I did something I wasn’t allowed to do, but I just had to. I sneaked to take a photo of my shoes after some children had fun and sneaked to add the magnetic letters on my shoes.
What they thought was that I didn’t feel anything, but what they didn’t know was that I felt and knew they were doing it but played along.
I know I broke one rule, but I took this picture way, way, waaaay away from any children, so I was still thinking of where to take it. Also made sure no names were shown or pictures of the children.
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Hello, my beautiful pumpkins! Yes, I can officially call you all my pumpkins because now it’s HALLOWEEN SEASON! Woho!
Today I had my third day at my internship (3 of 5), and no more for this week. The start of the day was chaotic! Oh my god! It started with the alarms on my phone not going off, and I woke up at 06:54am… my bus left at 07:10am, so you all can imagine the stress! But I managed to get myself out to the bus stop. Here comes another thing that made the day more chaotic: the bus was super late! Oh my god. So I messaged the preschool I’m having the internship at, explaining, and it was okay for them, but I apologized!
I do not want to come more late than I already do (with agreement with my supervisor) due to my son and his taxi to school.
I basically ran to the preschool, so I tried to get in closer “time” to when I normally am there. I managed... by five minutes after my normal time. Oh my. It was insane!
My supervisor was home today (reason no need to be added here), so I was with two other teachers, and it was good. It was really good. to see how they worked and their routines!
Today, on my third day,I have been doing bracelets and necklaces made of plastic beads that children in preschool use and make jewelry from. Super cute. ● I have been pretty much all day sitting at a table with some children and made bead jewelry and bead plates. ● One child and I wanted to do a Halloween pumpkin, but they didn’t have a printed-out picture, so I used my phone to find one for inspiration, etc., until one of my supervisors today was available. I asked for their tab and explained. ● I have also been reading books for the kids (nerve-wracking!), and they liked it! Woho! ● We also went to another part of the preschool (they have three departments, or whatever you want to call it) with some children so they/we could play with big blue blocks, and oh boy, how much fun we had!
This was pretty much my day (more happened but can not write about that) and I am happy. I was able to help children (without my supervisors) with getting dressed, to help with food etc.
So now I only have two more days here at the preschool, and I’m honestly really sad about that. The children are wonderful, and the staff is amazing! I hope they all see how much I like it here and how much I try.
Next week, I’m back to school but also have two more days of the internship.
I haven’t blogged on Monday or Tuesday.I have been at the internship, and I have been so drained of energy. Especially last Monday (September 8). My first day. Oh my god.
When I came home, I fell asleep in the armchair (is that the correct word?) . I was tired!
From first step of the day til I left for the day;
I met up with my supervisor at the internship. When I heard the name from my teacher, like two weeks before I had the internship, I had a feeling of who it was. Aaaaaand I was correct!
My supervisor was a classmate of my sister A, and my sister M went to the same class as my supervisor’s brother. So I knew who she was. I mean, how small is the world?
Anyway, I came there (after being confused about how to get there) after a little bit. Met my supervisor, and we talked a lot. She told me about the rules, what I had to observe, what to do, etc. It was so much, but I have managed to remember everything.
My first mission (for me) was to try to memorize the names of the children plus who is who. Wooh, boy, that was a challenge.
(I am not gonna write so much about the preschool but i can talk a little bit of activites I did etc) I spoke with my supervisor and told her that I am a blogger and also a photographer. I asked what their secrecy when it came to me writing and photos (I already knew to not take pictures where any child was in the picture) – I asked if I could take picture of for an example if I was drawing with the children and I showed her how I meant and took a picture of a table so she could see what I meant. No! There was no children near or around the area I took the picture off.
At first she said yes after seeing the picture and that I made it crystal clear how I was taking pictures if I was allowed. But after a while after our talk I came up to her, just to talk again about my blog and photos. I explained that I was thinking a lot about the talk we had about pictures and I felt it was not a good idea and she agreed on that. I mean, sure I blog but why take pictures on activites? (Yes I know how it sounds like here when I write about it but talking swedish and try to explain to english with words I know might cause problems but I want to share this moment anyway – even though my english is super duper bad I do not mean any harm or anything. Which my supervisor understood)
ok that was a lot () but I will explain with all this. For me, its important for people know about my memory and how I use my blog to remember stuff that has happened and I also share pictures. I told my supervisor all this and explained when it started to happen (after my father’s death) and she understood. (I know i might sound repetitive now) I also explained her that im a photographer. (I know, maybe useless information for her and even share that but I will get to my point) I told her I love taking photos and now when it’s autumn here in Sweden, I love taking photos of the nature with all colors and contrast.
I asked her if I had permission to take photos of the nature (example on a tree with different colors) and she said yes, as long as no children is near and it’s calm around (OFC!) so we agreed that I could take pictures of the nature as long as it also doesnt show the location, any children or so. Ofcourse! 1000% completely understood.
Let’s get back to the photos of activites now when i have shared a little back story of all this and why I asked.
My intention of taking pictures of activites I did while I was there (drawing, playing games etc) was for myself to remember what I did that day. Like I wrote above, my memory is awful and seeing pictures and read a bit about it, helps me remember. At first it was a yes and I had permission to do that but after been thinking a lot about this (pictures) and remembered some news that has happened, I had a feeling not to do it which I told my supervisor and like I said, she agreed on it and we came to the conclusion that I am allowed to write about my days at the preschool (I even offered her to read everything and check if it’s ok or not but she said she trusted me and didnt need to read) and I could write from my perspective etc. For an example “Today I have been sitting at a smaller table with a few kids at the preschool and we were drawing, laughing and had fun”.
So I will not share any pictures from my days at the preschool (this time and also next semester in school. I’m going to be there for four weeks) but I will share text about my days.
This picture is took with my supervisor next to me. We both laughed when we saw this. Childhood memories
Woop well lets get back to my first day at the internship!
On my first day, I learned the names of the children (I struggled with a few). ● I attended to their daily routines. ● Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack. ● I stopped a situation that could have caused an accident—a child was banging on a window. ● I got a chance to supervise children outside on their break. ● Two children got attached to me 🥺 They trust me and that is the biggest reward ever. ● Four children came up to me and said, “We want you to have these. These are for you,” and gave me the flower petals in the picture at the top—I got them from children that wasn’t from my class. 🥺
On my second day, I helped the children get dressed to go out (rain outfits) and put the vests on. That was huge for me because the children had grabbed their vests and gave them to me to put them on them. ● I had responsibilities for three children when we went to the kitchen to get the lunch for everyone. They did so well, and the kitchen staff told me I did so well with the children (I played with them to stand against the wall and wait until I had rolled out the trolley with the food out in the hallway). They did fantastic! And they were listening so well to me, and I let them pull the trolley while I was holding on to it in front. They laughed so much because I joked with them while walking back to the class. ●I had the responsibility to set the tables for all the children and teachers. I also was the one who said what the food was, etc. ● We had a bit of a dance after having a “lesson” of emotions (the color monster), and that day was the blue monster, which is the sad monster. When the “lesson”/activity was over, the teacher played happy music, which made the children jump, dance, and laugh, so I joined them 🤭. That made them join even more, but we all had fun.
These are just a few things from the first two days that I did. So far, it is amazing, and I love it. Even when I have a headache 24/7. I love it.
Oh! Fun thing:one child saw when I spoke once that I had “something black in my mouth” (the child’s words) and wanted to see. I showed the child, and oh boy, that child was fast to tell the others about it after I told the child (after the child asked what it was and why I had it) that I have a hole in my tongue and I wanted to have it. Within 5 minutes, all the kids knew about it and all wanted to see it. What would I do?I showed it, and they checked their tongues to see if they had the same. One teacher laughed when I showed it. But honestly, I’m not sure if I was allowed to do it but I think it’s all good because the children asked what it was, etc. (knowledge?).
Anyway, these were my first two days. I was supposed to be there today as well, but I had to change days till next week because of personal reasons, so tomorrow (Thursday) will be my last day at the internship for this week, and next week I do these two days I miss this week.
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I know this was a super long post, and I am thankful and grateful that you took your time to read this.
I just want to re-explain: I will not take pictures. I will write about my days. ● Even though I know my explanation makes me sound weird, it was nothing in my intentions.It’s hard for me to explain with correct words. My supervisor understood me and what I meant, so that is the most important.
no picture on this post. I have no energy to edit right now. Lol.
Hello my beautiful people! Soon I will be able to call you my little ghosts and pumpkins! And I will probably stick with that for a while. Halloween is coming fast! Yay!
J and I were supposed to go study at the school but the teacher told us that we couldn’t come due to them having meetings.. Except, we told the teacher that we didn’t need any help. Just needed a place to sit to study but oh well.
Went to the store Dollarstore and they have Halloween items! I wanted to buy so much but u restrained myself to only buy a hat with skull on to E.
Did you study, though? Nope. But I tried at home afterwards, but (haha!) he refused to let me.
it has been an kinda crazy and hectic day ~ nap time, rush to the town to go to the drugstore, to foodstores, electronics and try to get something to eat. On limited time! Chaos.
I’m off to bed. Yes i know im blogging short posts now but I will get better and come back to longer posts. I promise! Goodnight!
Even though I love rain and the sound of it when the rain smatter on the windows etc, I kinda dislike it. Especially when I need to go out in it.
My son, it is still (according to him) the season of summer, and he refuses to wear jackets, even when it is cold outside and, in this case, raining. I managed to get him to switch shoes from tennis shoes to rain boots. But the jacket had to be packed down in his extra tote bag (I use that to send outside/different weather outfits/clothes when needed)
I’m also trying to “reboot” my brain when it comes to photography now before I go out on the week of internship. Preschool—exciting but also nervous. Why I need to “reboot” my brain is because I’m going to work on writing about children’s day so the parents of that child can read but also see pictures. I have basically only taken pictures of my son and it has been where his face is showing, backside etc. Neither of those pictures are okey but taking pictures if hands, feets, arms etc is okey unless the child has some special features (such as brown spot that looks different) that can expose who it is. It’s gonna be a challenge! But hey, first week and my supervisor is always with me 🙌🏻
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Today, well…at the moment I am back in bed. Today I am so tired, but I have set an alarm to get up in like two hours or so. But TODAY (here we go), I’m going to the town to do some errands and later going to the school (even if I have a school-free day) to sit there and study.
I will blog later. Now I’m going to try get some beauty sleep – not that the beauty part will work on me. 😅
September 2nd already! Wait, what? That is so crazy! Soon it’s Halloween, and after that it’s Christmas and New Year’s. Excuse me, but where did this year go?
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Hi, hello everyone my beautiful people! I hope you all had/have a beautiful day!
Today I have been in school…aaaand I have said a few opinions that maybe weren’t so supportive of the others. I will not write them here because this is a judgement-free space.
Special Pedagogy ; 9am – 12pm ● Social Work 1pm – 4pm
My schedule for today (it’s currently 10pm here in Sweden). I know I’m writing this post super late! I’m sorry!
After school (and after dinner, etc.), I have been studying. Oh my god, my head hurts. So much reading and typing on keyboards. How I wish that the books were available online instead of physical books. I actually didn’t know that due to the books being just released when the education started so the former books from other years wasn’t ok anymore. J (in class) told me that she bought the books online as digital copies instead of having a book! *mind blown*. So from the next semester I’ll do that. Easier than walking around with heavy books. Also at the end of September a n brand new book is being released! Instant digital copy purchase!
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What else? Tomorrow I have a day off from school, but I have planned together with J to actually go to school and sit there to study. It will help me (and her) with the focus on studying instead of being home, but… us two… alone? Oh, that will be ✨️ chaotic ✨️. We do have very interesting conversations about different topics that the classes give us. Today we spoke about what’s my
My values and society’s values & prejudices (is that the correct word?) and that’s where my opinions didn’t match the rest of the class and teachers. Like I wrote above, I will not share them here.
One question we also got was “What is a life worth?”. Honestly, priceless in my opinion but what is your opinion and thoughts about this question?
We also had more interesting questions we discussed and we also was learning “sign language” but with “easier” signs or what to call it. Sorry, I have no idea. I already knew them all (teacher divided thr class in three groups and each group had a deck of cards with picture and how to do the signs for it. Like I said, I already knew them all so for me it was no fun. Being J’s partner in this class was interesting though. I taught her the signs. Also helped the others on how to use the hands correctly etc.
Pretty ok day today actually.
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My eyes are getting very heavy, so I’m going to try to get some sleep. See you later! Muwah!
Hello my beautiful people! I hope you all is doing good today. Having a beautiful and wonderful monday. I wish you all a good and fantastic week to catch your goals and dreams!
I’m curently in school and while my teacher is repeats last week’s class for those who wasn’t here so I’m writing this post. Sneaky sneaky!
On this class earlier we got information where we gonna be on our practice week we have in this education for this semester. We also got information and signed papers about being secrecy (is that right word? of what happens at the location and with the children. I asked if I had permission to blog due to the fact that I am a blogger. The teacher said I could as long as I didn’t expose the children or location but we both agreed on the point that I’m not gonna blog about my experience but we’ll see. I’ll ask my supervisor to be 100% sure. I will not talk abour the children, teachers etc but maybe I can write about the activitites we do such as if we go to the forest or anything other fun activitites.
I’m really excited about this week but also nervous and I’m looking forward to learn more about how the preschool I’m gonna be at works, how the teachers teach the children and see how much the children learns.
Funny part that is happening right now is that I’m writing this post while listening to the teacher and the class. The classmates is looking at me when I write due to the fact that I am not looking on the screen or the keyboard when I write this when I’m not looking.
I’ll blog more later when the class is over and we have lunch. Hopefully I have something new to blog about but we’ll see. Haha!
Short post but I wante to pop in here and tell you all a little bit of the current moment. Also I want to wish you all a wonderful day !
Yes this post may have wrong spellings and wrong grammers due to that I’m writing on the laptop in wchool and don’t have a grammer program to use like I have on my phone.
Monday and new start of the week.. I though of sharing about my weekend, So here is a small weekend recap from me.
I have been studying, but not so much, only when my son was in school and while he was sleeping. I have also watched two seasons of Kaulitz & Kaulitz (Tokio Hotel) plus 3 documentaries about Britney Spears.
Saturday was the yearly cruising that the area I live in has. “End of Summer.” I didn’t actually know it was until I had to go check why E was so quiet. Of course he was quiet! So many cars! I had to remove some of his drawings so he could see better out when the cars drove by.
I know my brother has an old American car, so I called him and asked if he was on this cruising (I don’t actually know what it calls on english but on swedish its called cruising) and he said that he was but was going to another location, so I told him that E was standing in the window. So instead of him and his wife going to the other location, they joined the cruise line and went past us. E was so happy when I showed up and pointed to my brother; he came walking to record for his Snapchat, and a few minutes later his wife (E’s aunt) came in the old car.
The happiness when E saw them and he actually said almost their names (not writing out here) and that made me so happy.
Made my famous choritzo stew with tagliatelle. I will share recipe later. It was freaking DELICIOUS! Even my son thought it was good!
The top right picture; I have no idea what happened and where I got it from. It started to hurt all off the sudden under my left arm and I can’t see what it was so i used my phone camera and was surprised when I saw it! What is that and what happened!?
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I’m on my way to school now and honestly, I am not in the mood or motivated for today. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because it’s Monday or so. Lol!
It actually started as a place for me to write my thoughts, write the demons in my head, etc., but I decided to not do that and just focus on positivity, even though it gets some negativity posted as well.
Also, I like to share my daily life and lifestyle. In the lifestyle I have all different kinds of posts. Everything from daily life to makeup and school. Weight loss journey, etc. But also step-by-step tutorials, cooking/baking recipes, etc. 🙌🏻
I love to blog and I love to share.
I hope you all are okey with this kind of mixed blog 😅 but also comment what you would like to see in my blog. I am all open for ideas and suggestions
Finally the post of my delicious chicken butter masala is here!
A small backstory about my own chicken butter masala recipe. M and I went to an Indian restaurant (M is Indian), and I can’t have such strong food due to me having gallstones. It was pretty spicy, but I could eat it. I was hooked on this dish and couldn’t wait to have it the next time.
At home, I had to do it! I had to master the art of making my own Chicken Butter Masala dish.
I had to think differently, though. My son. With him being selective on food and stuff, I had to adjust the recipe, but oh my god, how good it was! Honestly, better than the restaurants 😅
I added my own ingredients in it for myself but had a separate pot for my son (who doesn’t eat mushrooms and onions).
Pictures above show what I used and so on.
the ginger & garlic paste I used
Ingredients 1 Yellow Onion 2-3 pieces of chicken breasts 5 – 10 Mushrooms (depending how much you want) 5DL cooking cream (I prefer the one from Lidl) 1/2 teaspoon Ginger & Garlic paste
Spices Garam Masala, Haldi (Turmeric), Black Pepper, Fries spices
How-to step-by-step 1. Start by cutting the onions and mushrooms and adding them to separate bowls. 2. Cut the chicken into pieces and put them in a separate bowl. 3. Add the spices to the chicken and mix around. 4. Fry the onions till they are golden. Use extra butter when frying 5. Add the onions back to the bowl 6. Take the butter the onions were fried in and add it back to the frying pan. 7. Add the mushrooms and fry until golden in color. 8. Add them also back to their bowl 9. Use the butter from the onion and mushroom and fry the chicken. 10. Add more spices to the chicken while frying to have the flavor you wish for. The heat.
After you have fried the chicken, you add the onions into the pan and stir around. Add cooking cream (2.5 dl) and stir around. Here comes the fun part! Add more spices into the pan and stir around. Taste each time you add to find your perfect flavor.
Let it cook for 15 minutes on medium-high and lower the heat to medium-low for another 10 minutes. Add the mushrooms when there are 10 minutes left.
