Heia!
Så, wow, i really didnt mean to write that like that... but im not going to change it since i already wrote this :)
So, this weekend was spent not at the hytte as i would have liked, but at home. No big deal really, it was nice anyway, especially as the book i bought recently seems to be the 7th book of a series, thus the incomprehensability of it... oh well.
On saturday we relaxed all day, didnt really do anything until we had guests for dinner. Our guests were Onkel Lars, his grandson, and 2 of Karro's cousin's and one of their's 2 children (did that make sense?). Anyway, the unfortunat blockage of names prevents me from remembering more buuuut i think you get it anyway. Oh, Guro and Ole-Peter and his gf Eilin were there too :)
that night we had the option of whale meat (aka Devyn's conflicted food) or rømmegrøt... a sort of porrige. I had the grøt, with the typical topping of sugar and cinnamon :)
it was pretty relaxed, with maybe a bit too much wine and beer (not me, i dont like either of those) and me eventually getting tired enough to slink off to my room... gatherings + Devyn + no hideaway = exhausted Devyn... People are good to a point. XD
It turns out that one of the Cousins' children stayed over night with Karro, which meant they were up later than I was... that in itself deserves a round of applause. whenever i have the ability to I become a nocturnal crature. I dont really like to get up before noon, and i am ususally up until 1-3am... I know, probably not a good thing XP
But that didnt do anything to my sunday, since i was woken up for breakfast at 10... eeeeewwww. after breakfast i retreated to bed again and napped. Sunday was given over to Mamma and Pappa going on hikes respectivly and me trying to convince myself that the rain from the past week wouldnt have made the already cold lake colder... I say cold because of all the snow that is STILL melting in the mountains... 8/ pretty cool if i do say so myself XD
Today i got up a little after 9 (shocking huh?) so that Pappa and i could try and get things sent... if we had gone to the place that would have sent an overweight package and my snowboard it would have cost me 10,000 nok... OUCH!!! so it was eventually decided that my snowboard would have to come with me on the planes again... and I went to the post office to get 2 boxes to split up the big overweight package I had... didnt get all of it into the new boxes, but most :) thank goodness...
after that adventure to get the boxes and re-packing, I decided to take a little walk to the pasture thing where 2 horses are living. im not sure when they got there, I just noticed them a few days ago. i took them an apple a peice, and as horses do when you give them apples they continued to follow me as far as they could when i started to try and find my way out of the tall grass around their pasture. :) I think they were there for breeding purposes since one was obviously male (im not sure if he was gelded or not... he seemed a bit too sweet to be a stallion but im not sure since i havent had much to do with stallions :/ ) and the other was a mare. such sweeties :)
after that i went home to change into my bathing suit, meaning to shrink the mega tan line i have on my back and possibly go for a swim. I wasnt out there long before Marte and her darling children arrived! because of the heat and moisture in the air Agnethe's hair is a bunch of tight curls! SOOOOO CUTE!!!!! she was a bit sleepy when they got here, and when i took her out of her carseat she was perfectl content to be held. Took her a good 5-10 min to decide that she wanted to play with the Bocce Balls too :) Aksel was his normal active self, which was not helped by the sugar that was presented to him after Guro and I made a trip to the store (after FINALLY sending my packages).
It was really fun to have them there even though it made me forget that i was supposed to have made pizzas for kl 8... -.- whoops.
truthfully, i was only a bit late with them! so all was good. and Agnethe is so much more fun when awake! I found out why she is suddenly afraid of dogs now too. Aparently the neighbor's dog was rocketing around and crashed into her, thus she is afraid of them. we managed to get her okay with seeing and being a little closer to Kazan then she was origionally, but when Aksel accidentaly kicked a ball through the door near where Agnethe was standing Kazan came rushing in after it. That created a crying bout that was quite loud and drippy... oh well.
pretty soon though Agnethe was tired and it was time for them to go home... :( Im saddened by this because i know that Agnethe wont recognize me next time i come... :( but Aksel will!
Oh! I forgot something funny that happened with Aksel! Today he learned that I am not from Norway, so he started asking all sorts of questions, mostly around the color of my parents' new house and their car and whatnot. XD then he asked what my parents' names were. My Mum's name got no reaction, but Dad's did XD apparently Mater is called Bil in the Norwegian versionl and Bil in norwegian means Car. Aksel was very excited that my Dad's name was the same as one of the characters in his favorite movie XD
After they all left I got to work. I had pizzas to make. One with meat for the normal norwegians, and 1/2 no meat just veggies for me, while the other half was light cheese and sauce for Karro :)
it was intense. I fried the meat with garlic and onions and a little bit of grill spices, then i cut up more onions and some red pepper and some mozzarella (sp) and jalapenos... mmmmm. spicy! I dripped the juice from the jalapenos on too to give it an extra kick.
I will note now something im not sure i noted before. there is a difference between spicy and norwegian spicy. meaning our slightly spicier than mild is a norwegian hot. it doesnt help that growing up my wonderful but constantly clogged up mother would add too many spices to her cooking so that she could taste them, thus i have a higher tolerance to spicy food than a lot of people... as long as i dont accidently inhale it... that's painfull. But anyway, Mamma had to pick off the jalapenos and i think she stopped adding the other spices and instead added... sour cream thats the word! to it to make it more mild... XD
my half a pizza had a LOT of jalapenos on it... om nom nom :D
after everybody was full we went into the other half of the room (we ate dinner in the living room :) ) to watch Trolljegeren!!! Which is officially one of my favorite movies. I warn all you readers, do not be fooled by the Hollywood version that is coming out sometime in the future... watch the origional norwegian version... with subs in your respective languages. The DVD I know own doesnt come with english subs though, so if my friends and family want to watch it we will have to watch it online... because i refuse to translate what they are saying... I will tell you this though.
If you are Christian, for your own safty dont come to Norway. Apparently one of trolls' favorite meals are Christians... XD anyway,i have translated the "Troll Sense Rules" for you all to remember if you ever decided to come to Norway XD
1: Never go into a forest after sundown
2: Dont go out on a long hike if you are Christian. Never.
3: Always be prepared for trolls, even on short trips. Always have a strong UV flashlight with charged batteries.
4: Dont walk so fast that you begin to sweat.
5: Be sceptical of tall moss-covered trees.
6: dont listen to "experienced" mountaineers. they dont know anything about trolls.
7: Go/walk alone. You never know who's a Christian.
8: Run away if you see the monster master. there is no shame.
9: if you meet a troll, bunker down and wait til sun up.
10: Stay away from Sogn and Fjordane (A fylke in Norway. dont ask me to translate it, im sure you all understand XP)
Arent they great rules?! anyway, SPOILER ALERT!!! at one point in the movie the origional camera man gets caught with the rest of the crew in a troll den. He begins to sweat profusly (sp) and uses all of the concentrated troll stank that the group has with them. The reason as he pretty much shouts when told to calm down "EG E KRISTIN!" "Im a Christian!" he then goes on to shout that they are all going to die which rouses the trolls since they had started to fall asleep. and in the mad dash for the entrance to the den (where it is finally sunny) the poor christian camera man gets caught and you can hear him screaming and squishing as he is eaten thanks to the mic on the camera... whoops! the camera broke also.
the next camera man (woman) was muslim. they asked if that was safe, but nobody new... we still dont know if its a good or a bad thing... O.o we will have to find out...
anyway, after that LOVELY film I got everybody outside to take a family picture :) its really sweet, and i will be printing one out for myself when i get back to the US of A and getting a frame to match the picture of my biological family :) Im really going to miss my norwegian family...
Unfortunatly im not going to see Ole-Peter and Eilin again before i leave, so they gave me my going away present tonight. A cool new bellybutton ring :) its a black barbell with a white stone and a black snake dangling under it. the snake has little white stones on it as well... so cool!!! Tusen takk igjen Ole-Peter og Eilin!!!
I think i might see Guro again before I leave, I hope she doesnt take the kl 7 boat... i wont be u to give her a hug good bye then... :(
anyway... tomorrow will be my last full day with my host family... and i will spend it packing and making sure everything is pretty cleaned up. It's UNBELIEVABLE how quickly this year has gone... really quite shocking. But it was a great experience and i had a lot of fun... and now im going to stop writing because i can feel this turning into a speech about how great going on exchange is. and I would like to avoid writing one of those for a slong as possible... XD
anyway, the next post i write will be back in the USA. and if it is not on Monday it will be on the friday after that. im not sure my jetlagged and captured self will be cohearent enough to write anything. XD
SÅ! Vi snakkes! tusen takk for en hejertelig godt år!!!
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