14 questions

I'm pretty sure that more people read this blog then just my friends, so I thought I've introduce myself with 14 questions. Hope you enjoy.

Who are you?
I'm Jenny. 25 years old. Swedish. Half Peruvian and half Finnish. City person.
I enjoy to read, write, drink coffee and beer, bike, languages, cook, play games, , Alice in Wonderland, history, sitcomes, old movies, art, meeting new people comics and music.
I moved to Berlin in September 2011 from Tensta, Stockholm where I lived in a 'collective'. Me and my friends has five apartments in that area close to each other with at least two persons per apartment, and we always went from apartment to apartment to hang out, cook and everything together. Something I really enjoy and I never want to live alone. I'm open minded, spontaneous, happy and trying to be organized. I can get super excited about anything and angry about world events among other things.

Where do you come from in Sweden?
I'm from this little town, Trosa by the Baltic Sea. It's about 100km from south of Stockholm. I lived there until I was 18. Then I moved to the student city Uppsala, about 100km north of Stockholm and when I was 19 I moved to Stockholm. It was in the 'suburbs' of Stockholm I lived before I moved to Berlin.


What is your family like?
I come from a very 'normal' family with a mum, dad and a little brother. I have two older half siblings, a sister, Teresia, and a brother, Fredrik. My mum is from Peru and my dad from Finland, so me and my brother Tim where raised with three languages; Spanish, Finnish and Swedish. My dad has his own company selling gloves and my mum is a doctor. Tim just started medical school, studying to be a doctor as well.
We're a loud family with a lot to say. To get heard you have to speak louder then everyone else.

What have you studied?
A lot of things. 1 year of Finnish, some Icelandic, some grammar, 2 years of history, rhetoric, children's language development, a course about the writer Tove Jansson (think Mumin), 1 year of art history...
I know a lot of stuff and I love to learn.

What do you want to do when you grow up?
I love books and museums, so I would love to work with any or both of those if possible. I liked being a tour guide and I can see myself doing that again. I would love to read for a publishing company or be surrounded by books in a book shop or library (yes, secret library dreams I have). I would love to curate a exebition on Propaganda in Sweden during the second world war or other things.

How come you moved to Berlin?
I moved to Berlin because it is a city I've always wanted to live in. I thought about it a lot and then when my friend Smooth also was up for it I decided to go.
In September 2011, I've worked my last days as a tour guide at the Chines Pavilion that was the last of the royal palaces I worked at. I've given up my room in our (me and flatmates Anna & Robert) apartment.  I spoke good enough German that I wanted to improve and the time was perfect to do move, so I did. It help to have Smooth with me also.

What is you favorite part of Berlin?
I lived in three part of this city; Mitte, Fredrichshain and now Tempelhof. I really like Fredrichshain and have so many great memories there, but now mostly I spend my time in Neukölln and Kreuzberg. And I love the airport area in Tempelhof.
Someday I would like to live in Neukölln some day since that part feels like home to me, with people from all around the world, great foods and bars and just an area I really enjoy.

When did you start taking German?
In 6th grade when I had the choice to chose a third language (second being English) in school. Since my school couldn't offer Spanish that year, which I would have taken, I choose German since I didn't want to take French, which was the other option. I didn't like it much as first and didn't get into it until 9th grade when I got my first good grade in it. The whole of highschool/Gymnasium I took German with less and less motivation for every year. Might have been because I also took Spanish and Latin among all the other subject I had to take and that I was a teenager with a lot of things going and also commuting 2 hours to school every and 2 hours back.
My German was then pretty inactive for some years until I moved to Rostock in northern Germany and took it up again. I would basically say that I learned most of German there.
I can get by really well with my German now.

What do you work as?
I wok as an au pair for two children, Oskar (3 years) and Jonas (almost 1 year) for a young Berlin family. Mother Anika and father Benjamin are not even 30 yet. I live with them.. I work around 20 hours a week, so I have a lot of free time. I've been doing this since February and enjoy it. I'm good with children and I get along well with Oskar and Jonas. I feels like I get paid for playing and I'm good at playing.

How is your love life?
I get this question sometimes from friends and new people I meet in the from Are you seeing anyone?  I consider my love life non existing. I don't really complain but I'm not really happy about it either.
What's your favorite way of transportation?
Train! I love going by train if I need to go a long way else I like biking a lot. Skipping is also a way to get around.

What do you enjoy to read?
I read a lot but mostly I read american contemporary fiction, classics and young adult.
I'm into dystopia at the moment and have read Brave New World, the first Matched book and two of The Maze Runner trilogy. I'm stuck reading Moby Dick. I on and of read the Wizard of Oz books. I read my favorite books, Alice in Wonderland and Though the Looking Glass at least once a year.
I enjoy comics like The Sandman, Swedish female comic writes like Liv Strömquist, Karin Bång and Nanna Johansson among other that are critical to society and gender roles.

What kind of music do you listen to?
I think I made it look like I'm a folk metal fan, which is true, but mostly I listen to indie-pop/rock most of the time. And many of the bands and artist I listen to are Swedish or Scandinavian. Bands like The Shins, Broken Bells, Kings of Convinces, Whitest Boy Alive, Gossip, Kaiser Chiefs, Robyn, Yelle, Those Dancing Days, Adam Green, Hello Saferide, The Wombats are a few bands.

How long do you plan to stay in Berlin?
I don't know. I have no plan of leaving any time soon. I really like it here and want to stay long. I will at least stay until fall but probably longer. I see no reason to move back to Sweden or move anywhere at the moment.