Aleksandra # 5 - Happier New Years

2009 started on a Thursday and ended on a Thursday. In between, Israel invaded Gaza. Russia turned off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44, and first black, US President, while Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was appointed Iceland's Prime Minister and the first openly lesbian head of state in the world. Elections to the European Parliament were won by right-wing parties. The Lisbon Treaty entered into force. Climate change was discussed in Copenhagen.

Two German kids aged six and five packed their bags with swimming gear and tried eloping to Africa - they were in love and longed for a life in the sun. French soap opera writers gained the right to strike. Marc Jacobs stopped serving cocaine on silver platters during his shows (it's the financial crisis). Silvio Berlusconi consorted with underage blondes and naked prime ministers, insulted Finnish national heritage and was accused of links to the mafia, before being elected rock star of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.

As the year drew to a close, and I still failed to make sense of the past 365 days, a friend made me drink for a new year, worse than the next, but better than the past. Dear friends, relatives and lovers, raise your glasses and drink for a year where life, work and love is one and where the passion in our hearts melts all obstacles. Let's enter this year with high hopes and ambitious missions and fanatic zeal to make them happen. Let's love with crazy and suicidal hearts that never grow cold.

At the end of this year, I will have saved a life, traveled to Tanger (because it rimes with danger) and live in the same city as my sister.

Ida #? Fuck you

I am in Mexico again, but in bright contrast to my last time here, I just want to go home every day. Last time, I loved it, I loved the people, I could not even think about boring life in Sweden because all I saw was my life here, with sun and parties and wonderful people popping up in every corner, always happy, always happy. I loved my friends here and how they made me feel – and this time, this time… I don’t know. In Mexico, people really pretend to care about you when if fact they don’t care about nothing but themselves and their own dicks OR vaginas. I feel like doing something radical, like moving to a new town, and I would like to take this opportunity to say “fuck you” to everyone in Mexico, except from lovely Ana, without you I would be on a plane back home already.

M – ditt lilla as, konstigt att jag inte kunde flytta in i ditt hus när det är så här du är (oj vad konstigt att jag sa ”Nej, jag visste inte att du älskar mig. Gör du?”) Fint, tack och hej.
(Not brave enough to write it in english or spanish. Heh.)

Later, Christian Slater

ps. want to marry the guy above, or look-alike.