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Hi there,

I think I mentioned in a earlier post that I feel very lucky for all good things happening and for being around so nice people. So, I guess it was my turn to have some bad luck. 

   A few days ago when I was biking to meet up with a friend a car drives just beside me and I can see that he doesn't see me so I turn right against the side walk as much as I can, but he still doesn't see me and turn his car right at me (to park his car or something). BOOOM - I land on the sidewalk. Even though I got hit by the car I was really lucky - just got a scratch on my knee and a sore wrist, but nothing bad. Tur i oturen.

Next thing happened this past Saturday. Frida, Matt, Matt's friend and me went out for a drink. Just before we went back home we danced and jumped around for a bit. A very sharp shoe steps on my foot and I get a pretty deep cut. We did our best to avoid infections (Matt poured vodka on it), which probably helped a lot. Thought I would make it without stiches, but when I was on my way to work the day after it started to bleed again so I felt kind of anxious. In Sweden you know everything's gonna be okay, but it's not the same here with health insurance and all that stuff. Didn't wanna go to the hospital in case I would have to pay a lot for it.

Kasia (studies to be a nurse) lives close to Velotique so I walked to her before work and told her about everything. She looked at the wound, cleaned it and told me it would need stiches or glue, otherwise it would be hard to make it heel. So I had to skip work and Frida followed me to the hospital (wasn't easy to find one that would help us). After waiting for hours we finally got to see a doctor and by that time it had passed too much time for doing stiches, so they glued together the wound instead. It's crazy, I had to pay $500 for seeing the doctor. I hope to get most of it back from my insurance though. Frida was great. She had her day off, but spend all of it with me at the hospital - you're the best, girl. 

The outcome of the last few days:
1. I walk like a retard because of my foot (excuse my language)
2. I'm a lot poorer.

Note to self:
1. It's dangerous to bike in the city (don't trust anyone else, people drive like idiots).  
2. Start wear super big and heavy shoes so that no one can hurt your feet when you're out dancing.

.....BUT really, it could have been so much worse!

E

Here's some pictures from the camping trip.


On the road.

So I thought I'd tell you guys about the camping trip me and Matt did a week ago. We had talked about doing a camping trip for a while, but it was hard to make time for it. I'm not going to say what it took to get some of Matt's shifts covered - Sweden isn't prepared for that. However, in some way, we managed to get the same days off work. 

We didn't have a lot of time to plan the trip before so we ended up planning & packing everything the night before going. Around 2.30 am we finally finished packing and could go to bed for a few hours. We were suppose to pick the car up at 6 am so we only got 2,5 hours sleep. Brutal. It took us about 3 hours to reach our destination - Kawartha Lakes.

The canoeing started well. The sun was shining and we were both very happy to be away from the city for a while. Unlike how it works in Sweden (where you can camp kind of anywhere) we had to go to a particular spot. The "campsite booker" who in our case was Matt didn't bring a map of how to get there. So, we ended up canoeing around the whole lake, turning around, going back a bit, realizing we have to swallow our pride and ask a few people that we met of how to get there, realizing we already passed the place twice without noticing it, turning around and go back again. Finally we found the place where we would carry the canoe for about 200 m to reach the other lake where our camping island was located. We tried to carry the canoe on our heads with all our packing (because that is how real campers to according to Matt). BIG MISTAKE. It wasn't one of does lighter canoes made for being carried, oh no, this one was huge. But Matt wanted to be a real camper, so we tried and in some way the canoe fell over us and we got stuck underneath it and Matt were close to really hurt his neck. At the same time we laughed sooooo hard so we couldn't lift it. Lesson to self (or to Matt) Canoes are dangerous. Let's just hope no one saw us. (The most important part)

 Well, eventually we got the canoe over to the other lake and started canoeing. We still didn't have a map, so we explored every part of the new lake too, until we FINALLY reached our camping site - the furthest one away. It had number 313. I will never forget that number.

At the first glimpse of the island (which we no more call just "the island", but FLY ISLAND, it didn't look too bad. But because of the super early morning, the long canoeing and the fact that we didn't bring enough water containers with us (which was my fault) made us pretty exhausted when reaching Fly Island. With other words, we needed some rest, water and food. Instead, we got a crazy rain storm, deer flies, black flies & mosquitos FROM HELL. The rain was really crazy, but it only lasted for a while. The flies were the worst. The upcoming 24 hours were pretty challenging, to say the least. At one point I said to Matt: "I could kill somebody right now and you're the only one who is here". It kind of describes the whole situation pretty good.

Next morning we packed our stuff and canoed  back to the car. Lifting the canoe back up to the roof was not easy. We were exhausted from the last 24 hours and didn't have a lot of energy left. I'm not gonna go into details, but we were sooo close to drop the canoe on the car and damage it.

We felt like the worst campers ever.

On the way back I got to drive the car for while! It was my first time driving in Canada, which made Matt freak out a few times. Back in Toronto we did the only right thing to do - showered, BBQ some delicious stuff, drank a glass of wine and went to bed.

We slept like babies.

e

God morgon!

Sitting in the kitchen with my morning coffee (and a little bit of coconut milk). Getting ready for my morning workout. Yesterday I unlocked my new phone - wohooo! I kind of couldn't stop playing with the phone for the whole evening....sorry everyone about that. Don't judge me, imagine yourself having a smartphone for the first time ;)

What else? A new week is coming up with long work hours for Frida and the usual for me. We're both very confused about our future and we're talking a lot about all the possibilities ahead of us. Our visas are running out in sept/oct so we have to extend them if we wanna stay here longer to work. Lots of questions, not too many answers, but we'll get there, eventually. I hope.

By the way, I have tried to find cloudberry compote for a while here in Toronto, but without success (hjortronsylt för er svennar), but yesterday me and Frida went to a "Farners market" and we found it! Kind of expensive, but we thought it was worth it. Hot cloudberrys with vanilla ice cream - definitely a taste of home.

 

Hej hallåå

Hur mår ni? Vi har det bra. Värmen är något utöver den svenska sommaren och den gör sig påmind varje gång man öppnar ytterdörren, som en pust med varmluft från en bastu. Phuu. Tröttsamt - man blir liksom mycket segare än vanligt, men efter åskstormen igår så har det kommit in lite svalare luft, vilket gör det lite behagligare.

Mycket har hänt sen sist. Frida har varit i USA och träffat Maja. Vi vill veta mer om det på bloggen! Jag har varit iväg norrut på en oförglömlig campingtripp med Matt, ska berätta mer om det en annan dag. Och visa bilder. Galet nog har jag också numera en ny telefon med en kamera. YES. Är möjligt att jag även kommer kunna börja göra vines. Har ju blivit lite smått besatt av det. Min kompis Christophe som jag lärt känna genom Velotique hade en telefon som han inte längre använde så han gav mig den. En Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc tror jag den heter. Kan fortfarande inte riktigt fatta det. Känner mig som ett barn på julafton. Tacktacktack till honom. Kan inte sluta förundras av människors godhet på den här sidan atlanten. Det är nästan så att jag känner att det snart måste slå tillbaka på mig.

Slänger upp en bild från gymmet igår. Är taget med nya kameran så jag känner att det rättfärdigar att bilden är tagen genom en spegel. 

Good afternoon, this is Toronto calling. It's super humid and hot today - around 30, but with the humidity it feels like 40. Unfortunately I can't hang at the beach and enjoy it cause I'm working (or maybe I'm lucky cause the heat's kind of crazy). It's great though to not have to worry about being cold days like this.

Last week when I was working it came in a sales rep from Louis Garneau (cycling brand) and he ended up offering me to borrow one of his road bikes to go riding with his cycling club in the weekend. I was thrilled by his offer and a couple of days later he came by the store again to deliver the bike. OH. MY. GOD. Whaaat a bike. It's made from carbonfibre so it weighs like nothing. Apperently he bought it for $3000, which is about 20 000 kr. Good god, I felt kind of scared riding that bike back home. I walked with it for a while at first just because I didn't really dare to actually sit on it. SO EXPENSIVE!! However, I tried it - gosh - it felt like I was flying. After been biking on an old and super heavy mountainbike for 3 months this really was like flying.

On Saturday I met up with the people from the cycling club at 7:00 am (among them my friends Courtney and Christophe). We went up north to a place called Unionville and back. It was so much fun riding with them. I had a great time! I was unsure before the ride if I would be able to keep up with them, so I was a bit surprised that I managed. I have never been riding on a bike like that or in a group with other cyclists so this was a very nice and fun experience for me. 

This morning I went up even earlier for another bike ride with my friend Christophe. This time we started 05.45 am. We had a really nice ride and the weather was great. We rode for 1 h 45 min, so I came back around 7.30. Felt great to have done it so early and have the whole day left.

Today I'm bringing back the bike shoes that Kasia let me borrow and soon the guy from Louis Garneau will come back and pick the bike up. I don't wanna leave this bike! Seriously, we're attached to each other now, me and the bike. I wont leave it. It will be pretty hard to go back to the old mountain bike after this. Oh well, I'm so glad I got the chance to try how it CAN feel like. Maybe I'll get one when I'm rich.

 I'll post a picture of it later!

E

Hello igen,

Borde ju berätta lite om förra helgen. Det var grymt roligt! Kommer alltid komma ihåg min 21:a födelsedag som något speciellt.
Frida och jag började dagen med att baka tårta inför kvällens partaj. När klockan sedan började närma sig 12 drog jag iväg till jobbet för att jobba till kl 17. När klockan är 16.45 ringer telefonen på Velotique och jag svarar. Det är Frida som ringer och säger åt mig att skynda mig hemåt på cykeln. Hon säger att hon kommer möta upp mig på vägen, men att det är bråttom. Jag fattar ingenting och säger att jag inte bara kan lämna jobbet, men då säger Beverley också åt mig att skynda mig hemåt. Väldigt förvirrad sätter jag mig på cykeln och cyklar hemåt. Halvvägs hem möter jag en Frida som står vid trottoaren och vinkar glatt. Med bestämda steg visar hon mig över vägen in till en frisörsalong och säger att jag ska få hår och naglar fixade till kvällens party - whaaaaaat! Så himla gulligt! Efter det ger hon mig min klänning, mitt smink och mina smycken. Ut från salongen går vi sedan som två nya människor, fast jag med träningsskor till klänningen, haha. Vi sätter oss ned på en parkbänk längs Queen Street och då tar hon plötsligt fram en tårtbit av sällan skådad storlek och en liten Baileysflaska till det. Vi sitter där ett tag, precis så - äter lite tårta, sippar på baileysen och studerar människorna som passerar. Ett riktigt moment.

Tiden går och det börjar klia i mina fingrar. Jag säger till Frida att vi måste börja ta oss hemåt eftersom det är massa att fixa innan alla kommer. (Ni som känner Frida vet att saker och ting ibland drar ut på tiden i hennes sällskap...;) Måste dock tillägga att hon skötte detta exemplariskt). Tillslut börjar vi cykla hemåt och i garaget på väg in till bakgården står mina klackskor (?) beredda att klivas i. "Okej" tänker jag. "Passar ju bättre till klänningen än gympaskorna liksom". Öppnar sedan dörren in till bakgården och där står massa människor som skålar och ropar grattis!! Sån himla överraskning! De har fixat allting - massa mat, drinkar - allt! Frida hade planerat allting - kan inte ha varit lätt eftersom jag samtidigt försökte planera partyt själv. Tusen tack Frida, du är bäst. Kvällen var underbar och slutade inte förrän kl 05 på morgonen. En dag att minnas.

Thanks Frida for the sweet post yesterday! I'm a bit upset at the moment. Just wrote this loooong post about the weekend and how great it was and all of a sudden the window closes and everything I wrote is gone. FUCK.
I'll try to sum it up later when I'm in a better mood and not wanna punch this computer.

Everyone, watch this. HILARIOUS. I'm completely hypnotized by it. The funny thing is that I'm not sure why it's so funny. It's something about his eyes, the rhythm and his voice. The mix just makes it so weird and good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RNdcmYnXig

Hej hallåå
Kl är snart 11.30 här i huset. Morgonen har bestått av bakning, löpning, lite mer bakning och nu frukost. Frida mosar kakor och Philadelphia (ska bli Cakepops - förhoppningsvis lika bra som Verrans!). Vi har gjort två tårtor som ni ska få se sen :) Ikväll bli det partaj! Jag fyller egentligen år i morgon, men det passade bättre att ha festen en lördagkväll. Nu ska jag slänga ihop en matlåda och cykla iväg till jobbet, medan Frida fortsätter att slita i köket. Här kommer några bilder från veckan.



Frida på beachen. Volleybollnät i bakgrunden!

Det verkar visst som vi blev hackade igår här på bloggen av en god vän... Vilket ordförråd, va. Sånt språk vill vi ju inte höra :)
Kan väl iaf sammanfatta med att säga att vi hade en väldigt rolig kväll igår och denna låt spelades på repeat!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF8aaTu2kg0