san francisco

California is a very beautiful state. Just saying. I know that now because Beth and I spent most day driving through it all. Well, maybe not all of it but... yeah. We went from Los Angeles to San Francisco. On the way over here we went to a vineyard and did some wine tasting which was awesome. I can definitely see myself working at a vineyard in the future. Yeah, I'd trade shoes for wine any day. Ha ha ha. Took some pretty neat pictures that I can't upload just yet... of course :(

Now we're chillin in our hotel room watching Camp Rock 2 on Disney Channel. lol. Tomorrow we'll be exploring San Francisco and on Tuesday we're going back to LA again. Can't wait to see what tomorrow has to bring. Can't wait to see the Golden gate bridge and the rest of San Fran! I'll be snapping pictures, for sure.

i know a place, where the grass is really greener

Ask me if I'm nervous now.

The answer is yes. I don't know how this happened. Today it hit me though and now I'm nervous as hell. I'm mostly nervous about the short stay in Paris though, to be honest. Finding my way on the airport... from one terminal to another. All in less than one hour because I need to check in at least one hour before the plane to LA takes off. Apparently I need to go by bus from one terminal to another and yeah,

I'm just a bit stressed out. No big deal.

And I've been under the impression that flying from Paris to Los Angeles takes 10 hours. Apparently it takes 11 hours and 30 minutes... this makes me a bit worried as well. I'm a bit claustrophobic and I'm afraid I will start thinking about the fact that there's no way to "get out" once I'm up there. I'll just need to remind myself to breathe.

Had dinner with my family today and everyone wanted to chime in with suggestions, plans and ideas. LOL. I love them all but they're a bit insane. My aunt was planning all my outfits for me and asked me to get her a role in a movie. My grand pa was pretty much telling me to stay inside the whole time and not to anything because he's been watching CSI and all those shows and Los Angeles is an extremely dangerous place.  My cousins' only demand is that I find Michael Jacksons star on the walk of fame, lie down on the ground and take a picture next to it.

There was a lot more but those were the main things. Can't wait to get home and all them all about my experiance on the other side of the world. <3

In 24 hours I will be on the plane towards Los Angeles and it'll be about nine hours left until we touch down at LAX.

It feels so unreal still. I'm super excited!

video music awards 2k10

Just now (read: a few moments ago) I thought to myself... why not check MTV's website and find out when/where the VMA's take place this year... because I thought maybe I get to watch it when I'm in the US. It's always on at 3 AM in Sweden and I always work a lot during September to I rarley ever stay up and watch it (+ the re-runs are always on at such weird times).

Then I see that this year the VMA's will take place in Los Angeles and I died a little bit out of excitement until I saw the date... September 12th.

That's the freaking day I go home! Hahaha. Just my luck. My plane leaves at 4.30 and the VMA's start at 9 PM. This sucks so much. I wish I could extend my trip a few days. I think it's possible with the travel agency but then, there's the money trouble. I've been forced to shorten my trip already because I wasn't able to save enough money to stay as long as I wanted to (damn those dentists for stealing my money!!)...

...but hey, maybe this means I'll bump in to a celeb or two at LAX when they're flying in to attend the party? :)

somebody pinch me!

Dear blog,

I'm going to California in six days.

Yes.

Six. Freaking. Days!!!!

Everyone and their mother keeps asking me these two questions about my trip to Cali and it's starting to really annoy me. One: Are you excited about the trip? Umm. This might just be the most stupid question ever. Of course I'm excited and if you knew me, you'd know that going to USA & especially California has been my dream for a very very long time now. So why wouldn't I be excited? LOL. I'm going to freaking Los Angeles what is there not to be excited about? Don't mean to sound rude but this question was fun to answer the first 50 times I was asked.

Second question: Am I nervous about the trip? To be quite honest. No. I'm not. I'm going half way around the world on my own. To another continent. To a place I've never been before. I'll be so far away from everyone I know. Live with someone I've never met before and yeah... I'm not nervous. Not yet. I think maybe it's because... it still doesn't feel real. I've bought the plane tickets, my bags are standing in my bed room waiting to be packed but I don't think I will actually understand that I'm going until I'm actually sitting on the plane. Then I'll most likely be nervous.

It's been my dream for so long so I don't know... maybe a part of me still thinks it's all just a dream?

now it's only 10...

...days to go until I go to Los Angeles and it still feels kind of unreal. I don't think I'm actually going to understand that I'm going until I'm on that plane. I booked this trip at the end of March and since then time has gone by so quickly. Really... it feels like the months in-between have completely disappeared which is a good thing because I've been dying to get to Cali ever since... well, ever since a very long time now. The trip got shortened from three months to one month to two weeks (thanks to my lack of money) but at least I'm still going and two weeks is better than no weeks at all!

By this time, in 10 days I'm probably going to be at home still, nervous as hell... making sure I've packed everything and getting ready to go to the airport. My plane takes off at 12.30 on August 30th and I wonder if I will be able to sleep at all the night before I go. The less I sleep the better perhaps? Because then I'll be really tired and be able to sleep more on the 10,5 hour plane ride from Paris to Los Angeles. At 7.05 (local time) I will touch down in Los Angeles! Crazy!

All of this in only 10 freaking days. :D

Speaking of the number 10... I have to go work for 10 hours now. Yay. Only five more days left at work though, then I'm free for four weeks!!!

somebody pinch me

Tomorrow it's exactly three weeks until I leave for Los Angeles. I can't believe it. Feels like it was just yesterday I booked this trip and now the time to leave is almost here. Cuh-razy!! Two weeks in hopefully sunny California. Unreal. I need to make a serious list over things to bring and then I need to see if I have all those things or if I need to go out and get them. So far I'm feeling pretty chill about this but I'm sure I'll start stressing out soon enough... especially about the plane ride. Oh well, I shall make this things to bring to Cali list tomorrow!!