Moving to England, Bournemouth and the first part of the (HE) Student orientation program.

I have finally done it: I am living the dream! Currently I am at the last part of the Higher Education Student orientation program, and I have both loved it and sort of hated it. I promised to update the blog, but I have been busy with many preparations. Things for the Tenancy and things for School.

I started my first week with moving inn, and got help from my father and the other two tenants I am living with. My father and I started the first days with getting to know Bournemouth, took a guide tour, visited the aquarium and walked along the beach.

It is a beautiful city, which feels perfectly small, with a lot of shops and things to see. The last weeks we have had fantastic weather, and I felt like being on holiday. No wonder it is a popular place for old people to retire, and a great place to just relax and enjoy life.

After my father traveled home again, my friends convinced me to play the game Dragon Age Origins, and it made me unsocial for a couple of days. It is a lovely game, but I started to stalk other students online, because I could not wait to meet new people. In the end, I was finally able to arrange a meeting with a film student from Greece.

My friend and I met him one day before the Orientation week started, and I feel all three of us connected instantly. We used all day to walk around Bournemouth, and we had constantly something interesting to talk about. I do not think that I have ever connected that fast with a person before. It was like meeting a friend we had always known, and just had not talked to in a long while. We even went to a local sex shop in the area called triangle, just for fun.

The first day of the orientation week was a little bit scary. Meeting so many new people, and all of them from different places around the world. I was finally able to get to know the university better, and the people I am going to live and work with for at least a year or more.

The university was very good at making the new students interact with each other, and I had to tell the embarrassing sex shop story in front of all the other students. It was great! The best first impression you can give anybody. The next days of the student orientation was both boring, exiting and tired some, because there was a lot of information presented in various presentation skills.

I have to thank the University to give me the opportunity to meet so many great people in only so few days, across the word and across courses. I have met people from japan, china, Sweden, South Africa, Estonia, Greece, Germany, Island etc. And ALL OF THEM are super kind people that is enjoyable to be with.

Now I am looking forward to meet my course leaders in film production, the Beach party and the Jurassic Guide tour. It has being some of the most amazing 2 weeks of my life, and it is going to be even more awesome in the future. 

Some personal questions answered

- When do you feel lonely? I feel mostly lonely when I am in alone in a big crowd. Sometimes loneliness is not about being alone, but feeling alone

-Is there something you've done in the past that you are proud / happy with?I am very happy with hoe things has turned out in my life. It has shaped me, and made me who I am. I am most pleased about the all the times I have made people smile. 

- Current obsessions -
music: Tim Minchin, his lyrics makes me smile
tv-serie: The strain, Dr who series 8, Adventure Time and One Piece
Clothing: skjorter: Hats and shirts. I love the classic look. strange that I am not wearing it that often tho.
Food: Pasta and meat with a great sauce. It is easy to make me happy.
Objects: Paper. I am currently packing for my trip to England, and I need all my paper work done. And drawing helps me relax.

- Is there a job you would never have?I would never be a politician or anyone important. I let the important people do the important stuff, while I am commenting on their decisions through my art and stories.  

-  something that stresses youNot being on time. Or not be able to keep a promise. I care to much about what other things about what I do, and do not.

-Three reasons why you get up in the morning
*Life: I am happy for being alive
*food: I get really hungry in the morning
*Clothes: I am getting tired of not having so much clothes on.  

- Something you're looking forward to
Everything that awaits me in my future. I am always looking for new experiences that can make me smile and inspire me. The biggest thing lately is traveling to England, a new horizon to concur.

- Something you wish you had right now?My girlfriend and more money. They both are able to give me happiness in different ways ;)

Boyhood Review (Rate: 10/10)

Boyhood Imdb.com

I will be honest and say I was very skeptical of this movie. All the fuzz about it, and they way the movie was advertised made it seem like a very overrated movie. I don't know if it was because it took 12 years to make, or because the trailer made it look like a typical boring drama movie, but I thought this movie can't possibly be as good as the critics say it is. There had to be a flaw in a production like this!
But then again, I always wondered if it was possible to use the same actors when they grow up, and have the right transition through different stages in life. It made me curios and interested.
I say: Don't be fooled by the trailers, I would re-title the movie from Boyhood to: Life The movie, or just "Growing up".

The premise of the movie is simple: It follows one family through different stages in their life, but without really having a purpose or goal. As the movie progress you start to care for these people, and the transition between the different stages are so good blended inn that it feels natural. All the characters gets their moments to shine, but you notice that the boy is the main character in this story.

Did i say story? Boyhood doesn't really have a story, but only let the audience be the observers of what is happening. We live through their relationships, break ups, wrongs and rights, but the funny thing is that it never happens the way we expect it to do. This movie clearly knows that the audience has seen too many movies, because we are waiting for the next big dramatic thing to happen, but they never really happen. Does this make the movie boring? Not at all!

The movie plays naturally on our nostalgia from the early 2000s and up until now, and is able to catch the right moments that we had forgotten about back then. If that wasn't enough it really feels like watching real life, and we figure out that life is only build up on different events that is happening. Not all the dramatic things all the other movies are selling us. The one thing the movie is able  to capture, are all the moments in life we take for granted. The moments we had forgotten about. It is able to speak to the audience, and wake up memories and thoughts that makes you say "yes, I remember my own version of this moment in my life."

So why is this movie so good? I think the movie is really good at capturing real life, where you can almost think you are watching a documentary about a real family. It is also stunning to think about that the creators of this movie where able to make such a good movie in a so long period of time. The movie shines the most when it is able to use the full potential of the movie medium. The movie is able to make an objective experience for the audience, so they can reflect and think about it after they left the theater.

I give this movie a rating 10/10 because it is able to give an experience about real life, that the audience can take with them from the theater and into their own life.


Similar movies:
IMDB: The tree of life
It is a slow movie about everything and nothing. The movie has contents that include a long no-dialogue part about how life began on earth, and about a father who is trying to raise his sons to become tough men.
Both of these movies try to tell a story about growing up through a very documentary feel of storytelling. While Boyhood tries to tell it in a strait forward and nostalgic way, The tree of life has a more artistic and depressing feel, and might not make a lot of sense for everyone.