long awaited pics!!! enjoy!!!

So i will reward your patience with me about pics from the 17th of May, Norway's independance day :) as well as pics from my trip to tromsø with Silje :)




trying to take a picture of me, but im being surrounded by children screaming for russekorter... note to any future exchange russ with plans to go to the barnetog... dont stand in the middle before the thing starts. you wont be able to do anything other than had cards out. really.



A brief moment when i was not being accosted by children, lets take a picture instead!!! no breathing!!!



the length of the barnetog streatched over the hill next to the hospital... wow! so long!!!



Karro and her class' sign, she was the only one at the start of the train, by the end she had found 1 or 2 others XD



a shot of a few of the people in the town square after the barnetog. the childrens train. O.O



Heggen's Russetog!!! We have a tractor see?!



Look, there's a mailbox on her back XD



Look at all the russekort on the road!!! when i went back this way about 15-20 min later there were NONE!!!

Random insert!



The new and improved back piece that i will get tattooed after i graduate med school! i decided that the origional was too wide, and im going to get it in colour, because the snakes will be a king snake and a coral snake. to represent that the job of anyone in the medical field is to find the non-threatening things and the threatening things in our bodies and environment... at least in my opinion.

Trip to Tromsø with Silje!!!



Good morning Silje!!! are you ready for the day?!?!?!



Good morning!!! its almost 07:30!!!



Silje only slept a couple hours, so she's exhausted :(



Mountains through the window of the ferry. but still pretty :)



I just like the colours in this pic, im not actually sure what purpous that structure is supposed to have... :/



This is officially one of my most favorite pictures now. I am so happy i managed to get a picture with both the norwegian mountains and the ocean AND a norwegian flag!!! *Happy dance!!!*



What else is passing us by as Silje is sleeping?



Pretty green cliff faced island!



The pretty cliff face island with the flag from the boat carefully pictured infront of it... it took about 3 min from when i got out on the deck for the boat to move enough to get this pic :)



Translation: Motorcycle day!!! as if that wasnt obvious enough. XD



Cant tell if you can see, but that is a street of motorcycles and bikers! cool!!!



Hanging out on the steps to an apartment building after the first approach of the tattoo parlor! Silje was sooo funny!



Waiiit a second! are those BALOONS i've spotted?!



OH MY GOSH THEY ARE BALLOONS!!! I WANT ONE TOO!!!!! (no, i didnt get one :( )




How was getting your belly button pierced Silje?



"Why are you still taking pics of me eating soup? this really doesnt seem to be the most interesting this youcould be doing right now" thats what i was thinking... though a lot more norwegian was mixed in... this happened to be about the 3rd pic that silje took of me eating my soup. thus this face :D



"Hei! se her! æ KAN bruke spise pinner!" (hey! look! i CAN use chopsticks!" XD Yaaay Silje!!! She didnt think she would be able to use her chopsticks effectivly. obviously she was wrong :)



The first course! the spicy salmon is the one closer to Silje, the Tempura is the one closer to me and the camera :D



Silje's decision on sushi! *thumbs up*



The barbell i bought to replace my piercing barbell... it looks swollen, i know but that's just how my ear turned after getting the piercing. I have since taken out this barbell because it's a tad too small. ouch :(



Look! my new belly button piercing!!! isnt it cool! I really like it :)

You know what?! Ive come to the conclusion that my life isnt interesting enough really at the moment, so I will take my nice camera around with me everywhere and take pictures of everything I do, because i want to. The maybe i can have a blog that is inbetween a blog and a vlog... that sounds interesting. Im not sure how long it will last, but im gonna do it!!!

Snakkes!!!

Hey, its monday... i should post something :D

korsen går det? e alle frisk og fint? (kristin is messing with my blogging when she should be working on her math... hint hint kristin)

so, my weekend was pretty awesome! I went to tromsø on saturday with Silje!!! and we hung out with her friends for a while and looked at the mass of motorcycles that were lined up all along the main shopping street, with the mass of bikers standing around
in their weird outfits... :D so cool! I saw the same style bike as my dad's, but i didnt have enough time to see if i could find my mums... but i doubt it was there... it was probably too small to be there. oh well.

then we made our way to Arctic Tattoo to fill out our forms and get needles and bars shoved through the skin at the top of our belly buttons :) it didnt hurt exactly, but it definitly wasnt the most pleasant feeling in the world... and unlike a lot of piercings, a belly button piercing can act like a dermal piercing which means that it will take longer to heal and has a high probability of regecting at some point... :P im hoping that doesnt happen.

but it was really funny! i thought the place opened at 11, so Silje and her friends and i all made our way to the shop, and the whole way there Silje was freaking out. She was so worried that it was going to hurt really badly XD it turned out that the shop didnt open for another hour, so we ended up just hanging out on the steps of a near by appartment complex...Silje had blisters from her new shoes :(

after a while i got bored and went to take a pic of the motorcycle day sign, then after that i started doing kung fu forms on the steps. a taxi driver almost drove his taxi into the wall that ran alongside the road because he was looking back to see what i was doing XD that was funny!

then eventually we went back to the shop. there were a couple guys there to get tatooed and a couple girls there to get pierced before us. but we got our forms and were pretty quickly shown in... apparently the girls had stuff to talk about before they got pierced.

it was the cool guy from the UK that pierced my industrial last time that pierced my navel this time! He remembered me too, and we ended up talking about how freaked out Silje was, and if i should pretend to scream when he pierced me as to freak her out more. then i decided that would be too mean... and i should just go out clutching my stomach. he laughed and said "you are SUCH a good friend." He's a really cool guy, and attractive too ;D

when i looked out at Silje I saw she was as white as a sheet... so i decided i really shouldnt scare her anymore... XD she asked about why we were speaking english and then it was her turn. she was soooo funny for nothing!!! she was shocked that it didnt really hurt! XD i told her so!!!

after that it was time for SUSHI!!! which silje was also aprehensive of. we got a spicy salmon and a tempura maki rolls first, then we got nigiri with salmon and eel, then a hot philly!!! and she now loves sushi! she's glad i made her eat with me, and she can understand that a lot of people would be aprehensive of the raw fish, but she think that they shouldnt be after trying it herself :) she's going to get her mum to try it some time im guessing from the conversation she had with her:)

after that we walked around and shopped for a bit before getting back on the boat home. Silje slept most of the way too Tromsø and most of the way back. I slept a little on the way back but i mostly read. its really odd, in norway you can leave your bags and purses unattended and not really worry that anything will get taken. Silje and i went down to get something to eat at one point and it didnt even cross our minds to take our purses with... i hope i remember that's not the way in the US of A... sigh... i wish it was :P

the rest of the weekend has been relativly uneventful. Kristin gave me a really pretty dress, i wore it out today when i went to meet Morgana in the city. and other than that I almost live at Kristin's house now a days. im over there constantly just hanging out... good thing her parents like me!!!

ok. im tired. i'll post pics tomorrow :)

vi snakkes!!!

Den magiske steinen

Ok, so another commercial. im not going to translate it, but the best part of the commercal is when the modern guy says "and for those of us who dont have a magic stone, you can go to felleskjøpe" blah blah blah... i find the whole thing very funny XD

Well hello again!!!

Its been a while huh? Ive been toying with writing this whole week, but I decided that I should try to write the reports I was set... its not going as well as I had hoped if you're wondering. XP

Anyway, its been a while since I wrote, the last time I really wrote anything was before russetida right? well, besides that I was a really boring russ. I am not much of a partier. in fact i only went out to drink and dance that first weekend X) *Notice, my "k" button is now the one thats being finniky, sorry if that letter is missing in some words :)*

Anyway, after russetida it was back to school for a week before exams... it was kinda cool, because most of the classes were done so you could just leave. In sosiology however we watched Milk! the movie that i loaned to the teacher earlier in the year! we watched in tuesday and thirsday's class periods! and it seemed that most ofthe class actually realy liked the film! that made me really happy, because Milk is a great movie :) Anne Bjørg, the teacher, told me after the class was finished that she was glad i had come forward with the film because it provided an example for the class that sometimes uproars and rebellions can be good things :) She told me she is going to purchase the film so she can use it as a part of her curriculum!!! i feel so happy to be helpful!

Anyway, I thought that i might be able to use this time during exams when my host family was working and Karro was in school to travel around Norway to practice the language and explore the country's history and culture more fully than i have... yeah. that really went over well with my host family and AFS.

From what I rememeber of the orientations, if an afs student wishes to travel (over a day) we have to submit where we want to go, where we will stay, and how long we will take on our trip. I remember something about not being an afs student for the period of the trip, but other than that I was pretty sure there was not much to it. But! apparently the afs people who orientated us were lying or teasing about traveling. When Mamma called the headquarters and was told by a very irate AFS person there that there was no such travel abilities... :P

from that AFS and Heggen (the front desk im guessing, because my advisor seems to have little to no idea about these plans) decided that i was to write a report on all the classes i was "taking" this year, and take a norwegian test *cough* today *cough cough* then i would have fufilled the requirements for my contract... *grimace*

i am curretly so very very thankful that heggen has probelms communicating within itself. i went to school today and couldnt find my name on the list (again)so i went to my advisor who looked at me in confusion (and no little amount of annoyance. he had already answered my questions) and told me that since he hadnt heard of this, so none of the exams had place for me, and i didnt have the required stuff (computer programs and such im surmising from what my classmates had)so my advisor told me it was a better use of time all around if i just went home :) if you insiiiste! XD

But i think the most shocking thing about today has been that ITS FREAKING SNOWING!!! ITS THE END OF MAY AND THE TREES ARE FROSTED WITH SNOW!!! OH MY GOOOOD!!!!! ITS MAY *shivers and cries a little inside*

anyway. I should probably get back to working on my reports. I decided that i really should post something since its been so long :)

and i leave you with a funny commercial that has been airing here. the ending has been in norwegian, but unfortunatly i couldnt find the norwegian version on youtube, so you get this one. which is probably easier for you to understand anyway :P



Vi snakkes folkens!!!

another video from my favorite cattery!

Someday Im going to get a kitty from this breeder! their cats are always so cute and such sweet hearts!

answer to the question nobody answered

the picture posted in my last posy of the sky was taken at 00:30. guess who's not getting much sleep recently... :P

i'll write on friday!!!

snakkes!!!

the end is neigh!!! of russetida... but the trip too... :$

Heia!!!

so there are only 3 days after today until the end of russetida. and i will admit to you all that i am a very boring russ. i dont really care for partying, and most of the russekrev require a car or some form of sexual thing... not gonna happen. so im trying to figure out when i can crawl across a bridge and if there is a possibility of getting people to get up early enough to eat breakfast and then lunch in a roundabout. im not sure that's possible though.

anyway, im trying to figure out what im going to do with the last 49 days of my trip, its a little strange to think about and definitly not easy for me to plan... but there it is. Im hopingi can convince Mamma, the school lover, to let me go alone to visit some of the afs students that live in the southern cities of Norway, like Molde and Bergen... finger's crossed.

anyway, i took a picture last night. guess what time it was when i took this pic XD leave guess in the comments section!!!




snakkes!!!