Me and Fredrik were horrible people that weekend. The first real spring sun weather, and we locked ourselves in hyping, satisfying our nerdy hearts with FFXIII instead.

But really, I say weekend well spent. xD It seems there won't be any playing next weekend either though, I've just realized I have some things to deal with at home, so I guess we'll stay here. Where there is no such things as PS3. 8(

Hehe, but at least you'll have much fun playing the game. :3"
I'll be careful not to let myself be spoilt. ^^" I hardly even look at the FFXIII forums. And I just see the titles of the topics, so... I should be okay. xD
Btw. I've only played about 6 hours longer than you did. Though I can play every single day xD
And now I wanna play FFXIII @..@

I KNOWWWW I'm playing FFXIII with my boyfriend (leeching off his PS3 since I don't have one of my own), and since he's doing Sweden's so called "millitary service", he's just home in the weekends. Though this weekend he won't be coming home at all. I think we're 20 hours into the game though!
And you do just right keeping away from here. They are pretty careful in the FFXIII forum, but I've still managed to spoil some minor aspects of it, typical me. I hope you're doing well! : > <3

Yep, you were right. I was quite busy with university stuff.
And now I'm quite unsure if I really want to be around here for the next.. let's say 2 weeks. I've begun playing FFXIII a week ago and I'm terribly afraid of spoilers. (I know some weird people who already played the game until the very end. O_o")

I haven't been on in forever, so just came by to see what's up and how you do! Judging by other visitors messages, I guess you're being quite busy as well. Hope to here from you soon, and that whatever you're attending to, it's going well. : >

Oops I don't know how that happened XD; Maybe I messed up somewhere when posting my answer, I'm not that familiar with this site yet haha.

Aah, you get a lot of trick or treaters around your parts? I haven't been home, but according to mom there haven't been a single knock. But then again it's not that a big tradition here. Actually this was the first time I actually did something for Halloween, and it wasn't much more than just a zombie movie night. Which was awesome and oddly cozy though. With people from my class, I have such adorable nice classmates, we're more like a family than the generic class which is usually seperated in cliques. (We're just 14 though.)

Ah, know it all makes sense! XD Your answer to my last VM is on YOUR profile. Sorry, I haven't noticed. I tend to only read my own profile. Perhaps I'll answer your VM later. x3"
Halloween's pretty boring by far. .-." I suppose I'll stay at home, as no one'll go to a party. .-. So I'll just wait for the sweet kids to come to our house. <3
How about you? ^^

How's life girl, doing anything special for Halloween?

Hah, birds... <.<" Reminds me of what happened to me.. I think a year ago. xD" I was driving to the train station, as usual, when some birds passed me by. I had the strange feeling one of them wanted to commit suicide, because it flew right into my car. XD" (There were many suicide-birds on the streets last year, to be precise xD) Okay, no problem for me, I just acted as if nothing had happened. Yet, when I drove home, I realized that I'd really killed a bird. (Or rather: it killed itself xD") Wouldn't be a problem... IF IT WEREN'T HANGING ON MY CAR!!! >_< As I'm a girl, I don't know what this thing is called.. but in front of my car there was this bird, hanging lifeless. And there were quite some people surrounding me. So I had no chance but to - again xD - act as if I'd seen nothing. Some people were looking strangely at my car because of this bird there... and I thought: "Holy sh*t... hopefully there'll be no kid on the street! If a kid saw a dead bird hanging on my car...." Guess what happened. XD There was a kid who stared at the bird... Damn, I'll never forget that! XD
Buuuuut, the moral of this story is: No matter how embarrassing driving can be - you'll laugh about most of it after a few weeks xD

Yeah, it's always quite strange to act like a child again, as we're forced to act like grown-ups. <.< But I love to play with kids. <3 I always feel so... free when playing with them. <3
Sounds as if your school system is... kinda splitted. Oo You basically have no school you attend after Elementary School? Then how many different classes have you had? You must've met quite many people along the way oo

Hehe, I'm also quite silent, and I didn't talk much in class. That's why all my marks in oral exams were bad. xD" The teachers always said the opposite of yours: They told my parents I was so silent and that I should interact more in class. xD

Well at least you managed to slam those breaks good, knowing myself right it feels like I'd rather just run the kid over or drive into a ditch. ...orsomething. I hate animals on the road too, I always think we'll run over them or something, especially birds, they're so damn cocky and really don't move until in like the last second or something ughhh!

I am REALLY no good with kids. At ALL. I feel really silly around them, i really don't remember how to interact with them. Or well, it takes a while before I feel comfortable enough around them anyway, recently I had to play with this 7 year old for a whole day, a daughter to one of my mom's friends. First I just wanted to melt away and disappear, but then I loosened up a little and at the end of the day she didn't want to leave. xD I felt oddly accomplished as a human being.
Hmmm we have kindergarden. Our first part of school is "lågstadiet" (low level), ages 6-9. Then you move up into "mellanstadiet" (middle level sort of) age 10-12. Then we've got "högstadiet" (high level...sort of), age 13-15. And Gymnasiet, which is most commonly a three years education too, ages 16-19. But I think there are some programs that you take four years or even two perhaps, but I'm not sure. Then it's usually University. Unless you're taking a program that prepares you for some actual job in Gymnasiet, you don't really get anything unless you attend the University too. I think I might take a year off before University though, after 13 years of school I could probably use to do something else for a while. xD;

Aah. o_o I love winter really, so I hope we'll get any snow. But autumn is probably my favourite season still, somehow.
I guess I'm the silent type around people I don't know that well, but like in my own class, I'm probably one of the big talkers, I usually get some complaints for that when we have these...parent..meet ups. But it's really more for my own sake than that it's bothering others; I don't get much done. xD;

You were interviewed?! ôô That's also pretty interesting. xD I thought handing in the pictures was everything you had to do. At least it's like that when you want to attend art classes in university over here. You just hand in some pictures and then they decide whether they accept you or not. xD" I think I would've been shy, too. xD"

Well, a kid jumped on the road without looking... and guess who the unfortunate driver was who was on the road in exactly THAT moment. xD" I really had to slam my breaks to the fullest. <.<" That was... not a nice experience to make. ^^"
Haha, I know how you feel about the second problem. ^^ I think currently I look like I'm still 15... when I got my driver's license I had the feeling I looked like 13, too. xD I always waited for the police to stop me and ask how old I actually was. XD

Something inbetween. I can't handle younger children, like in Elementary School. It's not that I don't like them, but I don't know what to do with them. For me, kids have to be able to write and read - then I can work with them. XD" Besides, I want to be a teacher for English and Maths... No good with kids who are too young. xP So everything except Elementary School is fine with me. ^^ The kids I'll be teaching will be ~11 to 18 years old. Dunno which school this is in Sweden. xD"
Philosophy sounds interesting, too, but I heard that you just had to talk to score good marks. So it wouldn't be a good idea for me. xD" If you're rather the silent type of person I wouldn't recommend it. There are always people who think they're better than you and talk all the time... that would be quite annoying. x.x Out of those two.. I would've chosen Psychology again. x3"

I'd say we don't have much snow. And there shouldn't be much snow, I suppose. xD" I live quite near to some mountains (just saying this sounds so ridiculous XD), but not near enough to have much snow. >_o Normally we have a bit of snow every year, but not exactly much. Sometimes we've snow on the 23rd of December, but it all melts again. xD Snow mostly falls down in November and January. Inbetween: no snow ~..~

Whoa, that was...a pretty deep test. xD The only thing we had to do on place was drawing a bottle + two lemons + a....box and then we were interviewed. It was still kinda awkward though, and back then I was SO shy, I've grown up a lot in that department, I realize now when I think about it.

A very bad almost-accident? What happened? Well considering how many cars there are out there on the road, the actual accidents are uncommon I guess, but still. ....and secondly, I just can't imagine myself behind the wheel. xD The thought of me sitting there, and driving, is ridiculous haha. Especially since I look like..13 or something. XD

Ah 8D I have a friend who wants to become a teacher. Are you interested in becoming a teacher for younger or older children? For the selectable courses I was considering between psychology or philosophy, but my friends talked me out of taking philosophy, they said I already thought too much about stuff anyway. xD..perhaps they're right.

Oh yes, we used to have TONS of snow christmas eve. But these last four years we've had pretty much none. Just like..a thin layer at most. It's like someone has pushed the seasons a little forward, if we get major snow now, it's usually not before the middle of january now. But how is it with the snow in your parts? o_o Do you live in an area where snow is common or just...well not common.
AND I KNOW, ME TOO. XD I sit with my back against the window, and every time I turn around to look out, I go all "oh" when I realize it's not snow outside.

Ah, I've heard of such forms of tests. Way better than it was for me. xD" We had to come to the school, sit down in a kind of exam room and draw there... We had to draw two pictures that day: One with pretty much just food (XD), grey scale, one in color. The first was actually more fun than the second. x3" We had some snacks on our tables which we had to draw. The second was... well, I'm not good at thinking of a picture myself. xD" So it was rather difficult for me, especially as we had a topic. We had to draw a picture of the future. If someone in the year 4000 found technology we use these day - what would that be? I think that was the topic .-."

Hah, I would take the driving lessons now, if I were you. xD" I've had a... very bad almost-accident once and I didn't want to drive again. I was afraid it could happen again (I was mostly afraid of really having an accident xD"). But after driving for another few weeks, it was mostly gone. .-." I wasn't afraid anymore, because I knew that it would probably never happen again. So if you're afraid: Do what frightens you most. (That is actually one of the things we also learned in Psychology classes xD)

I've already finished Psychology classes. ^^ And I'm somehow glad I won't have them anymore. xD" At university I'll only learn about Psychology in schools (as I want to become a teacher :3"). Some things really were interesting and it was fun at first, but then I realized that it didn't help me in any way. You won't be able to help someone even after attending those classes. Neither will you understand humans better. We just learned theories (like Freud's, Skinner's, Beck's, etc.) and there was no analysis of people. We just had some fictional cases which were far away from reality. xD"
In our last year we learned something about therapies, too, but we still can't help anyone... :/

Hehe, I also remember, when I was younger, we played much outside in winter (snowball fights, building snowmans, such stuff xD). There had been snow. Now it's rare to have snow. .,.
Did you ever have snow on Christmas Eve?
(Man, all this talk about snow makes me think it's winter XD)

Ah, we had a test too, but it was nothing major really. We had to turn in some of our works, I think it was like...a grey scale picture, one in colour, and then the last entry could be whatever you wanted, sculpture or whatever. I actually have psychology as one of my selectable courses xD I don't remember if I'm going to start taking it next period, or if it is in my last year though. Right now I'm just taking an introduction course in driving, so that I'll get it for free, which it wouldn't have been outside school. I had actually seriously considered starting to take driving lessons, but after a few weeks of this course I'm....not really that interested anymore, all we're talking about are car accidents and road kills etc etc...haha.

AND NO NO NO not at all. The human body is probably what I enjoy drawing the most anyway, so actually getting to take a life drawing class was just well AH I have been looking forward for it in over a year, since we got to know about it when I was in first grade. Our model was really fun to draw too, and the man who instructed us were really good also. : )
We actually used mirrors for our selfportraits, and I'm no good at it, hence why it's been taking me such a long time. Sometimes what we do in school sort of takes out the rest of your motivation to draw other things, for the moment I don't draw nearly as much as I used to, but then again I have longer days and way more homework than I did earlier. Really draws your spirit out.
But psychology, that's really interesting. o-o But you haven't started yet, had you?

It's...definitely global warming XD At least it makes the most sense. I mean we've had winters with barely any snow at all before, but these many years in a row. When I was around 3-10 we had LOADS of snow. And it STAYED. Sometimes as far as into the end of april. (It wasn't that much left by then, but still.) But in the most northmost areas of Sweden, I think there's still lots of snow in the winter. o_o;

Ah, I know which kind of school you mean! =D
I also tried to have art classes in school, but I failed because there was a test before you could take those classes. -.- So I decided to do Psychology instead. It was a bit easier I suppose, as I can't really draw anymore and I don't think I'd be able to do it. (And it's no fun for me.)
You.. had a nude model? o.o" Weren't you at least a bit embarrased? (Okay, depending on the gender of the model ^^" But I'd be embarrased if I had to draw a naked person - even if I had to draw a woman. ^^")
I had to draw a portrait of a classmate once (we had only few art classes.. two hours/week only .-.") and it was quite much fun. He wasn't really talented, to his picture of me didn't really look like me. xD
As for your father... why was the portrait near his cup of coffee anyways? xD" Hopefully he won't spill some on your next portrait... :/
Btw. do you look into the mirror to draw yourself or do you have a picture of you somewhere? ^^

Hah, yesterday I was out quite long. At least it felt as if I've stayed outside very long. I've gone home by train and it usually takes ~30 minutes (train's always delayed -.-). When I got into the train it was darkening. When I looked outside after ~10 minutes it was quite dark. When I arrived at the station I had to get out.. it was pitch black outside. O.o" And it was from 7.30 to 8 pm. xD"
In the morning... hm, I don't really know. When I got up at 6 am it wasn't dark anymore (sun was about to rise x3). When I arrived at work at 7 am it was still a bit dark. And then I didn't really see when it wasn't dark anymore. xD"
(And I also have problems getting up when it's dark outside. xD")
No snow? ôô Oh, I wouldn't have thought you had no snow. xD" We also don't have much anymore (global warming, wasn't it? XD), but sometimes there's also so much that we can barely go outside. It's not that we can't open the door anymore, but it'd be difficult to go by car. xD