Those last stressful days

Right now my room is still pretty messy and for the untrained eye it might look like I’ll miss the plane tomorrow. But, no worries, I’ll make it:)
After my stressful but very cosy days in Oslo, I headed to Kristiansand for some more goodbyes. My best friends are studying there, so a stop was very necessary. We had some great days together, just like in the good old times.

On the Saturday I went up to Birkeland Folkehøyskole where a friend of mine from Madagascar studies this year. He had no idea that I was coming, so he was very surprised to see me standing in the door. We both got so happy and started to talk in Malagasy without thinking about the crowd listening, it was very funny. We spent the day together, and I took him and his roomies from Peru and Taiwan out for a tour in Kristiansand. The rest of the day I met all his friends, and we sat outside the school in the sun playing guitar and singing, it was really a fantastic day.

Yesterday was an exiting day in my life. First I bought a new camera, HAPPY! I haven’t had a camera since mine was stolen at Easter this year. I am very pleased with my new Canon camera and can’t wait to fill up my memory card with London’s many tourist attractions!
The other thing that happened was that I finally got a haircut. My parents told me it was about time and sent me away. I must admit, there was absolutely room for renewing.

Well, now I’m off to say goodbye to some more people and then just make the finishing touch on my luggage before I’ll be in my way.
So, next time you’ll hear from me I’ll be in London!!!!!!

Oslo

These last couple of days I’ve been in Oslo. After spending five and a half boring hours on the train, I could finally see my friend Marit waiting for me. We studied together at the bible school.
It was great being in Oslo again, it’s a bit more interesting than my home town. I think there is about 530 000 people living in Oslo. If you compare it to Lyngdal’s 7500, then you might understand that to me it’s a big adventure just walking up and down the main street. And yes I’m moving to London, he he:) How will I survive?
My mission was just to find as many of my friends from school as possible, say “hello”, “good luck” and then “See you next year!” Lucky me found a bunch of people and had some great days!

I think that one of the most entertaining things to do in a big city is watching people. Just sit at a café or a bench and looking at people stressing, walking or even running past you. I like guessing their thoughts and what they work with and stuff, it’s so much fun!

I’ve been to Oslo a couple of times, but I have no idea where stuff are or how to get to different places. This time I had to get around on my own a lot, since everyone started their studies this week. I was a bit nervous the first times, but I made it! Off course I made some mistakes like taking the wrong bus and things like that, but nothing serious.

To all the cool people I met, I’LL MISS YOU!! But, I know you check this site and we’ll stay in touch.

Oslo, here I come!

Today I had my last early morning, my last lunch break and best of all, my last day at work!!! As a miracle I left dry and in good shape. I have been waiting all day for a major water attack by some people. We've had a little combat going on this summer, and yesterday I really showed them, or mostly one guy, the real me. So, I must admit I was a bit nervous walking outside the safe wear house wall’s:)

Both I and my co-worker, Laila, brought something extra for lunch and the coffee break. It’s a good tradition.
A lot of people have stopped by to say "good luck" and "see you next year!" I think they are satisfied with me and my work, so my chances of getting a job next year looks good.

So, tomorrow I pack my bags and set out to the big capital, Oslo! Most of my friends are there to study, so it's really a necessary stop before leaving the country for one more year. It will also be my only vacation this summer, and I'm planning on spending it good. Off course it will be, since I will see a lot of people that I haven't seen for a year of two, exited? Yes I am!!!
If you find my bubble a bit dead the next few days, you know why. Just fill it with comments:) I'll be returning on Wednesday, after that it's packing and so much more to do. I think I might be a bit stressed out the last couple of days, but it's always like that.

If you’re in Oslo, maybe I’ll se you around! For everyone else, have a splendid weekend!!!

My girls

Names from left; Mailene, Martha and me!
These girls are two out of the three fantastic girls, that lived at the boarding house on the Norwegian school at Madgascar. That was were I worked, and it was great! We got that family feeling and I felt I got three younger sisters.
They were at a camp nearby a week ago and lucky me got to see them again. Martha stayed at my house a couple of days, i loved hanging with her again. I miss them very much but I know we'll stay in touch. Love you girls!

Shakespeare

As some of you might remember me and some others had a period where Shakespeare was all we talked about. Sitting here I suddenly remembered a quote, but I don't remember where it's from. It goes like this:

"Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine,
That all the world will be in love with night
and pay no worship to the garish sun"

If that's not a compliment then I don't know what is:)

Mondays...

There are those days when you just wish you had never gotten out of bed. Days when problems are all you see and they just keep popping up wherever you turn. At the same time your mood just sinks like a stone in water. Well, that is how my day has been, lovely! After a night of terrible sleep and lots of really slow going trailers on the road to work, I just knew I was in for a blast. You see, today they needed me back in the "sweeping" car. I was a bit happy since I thought it would be nice to get out of the wear house for a little while. To make a long story short, I really made a mess, hehe:) It ended with me driving it full, in the way that it won't tip (there’s a big box which fills up with dust, to empty it you tip it). That’s a bit embarrassing, and off course everyone noticed. Especially when as a girl you’re a part of the absolute minority. On the top of that one of the tires punctured. If I look at the positive side I made a lot of people smile today and all in all that’s good. I like putting a smile on people's faces!

Now I've had dinner, a shower and even a little nap and things are looking much better. Hopefully people will be nice and forget all about it till tomorrow, but I must say I doubt it. These people won’t let you forget:)

Where will I live?

I thought that it would be fun to show you where I'll be living and working next year. I'll be working in the Parish of Brentford witch consists of two churches, St.Paul's and St.Faith's. I'll be working at St.Paul's. If you want to know more about that, go to their web site! It is: www.parishofbrentford.org.uk Have a look!

Two days a go I had a long first talk to my host. Her name is Melanie Green and I can't wait to meet her in real life. I'm so exited about this!

Moving on

I was looking at some blogs and found this. This is all the missionaries that ended their period at Madagascar this year. I'm sitting on the roof of the car with Kristian on my lap.
Last week I met with the new volunteers and the volunteers that came home this summer. It was time for debriefing, saying goodbye and moving on. I've had a hard time "getting over" Madagascar and I probably never will. But, at the same time I'm so exited about London that I can't stop thinking about it!!

Just want to say to the people on the picture and the people that are still down there, I MISS YOU!! Thank you for a super year! Hopefully I'll see you soon:)

Make my day

I just want to remind you that it is possible to write me a message:) If you press on the "comments" under the post, you will really put a smile on my face.

A taste of summer

It's sunday, tomorrow I'll be back at work. But I've had such a great weekend!! I just have to tell you about it.
On Friday I visited my friend Katrine on my way home from work. She works on a golf court. Lucky me got to try some balls on the new driving range. We talked about what to da later on. We met at about nine o’clock. Our adventure was to follow the river in our town all the way to the beach were it comes out. We used a small plastic boat, the sort you have to inflate. We had a great time; just floating down without using the oars. But, after an hour and a half we figured it was about time to start the “engines”. We spent nearly three hours, it was great!
Yesterday (Saturday) I went to the beach. It’s not like you see the sun a lot when you work inside a factory. After accomplishing a nice red colour I went home to wax the car. I usually do that every summer, I really had that great summer feeling! In the evening I read some in my book (a scary one) before cuddling up in the sofa letting myself be entertained by the TV.

Today we, meaning mum, dad and me, drove up to our cabin. It’s in a place called “Åseral”, or “Hamkoll” to be precise. It’s lovely nature, so I went for an hour hike up in the mountain. On the top there was lovely water, perfect to cool of in and off course I got to enjoy the sun.
Here are some pictures:



Now I’m on my way to a friend, we're having a small barbecue, I LOVE the summer!!

My Job

As you all know I work at "Tinfos Jernverk". I never got to capture my cool "cleaning "car on camera, disappointing but true. To make it up to you I have this fabulous picture of me and my favourite hang-out place.

I've worked on the factory for four weeks, two more to go. After that one week of vacation followed by LONDON. You may say I'm a bit exited.
Since I'm such a nice person I've also uploaded this picture under, so that you can see the factory in all it's glory. I work in the right end of the narrow building opposite of the blue. That is the wearhouse, my place:)