Fraser Island which is island with beautiful beaches, lakes and rainforests and you will drive with the car on the beaches :) It wasn't sure we were going to drive out there but Im hoping. The parents told me I could bring a friend so Im really hoping to get a friend to come with. My girlfriends are most certainly having exams...  I could ask a guy too but they would probably feel uncomfortable :P Maybe I will just end up going by myself. It could be fun too...but not as fun!

On tuesday is the Melbourne Cup. Which is the biggest horserace in Australia. Hear that dad? :P They sometimes say The race that stops a nation . Nicole and Patrik and their friends are going to a tavern to watch it. I have to drive them :P Im welcomed to join too. But havn't made up my mind about it yet....

Its 12 a clock this saturday now.. maybe I should text someone and see whats up!
Have a great weekend!

♥ Rebecka