St. Hans natt (30/06)

The summer holidays has begun today but the weather remains more or less the same from March (except for several sunny days in April). Not only the weather was not as expected but also my vision of how the kids would spend their summer was proved to be quite wrong. I dreamt of them being with their friends all days long and me giving them something to eat from time to time.  Unfortunately, all Victor’s friends are on holidays with their parents and he has no intentions to do anything creative, he just wants to spend the whole day by watching kids TV.  So, as an awesome aupair,  I managed to find William’s vintage bike and persuaded Victor to go for a short trip today. That was quite fun – the bike was unpredictable and Victor took me to a cool playground. When we came home, we played pexeso and I totally won! That was a time when I realized I shouldn’t win if I don’t want the junior to rotten on the sofa watching TV. All my other attempts to entertain him failed.

It’s St. Hans natt today which is something like 30th April in Czech, only it’s much smaller here. I was invited by my German friend to her dinner party. It was pretty awesome because:

• Her friends (all are quite old people) have a beautiful pronunciation, so I can understand them.
• We watched highlights from the Hurtgigruten anniversary trip which was broadcasted on NRK2 – odkaz –  I so wished to take the Hurtigruten trip one day!
• I socialized – being aupair can get lonely sometimes.
• Good food. Older people know how to cook :)
• Beer was served as drinks. I’ve never liked beer but I must have grown up because I enjoyed it, which doesn’t mean I’ll start drinking beer, obviously.
• It was like tasting Norwegian culture and it made me a bit sad because I’m leaving in 3 weeks. I’m quite disappointed that I didn’t manage to pass Bergenstesten but have a desire to keep studying wherever I go after Norway
• Met a nice Norwegian girl on the bus stop who spoke Norwegian to me. People usually speak English to me, which makes it more difficult to improve my Norwegian speaking skills. She also helped me to find my bus stop because the tunnel was closed, so the busses were leaving from somewhere else.

I wrote this post after coming from the dinner party but didn’t have time to post it.