I'm finally back from Trondheim and Bergen, have had an awesome time!!
I left for Trondheim on the 14th, and got seriously delayed as the departure that I was supposed to travel on got cancelled due to technical problems. The next flight didn't depart till 8pm - 10 hours later!! So I changed my return, and stayed a week rather than just 5 days. No regrets there! I stayed at my Grandma's, and I feel that I got to re-establish the connection between us like I wanted to, I've talked to her as much as I've never talked before. :) She told me heaps of cool things about what it was like to live in Norway during the war, stuff about my family that I never knew, and updated me on relatives and so on. I also learned heaps about her. Man, she's cool. She'll be 95 years old in May, and is still going strong! She won't have one of those walker-thingies, because she's afraid of her back getting all crooked, so she goes out every day and just brings a staff with her. She believes in kinda new age stuff as well, which is a bit surprising, he he. Only 1 thing was nice about leaving: I finally got to sleep in a separate bedroom again, lol. Her apartment is really small because she claims not to need a big one (ok, fair enough) and my family's always been very.... (insert proper word here). If anyone is visiting and decides to stay in a hotel while there's a spot free on the floor in someone's house - that's seen as a defeat. At least she had replaced the crappy old couch with a new bed, so I was very comfortable.
I also got to catch up with my friend from Welli, Anette. One of the days we went to Hell - something that I've been wanting to do for some time. I've been through Hell every time I've visited my Grandma, and I really wanted to stop and have a look around but never really had the time. We got real surprised when we discovered that some of the most known rock carvings in Scandinavia are there! We went up to the forest and had a look (not much else to do in Hell, really) and took some pictures, I was kinda amazed to think that maybe 6500 years ago someone was standing at the same spot, drawing raindeer on the mountain shelf. amazing... After that we went to Hell mall, and had lunch, before walking around a bit and taking extremely dorky pictures. he he
I also finally finished upgrading my teeth at the dentist's when I got to Bergen on Wednesday. WHEEE!!! Thursday I was so scared that I near fell apart in the waiting room, but the dentist managed to get through to me and calm me down, and I finished everything without nerve-calming medicines. Man, I was so proud of myself that you wouldn't even know! When I finished I was walking through the street as if I was a queen, ha ha. Friday I had my two wisdom teeth pulled out, so now I'm kinda swollen and sore, but very happy that I finally have no more dentist appoinments, and my teeth are happy and healthy again. :)
Not much else to report, really. I guess it's all a bit distant to you guys, I know that some ppl (that's YOU, Manu!) don't even have the stamina to read these emails. Oh well
Only a bit more than 2 weeks till I go travelling now! wheee!
I left for Trondheim on the 14th, and got seriously delayed as the departure that I was supposed to travel on got cancelled due to technical problems. The next flight didn't depart till 8pm - 10 hours later!! So I changed my return, and stayed a week rather than just 5 days. No regrets there! I stayed at my Grandma's, and I feel that I got to re-establish the connection between us like I wanted to, I've talked to her as much as I've never talked before. :) She told me heaps of cool things about what it was like to live in Norway during the war, stuff about my family that I never knew, and updated me on relatives and so on. I also learned heaps about her. Man, she's cool. She'll be 95 years old in May, and is still going strong! She won't have one of those walker-thingies, because she's afraid of her back getting all crooked, so she goes out every day and just brings a staff with her. She believes in kinda new age stuff as well, which is a bit surprising, he he. Only 1 thing was nice about leaving: I finally got to sleep in a separate bedroom again, lol. Her apartment is really small because she claims not to need a big one (ok, fair enough) and my family's always been very.... (insert proper word here). If anyone is visiting and decides to stay in a hotel while there's a spot free on the floor in someone's house - that's seen as a defeat. At least she had replaced the crappy old couch with a new bed, so I was very comfortable.
I also got to catch up with my friend from Welli, Anette. One of the days we went to Hell - something that I've been wanting to do for some time. I've been through Hell every time I've visited my Grandma, and I really wanted to stop and have a look around but never really had the time. We got real surprised when we discovered that some of the most known rock carvings in Scandinavia are there! We went up to the forest and had a look (not much else to do in Hell, really) and took some pictures, I was kinda amazed to think that maybe 6500 years ago someone was standing at the same spot, drawing raindeer on the mountain shelf. amazing... After that we went to Hell mall, and had lunch, before walking around a bit and taking extremely dorky pictures. he he
I also finally finished upgrading my teeth at the dentist's when I got to Bergen on Wednesday. WHEEE!!! Thursday I was so scared that I near fell apart in the waiting room, but the dentist managed to get through to me and calm me down, and I finished everything without nerve-calming medicines. Man, I was so proud of myself that you wouldn't even know! When I finished I was walking through the street as if I was a queen, ha ha. Friday I had my two wisdom teeth pulled out, so now I'm kinda swollen and sore, but very happy that I finally have no more dentist appoinments, and my teeth are happy and healthy again. :)
Not much else to report, really. I guess it's all a bit distant to you guys, I know that some ppl (that's YOU, Manu!) don't even have the stamina to read these emails. Oh well
Only a bit more than 2 weeks till I go travelling now! wheee!