Month: November 2011

Hey guys, sorry for my absence. Jet-lag’s a bitch!

To summarize my trip cause it would take to long to wright about my 30 hours from Stockholm to Aussie:

• Tried to get my board on the plane for free. and failed.
• Slept 2 hours to Brussels
• Had a Starbucks white chocolate mocha
• Watched the 4th Pirates of the Caribbean movie on the next flight to Abu Dhabi
• Ate a whole bag of KitKat
• Watched the Harry Potter movie, one episode of Lie to Me, one episode of Cougar Town and 6 episodes of How I Met Your Mother.
• Switched to my last plane to Melbourne
• Played snake on my computer
• Slept for 9 hours straight. (I’m a pro)
• Tried to regain movement of my legs.
• Looked in my bag for more KitKat
• Discovered that I’d stolen the old man’s pillow who sat next to me and that it was the reason why I’d slept so good.
• Found a tooth bush and tooth paste in my seat pocket
• Got mad at myself for not finding this earlier
• Brushed my teeth for 7 minutes
• Fell asleep
• Woke up by an air hostess telling me to “put my seat in an upright position”
• LANDED IN MELBOURNE!

 

My 2012 Melissa gear showed up today! Perfect since I’m now working on packing and I really wanted to bring a board down under. ♥

Went by the Betsafe office in Stockholm today to talk a bit about next year. I’m stoked to be one of their team riders and it looks like next year is going to be great! I guess you’ve already seen the boards they branded for me this year. Unfortunately, as I told my brother today, I’ve now broken one of them and since I’m getting my new boards from Liquid Force any day now I’m prob not going to ride my other one that much. Wonder what I should do with it.. any suggestions?

When my boards were fresh earlier this year
Photo:Ulrich Bjerregaard

Don’t know what I would do without my O’neill Stretch headphones. Right now I’m stealing the internet of espresso house and these things completely block every sound out except for my awesome Justin Bieber music 😉

I feel so stupid taking pictures of myself… 

Sorry for the lousy updates lately but on the plane back from Morocco I got super sick. I felt as weak as one of the kittens who lived by out favorite food place by the beach and who everyone accidentally stepped on all the time. Anyways, back home after one of the best weeks in my life. People have been posting some pictures on facebook which makes me want to go back, even though some of the pictures (from our night out) are not quite okay…. haha. I now have 2 days in Stockholm before leaving the cold for 3 months and going to Aussie!! So stoked! Doing laundry and saying bye to everyone while also working on getting my travel insurance and visa. Lots and lots to do!

Me and my awesome surf coach Taha
This was how I felt on the plane.. ):
Cool Surf-kids at our favorite food spot
I will miss this girl a lot!
And the waves..
And the footprints on Laura’s but! (: 

 

We’ve been staying up playing games the last few nights and I laugh so hard everytime. Yesterday we played one game called “Hand to foot” which basically involved a lot of notes saying stuff like “hand to foot”, “head to knee” etc and you had to try to collect as many notes as you could at the same time.

We also played “the ninja game” which I wont even begin to explain but it was awesome! During this game I literally laid on the ground laughing.

Good crew!

 

So full after dinner. We went to the best restaurant yet with fresh juice and smoothies so one banana/orange juice and some grilled aubergine/avocado/feta cheese salad and my stomach is happy. Todays surf was a bit hard for me. From being almost no waves, today was crazy. At least if you’re not used to surfing and the salt water. I had a lot of problems just getting through the impact zone out to the waves and I discovered that I panic quite easy in water. This was weird since I basically live in water but when those big waves grabs you and drag you down it’s so scary every time for me. Instead of holding my breath and letting the currents slowly take me back to the surface I panic and lose all my air while kicking to get up. and as soon as I get up another wave hits me. I guess that is something I need to work on. I got three really great waves today and I’m really excited about them! I know it doesn’t sound much but it made my whole day.
Some pictures from Paradise Valley yesterday

my new room mates

we went exploring, jumping on rocks and swimming across stuff. FUNN!!My favorite picture of this trip. Robin rocks!

There were no waves yesterday so instead we went to a nature reserve to swim, tan and jump off cliffs. Today it looks way better but here are some pics.. 

More pics to come but now I wanna go surf!!!!

 

 

Leaving for Aussie next week for 3 months of wakeboarding! Can’t wait, or yes I can since I love it here! It’s weird to buy another flight ticket when I’m already out traveling but I love it! (: I leave on the 16th so that will give me time to wash my clothes and get my wakeboard! Awesome!

Surfed a lot today again, the waves were smaller today so the coaches taught we should have a work out sesh instead so we had a paddling contest. We had to run with our boards down to the water, paddle out and around one of the coaches and then catch a wave back in and run up so that the next one in our team could go. After doing it I was not sure if I had air or salt water in my lungs but we just went out and kept surfing. After another couple of hours we had lunch at this cozy restaurant by the sea. 

Now we’re about to go to sleep and my stomach hurts from laughing so hard with the rest of the guys as we played games after dinner. Hopefully we’ll do some surfing before breakfast tomorrow (:

Good night!

/C