I'll be back in a month...!

There are only three days left before we leave North-Norway and go to Oslo.
There are only five days left before we leave Norway and travel to France.

I don't think there will be any activity on this blog before the end of July / beginning of August.

But if you're interested, we've currently posting from a travel blog we've just made which will update you from our stay in Saint Malo, France. It's a kind of this-is-happening-at-the-moment-(and-hopefully-documented-with-pictures)-blog. Enjoy!

Visit Hilsen St Malo!

Have a nice summer!

An interesting story about filling up a glass

A teacher was lecturing in front of his his students.

On the desk in front of him he had a glass, a little heap of middlesized stones, a little heap of gravel, a little heap of pebbles and a little heap of sand.

Without saying anything, he placed two middlesized stones in the glass. There was not any place left for a third one.

"Is the glass filled up now?" he asked the students.
"Yes," the students said.
The teacher looked at them for a while, then dropped some gravel into the glass.
Again he asked the students if the glass was filled up, and again they answered yes. Then he dropped some of the pepples into the glass, asked again, and at last the sand filled up every empty space in the glass.

"Is it filled up now?" he asked.
They all agreed.

Without saying a word, the teacher lifted a jug of water from the floor, which he had hidden, and poured the content into the glass.

The glass was now full.


Make sure you've filled up your glass, your life, in right order.

The most important things first.
The foundation.
Then the important things, then the less important things, and then the small, but still, important things.


My foundation is Jesus Christ, and I've experienced that when letting him be The Middlesized Stone in my life, I don't feel that anything is missing.

There's still plenty of room for the rest - the things that are important for us. Family, friends, job, education, - when prioritating in the right order.

St Malo travel blog made

Hey folks!

Now we've made a travel blog for our stay in Saint Malo.
We're leaving in 11 days, only!!

Currently there are three posts at the blog, including two more or less funny photos of the two of us... We're really having fun!!!! And it's going to be sooooo fun when we're THERE!


What are you waiting for?
Visit our brand new travel blog! ;)

Dream camera

This is what's on the top of my list of wants for my 17th birthday. An Olympus mju 700.

Nice design!
Choose between silver, black, blue or orange.

Seems like an excellent camera.

Did you like it too?
Read more at Elprice!

I need a new computer...

My recent computer has unfortunately seen better days, and luckily the seller has offered to take it back as he know more about how to fix computer problems than I do...

Yesterday I spent some time researching lap-tops at the internet, and I found an Acer that I liked quite a lot.
I just wonder if anybody out there has any good or bad experiences with Acer...?

It's an Acer Aspire 1642ZWLMI. (Read more at "Elprice")

At the moment I don't have enough money to buy it, but when summer's finished, I'm back from France, and have spent three weeks working during the vacation, I probably can buy it...

Saint Malo...

Just found a fantastic picture of Saint Malo that I want to share...

This will be my home city for almost three weeks this summer!

... Only 2 weeks left now...

Piglet banished

Most of the times, little Piglet from the 100 Acre Wood, is a nice guy. He is cute, friendly, and cares about his friends. Someone might claim him as the cutest of the cutest.

Maybe it was one of Piglet's outbursts like this to the left that made Turkey kick Winnie and his friends out of the country?

It seems like the Turkish government have had their bellyful. The TV channel TRT, owned by the state, has quit sending "Winnie the Pooh".

Why?

Because Piglet is a pig.

In Islam, pigs are impure.

Poor Piglet!

Read more about this in VG (Norwegian)!

Sleeping Beauty?

One could think that the longer you sleep, the better...
(Did I hear anybody say beauty sleep?)

Yesterday (or today...) I fell asleep about 1 am I think. (I don't have school these days, you see...) Usually I wake up by myself before time has passed 11 am, but not today :P
My littlebrother came into my room at half past noon! First then I woke up! I really can't understand how I manage to sleep almost twelve hours!

But here's the mystery:
Often, when I've slept for a very long time, I wake up with a headache.
That happened today too.
I had to swallow an Ibux to make it go away :(


Does anybody know why this happens?

Mountain tour together with mum :)

Today mum and I was going to take a little walking tour, just to get some fresh air...

Mum put a couple of chocolate sandwitches, some lemonade, some cake, some coffee, and two Mars chocolates in a bag, and then we left the house, from Rise (down to the right).

We followed "Skydalselva" (the river which goes to the left direction), and suddenly found out that we wanted to go up to the lake "Gluntvatnet" (the little one of the four lakes, to the right). I guess Gluntvatnet is about 300 metres above the sea, so there was a quite long walk. There we sat, besides the lake, and ate all the food we'd brought - an act not difficult at all because there was so little of it... When sitting there, we discussed many things, among them; if we should walk further up - towards the mountain "Rishatten" (about in the middle), or if we should just go home again. We chose the first of the mentioned, and continued walking.

At this stage we'd no food left, only a half-empty bottle of "Siesta". We climbed higher, and walked up the side of the mountain, just between the two lakes "Gluntvatnet" and "Storvatnet". The tour turned out to be much longer than first expected - the distance from the place where we climbed up to Rishatten was rather big, especially without food. It was quite windy, but not cold. We got to the cairns, looked at the small houses (among them, our house), and started on the return. Mum didn't want to slide down the side of the mountain, so we had to walk almost back to where we came from. There we had to climb/slide down, and finally we got to the rocky road... Then it was just to walk down, down, down... Think we walked for an hour before we were home again.

A little walk became a mountain tour taking almost six hours.

And we got dad-cooked pourage at home :)

It was a fantastic tour! Really refreshing!
(and it's always good with physical activity, especially for me, 'cause I'm not training too much, I'm afraid...)

Creation

Have you ever heard of the screws, the cogwheels, the lump of aluminium and the piece of glass, which smashed into each other, exploded, and suddenly, after millions of years, found their way to each other and formed a wrist watch?

It's a silly story, you say. You shake your head, and maybe laugh a bit. How can a wrist watch form itself, you ask.

Yes, how?

I want to tell you another story.

Have you ever heard of the big lump of matter, plumped out from the big, dark Nothing, which suddenly smashed into another lump of matter, exploded, and, after billions of years, formed into the great Universe? In this Universe, inside one of the millions of galaxies, in one of the millions of solar systems, we find a solar system and a living planet; Tellus.

Earth - a planet of water, sand, plants, animals, birds, fish, insects, men!
A planet of life!
A planet where the proportions are perfectly perfect!
A planet of colours!
A planet which we have not finished exploring yet!
A planet where the finest instruments already have been there for millions, billions of years! (Think of e.g. the eye. Still we haven't made any camera as sensitive as this!)

Does this story sound familiar to you?

It's strange! Here we're sitting, on a little planet in a little solar system in a big galaxy which is only one among very, very many other galaxies, which together form the Universe.
Here we're sitting, "knowing" where life comes from. Where the Universe comes from. Where mankind comes from.

Back to the wrist watch...
How can it form itself?
The answer is that it can't!
A watchmaker has to make it!


What you choose to believe is up to you.
But I use my logical sense.

There has to be a Watchmaker.


(PS: I know him!)

Finished, done, the end!

I don't have any school left this semester!
Unless I get an oral exam.
But that won't happen :)
(My teacher said the odds were inconceivable low...)

... and it's only the 9th of June!

"Hostfamily Placement"

Yesterday we got a letter from STS with a sheet of paper with the heading HOSTFAMILY PLACEMENT. It said that during our (Siri and me) stay in Saint Malo, we're going to live at Marie Baelen's place. I'm really curious about who this person is... Is she old? Young? Does she have a family? Is she nice and kind? Is she a bit cool and crazy? Is she, does she, how, or, if....?
We'll wait and see... There were no photos or other information about her, only an address and a telephone number. But I don't dare to take a call... But I'm curious! Actually that curious that I yesterday searched Google for "Marie Baelen". I got three hits. Unfortunately, none of them could be her. (One of the Marie Baelens lived in France at the middle of the 1800s... hehe! I chose to believe that she wasn't the right Marie... ;P)
Only 24 days left now!!!

4 weeks left!!!!

Today it is only 4 weeks left to I'm going to St Malo in France together with Siri :D
We're travelling with STS Education, it's going to be SOOO fun!!!! :D
We're going to go bathing, sun-bathing, shopping, we're going to Paris for two-three days, and we're going to learn French :)
Do I like it?
Yup!!!!