looking back

I'm sitting and waisting time, waiting to go to work. Started thinking back, again, and was looking at my x-colleague's old blog. So much fun!! Found these pics from August 2005, which is a while ago now. We had been at Madagascar for about two weeks and had the first choir gathering on this date three years ago, wow!
The same week we also started a scout group for the Norwegian children. There had been one many years ago, but it had been dead for a while. We had so much fun in our specialmade uniforms!! :)


Have been missing Madagascar a lot lately, probably because I know it will still be a long time until I'll be able to go back and visit.. I miss the everyday life, going to the market, talking to people in the streets, the Norwegian children, the Malagasy children on the church school, all the laughter and smiles that were so real even though many had so little. We have so much to learn, I have so much to learn. I sit here thinking i'm a poor student!! I really am ashamed of myself, and we all should be!! One of the worst moments in my life was having to leave Madagascar in a hurry at Christmas time. Coming from people who never knew if they would have food for the next day or clothes for the cold nights, to people in big airports with so many bags of stuff that they couldn't even carry it!! It just made me sick and tears were streaming, I felt so lost, so hurt and so ashamed of my own culture.

Looking back at it now, the worst thing is that shortly after returning home for good, i slipped straight back into old habits.. If only we were as good at doing good acts as talking about them....

Somewhere to breathe

Being a student is something that can be very stressful! Being a new student is worse. Even though I've been to UiA (University of Agder) for lunch a few times before, i haven't had any lectures there. There are so many things to fix the first week. So much information that it feels like your brain just melts and stops functioning. So after what felt like and info overload, i luckily had a half day off on Thursday. So took a book, some nibbles, sunglasses and walked for about ten minutes. This is where i ended up!! Pretty ehh? :)

I cycle through this place to get to uni, such a brilliant start of the day! I think I'll be spending quite a lot of time by this little lake, I'm SO happy it's close by.

here we go!

The first week of uni is over, i've survived! I've had chemistry, met SO many people, had a lot of coffee, bought books, gotten myself a nurse uniform, spent way too much money in the fantastic cafeteria, started in CHRISC again, made new friends, had lunch with old friends+++
Even though it's just been five days, i really feel like i'm in the right place! What they teach us is exiting! It's gonna be a fab year!!
:)

TSIKY!!!


This weekend is gonna be so good!! A friend of mine from Madagascar is coming to me on saturday! On Sunday I will go with him to Birkeland Folkehøyskole (A school) where he's gonna study this year:) It's gonna be so cool to have him in Norway this year. He's a really funny guy and lives up to his name, which means smile:)

See you soon Tsiky!

Tadaaa!!

I should show you some pictures from my new home in Kristiansand, but i don't have any. So you'll have to settle with this weird one instead:p

Let me tell you about my new home, pics will have to come later. I'm gonna live about 10 min cyckle from uni, with two other girls, Mari and Sarah. Mari I've gotten to know a bit and she's great! Haven' t met Sarah yet, but we're already facebook buddies:) We (or Mari) have one child, Adrian! He's a grey and white kitten who just melts your heart. Mari, Sarah, Adrian and me live in a cozy little red house, with a garage and pattio. It's gonna be a fantastic year!

On saturday me and my dad loaded up the car and set off to start making my room mine:) I stayed until sunday and by the time i left, my stuff was everywhere and it started to feel like home.

I'm so exited about moving in! It happens on saturday, four days to go! Yaaay!!

.......Well, i better was a few more shelves now:)

wow!

Struck in awe by the fact that there have been people in here, I give in, the blog is back on!! :) However I must warn you that there will be times when it must rest.. I'm going to be a serious student from now on, and I'll have to study hard. Because if you ever end up in the hospital, you would like if Nurse Staalesen knew how to take care of you;)

do i dare..

Seeing i've restarted this blog about a thousand times, i am now very much in doubt wether it would be worth trying it out one more time.... I don't think anyone checks it anymore, so it wouldn't be as much for other people as for myself.
I've looked briefly at some of my oldest posts, and it's so funny!! It has a nice picture "diaryish" feel and I find it very amuzing to read it again:)

Since I'll be going back to uni. in two weeks time, i think it would be good to have somewhere to let out steam and just babble on about serious, but mostly unserious stuff. I will reconsider wether it is best to "leave and let die" or if I should wipe the dust of my "bubble" yet another time.
If you, whomever you might be, have anything to say about it, please let me know! You'll probably be the only one, hehe:)