Author: wakecarro

Sorry about the Swedish, conclusion from this post/day: Melbourne city is awesome and I did not buy shoes!

Alltså den här staden! Det är som en blandning av Florida, Stockholm och London med det bästa från respektive stad. Idag har jag hängt runt och kollat in shoppingen (utan att spendera speciellt mycket pengar), druckit kaffe från Starbucks, solat på stranden inne i stan och ätit en vegetarisk macka på ett strandcafé. Jag vill bara spendera all min tid i den här staden med att gå runt, kolla in softa små caféer, skatebutiker varvat med min kvinnliga svaghet för skor. OCH den Australienska accenten överallt…
Jag kan inte vänta länge nog till helgen dock då jag ska iväg till ett wake-event några timmar härifrån tillsammans med en hel drös av folk. ÄNTIGEN ska jag få använda min nya Melissa och komma tillbaks ut på vattnet! Jag åker upp (eller ner, mina geografi-skills är grymma) dit imorgon kväll och jag tar med mig min GoPro så vi får se vad som händer.

Spårvagnar! Kanske lite Göteborg här också då?

Got a worried e-mail from my lovely sister that I haven’t been blogging for a while and she was wondering if I was okay. Guess that says something about me and my blog? 😉

I’m great and I’ve just been really busy these last couple of days getting introduced to my life here. Today is my first day off so I’m going into the city to cruise around. Just wanted to show the people in my life who don’t think that I can keep my room tidy enough to see the floor: Check out the floor-space in my Aussie room!

A little bummed that I wasn’t at Winter Jam this year. Specially since I still haven’t been wakeboarding. I borrowed this picture from Jon Olsson and hope that it was as sick as I’ve imagined it. 

I feel so grown up right now. It’s a saturday night and I’m staying in studying for my upcoming SAT test which I’m taking for maybe going to collage in the state next fall. Went by Ian’s store today for the first time and it was pretty sweet. I think I’m going to like it here and tonight I might get access to a car too! Again today, it was crazy weather but in the form of cascade rain all day so I didn’t mind being indoors. Going crazy looking at my wakeboard and not riding though! Hoping to change that ASAP. Well going back to my Chai tea and books…

Check this short edit out from my friend Caro Rodriguez, makes you really want to ride!

I met Caro a couple of years ago when we were both riding with Adam Fields in Orlando and she has really progressed since then! I love to watch her ride

I worked on getting settled here today. Went with my new room-mate Rachel to the stores and got my aussie phone number, bank account and some groceries today. Me, Rachel and her boyfriend Alex are sharing this small house. It belongs to an old lady who’s now in a nursing home so it’s a nice house just a little bit.. um.. old? I have my own room and it smells a bit weird so today I bought scented candles to make it smell like vanilla instead. After all this I went by the beach (which is about a 20 minute walk from where we live) and just chilled in the sand, watched the water and thought about Antarctica. Then, out of nowhere from being super sunny, it started to pour so our plans to go wakeboarding this afternoon got cancelled. Still though, I’m super jet lagged so working on that tonight instead.

Cheers! (as they say here)

Carro

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…