It’s not goodbye …

Yes, I changed the header again. I like this one better. What do you think of it?

Today was the last day of school before the summer holiday! Except for the normal summer holiday stuff, like bathing and stuff, I want to do a lot of these:

– Mountain trips (hiking) (Refer to previous post about destinations)

– Jogging (I’m thinking about doing a daily walk/jog to Brekkeheida…)

– Extended Essay

– History + Norwegian + the slightest of Chemistry and Physics

– Working on my own field, and helping my mum

– Climb with Ingrid

– Read a lot

– 1 week in London!

My sister and I on a hydro cycle in Bucharest (Bucuresti) last summer

In retrospect of this year it seems like this year has passed pretty fast! It feels so recent that I was at home packing down all my stuff. Do I miss home? Yes and no. I didn’t really feel home sick until this May, but then I missed Ørsta a lot. I miss my mum’s food, my friends (some of them at least:p), my family, my bed and the scenery. However, I like it here in Trondheim so I wouldn’t want to change back. I like the school, my class-mates and the independence. I find it scary to think of the fact that in one year (actually just 11 months! wtf!) we’ll be done with our exams, with IB, and with school (at least for a while)! Where will we all go? What will we all do? Questions of great importance! I’ll have to do a lot of thinking this summer, that’s for sure!

Have I gained something from this year? Except for some extra weight? Yes, what have I really learnt this year? [minus school stuff]

– It’s not as hard to get to know people as I thought

– That Astrid was responsible for most of the mess

– That I don’t need to watch TV

– That I don’t need meat for a meal to be proper dinner

– I have learnt to like a lot of food! Nuts, tomatoes, smoked salmon, kremost just to name a few!

– My body is more vulnerable than what I thought

– Probably more that I cannot think of now, and maybe some stuff I wouldn’t want to share?

What can I expect of next year? I must say I look forward to it! And not to be done, really :) Thanks to everyone in my class !

Have a nice summer holiday! I know I will :)

Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen!

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Choco Loco!

The Chocolate Party took place on the 30th of May, so a little more than a week ago. It was a very nice gathering, and the weather was extremely nice! I also got a lot of left-overs.. The White Chocolate Fondue I finished within a week.. It was just so tempting standing in front of me inside the fridge. The White Chocolate Nemesis failed cake I had eaten a lot of on the Friday before the party, and I really thought that no one would like it, cause it was kinda icky. BUT Mizuki liked it! :D Hmmm.. Well I finished that “soup” on the Pentecost Monday :) Moreover, I had quite a bit of the Brownie Cheese Cake left.. I ate a lot of whilst watching Hitch (On the Sunday) The rest I cut into pieces and froze, then I can just take one piece out :)

The Choclote Fondue (the vegan one) me and Hanne Mari finished on Saturday before we had to bike down to the cinema –> Star Trek. The only chocolate-related products I haven’t told the story of now, are all the small stuff. Like the Chocolate Pieces (White Chocolate, White Chocolate with hazels, Dark Chocolate with almonds and cherry) the Bailey’s Truffles, The Chocolate circles (?), the Snickers Bomb, The Freia Påske Eggs, and some Ferrero Rocher Charmini had brought. Everything except for the Ferrero Rocher, I brought to school last week.. We didn’t finish all the Chocolate Circles and pieces. Tomorrow I’ll bring the Ferrero Rocher.

Here is a picture taken from Kat’s facebook showing the table with most of the delicious chocolate products, she added a lot more nice pictures, so I would definitely recommend to visit her page if you have the opportunity :)

In addition to what I had made, Anders made a flourless cake, May a cookie-chocolate-tart and Jakob an extensive chocolate cake.It presumably contained 17 000 kcal! These cakes the people (luckily!) brought back home!

One of the favourites of the night of Chocolate, was  the Snickers Bomb/Snickers cake, and I got many requests for the recipe. First I would like to thank my mum for providing the recipe. She’s a great cook, and I can’t wait till I go home for the Summer to help her in cooking and learn, because I haven’t really been interested before.

The following recipe contains bad English! I found it really hard to translate a Norwegian recipe. If you have any corrections, please don’t hesitate to tell me, so that I can improve it for other potential readers, though I doubt there are many people reading this blog :p

The recipe is ridiculously easy, so try to make these tasty goodies:)

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SNICKERS BOMB

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 dl light syrup.  (= 350 g)
• 2 1/2 dl sugar
• 1 dl coconut flakes (kokosmasse)
• 1 jar of peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanillapowder
• Cornflakes (as much as possible)

Procedure:

1. Heat syrup, sugar and peanut butter gently
2. Mix the rest in.
3. Pour over a pan and press it to fit. (Hell masse over i ei 1/2 skuffe og trykk ut)

Topping:

• 2 bars “kokesjokolade” ( = 200 g chocolate)
• 2 table spoons “Delfiafett” (coco nut fat) [the top one in this photo]

Heat gently (preferrably in a bowl in water, “vannbad”)  and pour over cake.

Leave it in the refriegrator until hard, or a couple of hours.  Ready to be cut into pieces! I experienced that it would be best to take it out and leave it for a while before cutting, so that the chocolate topping didn’t break.

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Today I went for a jog up around Estenstadmarka. I want to jog every day now! But I have to be careful to not overexert my knees :( Lately I’ve been going to Pirbadet (oftently misunderstood as Papirbadet, because I say: “Ej ska på Pirbadet” which sounds like: “Ej ska papirbadet”. DIGRESSION) with Irina and we’ve been very good swimmers. Approx. 1 hour of hardcore-swimming every time (twice for me).

My quiche is just done now, so I am going to taste it and leave it for tomorrow. Whilst tasting I’ll reply on Ingrid’s e-mail and then go to bed.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND MAY YOUR DREAMS BE SUGARLY, CHOCOLATELY SWEET!

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Ingrid

Eg følte for å skrive om Ingrid. Vonleg gjev ho meg lov til det :)

Eg har kjent Ingrid sidan hausten 2008 då vi byrja i same klasse på Volda vidaregåande. Eller, vi “kjente” kvarandre på ein måte frå før av fordi vi:

1. Hadde gått i parallellklasse på ungdomsskulen
2. Astrid (systra mi) og Malin (syskenbornet til Ingrid) var gode venar, så vi visste ein del om kvarandre frå før av.

Ingrid er vel kanskje den av dei heimanfrå (Ørsta og omegn) som eg har vorte betre kjent med ved å vere vekke heimanfrå. Det starta vel faktsik med e-post! Førre sumar når eg var på interrail saman med Astrid sendte eg mail til venane mine, og når sant skal seiast så var Ingrid den som var flinkast og flittigast til å svare! Tusen takk for det! Hehe, det byrja kanskje med eit par avsnitt, men etterkvart som vi hadde sendt ei stund vart det superlange mailar! Vi held enno fram med dette, og eg ventar i spaning kvar gong eg opnar innboksa for å sjekke om det er frå Ingrid eg har fått mail. Blir vanlegvis litt vonbroten om det ikkje er frå henne, men så blir eg òg veldig glad når der er frå henne :)

I år føler eg òg at eg har vorte endå betre kjent med henne, dette treng sjølvsagt ikkje å vere på grunn av at eg bur i Trondheim, for kven veit kva som hadde skjedd viss eg enno gjekk i Volda? Men likevel :)

I den siste tida har eg i tillegg byrja å beundre Ingrid. Ho er liksom så ekte og tru mot seg sjølv. Kanskje det er fordi eg gjerne skulle vore lik henne på dette punktet, for når sant skal seiast så føler eg meg av og til som ein veldig falsk person – og det gjev meg inga god kjensle! Men Ingrid er annaleis, ho snakkar så direkte ut og ein får inntrykk av at ho alltid vil fortelje det HO meiner og ikkje det andre vil ho skal meine! Dessutan fungerer samtalen vår veldig godt – det blir flyt sjølv når vi pratar på telefon, og då skulle ein “eigentleg” tru at det skulle vere noko stotrandes i starten sidan vi ikkje ser kvarandre så ofte lenger, men slik er det altså ikkje!

Ingrid – du er ein god person!

Skidagen Våren 2008

Ingrid kan smile og Ingrid kan le,

Eg vonar at ingen vil ta frå ho det :)

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Summary of my Easter

Friday 3rd: Taking the bus back home. Sent over 60 messages to Kat !  :o Got to read a lot though :)

Saturday 4th: Kolåstinden with Ingeborg and Dad! freakingly amazing weather!

Sunday 5th: Visiting my Grandma and Grandpa. Drove back and forth.. :D

Monday 6th: Doctor and relaxation (i.e. I have no idea what I did). Later: Driving and Juno with Ingrid, Magdalena and Ann Louise

Tuesday 7th: Bondalseidet, later Magdalena and Katrine saw Desperate Housewives, while I tried to watch it – found it quite stupid to be honest, which is good! :)

Wednesday 8th: Fingeren with Ingeborg. LOVELY skiing downhill!

Thursday 9th: Biking with Magdalena through Nupadalen.

Friday 10th: Eating turkey, then jogging (felt kinda sick), eating cake, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and finally driving with Ann Louise, Ingrid and Håvard PB. Spitting pistachio-shells ;D

Saturday 11th: Biked to Vik (Ørsta centre) and met up with Magdalena. Biked home and sat on the computer trying to work on my hia.

Sunday 12th: Jogged 20 km with Ingeborg and Jayne. “Spark på boks” later in the evening :)

Monday 13th: Missed out on a good skiing trip — my knees were hurting. Biked aroung Follestaddalen. Read?

Tuesday 14th: Bought new shoes (for jogging) and new cross-country skis for next year. Around three to six I took the bus back and forth to Moa. ARHG! Took the nightbus to Trondheim.

Finished two books: Finn Alnæs – Koloss, Ragnar Hovland – Sveve over vatna and started on Aleksis Kivi – Sju brør.

Easter summarised!

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Back to where I started

Tonight I will be sleeping in my own bed and move into my room again. I haven’t been sleeping in my own room permanently since before Christmas, because I felt it was a bit hard to get up in the morning when it was cold in my room. The minimum temperature that has been in there is 6.4 °C, due to the fact that I can’t use the radiator in there because the fuse only blows then. Anyways, I’m oddly enough looking forward to going to sleep in my own room again.

This weekend was nice :) Thank you, Ingrid and Jeanette for coming !  When we were downtown on Saturday, the weather reminded me of late summer. Can’t wait till then. But still I hope for some snow in the Easter holiday, so that me, my sister (Ingeborg) and my dad can go skiing a lot.

The cat (Pepsi) lurking around in the sun:

Ideal Easter holiday (spring):

¤ SNOW

¤ SUN

¤ SKIING

– Sandhornet

– Kolåstinden

¤ Oranges

¤ Kvikk lunsj

¤ Hot dogs

¤ SUN-SUN-SUN

¤ Flowers starting to bloom

– Daffodills

– Krokus

– Snøklokker

¤ SNOW-MELTING – Green fields appearing

Sara (dog)  enjoying the view of Ørsta (centre)  from Sandhornet:

I am also looking forward to the summer holiday! Hmm, I shouldn’t plan too much – I will only get disappointed,  I guess :P

My mom has a nice garden, especially in spring time:

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Åtgaum

My left foot hurts. I think it’s because I should have gone jogging today, but didn’t, and now my foot feels restless.

I should definitely have gone jogging today. But hey, what’s tomorrow for?

Today I painted.

This (last?) weekend I relaxed a lot, which was great and I think I needed it. On sunday I baked, quite a lot.  My ivy had healed and I planted some basil. A GOOD WEEKEND.

Next (this?) weekend two of my friends, Jeanette and Ingrid, are coming here for visiting. :)

On Friday (13th march) I want to see Friday 13th. Haven’t seen it before, so I figured it would be a good day for that on Friday.

Goal for this week:

1. Getting my internal assessment started off allright – listen to all the tapes
2. Jog before Friday
3. Buy thing to make holes in eggs
4. Make more time (impossible?)
5. Finish Watchmen and continue with the other book I was reading
6. Go to bed earlier (impossible?)

Similar to that Norwegian guy’s painting.. with the flagpole..

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