May 18, 2007 10:25
Things have started to move down in the south. People's summer plans have started to take shape, and, in realizing it is already May, an already speeding spring term is swiftly coming to an end.
It is strange to know I have already lived here for a year. Last summer seems ages and age since.
Jessie got some a message on Wednesday, ordering her to leave for Skagen on Sunday to spend the next month with fish guts, news that caught us all more or less unprepared. That means that Saturday is the last day we'll be together before people are starting to leave for home. I don't think any of us had realized that summer was so soon.
We decided to have dinner on Saturday evening. I was originally invited to Malmö on Saturday to go out with a couple of guys from my literature class, so this going-to-Denmark thing could not have come in a worse time. (Yes, it could but this is definitely not optimal.) Also it means that she might not be able to make it here for my birthday, which is a shame.
Actually, almost nobody will be able to make it here for my birthday. With Jessie leaving on Sunday, Johannes on Thursday and Andreas later that weekend, it will only be me and Dev left. Not that it matters much, but I must admit I was sort of looking forward to having some sort of gathered birthday thingy. The last birthday I remember that I did not arrange myself was the party I had in second grade. I know it is a bit childish, but still, it would have been fun.
At least Jessie promised that she would try to make it back for it, so let's keep our fingers crossed.
By the way, I hope you know that you are all invited over here on June 2. I know that most of you might have some trouble getting here, but if you - hypothetichally - do, you are most welcome.
At least I am looking forward to this summer. In a way it will be nice to come back to Gävle, at least for a while. To go swimming with Louise, hang out with you guys, read books on the balcony, meet all the guys back at the charge control... The double edged news that my sister broke up with her boyfriend not long ago has rendered me my appartment back, which is good in every way but the financial, and the prospect of being back at Öster is francly making my heart sing. After a year in Lund, things feel better. I am different. I have even sent an e-mail to Alex, asking him if he would want to have coffee with me some time, an offer he gladly accepted. The events of last year seems so long ago.
But then again, this is easy to say on a bright and sunny day in city eight hundred kilometers away.
Either way, I'll be back on June 4. You know where to find me. So do it.
friends,
summer plans