Late happy B-day Joanne!!

On the 25th Jo had her 20th b-day, and unfortunately my isolation has made it impossible to blog or do anything on the net since my last blog entry... wow. All my thoughts went to her on her bday, and thus I hope that the saying is true: I'ts the thought that counts.....
I didn't expect to have so much work, but I'm really happy for it. I am making money! wuhu! wonderful shopping money to be spent in KL and Sing! Yay!!! I can't wait to go!

So my job is very easy. It's just making food for the staff at the carferry and being in charge of the kiosk onboard. It's easy, and the pay is goood. :) I like it! now my friends and family will have presents for xmas that doesn't totally suck, hehe. I was counting on having to make a lot of home made pressies, but now I can go for something a bit nicer. yay! I aim to please.

So to all of yous that haven't received a nagging email from me: Send me your addresses! I need them for xmas cards and stuff, and Regi: your email address SERIOUSLY doesn't work! I need you to send me an email with your addie and stuff, you also have a late bdaypresent coming...

It's cold as here these days, the median is about -1 degrees and colder at night. But it's nice! maybe I'll have a white X-Mas! wuhu!
Have to run sweeties!

Love

I'VE GOT A JOB!!

Or at least it looks veery promising! I've got training today, and then I start work immediately!! WOOOHO!!!! Happy day! Sooo coool! I've had company this weekend, and that was great. Two of my best friends came home to visit their parents, and then I had a great weekend with a lot of chattering on about this and that.. :) Old friends are great. Vanessa and Renée have known me since I was 8, and that's the longest that anyone have known me xept my parents and stuff. Hehe. I feel so great! I was feeling a bit down, didn't quite see the point in going to the unemployment office, cause there are never any jobs anyway... but here we are! My new and very unflash job is: Working at a ferry, in the kiosk onboard. But hey, I don't give a shit! It's money!

I have to do the tag challenge thing too, since Feli tagged me, so here is 5 random things about me:

1. I put my knee on the lid of the toilet when I flush.

2. I can't stand wearing anything around my wrists, least of all watches.

3. I used to work as a dog-walker when I was a kid.

4. I love jumping into the water with all my clothes on. WHEEE!

5. I like men in uniforms!! I LOVE men in uniforms!!!

Ok, and since more or less all my friends have been tagged already, this ends here. Sorry abt that. I was never much for chain-letters and stuff...

So now, I have to go cause my training starts in 2 hours time, yeee! C u all later!!

The best email ever!!

Please disregard your current result as posted on banner - due to a technical input all results are incorrect. All correct results will be posted Friday 18th November.
Linda WalkerAdministrative Assistant for Tourism ManagementVMS Examination CoordinatorPhone: 463 5720; Room: RH 927Office hours: 9 - 3:30 Mon - Fri

My goodness, such relief... I've been tossing and turning all night and wondering if I was out of my mind, not being able to assess my effort at all, or what on earth could be wrong??!!! The correct results are up already, and I got A- for both tourism and info this trimester. I'm so happy I could cry.. :D

My friend says she has a spare room in the city for me if I want to work there, and my mum sais that I should go... and then it hit me. All though I'm complaining and all that I can't get a job and blablabla, I really treasure this time with my mum. Ok, it's not that exciting, but I love my parents and it's them that I miss when I'm overseas... So it all comes down to two choices: Go to the city and having a much greater possibility of getting work, or staying here with my parents close and maybe face not getting a job at all. I should put my thinking-cap on.
My dad brought me books for studying German yesterday. So now I have 200 pages of grammar to go through before February. hihihi

So it worked out just fine... but MAN I was stressed!! Thank you dearies for support and comfort. :)

snow

We got snow today. Or, it started yesterday and today when I woke up there was a white cover all over. It's melting fast though, so I bet it'll be gone by tonight. But man it's cold now! We have 2 degrees, and in nighttime it'll be even colder.. I'm hoping for snow that lasts. It's pretty. :)

My stepdad arrived from Jugoslavia yesterday, with jewellery, a tonne of candy and cigarettes (growl) and slippers. I got a gold ring with a diamond which I suspect is all too real, but don't dare ask cause then I'd never dare wear it. Slippers from his daughters, and some vegetable paste that smells really dreamy. yee! My mum is going to attempt a vegetarian lasagna today.. I'm just amused that she can be bothered.

I'm actually pretty torn up today.. I checked my grades online and I got a C for tourism in New Zealand... Which I had an A average for before the exam. I can't understand it... I just can't understand it... I don't know what to do either... I couldn't possibly have gotten an E on the exam??? I answered all four questions and did well on at least 2 of them... Someone please help :'(

finally(?) some photos

Soundtrack: Led Zeppelin - baby I'm gonna leave you

Ok, it is getting worse. Today, the weather people say that it will rain so much that it will be actually dangerous... I'm sure that the lake will go over it's boundaries, and some of the waterfalls on the way to Odda will be flowing over the roads... And the bad thing is, we're not even the area that will suffer the most rain! Some farmer a bit further north had his entire farm, house and land washed away in a landslide, and things like this will be happening all over the country now because of the large amounts of water that will be falling from the sky...
In Bergen, the city that I live the closest to they have a saying: When God created Bergen, he thought it was so immensely beautiful that he deided to have it cleaned almost every day! But I myself am still longing for some sunshine and a chance to get out of the house without sitting inside a car...
Friday I went with my dad to Odda, his bluesclub had a quiznight about music (not only blues but all kinds of music) and I decided that instead of sitting inside for another night I might as well tag along. It turned out to be really fun, and our team came in second (as intended. Cause the ones who win have to make the questions for next time ^_^) and even though I was being smoked half way out of the building I had an enjoyable evening. Man those people smoked! every twenty minutes they lighted up a new one.. I felt all grey when the evening was over..

Still no feedback on any of the jobs that I've applied for. And still there is no new ones to apply for. chances are that I'll go insane with boredom before the end. I've started revising some German, but other than that I've got nothing much to do, and the weather is keeping me hostage in the house. I could get some rainclotes or something, but the thought of it isn't all that tempting..

Goodness.. beside me in the library now there are some supernerds... they are playing games on internet, and all they are talking about is the game and stupid people who are better than they are, and bladibla about guns and so on... Hahahaha
I don't get those ppl. Or, in some sense I do, but not to that degree. ah well. I have to go out in the rain again and make my way home for dinner. :)
Love to all.

Let the baking begin

So, now we start an epic day of baking. Bread, buns and maybe even a cake!
You have to do something to get the days to pass, right? Then tonight I'm going for a quiz with my dad. and tomorrow: NORWAY - CZECH(?) REPUBLIC!!! I wanna be in the worldcup!! This is it, the upcoming two matches tomorrow and on Wednesday will be critical. *sweatdrop*

stoneage

Soundtrack: The Black Seeds - Turn it around

Now I'm on my way to the library to buy a *snort* floppy disk, so that I can upload pictures to my blog from the employment office. Well, at least they are good for something? I can't get a job, but I can exploit their internet connection. ^_^ Well, as I have only been home for 4 days, I guess I shouldn't stress too much just yet. Just keep at it, and don't loose faith! I shall get a job! I almost lost motivation today, but then I remembered my Zen, and then everything seemed brighter. :) Still raining.. but there was about 5 mins of sunlight today! Yee!! Today I shall start revising my German, and keep up the knitting. Yess.
Poor Lars, I talked to him yesterday and his comp is dead. And then as I was talking to him my comp died as well! It was weird, like a bug that leaped through the phone and hit my comp, he sais that he is jinxed. The really funny thing was, that when I hang up and tried my computer again, it worked! Poor Lars... his computer luck is all out.
Tarz! I dreamt of you again! This time we had a competition of some sort.. come soccer game/barbecue thing.. it made perfect sense in the dream. hm.
Lots of love to all!

Home again!

Finally I have reached cold and rainy Norway, after 3 days of stress and intensive travelling. It did not make matters better that my travel agent in Auckland managed to fuck up my reservations before I arrived at the airport, so when I arrived at Welli airport at 4am they told me that I had no reservations, and I had to contact my travel agent to fix it *MAJOR SWEATDROP* *HATE*
I'm not flying Austrian again, that is for sure.
Now I am trying hard to get a job. It proves to be very hard, cause there are not many options, and I am really in a hurry...
It was good to come home to my parents though, but I really miss having an internet connection! And money! I'm so broke now...
Trong: I might save a thousand bucks if I fly thai airways through Bankok next year!! where are you at the 9th of February?
Trav: I haven't looked at the note! I threw it away yesterday. :)
Jo: Miss u heeps! Shop a lot!
Tarz: Hope you slept well after I left! Miss u!
Go: I need your address! (you probably won't read this though..)
Kunihiro: Hope you are back with your beloved and having the time of your life. ^_^ Miss you!
Geeta and Katherine: Take good care of Michael and Courage! Enjoy the summer!
The rest of u: MISS U AND MISS MY MSN!!

I really miss Wellington. Husnes is still the same boring little place, full og ghosts that I have left ages ago. I don't feel at home here at all, it is just nice to see mum and dad, but other than that I wish that I wasn't staying here for such a long time. I'll be mad with boredom before december, mark my words! And all the leaves are dying, it is late autumn here now, and I'm remembering summer and green grass that I have left behind. *dreaming*

Melbourne was awesome! I loved the city, it was really nice and the people were friendly, save an old hag who had to make a huge fuzz about me putting my very clean shoes on the edge of the seat in front of me. man... some old people are just sad. I still cannot help but wonder if it made her day to be that grumpy towards a complete stranger. Still, I would definitely like to go back to Melbourne and spend some more time there. St Kilda beach was beautiful!! Too bad that these computers are too crappy for me to upload pictures, hear this: I have to put the pics on a floppy disk to access them on this computer! A FLOPPY!!!! HAHahahahaha

Since I arrived it has been raining, been storming, and yesterday we had lightning and thunder! wow... so much weather at once, I guess I wasn't that prepared for it.

Well, I'm at the employment office now, and their computers suck , so I had better post this before it disappears! hehe.

It's over!

So many things are over now.. My exams are over! Which I am veeery happy about. ^_^ My stay at Vic House is over, which I regret, cause my last 5 months here have been quite delightful. I had a bad start being placed on the wrong floor, but once I got up to the 3rd floor, everything was sweet. It is nice to have so many cool ppl around, and i hope hope hope that Stafford House will be cool as next year!
My first year in New Zealand is over! I cannot believe how fast time flies... I have had so many good times! so many memories, and Man I like this country! It was an exellent choice, and I cannot wait to explore more of it next year. :)
It is the end of my time with Kunihiro and Go, and I will miss them a lot next year, it will be sad to say goodbye to them tomorrow.
But with endings come new beginnings!
It will be nice to get home for a while now and eat some decent food and do some cooking again. :) I have to get all sorts of stuff for my friends here, So I had better get a job fast and earn some cash! Need it, neeeed it. All those that are connected should be praying for me. :) I am almost done packing now, I only need two more boxes to pack all the stuff that I've forgotten all over my room... *sigh* Got 9 boxes + 2 more that I need, 2 bags, one dresser (my bedside table), and the pipe with the posters. Whoa...
Today we finished our exams and then went to California Sushi for lunch. It was nice as! I'm going to bring my dad there next year. Then we went to the mill for a lot of beer, drank a lot of beer and had dinner drunk. Now it is 9 30 pm and I am sooo unbelievably tired.. I only had 1 hour of sleep last night. Kept tossing and turning.. Think I'll have a really early night tonight.