The last year

- I should warn you, this is a poor attempt to recap 2007, during 10 minutes of my lunch break. -

Italy was largely unknown to me until a few years ago, until I went here on holiday, and traveled around. Now a series of events has led me to live here. I think that is going to be what I remember 2007 for - as the year where I moved to Italy.

Its funny how things change, mostly in directions that you never would expect. I for one, would never have expected that by signing up for a Italian course for beginners in 2005 I would end up with me living here two years later. But that is how it all started. Then I meet a wonderful girl - Italian, which volunteered to help me with my Italian homework. With a strange stroke of luck I was sent to do a project in Rome for 3 months for the company I worked for at the time.

This trip took a bit of the horrors of my imagination of moving to Italy, because it really wasn't that bad living in the eternal city. So after some consideration we decided to move down here.

That was when I started this blog. Since I could now fulfill one of the most important prerequisites for having a blog, namely having something to write about.

This is how I looked the weekend I moved to Rome:



2007 was quite eventful for me, besides moving to a new country, 2007 was also a year where I started a new job. I had to find a new favorite cafe bar, new favorite bookshop and make my Scandinavian furniture coexist with Italian (/south American) furniture and paintings(okay I didn't bring that many). I had to live through a very hot summer even for Italian standards. speaking a new language. adapt myself to the Italian way of living, which is different then the Danish, in so many ways, and then again, not so much. Had some incredible slow workman reconstruct our bathroom, in the apartment we are living in. And so many other things.

2007 was a great year, I hope that 2008 can live up to it. Here I am again, back in Denmark


but only for a short holiday, home for Christmas. Funny, that after all that have happened in 2007, I more or less look the same.

In 2008 I hope to
- Enjoy life more
- Change the world
- Read at least one Umberto Eco book in Italian
- Understand the "il congiuntivo" ( italian grammar) used when you are not stating facts, but beliefs. Like "Spero che tu capisca tutto questo" where the verb capire is in its congiuntivo tense. Or in short learn Italian better.
- Learn to dive.
- Teach our dog, to cover himself with a blanket without my help.
- Travel to a place I never seen before, preferably a place where I understand the language.
- Learn a new programming language.
- Start running again.
- Not buy more books than I can read. (or maybe just read the ones I already bought.)
- Enjoy what I have.

Better stop here, otherwise there wont be any for 2009, but now there is also enough to be sure I wont make all of them. which is the way it should be.

Happy new year.


Okay, actually that wasn't how it all started. It started with me getting drunk with Thomas and Kasper where I decided that I should go to Oktoberfest and Italy with Thomas. When we arrived in Italy, with large Oktoberfest hangovers and my clothes having the perfume of the litre of beer somebody poured over me just before we had to run and catch the night train, I met Sara.