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After 5 years in London. I’m leaving. I’m leaving POKE. I’m leaving London. I’m leaving England. I’m not leaving Europe, though.

Willow and I have had thoughts for quite some time about “going somewhere else for a while“. I, being half Swedish half Italian; living in England, have had the fortune of working and living in an unfamiliar culture and therefor find a lot of insight and enjoyment in the smaller things. Willow, on the other hand, is half English half American living and working in England.

When we’ve discussed about potential destinations we have loosely talked about New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Oslo, Zürich and Genéve. The tricky bit has been work and languages. I speak three languages (Swedish, Italian and English) and Willow speaks two (English and French). We agreed that for both of us to learn a new language would be too much of an undertaking. I think the strongest contender was Vancouver.

But then I suggested Willow should apply to a masters at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden… and she got in!

The program, titled Experience Design, is a interdisciplinary course over two years.
Sounds amazing and i’m jealous.

So, in August, Willow and I are moving to Stockholm.

We still haven’t found a place to stay. So anything is of interest. We are probably looking for something in the outskirts, but that’s cycling distance to Sodermalm. Preferable a part of a villa with a garden for the cat and parking for the car we are planning to buy and drive over.

I am also in need of a job. So again, anything is of interest. I am looking for opportunities to work with creative people on challenging projects. I am open to all possibilities, that require an experienced online / new media person. This includes, digital agencies, freelance, client-side and advertising agencies.

Willow will probably be up for some freelance between all the studies as well, so please have a look at our portfolios, Willows on doublevay.com
and mine on portfolio.nuzzaci.com.

I’m really exited about all this. It definitely spiced up 2008.

Obviously i’m extremely sad about leaving all my friends and POKE behind. 5 years is a long time. You don’t stay in one place for 5 years unless you really like it.

I know from experience that it’s hard (or even impossible) to keep in touch when your living far apart, let alone in another country. It’s true you know — long distance relationships never really work out. My friends in Sweden know that. So does my ex-girlfriend. But with some people there has grown a special bond, and i’m sure that when i’m over in the UK, we will pick up where we left off as if I’d never even left. My friends in Sweden know that. Not sure my ex-girlfriend does, though. ;)

As I said last week - I been to Skelleftea. Im now sitting in my sofa watching a recording of the Canadian grand prix, waiting for my parents to call from the airport saying; we are here now. Ferrari and Michael Schumacher are currently quickest… but as we all know - he didn’t win this past weekend.

Midsummer was good. It’s just so nice going back and meet all my lovely old friends. They all are truly an amazing bounce of people.

We (Willow, Mr Tall, Henrik and I), rented a car in Stockholm and drove up during Thursday night. I love driving. Especially during the night. And especially Swedish summer nights. It was a pure pleasure.

First thing on Friday morning was a lunch involving fish. I had fish. I just can’t eat it. I did my best. Thanks to the lovely company it went down alright. Then we were of to give my sister a warm hug before finally going to where we the last 4 years have celebrated the midsummer weekend - Olov Nilzens cabin in Boviken. HUGE amount of love and cred to Olov and Carina for putting up with everyone every year.
One of the highlights was definitely when Anders Norberg sang ‘far jag kan inte fÃ¥ upp min kokosnöt’ at the end of a long karaoke session.

On Sunday, we (Willow, Mr Tall, Henrik and I), drove to Burea to play Football Golf with my half brother other brother - Marcus Vaneryd, at Myggvalla (translates to Mosquito Valley).
Football Golf was very very fun. I definitely can suggest that to anyone in any age and any sex.
It is/was a lot more fun then Frisbee Golf, which we played on Monday evening before once again hitting the road to drive down to Stockholm again.

In Stockholm I had a tight schedule. During the day I had plans to visiting Vinh Kha, Simon Kallgard, Isak Wikstrom, Staffan Lamm, Karl Thyselius, Karl Ringman and my brother - Jonaz Vaneryd… turned out to be a bit to tight of a schedule (woke up way to late after the long drive down), so I never manage to get to Karl Thyselius and Karl Ringman =(.

Overall it was a very nice weekend.
And I’m looking forward to next year.