Yesterday I attended some presentation of thesises (spelling?) that some friend had. While there I ran into an old friend from my first years of studies here, so in the evening I threw together a dinner and we had to recap alot of things. After dinner we went to the city centre where some other friends had a moving-away-farewell-dinner for my neighbour.

  It just feels so wierd that she is moving away. After all these years she has been living here. And now, on Saturday, she will be gone. It’s hard to cope with, but I have to, because she has sold her apartment, packed all her stuff into the small half-cute boxes, and there is another person moving into her apartment after she is gone.

  And in all this I have to focus on my thesis. Write write and write even more, and read read read read. It never ends. And prepare the questions for the interviews during the field study, and everything else I have to do while in the area.

  But everything is not hard and feels difficult. I picked up my new “baby” yesterday. Well.. that’s my new camera for you who know me. The thesis is just a bad excuse to buy a new toy, but I think it is ok because the old one has served me well for the last three years. Sometimes it’s time to let go of the old and focus on the new. But that’s just so much easier when it comes to “things” than “friends”. But friends are still there.. no matter how far away you are.

  Edit at 16.30 – I took the photo on the way back to my apartment from school. Feels almost strange with 14° C in the shade and sunshine. But yes, I like it.

  Well, time to start updating here I think. Everthing is slowly falling into the right spot, and right now I have so much to do. I’m sitting with the nose in literature about tourism, infrastructure and sustainable development, and I can honestly say that those areas are not the easiest to break down to understandable text and while trying write something academic-stylish with it.

  And besides that I have my own personal goals of things I have to do before I depart, there are still alot of other things. Last Sunday I managed to go to Göteborg and participated in the seeding-race for the Göteborgs-varvet (21km running competition in the end of May) so I would get e better starting group than all the way back in the end. It went as I planned (I told my dad I was aiming for a time between 50 to 55 minutes on the 10,5 km long run, and I did it on 52:30 min, so I’m satisfied). I’m looking forward to the high altitude training I’ll get soon. And yes, all types of running in another city is high altitude training for me, since Karlskrona is just at the see.. and it can’t get anything closer to the sea level.

  Oh.. and tomorrow I’m picking up my new “toy” (i.e. “camera”). There is always need for bad excuses for new toys.. and now I have the perfect excuse.. “master thesis”.. then anything is OK.