Chapter IV

This is how it begins

Hello from Leeds! I've been here for 4 days now and things are starting to settle down. I've explored the uni and city a little, met a couple of new friends and basically familiarising myself with the surroundings. It's been pretty alright and I'm starting to get used to the changes (:

Induction for school starts on Monday and I'm super psyched (: I'm ready to just go ahead and start school now. Just going back in time a little, on my flight here, I caught Soul Surfer and it was such an apt film to start off this new chapter (: It was a true story about a teen surfer called Bethany Hamilton who despite losing her left arm in a shark attack, courageously overcame all odds to become a champion surfer. It was by no means an easy road and tough doesn't even come close to describing it but she soldiered on. There were hurdles along the way of course, heaps of it in massive proportions yet her determination to get back on her board refused to give in. (: 

I've been having nagging doubts of what ifs, will I, can I, because I know that law school's gonna be rough but this film has inspired me a little. Haha. I will have to grit my teeth and see this through. (:

Okay! On a lighter note, here are a couple of pictures from around uni (:

 Business school. Isn't it pretty!

 The new Law building (:

I must say that despite the cranky weather sometimes, Leeds often has amazing skies and you know how much I'm a sucker for them. (:

That's it for now. Swedish phrase before I go,  'Sommaruppehållet är slut nu.' which means the summer break is now over.

Summer has set in. II ♥

Lesson in a separate post since Blogger's being lame and randomly cutting my posts. Sorry I know I've been lazy with these lessons :p

I got this from ielanguages, another swedish tutorial site and it's one of those swedish forms that I sometimes tend to get confused with as well so it comes in pretty handy. It has to do with locations and defining movements from one place to another. Here it is:

Many adverbs in Swedish have two distinct forms: one to denote location and one to denote movement to or from a place. Location adverbs answer the question var? where? while movement adverbs answer the question vart? where to?

                              Location                Movement

in           -             inne                           in

out         -             ute                            ut

 there      -          framme                      fram

 up         -           uppe                         upp

down     -           nere                          ner

here       -            här                           hit

there      -            där                           dit

  away     -           borta                        bort

(at) home -         hemma                       hem

Location adverbs are used with verbs of rest (vara, stå, ligga, sitta, stanna, finnas, bo, trivas) and movement adverbs are used with verbs of motion (gå, komma, fara, resa, åka, flytta, spring, köra, flyga).

For example:
Malin är här. Malin is here.
Malin kommer hit. Malin is coming here.

Mamma stannar hemma. Mother is staying home.
Mamma går hem. Mother is going home.


That is all! (: