Well, I am not quite sure what to write at this point. I thank you all for reading this blog although im sure it's been very repetative this year. I am not quite sure what drew you here, and im not sure what iterests you about my writing other than the continued miss-spellings and grammatic errors, the disjointed thought process and other humourous things that i am continually making a fool out of myself with. No worries, i'm not meaning to sound... whats the adjective i want... how about "down?" doesnt quite cut it... well, i dont mean to sound angry and down, im just a bit tired.
I'll tell you about what ive been up to this week in a bit, i just want to write my thoughts out for a bit.
This year has been one of the biggest things in my life. It hasnt all been good, im sure my family and friends can attest to that, but it hasnt been all bad either. Sure, i am a little sour about loosing my ability to go to the College that I had pinned my future on, and I know i still havent recovered, and probably never will, from not being able to say good bye to my family members in November. I have probably lost my studying ability, what little i had- im too much like my Dad in some respects, and i definitly have to sign up for the remedial math course this comming fall.
But then again, I have gained a language and a culture that most of my family only thought about in passing. Sure, I didnt find out if I have any remaining family in Norway today, but i have gained enough confidence in my language abilities that i would be able to search more in depth in the future. Thankfully i am looking at a long future. I have also gained a new family, a new older brother and sister, and the younger sister that i may or may not have always wanted... after living with one for a year im not so sure it makes any difference having a little sister or a little brother. I also gained a mass of friends and contacts that all seem to like me at least a little bit. they seem to want to know me better anyway, and ive been ordered by the lot that i need to return to Norway in the not too distant future. Ive also been told by about half of these friends that they are going to visit me next summer. So if you are a Mainer and you hear a languange that sounds like this and see some random people looking confusedly around portland without me around, please contact me immediatly... the majority of them actually dont know where i live and they might have been trying to suprise me...
anyway. Im sort of in a state of suspended depression like shock. I get random headaches from homesickness and panic that i am actually at the end of my AFS year... all in all, im probably not the most fun person to be around right now... infact if Kristin were here and not in MN i would probably be clining on to her and not allowing her to visit any of her semi normal friends... XD
ok, writing style should change at this point, I took a break to watch "Breakdancing Kakashi" videos on youtube... honestly, if i ever met someone as good at that style as that dancer (Chuck something-or-other... I would look up his name, but i would probably slaughter it trying to say it so im going to skip even trying to type it.) I would ask, beg perhaps, if they could teach me... I love learning new styles of dance, but i can seem to find a course for breakdancing or any sort of hip-hop dancing for beginners over the age of 10... *sigh*
anyway. I am not quite sure about the whole moods thing for these next 5-8 days. Im also a little upset that we're not going to the hytte this weekend... I was really hoping to go, but i guess i can still lay out with my book and sun anyway... that is if it isnt raining again. Its been raining all this week :P well, it was nice last night, which was appreciated.
OK!!! officially going to finish this post now... You people have no idea how long it takes me to write these... honestly, im not good at sitting down and writing a blog post, i get distracted and I get bored with myeself, and honestly I really want to eat noodle soup right now and drink way too much cola and watch more Fruits Basket. cause its cute.
But, anyway, this Monday I made 2nd attempt cheese danishes, which came out better than the origionals because i decided to let the glue like dough stay glue like and not add flour until it was just sticky. it made the danishes much flakier! XD and also i will never ever again try to stick multiple pans of danishes in the oven at the same time. they came out fine, it was just frustrating to rotate them and i burned myself in the process about 3 times... ouch!
But it was all worth it, out of the 14-16 i made i gave 8 to Karin (my contact mother) and her family as a thank you for the year :) I went over to visit for my last time. We made sushi and spring rolls for dinner and watched the hurtigrute minute for minute... which is interesting to an extent... but succeded in putting me to sleep...
It was quite nice to hang out with them, and before i left i got to pester Brynjar as he was tryin to play a game... XD Karin and I have decided that when they come to visit me in the States, we need to pretend Brynjar and I are twins that were seperated at birth and adopted by different families. We really look quite a bit alike and its fabuolous to have someone like him to pester... Im the older of the twins obviously XD
anyway, that was my monday... im not sure if i posted anything... i think i was probably too tired.
the rest of the week has been spent in happy lazyness. Except for yesterday. Karro and I biked into town to see the festival, which is harder than one would think because the whole way to town is basically one long up-hill... :P
but it was fun, Karro and I walked past Morgana once, then I walked past her again when we tried to walk back through to find her... yeah... i live in lalaland almost constantly XD
speaking of lalaland, i was just on youtube for the umpteenth time and i would like to share my increasing enrapturment for the cosplayer i noted above... his youtube account name starts with "dragonreborn" which in my mind immediatly makes me think of the Robert Jordan books... i had to share this with mum... her response on fb? "See there are nice men out there... dragon reborn - funny!" I love you Mum XD
honestly, if i ever meet this person in real life now im just going to hear that in my head as if mum was saying it aloud and im going to start cracking up... then everybody will think im clinically insane... which i might just be...
ANYWAY!!! yeah, town, Karro, biking, lalaland.
speaking of Lalaland!
JK!!!
Karro and i met Morgana in town after tracking mamma down... that took a while, it seemed nobody was sure exactly where the videoroom was. and when we finally found it Karro and I walked in on the end of her videoconfrence meeting... WHOOPS!!!
anway, we had a good time in town, I introduced Karro to Louise who owns the new goth butikk Kayotica in Harstad... the only goth butikk to be perfectly honest in northern norway apparently :) Karro's opinion of Louise? EPIC! XD everybody agrees except perhaps the barbies... Louise hung up a really obvious anti-barbie shirt/bag right in full veiw of the shopdoor, as to hopefully make it so barbies will close the door immediatly so she doesnt have to see their horrified/disgusted expressions XD
anyway, eventually we went to meet up with Jostein who had promised up ice-cream... NOT!!! he made it SOUND like he was giving us ice-cream, but he didnt XP
anyway, it was fun, we walked back to the city and made it just im time to pester Yngvild before she got off work! She's working at Libris, the local book store... a constant visit point for me :)
then it was time to bike home again... ugh
i took a rinse, then got dressed to go to the bonfire/grill for... i think it was midsmmer? or something like that... anyway, everybody in norway sets old chairs, brush and 80's clothes on fire... XD you could see the smoke from a good 10 fires from where we were... O.O thankfully it was raining all week before hand so the likelyness of it being able to spread was not very high with good supervision... I had to walk home to get my SD card because of my forgetting to put it back in my camera pretty quick though... but i still got food!!!
I was so happy to se such a cutie!!! Agnethe was adorable! She knows me very well now and at one point wanted to come to me and not be with her grandmother (sorry tante berit X$) and was a very persistant little thing when it came to wanting to join in the game of soccer with the big kids... i figured that since she is barely twice the hight of the ball we would watch and wait until we could play with it... XD
Oh, and apparently Agnethe is afraid of dogs now... she would start crying as soon as one of the big dogs came near her... at one point, when we had finally gotten the soccer ball, one of the dogs walked between Agnethe and me... he expression of shock was adorable! she just stared at it, but when the 2nd dog started to come closer to us, she ran/toddled over to me and hid under my arm... XD i love that little girl, she makes me smile :)
eventually i gave Guro a turn to babysit (actually she stole Agnethe from me) and i made a little braid of daisys :) i also put some other flowers in afterwords, and then i gave it to Agnethe, who was thrilled with it i might add XD
Isnt she adorable?!?!?! I would like to note that i have some of the worlds cutest youngsters in my various families... and she is one of them! the others would have to be my little cousins Shane and Matti XD
But after Agnethe decided she was done with the flowers, Tante Berit decided that she wanted them XD she took them home as far as im aware... :)
anyway, we hung out a bit more, then Mamma and I got tired and came home :) it was a really fun night :)
and now i am hungry, im going downstairs to continue my new found obsession with cosplaying breakdancers who read robert jordan and eat noodles with chopsticks :D because im cool like that... (i feel your downcast eyes and hear your muffled giggles. I would at least like to PRETEND IM COOL PEOPLE!!! you're all so mean DX XD)
anyway, my post on Monday will be the last one in Norway, and im not sure i will be able to post the monday after that with it being the 4th of July and being Jetlagged and all that... oh, and friday, there will be no post because i will be in the process of getting jetlagged... hehe.
VI SNAKKES!!!BARE 8 DAGER TIL I NORGE!!! KEM E TRIST?!?! eller hvis vi skrive på bokmåø, hvem er trist?
Utmerket.
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