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Hvis dere ikke allerede har skjønt det, så er jeg helt hektet på instagram, så om du føler deg ekstremt nysjerrig og har store ønsker om å se unødvendige bilder av hverdagen min. Eller hvilke måltider jeg inntar fra tid til en annen, å kan dere følge meg på vendelaslettres.

Når du hører fuglekvitring i det fjerne, kjenner lukten av grillmat tette seg i neseborene dine mens solstrålene varmer den bare kroppen din. Akkurat det har jeg brukt ettermiddagen min på,  sett bort fra grillmaten da. Jeg la meg ned i parken rett nedforbi leiligheten med finfin musikk på ørene, iste i glasset og underholdene lesestoff som kunne fange oppmerksomheten min. Da har du den ultimate sommerdagen da, hele tjueseks grader, så etter en pinlig time hvor jeg satt å lurte på om det i det hele tatt ville vært passende å hive av seg å ligge i bikinien ( med tanke på at en ligger nokkså til utsilling i parken) - helt til jeg nærmet svettet bort i solen. Og når jeg hadde lest omlag hundrede og femti sider i den fantastiske boken jeg leser, følte jeg det var på tide å plage alle mine bekjente med bilder av min tilsynelatende herllige ettermiddag.. 

Jeg har alltid vært en av de særingene som trives skikkelig godt i sitt eget selskap. Vel godt er jo det, når jeg tenker meg om. Men, jeg elsker de timene jeg bare sitter for meg selv å nyter livet. Og har tid til å filosofere over livets glade dager og glede meg til de kommende, eller å plage hjernen med retoriske spørsmål, eller å sitte å tenke over at jeg har under førti dager igjen på skolen, eller at det faktisk er under 15 uker til jeg forlater ferdrelandet, eller at jeg faktisk har eksamen om under en uke..Jeg lever for slike øyeblikk. 

Håper hele landet har hatt like fint vær som vi har hatt her i byen idag, for det unner jeg virkelig hver en sjel der ute! 

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Vendela.

På onsdag skjedde det jeg har gått å ventet på i over et halvt år nå. 

Da jeg skjekket mobilen på skolen, så jeg at det var komt inn tre ubesvarte annrop fra et ukjent nummer. Et nummer jeg automatisk bare anntok at var et selgernummer, helt til det slo meg- Explorious? Tenk om, tenk om! Noe jeg fikk bekreftet etter å ha søkt opp nummeret. Så jeg ringte tilbake med en eneste gang, og ble hyggelig tatt imot av program kordinatoren min, og det første hun sa " Vendela, vi har funnet vertsfamilie til deg". Det tok et par sekunder før jeg fikk summet meg til å faktisk forstå hva som akkuratt hadde skjedd. Jeg kjente sommerfuglene fly rundt i systemet mitt og gåsehuden reiste seg. Du skal tilbringe det neste året i Scotland var det neste som møtte meg i den andre enden av telefonen. Adrenalinkick som det kan jeg vanskelig se for meg at jeg har opplevd før, jeg tror aldri jeg har vert så spendt på noe i mitt hele liv som på denne fantastiske opplevelsen, som  jeg er så heldig og skal få bruke hele det neste året til å få en smakebit på. 

Jeg skal bo i Midlothian, i en liten by som heter Loanhead, som ligger ca 15 min utenfor Edinburgh! Og så skal jeg bo med noe som virker ut som en helt hærlig kjærnefamilie på fire. De har to tvillingjenter på 12 og virker helt topp. Skolen jeg skal gå på ligger i en litt større by rett innforbi Loanhead som heter Penicuick, så jeg skal gå på Penicuick High School, og dere;  Og jeg må ha uniform...Uniform dere! Hvor utrolig kult er ikke det? 

Ah, jeg klarer nesten ikke bevege hendene mine på tastaturet for å beskrive hvor ufattelig spendt jeg er. Og etter noen mailer frem og tilbake med område rep´en min så ser det ut som om det blir hvertfall en til utvekslingsstudent på skolen min, det er sikkert greit å ha hvertfall en til som er i samme situasjon, i helt ukjent land hvor du egentlig ikke kjenner et menneske. Men jeg gleder meg bare av tanken. Så med faren for å ikke fremstå som en helt komplett lykkeberuset person, så tror jeg det er best å runde av her. Men, jeg har tenkt å bruke bloggen som dagbok å dokumentere utvekslingsåret mitt så godt jeg kan, sånn at jeg kan ha noe å se tilbake på. På norsk da selvsagt, dere vet jeg foretrekker å blogge på engelsk. Men med tanke på at familie, venner og eventuelt ekstremt interesserte skal lese dette, så velger jeg å skrive på norsk. 

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Are you living on a really tight student budget, like the rest of the world? Well I still dont think that is a good enough excuse (that we all use) not to take better care of our skin, because even though we are still young, it can never be to early to start. That?s why I love drugstore products so much, they are cheap, mostly organic and parabeen free and they work like magic.

I can still remember my first visit to the drugstore, my grandmother took me to Newcastle and she introduced me to Boots, I remember we walked around and looked at products for hours and hours. It was all so fascinating, all these nice packaging ( I was ten you know, and probably only bought a lipgloss or two!) lined up, and the wide range of brands they carried. The French and British pharmacy-drugstores are the best so I normally buy all of these stuff when I am out traveling, but we are lucky enough to have the boots pharmacy in Norway as well( well it sure is a miniature version of it, but hey it is something isn?t it? ). So I thought would show you some of my favorites that I have been loving lately.

Avéne Démaquilland douceur por les yeux ? This gentle eye-make up remover is perfect for sensitive eyes it is a gel based remover that feels so cooling on your eyes. I love removing my eye-make up with this as it is so gentle, I find some eye make up removers can be a little ruff on the eyes. It is also supposed to be a good remover for people with contact lens. Avéne is originally a French drugstore brand but you can find it all over Europe, and at boots in Norway ( a long with the rest of the products I am going to talk about)

LA ROCHE-POSAY  hydranorme    -  for people like me who have really dry and sensitive skin, this moisturizer is just a dream come true. As my skin has suffered from some really badly acne from time to time and because I have used lots of products with ingredients to dry out the oil in the skin to tighten the pores, it has dried out my skin a lot. And due to that and the acne problem it has become a little sensitive. My dermatologist says that almost everyone with dry skin has sensitive skin as well.  And this crème is so thick, almost a little to thick, but you need such a little amount of product for it to work into your skin anyway. I use it both a.m and p.m for best result. It smells super fresh and it is paraben-free. Moisturizers like this one I only use from time to time when I feel like my skin really needs it, and when I feel it has done the magic I go back to my normal day/night cream.

Olivia eco eye cream ? I have had this on my bathroom shelf for years, and I always repurchase it. It is made of organic olive oil, and is perfect for a.m and p.m I expecally love putting a small amount of it onto my lids before I go do bed, and when I wake up my eyes feels moisturized and fresh. Perfect if you tend to get dry areas around your eyes, and if you tend to wake up with red and swollen eyes. My all time favorite eye cream .

Soap and glory´s Trick and treatment ? it says on the package that it have opacity to cover anything, but I like it more as a highlighter or illuminator. It totally opens up my tired eyes and can be used to highlight anything. I love it under my eyes, a tiny bit around my nose and under my eyebrows to highlight. But it has a yellow pigment mix to neutralize dark circles under the eyes which really does the trick!

VICHY Normaderm for acne  prone skin- This is my absolute favorite drugstore cleanser, normally I have been using the dermalogica cleansing gel, but this works just as fine. And has the best ingredient for people with acne prone skin, salicylic acid. I always cleanse twice, once to get rid of the make-up and once to really cleanse and massage my skin. It cleanses the pores and prevent new breakouts. I have hardly had any clogged pores since I started using it, which is amazing!

Hello everyone. 

I guess Im a bit uninspired nowdays and don´t really have a lot to tell you. Now that´s kind of wrong as I have so much I want to say,  but there´s always that "but" I dont know how to. Do you get what I mean? I hope everyone had a lovely easter though, mine was fine, a bit boring if I might say so, but it was great to catch up with friends I havent seen in such a long time so Im not at all complainging.

The one thing that has been stuck to my mind lately has been my exchange year, how exited I am to just get out of here and speak another language, meet lots of new people, study on a new school and live my life to the fullest. It´s just so nervracking to sit around and wait for a hostfamily as I don´t even kow if I´ll end up in England, Scotland or Wales.  But seriously I am so exited! 
But I suppose there is pro´s and con´s about everything, I am a little sad that I have under two months with my beloved classmates before everyone leaves for their summerholiday and a few months left with all of my friends and family. I know I´ll just be across the pond, so I wont be that far away, but it is still a wierd thought.. But let´s just focuse on all the positive things here; as I´ve probably said a thousands times before, I am beyond exited, I mean who would´t be? 

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"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles- Audrey Hepburn."

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Look at these supercute wedges that I happily included in my shoecollection last week, aren´t they just soo retty? Can´t wait for the weather to heat up a bit so I can actually get to wear them! And the best thing, (well apart from them beeing totally walkabl) it´s the kind of shoepair that go with almost everything in my closset, cute little dresses, jeans,shorts, you name it, can you imagine me wearing them in the summer with a maxi dress and my nails painted in coral-y ish color? I can. 

Vendela.

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Gosh how I wish I had anything really exiting to tell you, but my week has really just consisted of one hell of a shitload of homework excuse my french. Can´t even tell you how relived I am that tomorrow is the last day before our easter holiday starts. Then I´ll have plenty of time to just relax and catch up on all of the things I´ve been wanting to do for the past month or so. Now I have to plug the music back into my ears and continue on tomorrows presentation, a wish of luck would of course be nice..

Vendela.

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Is there a more aproproate day than a Sunday to look at the most beautiful Kate Moss- inspired by Marie Antoinette photos? Oh, I love every single one of them. Well and when I think of it, I have never seen a single photography of Kate Moss that was not beautiful..Enjoy your sunday everyone Xx.

Vendela.

Hello friends.

Oh, feels like years since I last posted someting, when really it has hardly gone a month. You see, it has been a little stressfull, and I havent really had anything big on my mind that I felt was appealing to my blog. I even got to a point where I considered to just quit this whole blog thingie, but decided to leave it in my mind. So I created a new one on wordpress to check if I could find that better than this shit. But I haven´t really made up my mind yet, so I decided to continue on blogg.no until I have. 

Since last time there has not really been any crazy-amazing changes. Not a single one when I think of it. I´ve been to oslo for a consert with the girls wich was fun, and took a fun weekend on a cabin with my class wich was supercozy. Now I´m dealing with the stress of exams and essay´s. I have to admidt, I handle stress.....A little badly, but I´m getting there. So how have my sweet loyal readers been? Any exiting news? 

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Vendela.