the pen-ultimate report

hey all penny's faithful readers, it's Eliza, penny's kompis (that's friend in swedish, for all you monolingual people back in Australia). I'm guest posting because Penny is both lazy at keeping us informed about her life, and also exercises self-censorship thar rivals the press freedom in the People's Republic of China. you want GOSS, doncha? Well, let's see... what's REALLY been happening in the Life Of Pen?

penny is quite successfully navigating her life in Sweden without major problems. She's a pretty fit young woman, so she's been staying healthy when the rest of us fall by the wayside with the latest disease. She has this unfortunate way of attracting young men from Bangladesh. Sometimes the swarm surrounding her is so thick that you have to elbow through. Unfortunately, she also has the affliction of being too damn nice to tell them to take their clinginess elsewhere, so she is stuck with them - for the time being, until she grows a pair (gender impossibilities aside). With her red hair and happily freckly skin, she is often mistaken for a homegrown Swede which causes much amusement amongst her immature friends.

Penny's love life can only be described as torrid. She has seen the good, the bad and the Neo Nazi of the Swedish boyscene. The neo nazi is now decidedly off the scene, by the way. There have been quite a few cultural differences along the way which again Penny has navigated with grace, calm and a few hasty early-morning departures out the window. She has had the good fortune to remain friends with at least half of the people she's had encounters with - a talent which shows promise for the establishment of a functional, mature relationship in the future.