Sa det har gatt ungefar 25 dagar sedan jag skrev nagonting pa denna blogg, nu ar det dags igen kande jag! Har lite halvtrakiga bilder, men som man hort det ar ju tanken som raknas, och jag tankte att dem kanske skulle vara mer intressanta for andra an dem ar for mig! :P

Tankte borja med fina Perth klockan fem pa morgonen, just denna dag var det dimma och skyskraporna och det gav lite mystik till det hela. Jag maste erkanna den skonaste luften ar just pa morgonen innan allting steks av solens hetta!

Som ni kan se sa ar det ljust och vad ni inte kan se ar att jag star i linne och kjol (fros faktiskt inte) klockan fem pa morgonen i mars! Tanker ofta pa om jag gjorde eller rattare sagt kladde mig som om jag vore i Perth i Sverige hade jag nog redan insjuknat i alla sorters sjukdomar nu!

  Detta ar bilder fran i helgen da vi hade en lang film dag pa sondagen, dessa tva filmer kan jag varmt rekommendera! Den understa var nastan som en annu battre 'Erin Brokovich' vilken alla tjejer gillar, p tyckte faktiskt den var skitbra, sa bade for killar och tjejer! Sedan hade vi en spansk film, jag tror jag valde denna enbart for att den paminde mig om europa! Den var passionerad, spansk och fylld med romans! Underbar men ledsam film!

Vem kan ha film utan gotti-gott-gott godis? Vi akte ju till Ikea har om dagen och i ett nafs sa var allting som kan ses har och lite mer borta for gott. ja gott var det!!! Jag kunde inte hjalpa att tanka att jag aldrig (nastan) kopte Ahlgren's bilar nar jag bodde i Sverige men att jag nu klingar fast vid allting (till och med kalles kaviar!)

Jag maste saga att jag ar stolt att han forsoker, men jag kan ocksa saga att det ar saaa (jag repeterar) saaaa roligt att hora p sitta for sig sjalv och saga (kommer pa foljande bilder) saker pa svenska. Det verkligen far mitt hjarta att smalta! Denna kasett hallare inehaller tva cd's och en bok. Som ni kan se slarvar man bort denna sa ar det 100 dollar i boter! (WOW)

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Han har satt en liten gron pil som visar vart han ar nagonstans, det var denna han efter mycket om och men forstod helt och hallet (han laste illustrerad vetenskap nagra ganger och kom ihag ordet)

Nu till viktigare bocker, detta ar min bok i Discovering Literature och kommer dem kommande manaderna vara min bibel, jag tycker verkligen om den och pa tal om bibel sa ar sidorna lika tunna och latta att bryta som bibel papper! 

Hoppas detta gjorde din dag liiiite mer solig och glad! Aven om det inte var sa mycket intressanta saker <3          

So this is actually pictures from Saturday afternoon, but I have been (for the first time in a looong while) busy!

Sarah that I met in the Welcome to Perth seminar asked me during the morning if I would like to go out to Fremantle (En stad lite utanfor Perth kand for deras konstiga manniskor och saluhallar) So she came to Victoria Park center and picked me up. First and foremost we were to see the Fremantle Prison. I personally thought that it was going to be the biggest bore of the century (Jag tycker alltid att sadana turer ar sa himla trakiga, det star en person i centrum som pratar om nagonting han/hon har studerat de senaste 50 aren och snart tappar alla som inte vet nagonting om det intresset…) I was happily surprised! I did not feel restless nor bored during the 1 hour 15 minutes tour through the whole prison.

Unfortunately I forgot that the camera was with me during the tour. So when I finally realised that I had it with me, and I should be documenting my day I took a picture of Sarah telling her to give me her ugliest smile… It looked something like this:

Then we headed to the Fremantle markets, which was situated like 5 minutes from the prison (I thought it was going to be somewhere remote or hard to get to)

Inside it looked like this, at least the fruit and vegetable part,

Everywhere there was small little boxes containing the fruit that was there, so I tasted fresh mango, peach and pears and they tasted absolutely gorgeous. If ever there will be a time when my family comes to see me/us we will definitely go here!

This was one of the other entrances to the markets and as you can see there is actually something going on just outside and that was an artist putting up some of his work. We found many different home-made things in there for sale such as honey, jam, boomerangs and the average junk!

So yesterday and today and tomorrow is UNI time! I'll try and take some pictures involving the uni and all the work that I am at the moment receiving tonight!!  

Today was Uni day number one, well at least introduction day for real one… Confusing I know. There was a lot of stands everywhere and you got loads of free things, not very classy things though I manage to get hold of : A bible (will not be using it so threw it away) A brown small bag containing instant noodles and a lollipop (Man, thats really degrading I don't need a bloody instant dinner and dessert from the church of bla bla bla, no way, threw it away as well) Then loads of pamhplets telling me to buy this and get discount on that (I could see through all of them scams and when will I ever go to America? Within 6 months, ehhh, dont think so, threw them away) What I was left with in the end was free hotdog and water. Great day! 

I got to see the library at whole though and that was in fact very interesting. You can copy, print and bind (gora dina egna haften med stal grejjer du koper) things in there. 

It was quite many people there so you had to squeeze yourself through but I managed to get two relatively good pictures :) Funny how i managed to get the lady who apparently is unknowing of who/what she is, hence the question mark.  

On my way home something very weird happened. All you can hear was whistling sounds like from 20 old traffic polices but it turned out to be to loose giraffes, at least that was what they were trying to make us believe!

I have to say they looked really cool when you saw them  up close, they contain two men inside, one controlling the front legs and one the back ones.

The necks could move up and down thanks to a string that the first person inside was holding. That meant that any balcony where there were people sitting they got a big shock when a big (though plastic)  red giraffe head stuck in his nose. I did not really figure out the purpose of this little parade but it was amusing! Notice how the 200,000 little red police men are dressed, they kept saying that they were sorry for the inconvenience! haha

Today I was at my university and attended the seminar "Balancing life and uni". I had to be there at ten so by nine I knew I had to leave the house. To come to my University you have to travel from my house to Wellington bus station to then jump on any bus by the number 8 stand. (tydligen finns det vad jag har sett upp till nu, tre andra busstationer, men jag har ingen aning vart dem ar eller varfor det finns sa manga.. )

This is how it looks inside, it is just next to the trainstation so you can walk to your train as well as catch a bus.  

That was not my bus by the way, any bus that starts with 88x is going to ECU and there is probably five of them as I can remember, which is great!

From the busstop this is what you are met by, it says information in big letters which unfortunately you cannot see here and yes the bloody gardener had to mower the lawn when I was taking the picture…!

This is the entrance to the library where I will be practically living in a few weeks… It is kind of clean and nice so maybe I wouldn't mind? I is very big and filled with anything to do with the specific course you are doing (articles, magazines etc.).

This is the heart of the University, not that it is important but it is literary the center of everything. It is a nice little space for everybody to hang out and the cafe is just next to it, so you can sit and eat your lunch in the scorching (supervarma)  heat!      

Here it looks very boring and prison-like but it is not, but there is a huge amount of smelly students (alla kallar studenterna smelly students sjalvklart inte dem sjalva men alla som har gatt igenom uni vet att man inte har tid till att duscha? Jag vet inte hur dem kom upp med det fula smeknamnet, men jag kommer i alla fall inte vara den smelliga studenten!) (See love! Many smelly students, though Im yet not one of them I hope to never be called it, maybe by you if you are kind :))

(Jaaa, jag var tvungen att ta kort pa mitt fina paket :D Blev sa himla glad att jag var tvungen att sitta ner och lasa direkt utanfor posten !)  (Baby this is what I got from mom today as you can see there is a little white box and thet is from now on my emergency sewing kit if we ever get another embarrassing dress… laughing when I think of it now! haha)

I could not be bothered buying more water for the house so at uni you can refill your water bottle (Gerry, haha) so I took my chance and refilled to large bottles and took it home! :d smart student, saving money!!!

BTW only a week today till my baby comes home again!!! YEYYY

Todays mission: Get p's important documents of Hart Migration Services. I knew from looking it up on the Internet that it was supposed to be on Colin street just after Harbour Town. So I set out on a really easy mission, I thought!

But first breakfast! 'Or brekky' as they say here ( - No I have never heard anybody call breakfast brekky! Yes I am Swedish… We simply call it Frukost :)) Here is toast with peanut butter and jam! (Det var det vi pratade om innan mamma, kommer du ihag USA? Det smakar lika gott har som dar! Men Sverige kan verkligen inte gora jordnotssmor!)

It turns out that Roy Hart has decided to make his agency the best hidden migration service ever! Not only were there no signs, but, it was also inside a building that was really hard to know how to enter.

This was the building that it was supposed to be located in. I had to ask an Immigration center just down the street because I simply could not find it myself. Do you see any freaking signs?

This did look inviting so I hoped for the best and chanced the humiliation and disappointment of being really in somebodyelses office. 

It was called the Atrium and as you can see still no signs. What I have in mind when I see this is an apartment block were  there is only people living not working.

Luckily I was right and an old lady greeted me with this lovely envelope and several questions concerning the pronunciation (uttalningen) of his name. She was really surprised by my answer but I guess not many people are named Padraig here (only Quentin or Nigel…).

This is Harbour Town it is similar to Vala in HBG but much bigger! AND it is acutally open roofed so there is sun and little streets inside! We were there not too long ago and I got some very needed sandals for only 14 dollars. Which is way better than the usually

30 ->. (Mamma, du skulle alska detta stallet! Vi kommer definitivt ga hit och hitta lite super billiga grejjer, det ar grejjer som inte kommer in till affarerna utan, va heter det, fabriksforsaljning? - fast det ar i affarer som ar rena och snygga!)

This is how it looks inside, two floors and I do not know how many shops. Great for tourists since it is way cheaper than the rest of Perth.

To finish I wanted to post two signs that made my day! I love being a Swede and adopted Irish!! :D (Honey, I miss my Ireland, sitting in Java's and drinking coffee with you looking out on the rain pooooouring down! Even at that point I will smile :))

this is for my near and dear ones to follow what I am up to during the day! Pictures and comments of the little things my day involves.

This is the building that we live in in unit 408, 4th floor 08 apartment. As you can see we are just beside a lovely park, that we have to visit the next time P (you) come home. Take our blanket (which I am going to wash after the little incident of wine spilling and ant attack) and drink some nice wine (Though surrounded by some kind of ant repellent and smother ourselves with mosquito repellent, definetly!)

This is the way into the building and security number 1, by the entry door there is a little unit to enter a 4 digit code. It is the easiest code in the world 2580 (borja med tva och folj hela vagen ner, testa pa mobilen sa fattar nig :)

If you are a guest, you can push the button for the apartment in which we live in and we can let you in (man behover faktiskt inte mota dem som kommer utan inne i lagenheten finns en liten maskin, ser ut som en telefon och den ger ifran sig ett ringande ljud, da lyfter man luren och trycker pa knappen sa kan gasten komma in!)

When you got through the first security then comes the entrance, it looks like this. P and I noticed that at the time he was coming home the car-taker had taken all the old flowers away and planted new ones (man kan se att precis utanfor dorren sa finns det tva rader langst med den pyttelilla bron) I believe it was supposed to be a greeting present though still no flowers has grown.

This is what first greets you when entering the building, hundreds of post boxes! See mom its it not so easy to fit in any packages there, they are always sent to the post office! Our box is in the second department at the top of the fourth row.

Finally you have the 2nd security check here you have to use your magnetic card and make it touch the little black box just beside the door. Then elevators as you can dimly see through the glass.

A minor introduction of our apartment block, I personally think it is a very nice building (you are always met by the smell of the dinners by all different kinds of people, mainly Indians, so you are always feeling hungry when you come in!)

Now to a bit of the surroundings, Victoria Park is the town were we live in. It is kinda small but very wide, it covers a few kilometers in length and is surrounded by houses and apartment blocks everywhere. But the shops and restaurants are mainly located on the main road running through it Albany Highway (Albany Ajwaj, haha)

I take this moment to salute my new shoes, after being returned and exchanged to a bigger size they are now my best friends, so nice to walk and run in and when you are walking quite a distance to the shop it is nice to do it in shoes that makes you feel like you are walking on air!

This is a very nice spanish inspired house that is nearly the first thing I see everyday leaving my apartment for the bus or for food shopping. It kind of stick out a bit to all the Aussie houses that you see.

This is further down our street and the park that I mentioned earlier is just at the right in this picture. 

What you see here is a normal bus stand in Perth suburbs. If it is not on a main road it looks like this...! Its amazing since coming from Sweden where there is no sand and no busses that needs to be hailed (man maste hejja till sig bussen nar den kommer annars passerar den dig, detta har hant till mig, kanns ganska tufft att bli dissad av en buss full med manniskor... )

I pass this church every time I go to Victoria Park center, and I think it reminds me a bit of Italy/Spain/Greece (?) Anyway you come to realise when you move away from Europe that sometimes anything that is from there reminds you of home. It is amazing that Europe people you meet in Australia they can all talk together as they come from one country!

This is a bit of the center of Victoria Park the main road Albany Highway (...haha) runs just to the left in this picture and goes on for quite sometime! If you follow the road down this way you come to Perth city via a bridge that runs over Swn River (10min by car)

It is barely readable but behind the "massive" tree is a sign for Woolworths (som ICA men, med farskare grejjer, och mycket dyrare!) which is were the two of us now, yes hun I got it too :D, have a rewards card (typ som Ica kortet, fast vi kan tjana poang pa fyra olika affarer och det kan sen bli forvandlat till flyg poang, som SAS (shoppar som satan nu for att kunna komma hem gratis, 1 dollar=1poang man behover ca 56000 poang for att komma fran Perth till London.... insag precis att det var ganska maktigt... Men vi har ju en stund pa oss)) Hopefully we will have points for some of the trip home at least. And we can link the two separate cards (P's and mine) so that we can gather points together!!

Here you can actually see the "woolw" in the top right corner and you can slightly see the the "Gloria Jean's" sign which is like Starbucks to the Aussies, I have to admit it is very nice, everything is so fresh and clean!

On the way home I could not help to take a picture of this sign, guess what it reminds me of hun? Yes, FRANKY :D I miss him soo my little Fjankyy. Hope he is doing well at home and not acting like this picture tells!!!

Here is another thing that really makes me wonder of the logic thinking of Aussies... Letterboxes that does not fit a newspaper... It does rain here so why would you...? I do not understand, besides some of the boxes I pass has all their contents blown all over the place, like important letters and stuff. No thank god for Swedish (...and Irish) logic to make them big enough and nearly all the time a lock on! (I mean seriously people, go to (lovely) IKEA and get a nice robust thing!)

Poor 17, I hope for his sake that he is not interested in the newspaper at all. Maybe thats why it looks like this... Most likely!