Erika's World

Yo! Hi everyone! Good evening! How are you? I am good. Except for that my neck hurts so fucking bad that I just wanted to cry at work today. Gosh! I really do need a spa day! I am looking at some different package right now and it is kind of cheep! Idk, but I thought that would be more expensive. But it's not I can actually afford it. I will see if some one wants to join me. Would be fun! If no one wants to I will go alone because either way my body really needs a day off. I am so looking forward to it! I can't believe that school is almost over! I have my last test next Thursday! It's kind of bitter sweet. I feel good about that it's over but I will have some much free time over now that school is over. Especially now in June. This semester has really been hard but I feel like I learn a lot about myself. I have done better than I ever thought I would. Okay I actually choose this course because I thought that it would be an easy A, but after the first test its showed ...

Hi everyone! I have been really bad at updating lately but to my excuse I have had a lot of school and work lately. Mostly school. I have had a paper that I had to write. Gosh I hate Swedish university. Compared to this I really liked going to college in California. But I think that I am forgetting how it actually was. I do remember that I have never been so psychically and emotionally exhausted in my life. But that was still better than this. I mean I feel more calm now about school but maybe that's because I don't care as much about school as I did then. I mean of course I want to do well now but back then it was like I HAVE TO get straight A's. Me getting good grades was also because I was paranoid that I was going to be put on academic probation which potentially meant that I could be deported incase I didn't better my grades. I was paranoid about that. Being deported. I was like no I have to be a model citizen! Lol. In the next few days or (probably and more like...

Hi guys! I just wanted to post something since I don't post as much anymore. But I have been busy. I have school and work and it's all so much. But I do like having both because then my life is not just about one or the other. It's nice having something to breaks of the other (Do you say that in english?). Eh. Right now with school I feel like I am just taking one day at a time. And to actually getting a degree I am taking one semester at a time. Trying to not put so much pressure on everything and not stress. I feel like it's working that way. Yeah. We'll see. This weekend have been really nice. It's been so nice not having to work the last couple of weeks. I hope that my boss do not schedule me to work weekends in March. I want my weekends free. LOL. Last weekend I was totally stressed about school and said to myself that next weekend I won't do anything. No school, no studying. And what have I been doing. Studying the whole weekend. Hehehe. But I feel p...

Good morning everyone! God why am I up this early when I have don't have to be at work until 2:45 PM? But, I have school. It's time to get that bachelors. It's just annoy that I can't go home straight after I have been at the university. I have to work. I have some time in-between but I don't know if it's worth going home for maybe maximum an hour. Hmm. Well well. Hopefully it won't take that long time in school so I might have time to go home and relax for a bit before I have to go to work. your writer, Erika

Hi guys! How is everyone? I am good. Though I am a little sick so I decided to stay home from work today. My physical and mental health needed. Thank God that the season is almost over. But I have actually started a new job as a barista at Espresso House. I am still learning everything and next week my boos is going to teach me how to do coffee. That is exciting. A girl a the coffee shop taught me how to do espressos last earlier this week. Which is the easiest thing in the world. LOL. It exciting to do new things. School starts soon but I feel like I need a vacation. I think that I might go and visit my mom just to get away and have change of scenery. God knows that I need that. But she is here now visiting me. Sadly I have to work tomorrow so we don't get to spend time tomorrow. My shift tomorrow is a freaking death marathon but I am a freaking beast so I will be come in first. LOL. Lets talk another day and see how I feel about everything then. your writer, Erika

Hi! I just want to try and make a quick post now since I never seem to have time to write anything here. I should really be doing other stuff right now but I feel like this blog needs some attention as well. LOL. How is everyone? I am good. A bit stressed out because of school. You know what I am the kind of person that stresses over school thin that I will fail and all and BAM! I don't, instead I ace the whole thing. It's so weird. LOL. Maybe I need more self-confidence but I don't feel like I am that super negative about myself. Maybe when I get stressed because then I feel really pressured to perform well. Hmm. Hopefully this won't be a stressful weekend! I was going to work today but that got cancelled, which in away made me kind of happy because this is the first Friday in a while when I have to work. But I have school and other work, so like I am happy that I can take care of that today. Yeah! I feel like I am really getting somewhere with this essay that I have...

Hi guys! I just want to make a quick post before I have to leave for todays adventure. Hi and sorry that I haven't been updating much lately but I haven't been feeling well plus I have been like super busy. Like super duper busy, which I like keeping me form having out with people I really want to hang out with. LOL. I like being busy tough because I get bored if I have too much free time. Ugh! So it positive and negative too be this busy this week. I mean yeah I like having things to do but I almost don't know how to cram it all in my schedule. There are a few things that I have to do, but then there are the things I want to do. You see my problem/ dilemma! Wäääääh! So what are you all doing this week? Are you are busy as I am? LOL. I usually have nothing to do or too much to do. But I am going to go and see Fifty Shades of Grey with a friend tomorrow. So that's one good thing to look forward too. I mean because I have no plans for Saturday, aka Valentines Day. Lonel...

In the two days since I last posted something on this blog I have switched from Fifth Harmony to Iggy Azalea. I mean as what I like to listen to at the moment. Tomorrow it will probably be something new. It always like that, I hear a song that I become obsessed with and then I listen to it until it makes me want to puke. Yeah. Fangirl stuff. LOL, life of Erika. So what's everyone doing this weekend? Ugh! I have too much to do! School stuff, monologues plus gonna try to put in spending some time with my friends in the mix of those two things. Okay, school and monologues may not sound like much but university is no easy walk in the park, plus monologues which is like priority number one at the moment (and which I am not practicing enough). Argh! All of this is stressing me out! Stressing me the fucking hell out! Wääääh! It will all be fine in the end, it has to be. And therefore it will be. Gotta go to bed now. Lot of things to do tomorrow. Mwah, luv ya! your writer, Erika

Damn! I have been a pretty busy little bee lately. But I am here now, but tomorrow school starts. So um yeah, that is going to be exciting. LOL. Hopefully I will do well. I still feel like I am not 100% ready for it to start because I haven't fixed everything yet. LOL, I stil need a notebook so that I can take note for class. And the actual textbook. Oops! Super irresponsible. Well well. I guess that I have to swing by the campus bookstore tomorrow before class. I really want get a sweatshirt with the schools name on it. That would be really cool. I am going to ask tomorrow at the student center if they sell that on campus or if it is only online. Idk because haven't seen a store like that at campus. LOL, I have been on that campus like twice in my life time. Once in high school when we got a campus tour and once last week. I can't remember that I have been there other than that. your writer, Erika

Wow! I am really bad at updating lately! But it is just because I am working so much that I never have time and I always get home so late that I am too tired to blog. Sorry, and I can't promise that it won't happen again. 'Cause chances are that it most likely will. Thank God for the weekend! LOL because I may just be swept away to work. I never know when I am needed. My boss just texts or calls me whenever he needs me. Like last night. OMG, what are the odds that I am at home cleaning and my boss texts me to see if I can come over and clean? I was kind of laughing at the situation. But I did go over to his place after I finished cleaning my own apartment. I went to SU main campus yesterday because I had missed the group registration for the two courses that I am taking this semester. Again, work is keeping my mind elsewhere. Anyway, what I want to say is that I feel like I missed - It's not that I feel like I missed, I actually missed the whole orientation week for n...

Hi! So I continued reading in Conor's book today. Just so unbelievably awesome! What a sweet life he seemed to be living. I mean when he moved to London, like he got to be in the recoding studio everyday and still kind of be a part of that uni lifestyle. I mean visit his friends in their halls, go to popular places where all the uni kids hang out. I mean it sounded pretty sweet in a way. But he complains about in the book that he kind of relied on his friends at uni for a social life since he didn't know anyone in London, that he was pretty much alone without them. Except for that it all seems pretty sweet. I really recommend that you buy his book, Take Off . You won't regret it. It's really good. I really hope that I get to meet him again. He's just, I mean I am a really huge fan of him. I have about 30 pages left but I'll finish that tomorrow, this is a book that you latterly have to tare me from. The only reason that I put it down is because I really need to ...

That's it! Fuck it's cold! September 3rd and I am feeling like I am going to freeze to death! No joke! Fall weather is so fucking unpredictable! Like this morning it was pleasant, well it was not to cold anyway. This afternoon it was hot. Like it was to hot with pants, so I would have had said yes to a dress. Hahaha. Now, at around 11 PM I am freezing to death. OMG! it shouldn't be like this. NO! NO way! Like I am sitting here in my UCLA sweat pants and my 1D hoddie, plus I am wearing three pairs of socks. My feet are always cold so that's really not an excuse, but the problem is that I am cold. Freezing to death cold! Aaaaah! I almost can't take this anymore. I have been thinking weather I should go back to school or just whatever I should do. Like it's hard! I do and I don't but I also think that education is important. But it's like I don't want to go to school in Sweden because there aren't any fun schools, or I mean any schools that offer ...

I tend to blog late at night, you know the end of the day. I don't know why it just happens. LOL. I mean, yeah, you know ( I don't even know). No, it's better to sum up the day at the end of the day instead at four in the afternoon when you come home from school. In like eight grade or so, I used to plan, while I was at school, what I was going to blog about when I came home. Bored I guess. Hahaha. Tomorrow I don't start school until 10:30 AM! So nice because I get to sleep until 7:30, I mean yeah because when I lived in the US I had to get up at 5:30. That's too early. Well, now I have to get ready for tomorrow so until then, yeah sleep tight and have a fun night. your writer, Erika

Hi guys! I think that my bad habit from USA has followed me to Sweden. Hahaha. I think I fell asleep during class yesterday. Gosh what is happening to me?! It was a dark movie theater and a not so interesting movie. I was leaning on my bag and all of the sudden it was that boring music and closing credit (it was n Chinese so I really have no idea) and people were leaving. Ooops! Hihihi. But in the United States people couldn't really blame me. Well, I think so because I went up at 5:30 AM so that I could make it to my 8 AM class (keeping mind that it to me about 45 minutes to get to school). You know what? It takes me longer to get to school here in Sweden that it did in SB. WTF?! Like, "Hello, dude!" Like right now I am not like "Yeah!" about school but maybe it's like Sara said that once you get to know people it will be a lot more fun. I met this one girl today who has a friend at NYU and an other friend or maybe it was her friends' friend who goes ...

OMG! Today I went to school IN SWEDEN for the first time in like 8 months or so. It was weird. They spoke swedish. Nah, but it was weird. I don't know. It's like people are different here, I mean yeah of course they are. I am just, I don't know. I've gotten just to the Cali style of life. Just how people are and act and represent themselves. Here people are much more reserved. In the US (well in Cali, or well in SB - 'cause that's where I lived) people are more outgoing. I like once you get to know someone here there is no difference between the two it's just, hmm, I guess people are more cautious. Lisa (the woman that I stayed with the longest) said that people in New Work (she's from NY) are not as friendly as in SB. Like, in New York people wouldn't just start talking to a stranger. If someone were to do that people would just like at them like their crazy or just ignore them and way away. So that's in the same country. I feel like some Swedes...

Hi. Hi. What have you all been doing? School starts soon? How are you all feeling about that? I don't know. I feel kind of bored about it. I know, it weird since I am not going to be in the US (I am not sad about that). I am going to be in Sweden. Hmm, I thought that going to school in Sweden would be free (okay it's not expensive or anything I just have to pay a 400 kr registration fee, that's about $61) and that it wouldn't take an hour to get to there (I looked it up on an app on my phone). It doesn't take an hour, it takes about 50 minutes. It takes that long because I am not that course that I am taking is not going to be at the main Stockholm University campus it's somewhere else (like wtf?! Right!). Whatever, I applied for the course, I have registered for the course, so I'll guess I just have to take that it takes that long to get there. I am going to complain when I have classes before 9 AM because then I have to get up before 6 AM and I had enough ...

Damn! Have you heard about that bitch named Sandy? Excuse my language, but I mean the hurricane. I hope she doesn't decide to take a trip here to the west coast. Since this hurricane is so severe I am glad I am not going to school in New York (Wow, that's a sentence I thought would never leave my mouth). I mean, I have been checking BMCC's, NYU's and Columbia University's facebook pages and they have all canceled and closed campus today and tomorrow. NYU wrote something earlier that they encourage everyone to stay where they are and to not use elevators and candles (candles, why? Okay, I am not a hurricane expert). But about 15 minutes ago they posted that the storm has passed through New York and were successfully able to serve meals in the dorms, but people should still stay where they are. OMG! I would be freaking out. I want to go to Columbia (preferably) to get my masters one day (I might changed my mind about that) so I hope no natural disaster happens when I ...

Wooh! I was a little worried for today that what if I go back to school in Sweden next semester that I won't be able to transfer to Columbia University to get a masters. But I just looked it up and, wooh, no worries I can make a transfer. Maybe I don't want a master maybe I want another bachelor. Either way I want to go to Columbia. Well, I might be tired of school after a few years of college. Yeah. If I go to school in Sweden I could actually work and earn money so that I might not have to take a loan or take not have to take as huge of a loan as I would if I continue here. Yeah, if I continue here I might not be able to afford Columbia even with just the loan and no money of my own. Yeah. I want to go to a university here that is my dream not some city/ community college. I mean that is if I want to continue study in a few years. Ha, I thought about it today that I am going to try to get my bachelors as fast as I can, take summer classes and all that shit. I mean that's ...

So here we go again! OMG what am I doing. I know right. LOL, you are probably wondering what is she talking about. Okay, I'll tell you. I am looking up courses and programs to study at Stockholm University next semester. Basically for the following three years. Mostly for next semester. I mean, yeah, I know that my dream was studying here in America. Mostly I think that I was confused by what that dream really meant and I still am. What I really wanted to do was to take a year of and do a high school year but then I found out that I would have had to repeat that year when I came back to sweden so I just shook it off. I mean repeat a year no thank you. Well, I saw that as a waste of time then. Like "I don't have time for that shit.". I have always had that dream to come to America, New York, Chicago, Seattle or LA for like a vacation. So maybe I felt like this was kind of my only opportunity to go to America. I never really had any desires to go to Santa Barbara. But, ...

Oh boy! There is so much about college I don't know (how am I ever going to make it?). I saw this book called Academic Writing For Graduate Students at Akademibokhandeln yesterday. I was looking among the books that is on sale and there is was. What caugth my eye was the word writing. Anyway. I picked it up with my hands and started flipping through the pages. It seemed ok. I didn't buy it because I don't buy books like that. I am a fiction kind of gal. I love to read fiction. Right now I am reading L.A Candy by Lauren Conrad. When the book first came out I was like "I am never going to read one of her books. Never!". Here I am. Anyway. It is actully a good book. When it came I out thought it was going to be about her life or something. It is actully a real book (I found out about that when I watched The Tyra Banks Show one day). I am going off-topic. So I think I might need to buy one of those books. About academic writing if you didn't get that. Y...