Halden

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Happenings

On Friday, one day after my birthday, Nacho came to me. It was a surprise because everytime when I called him if he is coming now, he said "Maybe, I can't say it.." and suddenly he was ringing at the door. Anne-Marit organized this little surprise. We were going to eat pizza by "Peppe's", this is a good pizzeria in Halden. Ten people couldn't eat 4 pizzas. They were to big :-)

On Sunday Ana (exchange student from Brasil) came to Halden for visiting her hostsister and of course had we also to meet us. I showed her little bit the town and the fortress in Halden, where this picture is from.

On Tuesday had we the "OD-dag". OD stands for "Operasjon Dagsverk". It is a day where all the students can work instead of going to school. Everyone have to earn 400 NOK and this money is going to a aid organisation for a project in Rwanda. My job was to get the boat which we have on Koster. So Tormod (my hostbrother) and me took the nine o'clock ferry to Koster and then we drove back to Strømstad with the boat. After a little bit shopping in one of the biggest shopping malls in Scandinavia "Nordby" in Svinesund was the "working" day already over.

The same day on the evening was the OD-concert in a very very old theatre in Halden. When I remember it right is it from 1750. I know four of the seven people which made the concert. I didn't know what I had to expect but then it was fantastic. They are really good musicians.

King Frederik II. Statue in Gamlebyen (old city) in Fredrikstad. Frederik II. was the Swedish king who was been killed in Halden.

On Sunday Marco (Italian exchange student), Nacho and me planed to meet us in Fredrikstad. My hostsister got the driving license last week and so she liked to drive me to Fredrikstad. 30 minutes later then planed I arrived because we didn't find this silly trainstation. Marco was waiting but Nacho was nowhere and he didn't come. So Marco and me were visiting Fredrikstad with its very beautiful McDonalds :-)

Fredrikstad's Bridge

Nice cathedral in Fredrikstad

This evening I was with Karolina, Maria and Anne-Marit (two friends and my hostsister) in Nordby this very big shopping mall in Sweden. Unfortunately visited we almost just girl clothes stores :-)

Hei guys, I found the paradise on earth! :-) A huge candy shop with almost everything what people like. I bought 600 gramm candy.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

OMG, it's fantastic the way you swap subject and verb: "On Tuesday had we..." and "Unfortunately visited we..."
It means that you are becoming truly Norwegian! I wish it was as immediate for me too... I always have to think about that for a long time when speaking or writing på norsk. :-)
Good job!

Marco

silvan said...

haha unfortunately is it the same in German and so for me it is logical xD but really, can you say me how it is in correct English? :-P