1.desember

PINCH PUNCH FIRST OF THE MONTH!! NO RETURNS!!! HAH!
Yes, then we have finally entered the last month of the year, I'm already acting like a child, looking forwards to Christmas Eve with the eagerness of a tipsy squirrel. My santa hat has been put on my head and my signature on my mails have changed.
Today I will have to posts, on pre- and one post The Julekalender:p This is, as I hope you are able to guess or at least count using your countingabilities, calculator or fingers, is pre-The Julekalender. This is the post where I am tormenting myself into leaving The Julekalender-folder unopened. And this is true pain, I tell you:p
Even though EVERYBODY should know this, unless you're teit and not Norwegian, this is a TV Christmas Calender. There is one episode every day from the first of Desember 'til the twenty fourth. The Julekalender contains the Travellin' Strawberries playing three nisser, a man, a weird thing and a lady. they're sent out by the chief nisse, Gammel Nok, to get the only key to the playdåse that keeps him alive. They're sent to Trøndelag where they live in a cave and have to watch out for the evil Nåsså, who moves in with a potato farmer called Olav Sand and his wife, Gjertrud. In addition to Tore Johansen (Gjertrud Sand and Hansi), Ivar Gatseth (Olaf Sand and Gynter) and Erling Mylius (Benny Jensen and Fritz), there are three more actors involved in the Norwegian prduction. Arve Opsahl is Gammel Nok, Lasse Kolstad is the Narrator and Hans-Gunnar Skarstein is the newsreader.
The Norwegian version is as good as a complete copy of the Danish version made by De Nattergale. The biggest difference is the language. In the Julekalender (by the Travellin' Strawberries) the Language between the potato farmer and his wife is trøndersk. Between the nisser, it is Norwenglish (or Norsk-English, if that's easier to understand:p). This language is hard to believe for those who do not understand Norwegian and English:p Full understanding of the languages is not needed as it is a mixture between the two, but you should posses a pretty good knowledge and vocabulary.
Weeeeell... there I've knocked about half an hour down just writing this and now I'm going to find a picture to add with this post... there we are... now I have to add it... There... we... are... And now I just have to wait a bit longer before I watch the first episode... GAH!! I HATE WAITING!!!

17 days left

24 days left

1. sunday of Advent

Today it's the first sunday in Advent (or whatever it's called in English)
And now we're closing in on Christmas! today it's 25 days left and I'll have to add another count down on the bottom of this post:p I really can't wait 'til Christmas!! I've added a Christmas photo too:p I'm sorry that it's not a cozy one, but this is tradition, damn it! I've used this photo every Christmas for the las two or three years:p I love it:p
Yesterday I went shopping. Not any kind of shopping; Christmas-shopping. Or that was the intention:p Me and Eli ended up eating food and shopping mostly for ourselves:p Of course we got some presents, but I'll have to go back and shop more this week:p
What I've discovered, to my horror, is that there is no christmas calendar on the tv here:s Lucky for me, I forsaw this, and got "the Julekalender":p I can't wait to watch the first episode tomorrow!! I was really close to breaking down and watching it yesterday, but I pulled myself together and stayed strong!
Now there is only three weeks left before the holidays, but lucky me, have to catch my plane the day before and will miss both of the days. AND if that wasn't enough! My brother is coming over from Norway and we're going to Belfast the sunday before and we'll stay there 'til tuesday! that means I'll only be at school that wednesday, and wednesday is my short day!! HAHA!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! CAN'T WAIT!!:p

18 days left!

25 days left!!

London

Yesterday my English class went to London, myself included:p We went to the most boring conference I've ever been to, with the most boring people I've ever heard. They tortured us for four hours befor miss Johnson and mrs Gwillim let us run free in London. We got to travel on the underground in the rush time, shop in oxford street and look at the funny cabs (one of them had cow pattern on:D). I got a really cool jacket with zippers with skeleton-stuff in:D it cost 50 pounds, but it's definitely worth it! I got two pairs of really cool socks, a book and two t-shirts^^ Day well spent, in other words:p Can't wait till I'm going back to London in January^^

21 days left!

Back in England

Well... then I'm back in England, land of the egg and bacon. I'm pretty happy here, but DAMN how I miss Norway! I'm really looking forward to Christmas and can't wait to see my friends, family and dog:p
Now I'm sitting in my room, chillin'. I've just taken a shower to get the horse-smell off me. I've worked in the stable all morning (and yesterday morning) and I feel pretty beaten up:p Yesterday I even got to ride one of the horses. His name's Frank and he's HUGE!! He's also very strong and quite lively. Deckie, the horse Fleur rode, was trotting almost all the time, and mostly sideways, so I guess I can't complain. I got a few metres of canter because Frank thought trotting was boring and I can't say I didn't enjoy it without lying^^
Talk to you later!!

39 days left;)

hihi^^

When you move to a new country, there's no telling what can happen^^ I have actually got a job in the weekends now (Yes, I now it's to do with horses, but it's paid DAMN YOU!) and I have pierced my second eyebrow. I'm crossing my fingers that this will actually stay there so that I won't have a scar on both sides:p
Now it's saturday, that is to say a weekend, which means I would normally be asleep seeing it's only 11.48 am, but I'm well awake and clean after taking a shower when I got home from work (which means mucking stables and filling hay nets). This I just wrote to show how... changed I am:p I'm sort of going from a G-person (B-person doesn't quite cover me:p) to an A-person:p
And, it being saturday, it's only 6 days (counting today since it's so early:p (I have to repeat it:P)) till I'm coming home^^ Thursday I'm landing in Trondheim and I can't wait to see people again!
HUGS AND KISSES!!!:p

Father Ted

MARIA HAS BOUGHT THE FATHER TED DEFINITIVE COLLECTION!!!!!

This is England

Well... after... let's see...5 and a half week here, I'm getting used to the language and differences between Norway and England. Going over here I was really nervous about the left side-stuff, but that was surprisingly easy. My school is really nice, apart from some people of course, and I'm really happy here. My family, consisting of Alison, Darryl, Ellen, Jess, Polly and Scruff (last one a dog) is the most friendly bunch of people I have EVER met^^ I've felt at home since day one:)
Starting to miss people a little bit though. But give it two weeks and I'll be popping up when you least expect it in Norway^^