Updates On My Life In Norway

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Drunken Story That Has To Be Told

This story needs to be told, it is so....interesting?
First of all, a pictureAs you can see, we have the buildings where the party was, the road, the atlantic ocean (which is quite deep even this close to land,) and a steep pile of rocks protected by a fence.

No that you know where I was, to the story...

Saturday night there was a huge party at the..uh.."community center" (Samfunn Hus) in town and everyone was there. This was the first time you could bring your own drinks and I had origionally not planned on going but a couple people backed out and had already bought alcohol and since we cant keep alcohol at school they literally Gave it to me to "get rid of." So I went out with Linn, Yvonne, Marius K and Marius B. We had a crap load of beer and a bottle of spicy mixed vodka, needless to say we got pretty tipsey, but no one as much as Linn and Yvonne, our resident alcoholics.

Around 3 a.m. it closed and they kicked us all out, me and yvonne and linn had to pee but they wouldnt let us use the bathrooms no matter how much we pleaded because it was now closed. Well, we saw all of these guys standing around peeing so we took the hint and went behind a parked car. Then we went back and finished the rest of the vodka. Linn, Yvonne and I were screaming and running about crazily, singing at the top of our lungs.
Next, Linn and Yvonne decided it would be really cool/fun to crawl on the other side of the wall and walk along the rocks, remember now, they are totally wasted. Well, protective lil me made myself stop having fun and sober up a lil as i realized the danger that entailed.....when the ocean starts ther is some rockes under and then a drop off and the water is 10 feet deep.

Anyway, i run over and try stopping Yvonne and pulling her back but as soon as i turn my back she is back over there, getting quite pissed at me cuz it would be fun and I was ruining it for her.
Well, marius gets a hold of her and linn starts running over there
i thought i had her stopped and i turned to grab yvonne because she was about to fall and when i turn around linn is on the other side of the wall, i run over there yelling at her to get back and she refuses then all of a sudden she screams and dissapears from view
i freak out and crawl to the other side of the wall and see her hanging there laughing
i grab a hold of her and try pushing her back but she doesnt want my help and starts asking where her purse is, i see a few feet below and go to grab it just as she swings her arm back and pushes me down, sven ove is up helping her and screams out my name as i slip and fall down into the water scarping my arms and legs on the way down. I manage to get out and i was like dripping blood
ugh i was so pissed
u should see me, i am all scratched up

And in recent news...Skiing!!!



Okay, recent news!!!
Yesterday we went to Røldal Ski Senter like a 3 hour drive from here in the mountains. I have never been to a ski place like it. First of all, the lift tickets rock!! They are small and hard and u put em in yur pocket and to get in line for the lift you have to go through an electric scanner and it senses yur card and opens the gate in front of you, so there are no workers anywhere. We were on the top of the mountains so there were NO trees what-so-ever. There was one regular lift that took u 6 minutes up and then front there were three other "lifts" that took you even farther up. These other "lifts" consisted of metal T-bars that as 2 people stand waiting they swing behind you and you grab it and put your side behind your butt and it push/pulls you up the hill. No one explained this to me, Mari and Thor went in front of me together and so I had to go alone, I had no idea what to do with these contraptions and ended up falling and had to grab one 3 bars back cuz i couldn't get it. And i didn't have a chance to see anyone get off so that was interesting....the bar got caught in between my legs...i felt so stupid. Anyway, about the slopes. When at the top of the lift, there were no trees, so you had your own choice of how to go down, it was all white wherever you looked and you could go down anywhere you wanted. There were a couple of groomed paths otherwise it was just normal fluffy snow that you could cut through. It was really cool that you can go wherever you want to down.

Some people, I saw, had these skis, apparently called Telemark Skis. (Telemark is an area in northern norway, they came from there) Now these Telemark Skis...they are weird. They are built just like normal carving skis but the heel is detached like in cross-country skis. You can attach it but most like it detached. Apparently it makes for easier jumps and w going down a big mountain you can easier maneuver and jump side to side with the freedom they give you. I have never seen these before and I definitely wanna try em some time!!

So Skiing was a blast, basically.

Im Still Alive!!

Wow, so I haven't updated folk on my life for a while now...not since before christmas. Anywho, here is a summary...

I went home for christmas, it was fun, I hung out with friends, partied, went to a casino for an entire night and finished it off with IHOP at 6:00 a.m. I skied with Scott, I worked, it was fun, and i ate, slept, went to the toilet and all other normal things that one does when they are home.

I came home the 3rd and was back at school th 4th. It took me about 2-2 1/2 weeks to get over my jet lag consisting of falling asleep in class, falling asleep after dinner, falling asleep before dinner, and all that jazz.

I started new classes. I now have oral training for the first 30 minutes of monday, tuesday, thursday. I still have music anatomy monday before lunch and theory after lunch. I got bumped up to the advanced theory class but i am still taking extra theory tuesday nights to catch up on anything i might have missed. I am in musical theatre tuesdays and thursdays (we find and arrange songs from musicals and perform them.) I am currently working on America from West Side Story and The Ballad of Sweeney Todd. It's fun. Fridays is Classical/Jazz studies, we have a concert on Valentines day at the old monastery...so cute! Wednesdays is still random themes that they decided to teach us, same as saurdays. Monday nights I have Pilates. Wednesdays I still have Jazz Dance but now we are actually JAZZ dancing (to All That Jazz from Chicago,) its fun. Thursdays I still have wind band but before that I have belly dance....yay, it rocks my socks off.

So yes, there has been snow here for a while, we have gone sledding and such. It keeps switching between snow and rain so it is really icy and when one is late for class and tries to run down the steep hill to the music building....well lets just say their butt gets cold. Thats it for now, I will fill you all in on more recent news in a day or so, PEACE OUT!!