On my way….

As you might have notice, I do not like to write about too much about things to come, since I do not know that they actually will come. Instead I try to live each moment fully, so that when I write about them, it makes up a beautiful story.

For my master thesis I got the opportunity to do my research in Peru. I have talked to so many good and nice people, everyone trying to aid me in my work to succeeding. The timeframe is very short and I am at the moment learning Spanish.

Before I came to Peru, I was living close to my mum in a one room flat. It was a bit isolated, but helped me to focus in preparing everything before departure to Latin America. The housing agency was extremely helpful, as the local library, the travel agency, language coordinator and on the airport everything went really smooth. Thank you everyone.

Also spend some great nights at my paternal aunt’s place close to Malmö. Beautiful time with family, and I really enjoyed to walk by the beach! I grew up very close to the sea (one of the meanings of the name for this blog), so I feel very drawn to it.

Spring and River Cottage

I was watching River Cottage on the webb telly (available on link until 8th of February) and felt so inspired.... Spring is soon arriving on our doorsteps and you better start making out some ideas of planting and growing. Here is a little clip to get a push of energy for that....

Winter 2010/2011 first shots

It started last Tuesday. The wind blow so cold that I said to one of my friends, that "Mr. Winter had breathed upon us and kissed us". :) An hour or two later it all began. Thin and tiny, one by one, the snow flakes fell....

 

Within some hours they had covered the ground. The snow was pretty good so I could make a snow ball and throw the first one on my friend.... She is from the north of Sweden (and I am from the south) so I think she was a bit annoyed that I did it before her...and it started a little snow ball war...that was fun. :)

It was amazing how much it snowed the first time of this winter season. The day after, the world (or more, Uppsala :) ) was covered in more than 10 centimetres layer of snow. And it stayed around.

Even if it started to melt, I could still enjoy a beautiful lunch in the sunshine by the pond. The water was frozen. But it was nothing compared to what faced me this morning when I looked out of my window.

It has become cold and winter is here to stick around for a while.

Soon it is November! :)

If I would still be living in the very south of Sweden it would mean a lot of foggy and grey days.....bare leaves....but this year autumn has been great in Uppsala. The leaves have been burning in all this various colours, slowly falling down...like golden coins...to the ground. Now it lays there, waiting for someone to just throw them up and around.... swirling like a dance of the season of the red, orange, yellow, brown.... burning our senses and making us dress in wool and drink lots of tea....so had a little autumn feast the other night and we all brought something to the table. 

 Then the only Canadian person got to make a pumpkin,
which we named crazy Jack. :) He is now laughing
away all bad spirits in the dark.