Week 20

The week of season finales is over as is the sunny weather in Bergen. Unlike with the TV shows, nobody can predict when the sun returns to Saksarlia street. Not only rain and TV shows filled my days in week 20, but also celebration of 17th May, which is a Norwegian national holiday commemorating year 1814 when Norway got its own Constitution. Everyone suits up or "bunads up" and go to the streets. If you want to know more, click on this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Constitution_Day because I'm too lazy to describe it, the only thing I want to mention is that it was pretty impressive. It reminded me a bit the celebrations of 1st May before 1989 in the Czech Rep. 

So, there are 4 months ahead of me without any of my favourite TV show. This aupair thing turned me into a total slacker, I've never watched "TV" so much. I desperately need a project to work on!!!  

Btw. I was happy with all the season finales but How I met your mother. It's not a show with supposed great finales, I guess...

1 month, 5 days

On Saturday, 26/06, 7:00, I'll be sitting on a plane taking off to Prague, CZ. Two hours later, I'll be picking up my suitcase with things I don't wear any more which I plan to leave at my parent's house, so I'll be able to pack up the rest into two suitcases two months later. Even though it's still unclear where I'll head at the beginning of September (well, it's pretty clear but I like to keep my options opened ;), I prefer to be prepared than to pay for overweighted luggage.

About an hour later, after I get my 50l black Carlton, I'll meet up with Viktor at the main train station and we'll head to my hometown, better to say homevillage where my mum will serve us some delicious meal. Then the preparations for my little engagement party can begin. Everything's been arranged with my mum, a cake is ordered from the same lady who'd done all my previous delicious birthday ones....it seems that everything should work out perfectly!

Sunday shall be filled with hanging out with Lenka and her boyfriend. (Viktor hopes to hit some bars with the boyfriend :) I can't wait to see them again. So pity I can't be at their wedding later in July :(

Monday-Wednesday - I need to get a new passport and do some legal stuff - booring! After all that is done, me, Viktor, my mum and hopefully dad can sit in the car and travel to our relatives' cottage close to Slapy reservoir. We used to spend there several summers when we were kids, I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing the place again!

On Thursday we should say bye to my family and take a train to Prague where we intend to stay until Saturday when our travels back are scheduled. First time we won't stay in a friend's apartment but we booked a fancy hotel. Hope it'll be fun! :)

As you can see from above, it's going to be exciting to be back home, it'll be far more interesting than making the boys to do their homework and un/loading the dishwasher.

I guess, my stalkers are very happy now because I told them my itinerary :)

How to get over feeling blue

Couple of minutes ago, I published a very concern post about my job future with this picture of me attached.

But! While looking for this picture, I found some of my old videos featuring me playing the piano! :) They totally made my day. Not because I would feel that I can make money as a pianist :D, but because I remembered how much fun I had playing it, even though I wasn't good at all.

So, if you ever feel blue, email me and I can send you my recordings ;))

Back on Askøy

Except for meeting people from the Internet, I also have a thing for Askøy, which is an island close to Bergen. 

Because Kryštof didn't know what he was missing that he'd never been there, we'd decided to take a trip there. On Sunday morning, he picked me up in his father's old Toyota Corolla in the city centre and we drove there. So much more comfortable than taking a bus! :)  

First we went up the Dronningen, which is the highest mountain of the island. It took about 30 minutes to get up, so you can imagine how "high" the mountain is. We spent about two hours up there, enjoying the sun and I was also enjoying my book Pretty Little Liars. 

Second destination was a big lake (Båtavikvatnet) I got fond of in summer 2008. We have this fight with Kryštof where we're gonna bath this summer, I am fighting for Båtavikvatnet and he wants us to go swimming somewhere close to Åsane. I think he liked the lake but we'll still have to visit his place, too. 

  Båtavikvatnet

Under Askøybrua (Askøy bridge)

 It was a very nice, lazy Sunday. We both got a very "funny" suntan :D 

Nothing interesting has been going on lately

only:

• Spring is here and it's awesome! It's the only season in Bergen when there are some days without any rain!
• My last Norwegian course hasn't been opened, so I'm quite irritated by that!
• I've started to teach the boys to put their plates in the dishwasher, I'm 70% successful! :)
• My tax deduction is about 37% - so my salary is just ludicrous.

All in all, if there wasn't that promised trip to Nordkapp in summer, I would be already probably packing my things and moving back to Estonia. I was even offered a job there, the same company I declined last year when I chose to work for MarkIT instead. So, 3 and half month of (very probably boredom) ahead of me and a very uncertain future from September. Wish me luck! :)

Fløyen-Stoltzen (over Storevatnet)

Let’s start from the beginning, Krzysztof was unfashionably late for our 10 o’clock meeting down at Fløibanen because he couldn’t find his second shoe. Anyway, we managed to get on 10:30 funicular train and took the right path which should lead us to Storevatnet  (it’s a lake).

Me and the ice-cream. Let the trip begin!

The weather was just perfect! The sun was shining but it was not too hot, not too cold, not so many people,...it was mostly us discussing very different topics (like why is Kris’s nose always red, how do we call fe/male pig in our mother tongues, etc.) and people, whom we were either passed by or who passed us by. We had a whole day for this 10km trip, so we had time to take pictures, sit down and chit chat, eat (but Kris doesn’t like to share my food) and comment on people walking by.

First place we've got lost.

Even though we often just guessed the way, we took the wrong way only twice. For the first time it happened at the place beginning in „Aa“, we walked, walked and then suddenly we realized we were coming back. So, we saw the old ladies having breakfast twice. No biggie. After returning a few meters to a crossroad,  we got ourselves back on the right „road“. 

On the way we could admire rocks, rocks, lakes, rocks, trees and some views. Kris thought the countryside was awesome. Me, unlike him, considered it very Norwegian. Only waterfalls were missing. Anyway, it was a nice path going neither too much up nor down. Just perfect for an afternoon stroll. 

View.

Rocks, trees and a lake.

The second getting-out-of the-right-way happened because Kris wanted to see one more lake. He was so amazed by it that he forgot we had to turn left. We kept walking and suddenly we were out of the map. We got a very good piece of advice there – go back.

Storevatnet and me.

Kris, me and Storevatnet.

Since then, we managed to keep ourselves in the right direction and got safely back to the city with little sore in our legs.

What did I learn today?
Bong means a bumble-bee and fart in Polish.
Girls need to pee more often than boys.
Water is still very cold.

Freezingly cold.

 

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