THE MOVE 7!

The move 7 Animal encounters and time-travel I will not start with complaining about how hard it is to travel around the world and dance, oh buhu poor me, NO I will just say that there are some downsides too. First of all I have been pee:ed and poo:ed on. Luckely it was just a cat (peeing in my suitcase in Germany) and a little bird (on my shoulder and leg when I was reading in the sun in New zealand). But lets just say I ”got even” with animals in general: you can ask me if you want the full story and it contains a hedgehog, a ball, a kick and and a missunderstanding. Other bad things about travel is time zones. Why can´t we just have one time all around the world? Oh buhu ”but then some countries will have dark days and bright nights”! Oh buhu: WELCOME TO SWEDEN!! That is what we have to deal with half the year anyway, so whats the problem?! I am a bit frustrated because we travelled from NZ (12 hours ”off” from sweden) and then to perth (-5 hours) and then now we´re in sydney (+3 hours). So when we arrived at 7 pm (sydney-time) I felt hungry for lunch, but had dinner and when we went to bed at midnight I fell asleep around 3 am (obviously, who can sleep before 1 am? (except mr Znorry Lundmark who can sleep at any hour of the day (even after drinking coffee!))). But I at least set an alarm for 10.30am because we were supposed to be picked up at noon to go for some sightseeing. Ususally Mattias always gets up before me but this morning he just would not wake up and even though I was so tired I stressed around making breakfast and getting ready. When my clock was 11.50am Mattias was still sitting, undressed, eating breakfast. So I put my shoes on and gave him the ”oh-you´re-gonna-be-in-trouble-cause-you´re-soooo-late”-look and he just smiles back. So I said out loud what my look previoulsy said, and he answers: ”but it is just 10.50, my little stressed sweetie?” Grrrrr. I hate time-zones. The great day continued in the same feeling when our friend who was taking us out accidently locked our door without having the right key. So we had to get a locksmith. But after that the ”dancer-around-the-world”-life got better; we had the best carrotcake ever for lunch and fresh mangos and went to bondi-beach and slept in the sun and swam in cristall-blue water. And I walked across harbour bridge! Together with 3 lindy-friends I walked/climbed over a 140 meters high steel-arc, looking over the entire city and offcourse the astonishing opera-house, where me and Mattias had a ice-cold beer-spritzer in the sun. So life is still ok I guess. I saw my family, via skype- the best invention ever!, and it was great. Thank you my sweet family for being there for us. For you who wonders about my dad and nephew are both doing fine. My dad is still recovering and my sisters son has a thing around his neck that is blue and metallic and it makes him look a bit like a cute transformers. For Erik I have message-hugs from Tara, from Perth, and to Jonas Nermyr she says: ”you are a terrible best friend” (he would understand she said). We look forward to learn more about the sydney swing-scene soon and we´re going out dancing every night starting Thursday!! Love the life you live and live the life you love! /Hannabanana

THE MOVE 6!

The move 6 Hello world! Finally some time to share my thaughts and adventures with you. We have moved our bodies to new zealand which is the second prettiest country in the world (after sweden, which I hold as nr 1 just to be loyal I think, it is not so great with all the cold and dark, and then when it´s finally summer it just rains and lots of mosqitos that bite) and also is great for adventures, new zealand, not sweden. We have been in christchurch (again) and walked through (again) ”cave-stream”, which is a 2 km pitch-dark cave that has waterfalls and eels inside it. It was freezin and we wore wet-suits (which there is very funny footage from, I will put some on the homepage…soon… I promise). Really. ;) It’s just something with wet-suits that makes me feel like a big baby mixed with the michelin-man and a turtle without its shell. Then we taught some classes and did a show with our teacher-friends, Shane and Ruth (they are awesome!!) and we will be with them in perth so we can do the act once more! So come by if you´re in the neighbourhood. We been 3 days in queenstown and luckely the weather was just bad enough to not go skydiving, but perfect for a visit to crazy-beutiful Lake tekapo (it is pronounced ”take-a-poo”) and we did whitewater-rafting. It is really fun and we got to wear those flattering wet-suits again. And me and Shane went up on a mountain in cabin/gondolas and the view was breath-taking. New zealand is so amazing with the mix of sunlight, turquoise, green hills and skyhigh mountains drapes in snow. It is magical and you kind of expect Frodo and Gandalf to come strolling down a hill. Mattias is a big fan and we also visited some places where they shot the ring-movies. He was VERY excited. At one point he and Shane pretended to have horses and they galopped around on a field, fighting (pretending to have swords) and they made me film them. Will try to put it on facebook later when he is sleeping. Before this trip we been to norway and it was supernice. They have a small and very friendly scene there. And I were in denmark and saw Wallmans (they are just phenomal and a pleasure to see) and we helped them with some lindy-stuf for their christmas-act, so go and see them all you lindyhoppers of the world. Mattis came late because he had a little thing to do in london. It was just a little tap-performance in ”strictly come dancing” with only about 10 million(!!!!!!!) viewers. He and a british dancer called Dougie Mills (from Tap dogs) did a Nicholas Brothes-tribute and our friend Ryan Francois choreographed it and we will put it on the homepage so you can all see how fantastic they are. We also spent a week with our good friends Bernt and Ester in Cologne, Germany. We were suppose to just relax and then teach in the weekend. I was a bit sad to leave my family (there is a lot going on now because both my father and my sisters son are having surgery and that is always a big deal, so I would have wanted to be with them) so leaving and knowing I won´t see them in 7 weeks was hard. But then, like a miracle, my mum(!) shows up in Cologne!! My eyes popped out from my head and I am still in chock that my bla-bla-bladder-mouth family succeeded in keeping it a secret since july! Ester stayed with us then and she and mum made these plans without telling me! It was great! My mum really is the best. She is both my fun best friend and also a rock to hold on to in any storm. My whole family is great; I miss you all!!! The fligth here was 26(!) hours. I don´t like thai airways anymore because the first plane was from the 70-ies and did not even have individual tv-screens! And even worse: No entertainment system!! And when I thought ”this just can´t get worse”, we find out that during this 10-hour-flight, they are showing only ONE movie!! Grrr! We had a 7 hour transfer in Bangkok and the food was fantastic and a one hour massage was 12 euro! Thats is defenetly my next vacation-goal. We been a bit cultural aswell. I saw Cats (where my friend Elin was one of the brightest shining stars) and Elvis (where elin and my friend, Martin was one of the stars, also shining brightly) and we been to the cinema to see Michael Jackson one last time. He really is one of the greatest stars of all time and it easy to forget because of how he is presented in the media. But when you see ”this is it” you forget about the weird stuff and it is so clear that he is a genius and one of a kind. I feel very inspired after seeing it and just wanna go and practise. I actually took a 3 hour-class in african dancing and it is always so rewarding to teach your body new things. Take care of eachother and yourselfes and lets all carpe diem and learn something new every day. Knus and puss/ Hannabanana and Mattias Baggins