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tbt Lisboa

Fanny Sura14 January, 20162 May, 2016Leave a comment

tree-lisboa

Hi! I have been sick for a few days. Boring. When I try to do stuff, the energy quickly runs out of me. New York is very cold these days and down here in Battery Park it’s very windy as always. Last weekend I barely had a jacket on and then it got cold again, and this weekend it’s supposed to be warmer again. So weird and no wonder we all get sick. But it is winter now after all, so we all just have to suck it up and hope we’ll be better soon.
I was looking through all my pictures from when I lived in Portugal. I don’t miss the student life there or the dance studios that got flooded every time it rained or the ballet teacher that screamed horrible words in Portuguese or that I had to miss lunch every day because I had no time to go there between classes, but I miss the friends I met there and how hard everybody was working in the studios and the 2€ 2 L beer that you were only allowed to drink outside on the street and of course I miss the wonderful weather. I don’t want to go back to that time, but I do want to go back there again. One day.

In Italy, Uncategorized

I do

Fanny Sura18 August, 201425 May, 2016Leave a comment

For ett ar sedan lag vi vid polen och hade precis fatt vara resvaskor. Den morgonen gick vi upp tidigt, at hotellfrukost, gjorde oss iordning och vantade pa fotografen och var celebrant. Kl 10:00 smog vi upp pa hotellets tak och hade en 7 minuter lang brollopsceremoni i stekande sol och +30 grader.

“I do” ar det vackraste jag nagonsin sagt till Jim. Jag alskar honom mer och mer for varje dag. Han far mig att skratta och jag mar bra av att vara med honom. Vi ar sa lyckliga tillsammans.

One year ago we were by the pool and had just got our luggage. That morning we woke up early, ate hotel breakfast, got ourselves ready and waited for the photographer and our celebrant. At 10:00 we snuck up on the roof of the hotel and had a 7 minute long wedding ceremony in blazing sun and +30 degrees.

“I do” is the most beautiful I have ever said to Jim. I love him more and more each day. He makes me laugh and I feel good being with him. We are so happy together.

In Italy, Uncategorized

6 months <3

Fanny Sura18 February, 2014Leave a comment

Idag ar det 6 manader sedan brollops ceremonin i Italien. Att sta dar med mannen jag alskar mer an nagot annat och lova honom karlek for livet var helt underbart.

Vi letade efter en plats med utsikt over bade berg och vatten, men det var inte latt. Tillslut valde vi taket pa varat hotell. Vi smog upp dar tillsammans med var celebrant, fotograf och ett vittne. Helt perfekt. Berg, hav, och inga fula brollops uppsattningar som resten av hotellet hade.
Var ceremoni var 7 minuter lang, hahahh. Efterat hade vi tva timmar tillsammans med var fotograf. Vi ville ha foton fran den lilla icke-engelsk-talande byn som varat hotell lag i och enligt fotografen (som har fotat manga brollop pa det hotellet) sa har det aldrig hant forut att nagon ville ha foton dar. Vi fick manga gratulationer (pa italienska) fran byborna.
Nar vi sagt hejda gick vi upp pa varat hotellrum dar hotellet hade ordnat champange och tilltugg, himla gulligt! Och vad var det forsta vi gjorde? Vi bytte om till badklader och satte oss pa balkongen. Det var runt lunchtid och solen var stekande het. Valdigt romantiskt 🙂

Snart kom vara bagage och vi spenderade resten av dagen i solen och at sedan brollops middag pa en restaurang uppe i bergen dar vi fick peka pa menyn och hoppas pa att vi fick nagot gott att ata (vi gick dit fler ganger efter..de hade den absolut basta maten jag nagonsin har atit!) Till huvudratt at vi pizza. Best wedding dinner ever!

Today is 6 months since the wedding ceremony in Italy. To stand there with the man i love more than anything else and promise him love for life was absolutely wonderful.
We were looking for a place with views over both mountains and water, but it was not easy. Finally, we chose the roof of our hotel. We sneaked up there along with the celebrant, photographer and a witness. Absolutely perfect. Mountains, water, and no ugly wedding stuff like the rest of the hotel had.
Our ceremony was 7 minutes long, hahahh. Afterwards, we had two hours with our photographer. We wanted photos from the small non-English-speaking village were our hotel was in and according to the photographer (who has photographed many weddings on the hotel) said that never before that someone wanted photos up there. We got many congratulations (in Italian) from the villagers.
When we had said good bye, we went up to our hotel room where the hotel had arranged champagne and snacks, really cute! And what was the first thing we did? We changed into swimsuits and sat on the balcony. It was around noon and the sun was super hot. Very romantic 🙂
Soon came to be luggage and we spent the rest of the day in the sun and later ate our wedding dinner on a restaurant in the mountains where we were pointing on the menu and hoped that we got something good to eat (we went there more times after that..they had the absolute best food I have ever eaten !) For the main course we had delicious pizza. Best wedding dinner ever!

We got the wedding we wanted. Simple, just the two of us and absolute perfect!

Tjingeling

In Portugal, Uncategorized

Snowstorm

Fanny Sura13 February, 2014Leave a comment

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.