Category Archives: reflections I could hardly believe it when these awesome gifts came in the mail a while back – with one note each, one in Swedish for me and one in English for Brian. It was all sent – and made by – my childhood friend Eva and she wrote to Brian saying she knows he’s having […] Are you really going through Syria?! We don’t know yet. And yes, we do know what’s going on there and have heard about people travelling through and ending up in prison and so on. I wish we could just give Bashar al-Assad a call and tell him to stop the violence RIGHT NOW. I guess […] Sometimes you get stuck in this bubble. Your thoughts only stretch so far, your mind has parked in its comfort zone. You talk to the same people, listen to the same songs, worry about the same things, get happy about the same things, surf on the same websites and watch the same tv shows every […]  I’m in my hometown visiting my parents and every time I come home there are obviously loads of memories from my childhood coming back to me and it’s always fun going through old things. The other evening I found an old book about dog breeds that I clearly remember looking in as a little kid. […] Some of you have probably already noticed the banner to the right and figured out what I am just about to tell you. But here it goes anyway. All is pretty much good to go with the development organisation that we will be raising money for. We feel enormously fortunate to be able to do this […]  We haven’t spent a Christmas here in Sweden since 2007 but this year we will and I’m sooo excited. Don’t get me wrong, spending the holidays with Brian’s family in Mocambique is awesome. But I have to say, being Swedish and all, there is nothing quite like a Swedish Christmas. Especially when you haven’t experienced […]  The other day I read about how the people of the Samoa islands were tired of being the last to do everything. So they will simply switch time zone. Soon they will be the first to wake up everyday instead of the last. I wish I could create my own time zone. It would have […]  I’m sitting here doing research for my freelance articles and I keep stumbling over other websites and articles that might be interesting for our trip, so I bookmark them for later. It’s about Jordan… Kenya… and – Istanbul! I think both Brian and I are more and more looking forward to the Europe part of […] |
|
