HEIA!!!
how is everybody! have any good plans for Valentines Day besides reading my blog? XD
Ok, so i didn't post about my week, and honestly in light of what happened this weekend it doesn't really matter. ok, i rememeber some...
I was sick from lack of sleep on monday, which was nice, i got to sleep! i love sleep, i think it might be one of my best friends.
on tuesday i only had one class because Sisel, my norsk/religion teacher was absent. so i only had sosiologi! yay!!!
on wednesday, nothing happened of consequence, oh besides the fact that I got a headache from listening to a noise box that was emiting sounds at various hertz, and eventually they went to the point where i get an immediate headache that DOESN'T GO AWAY for about an hour or so... pain.
Thursday i only had one class again, because the 3rd grade had heldagsprøve for norsk! so i had sosiology again. last weekend i bought 4 movies, i think i noted this, and i decided that since there are not enough buses so i couldn't get home within a reasonable amount of time and back to the city so i could catch a bus to Marte's house that I would take a movie and watch it while i sat in the library. I brought Milk, which is a great movie, and as I realized, could be a great movie to watch in sosiology! So after class i went up to the teacher and asked her if she had seen it. she hadn't, but she wanted to, so she "asked" if she could borrow it for the weekend. it wasn't really that big a deal, but i had really wanted to watch it while waiting for the school day to end... oh well, maybe we will be able to watch it in class because I loaned it to her!
after school i went to Marte's house to wash. i got there and talked with Marte for a while, then when she went to get Aksel I started picking up the toys and everything scattered around the house. when Aksel came home Agnette woke up from her nap, so she and aksel and I played upstairs! it's really quite difficult to devide ones time between a one year old and a 4 year old... its really difficult especially when the 4 year old is jealous of the one year old and will thus use different ways to try and remove her from the compatition for attention. but it was fun, Agnette is very good natured and very tough for a baby, i think getting head-butted and huggedaround the neck repeatedly has helped that.
in other news about Agnette is that she has started walking between people! she should be on her feet by now, or maybe next week! she is soooo cute! she just giggles and giggles when we catch her after she walks to us! AWWWWWW <3 <3 <3
On friday I woke up at 5:40 so that i could shower and get everything ready to get to the 7 o'clock boat to Tromsø. the boat takes 3 hours, and sicne Morgana and I got up so early we decided that napping was in order. it was nice, until we hit spots where there were no islands and such to block the big waves coming in off the atlantic,so we woke up and decided it was probably a good thing that niether of us had really eaten breakfast... BIG WAVES!!!
When we got to Tromsø we decided that instead of waiting outside in the coal and snowy street we would wait in the shopping center for Alice and Laura, 2 italian afs-ers who live there (in tromsø). SO, we had a good day walking around and shopping, and I got to eat SUSHI for the first time in about 6 months!!!!! you know how horrible that is for me?! I love sushi... then we went to Artic Tattoo so i could attempt to get an industrial piercing. Unfortuntaly a note from Mamma and an email saiying "its your body, just be certain about it." (in other words very very begrudging, and im kinda scared to go home now) from Mum just doesn't cut it, i have to have a mother or father like figure with me... its stupid!
then we went to the library for about 3 hours before trying the other tattoo parlor in Tromsø. we had devised a plan to use my school id and say that since im an exchange student due to the school not being able to read my handwriting so well they got my birthdate wrong and thus im 18 not 17... im not sure if it would have worked, but i never got to carry out that plan because the piercer said my ear is the wrong shape for an industrial... huh?!?!
after that disapointment we headed up to Laura's house for italian pizzamade by the italians... which was cool except that they keep speaking italian and not norwegian!!!!! I felt out of the loop. but eventually other people came including some other exchange sutdents from different organizations, and a few guys from Laura and Alice''s school came over too... it was fun, it was nice to hang out with everybody, and the guys and i hit it off pretty quickly... though im really glad that im not 18 because they were planning on inviting me out with them to go clubbing... yeaaa, no. I like sleep and as far as i know i dont like beer.
I dont know when Alice and i went to bed that night (maybe saturday morning?) but i do know that i was woken up by a series of alarms that went off at 6! and Alice's host sister who has said alarms WOULDNT TURN THEM OFF!!! i was going crazy, i wanted sleep! so i ended up going and asking her to turn off the alarms... (ok, im having a little bit of a problem writing right now, i keep trying to write in norwegian and i know it wouldn't be bøkmål so you all couldnt translate it... i think this might be a good thing, but really it's kinda annoying at the moment)After that i fell asleep until almost 10. Alice and I headed upstairs and had breakfast with her host mom and youngest host sister, Rune, an ADORABLE 6 year old... *squees*
then we got dressed and headed out to the city to meet up with Morgana and Laura again. we went shopping again, and i bought the first perfume ive ever purchased... im such a girly girl sometimes... :P then i went to buy some lunch for myself and the others went to find postcards. what did i get for lunch? you dont need to wonder, the answer is obvious! I bought sushi to go! i got a fried salmon sushi! om nom nom!!! then i stood out in the street with a couple of crows staring at me and waited for the others to come back. after that we met up with Guro outside of Burger King (Morgana got a burger for Morgan... haha) Guro really liked the late christams present, a purple sack much like the one my Aunt Laura gave me for graduation (but no tassle that had to be removed) and then she went with me to the first tattoo parlor and we got my industrial! FINALLY!!!!! I will post picures when the swelling goes down, so just you wait! I hung out with Guro for a while before rejoining my afs buddies. She's coming home soon!
We decided that Morgana and i needed something substantial and not pølse on the boat, so we went to the nearest grocery store and got yougurt and things like that. while we were therea couple of older men working there asked us if we wanted to join the membership for the store. I told them no thanks since we are only going to be in norway for about 5 months more (I was told the next day its acutally only 4 months... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :@) and they were very puzzled as to why that would be, so i disclosed the info about us being exchange students. then, to my great shock and utter pleasure one of the things that I had wanted to happen at the begining of the year and had not expected to happen happened. The men told me that they couldn't hear my accent, and they thought I was norwegian!!!!!!!!! SOO0OOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!
then it was time to go, we did stop at a convenience store because there were cool hats, but because it took so long for Morgana to get hers I decided that I didn't really need the hat and I didnt want to risk missing the boat home. i ended up napping again on the boat. I eventually woke up, thanks to an alarm i set on my phone, and went downstairs to the offramp in the hopes that we would dock quickly enough for me to take the 6 o'clock bus home... no such luck. we docked 5 min past, and then a bunch of little boys decided that they could skip in line and got off first... sigh. Mamma was working and Pappa had had a beer so they couldnt get me, so it was looking like i would end up taking a taxi (something ive never done before) when I saw one of my classmates! she was there to pick up her mom who had been in Alta for work! My classmate offered me a ride home, so we saved 150 kr and I got to talk to my classmate a little more!
that was the end of that day!
Sunday was fun too! I went snowboarding for the first time in 3 weeks, which was too long in my opinion. and on the way in I found 20 kr! enough for a cola!!! YAAAAAY!!!!! I am managing to do more jumps, and i only fell a few times, the worst was when a man decided that stopping right in the middle of the slope right where people land from jumping was an okay thing to do. I was going too fast and couldnt turn intime and if i had tried I could have really hurt myself since that would mean I would land wrong... I tried to slow down enough for him to get out of the way, but when he saw me (after I yelled "OH NEI! FAUN!!!" dont translate that... its not something a proper young lady like me should say) it was too late. i took him out. I made sure he was ok though! and I was ok enough to get down the last part of the slope, even though he landed on my leg a little... ow... it gave out right as I got to the bottom... that wasnt fun. I managed to get it working again though!!!
I had a fun time at the ski hill, though i felt slightly saddend when I saw 10-12 year olds going off jumps that frighten me to look at, and doing 360s and things like that... scaary! but someday im gonna get it!
I went over to eat dinner with my contact family after that, which was nice! I like hanging out with them, especially when there is cake involved! I met Karin's parents and one of her aunts and uncles. they were all really shocked that i can speak norwegian so well (mamma also commented again that im very good with norwegian, and that she had shown her co-workers a text i had sent her because she was so impressed at how good im getting with writing too!)so it was fun to talk with them! eventually though it was time for me to go home.
Today was also a good day! i had a normal math class, and norsk class, but when it was time for gym i was very worried. I had to teach warm ups before volly ball, which is what my group decided to "teach" for our gruparbeid... the thing is, all these norwegians have been playing vooly ball for years, so basically the only thing being taught was my new warm ups.
I decided to go with some of the warm ups I learned from my 2nd martial arts school, which involves running, and doing some strange movements that loosen you up and make you sweat... they had never done something like that before, so they thought it was pretty cool... then we played vollyball... i really stink at sports. especially when a ball is invovled... ok, so maybe that's just team sports. then Weronica was supposed to do streaching, but i ended up taking that over since i know a few more streaches that they had never done before.
then after that the class was supposed to give us feedback, and one of my classmates said he really liked the warmups, because they were new and intersting and really got you warmed up... i could have kissed him! i really felt like a fool since i couldnt properly teach what was supposed to happen and some of the exercises look really funny.
bio was interesting too! we are studying hormones now, so i am enjoying that. i seem to know a little bit more about them than the other students. I could also answer why a cats eye is better equiped for night vision than a humans eye! so i felt smart!
after school i went to meet pappa and mamma at høgskole (the local university college) before coming home to have a snack and try to write this blog post... i failed to get it done. sigh... then i ran for the bus so i cuold meet my friend Maja (who helped me make pie) for dinner and a movie! it was a lot of fun! she even gave me a rose! so I bought dinner. she tried to help me pay but i refused. so we have a war with a 100 kr bill (that i found by the way... i will give it back) that we keep trying to sneak onto the others personal being without them noticing. she was very tricky this last time and stuck it in my coat pocket... im not going to tell you how im planning on giving it back though, since she reads this blog. ;D
the nordlys tonight were gorgeous, some of the most stunning ive seen since ive been here, and of course i had run out of the house without my camera... sigh. but im home now (after being locked out again) and i really need to sleep.
natta! and happy valentines day!
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