came across a curious wrecked house downtown, close to the harbor… On my way to the bus station last friday.
Monthly Archives: July 2007
trondheim.
basement parties
Monday was our first day at the NTNU. As a result of this, there was a big party in one of the basements at the halls to celebrate the fact that we are now more or less officially ‘norwegian’ students.
It goes without saying that at the end of the night, we just HAD to take pictures. They’re crappy pictures (webcam ones) but the most important things – happiness, tipsiness, and Ruta’s necklace on Dennis’ head – are still visible.
I like Ruta’s lamp. A lot.
I like it so much that I decided to make myself a hat out of it.
Dennis ain’t into lamps, but he likes my hair. He also likes to pretend he’s a king
And, who would have thought? – everybody likes this boy
sunrise, sunset
One thing I still can’t get over since I’m here (okay, it’s only been five days… but still) is the beauty of the sky at ‘night’. Night of course means that we get like 3 hours of complete darkness, resulting in me watching sunrises and sunsets more often than any of you! ha!
Flisa, twenty minutes past midnight.
Two hours later…
Sunday, 4AM.
Apparently this is the kind of sky you get when the day is about to be cloudy and greyish.
det regner
travelling, settling down
Norwegian buses have my heart.
There’s free coffee, blankets and pillows,… and travelling at night is amazing because you get to actually experience sunsets and sunrises within three hours of each other. I was taking a billion pictures from the bus, through the glass.
I got to Elverum at 4:30 AM, a bit groggy from not having really slept at all, and Uno & Eirik came to pick me up in their pimp car. I was handed a Bjørnebryg and we drove for about an hour, talking about how it felt like time hadn’t passed at all. complete happiness, really. Once I started walking up the stairs to their apartment I immediately felt at home again, scary eh?
In the afternoon Wintermare was playing at Tømmerfløtivalen. I was proudly wearing the “Vegetarians Have More Fun” t-shirt that Hanne got me..I am still staring at it in awe, it’s so cool…!
Today was a lot of random hanging out at Finnskogen.
Uno reminds me of a russian singer in this picture
We watched Someone&someone perform, which was okay but I wasn’t in the mood..Halfway through the show I started talking to Stian’s brother and after he left and the boys joined me, we played around with an air tube, resulting in silly pictures such as:
So yeah, that’s about all that has happened up until now. I keep my camera glued to my hand, so lots of pictures will follow..the landscapes and colors are just as breathtaking as always, makes me forget how much I will start missing people once I get back to Trondheim..
xoxo
first day.
I spent an almost sleepless night packing my things, trying not to forget anything. It’s awkward to leave somewhere for six months.. my backpack looked gigantic, it’s apparently only 23.5 kg. of course not including my hand luggage (backpack #2 and two camera bags..)
I got to Trondheim airport at 5PM and realised I had only eaten half a roll and drank coffee the whole day. tough luck. After a comfortable bus ride, I got to walk for what seemed like hours (turned out it was only half an hour or so) before I got to the Interrail center. Awesome place to stay, with terribly friendly young norwegians to manage it. I stuck to my luggage like a baby to her mother (you never know what can happen… and frankly getting my stuff stolen on my first day in norway is definitely not part of my plan) and sat down to eat (Caesar Salad! I can only recommend it) with two guys from Germany. One of them was reading High Fidelity (<3) so we talked about that, and then about movies, and music, and norway, and studies, and and and... turns out they are of course great people, real nice. We made a run to the Seven-Eleven across the street (yes, Norway IS an americanised country) to buy candy, milk, water and chocolate. Timo sat down in the hall to eat muesli while Tony and I just played around with our awesome Canon cameras. We played cards with an awkward french kid (I named him Engueran, or however you spell that I don't know... named after some posh kid I met in Ireland ten years ago) then we pretty much just hung out before going to our respective dorms.
After breakfast this morning I met some guy who apparently is doing the same language course as me here… so we went to the Moholt Studentby together to get our keys, do paperwork, and so on.
Trondheim is small and rainy. I’m supposed to get a bus to Elverum sometime today. It’s going to be an experience, considering the next bus leaves at 11pm.. grr. six hours on a bus. SCORE!