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February 15th

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Vi hade en mysig middag pa Wolfgang’s igar kvall. Vi gillar att sitta i baren och vi hade ringt innan och kollat om det fanns plats, vilket det sen inte gjorde. Men vi fick istallet ett bord, vilket absolut inte gjorde nagot, men det blev en storre middag an tankt, haha. Det blev bacon och ostron saklart och till huvudratt at jag deras sjukt goda (och enormt stora) lax och Jim bestallde saklart kott. Mycket mat sa sjalvklart fick vi med oss en doggybag. Ser fram emot lunch senare:)

Nu snoar det igen. Det gar verkligen upp och ner har. Ena dagen ar det snostorm, andra dagen far man varkanslor, tredje dagen regnar det, fjarde dagen fryser man arlset av sig, femte dagen snoar det igen….and so on and on and on. Galet konstigt. Sa vi kommer val kanske inte ge oss ut pa sa manga aventyr idag. Det var ju fullmane igar sa jag har dromt helt sjuka saker och jag lag aven vaken i 3,5 timme mitt i natten, sa jag ar enormt trott och orkar kanske inte gora sa manga knop idag. Men vi borjade dagen med hockey, USA vs. Ryssland, vilket var en trevlig start pa dagen (ar inte intresserad av hockey men att lyssna pa min man som skriker at skarmen ar kul). Mysigt att ligga kvar i sangen och glo pa var tablet. 

We had a cozy dinner at Wolfgang’s last night. We like to sit at the bar and we had called before and checked to see if there were seats, which it then didn’t. But we got a table instead, which certainly did not do anything, but it became a bigger dinner than we first thought, haha. We had bacon and oysters of course, and for the main course I had their fantastic (and huge) salmon and Jim ordered meat, of course. A lot of food so we clearly got a doggy bag. Looking forward for lunch later:)
Now it’s snowing again. It really goes up and down here. One day there is a snowstorm, the second day you get spring fever, the third day it rains, the fourth day you freeze your ass off, the fifth day it snows again….and so on and on and on. Crazy weird. So we will probably not go on any adventures today. It was full moon yeasterday so I have dreamed completely sick stuff and I was also awake for 3,5 hours in the middle of the night, so I’m really tired now and don’t feel like doing many things today. But we began the day with hockey, USA vs. Russia, which was a nice start of the day (I’m not interested in hockey but to listen to my husband yelling at the screen is fun). Cozy to stay in the bed watching on our tablet.

IMG_4627_2Bild fran frukost i Italien. Alskar frukost pa hotell! Hade garna vaknat upp med det idag:)
Picture from breakfast in Italy. I love breakfast at hotel! Had gladly been waken up to that today:)

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Happy Valentine’s Day

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Fanny and James Wedding in Raito 1 (519)_2God morgon mina vanner (god eftermiddag i Sverige). Idag ar det slaskigt och halt ute, men med bla himmel och sol gor det inte sa mycket. Underbar dag idag. 

Alla Hjartans Dag. En mysig dag da alla sprider karlek pa samma gang. 13 Februari ar ju egentligen bara en av de 365 dagarna som man ska visa att man tycker om nagon, att man bryr sig om nagon och att man ar glad over att ha nagon i ens liv.

Det har ar forsta aret som jag ar en gift kvinna pa Alla Hjartans Dag. Jag ar en lycklig fru till varldens finaste man. Jag forsoker mitt allra basta att visa honom varje dag hur mycket han betyder for mig. Idag ar inte annorlunda bara for att kalendern sager det. Jag alskar honom lika mycket varje dag, om inte mer for varje dag som gar:)

Vi har inte direkt nagra superintressanta planer for ikvall. Det blir formodligen bacon och ostron i Wolfgang’s bar men inte mycket mer. Det passar oss utmarkt.

Good morning my friends (good afternoon in Sweden). Today it’s slushy and slippery, but with blue sky and sun it doesn’t really bother me much. Wonderful day today.
Valentine’s Day. A cozy day when everybody spreads love at the same time. February 13 is really just one day of the 365 days when you should show that you like someone, that you care about someone and that you are happy about having someone in your life. 
It’s the first year that I’m a married woman on Valentine’s Day. I’m a happy wife to the world’s most wonderful man. I’m trying my very best to show him every day how much he means to me. Today is no different just because the calendar says so. I love him just as much every day, if not even more for every day that comes:) 
We don’t have any super interesting plans for tonight. It will probably be bacon and oysters in Wolfgang’s bar but not much more. It suits us well.

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Snowstorm

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Vaknade upp med en snostorm utanfor fonstret. New York bjuder inte alls pa en rolig vinter. Och har vet man inte hur man ska ta hand om det sa det bildas hogar av sno som sen blir stora polar. Det ar inte sa kallt ute, men att bara titta pa snon gor att jag fryser. Forra arets vinter hade totalt 4 dagar sno vilket var helt underbart. Det ar naturligt att man som svensk klagar pa vadret (svenskar pratar ju inte om nagonting annat) och sa gor aven jag nar det ser ut som det gor utanfor fonstret just nu.

Ja, ja.. I tisdags var jag pa Max Brenner med tva tjejer fran Osterrike som var har pa semester. Den ena studerade som utbytesstudent i Portugal samtidigt som mig. Sa kul att se henne igen! Kul att prata minnen fran skolan och Lissabon.
Jag tanker pa den tiden ibland. Jag fick underbara vanner dar och en otrolig erfarenhet av dans och hur samhallet fungerar dar. Jag mottes bl.a av larare som var hogt uppsatta pa bade skolan och inom dans i Portugal som direkt hade fatt sparken i Sverige for hur de undervisar. Att fa varje kvinnlig student att grata efter varje klass var bara en av de dagliga uppdragen. Jag traffade aven fantastisk koreograf/larare som pratade om saker som jag nu har byggt de senaste aren efter. Det var bara en termin, men jag fick med mig sa mycket i min ryggsack genom livet. Att vara utbytesstudent ar nagot som fler borde ta chansen till.

Woke up with a snowstorm outside the window. New York does not give a fun winter at all. And, they don’t know how to take care of it so there is big piles of snow which then becomes large puddles. It’s not so cold outside, but just watching the snow makes me cold. Last years winter had a total of four days snow which was absolutely wonderful. It is natural for Swedish people to complaining on the weather (Swedes do not speak about anything else) and so will I when it looks like this outside the window right now.
Well, well.. On Tuesday I was at Max Brenner with two girls from Austria who was here on vacation. One studied as an exchange student in Portugal with me. So fun to see her again! Fun to talk memories from school and Lisbon.
I think of those days sometimes. I got wonderful friends there and an incredible experience of dance and how society works there. I met for example teachers who were high up on both the school and in dance in Portugal that had directly gotten fired in Sweden for how they teach. To get every female student to cry after each class was just one of the daily missions. I also met an amazing choreographer/teacher who talked about things that I now have based the last couple of years on. It was only one semester, but I got with me so much in my backpack through life. Being an exchange student is something that more people should take the chance to do.

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It’s been a while

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Jag har haft datorn avstangd sedan i fredags. Underbart skont faktiskt. Sa darav ingen uppdatering.
Men vad har Fanny gjort i ett par dagar da?
I fredags var vi pa Teodora Restaurant i Midtown East och at god mat med Lilja och Aaron. Otroligt trevligt och mycket skratt.
Helgen har varit lugn. Vi tog en promenad bort till Fika och at var sin semla pa lordagen. De hade den “vanliga” storleken pa semla denna gangen (Jim’s forsta forra aret var ju en liten och gav inte samma kansla). Jag pratade om hur kul det ar att ata semla och att man alltid for gradde pa nasan. Killen bredvid oss borjade fraga en massa saker om “the proper way to eat a Swedish semla”, hahah. Pa kvallen hade vi en trevlig date-night med hemlagad middag och film. Kycklingfile, ris, sparris, sallad och hemgjorda krutonger, valdigt avancerat:)
Eftersom det skulle komma en ny snostorm (som sedan bestod av tre snoflingor) gick vi pa sondagen ut pa en shoppingrunda for att hitta ordentliga skor till Jim. Nar vi kom hem sag vi att Jim hade fatt en liten sko och en stor sko (!!!). Vi tog oss ut igen, vantade i evigheter i butiken pa att en annan butik skulle kora dit den andra skon. Shoppa skor tog typ hela dagen. Tur att det var fint vader och skont med promenad.
Igar hade jag rehearsal som vanligt. Vara timmar bestod av diskussioner och utforskande kring Laban. Eftersom JoAnna ar utbildad inom Laban Movement Analysis kunde vi fa en ordentlig genomgang hur det ar uppbyggt. Kandes dock plotsligt som att vi var pa klass och inte ett rehearsal, men jag tror att vi kom fram till nagra saker som vi vill fortsatta att utforska.

I have had the computer off since Friday. Wonderfully nice actually. So no update here.
But what has Fanny done for a couple of days then?
On Friday we were at Teodora Restaurant in Midtown East and ate good food with Lilja and Aaron. Incredibly nice and a lot of laughter.
The weekend has been calm. We took a walk over to Fika and ate one semla each on Saturday. They had the “regular” size of the semla this time (Jim’s first last year was small and did not give the same feeling). I talked about how fun it is to eat semla and you always get cream on your nose. The guy next to us began to ask a lot of things about “the proper way to eat a Swedish semla”, hahah. In the evening we had a nice date-night with homemade dinner and movie. Chicken fillet, rice, asparagus, sallad with homemade croutons, very advanced:)
Since there was a new blizzard on it’s way (which then consisted of three snowflakes) we on Sunday went out on a shopping spree to find proper shoes for Jim. When we got home we saw that Jim had received a small shoe and a big shoe (!!!). We went out again, waited for ages in the shop on that another store would bring the other shoe. Shopping for shoes took the whole day. Luckily it was nice weather and great to walk around.
Yesterday, I had rehearsal as usual. Our hours consisted of discussions and exploration of Laban. Since JoAnna is educated in Laban Movement Analysis, we could obtain a proper teaching on how it’s structured. However, it suddenly felt like we were in class and not at a rehearsal, but I think we came up with a few things we want to continue to explore.

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Dance on Camera – Panel

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Efter filmpremiaren (1 Februari) fick vi ga upp pa scenen och svara pa lite fragor. Jag fick bl.a fragan om hur det var att oversatta mellan svenska och engelska genom hela varat projekt. Det var kort, men publiken fick tillraktligt med svar och Ulrika och JoAnna kunde gora reklam for projektet i sommar.

After the movie premiere (February 1), we had to get up on stage and answer a couple of questions. I got a question about how it was to translate between Swedish and English during the whole project. It was short, but the audience got enough answers and Ulrika and JoAnna could promote the project this summer. 

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