This week has been extremely stressfull. I've been working evenings and nights and before work David and I have been working on our movie. On wednesday and friday it was time to film a couple of scenes that take place at the cemetery Östra Kyrkogården here in Gothenburg and by the train tracks in Jonsered just outside the city.
Here are some photos I took behind the scenes when I didn't hold the microphone or cover the sun with a large white screen.

Tomorrow starts an entire week of filming. I am so excited! I play one of the three leading roles in the movie and I have really been looking forward to start acting infront of the camera and be a part of this whole filming adventure.
I'll keep you posted, for sure!

On one of our first days in South Africa we went to Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. It's a truly amazing place where injured, wild animals gets taken care of and let out in nature again if they are fit for it. Some of the animals won't ever make it in the wild again and they spend the rest of their lives at Moholoholo as ambassadors for their race. School children, tourists and other interested people get to learn all about how human beings have made animal life harder by putting up things like barb wire or sharp fences that the animals get stuck in.
We had a fantastic guide, Oscar, that showed us around, telling us every animals unique story. The eagle with only one wing, the baby rhino stuck in mud...
Oscar was such a great person with an amazing sense of humour making me laugh really hard for two hours! Here's some of the photos from our day there. Enjoy!

Say hello to Mr Pig.
This warthog is free to leave Moholoholo but he doesn't want to. They have left him further and further away but he always comes back again. So now he lives in the parking lot greeting all the people and getting some love in return.

The vultures where really cool! We got to walk into their cage and hang out with them for a while.

Oscar pointing.

The bride to be got to feed one of them.

And the brother of the bride as well.

Large wingspan...

We looked at the lions through the fence.
This male went to sit right next to us and purred loudly. I don't think I've ever heard such a great sound before. Calming, almost hypnotic, and really low pitch. It's hard to understand how a sound as beautiful as that can come from such a dangerous animal.

The leopard didn't purr but was beautiful to look at.

Here's the whole gang. The mountain view in the background following us wherever we went during this trip.

Eye contact with a hyena...

This is the baby rhino saved after several days stuck in the mud. Oscar told us that a tourist passing by saved the rhino from being eaten because human beings have a hard time realising that that's how nature works. Animals are eaten by other animals that need them to survive. That's nature. But because of our "bunny hugging human emotions" we can't take that. That tourist actually took the food from some other baby animal, but that's not a thought that crosses our mind in a situation like that. We just want to save the cute little animal. Interesting, isn't it.

It really is a cute animal though. I even got to pat him on his back!

This beautiful view captured me for a while. Until...

...the bride to be jumped into the picture!

Eye contact with a honey badger.

Oscar telling us all about the honey badgers.

This is a really ferocious animal. They are super clever and really mean just for fun. Still... kind of cute...

And just before the exit I found a flower that had me under it's spell for quite some time.

I really loved this whole experience. Exciting, meaningful and fun -all in one. If you ever happen to be close to Moholoholo, you should definately go visit!

A few days ago Teater Esther- The theatre group that I'm part of- went on a little trip to the sea to take som photos for our poster. We are doing a play called Människor i solen written by Jonas Gardell. I won't show you the poster photos yet but here are some behind the scenes photos that I took while we were goofing around. The photos are taken with my Nikon and with my iphone.

For you who don't know my friend Lovisa I can tell you this: This is NOT her. This is "Siv".

Lovisa left her true self the moment she dressed like this and stepped into our car.
Lovisa is the model I used for my last jewelry lookbook if you would like to see the "real" her.

When we reached Saltholmen we got ready for the photo shoot! David is our photograher.

Last minute preparations...

Olle turns into Svante.

I play the role of Stina. She looks like this.

Hanna plays my wife, Ingrid. But this is The Little Mermaid.

As you can see...

The family of Siv, Svante and their kid Sara. Sara is played by Frida.

Lisa plays Fru Sörensson. Crazy lady.

And that's all you get to see for now. More info will come here shortly, I promise!

I went to visit my sister and niece a couple of days.

This is Hilda. She's a cutie pie.

We went to the wading pool and Hilda thought the water was cold but the girl with the plastic crocodile was cool.

Auntie Lotta and Hilda playing with the phone. Hilda was mesmerized.

Yesterday I went back home to Gothenburg again after some lovely days with these two sweeties.

Tomorrow is the first day of Way out west and I have been looking forward to this since last years festival. So many good bands and artists!! I'm sure I will have lots to show you.

Bye for now!
/Lotta