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Wednesday, August 20, 2003
And before I forget, lets congratulate Nicole on her 17th birthday that was last Sunday (August 17th).
Special greetings to her and Wendy in Iowa! Have fun, gals! ;)
Special greetings to her and Wendy in Iowa! Have fun, gals! ;)
School is about to start and I think this is the first time since I was 8 that I'm actually looking forward to it! It's also pretty cool to think that this year, I'll be one of the "final-year-kids", even though it isn't my final year, which gives you at least some respect ...
One of the things you have to do each year when the schools start is to buy books. And the books are extremely expensive here. Thankfully, we can trade in our old books and use the little money we get for them to lower the cost of the new books, but it doesn't help much. I'll probably spend around 20.000 kr. just for school books, and that doesn't include notebooks and stuff like that. I'm lucky, though, because I got the job at the bookstore, which means I get 20% off of everything I buy! So I won't go bankrupt, thank god :)
In other, more exciting news, American Documentary filmmakers saw the music video I did with my friend last year and called it "very artsy" and want to use it in their documentary about Jazz in North-Europe! Our next music video is about to be finished and after that we'll start working on our next short film which is going to be a sort of german-expressionism meets lynchian humor ... I hope :) And after that, my dear exchange student friends, I'll start watching the 10 hour of video I shot in Switzerland for the infamous Swiss-Documentary!
Music of the day: Because of my job, I haven't really listened to any music for quite a while now ... there is no music of the day!
Movie of the day: The Fog. A really creepy, atmospheric ghost story from John Carpenter about a strange glowing fog that invades a small seaside town ... except that "there's something in the fog!" Carpenter's horror films are pure brilliance.
One of the things you have to do each year when the schools start is to buy books. And the books are extremely expensive here. Thankfully, we can trade in our old books and use the little money we get for them to lower the cost of the new books, but it doesn't help much. I'll probably spend around 20.000 kr. just for school books, and that doesn't include notebooks and stuff like that. I'm lucky, though, because I got the job at the bookstore, which means I get 20% off of everything I buy! So I won't go bankrupt, thank god :)
In other, more exciting news, American Documentary filmmakers saw the music video I did with my friend last year and called it "very artsy" and want to use it in their documentary about Jazz in North-Europe! Our next music video is about to be finished and after that we'll start working on our next short film which is going to be a sort of german-expressionism meets lynchian humor ... I hope :) And after that, my dear exchange student friends, I'll start watching the 10 hour of video I shot in Switzerland for the infamous Swiss-Documentary!
Music of the day: Because of my job, I haven't really listened to any music for quite a while now ... there is no music of the day!
Movie of the day: The Fog. A really creepy, atmospheric ghost story from John Carpenter about a strange glowing fog that invades a small seaside town ... except that "there's something in the fog!" Carpenter's horror films are pure brilliance.
