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Read more: 7 Quirky Things You’ll Find in SwedenThis post is a part of the writing project called Stories from the West that I started with Christa. We’re both currently living on the west coasts (Christa in the US, me in Sweden), hence the name of the project. We want to share our experiences living as immigrants, and every month we’ll write a post each with…
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Christmas All Over Again
It’s this time of the year again, when the Christmas trees are up, tinsel is everywhere, and Christmas songs are played in almost every shop you walk past. The time of the year when you can’t help feeling anything but merry. I’ve always had a fondness for Christmas, no matter what happened. Even in the worst years…
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A Walk Down Memory Lane
A good friend of mine is leaving England for good this week, and last weekend she paid one last visit to Southampton. On Friday, I got a message from her asking me if I wanted to go to Riverside Park the next day to catch the sunrise. Without thinking twice, I said yes. At 5.30…
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How It is to Unlove Someone
There are times in life when our fondness to someone is too much, to the point where it causes nothing but agony. There are times in life, when we wish we didn’t care that much, that we didn’t love someone that much, that we could take a step back and become strangers again. But like all…
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Good People
For a couple of days, I’ve been asking the very same question that Jack Johnson asks in one of his songs (Good People, which, by the way, is my firm favorite along with Banana Pancakes and Better Together): where’d all the good people go? I’ve had some tumultuous relationships in the last few months. Just…
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Winchester Bonfire
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved fireworks and bonfires. Everything that has fireworks or bonfires will always be my fondest memories. Among those are my 20th birthday when someone when to my place and lit fireworks (the big ones!) and the new year’s eve 2013 when my friends and I watched the fireworks…
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Snippets of September
As it’s always been with this blog, this is a late post about September. The other day I was sorting photos in my phone because the memory was running low, and found a few photos that reminded me of some good days in September. I spent half of September working on my dissertation in such panic and stress,…
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Those Surprises
image source Sometimes I wonder if the universe loves to play jokes on me, just to see my reaction. I met one of my closest friends here a year ago, one day after my birthday. I was hanging out at The Hobbit with my other friends — who were pushing shots at me — when…
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On the Memory of Christmas
I always say that I don’t know if last Christmas was a curse, or a gift. The day I met a stranger, danced with him, and fell in love. Of course, at first it was just a physical attraction, probably with a bit of help from the sangria and wine. Later on, the feeling built…
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A Birthday Story
I’ve never been the one who likes to celebrate my own birthday. If it’s for friends, or family, bring it on. I’d do everything to make that day special: planning a party and midnight surprise, making a video or scrapbook, running all around town to get pictures of people holding a birthday banner, you name…
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Happy Birthday, Timothy!
I met Timothy in my first year of college, knowing nothing more than his reputation of ‘the cool guy with the perfect GPA’. Little did I know that later on, we would become best friends. In our third year of college, we became the committee for LFM, and that’s how we got close. In one year period,…
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