All the Xmas stuff

Soundtrack: Trinityroots - All we be

I've done most of the Xmas shopping now, feels pretty good to be done with all the gifts for all my people, and now it's all about the cards. I've sent out quite a few already, but not the "special ones". I have to go somewhere in Norway to send them, and I really hope that I can manage it now that I've been talking so much about it... Hehe. Would be a bit embarassing if not...
I don't think I've ever spent this much money on sending cards.. I'm up to about 40 dollars now, just for cards and stamps. whoa. I guess that is the price you pay for having good friends all over the world - in that sence it is a price that I am more than willing to pay! :)

Ah well, guess I have to run. More updates soon!
Should try to post some pictures...

blablabla

Soundtrack: Leftfield - Swords

I had a good day at work today, just been walking around daydreaming to myself and ignoring the old grumpy men that I make food for. Today's shift of people was extraordinarily grumpy, usually they are very nice, but these men must be of the kind that feed off other people's energy. Anyway, I didn't care much about them. Meeting Odny yesterday was great, finally I have someone of my crew here at home.

I watched the Nobel Peace Price Concert on Sunday, this years winner is the IAEA and their General Manager Mohamad ElBaradei. Well earned. All honour to them, and may they always be here to protect us. ElBaradai was really moved when he entered the stage at the end of the concert, and he said: "As long as I am alive, I will never fail you." What a wonderful man. :)

Quite a large fright

Soundtrack: buena vista social club - el cuarto de tula

Geeta told me that her friend that studies BTM last year said that HGL was leaving for Germany. WELL, Geeta, thank goodness your friend was wrong! He is only on a research leave. ^_^

Still working, cannot wait to meet my friend Odny today! Finally!

Now 25

Well, my birthday wasn't much. I worked till 4, and then was completely exhausted. Went home, ate cake, and went out to eat dinner with my dad. And that was it, really. Got nice presents, from Trav I got Emily Dickinson's complete works, from Feli a cute ass little mirror, from mom and Rex I got a diamond ring (yikes!) and from my dad I got an A-plan! wuhu! no more wallets for me, I'll now appear super organised wherever I go! ^_^
My brother forgot all about me, or couldn't be bothered to call. So much for family love.

Not being able to post pictures on my blog is annoying me. To be able to I have to go through a long series of different things, I have to get it on my thumbdrive, then put it on my other computer to get it on a floppy, then go to the employment office to use a crappy computer to write the post, and then go to the library to put the pictures on. Bah. So that is why my blog is boring.
And Tarz, thank you for waking me up yesterday at 9am so I wasn't late for my bus, I forgot to put my alarm on, but woke up when I dreamt that u were waking me up. Weirdest thing ever! Must be some Maori magic or something..
Feli, Jo and Regi: soon I will have planned when I'll be arriving and all! Wuhu!!!
Greg: u better read my blog from now on!

I've done all my xmas shopping, and can now relax until we go to Trondheim for the holidays. They have snow! Wuhu, white xmas, here I come. Here it is as usual. When it snows, it only stays for 1-2 days and then it's gone again.. grr. But anyway, I'm planning to send cards to those of you that I think would enjoy it, from a very special place. hihi, not saying more now.

Love to all.

I still need addresses!

Soundtrack: Goldfrapp - Strict machine

And that goes for ALL of you, cause I left my address book in NZ. No address, no xmascard. That simple!

Not much news, still working and nothing much happening. Looking forward to eating cake tomorrow.

Trav! I opened the present, a million thank u for the book! I was stunned. :D
Feli, tanks for the lovely mirror! It was so cute!
Hugs to you both.
I opened them today cause I won't be home till late tomorrow. :) Any excuse is good enough. I'm surprised that I got any gifts in time, having such a bad rep myself, hehe.

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.

The Corpse Bride

We went to see The Corpse Bride today!
It was really nice and really romantic.. :) There are so many movies that I have to see when my exams end! I want to see Narnia, which was filmed in New Zealand, and I want to see Harry Potter. I'll probably catch HP with my dad when we go to my grandmother's for Christmas. In a way, I don't want to go home now... And in a way I do... *sigh*
If only my exams were over.

Swimming

Soundtrack: Erlend Øye - The talk

So, I now finished two exams and still have one to go. The worst one. To celebrate that I finished the exam, I sat a goal that on our picnic on Wednesday I would swim! It is after all summer? I saw butterflies here the other days, and bees and stuff. U don't get those unless it is summer... I, Jo, Go and Kuni went to Island Bay for the day. The weather was really super nice, and the beach was unbelievably nice. Feli was right, it is really beautiful there. :) I'm definitely going there when I get back next year. When it is hopefully a lot warmer in the water!!! I asked around before going for the swim, and they told me it would be around 11 degrees in the water. I am a Norwegian am I not? So, of course I had to go for a swim. :D It was cold.
Now I am broke, I only have enough to enjoy Melbourne and go home. Which should be sufficient, but still. It would have been nice to have something to use when I got back. Ah well, must get a job fast as!

Indian Festival

Geeta asked me to come to this Indian festival in Civic square, and I decided to go all though I really should be studying.. :D I'll make up for it tomorrow. At least I'll try hard to. So I, Geeta and Katherine walked down there at about 3 pm, looking forward to eating and shopping at the stalls. It was so cool to see all the people there dressed up in the national costumes, and the dancers were really superb, even though they were kids! I was amazed at how well they danced. They must start training when they are really young...
So I enjoyed walking around, trying a lot of strange food that tasted good, but I still have no clue what it is that I have been eating today.
We ate these yellow balls of something that was sweet, that was nice. And some spicy stuff with potato, and something made out of milk. hehe.. not very descriptive. to top it all off I got a henna tattoo! So cool, but I had to walk around with my hand open for about 4 hours, so it was a bit troublesome. It's my first henna though, so now my writing-hand is all dolled up for exams ^_^

Great day in the sunshine, and at the end we went to Hell. We had pizza there before we went home. I've studied for about 2 hours, not enough by far. Still, I feel somewhat confident that I will get a good grade for this exam.. Hopefully my gut feeling is right.

Dinner at Sakura

We had a dinner to celebrate Kunihiro an Go, and to grieve the fact that we will not see them again after this year. Kuni will be going home and attempting to get a job or study or both, while Go has finished his Honors degree and will be going to Japan to start working. Good luck to them both! (so I guess this means that we will have to find replacements when they are gone...) Dinner was nice, but it was not very filling.
After dinner we returned to Vic house to have icecream and wine. Mmm.. :)_
Nice wine and some icecream, and my stomach didn't hurt afterwards. My oh my, a whole day without studying. I was going to watch a movie afterwards, but ended up in Katherine's room after the wine. Oh well. Phrase of the day: "Put it away."

I had an exam on Wednesday, as you know... And it was EASY. I'm hoping that this is a good sign. Then we had planned a dinner for Trong, because he was going away earlier than the farewell dinner for Go and Kuni. But then he decided to go on the 27.. and we just decided to have the dinner anyway. :D We went to a

restaurant called the Tug Boat Restaurant in Oriental Bay. It was pretty flash, and the prices were high.. But the food was not that great. It was ok. We agree that the fishermans table is better though. The scene is better at the tug boat, but the food is better at the fisherman's table. yeah.. anyway.. ^_^

I just got back from a lovely run in the rain. :D I'm freezing, swetty and feel really tired, but still it's great! A woman asked me when I was running past her: Why are you running?! (she was drunk). I yelled back: Because I want to! And then it hit me... I actually like this! Even though it feels like hell, and I feel like the most unfit person in the world, when I'm done I feel great! So now I am going to go to bed with a happy (though disturbing, for some people who don't like jogging) smile on my face.

hmm

Yesterday there was a full moon, and I went around town taking some photos. They didn't turn out too great, but ok I guess. I am now only hours away from my first exam, cannot wait to be done with it! Info 101, this is the end of our relationship. I haven't studied too hard, but still feel pretty confident. We'll see when the report card comes....

After getting into Stafford my stress level has been eased a lot. And Christine has promised to help me with storage if I need it, so now I am confident that I will have room for all my stuff. After the exam tomorrow I look forward to a flash as dinner and a whole week of studying my favourite subject. :) Things are looking up. Now the only thing that is missing is sleep... Cause I'm really awake, and still I have to sleep to wake up early tomorrow. Humm... Someone knock me on the head with something heavy..