Back to Scandinavia

What's up people?
I just realized - and by just I mean one month ago - that I haven't been posting as much as usual here lately. I guess old habits are hard to die.
So here I am, with loads of news from weird Sweden.

I'd love to say many people asked me how life is here, but it's me we're talking about, so nope. They'll eventually ask, probably one month before coming back so not to look like they didn't give a damn fuck, but that means I'd have to wait around 8 more months and well, I can't wait that long without writing.
Or maybe - positive Alex speaking now - it might be possible that people are so used to me moving away that they've lost track of me and/or think I got so accustomed to it that I don't feel like it's a big deal anymore. Which in a certain way is not, I'll give them credit for that. But still.

Just to recap, I've been living here in Stockholm for about two months now, I enjoy the new school - which btw is totally different from my home Uni - , I've found a part-time job as a RG coach - that is if I menage to get a certain number from the Tax Agency -, I've taken up ballet again and I've started writing for both HelpImAStudent.com and StudyInStockholm.se . Yay for me.
Don't worry, I'm still single and incredibly dorky as per everything else.

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The best of myself

'ssup guys?


I know I've never posted any of my work here - or anywhere else, now that I think of it - , but I had LOADS of fun making this video and, as it's about myself only, this blog seems just the right place for it!
Hope you like it!

                    


Further updates about my life and life in general coming soon!

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The perks of being a Design Student

Hello little sunshines! Today it's February 8 and...

Wait, WHAT?!

Excuse me, but where has January gone exactly?!
I mean, it feels like yesterday when I had the second physics test, and then the third, and had to send in the 6th render, and then the 7th, and then the 8th, and then... Oh, I see.

Let's start again then.

Hello people, today it's February 8 and the world sucks.

Ok, maybe it doesn't, but being a design student probably does. Ok, it doesn't.
Just a bit maybe.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE doing what I'm doing, but the thing is, most of my friends are studying in other fields and yet, no matter how hard a time they say to be having, they still seem to have a pretty decent life besides Uni - DISCLAIMER: I am absolutely NOT denigrating other study fields.

Now, I know this may seem overstating, but being a design student leaves you with little to no life at all, especially if you decide to take a part time job too.
It's not that we have loads of stuff to properly study - even though I'm surrounded by History of art books at the moment - the real problem is the incredible amount of time it takes to "complete" projects, which in reality you never truly complete, as any design/architecture student will confirm.

Unluckily, projects are what we choose this field for - masochists  - so we can't really blame them, that's why I blame 3ds Max instead. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's actually Satan in it's 3D graphics software from, almost.

To give you guys an idea, here's a list of things you can do while waiting for your final render to be done:

1) Get your nails perfectly shaped and polished like in those cool tutorials.

2) Order a pizza.

3) Eat a pizza.

4) Have a long and meaningful conversation with your parents on FaceTime about how beautiful your kitty is.

5) Google Stephen Merchant on YouTube.

6) Laugh your butt off because of his lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon.

7) Start thinking about all the songs you'd totally nail if you were to lip sync them.

FML.

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Welcome to Milano

Surprise, surprise : I live in Milan(o) now.
Ok, it's not that a big deal, though it surely enough brought quite a few changes in my life.

First of all, I'm not living with my parents any longer (again), YAY! Welcome adulthood. Just kidding, I must admit I kind of miss them every now and then, especially when I'm having "troubles" with my new flatmates (not that we argue that much tbh). Yes, I do live with other three girls I'd never met before and yes, we do have problems sharing a f*@#ing small bathroom, but "that's just the way it is".

Second of all, I've finally started going to the University, and God, I'd never thought Interior Design would involve such a lot of stress! Nor that its materials would be THAT expansive, I guess I may have just found out why a designed armchair can cost up to many hundred euros!
Jokes aside, I do really love my faculty and its laboratories, especially Models lab, which I still haven't had the pleasure to use, but for which we had to take an enabling test (nothing too difficult indeed),and the people in my course are just amazing: I've known them for only a couple weeks and I already am in love with most of them.

Nevertheless, I'm probably going in Lithuania for one week next month for a workshop between my school, PoliMi, and Vilnius' Design School. I'll let you guys know what will come out of this for sure.

Actually, moving to Milan hasn't changed my daily routine only, but also, and most importantly, the perspective I have/had of my future. Don't get me wrong, I still don't know 100%  what I'll make of myself in these next years, but I do know, more or less, which way I'm going and, I'll be honest, it is an amazing way indeed.

I'll go to sleep now, since I'm feeling like crap and I unfortunately have 9h lab tomorrow, I'll be writing soon, I hope.

Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-EUSvJchI

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Changes

It's raining cats and dogs (and cows and horses and the whole farm) outside right now, and so has it been ever since 1 September. Exactly the opposite of what it was like last month. Actually, many things are the opposite of what they were like last month. Let me just give you some examples.

I travelled a lot in August, I even got back in Norway for ten days. It took me something like 16 hours to get there - had to go to Naples, then Milan, waited there 7 hours, then took the plane to Amsterdam and then again to Trondheim- but it was totally worth it. Seeing my host-family and friends again was amazing, and it felt almost like I'd been away for just a couple days. That was last month. If I'd went back now, I would probably feel like I don't even know the place, since almost all my friends and my h-brother have moved out to start what is called "folkeskole" or university or whatever they're up to.

Also, just last week my best friend didn't even know where and what she was going to study, and now she's leaving tomorrow to start the Uni in Venice. Even my "love life" has been put upside-down in the past few weeks. Crap.

I guess things just have to go the way they do.

And anyway, it didn't change all for the worse, in fact I've actually managed to find a new flat in Milan since I'm moving there to study Interior Design by the end of September! I can't even put in words how excited I am, you guys will definitely hear more about it in the future.

Also, my hair turned BLUE. This is actually a funny story. I was shopping with my h-brother at Cubus and as I was trying on some hats (for your information it was the cutest hat EVER : light pink, soft, with "#CUTE" printed on it) with my hair pulled in a ponytail I realized it wouldn't look bad at all if I cut it short. Of course, when I explained the idea to my h-brother he said it was the dumbest thing I could ever think of. You know, brothers. Anyway, I was really sure of cutting it, but one week later, as I was shopping (again) at Cubus (again), I found this blue-ish/green-ish hair color powder and of course I had to try it. It looked amazing, indeed. So I dropped of the cutting idea, and dyed my hair what was supposed to be green, and got blue instead the day after I got back to Italy.

Ok, it wasn't that funny after all. The moral here is: if you need hair inspiration, go shopping at Cubus, bye!

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