I got to stay home from school on friday so that I would have a more peacefull time going to the boat! it was lovely really to be able to "sleep in" hehehe... if only that were really possible. no, first Mamma and Pappa yelling for Karro woke me up, then i managed to doze for a few hours before I got running!
It was wonderful to see everybody on the boat, though it was rather cold waiting for pappa, who was giving me a little pocket money :) I had a great time, and even started a kinder egg thing where the majority of our group got kinder eggs (for the toys inside of course)! then we arrived in Finsness and were sent off to the mall for a little while (we had about 40+ min to wander before we were to be picked up). I found a great deal for 2 t-shirts for 20 kr! so I bought them, of course after I picked them out I realized that they were men's shirts... oh well, that happens to me a lot more often than I would like to admit... *sigh*
then we returned to the dock and were picked up by the van (but not after Giosafat dragged us (mainly me) to the book store to show me what he thought would be perfect for me... the book turned out to be a book on beer... how does that fit me at all? I don't like beer!) Then we were whisked off to a videregånde skole for our weekend together!
all the 25 girls in the area got 2 rooms and the guys got one (on the other side of the building). the læder again hid in their own private room down the hall from the girls' rooms and through a series of doors... it was kinda hard to find them the first time, but after we located them we were all set! after the girls in my room all unpacked their stuff we went to visit the guys. they had a bunch of rolly chairs so that was a little jealous making, but we got to play with them and have a good time anyway! then it was time for dinner, which was fish soup. not a favorite, but it was ok!
then after that we had a meeting with our groups to discuss what was good and bad about our year so far. we had to blow out candles and light them again, and it is really hard to blow out a candle when it is really close to other candles and you cant really movie it because if you do the wax will all spill out and burn you... which kinda hurts... on the first one I blew out i almost lit my hair on fire, almost. then on the second one i didn't actually blow out the one i was aiming for but the one on the other side of the plate! how weird is that?!
Then after that wonderful (really kinda boring) activity i got a group together to go to Rema 1000 which was just down the road! there were over 20 of us who started tramping down the snow covered road, and it wasn't until we turned the corner and started up the parking lot to the store when we realized just how cold and icy it was... it was bitterly cold, then wind actually hurt. but the store was warm, and there were socks, so that made life better.
to explain the socks, i got up friday morning and packed my bag so that I would be able to grab it and go later on. I packed everyting i needed, underwear, jeans, shirts, toiletries and makeup and hair stuff. i even brought the plug in for my ipod and the speaker I got for christmas. the one thing I forgot to pack extra of was socks, and I realized this as I was getting on the boat. don't ask me why, I just did. so i made it my personal mission to buy a couple socks so that I wouldn't wear the same pair for 3 days straight, cause that's just gross. I forgot when we went to the mall, but I rememebred again when we were all taking off our shoes so we could run around more easily (AFS and CBHS have a lot in common actually, everybody in both groups hates shoes and loves games and hugs. and competition.) overall it was a great hang out night!
the best thing about this camp was the fact that there were showers. sure you had to get up early to use them and you had to walk across a cold windy courtyard to get to them, but THERE WERE SHOWERS!!! there was one shower at our last camp and I didn't get to use it... ugh. but there was this weekend!!! i was very glad about that. breakfast both days was mewsly (sp) and a basic smørbrød. I was very fond of the nugatti :) and of course a cup or 2 of juice! we had our typical group meeting and such, then later our girl talk boy talk (dont have unprotected sex, dont diet while abroad, end of talk) then lunch. which was tomato soup! with egg and macaroni noodles! I would like to note my love of food, again. I love food. It makes me really happy!
the best part of that day was when the groups had to make a presentation about our problems with our year so far and how we think it is best to solve them. My group decided that doing a skit or drawing and explaining was just too mundane so we wrote and sang a song to the tune of "hallelugha" (sp). my last post has the lyrics, and im working on getting the video. :)
it was really fun, everybody thought it was great, you should hear the laughs on the video, and if you aremy friend on fb (either account) then you can! sorry if you aren't! and just to note, i dont add people who i dont know!
then later we all went on an escapade to the "italian" restaurant Milano where we ate a lot of pizza... my table unfortunatly didn't get replacement pizzas when we finished ours, so we ended up stealing pizzas and slices to make up for our lack :] om nom nom!
The walk back was cold, though there was a brief break from the biting cold to pick up cola and other yummies. we also looked at films and grabbed handfulls of free chocolate :) then we went back to the school to hang out for a little before we had kveldsmat (a late night snack) of sweets since it was one of our AFS-ers birthday! he turned 18, yay for turning 18 in norway!!!
but before the snack Giosafat decided to try and push me around a little. so i reacted as i normally would to a friend who is bigger than me, stronger than me and i know can take a little hit. i escaped his hold and pushed back. this meant that he felt he had lost face since his bf was there and another guy were watching (im pretty sure they had egged him on too before he started) and soon enough he was challenging me. no worries, i didn't really hit him, though i did get the whole camp cheering for me. it was really funny, Giosafat is a good foot or so taller than me and i got him to run away a few times. other times he would grab me and pick me up before setting me on my back, which meant that I would allmost get him in a headlock or kick him in a delicate place before he would back off... it was funny. he did come up and nail me in the back/side after it was all done, but im not sure if the bruise was from that or from me running into something. the latter of which seems entierly possible. no worries people, it was all fun and games and im in complete controll of myself, and i know how to take a hit better than a lot of people. and he's a rugby player so he is just as good at that too, well maybe not the controll thing. it was fun to see his and the rest of the guys' faces when Lenard (a guy from germany and Giosafat's bf (not really)) commented that I seem to have some technique to which i responded that I should have at least some after 8 years of training. it was priceless i tell you!
the next day was strange, we had to make a poster about living abroad. my group ended up doing a picture of hands in one of the weird hoorah things that sports teams do... whatever they are called. it was an awesome picture, and we tied in the abroad thing with a ribbon around their wrists and with flags on the ribbon. it meant to me that we are all tied together, and that we should all reach out and try to learn about our differences as well as note what we all have in common instead of fighting the ties we have and being ethenocentric to the point of dragging the whole world down... unfortunatly that wasn't conveyed clearly so we lost the compatition despite our art being the obvious best. *sigh*
then it was time to clean up and go home. that wasn't very enjoyable, the majority felt that we didn't haveenough time together or enough time to play. oh well, most of s are meeting in Narvik in March so that will be great! right after my birthday too!!!
I wasn't feeling too good on sunday night due to lack of sleep. i get fevers really easily when that happens, so when i got home i took a tablet and went to bed, telling Mamma that if i wasn't up in the morning that I wasn't feeling up to school. so after a brief stint up at 6:40 i slept until around 11:30. so nice! I ended up watching 2 of the 4 films i bought at the dock (5 for 300 kr, so a friend gave me what 1 would cost and got the movie she wanted). I only was looking for fun, but i said (thinking it would be impossible for both movies to show up in such a limited selection) that if both Milk and Underworld (#1) showed up I would buy them... wow do i know how to tempt fate. I am now the prowd owner of Milk, Underworld, Blood and Chocolate and The Lovely Bones all with Norwegian, swedish, samii, and danish subs... possibly finnish as well. dont i feel special. but they are great movies that i really like, and this house has a sorry lacking of movies in general so I felt that I needed something to watch other than the movies and shows that are stratigically placed on the net...
anyway, i'll tell you about today on thursday, since im going to Tromsø on friday and im planning on taking the early boat! YAY FOR FREE DAYS!!!
Vi snakkes!
wow... what a great weekend!
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