"Hey, are you going back to the states anytime soon?" "uhhh... no" "Damn"

There is a funny reason for this quote, but as usual you will have to wait until it comes up in my description of my week!

SORRY!!! I tried to post yesterday, but due to my extreme desire to go to a movie night and the realization I was going to be late anyway... The reason it didn't post? Well, that is due to an honest accident that involved Yngvild e-mailing her sister using her own gmail account (with a birhtday/christmas wish list none the less) after I had begun. I didn't realize what had happened until after I had hit "Publish" and the site told me I needed to sign into my account... There was no going back after that... So I will try to replicate the post as much as possible, and still insert where Yngvild was speaking over my shoulder in response to what I wrote. In reflection (OH MY GOD CBHS HAS CORRUPTED ME!!!!) I guess I could have re-wrote the post... when we got to Jostein's he still didn't have supper ready... the lazy bum ;)

OKAY!!!!

Tuesday... I had to remember what went on on tuesday because in my memory what happened on tuesay i thought had happened on wednesday. Tuesday I had to wait until Yngvild and the others in that class that I was following got out of class. I didn't mind, but it did mean that I had to find something to do for that class. I ended up spending mos of that class talking to the computer guys because my screen was all pixliated (sp). They were very nice, the guy who took it said almost immediatly that "this is an interesting problem"... I sighed in response and they all looked at me as if did something completely out of the ordinary. I then informed them that when my Dad says that a computer problem is "interesting" it often means that it is not going to be a quick fix. they laughed and agreed that it was so. The nice one that woked on my computer (and appreciated my background which was a pic of dandylions) then asked my the question that can be viewed in the title. My response was "ummm... no... I dont go back until the end of June beggining of July..." he sighed and said "Damn." I immediatly started ragging on him about him wanting me to go back to the states because I was obviously too annoying, he assured me that it wasn't true. In fact he was just hoping that he could order the perfect pair of Parcore (sp) shoes and get me to send them over for him since they cannot be sent to Norway. I offered to ask my parents if they would mind having a pair of shoes sent to them and then having them sent to me so I can get them to him. He said that if they dont mind he would be very happy about that, then after I expressed an interested in parcore he offered to teach me... I am feeling a little overweight right now, and he said he was training with a group, so all in all I didn't really feel like being the akward american girl that has a slight weight problem slowing them down... Maybe when I am back to a semi-normal weight and can understand Norwegian better I will ask if they can teach me... but until then... Oh, I would also like to note that in the 1 (2?) emails that I have exchanged with Mum this week I dont think I mentioned the shoes... I was a little distracted by soemthing else... yes I will explain.

Then I went to Yngvild's house! It was fun, I met her mother and brother (who's names escape me.... again.) and ate some really good food... cant remember what it was called, but the jam you ate with the meat was really tasty! then Yngvild, Yngvild's bror (Y.B.) and I went over to one of their friend's houses because he was home alone for a while and wanted company. His name is Tobias (I remembered! :D ) and Jostein was there too! As well as my contact family brother (or 1 out of 3 of my contact brothers) who's name will take me some more time to remember and even more after that to learn how to spell, I do remember that it starts with a "B" though... So that is how I will refer to him.

It was fun! We ate Grandiosa (NOT Lørdags Pizza... *sigh*) and played in the ball pit on the second floor. Also I tried to use Tobias's wand TV remote... I am determined to buy one now... even though I dont know how to use it still... Oh, we also watched Youtube videos and a couple Potter Puppet Pal videos. :) It is now getting so that I can start singing "Snape, Snape, Severus Snape" and have people join in with me with almost everybody I hang out with. I think this constitutes as a win.

Then I caught the bus back to sentrum in time to catch the last bus towards home... Which required I wait out in the cold and snowy parking lot for 30-45 min... brrrr... Then I pretty much ran home, because even though the road is pretty well lit the woods are really dark and you cant see very far off the road... So my flight instincts kick in because you never know when a moose is going to step into the road or one of the unknown little critters is going to chase you... that is what I am more nervous of... really birds are the worst... they get startled so esaly then they thrash around in the bushes with their wings... it's freaky! BUT nothing jumped me, and my feet didn't freeze all the way through! Note to all, when in Nord Norge and it is snowing in the middle of October Converse are not the smartest type of shoe to wear at 10:30 at night.

That leads us into Wednesday. It was fine, I had Bio and that is usually pretty fun. They had taken regular eggs and put them into a solution to remove the shells while leaving the membrane intact, which left us with a waterballoon like egg that we proceded to try and dye with coloring and water. fun :) then there was a free period then math. which makes me slightly sad, since I dont really know anybody in that class and I really miss the wonderful Mr. Nichols... :/ Though my current math teacher kinda reminds me of Ms. Weigle, even their voices sound similar... Pretty odd... After school I went home, and relaxed. fun!

THURSDAY!!!! requires lots of loud and threatening music... I had a pretty good day until History ruined it all... I learned that I had a test on friday, and it was on the first three chapters... which meant that I was completely screwed... I tried to use the book's website and translate it, but that meant that I could read some of it, and the rest was nonsenseacle (sp) Norwegian/english gibberish... ugh...

I also went over to Morgana's house that night, after going to the post office only to find that my Nook has been stuck in Oslo because they want to make sure that I am not a terrorist and that the device is not a weapon of mass destruction that I am intent on using on the mini-town of Harstad, Norway... ugh... Mamma sent a message to Oslo saying that I do not have a person # and that the package is an electronic reader so can they please send it to us and not back home? Pappa also tried to call the police station to find out if my visa got through, they were closed but he is going to call again on monday. hoping for good news then.

But Morgana's was fun! I met the newest addition to the Harstad AFS student the sweet Thai girl Aom! That is just a nick name, since none of use can actually pronounce her (or any of the Thai students' names) correctly. So, yeah... anyway... we played Uno and had Thai food then we went to Kulturehuset so they could see a show and so I could be picked up so I could go home and try to study... :P I was exhausted and depressed that my history teacher completely misunderstood that I do not want to be treated as a fluent norwegain student, but rather a student of norwegian, and hopefully learning the subject is a sideaffect of learning the language... SHE COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTANDS AND DOESNT LET ME TALK SO THAT I CAN CLARIFY!!!!! AND THE LIKELYHOOD OF ME GETTING OUT OF THAT CLASS IS AROUND NULL!!!!! it makes me want to cry... I am really unhappy with that class and it is a mandatory class... ugh... I will try to persevere.

Friday, I believe that I completely bombed the test in history... but i DID MY BEST! so... who cares... maybe AFS does, but I am trying to understand... oohhhh... ja...

anyway! I had a full day after that, my friends in sociology tried to kill me by reading på norsk first in a presentation on cheating... (this is where Yngvild started to tell me that I got the easiest part since I didn't have to read any of the results of the surveys we handed out... I still think that making me read at all was cruel) But I managed not to die, so that was good... and we got out of class early, so that was nice. Then I had Bio and we looked at our dyed eggs and took pics of them... Im not quite sure what else we were doing... so... yeah...

I got out fo school then! I walked down to the street to the bus stop only to find out after a while that I was at the wrong stop. Then I managed to find the right stop and tried not to cause a trafic accident... Heggen and a little of Hastad has been exposed to THE TUTU OF WONDER!!!!! I was worried that there would ne accidents because so many drivers were driving at high speeds and kept turning their heads to try to get a better look at it... Then, I managed to get the bus and relax a little bit, not enough because I got more and more tense with every bus stop that passed. Even with all of my worrying I almost missed my stop! I had to ask the busdriver to open the doors, but he was really nice so that was ok. :)

I found my way to Yngvild's house and was greated with a wonderful raspberry/walnut brownie and Guild Wars. I am not as good at that game as I am at WOW. (Here Yngvild informed me that she was much worse when she first started. I then reminded her that she didn't have someone to do all the hard stuff for her, and half of the missions... She disagreed that she did half of the stuff.) Then after she got ready and I attempted to blog we went to Jostien's house for a movie night. >:D

Okay, for those of you who dont know Jostien (and because I know he reads this and thus I want to agrivate him >:D ) He is slightly taller than me, uses more time on his hair than me and usually knows more about makeup and clothes than I do... this and his frequent flamboyant hand gestures (not nearly as flamboyant as one of the AFS Italian guys I know or my dear friend Erynn's) which all lead Yngvild and I to decide that he needs to meet my friend Levi from the states :) We have been trying to get him to admit he like guys, and no matter how he denys it he always does things that just makes us not believe him even more... such as groping Tobias and not as a joke... :D So, guess how Yngvild and I entertained ourselves that night? Also all the boys are like this, but we rated Jostein as #1 in being the most girly/gay... I cant wait 'til next week!

I dont remember what movie we watched, but it was a cute cartoon about a cycalist (sp) repairman who's ex-apprentise became a racecar driver and challenged anybody to race. The ex-apprentise had stolen a design, so the master decided to engage in a compatition thanks to his side kick who I think was a penguin. It was really fun! though I didn't go to bed until about 1am Saturday.

And thus I leave you. The movie with Will Smith fighting robots is on, and it is Sunday here... hope you guys have a good evening!

Vi snakkes!