Average paces and kilometers run this month

I decided by the end of October to begin with a running journal so I can see my average paces and the numbers of kilometers I’ve run every week. That way I can see if I have improved or not. I also can keep track of whether I’ve been running too much or if I should put in an extra running day. It really has helped me a lot! I’m running more than ever.

This month, so far (since there are 8 more days), I’ve run 119 km. Average pace is 4,52 min/km and the total running time is about 9 hours and 45 minutes.

This week, I ran 49 km in a total of 4 hours and 11 minutes. It’s an average pace of 4,54 min/km compared to last week’s 5,02 min/km in a total of 43 km.

Next week will be an intermediate intense week before the start of the 26 weeks marathon training.

 

New Moon and Disney’s A Christmas carol

Like I mentioned in the entry from yesterday, I would watch New Moon. It was a great movie, much better than I’d ever thought it would be. I was no big fan of the first movie, but I loved the books. So it was really great that the second movie turned out to be much better than the first. I liked how the director shoot many of the scenes that I liked from the book.

Tonight, I watched, together with a friend, the Disney movie called A christmas Carol starring the genial actor Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge. I just have to say that this version is much better than the other 3 different versions I’ve seen before. I laughed and cried many times and Carrey’s Scrooge definitely gave me goose pimples in both negative and positive ways. The director Zemeckis has managed to give the story a new dimension without cutting the importance of the story. It’s still the same story, but in a modern version. The effects were really impressive. The special technology used in A Christmas Carol is also used in the movie The Polar Express. For your information, Robert Zemeckis who directed A Christmas Carol also directed The Polar Express.

Now I’ll read the books for Film and history.

Good night folks!

New Moon tonight!

I have read two bad movie reviews of the movie New Moon, which premieres today. Nonetheless, I don’t care whatever reviews say. New Moon was not the best book of the 4 books, but I don’t think I’ll be disappointed anyways. I never have high expectations of any movie whose book I’ve read. It’s better that way, you won’t get disappointed then.

Anyways, I know that I will just drool over both Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson. I remember that while reading the books, I definitely was Team Jacob in New Moon, both Team Edward and Team Jacob in Eclipse but starting to despise Jacob in Breaking Dawn.

Will get ready now, then go to the movie theater and meet two friends with whom I will watch the movie together.

See ya later.

Overslept today…

For the first time in a long time, I overslept! It was something wrong with my alarm clock, nothing new really. I usually ask my mother to wake me up in case, but since I got home pretty late yesterday I forgot to ask her. It is kind of embarrassing, too, since I would go to the school I’m having my teaching practice in. Anyway, they understood and told me to mail them a new day when I can come there. Nonetheless, I feel bad and mad at myself.

I guess I’ll go to the gym and workout a little, then study something the rest of the day. I have the Film and history thing I need to get started with.

See ya folks.

Fr 5 Party and a new job!

I have totally forgotten to tell more about Frontrunners 5 party. I apologize! Anyways, it was a great party. About 500 people attended! I got to see many international friends I haven’t seen for a long time and even made new friends. It was a great atmosphere at the Australian Bar in Copenhagen. It was so crowded that it was hard getting around sometimes, but it was not something I minded so much.

Around 3.30 p.m., I and Ryan, my American buddy who stayed with me for the party, went out to eat at McDonalds with a couple of Norweigan girls. Then we went back to the party at about 4 and stayed there until 4.45.

It was also fun to have Ryan at my place as well. I can’t count how many random conversations we had about everything. Thank you Ryan for a great weekend! See you in Feb when I’ll be in DC.

Now to another thing! As you can see in the topic, I got a new job! It’s a small job, really, but it’s perfect for me who is so fully occupied with school. I’ll work 20 hours a month with a deaf boy and help him with homework as well as take him out for different activities. That means 5 hours a week and about 1300 kr a month after taxes. That is much appreciated, since 1300 kr more each month is a lot of money to a poor student like me. This job gets me to teach the boy more english, a little ASL, help him with the Swedish language and some math.

See ya later folks, now I gotta get back to my course books!

I’ve had an amazingly great weekend!

Last weekend I sure as hell changed my day schedule to night schedule. I slept until noon on Saturday, then went partying from 9 p.m. until 5 p.m. Sunday morning and slept from 7 p.m. until noon, then 1 p.m. until about 3.30 p.m. Got up at 5 a.m. this morning since I slept too much yesterday and then got ready for my practical training at Silviaskolan in Hässleholm. Got home for about a half hour ago.

The Frontrunners 5 party was definitely a success! Tell you more about it later though, I’m in a rush now.

Gotta leave now to help a boy with his homework. Gonna be fun and the best thing, I’ll get paid!

See ya folks

Copenhagen. Great food, great people

I really had a great time yesterday in copenhagen. I enjoyed the food at Wagamama’s by the tivoli and the nice pub La Scala that was crowded with LOTS of deafies. Met some old friends as well as got to make new friends. I really enjoyed myself. Looking forward the frontrunners party tonight! There will be about 500 deaf international people attending!

I’ll write more about the party tomorrow or when I get time to do it.

See ya folks!

In the mood for drawing

I knew that before long, I would start drawing again as I always get inspired whenever I read manga comics or Marvel comics.

I need to tell you one thing, though. I have always been creative with words. I can easily write a short story and I’ve begun many stories but never got down to finish them. When it’s about drawing, I have never been so creative. However, I loved drawing Donald Duck, dogs and manga. It’s basically my only drawing talents. It doesn’t mean I’m good at drawing them, though. I can always get better, you know. The only way you get better is by practice and it is exactly what I have been lazy in doing.

I figured that I also haven’t been drawing for such a long time, It must have been about four years ago. I haven’t been drawing something since art class at Östervångsskolan. Damn, it’s crazy.

I guess that I’ll try drawing as much as I can whenever I get inspired.

Yotsuba

I remember when I was 14-15 and had recently discovered manga. When I was that age, I really read everything I came over.

I haven’t really read so much manga comics those last four years, though. Now, with Death Note, I have started reading manga comics again. The good thing is that there are free volumes of the most manga comics in English online. So now I am halfway finished with Death Note and I’ve started reading Yotsuba.

A lot of other comics to catch up now, though. Wanna read Bleach and the rest of Love Hina as well as Chobits and other manga comics I never finished reading.

The English course

Today the English course started! I already love it. The course literature books are great and the schedule until January is filled with many exciting seminars and reading assignments as well as examinations.

I look forward the rest of the course!

And tonight, I get to see Yoda again after not having seen him in more than one month! I’ve missed him so much.

Peace.