Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Funny day!

Today was ok! I was occupied, worked on a new product and came pretty far. The only problem at work is, that there are IT problems and I am not able to work properly! It's pretty annoying if you want to work, but can't.

Today was also the last day of M. another trainee from Switzerland and we were saying good-bye to her in the normal way, with a lot of ice cream! After this small get-together the mood in the office was weirdly funny. Maybe it was the sugar in the ice cream or I dont know. We however had a really good time and a lot of fun!

~M~

Monday, August 30, 2010

No Motivation!

Yesterday I was not really in the mood to write something, neither am I today! I am good, I had a good day at work and was working on a new tour, which will be similar to the one I created before. Today after work I went for a beer with L., my German colleague and we had a good talk! I really enjoy spending time with her (and I am not only writing this here, because I know that she is reading my blog, it's true!).

I am sitting around right now and might watch a movie now! It's crazy. It's already so late again, time always flies!

~M~

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Rainy day!

Today I woke up late after a good night with an interruption. My flatmates and a friend of them came home around 4.30 and were sitting still together, listening to loud music and were singing and trying to talk over the music.At 5 o'clock I got up to tell them to turn down the music a bit. I mean, it's weekend, but still! I even got my earplugs to sleep properly and this says a lot. These two guys are anyways pretty ruthless, always having loud music until late in the night or the TV on 110% volume, even if they are not home. The often leave all the electronic devices and lights on, when they leave the flat.Of course I might be also loud, if I go out and come back in the middle of the night being drunk, but I at least try to be considerate. Yesterday I did not go out, I watched a DVD at home and went to bed around half past one in the night. Anyways, eventually they also went to bed and I luckily fell asleep again!The morning, when I woke up the weather was not good. It was pouring and I thought I would have to stay inside the whole day. I then had nice breakfast, with fresh buns, coffee and orange juice. I was talking to A. and was doing my laundry.Around 14 o'clock the rain stopped and half an hour later the sun actually come out. I decided to go out to enjoy the good weather and to have a walk through the city. I wanted to go into some shops I am always passing, but never went in yet. So I made my way down to Oslo City a big shopping center close to the railway station. Then I went to Oslo S., which is the railway station, but has also a lot of shops.

I was strolling around the city and was also going to the Italian Food Market, which is this weekend. It is in Domkirkeparken, the park next to the cathedral. It was, as I expected it, very small and there was not so much to see. Also the stands seemed pretty empty and small. It was a bit weird! However, the park and the close by cafe were really nice and I had to take some pictures.I then made my way to Torggate, where there is this really nice vegetable and fruit shop, which I mentioned before. I wanted to buy some stuff for cooking lasagne. I actually chose the right moment to go back in direction of my home, because it was clouding up again with really dark clouds.

In the shop I was gathering everything I needed and went to the cashier. When I wanted to pay with my new Norwegian bank card it was not accepted, because the account is still empty. I did apparently not get my salary, yet. I wanted to pay then with my German card, but it wasn't accepted neither. The something happened, what I hadn't expected; they guy at the cashier, apparently the owner of the shop said:
"Hey, no problem! Just take the food and when you come along here next time just give me the money then!"
I was speechless and wanted to give him already my detail, my name, my address and everything, but he said:
"No, just take it..." and then went on in perfect German: "Ich vertraue dir!" ("I trust you!")

I left with my stuff and the best feeling I have had in a long time. I am still so amazed about this trust, about this generosity of this man. I will for sure go there on Monday after work and will bring him the money. I will for sure not only give him the amount I owe him, but actually a bit more! This is one of my best experiences here in Norway by far!

Well, I then walked happily back home and shortly before I was home it started pouring again. I was running home in the rain and when I got back I was soaked. I changed my clothes and started cooking. As I said, I made lasagne and it tasted really good.Now I am sitting in my room, I will put sheets on my bed again and will then do something, I don't know what. It is raining again and I guess I am staying in tonight again!I am so happy with my camera. I started now to really use the functions and all different manual settings to get good pictures. Also I started to take some pictures in RAW-format, which is a lot bigger, but so much better for improving the pictures later on! I just added this part, because I am looking through the pictures of today and wanted to choose some for the blog. Therefore I just mention this here!

~M~

Friday, August 27, 2010

New Favicon!

I have a new favicon! I thought I should bring it closer to the logo of the blog and there it is!

~M~

My First Tour!

Today was a good day at work! First of all, because it is Friday and secondly because I was occupied the whole time!

The day started with me being super tired when getting up and nearly falling asleep again after the alarm rang! I eventually got up, had breakfast and went to work!

The whole morning I had something to do. I was contacting suppliers, working on the new product and made then my shopping list, since I had kitchen duty again. I went to the shop and prepared a nice salad for lunch.

After lunch I was finishing my work on the development of one product and T. showed me how to enter everything into our system, database and how to connect it to our website. I was uploading all the information and now the tour is online and bookable!

I am happy to see my first self-developed (with few correction by T.) product on the market and of course hope, that we are going to sell it a lot! The problem is, that it is bloody expensive and really long, as I mentioned before!

Now I am home and going to relax the evening, if there is nothing else coming up!

~M~

Good Evening!

Yesterday evening I went with my flatmates to the movies! We went to watch Inception, which is a very complex and complicated movie. It had in the maximum something like five or six layers. It’s difficult to describe; it’s about a bunch of guys who get into people’s dreams to extract information from the subconsciousness or to plant ideas and information into their heads. Pretty weird!

Anyways, in the movie they then say, that the subconsciousness has different layers and that they have to go within the dream into a dream to come to the lower levels of the subconsciousness. Sounds complicated and it actually is. So in the end, they are in the dream of a dream of a dream… bla bla bla… suddenly you have a pyramid of five or six story layers with one story line, which makes it extremely exhausting to watch. You really have to focus on the movie, because if you don’t concentrate or get distracted you suddenly cant understand the next 30 minutes of the movie.

Anyways, after the movie was over we were heading back to the flat. On the way we agreed to go for a beer to the crappy bar, called Taxi Take Away, which is just downstairs from our flat. It’s a real crap shack, but the beer is cheap and somehow the place is funny! We were sitting there for an hour or so, had three beers each and went then home.

It was a really good evening and I liked to hang out with the guys. Of course, they know each other already so long and have their inside jokes, but still it was fun!

~M~

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Learning Every Day!

Today was a good day at work! I had a lot to do, was busy with three last minute bookings and a lot of other things. The bookings were tours, which are rarely booked and so I had a lot of questions. The problem was, that T. was busy too. With my questions I could really tell how I was annoying her. She was at some point telling me off, but apologizing later on for it.

For me it was ok, I know how busy she always is and how much work she keeps for herself or want to do herself. I am also not taking things like this personally. Of course I was talking less to her after that, but I did not feel bad about asking or the criticism. I mean, I am still a trainee and if I dont know something I have to ask before messing things up.

However, these tours I had to book today were active tours, which include mountain biking, white water rafting and RIB boat safaris. They are actually pretty cool I think and I would love to do something like this at some point.
There are just few people booking these tours however, because they are, of course, exhausting and our customers are rather elderly people and also because they are pretty expensive, due to all the special activities.

Anyways, I can really say, that I was learning a lot today. I got to know more of our products and also suppliers. I had to check a lot of things and was booking things in the trial-and-error method, because I didn't wanted to bother T. with too much unnecessary questions.

Now I am going to eat something quickly, my flatmates just asked me if I would come to the movies with them. It has been a long time since I was in the cinema and really wanna see the movie we are going to. Also I am pretty social today and know I will enjoy it. Now I have to hurry, because it's pretty soon, that we are leaving!
~M~

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Something to do!

Today at work I had finally something to do! As I said before, there is always something to do, but today it was some more!

I was motivated today and was in a good mood. The morning started off slow, but then, when T. came she forwarded me a lot of customer request e-mails and so I was working on them, had to "register" payments and send receipts to the clients.

Then I was working on product development again and was finishing the ground work for the first new winter tour. I was going through all the things with T. and she explained to me how to put everything into the booking system. I was doing that and tomorrow we will connect it to the website and put it online.

The last step will be to cross our fingers and hope for a lot of bookings! I am happy about it, because this tour will be online soon and it feels good to see the result of your work. It will not be the cash cow of the winter tours, because it is pretty long and expensive, since it includes a Hurtigruten Cruise. However this does not matter. I am just happy, that I created that thing and we are selling it with just few adjustments of T.!

After work I went quickly to the shop to get some basic food, like bread and cold cut and stuff. Now I am sitting here looking up things for A. on the internet and am talking to her!

~M~

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

A Package from Germany!

Today was a fine day at work! I am better now, got my flu nearly away and am now recovering. After the nice evening yesterday I had a good night sleep and woke up nice and fresh!

The day was slow, I had kitchen duty again and was cooking something. I was not satisfied with the result and did not like the food myself that much. I hope the others didn't mind.

There was not so much to do, but I kept myself occupied with some work and got some things done. It was again a day, where I did things, that are boring, but have to be done at some point. In the end however, about an hour before the shift was over, there was nothing really to do and I wasn't in the mood to do some creative work and so I was basically just killing time.

After work I went to the train station and wanted to buy a new monthly ticket, but it was so full, that I decided to do it tomorrow instead. I went then to the post office to pick up a package my parents sent me. I just got the notification from the post to pick it up.

Then when I had picked up the package I met up with C., the Finnish girl I met here. We went for an after work beer to talk a bit. She was supposed to stay here until the end of the month, but her employer gave her the last week off. So, now she changed her flights and is leaving already tomorrow. It's quite sad, because we had a good time together, whenever we met and now she is leaving!

After like 1,5 hours we left the bar we were in and went home. Well, I went to my place and she went to hers to finish packing and cleaning. When I got home I opened the package! Thanks to my mum and dad for all the stuff they sent me. The main thing, why they sent a package was my new tripod for my camera. However, since the package was allowed to have a weight of up to 2kg the filled it up with all diferent stuff. Thanks for that!
Now I am happy about the tripod and will for sure try it tonight. The main reason for me to have it is for taking pictures with long exposure or self portraits with the timer function. Lets see how it will work!

I will relax now and wait for A. to come online to talk to her a bit!

~M~

Monday, August 23, 2010

Eventful Day!

Today was an extremely eventful day! There are things I want and can talk about and others, that are internal stuff of my company, which I can't talk about! Sorry about that!

Anyways, the day started off with me going to the bank to finally open a bank account. When I got there I took a waiting number and quickly it was my turn. I went to the guy, who then told me, that he would need one certain paper, which I of course did not have with me. So I went quickly back home, then to the bank and actually got the same guy as a consultant again. So he opened my bank account and now I am waiting to get my card and everything by post!

After the bank I went through town, enjoying the sunshine and made my way over to the office. It was weird to come there again. There are a lot of people having holidays now and a lot of trainees left, so the office was empty and pretty quiet. The day went past with some stuff happening. I also got a massage, which was nice. It is, as I mentioned before, every second week massage week and after I got a bit sick it was a really good thing to happen to me!

However, the real highlight of the day came after work. My boss, T., asked me if I would like to come to watch a football match with some colleagues. Of course I said yes and so we went. What I did not know was, that this actually was not ordinary football watching, but a fam-trip of a hotel next to the stadium, which opened recently.Fam-trips are promotion trips or events of hotels for tour operators and travel agencies, to present their product and to "pamper" the travel agents a bit. So we looked at two rooms and went then to the stadium. We got a private lounge, with a nice dinner and free drinks included. The view was marvelous and so to say the best, well what am I saying, the only way to watch a football match.The match was not so important and the stadium was pretty small. The match was Oslo against some team, which just came up from the second league and was not that good. The first half was eventles, the second half was a bit better, Oslo made three goals and the players nearly had a fist fight on the field.We however had a good time and really started to feel wealthy and very very important.
It was good to be out with the colleagues. I really enjoyed the time with them and had some time to talk to them besides work! Afterwards we still went to the "after party", where we all got some more drinks for free and some of the players were still interviewed. We were standing around, talking and then finally went home.It was a nice experience and it was one of the nice parts of this job. I hope there are more things like this to come and I get the opportunity to participate in it!

~M~

PS: I even got a t-shirt of the team from Oslo!

The Weekend!

The weekend was really nice! I am not going to post long about it, since today so much happened, which I wanna tell about!I was, as mentioned, in Stockholm to see A. again after 5 weeks. Since I left Finland in mid July we didn't see each other, which was way too long!We spend the time together, were strolling around the city and the numerous islands of Stockholm and were just enjoying the weather, which every now and then was weird. We were e.g. just standing in a park and were about to go to Djurgården, when we suddenly saw a huge wall of rain coming along the canal between the islands. We just ran to the restaurant close by to get shelter from the short but heavy rain.Anyways, otherwise we went to have nice dinner and wanted to go to a photo museum, which we then did not, because the honor cards, which are giving free entrance to many things in Stockholm, A. got from her office, were, of course, not working in this particular museum. Also I got a bit sick, presumably from the air-con in the bus or the train and felt terrible.Now I am back in "Oschloo" and miss A. like hell, but she will come soon here! I am happy about that! It's going to work out!
~M~

Friday, August 20, 2010

Lucky day!

I got up this morning early! My alarm was ringing at 6 in the morning. I got up, fixed myself, had breakfast and packed the last things. I made my way down to the central bus station and came there in time. I realized yesterday by accident, that I was going the first half of the trip, from Oslo to Karlstad by bus and not by train as I actually thought.

Anyways, I was there early enough and was looking for the bus number, but could not find it on the monitor. So I asked a rather not-service minded employee. To say it clearly, the stupid a**h*** behind the counter was more interested in typing on his phone, than trying to help me. The only thing, that he said was, that he would not know where the bus was leaving.

So I ran, since it was just five minutes until the bus or train or whatever it would be was about to leave, to the train station. I was asking an employee standing in the middle of the hall and he pointed me in the direction next to the last rail. I went there and found a couple of busses standing there, I went to one of the drivers, who was already sitting in his seat and not outside smoking with the others. Luckily it was the right bus; luckily, because in the moment I stepped onto the bus the driver closed the door and left.

I found the last available spot in the bus and put my stuff in the overhead locker. The guy sitting next to me first didn't wanted to take his stuff from my seat, but when he realized, that it was the last empty seat he put his backpack unwillingly between his feet. He was anyways weird, the whole way to Karlstad he was moaning about stuff. When I sat down next to him he was moaning, when there was a slow scooter or truck in front of us he was moaning, when the cell phone of the guy infront of us rang he was moaning and even when we were going around a corner he was moaning about something. At least I had the impression he did.

Anyways, the trip was pretty eventless. Just one time we nearly crashed into a car coming from the other direction; The driver of the car presumably overestimated the power of his car or underestimated the speed of the bus, but he was going back into his lane in the last second.

Then we arrived late, meaning after schedule in Karlstad train station, the train to Stockholm was already waiting. I was looking for my carrier, which was the first one of the train, so in the other end of the train. I found my seat and sat down about a minute before the train was about to leave. Suddenly I realized, that I had forgotten my wallet in the bus. I had taken it out of my backpocket just to be more comfortable. I was thinking half a second, was then grabbing all my stuff running along the carrier, jumped out of the train and ran to the bus. Remember, I was in the carrier, which was the furthest away from the bus. So I was running along the platform with all my stuff as fast as I could. At the last carrier there were the three conductors of the train waiting and basically being ready to go. While passing them I slowed down a bit and shouted "Hey, please wait a minute, I lost my wallet!", just turned around and ran, in the same moment the conductor was blowing the whistle!

I jumped onto the bus, which was luckily still waiting there, was just grabbing my wallet and ran out again to the train. When I came to the last door the conductors were standing there, laughing and putting their thumbs up. I jumped onto the train the conductor stepped in, closed the doors and the train left. I was so exhausted and my lungs were aching, totally out of breath I thanked the conductor for waiting and made my way through the whole train to my seat.

The train ride was also pretty eventless, but I was happy to be so lucky the whole morning. Soon we arrived to Stockholm and I walked from the train station to the office, where A. is working! I was so happy to see her again I just cant put it into words! A. was occupied working, so I sat in the lunch room and was reading my book and was waiting for her. I knew before, that she would not be able to finish earlier, but I took anyways the early connection to be there, when she was ready (and also because it was cheaper).
Anyways, when she finished, we walked down to T-Centralen and took the t-banen to Södermalm. There we went to a shop and bought some food and walked then down the street to the bus stop to catch the bus to A's place.

In the evening we were eating, drinking wine and then went out again for a stroll through Södermalm. This are is the area to go out for Stockholmers. There are few tourists and it is lovely! A really nice pub scene and street life. We were just strolling around the streets, enjoying the warm late summer evening. However, we soon went home, because we were both tired from the working week and traveling and so on!

I am so happy to be here and wish I would have gotten the chance to live here together with A.!!!
~M~

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Compliments!

This was a good day! Although I was super tired and barely made it out of bed I had a good start into the day! I was happy somehow, the coffee and the breakfast were good and so I made my way downtown to the office!

The morning went well, I was not messing up things and I had gotten all confirmations of suppliers yesterday after I left the office.

I had kitchen duty today, which means, that you have to make lunch for everybody, go to shop and clean the kitchen after lunch. While I was writing the shopping list T., my boss, asked me to come to the conference room. We sat down and she thanked me for how I handled the situation yesterday! She said, that it was good that I did not panic and very professional how I fixed the situation with her guidance. She furthermore said, that I am doing a really good job and that she is happy about my numerous input regarding the development of the website and the products!

I am here now for about five weeks and was so happy about this positive feedback after such a short time. I can not really put the positivity of this feedback into words here, it was just so much positive things she said and things she thanked me for.

After that I went food shopping and when I came back I started cooking. I had the recipes folder, my mum made me, taken to the office and cooked a Greek-style rice dish, with paprika and feta cheese. When everybody came to lunch they were all saying that it looked good, when they tried it, they were saying that it also tasted good. Actually I also got for my food so positive feedback, some of the colleagues came even later in the afternoon again and said, that they really enjoyed the lunch and that had never happened before.

The afternoon went slowly as always and I was doing some creative work and was doing some research for the product development. Then I cleaned the kitchen, brought down the bin and was emptying the dishwasher. Normal kitchen duty.

In the end of the shift, when everybody was already gone I was still talking to T. and A., the big boss of the company. We were talking about this and that and A. said, that our colleagues in one department of the Stockholm office were pretty swamped with work, at which T. mentioned, that I was going to Stockholm this weekend. After that A. pulled out her cellphone and called someone in our Stockholm office. She asked them if I should help out with the work there for the next week. I was already super happy, that I might would have the opportunity to stay in Stockholm for the whole week and work in the company I actually applied to. Sadly, since it is different from what I am doing right now they would have wanted someone, who is a bit more experienced than I am.

Anyways, I was then told that I maybe will help out later in that department and pretty sure also in the Oslo office of this part of the company. I am super happy about it and hope, that I really get the opportunity to do it, since this "incentive" part was the thing I actually applied for!

However, I am also happy with what I am doing right now. As I said, I can use my brain, can be creative and a lot of my ideas and input will be used in the new version of our website! That's all great!

Now I will start packing my stuff, I am leaving tomorrow early in the morning and will be in Stockholm in the early afternoon!

~M~

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Weird day!

Today was a weird day at work!

The day actually started off pretty fine. I woke up up fresh and had a lot of energy! Also the first couple of hours at work were ok, I got some stuff done and T. showed me something new. I was happy to be occupied and have things to do. Although it was not the product development, I wrote about yesterday, I had fun.

However, it was weird. I did not really get into the flow, I wasn't organized at all and I had the feeling of messing up things all the time. I really didn't find my work rhythm the whole day. The first half of the day went super quick and the second part after lunch was stretching and stretching and didn't wanted to end!

I got more and more tired and actually also made a mistake, nothing really severe, but I had the feeling T. wasn't amused about it. Anyways, then T. left, the first time since I am here earlier than usual.

And, of course, then it happened; I was just about to start my last things, that had to be done before the end of the day, when suddenly the phone rang. On the other side there was a slow speaking man and he said:
"I think we are in big trouble!"
"Ok", I answered "Why that?"
He said in the same slow voice: "Yeah, we are in Ålesund right now and somehow forgot to leave..."
"What do you mean with leave?" I asked.
"Yeah, we were actually supposed to go today to Florø and take tomorrow the Hurtigruten to Bergen, but we somehow forgot that! Is there a possibility to take the Hurtigruten already from here?!"

Then I realized, that there was a huge problem coming up and asked him first for his name and his booking number to get a picture of the tour and the problem they had. So, long story short, they somehow did not leave Ålesund and the hotel today and missed a couple of busses, ferries and trains. They realized, when the hotel asked them, when they would check-out, but then it was already too late. Now they wanted to book through us the boat they were anyways supposed to take tomorrow, but instead of Florø, they wanted to embark already in Ålesund.

What followed were about 2 hours of telephone calls with my boss, with the client and with Hurtigruten. It was pretty complicated and too much to write here now into detail without making it too boring. It was hard, it was stressing me, but somehow I managed with T's support over the phone and really nice people at Hurtigruten to get them booked onto the boat which is leaving tonight around 12 o'clock.

After that I just finished my work, which I actually wanted to do in the last minutes of the shift and left the office as the last one about 2,5 hours after the end of the shift. It was somehow nice, I managed to solve this situation as good as possible and am happy about the result!

On my way home I passed by the shop and bought some deep-frozen vegetables and made then some Chinese food, which tasted really really good. I made so much, that I left half of it for tomorrow evening!Then I will be packing my stuff since I am going to Stockholm for the weekend. I got the Friday off and will leave Oslo already at 7.25 in the morning!

No I am going to hang up my laundry, since I want to pack some of the clothes tomorrow!

~M~

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Moving again!

Today was a good day at work! I got stuff done and kept myself occupied with website improvements. Although I was super tired today I felt good doing everything and have now finished a part of the work already.

I am really happy, because at the end of the day my boss, T., gave me a new challenge. From tomorrow on I will be working, besides the day-to-day business, on the product development. This means again, that I have to be creative and use my brain. I know, that normally is pretty tough for me, but this time I am quite looking forward to it!

It will be a lot of research, a lot of annoying work, but I know that it will be satisfying, when we finally launch the products on the website. I hope that I will create, what T. wants me to and hope that she will be happy with my ideas!

Then in the last 30 minutes of the shift I moved. One of the other trainees left last week and hence his desk is empty. There is nobody to replace him and since my desk wasn't so nice, I was looking against the wall and all the time there were people running by in my back - I was basically sitting in the corridor - I changed the desk. Now I am sitting in the middle of the office and have a nicer spot. I hope this will support my creativity, productivity and efficiency!

Now I am back home and will relax! After so much work, I think I deserve it!

~M~

Monday, August 16, 2010

Monday!

This was a real Monday! Everything took a bit longer, I had problems to get up and was tired at work! There was not so much to do, but I kept myself occupied with a little bit of creative work. I was doing some website improvements, but I am by far not finished, yet!

Otherwise there is not so much to say. I am hungry right now and will soon eat something. I am super tired and totally not in the mood to write!

~M~

Sunday, August 15, 2010

A day at the beach!

This was exceptional! Simple as! I just came back after about 6 hours at a beach on Bygdøy! This is wonderful spot here in Oslo! I had such a great time!

After I posted this morning I fixed myself and made my way just around the corner to pick up a bike. Here in Oslo they have a really good bike sharing system, you pay once a fee of a couple of Kronor and the you can rent a bike for a maximum of three hours! You can pick the up from numerous stations all around the city and can leave it at another, you dont have to bring it back to the same one, which is convenient!Anyways, since I do not have a bike my plan was to rent one for a couple of hours and then go quickly in between to the closest rental station to change it to another, but I was too lazy, when we were at the beach. So now I have one penalty point on the card, which is ok. You can have three until it gets blocked!

So back to the story; I picked up a bike and was lucky. There was just one bike left at the station and there was a man coming, while I was taking it out, being disappointed, since he also needed a bike and there was none left!

I made my way down to L's flat, where we met up to then go to the beach. We were packing the last stuff, the grill and the meat and everything we needed and were then setting off to the peninsula. It was a really nice ride along the waterline, between yacht harbor and one of the highway rings of Oslo.We came to the peninsula and passed by the Norsk Folkemuseum, where I got a new bike, just to win some more time, which in the end would not have been necessary!Anyways, we then went to the beach and found us a nice spot a little bit away from the masses on the slate! We set up the grill and went for a swim! It was lovely weather and nice water! After being in Finland now so long and swimming there in the Baltic Sea I have to say, that the water here is fresher! It's hard to describe, but it is simply like that!After the swim we were drying in the sun and were barbecuing! It was so nice to finally have something grilled again. The last time I grilled was in Finland and this is now nearly five weeks ago!We were there on the beach, were enjoying the sun, swimming every now and then and reading, chatting and laughing. I really felt good talking to L's friends and had the feeling we came along quite well! Now I am really considering to go with them to Stavanger, since L. asked me a couple of days ago if I would like to come as well!We stayed there on the beach until 7 pm and went then slowly home. I still went to L's flat, she wanted to have the pictures I took and I also still had stuff of her, that I took in my backpack!Now I am home, just had a shower, some dinner and was talking to A. I now have another flatmate, he just arrived and is now arranging his stuff, which his parents and his brother brought a couple of days ago!

I will now finish my beer and watch a movie or something. I have to be fit for work tomorrow!

~M~