Planning
Hello everybody!
It has certainly been a while since my last post. Look at that, a couple of months! Wow, so much time. It passes so quickly. Well, it's really late right now so this one should be breif. Since coming back to Fauske at Easter time, or Påske tid på norsk, I have been building a little plan for myself. Here is what it looked like then:
April 22 Saturday
- go to Jackvik and stay overnight: downhill ski weekend - Yay!
April 24 Monday
- take bus from Jackvik to Skellefteå
April 27 Thursday
- take bus back to Fauske
April 29 Saturday
- make thanksgiving dinner for my birthday
May 5
- model Cubus clothing on a runway in Fauske (that's right, I was a fashion model!)
May 6 Saturday
- celebrate Daniel's 30th birthday (i.e.: big drunk-fest!)
May 11 Thursday
- Hurtigruten trip begins
May 14 Sunday
- Hurtigruten trip ends in Kirkenes, flight to Tromsø
May 16 Tuesday
- get back to Fauske for start of May 17 national day festivities and Camilla's birthday
May 19 Friday
- fly with Camilla to Oslo
May 22 Monday
- Camilla flies back to Fauske
- somewhere I will visit Christian and Birgit and Arne and some others in Oslo, Ørjan in Bergen, and then fly to London with all my stuff before:
June 8 Thursday
- Chen's final opera performance for school in London
- keep self occupied in London with a job or travel around a little more until going back to Canada for a visit for Louise and Rob's wedding on August 19. Congratulations you crazy kids!
Since there are only two months between when I am officially moving to London (the beginning of June) and when I'm visiting Canada (mid-August likely until mid-September), I don't think I'll be able to get a "real job". And besides, who wants to work during the summer? I mean, seriously folks... So I am considering some more European wandering until I do the Canada thing. Perhaps I will take a temporary job or two for a number of weeks in London before the wandering. You know, so I can afford coffee and beer and some place to sleep and all that.
Another thing that I really want to do is spend some of the summer in Norway. I really have been here only for the worst parts of the year. It's really sad. I arrived in October, stayed until the end of November. The daylight was quickly ebbing away and it was jævla cold. Got back from my crazy Italian adventure a week and a half before Christmas. By then there was very little light in the middle of the afternoon and it was even colder. Joined a Norwegian school at the beginning of January, and I think it was my third week that the horrible fist-fight erupted in the middle of a friendly game of volleyball, scaring the hell out of me. I didn't attend any more after running away to Sweden on the 27th. Then I went to Germany, England, Spain, France and Holland from February 10, getting back to Fauske only 4 short weeks ago on April 9. In that time the population of Norway experienced the peak skiing season. I arrived back just in time for the last two weeks of it. I went cross-country once and downhill twice in those first 14 days back. One week later most slopes were officially closed for the year. I was in Norway for the winter, but missed out on most of the cool winter activities. I just experienced the cold, the drinking, the darkness, and the precipitation. Poor planning on my part - but DAMN I was having fun on my excursions south. To the warmth. Oh the warmth, how I've missed you... Well, honestly it's been really nice this past little while. I think it was up to 25C the other day!
The bottom line is that I want to spend at least a couple weeks here in the summer, before going back to Canada for a month. That will likely happen in July-August.
When I was last in London I went to McDonalds. Yeah, I know, gross. And the obvious question, "But WHY?!?" came to my mind as well, but I was looking for a place with wifi and they had it. It wasn't until after I ordered and sat down that I realized it wasn't free. They wanted around 5 British pounds an hour for the 'net there! Rip off. Anywho, with a tag from my french fries (for you Americans, I mean "Freedom Fries" here) I won 100 pounds off a vacation with Thomas Cook. There's a stipulation that a two-person vacation must be booked, in my excitement I asked Chen if she wanted to accompany me on a vacation package somewhere. She said yes, and now we are looking into resorts. Not sure where this is going to fit into the schedule, probably between Norway and Canada in July/early August. Or perhaps after Canada. Not sure yet.
I guess that's about it for now. Plans are a little loose right now, but that's how I like it. This post turned out a little longer than I suspected. Ah well, it's good to see it all written down.
Oh, and I have a new Norwegian cell number! When I came back last time I forgot the stupid PIN code and couldn't unlock the damned thing. This number is better anyhow:
(+47) 98 44 44 79
Comments on the plans, suggestions, helpful criticisms are all welcome in the comments or in an email!
It has certainly been a while since my last post. Look at that, a couple of months! Wow, so much time. It passes so quickly. Well, it's really late right now so this one should be breif. Since coming back to Fauske at Easter time, or Påske tid på norsk, I have been building a little plan for myself. Here is what it looked like then:
April 22 Saturday
- go to Jackvik and stay overnight: downhill ski weekend - Yay!
April 24 Monday
- take bus from Jackvik to Skellefteå
April 27 Thursday
- take bus back to Fauske
April 29 Saturday
- make thanksgiving dinner for my birthday
May 5
- model Cubus clothing on a runway in Fauske (that's right, I was a fashion model!)
May 6 Saturday
- celebrate Daniel's 30th birthday (i.e.: big drunk-fest!)
May 11 Thursday
- Hurtigruten trip begins
May 14 Sunday
- Hurtigruten trip ends in Kirkenes, flight to Tromsø
May 16 Tuesday
- get back to Fauske for start of May 17 national day festivities and Camilla's birthday
May 19 Friday
- fly with Camilla to Oslo
May 22 Monday
- Camilla flies back to Fauske
- somewhere I will visit Christian and Birgit and Arne and some others in Oslo, Ørjan in Bergen, and then fly to London with all my stuff before:
June 8 Thursday
- Chen's final opera performance for school in London
- keep self occupied in London with a job or travel around a little more until going back to Canada for a visit for Louise and Rob's wedding on August 19. Congratulations you crazy kids!
Since there are only two months between when I am officially moving to London (the beginning of June) and when I'm visiting Canada (mid-August likely until mid-September), I don't think I'll be able to get a "real job". And besides, who wants to work during the summer? I mean, seriously folks... So I am considering some more European wandering until I do the Canada thing. Perhaps I will take a temporary job or two for a number of weeks in London before the wandering. You know, so I can afford coffee and beer and some place to sleep and all that.
Another thing that I really want to do is spend some of the summer in Norway. I really have been here only for the worst parts of the year. It's really sad. I arrived in October, stayed until the end of November. The daylight was quickly ebbing away and it was jævla cold. Got back from my crazy Italian adventure a week and a half before Christmas. By then there was very little light in the middle of the afternoon and it was even colder. Joined a Norwegian school at the beginning of January, and I think it was my third week that the horrible fist-fight erupted in the middle of a friendly game of volleyball, scaring the hell out of me. I didn't attend any more after running away to Sweden on the 27th. Then I went to Germany, England, Spain, France and Holland from February 10, getting back to Fauske only 4 short weeks ago on April 9. In that time the population of Norway experienced the peak skiing season. I arrived back just in time for the last two weeks of it. I went cross-country once and downhill twice in those first 14 days back. One week later most slopes were officially closed for the year. I was in Norway for the winter, but missed out on most of the cool winter activities. I just experienced the cold, the drinking, the darkness, and the precipitation. Poor planning on my part - but DAMN I was having fun on my excursions south. To the warmth. Oh the warmth, how I've missed you... Well, honestly it's been really nice this past little while. I think it was up to 25C the other day!
The bottom line is that I want to spend at least a couple weeks here in the summer, before going back to Canada for a month. That will likely happen in July-August.
When I was last in London I went to McDonalds. Yeah, I know, gross. And the obvious question, "But WHY?!?" came to my mind as well, but I was looking for a place with wifi and they had it. It wasn't until after I ordered and sat down that I realized it wasn't free. They wanted around 5 British pounds an hour for the 'net there! Rip off. Anywho, with a tag from my french fries (for you Americans, I mean "Freedom Fries" here) I won 100 pounds off a vacation with Thomas Cook. There's a stipulation that a two-person vacation must be booked, in my excitement I asked Chen if she wanted to accompany me on a vacation package somewhere. She said yes, and now we are looking into resorts. Not sure where this is going to fit into the schedule, probably between Norway and Canada in July/early August. Or perhaps after Canada. Not sure yet.
I guess that's about it for now. Plans are a little loose right now, but that's how I like it. This post turned out a little longer than I suspected. Ah well, it's good to see it all written down.
Oh, and I have a new Norwegian cell number! When I came back last time I forgot the stupid PIN code and couldn't unlock the damned thing. This number is better anyhow:
(+47) 98 44 44 79
Comments on the plans, suggestions, helpful criticisms are all welcome in the comments or in an email!
posted by Shaun at
1:11 a.m.
2 Comments:
On the catwalk!! Now there's some photos I'd like to see..hehe. Sent me an email.
-anitab
Cool plan! Perhaps you can pick up some runway modelling work in London? Then you can be all famous and highlife and we can read hilarious stories about you in the tabloids....
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