"12 kaldergrader e kaldt for oss og." she says... my thoughts? WELL I HOPE SO!!!!!

Ugh, another Monday, this one I am at school for... Unfortunatly. I feel like I am going to suffer a mental break down any minute, but I wont explain why because I am to jittery about it. I am hoping it is all for nothing and that what happened is actually me just being absent minded in the morning, but until further notice I AM A STRESS BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO, lørdag. or saturday, if you speak english. I woke up earlier than I would have liked on a saturday because I needed to catch a bus at 9:40. ugh. I also had to get ready to go swimming, so that took a while... :] I managed to catch the bus, and get to town with plenty of time... too much time. I decided to walk around the "mall" and see if I could find any good headphones with a mic so I can use skype with less problems. I am also finding the lack of knowledge about my possible christmas gifts really annoying. I promised Mum a few years ago that I would not buy myself anything in the christmas season, and I am guessing that it holds here as well, but the suspense is killing me. It's really no different than any other year, in that I have no clue I only gave suggestions (sushi kit with recipe book, hat (preferably with ears and poofy ends on the strings), and some of the cool ear-buds that skullcandy makes that have the kind-of rope-y casing (my current headphones are acting up making weird high pitch noises at random times... quite painful)). The last 2 I actually need, and if Mum is taking the time to get them and make them pretty for me in wrapping paper, then I dont want to render her efforts as unnessasary by buying them for myself... sigh.

So, I spent and hour in a mall with only about 10 stores. most of them stores I dont need, so I spent most of the time crouched in the book store flipping through books and trying not to get thrown out for using it like a library... but really, library books are SO GROSS!!!!! You don't know where the previous readers' hands have been... and they smell weird. sorry, off topic. The reason I was lurking in the book store was because I had to wait until 11 to go to the pools and meet with the rest of the AFS-ers in Harstad. Which eventually I did.

I got to the pool and we all got our little chip-watch things that allow us in and out of the lockers and that kinda thing... It was a lot of fun! We had races down the water slide, and we played "volly ball" in the pool. there is also a wave machine thing, that's a lot of fun!!! it makes sure that the group of teenagers I was included in fought over the one floaty foam thing that happened to be nearby. This obviously made the young life guard laugh, buthe threw me, or actually, any of us that grabbed it first, another floaty thing. I gave him a thumbs up and a smile of thanks, it was really hard to breath with so much water in your face while you were laughing. He was kinda cute too... one of those people that you just want to dress up and put on a shelf, or maybe in one of those puppy stall things. He had mocha skin and his short curly hair had been bleached but the roots were showing, he also had blue eyes. He couldn't have been much taller than me, actually he was probably shorter, thus my "awwww... so cute!" thinking. :D

Over all it was a wonderful time! We eventually decided to get some pølse, and fries. yum. Aom and I decided that we would get a 2 pølse meal and split it, seeing that it would be cheaper for us to do that. We ended up recieving 2 of said meals, but only 1 drink, though that was fine, we all shared that. It was nice to eat some food, then we went back to swimming, though we were tired by that point, so we took off soon after eating.

We went on a crazy hunt for softic, whice we were unsuccessful (sp) in finding. it seems that they stopped making it for the year... D: so sad... I got over it (kinda) and we went to Morgana's contact family's house to eat and hang out until the next bus. We ended up devouring the better part of a loaf of bread, (toast toast toast!!!) and we had a weird bacon and egg thing that resembled in shape a bacon wrapped scallop, though Mum wouldn't have eaten it. The bacon wasn't completely done, I had a problem however with the egg being runny, but I ate it anyway... Im getting better with eggs that are still in need of cooking, but they are still not my favorite. We also had pig skin things, that looked like over puffed cheese lacking cheese doodles. Pringles, chocolate and yummy dark-chocolate biscet (sp) things... yum! We eventually moved out to the living room and played cards, or took naps. But before I took a nap the dog, Mojo, decided instead of sitting with me she would wipe her but on me and track her poop there. ÆSJE!!!!!!!!! (ew in english ;P) I managed to get most of it off, but there is still a stain there.

I managed to put that behind me and enjoy myself for the rest of the day! or actually evening. (BTW it is officially dark at 3pm now... :@ ) Eventually it was time to get to the bus stop, Aom decided to walk with me to Rimi (the grocery store that supplies me with my weekly Coca-Cola) so I could catch a bus home. It was nice of her, though I didn't really mind being alone, and her house was in the opposite direction. I eventually got the bus and left her to go get whatever she seemed to desire from the store.

I got to the road of doom and realized I was too tired to feel much fear. So, I played music in one headphone, and staggered home. The only adreniline rush making occuranse was when a really loud little car came tearing down the road. I am glad it came from the front of me, because I realised that it wasn't even going to slow for me, so I jumped off the road. If the driver had come from behind me I probably would have experienced flying for the first time without water beneath me... scary.

Søndag, Sunday, I woke up later than I did on sat, but still earlier than I wanted. I got some breakfast, and started trying to translate Nemi, which is G's discarded christmas present. Yes, I am no longer giving him the translation of a great cartoon. But I found what I believe will be a sutibal replacement. Again, I can't tell you until the time has past that he should have opened his gift, but he and anybody like him are sure to appreciate it. :)

Anyway, Mamma invited me to go on a hike with her and some others. I said "sure! why not." Which resulted in me starting to walk up a mountain at noon. In the snow. Which is a lot more work than one would think. Ugh. Got some great pics though! here is one of the favorites.

Cute huh?! I think I might crop it though... too many trees.

I was so happy when we got to a little tower of rocks that seems to signify the end of the trail on most mountains in Norway excepting this one... I was about ready to cry when they started walking again. But, I tried to stay strong as I followed. It was then we started walking on 45 degree angle hills... no flat zones... That was when my hips and knees started aching. I was about 20+ min from the summit when I started being unable to walk in a straight line. That was when it was decided that I could turn back, I had seen most of the views. I will be posting some on flickr after I post this. Just for you!

It was eerie to be on the mountain alone. there were no birds, and no dogs or other animals. You couldn't hear the cars most of the time either. It really made me jumpy, especially as you could see as minute to minute the light was failing. The snow made everything clean yet... cold, not just physically, but the aura. And it was so asleep, like the life had fled and everything was waiting. I wished I had music, so I sang to myself, effectivly scaring all possible life out of the area. :D

I got down at about 3 and the last remenants of light fled the scene. I learned yesterday that next week we are officially loosing the light. Ugh... That means that the only time we will have any light is from 10-12... AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know how I will survive! Must find a tanning booth... I need light... O.O

We had tacos with my host family and the other 2 people that we hiked with. Gro and her husband Morten. It was yummy! Om nom nom! We had feta in our tacos instead of cheddar, feta from Greece according to Pappa... *satisfied smile* I ate a lot, and unfortunatly didn't have room for cake afterwords... *sigh*

Today I had a normal monday at school. I had gym, and of course we played vollyball at the end. I feel like the kid that everybody groans at in their heads when they realize I am on their team, and the people we are playing against all cheer. I hate playing it, I can't understand what they are trying to tell me, and when I am supposed to hit the ball I can't usually get it over the net. And anybody around me has to work double time to make sure that I am not a complete weak spot... ugh. I fail at sports that involve teams over 3 people... including me. I can't wait to snowboard. if my manifestations continue I will be in the all clear quite soon!

So, also an intersting part of my weekend, and today. I finally managed to borrow a washing machine. Why did I need to borrow a washing machine? Well, because when I went to try and wash my clothes after being used as doggy toilet paper I found that the washing machine had been pulled away from the wall... I figured there was a good reason and that it would be returned soon enough for me to get some clean jeans... Obviously that was not the case, so I had to wear my last pair of jeans and tonight I was allowed to use a washing machine down the street. yay! clean clothes!!!

Anyway, I want some more cake. It's yummy. Also thanks to the people who commented on my last post, it made me feel a little better, it's nice to know I have people I can talk to besides my dear parents. :)

Any-hoo... Vi snakkes!