On a day like this...

So, I'm sitting here in my flat wondering what to do, so why not update my blog? After cleaning my parents house as a surprise, I went back to my flat to do the sixth test in macro economics. I'm happy to say I got 9 of 10, so as a congratulations from me to me I went to H&M with one of my friends to buy a blazer. Since I am who I am, I also ended up buying a new top and a black dress. But, at least I can say that I needed the new dress. My other "little black" one is too big for me. Not that I'm sad about that, although I really loved that one. Well, well. Just have to look for another one ; )

Me likey ; )

After shopping we went to say hello to one of our friends who works at Ben & Jerry's. Won't complain about that either, cuz Ben & Jerry's has some of the best ice-cream in the world! I'm extremely happy about it finally being in Norway. Now all we need is Starbucks, and my guilty pleasures will be complete. Well, maybe not complete, but at least closer to it ; )

Todays flavor, in addition to Coffee Coffee, Buzz Buzz Buzz : )

When I got back home I thought of watching a movie or an episode of Ally McBeal, but I never got that far. Twitter is just too much fun. It's really fun to read what other people think about both serious and totally random things. It takes up way more time than I thought it would, though. Gotta be careful of not getting too carried away : p

But I'm going to work in the morning, so I'm going to sign off now. Hope everyone's had a great day and that you'll have only sweet dreams when you go to sleep : )

xoxo

Amsterdam!!

Last Thursday, I went to Amsterdam with 14 other people from my class and the year above us. It turned out to be a good weekend with too little sleep. On average I think I got two and a half hours of sleep every night from Thursday to Sunday. No wonder I got a migraine when I was on the flight back home...

I amsterdam

Leaving Oslo : )

In short one might say that we walked. A lot! The weather waskind of sad on Friday with a bit of wind and rain, but don't think that'll stop a bunch Tourism students :p We definitely burned some calories during those two days. We were way luckier on Saturday. It was absolutely beautiful all day long, and NO SNOW! That was the best part! I'm really sick of snow now. It's been a long winter.

Ready to explore!

Weather turning "blue"...

Sunny Saturday : D

The one thing that sucked on Saturday, was that I had no shopping-mood what so ever! I bought a pair of earrings. That was it. (But I was yesterday and I am today, so I'm going to Storo in an hour ; ) hehe). But it didn't stop the other girls from doing it. For example buying nice shoes : )

Shopping

Going back home : (

Something to think about?

I had Consumer Behavior class today and the topic of the day was attitude (holdninger in Norwegian). Our lecturer had this "picture" in her Power Point and I really liked it, so I thought I'd share it with you : )

Hope you're all having a good day : )

xoxo

A little hello (turning a bit long) ; )

Just wanted to say hello to make you see I'm still here.

The previous two weeks have been spent setting up meetings with lecturers, getting my classmates opinions about our course (which hasn't been easy, let me tell you) and today I finally finished my last (of five) meeting this week. Seeing as I am the class representative, I was in hand of evaluating the four subjects we have this semester. Me and one of the other class representatives from our year (but an other course) have had four meetings with four different lecturers these three days. I also had a meeting with the Bachelor administration and three other Tourism students yesterday, so I'm glad I'm finally done with this for now.

In other "news", so to speak. I went to an ice-hockey game (Vålerenga - Sparta Warriors) with my mom, dad and brother on Sunday. I've never been to a game like that before and it was really fun. My dads company are sponsors for Vålerenga, so we sat in the VIP area and got food and everything : ) It was great! The one downside of it was that my hand got messed up by the puck. It came flying out of nowhere and hit my left hand. Fast and furious. It hurt for a long time, but I got to take the puck home, so that was at least nice ; )

When I got home though, I saw that Arsenal lost the Carling Cup finale against Birmingham, and that hurt pretty much as much as getting hit by the puck. I was actually sad for a long time. Can't imagine how they felt : ( And United lost against Chelsea last night, but that just made me angry, because David Luiz (Chelsea player) should have been sent off and Chelsea shouldn't have gotten the penalty! Way weak!! And since Vidic actually did get sent off, we'll face Liverpool on Sunday without him. Rio, get your behind back in business!!

As you see, I don't do so well with back-to-back defeats. That's definitely the downside of supporting two teams... However, the joy is double as well, so I choose to focus on that instead ; ) Arsenal play an FA Cup replay against Leyton Orient tonight though, so I'm hoping for a victory tonight. Both for their and my sake ; ) (And if they win, they'll go to Old Trafford to play United next. That's when the fun begins ; ) )

xoxo

My weekend...

... will be spent babysitting my 5 year old cousin, David. My aunt is at work today and my uncle away for some bow and arrow course. So far we've played games and listened to Glory, Glory Man United about 20 times. He really loves that song : )

My beautiful little United-freak : )

My aunt, uncle, cousin and her kids from Stavanger are visiting my grandparents as well, so we'll go up there in a little while.

Later today we'll watch United - Crawley in the FA Cup with my aunt. I'll also have Stoke - Brighton and Chelsea - Everton on it the background during the day. I really love the FA Cup. You never ever know what will happen : p

2-1 baby!!

Whoohoo!! : D Barcelona took the lead and everyone thought that was it. But Arsenal had other plans. With two beautiful goals and a great fight-back, they're going into the return leg in Barcelona with 2-1! Game on, Barca. Game on.

I count the minutes.....

In 2 hours and 20 minutes Arsenal will take on Barcelona at Emirates Stadium in London for the second year in a row. Last year they also met in the knock-out rounds in Champions League. It's a massive game and it's going to be great! I can't wait, but I'm also nervous. Barcelona are great, but I want Arsenal to win and go through to the next round : )

At this point, only time will tell... Good luck, Arsenal FC!

Happy Valentine's Day

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day : ) Hope you can all spend it with the people you love.

I'll be spending the evening watching Fulham - Chelsea. Although they're not the teams I prefer to watch, football is my greatest love this Valentine's Day...

Kvitsund en mi corazón

After yet another week of school and a little trip back home, Marte and I went to Kvitsund : ) Kvitsund is our old high school. That's where we met and it was three of the best years of my life! The school is in the middle of nowhere and we met up with Isabel in Seljord. It's strange though... Since high school, Isabel and I have met twice. Last weekend and this weekend ; ) But that will all change now. Although she's getting married and we're both in school, I know it will be way easier to see each other now.

The reason for our trip to Kvitsund, was to see this years russerevy. It's when the senior class puts on a production with dance, song and a lot of fun acts, especially based on mocking teachers. It's a lot of fun : D Even if it's been three years since we left, some of the jokes were the same. It just goes to show that time kinda stands still there :p Just the students who gets switched. But then again, that's part of the charm of this wonderful school : )

Just a small football entry to sign of. Three things that "needs" to be mentioned. Arsenal had an amazing game away at Newcastle on Saturday. Or they could have had. They went into half time with a 0-4 lead! Everyone was thinking "How many goals can they actually get?". When they came back though, everything got messed up. Diaby got a straight red card. Newcastle got two penalties and two goals. The last one came in the 89th minute and was an absolute beauty!

Manchester United played Wolverhampton away and started perfectly with Nani's goal. Things were about to change there to though, and it ended it the season's first defeat in the Premier League : ( That sucked!

Sunday afternoon saw Chelsea host Liverpool with their fresh signing from Liverpool, Fernando Torres, in the starting line up. I only saw the first half, and it wasn't too interesting. Both teams had a few good counters, but nothing resulted in a goal. Torres got booed a lot, which is understandable. About ten minutes after I left I got a text from my brother. 1-0 to Liverpool. Raul Meireles. Whoooohoooooo!!!! This is one of the few games I actually side with Liverpool and I was very happy about how it ended : )

Now I'm looking forward to a new week of school, work and international break. Wednesday will be a good night : D Buena suerte, España! Y Noruega, por supuesto ; )

Have a great week, everybody!

xoxo

Porsgrunn and dinner...

I've had an amazing 24 hours : ) Yesterday, after school, Marte and I went to Porsgrunn to meet Isabel, one of my best friends from high school. The worst thing is that we figured out that Isabel and I haven't seen each other since we left school :o So needless to say, it was truly amazing to see her again! We stayed up talking 'till three and then left at three today : ( I miss her already. She's getting married this summer, so I'm starting to feel kinda grown up. So many of my former classmates are already or are getting married. That' s life I guess.

When we got to Oslo, we met Elise, another of our high school friends, and went to eat Chinese, and it was goooood. I love my girls and I love Chinese, so it was a nice meal ; )

After I got back to the flat I've seen United beat Southampton 2-1 in the 4th round of the FA Cup and Barcelona beat Hercules 3-0 in La Liga. My evening got even better when Elise and Marte came up here again. They just left, and I should think about going to bed now and get ready for some more FA Cup action. Arsenal are taking on Huddersfield tomorrow, and I'm excited : )

Sweet dream everyone : )

xoxo

My weekend

Good morning everyone :)

My weekend will luckily be rather quiet. I got up a couple of hours ago to clean the apartment, and now I'm trying to get myself to do statistics... Not all that easy, though... (Wonder why? ;) )

The rest of the day (and weekend) will be spent trying to do something sensible, watch Norway take on Hungary in Men's Handball World Cup and read "En plass i solen" by Liza Marklund, that I have finally gotten into. Took a while for me to get into the story, but last night I could barely put it down :) And since it's weekend I'll also watch football :D Will probably watch four games, but at least three! I do love the weekend ;)

Hope everyone has a great day!

xoxo

Back to business

My day started at 6 am. I was at work from 7 - 12. Then I had a lecture in Statistics. Fun stuff.

When I was at work I felt that I was glad to be back. Holiday is great, but you can't live like that all the time, you know. It would take the charm away from it ;)

I don't really know what I expect this semester. I think it will be a tough six months, but I think I'm ready for it. I'll do my best, but unlike last semester, I'm also gonna take time out to breath. After being sick for just about three weeks before and during Christmas, I've learned that I need to relax every now and then as well.

Hope you've all had a great Christmas, and I wish everyone a happy New Year : ) May all your dreams come true.

xoxo

Christmas holiday : D

Finally!! It's here! I've now got almost three full weeks off from school, and I'm going to take full advantage of it : ) It starts tomorrow by going to Prague to see Karolina : D I'll stay there till Wednesday and the plan is to see Prague, Vienna and Brno, close to where she lives. I can't wait to see her again. Really hope the weather will behave and let's my flight fly ; )

Me and my girl : )

When I get back, I'm going to Oslo Gospel Choir Christmas concert, before I go back home on Thursday. Then it's Christmas celebration at my grandmothers house on Friday and the mountains on Saturday, where my sister, brother-in-law and two nephews will be as well : ) It's going to be great : )

xoxo

great......

Just got back from my doctor's office (I have of course gone home to be with my parents), and I was right: I have a minor ear infection, so I'm getting ready for a month with less than great hearing and probably a crappy flight on Sunday. Luckily, it's not nasty like the one I had in Brighton last winter. At that time I didn't have an exam at the same time though, so that's the challenge this time around. But I'm not going to let my ear ruin everything for me. I'm still going to study as well as I can, and I am going to pass my exam on Friday!! There's no way I'm going to do it all over again next semester!! Wish me luck!

xoxo

Sick again...

Seriously, this sucks! I'm supposed to be studying real hard for my Finance exam, instead I've got a sore throat, runny nose and a headache is starting to appear. What's the point???

On an other note, I had a great time at my sisters house. Played with my nephews and relaxed. Probably why I'm getting sick now. After a lot of stress, I relax and then it comes popping up. Usually how it works...

The oldest of my beautiful nephews : )

Me and my sister's second-born : )

Tonight though, it's going to be the battle of the season. Manchester v Arsenal. Me v Robin. I was supposed to go to Gothenburg to see it, but unfortunately it didn't work out that way. Maybe that's a good thing though, cuz he's a bad loser and I think he's getting sick of losing against me :p Good luck, babe! Mentally, I'll be in Gothenburg with you.

xoxo

The two of us last season (one more nervous than the other). Let's see how it goes this time ; )

Woops...

All non-football supporters don't have to care about this little correction ;)

Minor mistake on my part... The draw of Champions League is next Friday, not today. That actually means that I won't be able to follow it, because I'll be in the middle of my exam. Talk about unfair :p Don't really understand how I missed the date of the draw though...? Think maybe my brain isn't functioning as it should anymore. Too many exams ;p

If my sister is reading this anyway (even if she doesn't care about football anymore), I can't wait to see you :D Looking forward to a weekend with you :)

xoxo

I'm bored.............

So, it's Thursday night. I got my Finance exam next week, and I'm going to try my very best to pass it, but the motivation isn't exactly there (to say the least). This is the second night this week that I'm really bored (and I do mean REALLY bored) and don't want to do anything. Think it's a good thing I'm going to my sister tomorrow. Be good to get away from it all, be with my nephews and try to get some perspective and motivation again.

On an other note though, Champions League : ) United are through to the knock-out stages and can, as a top seed, be drawn against second place Inter, Roma and AC Milan from Italy, Lyon and Marseille from France, and Copenhagen. Arsenal won yesterday, but their options from a second-place point of view are Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich from Germany, and Barcelona and Real Madrid from Spain. Personally, I'm hoping for Copenhagen for United and Schalke for Arsenal. The knock-out games are usually pretty though anyway, so we'll just have to wait and see tomorrow (kinda sucks that I can't choose myself. Would be so much less nerve-wreaking). And believe you me, I will be following the draw no matter what. Finance will just have to come second! (Nice to see I've got my prioritize in order during this exam-filled period :p )

FINALLY!!!

I am truly happy to say that we have finally finished and handed in our Marketing exam! :D It's been hanging over me like a big black cloud, but now there's no more to be done! It's not in my hands anymore and I've got no power over it. It feels GREAT :D

The rest of the day will be spent by cleaning the apartment (which is needed), relaxing and preparing for my co-worker talk (or something (medarbeidersamtale)) tomorrow, before I start studying for the Finance exam tomorrow morning. Who said being a student isn't fun? ;p Hehe

2 down, 2 to go

I cannot begin to describe how good it feels to be done with two of my exams! I just got back from my Tourism exam, and I'm happy to say I think it went well :) Wrote ten and a half pages about tourism and culture and tourism and crime. Those were the main topics, and then there were some questions within that, some big and some small ;)

Tomorrow it's back to the Marketing plan, so tonight I'm taking (in my opinion) a well deserved break! I'm gonna make myself a cup of hot chocolate, see if I have some snacks and watch Bridget Jones's Diary :D I've been wanting to see that for a couple of weeks now, but tonight I'm actually going to do it ;)

Hope you all have an amazing night!

xoxo

What a feeling : )

I'm done with my first exam, and let me tell you, it feels goooood :) Wrote seven pages (about the problem of self-interest (egeninteressens problem). Don't know how to say it in a better way in English) in less than two hours and was out of there at 11, with a small smile on my face. Went to Platekompaniet to buy One Tree Hill season 5 (one of the best shows in the world) and they finally had it! Tried twice last week and had no luck. Today though... Bingo! :D

I'm still on a high from the game yesterday, that was truly one of the best in history, and I am now very ready to see Carling Cup football tonight :) Times two ;) BUT, that's after studying for my Tourism exam though. Gotta prepare for that these next two days, since we've got that for three hours on Thursday. Wish me good luck with studying, cuz I'm getting really sick of it :p

xoxo