Things which happened the last 10 days

Tormod, my hostbrother, got 31 years old. I was baking him a cake. What flavour? Cake flavour, of course! :-) (to understand this joke click here) It was a chocolate cake, how you can see on the picture, with a secret recipe which I got when I was 10 years old.

On Saturday I had with my volleyball team a volleyball tournament. It was amazing. Our team played as good as never before in this season and at the end were we on the second place. In the group matches did we never lose. So were we directly in the semifinal. There we played our best match ever and after a very exhausting match won we 2:1 (in the last set just 15:13). Unfortunately had we to play the final following without a break between.

On Sunday I was with Helene on the little christmas market in Fredriksten Festning Halden. That is the fortress in Halden. You could also go in the museum there for free and so were we visiting it. It had some nice stuff in there but actually was it just a museum. I learned also something about the history from Halden. For example that the city was called in the past "Fredrikshald". 

There was a problem to turn the picture around, so I just uploaded it like this. Typical tourist photo ;-)

Today I was in a children theatre for which I got tickets from Anne, because she says, that is Norwegian culture and tradition. It was a story about animals in a forest (hakkebakke skog = hakkebakke forest). To translate "hakkebakke" doesn't make much sence. It would be something like "hack hill". It was sweet to see, how fascinated the small chldren were. For me was it a bit tiring to listen to the Norwegian, but I understood almost everything.

True facts

Norway is the country where:

- teachers trying to hit the basket with a basketball backwards from the other side of the field during the lesson. (and students are filming it)

- Christmas, to bash and basting is an analogue word: Jul, jule opp and juling.

- along the road every hundred meter a speed camera is.

- some Swiss exchange students coincidentally live in a sveitsisk hus (Swiss house).

- teachers answer the phone in the middle of the lesson, so they know if their Zelda game on Wii (which they re-ordered) arrived.

- when you are speaking about skiing, everyone means you are speaking about cross country skiing.

- you are eating bread everytime.

- at least half of the population under 25 years couldn't live without facebook.

Volleyball and Lasertag

We had last Friday a volleyball tournament instead of school. Every class which wanted to have a team could participate. I didn't know what level I had to expect, but then I saw that the people from my class were really good. The first match we lost curt, but that didn't matter. Every other match we won. One match was everytime best of three and one set was on 11 points. Suddenly we were in the final and there we met the team we lost at the begin. First set we lost 1:11! and I already thought that is going to be shame. In the second set were we 2:5 back, but then with some good serves from me and good points from some of the team we won this second set. The last set was then now problem anymore and we won the tournament and a film-evening with pizza for the whole class :-). That is the winner foto.

On the same Friday we went to a bowling and lasertag center in Sarpsborg. It was the birthday present from Anne Marit for me. It was great!

In lasertag played we girls against boys. When you want to see the statistic, just click on the picture and then you see it in full size. The girls won very clear :-) and how you can see on the paper I shot myself 14 times. I have no idea how that could happen. For those who don't know what lasertag is here a little explanation: Lasertag is a game where everyone has a laserpistole. Each person is wearing a jacket with four spots on the front and four on the back where you can be shooted. When someone hit you with the laser beam on this spots then you die and have to wait ca. 10 seconds til you can play further. By hitting someone you get points and when you get hit then you lose points.

Once again a very nice sunset. Picture from the top of a little hill in Halden.

Monster Sunday

Finally I remembered to write in my blog again. :-)

This evening is the end of little holidays for me. Friday, Monday and Tuesday was no school and so I had some free days. On Thursday Anne flew to London til Sunday with some friends.

Sunday was a really good day. I had two volleyball matches in Ås (a town one hour driving from Halden). The first one won we relative clear, because in the opposing team were just 5 persons. Officially won we 25:0, 25:0, 25:0, but that it is not going to be so boring we played the match anyway. The second game against the local university team lost we very curt. In every set missed we only two points. The end result was 23:25, 25:27, 23:25.
When I came home from the two exhausting matches was I very surprised, because Tormod (my hostbrother) bought speakers for my room. I am listening now often to Norwegian radio and I hope I learn in this way more Norwegian.
In the evening went Anne Marit and me to Emely and Henri (best friend from Anne Marit and her boyfriend). We were just hanging around and didn't know exactly what to do. Suddenly Emely (I guess it was her) had the stupid idea to make a spontanous roadtrip anywhere. Ten minutes later we were all sitting in the car :-). We were picking up Helene (a girl I met here in Norway) and then we started driving towards Gøteborg. When we arrived Grebbestad we decided to stop driving further. In the nice harbour of Grebbestad took we some pictures and then we returned. It was a great day.

I hope next time I have again some pictures for you, but that supposes that I don't forget my camera everytime. :-)
Have a nice time!