A quick note

Hello friends!
In case you're wondering, I'm still alive and well! There has been a week with no updating, sorry about that. Because of a fantastic trip to Norway and no internet connection, i've had no chance to tell you about my exiting life in one of the world's most interesting cities! But, on monday i'll be back in the game, hopefully!

To all of my readers, THANK YOU! I can't belive that there are so many people reading, it really means a lot to me:)

Open House

Every day of the week St.Paul's has a cafe that is open to everyone. A lot of people come here to have their lunch, both old and young. The cooks are great and the food is fantastisc, this I know because we get the leftovers:)
Miko and I do two things. Either we work behind the counter serving food, or we just sit with poeple and talk, we are "open ears" as they call it. It is nice and an oppertunity to meet a lot of fantastic people.

This is a picture from the cafe, I took it today.



Well, it's weekend and I'm going home. Hopefully I'll tell you more on Monday!

A night on the town

We in the team have different "days off", Miko and I don't work on fridays. Hildegunn has also the day off then, so we usually hang together then. On saturdays we get the day off if there's nothing special happening. This saturday there was nothing going on, so we went to Central London. We were five girls and went to a lot of different places. We went to Kensington, Notting Hill, Portebello Road,Covent Garden +++
During the day we came up with the idea of going to a musical. We searched for some pretty cheap tickets, found them, bought them and went! We saw "Footloose", it was awsame!!! It was my first real musical, and i truly loved it! The music, the actors, the stage and lightening, and offcouse the dancing, WOW! We went dancing out of there full of energy when it was finished.
Now I'll start saving up for a new one. I hear "Dirty Dancing" is on it's way, anyone jelaous?

just talk

Now i'm sitting at an internett cafe in Hesteon, that's where i live. It is really close to the airport, i see big planes crossing over ny head every day. I think it's quite facinating staring uo at those big heavy things and knowing that the are flying! If thay can get those things in the air, why can't thay find a way for us to fly? The thing is that when i walk to my bus stop and a plane is crossing over, my eyes goes up and i think "wow". The problem then is that you don't look where you're going. I must admit i have cvome quite close to some very embaressing falls and crashes. Ooops, i'm out of time!

A taste of Nature

Sometimes it's hard for a non-city girl like me to handle all the traffic and people. What do I do then? Answer; you find a park! Luckely there's quite few parks around the area, and this is pictures taken from the one closest to me. I needed some peace and quite, and I found it. After a while of peace and some playing with the camera i went home. But, it was a good pause from the world.
By the way. I live close to heathrom, the airport. There's a huge ammount of planes over our head during the day. I didn't see the plane on the picture until i got back home. Nice eeh?


Just so you won't forget me:) I LOVE digital cameras!

Getting around

I don't live very close to work, I'm actually the volunteer with the longest way, unfear! But, i don't complain, it's not like it's that far, pluss, i've got a bike! This splendid thing gets me to work and everywhere i wan't to go. And, if the weather is bad or I just feel lazy, you've always got the red buses. Today was the first time i went by bus, and i must say it's quicker by bike. So, as long as the sun is shining I'll be quite sporty:)

The Brentford Team

Well, here we are; Team Brentford! All inn all we are a team of seven, but we are split into pairs. So, Miko and I work together in the Parish of Brentford. The parish has two churches, St.Pauls's and St.Faith's. It is at St.Pauls that the center is and where we go "to work". On Sundays I will go to St.Faith's, while Miko will be at St.Paul's. We'll be included in the Sunday school programme, so that will be exiting.
This is from last weekend when we were presented to the congregation at St.Paul's. Yesterday we did the same at St.Faith's.




This is a picture of Kjetil Aano and Miko, taken last Sunday after church. He came to meet with ous bosses and to meet us, we had a nice day as you can see. It was lovely weather and we went to a marked where the church had a stand. There was live music so we just sat ack and enjoyed the day.



This is a picture of St.Faith's. The church buildings are quite different. I think this is a baeutilful church.

Tourists

Big Ben! Isn't it great! The first days, from Wednesday to Friday we lived at the Indian YMCA in Central London. We were taken hand of by the CMS (Church Mission Society) witch had some cultural briefing with us. They taught us english table manners and other usefull things you need to survive in this city. No, I'm just kidding, we learnt a lot of things and they also showed us around town and in the Tube system. It was a really good start of wht will be a fantastic year!




Isn't it beautiful? We found this at Covent Garden. We were really spellbound by all the lights and the wounderfull music, maybe that explains the next picture, hehe:)




This is Vidar and Torgeir, they just had to go for a ride.




London by night. Since it's the first time for me to visit this big city, the red busses made an impression. When I think of London I think of red busses, so i just had to take some pictires of them.




Finally, this is me and Vidar sitting on the top and in the front of a red bus for the first time, cool? Yes, it was for us!

The team!

Here you can see a picture of the entire team, the London Team. We norwegians met this summer, while Miko and Rada first met ut last week. I must admit, it makes me really proud to be in a gang of such great people!

Names from left; Torgeir, Miko (from etsonis), Anne Marie, Me, Rada (from Croatia), Hildegunn and Vidar.

Coming here

This is me and my dad right before I left the country. He was the one that drove me to the airport and bid me farewell. Thanks dad!

The whole thing went without any problems, at least for me. I flew to Oslo where i met the other norwegians and Miko from Estonia, the guy I work with here in Brentford. I'll tell you more about him later. On the flight to London we were all very exited, luckely it's a short trip. I sat next ta an exiting man that travels around the world, so that made the trip a lot more interesting.
This is Torgeir and Merete. This is right before we found out that Vidar's luggage never made it to London, poor guy! After talking to British Airways we could finally move on to find our last team member, Rada from Croatia.

This is Vidar and Anne Marie. They work together in The Holy Trinity Church in Hounslow, great people! There was something wrong with the tube, so we had to go by bus for a while.






This is picture from the tube. Usually it's crowded, but not on this pidture. We take the tube to get around central London. Believe it or not, I'm strarting to understand how to use it!!

News on it's way!

I'm sorry for the non-active days, it's just that i haven't had internett. So, it's really not my fault. But fear not! Today and tomorrow I'll put in new pictures and fun stuff from my first week in London. See ya!