Hello there. I am a girl who just got back from Beijing, China where I have been studying Mandarin Chinese for 5 months at Beijing Normal University. It has been both a frightening and truly enjoyable experience being away from home for the first time - and just when I started to really love it, I'm back home again. Ironic. However, I am determined to make the best of the spare time I have before it is off to proper university studies. I will indulge myself in my books and my art, as the stress of High School did not allow me to do such things. So, lots to catch up with! ^_^ I am seldom bored, as I always have one or another artistic idea in my head that I need to get on to the paper or computer screen. And if I don't, there is always some book I need to read or a movie I want to see. Otherwise I love spending time with my friends - I truly believe I have some of the greatest friends one could ever get. And of course I have my fantastic boyfriend Henrik, who makes me so happy even though he is just sitting next to me in the sofa. He is from Stockholm, Sweden, and we met in Dec. 2006 when we were in the same tour group on a trip to China. We ended up making out in a Shanghai bar on the last evening, and after that there has been a lot of trips to Sweden for me, and a lot of trips to Norway for him. ^_^

Some other facts:

Hobbies: Drawing, painting, reading, photography, dancing myself silly, watching movies, singing

Interest Fields: Art History (Gothic and renaissance in particular), East Asian culture, period dramas, travelling, history (English, medieval ect.)

Music: Hang On the Box, Bikini Kill, Metallica, Nirvana, Enya, Loreena McKennit, Dir En Grey, Type O Negative, Birthday Massacre, Alanis Morisette, The Cardigans, Rammstein, Sahara Hotnights, Briskeby, Brain Failure

Books: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, (all stuff by Jane Austen), Wild Swans, Harry Potter, Jane Eyre, Memoirs of a Geisha

Films: Slipp Jimmy Fri, The Joy Luck Club, Lost in Translation, The Chongqing Express, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Bridget Jone's Diary, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, KILL BILL, The Others, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Simpsons The Movie