What do you want to be when you grow up?

I think its time I decide more precise in what direction I want to go.. Career wise! I'm laying up at night thinking about what I want, but it is so hard. How do you know what you wanna be?


I applied for an internship trough my school the other day, and today the called and asked me to an interview!! It would be a good experience, since in Sweden it's quite hard to get an internship placement at least within my area of studies..


Anyway this internship is at a small fashion clothing manufacturer that is active internationally and the tasks are to do with administration. Having to admit I’m quite nervous about tomorrow.. But hopefully everything will go alright!

Winter arriving..

W inter has arrived to Europe, in Sweden I hear there is a lot of snow and cold, and even here at the Beach in San Sebastian there are snow, wile in Bilbao it is just raining but it is cold, about 3 degrees and on the mountains you can se that there are some snow. Maybe I should go skiing? But no, I’m too lazy and cheap..

A ctually these two weeks I’ve been spending to much. Like when I went to San Sebastian, or the days this week when I’ve gone shopping a lot, due to I don’t have so much else to do (not having classes or a lot to study for, wile all my friends are busy with all their exams).

T his week I’ve gone to a dance school to try some dances, or actually I only danced one lesson, jazz (and it was really fun but exhausting due to I don’t have any muscles left) me and a German girl also wanted to try flamenco but because they start the class in September it's a bit hard to just jump in, though I would love to learn flamenco. We are trying on some more jazz clases next week and I will check the other dance schools about flamenco.

T his Thursday some Erasmus student and I went to a jazz club, they were good but we were a bit disappointed because there were no trumpets or saxophone but only drums, guitar and keyboard.

T his Friday Katriñe, my flat mate, Daniella a French girl and here boyfriend Alberto went to eat at a Indian restaurant. It was nice to eat some spicy food, though it actually was a bit too spicy, that surprise me, due to they don’t like spicy food here and there for usually change it whether its Chinese or what ever. After the dinner we went to the midnight movies to see the premier of Dreamgirls with Beyonce with others.. I liked it, though the speaking part was in Spanish..

T his Saturday I went out to a few bares in Casco Viejo with Lise and her friend from England and this Sunday me and Katriñe took it easy having a coffee at the café at our street, cooked and ate lunch together and danced a bit in the livingroom.. :-)

Love/Jen

Cider from barrels and drumming chefs..

Finally I’m breaking the silence of two weeks or so. After coming back to Bilbao I have been so busy studying for my exams. But after two weeks of hard work, nearly only studying, I have a break almost a vacation, with only one exam left and two week to study for it.

L ast weekend I took a little break from my studies to go to see flamenco at the theater Arriaga. It was incredible, they danced and sang transmitting a story, I loved it and now I definitely have to start learning flamenco. After the show we and some of the Eramsus students that were there with me went on to Casco Viejo for Pinxos and some beers, but then I went home to sleep, to continue with the studies the day after.

After doing my second last exam this Thursday, on Friday I went to San Sebastian again, but this time to visit my Swedish friend Linnea, which I know from my time working in Norway. She lives and works there, so I got to spend the night in her and her boyfriend David’s apartment in the center of the city. We and some of their friends went a little outside of the town to a Cidrería, a place where you make the cider from here were you drink directly from the barrels, trying not to spill any on the ground, (but if you did it, it didn’t madder that much). There we were eating standing up, tasty: tortilla a bacalao, bacalao (cod), steak and desert (the typical goat cheese). It was really an experience!

After that we went back to the center going to some of the pubs. And because it was the DAY of San Sebastian there were a lot of people out, and the different men’s clubs had dressed out to military drummers or cooks that drummed and played in an orchestra marching around the city, playing all night and day, 24 hours starting at Friday midnight, having children also dressed up and playing taking their place. So after partying it was a little hard sleeping, do to you woke up every time they went by my window.

After at least some hours of sleep, Linnea and I went strolling around the city in the sun. It incredibly how good the weather has been this winter here, when I have come back it has only been sunny and 20 degrees. But now it looks like it is starting to change, today Monday I’m back in Bilbao came back this Saturday and went to the movies yesterday seeing Babel with my roommate, really liked the movie, anyhow today it is only 8 degrees and it is showering down rain. But I guess the winter is coming now, I heard that in Sweden they now have snow, just to bad it came almost a month too late..

Love to you all and thank you Linnea for the lovley weekend!!

Albanian new years and the days before..

After x-mas we visited my friend Beatrice in her home, it was nice to see her again it´s just to bad we don’t se each other more than we do. She treated on some coffee, glögg and sweets and then we looked a bit in town at the sale.

The day after we took the car back to Göteborg. There I met up with my friend Ingrid and Veronica, having a coffee and beer at the coffee place Sense.

On new years we went to Falkenberg and Nehats parents were we celebrated with them, his brothers and sister with children and his cousin from Germany with family. Do to they don’t celebrate x-mas, the Santa claus comes on new years eve, so Nehat dressed up with a white beard and red clothes stumbling in with a big sack handing out all the presents to the 5 children.

The two small girls danced later to the the albanian music, from the diferent performances that the albanian new years tv-shows broadcasted.

After that we fired some fireworks and lighted some “tomtebloss” celebrating the new year.. During the night we ate good and played some poker.