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søndag 26. september 2010

Shopping!

Jeg har investert mye tid i sommerjobb i år, og sitter igjen med mange fine norske oljekroner på kontoen. Noe har gått til en bunad (folkedrakt) og noe til må-ha-ting til hus, hjem og studier.

Denne uka henta jeg ut et helt nytt Littmann stetoskop, og nå hører jeg på absolutt alt! Hjertet som dunker, magen som rumler, susingen i lungene, vifta i Macen osv.. Ganske mange spennende lyder rundt omkring! Neste uke skal jeg ha litt blodtrykksøvinger med Lotta i klassen, da får jeg vel høre Korotkoffs lyd også. Ganske dyrt, men nå har jeg et stetoskop som faktisk leder lyd (i motsetning til stetoskopene på fakultetet...) Og så fikk jeg gravyr inkludert i prisen, sånn at jeg ikke så lett mister det..


Kommende uke skal jeg bestille formstøpte myke ørepropper med lydfilter i. Det blir deilig etter å ha strevd med diverse silikonpropper og skumpropper i over et år, jeg ender bare med sus i øret og sår i øregangen av engangspropper. Jeg bruker de stort sett når jeg leser, men også om natten om naboen bestemmer seg å plutselig ha fest. Noe som heldigvis ikke skjer så ofte, men det hender jo..

Og om to uker får jeg hjem min nye kjøkkenmaskin. Jeg liker å bake mitt eget brød, i og med at brødet man får kjøpt her i Sverige oftest ikke er noe særlig grovt, det er gjerne søtt og fullt av krydder og konserveringsmiddel. Ikke noe for meg, altså. Valget var ganske enkelt; det måtte bli en av de maskinene med størst wattstyrke, gode testresultater og mange tilbehør (bl.a. kjøttkvern) tilgjengelig. Valget falt på Kenwood KM020 på 1500 watt. Til sammenligning har designyndlingen KitchenAid bare skrøpelige 300 watt og tåler ikke å elte en liten brøddeig i mer enn 5 minutter i følge enkelte kjøpere. Så får jeg bare håpe at den lever opp til forventningene. Utførlige brukstester skal nok utføres med tiden. Her er også et bilde på min nye yndling:

tirsdag 24. juni 2008

Shopping, Czech style!

Well. You probably all know that I'm a typical nordic person. Blond hair, blue eyes, fair skin. And every summer I do the same mistake. I never learn! I really wanted to have my time in the sun today. And I got burned. I'm look like a new-boiled lobster. Pink, someone?

So, what to do? A good idea is to buy some sunscreen. And aftersun. So I went shopping! And you know what? The drugstore had both aftersun and sunscreen left! SPF 16 on the sunscreen, perfect! The seller showed the bottle to me, and asked if this was the one I desired. Yes, thanks, I'll take that! How much does it cost? It's the last one. It's not for sale!

This is typically czech. A year ago, two of my schoolmates went to buy dresses for the big faculty ball. They found the perfect dresses. Krasny, krasny, the seller said. Good, we'll take those! Not for sale!

The people of Czech Republic doesn't understand capitalism...

And by the way, I failed my histo final today. I'll make it on the retake. I hope.

fredag 7. mars 2008

Shopping, Pardubice and the 80's.


Well, what to say. I waked up with a painful head ache today. Latin test? No way! Now I have to go for the credit, but I probably had to do that anyway. I will email my teacher and excuse my abcense, then she might accept it.

After being at the faculty for half hour (found my lost lab-coat again!), I went home and slept for 2-3 hours. It really helped!

Then I, SiljeCam and Jes had an appointment. We were going to shop dresses for the faculty ball together. Evita was the place. They have som really nice gowns! Jes found a cute, white dress which mached her perfect! I found a couple of gowns, but they didn't have my size (I'm not suprised), though, they had size "extra large pregnant elephant", just missing all the sizes between "model" and "XXXL elephant". The seller said (in czech, so we believe she said) that she could call the other Evita shop in Pardubice, and make them send my favourite dresses in my size and colour to the shop within 1,5 week. Yay!

So we bought Jes' dress, and went out of the shop. And decided to go to the central station (hlavni nadrazi), just to check the timetable for trains to Pardubice. It was just 5 min to the next train, so we jumped on! We arrived Pardubice after a while. And felt completely LOST. SiljeCam approached a very nice girl in red shoes. She looked like she liked to shop. And of course, she knew where to go shopping! 300 meters down this street! And we went. And found TESCO. Yap.. On our way back to the train station we found a vietnamese shop which had gowns. In a large range of sizes and colours and fabrics. But after some rounds with silk and polyester, we decided to leave Pardubice. We didn't find Evita.

Back on the train we found out that 2 out of 3 girls was hungry. I wasn't hungry. But we went to the chinese restaurant in HK as soon we arrived our beloved town. A beer and some food later, a very strange trio with even stranger humor was observed walking towards old town. And then we saw her. THE 80's leftover woman. I and SiljeCam haven't laughed that much since.. eh.. last weekend or someting. Fasion in Czech Republic (maybe exept Prague) is not following rest of Europa.

SiljeCam and I decided to go to Prague in two weeks if Evita can't show us some apropriate gowns within that weekend. What a day!