I just can't stay still it seems... yay?

heia!!!

So, I had a busy week! well, not in school, but I actually didn't get home most of the week until after 6pm! the reason for this is because there isn't a bus home from the city until 6 so I have to find something to do for an hour after swimming on mondays and wednesdays... so that means I know just how limited the shopping and sitting places in Harstad really are... there's no where to just sit, which is rather sad when you dont want to get rained on and dont really want to buy something to give you a reason to buy something... sadness.

Anywhoo- tuesday I did go home early, but only because I was going snowboarding and not swimming :) It was really nice to get back on my board, I am starting to get the hang of perpously (sp) going off the trail (because there are little jumps there) and getting back on the trail while looking semi cool! I still fall once in a while, but thankfull the snow off the trail is soft so I haven't broken anything, and I only have a couple of bruises! (Yes, this counts as a success in my book, I get misterious bruisesfor no apparent reason, I don't know how they get there, I just notice them in the mirror when I change usually... like I have one on my forearm and I have NO IDEA HOW I GOT IT!!!)

I had a good time at the slope, even though I was feeling really tired when I first got there. I took a break to get some blood back in my feet after about an hour and a half and the guy (whos name I still dont know) who always talks to me came over and tugged my pigtail... I honestly didn't expect a teenage in Norway (I can expect it from my friends in the US) to do something like that when it is soooo middle school age flirting... it still makes me giggle. Anyway, the guy is really nice even though we have problems communicating, we ended up taking the... heise... i know this word in english... I know Iknow it... LIFT!!! there it is!!! :D we ended up taking the lift together for the rest of the night, which was cool. He told me that my yellow snow pants and helmet helped make me visible... I said that was the whole reason behind them, as Mum likes to know where I am. That's also the reason my boat is hot pink XD love you Mum!

He also seems to be of the driving age, since he saidthat he's taking a driving tour this weekend to finish off his driving hours... he also said he would be willing to give me a lift to Narvik if I decide to go snowboarding there... no worries, if I go to Narvik I'll take the bus and I'll try to go with other AFS students!!! he seems nice, but that could be really ackward.

Wednesday was ok, I love bio even more now that people in my class are talking to me. They seem to have realised that I am actually okay speaking norwegian... and since I am stopping with utvekslingstudent norsk I willhave my monday bio class back! But besides that, at the end of the class Jorun, the teacher, asked for some students to talk to visiting ungdomsskole students (middle school I think) about bio on monday. there were 3 volunteers and then she asked me specifically if I wanted to join as well. so of course I said yes, I mean she wouldn't have asked me if she didn't think I could do it... right? So anyway, Monday at 6 (actually a little before 6) I will come back to Heggen to recieve instructions, and hopefully a script, so I can tell young-people about bio and how wonderful it is! yay!!!

The only thing about wednesday was that I had to take the bus to school, which meant that I had to walk on a really icy, moose-infested road with legs that feel like they're going to fall off... really, it's kinda unpleasent. Swimming was even more unfortunate because of that, but I did it anyway! after Silje and I sat in the sauna for a while and I stretched some, so my legs felt much better after that! Then I went and sat at the bus station and waited for a half an hour for the bus to come (though we did go to see if Weronica was working at the cafe). I got home and almost immediatly after I hadstarted takingmy shoes off I heard a screach and Karro ran in narrowly avoiding something with snow that Ole-Peter was threatening to do with with said snow. It was quite funny, and shocking that Ole-Peter was home... As noted in a previous post he randomly shows up and dissappears... it's kinda funny, but cool.

Anyway, I had an cool conversation about disection of cadavers. Ole-Peter talked about how there would be 6 people on a cadaver and you would split them down the middle and into thrids (or sixths if you look at it that way) (and this is all not actually taking them apart in these sections, it's kinda like what you do for a petri-dish), he said that there would be tons of people at the beginning of the class for each cadaver, then at the end of the class there would be only a few! sooo cool!!! I am guessing that Im going to experience a like situation next year :) he also said that it once took him 18 hours to completely disect a hand! and for one of his tests they gave him an arm and he had to mark various points on the arm, such as the ligiments and the muscles and veins... isn't that cool! one of the ways was to check and see if they got the right muscles and such was to pull on them and see if the corresponding fingers moved! XD I CANT WAIT!!!!

Thursday was again a normal day at school, then I had to run home and get my dance stuff together. I was suprised to find that we had pasta for dinner... and when I say pasta I mean not spagetti but bow-tie pasta and a really good sauce! it had veggies and meat and mushrooms in it! om nom nom! then I was off to the bus again! I walked around the city and I am officially bored with Harstad, there is soooo little to do in it. I really need to find a place where I can just sit and read or something! argh...

Dancing that night was fun! we learned how to do a spin! I had a lot of fun, even though I got a couple of blisters on my big toes... but they're pretty much healed already! I did have a little problem with timing for a but, but I worked on it!

Today was ok, I avoided my history teacher pretty well, and I managed to answer 5 questions on my math test... out of 20... but in my defense I couldn't figure out how to use the programs that we were supposed to use, and since we couldn't use the internet (I however was allowed google translate) I couldn't access the help and instruction pages... sigh. but despite my deepest desires I didn't ditch, which was extremely tempting! I actually considered it... but you all will be happy to know that I did no such thing... though such thoughts will continue to plage me I think. :$

after school I eventually went to catc my bus, and was thoroughly annoyed when I learned that the bus schedual and the actual bus route times didn't match up... the bus I was planning to get left 10 min before I got there... XP I did however get another bus that went in the same general direction, though I did have to walk a half an hour back to the house, the weather was pretty bad, and I wasn't really sure of where I was going... but I got there and washed washed washed... well, vaccuumed, then Aksel came home and I had to try and do my washing around him... which was a pain I might add. But it got done! then I caught a bus home. I was just beginning to walk down the road of doom when Ole-Peter and his gf Eilin stopped and gave me a ride the rest of the way! yay!!! I have to say, it's kinda nice to have an older brother kind of figure... well, its probably that I like to have interesting conversations about medical school and disease and disection... :D

People had cod again tonight, Karro and I had left over pasta because cod = ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆSSSSSSSJJJJJJJJJEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but now im hungry again, and I want soup. so, as soon as I am done with this post im going to make myself some. :D and probably wait until the next commercial! Im watching Ghost Rider, it's funny!

natta og vi snakkes!!!