Aujourd´hui, film français. Dull weather in Stockholm today, so I just stay at home watching a film. I like most kind of movies, but I felt like watching a so called “costume film”. Also to refresh my French language. The most beautiful language in the world. And difficult. I like Truffaut a lot. I especially remember Truffaut from French film school. Le cinema français. Les quatre cent coups. The film I saw today was “The story of Adèle H”. L’amour soit compliqué. La vie soit belle. Jeux de mots.

When I lived in Norway I bought and saw a lot of movies. So I think of Fredrikstad and Kråkerøy today. Always a day off Sundays. A day for recovery to prepare for coming week.

Yesterday I went for early training. That is good. I am working on increasing my muscles so I need to put on some more weights. So right now I look rather funny because they are too heavy for me, but I need that to challenge my muscles. To become stronger.

Anna

Hi dearest readers! Told you that I needed to do something that I never usually do. I went for hockey tonight at Hovet, Arena area in Stockholm. When I was little I watched the games on tv. Finland versus Sweden and Sweden versus Russia was always exciting. I don’t know why; but it was always very even between Sweden and Finland. Often 4-4. Canada wanted fight. I remember that there are three periods and various rules. Tonight AIK played against Mora. Swedish teams. Allsvenskan. AIK had power play most of the time. They made goals in the beginning so they could take it easy the rest of the game. However, Mora were very strong during the last period. They got more focused.

I liked the ambiance a lot. People had fun. Me to! I will definitely go for more games. Time passed so rapidly. I really enjoyed my evening. Great fun.

Anna

Today is Anna´s day; the 9th of December. So congratulations to my sisters! I celebrated by having some chocolate ice-cream. My favorite. What would life be without chocolate? Nothing.

I am getting a little bored so I thought I had to do something I would never do. So I am going to an ice-hockey game. I like hockey, but when I watch I only watch the world hockey games on tv. When I was little I remember the Russian hockey player Krutov. But this will be Swedish hockey. Allsvenskan. I picked the teams meeting each other by chance. I really do not have any favorites. So this is not what I usually do, but I need to just change focus for a while. Do something different. It will be great fun!

To reveal a secret, I sometimes get very jealous of those who are professional in a sport. I was good at skiing when I was little, but it stayed at that level. So, I stay close to my usual training. Feel sad that I will never become professional in a sport. I am instead working on to become a professional writer. Wish me good luck!

Hope there will be snow soon. That would brighten my day.

🙂

Anna

Dear readers. How are you today? I went for tuff training last night so I thought that I would wake up with muscle pain, but I didn´t. Good to have muscle strength. I have seen that they are doing a “make over” of the training center I went to in Norway when I worked there. At Kråkerøy, where I have spent many hours. Beautiful view over the river, especially wintertime.

It is good to have routines in life. Work, and then exercise. Or training and then work. There are many Norwegians working and living in Sweden, so sometimes I speak Norwegian. Almost five years has passed since I lived in Norway, so I have to think before I speak. Find Norwegian words.

As you know I like languages a lot and it has taken a lot of time to understand Norwegian. I remember I felt so stupid when all Norwegians new Swedish and I didn´t understand Norwegian. They are grown up with Swedish tv. Today is different. A lot of Norwegian tv shows are in Swedish tv.

When I performed exercise in Norway I wrote a training diary. Not a public one like now.  I went running when the weather permitted. Løpe (“löpe”) is the Norwegian word for running. And in Swedish that is something completely different. This is playing with words. I know that in France “jeux de mots” is very common. Swedish language is not that fun. Maybe because there are not that many synonyms. I don´t know. But it is fun when you learn different languages and understand that one word in Swedish is not the same as in Norwegian. But at least, it makes you laugh 😉

I understand Danish much better since I have learnt some Norwegian. Finnish is very difficult. But that has something to do from where languages derive. Finnish is connected to several languages in some way. I really don´t remember. Would like to learn more Scandinavian languages.

Ok, all for today. A whole, new day ahead with a lot of smiles! It feels like it is easier with my December campaigne. It really works to “fool” my brain. If I smile I feel much happier. Have a try, and don´t forget – it is for free!

🙂

Anna