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		<title>Deja Vu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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På bilden ovan ser ni min kompis Drew kasta en frisbee på the Green Space. Drew driver projektet Love Is Free som startade med att han var hemlös i Chicago i 40 dagar och spelade in en dokumentär om det. 
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På bilden ovan ser ni min kompis Drew kasta en frisbee på the Green Space. Drew driver projektet <a href="http://vimeo.com/6970624">Love Is Free </a>som startade med att han var hemlös i Chicago i 40 dagar och spelade in en<a href="http://vimeo.com/6970624"> dokumentär om det. </a></p>
<p>Att återvända till Chicago och North Park var lite som att resa i tiden. Det känndes som om ingen tid förflutit, och enda märkbara skillnaden var att några vänner saknades och en hel del nya bekantskaper stiftades. Hur som helst. Karin och jag landade på O&#8217;Hare kring tre-tiden på eftermiddagen och möttes på flygplatsen av en Kaj, Hanna och Joanna. Riktigt härliga återseenden (Hanna gick då på Collegelinjen, Joanna gick mitt år och Kaj kommer ni snart fatta är en av två favoriter i USA). Vi åkte på välbekanta vägar mot stan och vid ankomsten till campus kunde jag inte hålla mig utan smet ur bilen vid ett rödljus och sprang genom området. Grym känsla!</p>
<p>Under mina veckor i Chicago bodde jag i huset som kom att kallas &#8220;The Stack&#8221;. Där bodde åtta härliga män varav en är Mike, favorit nummer två. Första dagen blev lång, många skulle hälsas på och det var härligt att få höra hur folk haft det. Veckan flöt sedan på i ett högt tempo. Vädret var sådär, men jag och Karin tillbringade ändå en del timmar nere i downtown. Annars var det ungefär som att vara tillbaka som student igen, fast utan lektioner. På torsdagkvällen var det releasekonsert för <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tomrorem">Tom Rorem</a>. Han var god vän med mina korridorsgrannar förra året och är en grym singer/songwriter. (Ett av mina härligaste minnen är faktiskt när jag fick vara med och kompa extranumret på en av hans konserter). Hur som, han hade nu äntligen släppt en skiva och fyllde skolans stora kapell med folk. Med var också <a href="http://www.myspace.com/noahgundersen">Noah Gundersen</a>, vars musik &#8220;makes my soul dance&#8221;. Ni måste lyssna!<br />
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<p>Annat som hände var 70-tals dans, shoppingrundor i stan, frisbee på stranden, extremt mycket häng på the Green Space, massa nya vänner, härliga longboardturer, skate i betongpool, trevliga middagar, besök på Columbia University (för att hänga med <a href="http://www.eye2eyephotography.net/index3.html">Daniel Kelleghan</a>) och faktiskt även ett besök på en columbiansk dansklubb (sjukt oväntat!).</p>
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		<title>I flew away to come home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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Samtliga publicerade bilder från resan finner du här.


Tidigt på morgonen den 29 april 2009 mötte jag upp med min vän Karin Gert för att tillsammans med henne flyga tillbaka till Chicago i USA, en stad vi båda bott ett halvår var i. Jag under våren 2008 och hon 2007. Äntligen var det dags för oss [...]]]></description>
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<em>Tidigt på morgonen den 29 april 2009 mötte jag upp med min vän <a href="http://karinochbjorn.blogspot.com/2009/05/come-on-feel-illinoise.html">Karin Gert</a> för att tillsammans med henne flyga tillbaka till Chicago i USA, en stad vi båda bott ett halvår var i. Jag under våren 2008 och hon 2007. Äntligen var det dags för oss att få återvända till en stad vi verkligen älskar!</em>
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Lite bakgrund: På Collegelinjen med <a href="http://www.svf.fhsk.se/">Södra Vätterbygdens Folkhögskola</a> fick jag läsåret 07/08 möjligheten att göra ett utbyte med <a href="http://www.northpark.edu">North Park University</a> i Chicago. Under höstterminen studerade jag tillsammans med 14 svenskar och 18 amerikaner på SVF i Jönköping, och i januari bar det av till Chicago. Min tid där är svår att beskriva, men aldrig förr har fem månader varit så rakt igenom underbara som dessa. Det finns gott om blogginlägg från tiden där, så är du nyfiken föreslår jag att du kikar i <a href="http://olesund.se/archive/">arkivet</a>. Några av höjdpunkterna under våren var dock <a href="http://olesund.se/2008/02/11/frida-och-emily/">grymt skönt häng</a> på skolan, en tripp till <a href="http://olesund.se/2008/03/12/wakeboard/">Florida</a> och <a href="http://olesund.se/2008/03/23/the-poet-of-central-park/">New York</a>, att börja spela <a href="http://olesund.se/2008/04/12/south-bend-in/">Ultimate Frisbee</a>, vår på <a href="http://olesund.se/2008/05/08/green-space-by-night/">the Greenspace</a> i Chicago och förstås en helt sanslöst fenomenal <a href="http://olesund.se/2008/05/13/through-suburbs-to-seattle/">roadtrip</a> med min polare Isak som avslutning. Det finns alltså gott om berättelser från min tid där, men framförallt en massa härliga bilder.
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Nåväl, nu har ni fått bakgrunden. I nästa inlägg tänker jag berätta lite om känslan av att återvända till en plats du inte riktigt visste om att du saknat. Och hur fantastiskt men också frusterande det är att känna sig lika hemma på andra sidan jorden som här i Sverige. Stay tuned.
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Tills dess att nästa uppdatering kommer kan ni läsa de blogginlägg som publicerades under tiden jag var över, de är dock på engelska. <a href="http://olesund.se/category/usa-09/">Du finner dem här</a>.</p>
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		<title>Swdsh smmr</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s been a while since you&#8217;ve last heard from me. So, just a quick summary. Our road trip ended in New York City. I hung out there for a few days with Karin and Björn and then flew back to Sweden. I got done with my Bible School and moved back home, saw my little [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s been a while since you&#8217;ve last heard from me. So, just a quick summary. Our road trip ended in New York City. I hung out there for a few days with Karin and Björn and then flew back to Sweden. I got done with my Bible School and moved back home, saw my little brother graduate from High School and received a bunch of freelance opportunities. So, I&#8217;ve been working a lot more than I was expecting. Right now I&#8217;m back at <a href="http://www.scandinavianphoto.se">Scandinavian Photo</a> (selling cameras and gadgets), but I also do some freelance design and photography for <a href="http://www.crossnet.net">Crossnet</a> and working on a new version of <a href="http://www.markmiljoab.se">Markmiljö&#8217;s</a> web site.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also editing a lot of photos from the trip. They will end up in a huge post here, in Swedish, with stories and details from my month in the U.S. While you wait, please enjoy my newest Flickr set named <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/sets/72157620467723519/">Swdsh smmr</a>.</p>
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		<title>Abandoned Asylum</title>
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		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<title>Untouched America</title>
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		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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View from one of the peaks in Monongahela National Forest, WV.   &#124;  Big Bend from Olesund.
Okay. The last time you heard from me was a while ago. And it&#8217;s not cause I&#8217;ve been busy, nor lazy. It&#8217;s simply the lack of adequate internet connection that has kept me from posting here. Well, the road trip did [...]]]></description>
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<p>Okay. The last time you heard from me was a while ago. And it&#8217;s not cause I&#8217;ve been busy, nor lazy. It&#8217;s simply the lack of adequate internet connection that has kept me from posting here. Well, the road trip did start, and it did end. I&#8217;m currently in New York City. Kaj and Mike have left for Chicago again, and I&#8217;ve settled down with my new travel mates <a href="http://karinochbjorn.blogspot.com">Karin and Björn</a>.</p>
<p>There are so many things I want to tell you about this trip, and I will eventually put more pictures and stories up for you. One of them will be of our amazing camping trip in West Virginia. And that&#8217;s all you get for know, it was amazing!</p>
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		<title>Cowboy in the Garage</title>
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		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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Mike in a garage in downtown Grand Rapids. &#160;&#160;&#124;&#160;&#160;Cowboy in the Garage from Olesund.
Earlier today (it is know 10.25 PM Chicago time) me and Mike left Grand Rapids. The last days we&#8217;ve just been hanging out with his friends, done some shopping and a lot of shooting. The picture above is from a parking garage [...]]]></description>
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<div class="flickrphoto"><span>Mike in a garage in downtown Grand Rapids. &nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3527483686/">Cowboy in the Garage</a> from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/olesund/">Olesund</a>.</span></div>
<p>Earlier today (it is know 10.25 PM Chicago time) me and Mike left Grand Rapids. The last days we&#8217;ve just been hanging out with his friends, done some shopping and a lot of shooting. The picture above is from a parking garage in downtown Grand Rapids. I&#8217;ve used the same setup as for the Noah shots, a Nikon SB-900 and a SB-600, triggered wireless. It&#8217;s sweet!</p>
<p>We also dropped of my camera at Mark&#8217;s Photo (a local store) cause the film was jammed. They got it out, but unfortunately some frames were damaged. They still look pretty cool, so I&#8217;ve uploaded them, check it out below.</p>
<p>So, we&#8217;ve left Michigan and are actually back in Chicago (kind off). We&#8217;re visiting our friend Sean Burke in Crystal Lake, one of the northern suburbs. Tonight we&#8217;ve just had dinner and watched basket ball. The following days will include some ultimate, some thrifting, and visiting more friends in this area. On Thursday morning we&#8217;re going downtown again to pick up or third travel mate, Kaj Peterson, before we head out for the &#8220;real&#8221; road trip!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3527604006/" title="Oldest son by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2242/3527604006_59690fd94d_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Oldest son" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3527603034/" title="Mirza Men by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3372/3527603034_96404abc14_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Mirza Men" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3527590058/" title="83850013 by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/3527590058_59d403f35f_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="83850013" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3526778999/" title="83850005 by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/3526778999_867fd89fbc_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="83850005" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3527574590/" title="DSC_0405 by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/3527574590_9151a1f247_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="DSC_0405" /></a></p>
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		<title>Session w/ Noah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 22:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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Photoshoot with Noah. SB-900 camera right, SB-600 camera left, both bare and slightly from above.   &#124;  Noah, my favourite from Olesund.
I&#8217;ve now left Chicago for Grand Rapids, MI. I&#8217;m visiting my very dear friend Mike Mirza and his family here. Today, Sunday, we watched his younger brother Jeff&#8217;s soccer game and then played some scrappy ultimate. [...]]]></description>
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<div class="flickrphoto"><span>Photoshoot with Noah. SB-900 camera right, SB-600 camera left, both bare and slightly from above.   |  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3506105043/">Noah, my favourite</a> from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/olesund/">Olesund</a>.</span></div>
<p>I&#8217;ve now left Chicago for Grand Rapids, MI. I&#8217;m visiting my very dear friend Mike Mirza and his family here. Today, Sunday, we watched his younger brother Jeff&#8217;s soccer game and then played some scrappy ultimate. Our plans for the coming days are just to relax a lot.</p>
<p>The last days at North Park was a lot of fun, but kind of weird. People were just so busy with finals, papers, moving out, and packing. I was just busy with trying to see all my friends as much as I could. Me and Karin (my travel mate for these two weeks) made sure to go downtown a lot cause that was something that we both felt like we missed out on when we studied in Chicago. So we would just get on the &#8220;El&#8221; just before lunch time and spend a few hours in some cool neighborhoods like Belmont or Wicker Park. I&#8217;ve done a sincere amount of shopping already.</p>
<p>On Friday night (the last night at North Park for most students) I ended up going to a Columbian Dance club with some new found friends. Me coming with them was very random but turned out to be a great decision. I had so much fun. It&#8217;s amazing how you get to explore more and more things in this city&#8230;</p>
<p>Well, to wrap this up I&#8217;m going to give you some links with photos for you to enjoy:<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2031583&#038;id=67601716&#038;l=e50afb6d82">Mike Mirza&#8217;s Facebook album w/ some pictures of me.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/azrimekim/">Mike Mirza&#8217;s Flickr Profile.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/collections/72157617766394380/">My Flickr Collection from this Trip.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3506912416/" title="Noah, down by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/3506912416_f56fbd32e8_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Noah, down" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3506911276/" title="Behind the scenes by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3537/3506911276_db2dd33293_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Behind the scenes" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3506908726/" title="The Bean, Erik and Karin by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3380/3506908726_83a92f3da8_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="The Bean, Erik and Karin" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3506100553/" title="Mike Mirza by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/3506100553_eaf0a703f2_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Mike Mirza" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/azrimekim/3508367013/" title="M83 - &quot;Couleurs&quot; by azrimekim, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/3508367013_4579d3d638_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="M83 - &quot;Couleurs&quot;" /></a></p>
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		<title>First roll from Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 06:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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Two upcoming boarders at the Green Space   &#124;  Upcoming Longboarders from Olesund.
 Two kids who borrowed longboards from Karin and me. They got pretty got at it and skated around the green space for a little while. 
I just developed my first roll here and it looks sweet! Check it out! You can see more photos [...]]]></description>
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<div class="flickrphoto"><span>Two upcoming boarders at the Green Space   |  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3506988930/">Upcoming Longboarders</a> from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/olesund/">Olesund</a>.</span></div>
<p> Two kids who borrowed longboards from Karin and me. They got pretty got at it and skated around the green space for a little while. </p>
<p>I just developed my first roll here and it looks sweet! Check it out! You can see more photos from my days in Chicago in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/collections/72157617766394380/">this collection</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3496402150/" title="33800014 by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3610/3496402150_ebd601b4b6_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="33800014" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3496401584/" title="33800003 by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3496401584_e4ba044823_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="33800003" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3496400982/" title="33800023 by Olesund, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3580/3496400982_ce889aa6b9_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="33800023" /></a></p>
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		<title>Tom Rorem and Noah Gundersen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 06:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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CD-release show for Tom Rorem in Anderson Chapel at North Park University on May 30th, 2009.     &#124;  Tom Rorem and Noah Gundersen from Olesund.

So, now I&#8217;m here. I&#8217;m back in Chicago, and everything is just as usual. Okay, some faces are missing and some new have been added. People live at new places [...]]]></description>
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<div class="flickrphoto"><span>CD-release show for Tom Rorem in Anderson Chapel at North Park University on May 30th, 2009.     |  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/3506106479/">Tom Rorem and Noah Gundersen</a> from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/olesund/">Olesund</a>.<br />
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<p>So, now I&#8217;m here. I&#8217;m back in Chicago, and everything is just as usual. Okay, some faces are missing and some new have been added. People live at new places and hang out with new groups of people, but the general life at NPU doesn&#8217;t seem to have changed very much. It&#8217;s fascinating. It only took me like a day or so to get used to this life again and go back to old habits. I&#8217;m keeping extremely busy just socializing and meeting people, and I love it.</p>
<p>On Thursday night my friend Tom Rorem had a release concert for his new CD. He, and his friend from home Noah Gundersen played in Anderson Chapel. It was just magic.</p>
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		<title>Returning to Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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View from the roof of Carlson.   &#124;  Green Space by Night from Olesund.
Okay folks. Here I come. My bags are packed, my photo gear is ready (except for a lens that is being express delivered to me at the train station), and I&#8217;m excited. In an hour my friend Anders will take me to my train [...]]]></description>
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<div class="flickrphoto"><span>View from the roof of Carlson.   |  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/olesund/2661470616/">Green Space by Night</a> from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/olesund/">Olesund</a>.</span></div>
<p>Okay folks. Here I come. My bags are packed, my photo gear is ready (except for a lens that is being express delivered to me at the train station), and I&#8217;m excited. In an hour my friend Anders will take me to my train that will take me to Stockholm. I&#8217;ll spend the night with some friends there. My flight departs at 9.10 am on Wednesday and arrives at 3.01 pm at O&#8217;Hare.</p>
<p>CHICAGO! I&#8217;M COMING BACK!</p>
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