I Will Be The Very Important Glögg- Girl

 

Godmorning Cloudy Wednesday

 

The Christmas Fair is getting closer.
Its starting on Friday at 5PM and finish at 9PM. And on Saturday it starts at 10AM again and finish at 6PM. There will be a huge Christmas market, Children activities, Barbecue, Waffle making, Special Christmas offers in the restaurant, Christmas candy, Lucia celebration, Swedish cafes, Free massage, Photo studio and Live performance on stage. I'm going to sing and play a lot of times. I'm SUPER NERVOUS and SUPER EXCITED at the same time. Oh, I missed the best part; I will be the very important Glögg - girl these days. My job is to stand close to the entrance selling Swedish Glögg and making everyone feeling as joyful as possible.

 

Early on Sunday morning we are going to the Miao Village to celebrate something with them. I don't remember what it was. . . and I don't really care, celebrations use to be great anyway. ^^
More about that later.

 

As you might notice; I'm going to have a pretty busy weekend. That's why our nice teacher gave us a free day today. And what am I going to do on my free day?
I'm going to spend my whole afternoon talking boys with Lovely Linnea at Starbucks and drink their;
Grande- Christmas- Latte- with- toffee- and- sweetened- walnuts.

 

Amen

 

 

 

. . . and I promise Ill take a lot of pics mum.

 



My Man Smells Too Good To Be Eaten

 

Happy December All My Lovely Blog Readers

 

Its finally December.

 

 Even thou I love December, this month hasn't started very good. It started with food poisoning, which made me feel supercrapy for three days. An other bad thing is the fact that I cant upload this radio recording that I told you about some weeks ago . . . believe me, Ive really tried hard in all possible ways to make it. Oh I couldnt see the Swedish "jukalendern" either. Stupid Internet.
 
I dont wanna complain thou. December will always be my favourite. I found another video who made my poisonend days feel a bit less poisoned.
 
This lemon video might be the best Monday video ever;

 

And Yea; I decorated my blog! Its a Christmas Blog from now on! Hope you like it as much as I do, because I think its awesome.

I got a "smällkaramell" and a Gingerbread Man who smells like heaven from lovely Linnea. He truly smells too good to be eaten. I Love Him. He might be my first Chinese crush.

Ive been writing a cool Swedish Christmas rap and Ive been talking with my crasy, sweet family at home. Thats the things Ive been doing these last days. . . besides being sick.

 

Wish you a beautiful day!

 

Lot of Love

 

Olivia

White Hot Chocolate with Wipped Cream and Raspberry sause

 

Its Tuesday.

Tuesday is a day thats starting with Chinese and ends with Christmas Choir. Between these two things are a lot of meetings. Ive told you before, right? Now Ive told you twice.

 

Its three days until December.

December is a Christmas month. 

I Love December.

 

Look what I got from my best friend Starbucks;

Its one of the Christmas News for this year. White Hot Chocolate with Wipped Cream and Raspberry sause. Heavenly delicious!

Thank You Starbucks!

 

And look what I got from Linneas mummy;

An Advents Calendar

Thank You Monica!



No Worries, Just More Life Experiences

We’ve just had our first lesson with the passionate history teacher Paul Lee. He teaches about the Chinese history from the Qing dynasty, around 1840. It’s so interesting! We had a lesson for nearly three hours and it felt like thirty minutes! There are so many crazy things that have happen in this country. Paul Lee told us about a kid that became the emperor of China when he was four years old. That emperor got killed when he was twenty years old and his three years old cousin became emperor instead. Further on this new emperor got poisoned to death by his stepmother when he was twenty years old. I don’t understand how you can allow a four year old be the ruler of a whole country with hundred millions of people? And the fact that this emperor literally can do whatever he wants doesn’t make this easier to understand. This was just hundred years ago! I hope to understand more next lesson.

When talking about strange things; there are many strange things about this week. Not just because I have had egg and stuff in my hair. I have black nail polish this week (Yes, sis I do, and I wrote it here just for you.) But that’s not all; I have been super-tired and felt asleep in my teacher’s sofa, in the backstage and on my bag in my room in the middle of the day. I have not been dancing at Dangsters at all. Ive been eating real Tacos (Thanks Karin!) I have not been drinking coffee in the morning. I have made my own Contemporary/Modern dance choreography for no reason to the song; You Found Me – The Fray. The strawberry- season just started here so there are strawberries everywhere. I have bought an old bike and done my best to make it as ugly as I could (so that none will steal it again). That’s a normal week in a normal Swedish girl´s life in China. To be continued. . .

And now you are all very curious about my home made hair mask. I’m gonna be honest, I’m not recommending you to have honey, raps oil and egg in your hair. Okay, you can have it if you want, it’s not bad… but it’s not extremely good either. I didn’t feel any difference at all. I just had to wash my pillow case some extra times and didn’t have any honey for my morning tea. But no worries, just more life experiences! Bye!

 

 

Little Chair, Little Chair, Lovely, Lovely Friend

I have honey, raps oil and egg in my hair. I’ve never had honey, raps oil and egg in my hair at the same time before. No, this is not a typical Chinese thing to do. My sweet roomy Linnea told me that it’s good to have these tree things in your hair, so I trusted her. It smells disgusting thou… I’m gonna to tell you if I recommend it or not tomorrow.

Anyway the reasons why I haven’t been writing to you for nearly a week is because of lack of Internet and lack of time. Sorry guys, but I’ve actually been very busy. December is getting closer and that means that we have thousand things to prepare for different big Christmas events. I know I’ve told you this before, but if you may have forgotten I’m telling you again. I was told yesterday that the Christmas Fair, where I’m going to sell Glögg and sing, is an event for more than thousand people! Thousand people are a lot of people. Awesome.

John was in charge of English Corner this Monday and made us all create songs. My group had to create a song about a chair. We made a wonderful song with moves from the Ganamstyle- dance and part of the melody from the Jingle Bell- song.

Here is the lyric;

Verse 1:

We are sitting on chairs.

You are sitting on a chair.

We are all sitting on chairs.

All of us on chairs.

When you feel tired you can rest on a chair.

Rap part/ Bridge:

A yellow chair, a big chair, a hard chair, a colorful chair, a soft chair there is so many kinds of chairs.

Refrain:

Little chair, little chair my lovely, lovely friend.

Little chair I hope our love will never, never end.

I’m not gonna show you the awful video from this little performance, so you better use your best  imagination skills to figure out what this looked like.

To prepare for this important month that is getting closer we have had some meetings like; Class meetings, Christmas meetings, Stage meetings, Christmas meetings, Advent meetings, Christmas Fair meetings, Christmas meetings and Gallery meetings. Most of these meetings took place on my Tuesday. The first Christmas Choir practice that I told you about, took place this Tuesday as well, and it was even better than I hoped for. Singing Christmas songs together with other people is one of my favorite things in the world. Believe it or not, but there were more boys than girls in this year’s Christmas Choir. I think that is a good thing.

It’s time for jazz concert. I’m in charge of the sound. Yeah I’ve got some sound skills too.

See ya.

Starbucks Dance Dance Starbucks And Hamburgers

A Very Happy Sunday

Woke up between Linnea and John and began my morning with a cosy movie and extra salty porridge. Packed some dance clothes and some Chinese homework and went down town. Settled down at Starbucks and bought a fantastic Coffee Latte Grande served in a red mug with Christmas trees on. Met one of my favourite chines friends at Starbucks (its not common to "just meet someone you know" without an appointment in this town, but I did!). Had a long interesting conversation about how we treat and feel about old people in Sweden VS in China. I felt so important and international sitting there and discuss this important subject with a chines guy on an other side of earth . 

I think I actually got some Important-Life-Experience-Points! 

 Went to Dangsters for a Popping lesson at three. Realised that Ive become more skilled at popping my upper body, but have a really hard time popping my legs. I was very angry at my legs this lesson because they didnt move as I wanted them to. That might be the only bad this about this Sunday. . . !

 Met up the Latte- guy again for a great Jazz lesson and more Chinese studdies outside Starbucks. Its pretty useful beeing with a chinese person while trying to learn Chinese. And an other thing; Its not cold in the evening - I love that! 

Went home around eight and was served delicious hamburgers by Ellen and John. Thank You guys! Finnished my Sunday on a bed in front of an absolutelly too thrilling movie about kidnapped kids. ( I closed my eyes so often that I felt asleep after an half hour.) But it was nice anyway.

Woke up around three aclock in the night by John who was laughing while sleeping. Cute.

And now its Monday and John told me he woke up in the middle of the night while I was laughing while sleeping. Intressting. Anyway I just saw Step Up Revolution and Im in need of dancing now. 

Gotta check my dance scedule. 

Getting ready for a new week. 

Gonna begin with the Christmas Choir tomorrow. Exsiting!

I guess you already noticed

I´m trying to learn Popping from YouTube, I´m drinking coffee (fejk coffee. . . I'm not at Starbucks) and I´m eating delicious dumplings. We truly have the best dumplings in town 100 meters from our apartment. That's awesome!

Oh I just got the YouTube-video from our Flash Mob BTW. 

 Check it out!

FlashMob Oct 2012

I love my dance school. I Guess you already noticed. 

I'm going there tonight for MV Jazz and Girl style.

Something more I wanna say? Well, there is a lot to say. I just don't really know how to say it. I mean, I have thousands of feelings about living here in China. Its like nothing I ever experienced before. Not just because of the fact that I get too much attention over here. Did I tell you that I nearly caused a really bad traffic accident by just smiling to a truck driver? Well I did. Its also because of these huge culture differences between Sweden and China. There is so many thing that is hard for me to understand. Things that all the Chinese think is totally obvious. Like not having seat belts for example, or peeing on the sidewalks, or sleeping on the sidewalks, or eating bird seeds and green beans as snax instead of Twix and chips. An other thing; I'm kind of sick of being misunderstood. Especially when I'm proudly telling a Chinese sentence that Ive just learned to someone and they response by looking like a question mark. 

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And what about my classmates? 

Ehm; John is sick, Johanna just cut her hair, Filip have bought three packages of  Moon cakes, Louise is sick, Ellen want to eat Sushi for lunch and Linnea prefer going to the market buying Brown Rise instead staying here and talking with me. 

I love them all anyway. I guess you already noticed.

My 5Y lunch. The most deliscious dumplings in town and Tea ofcourse.

 Chinese workers sleeping on the sidewalk.

 Supersweet Ellen eating her favourite lunch.

HEJDÅ