Winterbreak! Vinterferie

This past week has been winter break for my school.
The first few days I as home here in Eidsvoll and I hung out with friends and such. On wednesday I went up in the mountains with my mom and sisters and some extended family for a hytta tur. We went cross country skiing and down hill skiing. both of which i am now in love with. ill update more later cause my computers being a little dumb.

updates and such needed things

So Becka told me to update, and i guess i should listen to her sometimes, even if im in a whole other part of the world than her. well ive been super busy here lately. i was out every day last week i think and also on friday and saturday as well. then today i was at tristans the whole day. i got to play with siri linn a little! WHEEE! maybe one day shell be my sister in law. which is wierd to think, cause i think of her as my niece or something. anyways, well, whatd i do last week.. On onsdag i was at swimming with friends and then afterwards we went to marius' and watched jackass and stuff. on thursday i have absolutely no idea what i did. on friday i went to visit my friends in the elementary school, and i ended up playing with then for 30 min. haha. i cant wait til im a teacher!then afterschool i went to my local contact family. Liv (mom) and Jenny (sister). that was pretty fun. we watched a norwegian movie called elling. on lørdag was ukm. its like a talent show. both jenny and karo prefromed and went on to the next level!! afterwards we went out to eat and such things.

Yeah, so its been pretty busy. but i still have time to do my important marissa things such as crafty things, writing, and reading (i have this new book i bought whihc is realllllllly good, its called 'mannen som elsket yngve' or translated means the man who loved yngve.)

Party at afs camp. wheeeee (maren and i)

oops

i always forget to update. well, not much to say now... cant really type, i have to concentration... im sick with some kind of stomach bug. mmmm tasty. and i have to get better before tomorrow, because i am going away with afs for the whole weekend. eeeeeeeeek!

working next week, etc.

so, im going to be working next week at my sisters school. that should be kinda fun... but i dont think ill be seeing tristan every day though, wahhhhhh... anyways, tristans sick today. my poor baby. =(. i might go visit him later though, but im also going to a tv show tonight so ill see if i can stop by. tomorrow though Im definately seeing him. no question about that...

haha. that was tristans face when he saw my hair. haha. (shock??)

updatering

so. i havent written in a while and dont have much time now... so ill update soon. but the only news i really have is...





I DYED MY HAIR PURPLE!!!

during the dying

the result!!! with a nice face walking in the cold...

Jul, Nyttårs, etc.

Christmas was spent up north in Norway in a place called Sulis. You probably wouldnt find it if you looked on a map, because not even 1000 people live there. But ill tell you, it was beautiful. It was a little town on the side of a mountain, at least a half hour away from any civilization. They had one store, a grocery store. The christmas was really nice. We did traditional norwegian things, which arent so different from american things. We went to chruch on new years eve (the only time ill ever go this year), then went home and ate ribs and polse, then we sang christmas songs around the christmas tree, and then we opened gifts, which took hoursssssss. the favoritie gift that i recieved was a painting of a troll that my grandpa here made for me. beautiful norwegian things. I tried skiing for the first time.... which was quite fun. But lets just say, i need to practice a lot more before i even come close to norwegian standards... then we spent most of the time just with family and such. Mamma, Pappa, and Ingrid drove back home and Karo and I took a train from northern norway home... it was pretty fun actually, but it got kinda long (17 hours on trains). When we came home we had a little christmas eve, just with us here, cause we couldnt take all of the gifts with, of course. When sleep finally came, we were all verryyy glad. The day after was new years eve already, and I spent the day with Tristan. Then later on we went to a very 'german' party, where the majority of the guests were from germany. therefore, the language of choice of the evening was one that i dont understand everything in... but i understand suprisingly much for not ever trying to learn it. New years eve actually felt a lot like the 4th of july because at midnight, all of the norwegians light off rockets and have sparklers. And we just watched a lot of the fireworks from across the lake (i was at my friends house which is on lake Mjøsa, the largest lake in norway). So now its the new year, and i know its gonna be great. because Im here in norway with a great boyfriend, family, and friends. and when i go back to the us, tristan will hopefully come with and ill soon be 18 after i return. and then..... SOON BACK TO NORWAY!! (if all goes as planned, for college!!!) Maybe germany though, for college.... i dont know, i dont want to decide my whole life now... thats so stupid, i want to be an artist, and artists can follow rules and deadlines... we just go whenever something strikes us. speaking of which, i really have the desire to play viola right now. So ill set in some pics and then play away.

Tristan and I at new years party.

Trying to show Tristan what 'spooning' was, but tim hadda jump on top...

juleferie

today is the first day of winterbreak and tomorrow were heading up to Sulis, near Bodø... it should be pretty fun, i think... aside from the 16 or 17 hour car ride up... i think i may just kill someone. I also wish that I could spend Christmas here with Tristan... (maybe we just need to have 2 different christmases or something). I just saw him for the last time for a week and a half. tragic. wah. i miss him already. And a terrrrrible thing on my part, I forgot to give him his christmas present. FAEN! but break will be alright i think... i hope. im just really gonna miss tristan sooooooo bad. like horribly bad. like end of the world bad. gahhhh... Oh, and guess what. im worse in jenga than tristan is. omg. and i thought i was pretty good. but no... i was really bad. hahaha. we didnt even make it through 10 turns. hahaha. well anyways, i wont be able to write while im up north, but ill definatley write when i come back which is like the 30th of desember or something.

Me and Tristan painting his bedroom

Yiren and I at our class's juleavsluttning

Me and the boy I love singing songs around the Christmas tree



ha en god jul og et godt nytt år!

ENDELIG 17 ÅR!!

Today was the best birthday og my life so far. This is how it went....





9:30- I got up, without an alarm... a very positive thing about thursdays (no school until 11). it was a little strange I do admit, not being waken up by crazy family members singing happy birthday and such...





10:30- I walked to school in the freeeeeeeeeezing cold. It was -8 celsius with wind. I couldnt feel my legs and I hadda walk 3 km... but the sky was absolutely beautiful, so it was worth it.





11:00- I had norwegian class, and the whole class sang to me in norwegian. =) Super exciting.





11:40- Lunch time! Laura made 17 balloons with happy birthday on them that I carried around (as they were all popping). Tristan kept apoligizing that he 'forgot' my birthday present. It was so cute... cause hes a terrible liar, so he couldnt fake forget...





2:45- done with school, so I went into the carpentry classes cause Im in love with it there now. Then I went home, which was nice. I got to eat and do sudoku and clean my room!





5:00- Tristan came over!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! And he brought with him 8 beauuuutiful red roses. nothing can even begin to explain how much I love this boy. =)!!!! So I hung out with him the whole night and a little bit with my sisters and pappa. It was an aweeeeeeeesome day. Ill never forget it!

Me walking to school in the verrrrrrrrrrry cold

17 birthday balloons!

Desember ish happenings

So as I was walking around school today, I decided that I wanted to swith out of allmans fag (study subjects) and into the building classes. Their building is awesome. And theyre building playhouses and such. Its so cool. And it smells soooooooooooo nice. WOAH! Well, gotta go back to media class. Ill update later. =)

Desember. woah.

I can't believe that its December. today I was making cookies for a party tomorrow, and i just thought to myself... 'holy shit, im 17 soon and ive been in gone from the us for 5 months now.' WOAH! cause I left july 17th, and today is December 7th... so almost 5 months. Thats crazy. I like to sit and think sometimes how Ive changed since Ive come to norway. I cant even begin to explain. Im sure some people get a glimpse of it while Im on the phone with them and such, but they cant even begin to understand how different I am now. And Ill never be that girl I was before. No chance or desire at all. Things that have changed about me since I came to norway... lets see if I can just name some... nope, almost impossible. except for the obvious, I can speak another language, Ive become a lot more confidence, and Ive fallen in love. Three huge things in somebodys life. I just feel so alive in norway, something that I didnt ever feel in america. norway fits for me. i fit in norway.

Well last weekend I worked at tømte-tunet... a farm. It was quite fun. I like farms a lot. so exciting. this past week I had whole day exams. haha. that went... well. and I have german tomorrow. Im so bad at writing. but im suprisingly good at understanding now, maybe thats cause tristan speaks german to his parents and sister and such. hmmm. then this weekend, tomorrow, Im having a birthday party. that should be fun. and on saturday im going to oslo with maren, anders, marius, and i hope tristan can come too. and on sunday im going to eidsvoll bygningen(the place where the norwegian constitution was signed) for a little christmas thing with kids in my town. it should be fun.

well gonna go clean my room, Im very messy so it needs to be done on a regular basis. hahaha. so ill hopefully remember to write again. I always forget.

Me in the traditional norwegian dress, bunad, with friends

This is what I do at work... hahaha