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!!!!

Mission completed!

Phew!!!

I've just come home from the concert where I played Grande Sonate Pathétique by Beethoven. It went well! The church, where the concert was held, was ice-cold, so some parts were rather difficult to play, and I didn't play perfect. But I recieved a big applauce and several people came to me afterwards almost congratulating. That was very encouraging!

I've been nervous about this concert for weeks, so I'm very relieved at the moment! Funnily enough I've not been, and I'm still not, nervous about the exam tomorrow because the nervousness about the concert has been so much bigger! Hehe....! Another good thing about this: I'm going to play the sonata on Saturday (in my littlebrother's confirmation), on Tuesday, and probably on next Wednesday too (on another concert), and I'm not nervous at all! Maybe I'll get a little bit nervous the very moment before I'm going to play, but after this concert it feels like a burden has fallen off my shoulders... And that is wonderful!

Concert completed,
Silje happy,
Silje not nervous,
Silje ready to concentrate on the exam tomorrow (hopefully...).

Btw: Thanks to Marita, Benedikte, Tor-Hugo & Irene, and of course; mum, for coming!
I really appreciated it!

Beethoven pathetic tomorrow

Look at this handsome guy! Ludwig van Beethoven, a great composer, and on this picture, still quite young.

During the last year I've been working on his famous Grande Sonate Pathetique (for piano). And now the time has final come when I'm going to bring this masterpiece to...
... a hopefully grateful audience. That will happen tomorrow. A lot of butterflies in my stommach. Ten pages long, but with the repetition, thirteen. From pianissimo to fortissimo. Legato and staccato. With pedal, but also secco. I have to use all I've learnt -during more than ten years playing the piano. Often my left arm hurts when I've been practising. Because I'm playing octavs in eights. Page up, page down. Ouch! Tests my endurance. I'm playing without the sheets of music. I'm going to play by heart.

But, wow! What music! I think it's fantastic!
I wonder what was going on inside of him when he wrote that sonate.

Patetique means emotional.

Click the picture, or here, to listen to Grande Sonate Pathetique! (It's not me who are playing!)

Visiting visitors from England

Today my uncle, aunt and aunt's mother from England visited my home place with the Hurtigruta. We visited them at the ship "Midnatsol" ("Midnight Sun").

It was great seeing them again! I haven't seen my uncle and aunt since they were here for Christmas, and my aunt's mother I haven't seen since last summer. They're having a holiday on the Hurtigrute (kind of cruise ship) and started yesterday from Tromsø. At Tuesday they're in Bergen, and will then go back to England again.

We were only together for less than three hours (we took the ship together with them from Sortland to Stokmarknes) and I really wanted to go with them all the way to Svolvær, and from there take a bus home again at night... But my parents didn't think that was a good idea - we still have a lot to do before me brother's confirmation next weekend...

But it really was great to see them, though time shouldn't have passed that fast.