OD info-day passed!

The OD-info day is over, and it went relatively as planned. The day started with two less fun messages;

First, the water to the school was cut, so the free brunch would be significantly amputated. That’s actually their fault entirely, because they changed plans from just the fried chicken and curry-rice that we had agreed upon, wich don’t require that much water, to a chicken soup that requires a steamboiler. They had to go with my plan, though, but that meant they had far, far too little chicken. Lesson learned: Never trust the chef.

Secound message was that one of the 3 teachers that was going to do the first half of the day, had decided it’d be a good idea to just go to a meeting instead without tellings us, and give the ball to two random students, and then not come back again untill after the day claiming he tried to reach us yesterday but didn’t manage. If he’d asked for us at the office, they’d known… But we compensated with people from the committè, and it went relatively okay. Lesson learned: Never trust teachers. Or, at least; never trust Roy.

The other two teachers however did a great job, and I think the students actually enjoyed and learned things from both their classes. I guested both for a while, and it was largely informative. A interesting thing to notice though, was that only about half the students was present. But, their absence has been noted.

The brunch was very tasty even if chicken was scarce, and I think people were happy about it. My presentation was largely crappy, much because I wasn’t all that prepared, and much because I’m not all that good a leacturer. But, the other two raised that level a bit, and considering the people they are used to standing on that stage, I suppose it was quite okay. The came the play!

It’s on youtube allready. Mind, it’s in norwegian, recorded with my camera, sometimes hardly audiable, slightly amputated because I forgot to turn the camera on before the play started… But it should still be worth the watch! I think it went very well, people laughed a lot. Unexpected awsome things happened. But I’m afraid you’ll miss the blood, because I turned the camera on too late.



Last we watched the project movie, wich wasn’t all that good, and the summary from the project we executed 2 years ago, wich was rather not good. Then people were happy to go home, and I think we managed a rather good day!

Operation Days Work rolls off tomorrow!

As i mentioned earlyer, i'm the leader for the events around Operation Days Work at my school. Lat time i blogged about it, it was with a lukewarm tone. Since then my thoughts about the project and about my task around it, has lighetned considerably! Talk about a great group of people to have in a comittè! We get stuff done, and have a lot of fun inbetween. Pretty much everything i've wanted to do has gone trough the system without big problems, and tomorrow it's going down with the schedual i first suggested.

First half of the day i've delegated to 3 teachers. They are going to have different related activities that i have little control about, but i have delegated it to the best teachers we have so i know it'll be good. And then we have a free 'brunch' with my own twist of bangladeshi food. The national dish of bangladesh is fish and rice. I changed it to chicken and curry-rice just for tomorrow. Much more tasty! As if anyone is going to check. Then comes my leacture about what OD, and this years project, is. Then comes the play, then we watch the project movie.

The play is crazy! I've got to be director and self-proclaimed artistic mastermind og my own play, i laid the basis scetch for the scenes, and with a lot of help from my fellow actors it's now evovled into something that i think will be a great and perhaps overly hilareous play. The theme for the play is involountary marige and education, whilst the read thread without my intention seems to have turned into menstruation. I'll tell you more about this later, hopefully it will end up on Youtube.

Greatness! I'll be sure to give you a proper report of how things worked out tomorrow.

Murmaid in Simeiz

Picture of the month!

Click picture to fullview. I'm not meaning to do a murmaid theme for my photos of the month, but this is a good photo. I actually took it myself with a borrowed superzoom camera, this is Ingeborg-Marie from Ukraine-seminar 'swiming' in the black sea. Beautiful girl and lucky shot, memories from the seminar makes this picture special to me.

Hiking Flekkostind

About a week ago me and dad went for probably the last hike of the season - to Flekkostind, not far from Breitind that we hiked earlyer. This mountain is just a nice pathless relatively easy walk, quite steep in the end but with grass almost all the 700 meters up. Though the nearby mountain blocks much of the view northward, it gives you a nice view over the Northfold-fjord.

Northeastward. Breitind is behind the closest mountain. You can see this is fall - there even was small patches of early snow! Dad was hit by the seasons first snowball.

The flekkos lake, we both saw it for the first time - it's hidden from most other angles.

Above the mountain, there was only masses of bare rock up towards Kråktind, the tallest mountain in the range. At 1200 meters, it stands without vegetation, and as you can see it's allready quite covered with snow. I really hope to get to climb it sometime!

Too bad about the poor light conditions for photos, but i'm sure you've got the picture. A nice trip!

Party driving

Last night i was a party chauffeur for a group of people from my boarding school. Out of the 8 people i drove that night, 3 fell asleep in the car on the way to the party, 2 of them puked on the way back, 2 more had to take care of the puking ones,  1 got an official warning from the school for having a party in her room.

Why do they do this? Where on earth could the enjoyment be? 5/8 could not possibly have enjoyed this at all.

And so comes my morale. Should i do this driving, when i'm getting paid and getting a revenue brutto about 380 NOK tonight, for making it possible for these people to party? Not that they wouldn't have got any other driver, they could easily have got a less careful and less expensive one of the type that's out driving anyways. But i don't like what i've seen tonight. Some in this group was underaged and using false legitimation. Many were too drunk. I had to stop my car thrice so people could puke. Bah!

PC is back online

I've now revived my PC. No more Linux, only Windows XP Pro, the OS that has definitely been the most stable to me. As Eivind commented, it wasn't fatal in form of data loss, and as reldred commented, it would probably have been fixable if i happened to know a lot about Linux. But i'm not going to bother with these problems any more, i'm back on safe and well-known grounds. So long for now, Linux.

Linux BSOD

Windows is all-Famous for the BSOD, but today linux showed me that it can do the same. This means my pc is dead, and i am temporarily forced offline.

Painting my car

After the collition, my car got a severe wound. Until today, it's been looking like this;

To improve the looks and to defend against rust, i decided to paint it. I chose a matte black laquer, the matte color with the intention of making the contours (aka damages) less visible.

Cover the area not to be painted with tape and plastic bags, clean the car with a strong solvent - has the be really clean! Then matte down the old paint and remove any loose bits of paint with sandpaper. Spraypaint with grounding (above), let it dry for a couple of minutes and spraypaint with the matte black colour. Voila;

Okay, it's not pretty. But it's better, definitely! I've reached the effect i wished for with the matte black (at least as far as i can see in the artificual light), and when they start salting the roads i won't have to be as afraid of everything rusting to peaces.

Studying russian in Moldova

I'm dreaming again. Aftet this seminar i serached for study posibilities in Moldova, and i found maybe the perfect thing - a one-month intensive course in Russian. A widely spoken language, and native russian speakers don't tend to speak english. Try navigating in ukraine without somone who can translate! I'm sure the month would be a blast, particularily seeing as i'd be living 14 kilometers from Nastya! I'm sereously considering applying for the course this summer.

A week in paradise

I'm home after the Ukraine-seminar, and i can truely say i spent a week in paradise. Extremely relaxing hotel in a scenic area with a pool and only nice weather. But far more importantly - with fantasticly great people that really made this one of the best weeks of my life.

Sober Moldovans, Belarusans, Norwegians and Ukranians gathering socially in a scenic place in Simeiz in southern Crimea is the recepy for utmost enjoyment. Beautiful, great, social, fun and even cuddly girls, a suprisingly great guy, new friends of both genders and all nationalities, networkbuilding, exurtion and nature, for once feeling popular, learning things both socially and 'professional'... It was all fantastic.

I'm posting many pictures in my photoblog when i get around to it, but for now, enjoy my most beutifull sights of this trip!

Ingeborg

Nastya & Marina

View from conferance room

Ida & Erling

EDIT: Pictures are here!