Eurovision time

Hello girls, I'v been super busy this week. The weather has change so much and its wonderful. Today I was thinking about doing a shoot and doing some school work. I need to be productive becuase tonight its Eurovision Time. And omg this time is in Malmö (swedish city I used to live in) And I cannot wait for tonight. Are you guys watching the show tonight? Who are you voting for?

Street style - green and denim

Hello there, so yesterday I did the marathon, I got such an adrenaline rush doing and I cannot wait to do it once again. I still feel a little bit tired and almost like I might be catching a cold but I have some school related things to do... But before that I wanted to show you this look that I shot a couple of days ago.. The blouse is a little bit wrinkly but this look is for those days u need rush around the city during arounds, or for a casual school or work day... Tomorrow after work, Im going to show you some pics from the marathon =) So stay tuned!

 

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Instaweek

1. On my way to work/ showing off with my new glasses, 2. My tshirt and nr for the marathon, 3. The shoes I've been wearing this whole week, 4. The station where I take nr 50 to go to work.

1. Oh yeah, Sweaty tshirt time! Me and my sweetybear sometimes compare our sweaty tshirts after our workouts, he usually bits me up but when I do my running I always win =) 2. Stuck in the tram on my way from work, thank god for podcast documentaries. Im always listening documentaries, and I cannot get enough of it. 3. Mmm breakfast. 4 Mmm tortilla rap, I swear I could eat tortilla raps all day, every day!

1. The house that I live in, a great documentary about the war on drugs, I totally recommend it. 2. sitting on the bus on my way to work, 3. Me after a run, 4. Just a pic from the city

1. Weey! Orchid  started to blossom again! 2. Sittin on the buss, on my way to work, 3. Ready for a run, and yes sometimes I just run with my make up on... 4 Some of the make up that I use everyday.

Weey, I love when bloggers blog about their week through instapictures. Ever since this thing got big in the blogging world, I 've been thinking about doin it, but I just never got around it. This week I finally  gather some pictures and I put together these picture collages that pretty much sum up this week. This week I didnt have classes so the only thing I did was go to work, eat, sleep and train... 

Now I m thinking about going for a run before it starts to rain and then I need to work on my paper =). 

Ps. I will be posting an outfit of the day very soon. 

Thank you for sticking around =) 

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On a chilly day

Hey girls, I 've been working all week from 8 - 5 so I haven't had time to blog. But today, I finally had some time to show you this look that I took a week ago. It was very chilly that day, so wearing those blue jeans made my day just a little bit brighter... Anyways, Its a very simple look but I like it. The weekend is coming and I cannot wait to start working on a paper that I need to turn in next week. Its not going to be a fun weekend but Im looking forward to finish part one of this school paper. So wish me luck.

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Nr. 7350 - Im running my first marathon =)

So I started running for the first time in my life in 2011... Ever since I started, I would always tell me myself: Amanda you need to do a marathon, you just need to go online find one and just sign up... I would get online and find one, but I never had the courage to sign up, until now... Two months ago I did the unthinkable, I sign up together with some girls of my UN women group. Its only a half marathon, but still... Omg, Im running a marathon! The race is on the 13th of May and Im a lite bit scared, exited, nervous and happy, all at the same time... Gosh, I remember that at the begining,  I cound'nt even run 1 km. And now I run around 5 - 7 km without a problem, but I feel like this marathon is still going to be a challenge. I always get an amazing kick out of running.. Its a feeling I cannot explain. When I run I feel so high on life, and I feel soooo alive. So Im hoping that this marathon is going to give me a great adrenaline rush =) 

So since I am doing this pretty soon and Im such a noobie at this, I wanted to ask you:

 Have you ever run a marathon? If yes, what did you do before, besides training? What did you do the actual day of the run?

If no, Would you ever do it ? Do you run on the regular basis? 

 Please share your opinions =) 

 One thing, I do almost all the time, specially before a run is to go on tumblr and just find inspiration... SO that's why I decided to share these pics with you... to inspire myself and the rest of you, to go for a RUN or maybe even sign yourself up for a marathon =. Another thing that inspired me is to check out sportwear so that's why Im going to leave you with what I would wear for a run =) 

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50 shades of...

Hey girls, Hope are having a great Saturday. I'm having a great one! I took these pictures yesterday, right after I wrote you that long post about, basically making changes and achieving goals. I m glad that it inspired some of you to be more aggressive when it comes to your dreams. Today, I did another great move forward to come closer to my goals... I basically turn something not so good into a something positive. But I decided to not talk about it and share all the details because I dont want to jinx  it. But I promise, I will talk about it... I mean I need to talk about this, because I believe this could help many of you come one step closer to your dream job . I promise I will talk about this in the up coming weeks or days  =-) So stay tuned!

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Keep going!

I was going to post this post yesterday... But I feel like the message and the whole point of the post has totally change... I still think the message that I inserted in the images have the same impact today as they did yesterday. But today I see it all a little bit differently....
So, most of you have read my info presentation,  you already know that I'm interested in International politics and if you have been following me since January you may also know that I recently received my bachelors degree in International relations... Besides being extremely passionate about global issues, I am an active member of amnesty international and UN women. And my goal is to work with womens issues on international level. Specially with peace and conflict issues. At the beginning of this year I made a decision to continue studying a master degree that I though would give the basic tools to understand gender issues. This master program is really challenging and totally different from what I was used to. So sometimes I feel like I wanna quit... So far I've been passing all the obstacles that has come my way and I really feel like I have gained so much knowledge even though its not necessarily connected to International politics all the time...I think that I should continue my masters degree in gender science... and that I should keep trying to connected to the global issues that I 've studied...My dreams are big and they totally terrify me and I often see how I m unconsciously sabotaging myself. Cuz, let be honest, its just so easy to give in... Which brings me up to todays incident. So,  at the moment Im studying a curse called equality work and management practice and in our last assignment they want us to examine and formulate our own equality plan. They wants to gained knowledge about the equality praxis within government organizations, municipality or even counties. One part of the assignment requires us to do an interview. At first I though, oh an interview, no big deal... But then I started to get extremely anxious and extremely intimidated. I just felt like, gosh I'm only a student and yes I might have a degree but I don't have a title and I started thinking that the people that work with these type questions were totally going to ignore me. After rewriting the email that I was going to send to the person that I was going to interview... I finally push the send bottom and I anxiously waited on their replay. I actually didn't have the direct contact information to the equality and diversity strategist (aka the person main person that is on the top of all the equality work that is driven within this special municipality) so I had to send it to their main contact center. Now they have a 24 hour policy, so I was waiting and waiting and a whole day went by, but they didn't answer me back ... so I thought gosh I was right, they are totally ignoring me. So today I was super sad and kinda in a bad mood because it seemed like all my classmates were on the right way. But I decided to go home and put myself together and after rehearsing what I was going to say I made the call... I waited around 7 minutes and this lady answered and I explained who I was and all, and she directly was giving me an attitude and she was like: Oh are you sure you were supposed to contact a municipality (LIke dont you know who we are)  and then she was like oh: What company are you from even though I said like a million times that I was a student...

By that point I was about give up and just cry... Now,  I know I did a mistake because I had the name of the person that I was supposed to contact in the first place, but I wasn't sure if I was able to get in touch with this person because of this persons title, gosh Im so damn silly. Can you believe that I was actually thinking that I was never going to get in touch with this person since this person probably doesn't deal with questions from little people like me (Talk about being insecure)... At some point in the conversation the skeptical lady finally came around, and she finally said she was going to  connected me to their equality and diversity strategist ( The person that I was seeking all along ) . To my surprise this person was super enthusiastic and XXX actually said that XXX already answered my email and that XXX was happy to answer any questions...  (Oh I dont want to say if it was a she or he so thats why I put XXX... SO what had happened was that I didnt see XXX's mail because it for some reason end up in my spam box. I feel so silly for getting upset, because all this time I was thinking that they decided to ignore my request, when in fact I was the one ignoring that they had already answered... how silly of me... But the important thing is that XXX and I had a little chat and we booked an inteview and XXX also invited me to a conference that they are going to have with some representatives that work with equality issues and some representatives from the county. SO I actually ended up getting more then I was aiming for. An interview and a meeting with the representatives of the municipality and the Swedish county... So what I've learn today is that I need to confront my fears and I need to stop being such a coward, I need to stop crying for every little thing that comes my way. I need to start taking more space and I need to stop doubting myself. I'm my biggest fan, but also my biggest enemy... I just dont want my stupidity and fears stop me from doing the things I want to do. Now Im telling you all this to vent a little bit, and also because I m hoping that I might encourage you do take the next step if you are like me. And dont let the nervs get the best of you.. and to finish this post I just want to say that that big dreams/accomplishments/tasks and things that you decided to do should totally scare the living *** out of you, its ok to get scare but and its your job and responsability to keep going no matter what. You never know what you may get in return if you just let go and go with the flow... 

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Institutional protectionism

Pants: GinaTricot, Bralet:Bikbok,Blazer:Shopgoldie

Hey girls, I just got home from shooting these pictures and oh it was so sunny, it wasn't that warm but it was nice outside. As I sat down to edit my pictures, I started watching a documentary that have already started about the 80's and crime in New York. I was about to change the channel and but then the story totally pull me in... It was about the jogger case as they called it. I think the documentary was called The central park five, anyways this case was about 5, 14 - 16 year old African Americans boys that were incarcerated for a crime they didn't commit. Gosh talk about being in a wrong place at the wrong time. I know this images have nothing to do with these words, but it totally inspired todays title. And in a way I see my outfit and I see a blue system that appears to be flawless and fair but in the middle we can see an abnormality that seems to fit well with the rest. I m not against the system but I m totally against corrupted systems.

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bubleroom

If you haven't noticed by now, I'm a huge fan of bright colored trousers, I think that they are so so bold and the best thing is that you can never get bored of them,t... A month ago or two I found these blue pair of high waisted jeans and I knew I had to have them... In my head I had so many cute and easy outfit combinations... Like for example, how cute would these trousers look with those loafers I found over at  Bubbleroom , mmm I want them (BTW. Bubbleroom is an swedish online boutique that has a huge variation of brands). But anyways I tought it would be cute to show you some of my ideas for an up coming outfit post with these pair of pant =).

But since I dont own a pair of leopard printed loarfers I might as well show what I have in mind instead... One idea that is on top of my list is this simple combination of blue,white, yellow and black. Hopefully if everything goes right, I am going to be able to shoot it either on Wednesday or Thursday. If not, I might need to wait to shoot on the weekend instead. I really cannot wait =)

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