Summer

The Norwegian summer isn`t too much to brag about these days, hasn`t been the last few weeks. Thursday, about a week ago, I packed my bags and left cold and rainy Norway for 3 weeks in Crete. Quite different here, 30 degrees in the shadow, in the sun it`s about 35-40 degrees.....I have gone from the stage I like to call lobster, to the stage tan, suppose I will be black when I get back.....

The days has been spent at the beach this week, and I was really happy to see Sarah again, a really good friend of mine, who is running a tiny spa here. Amund, and his girlfriend Vilde, will be here next week.

Since I have no internet these days, I won`t upload pics right now, but they`ll come later! ttyl:-)

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taken a long time to actually complete this post. In some ways it's easy to think what I'm going to write, but really hard to actually write it. Almost a month ago, I graduated from Sund folkehøgskole.

After easter vacation, my entire school went to a place called Sør-Gjæslingan, about 2 hours north of Inderøy, or as I like to call it, paradise! For 3 days, we had nothing but social activities, it was really nice! We stayed in Cabins except for the last night, when 4 of us decided to sleep outside around the fire, it was a lot of fun, and went quite well up until it started raining at 05:00am. The entire school came back quite exhausted, and the weekend after, it was time for family weekend and a market a market at Suns. The weather was amazing, and it was really nice having my mom and grandma up there for a few days. Since our parents were staying in our rooms, a few of us decided to camp out at a small island called "Høsklumpen". You can only get out there when the water is low, so we left around 8pm on friday night, back on saturday morning and later saturday night, staying outside until sunday, it was really nice.

For the last week, we experienced a small heat wave in Trøndelag, meaning it was about 25 degrees and sunny every day. The entire day on Monday was spent outside in the sun, talking, as well as having a small water battle. On tuesday, Janne took us to visit her studio in Verdal, about 20 minutes away, was a lot of fun, and we used the opportunity to take several class photos. We were going to have lunch in a park, just walking by a store first, when we came out, Janne told us to walk straight ahead and turn right at the end of the road. I walked a bit behind and found the other ones when I crossed the road, sitting on a really nice field, so I sat down there as well. We noticed a lot of the driver that passed us, looked at us, and when Janne came a few minutes later, she said "There's a really nice park around the corner, were I meant for us to be, I've never actually seen someone sit and eat here before:-)" well well, someone has to be the first, right?

In the evening the same day, Janne had invited us to her house, as a thank you for this year, we made her a plate that said 'worlds best Janne', along with all the students signatures, al of us had also written a personal letter that came along with it. For several hours we talked, laughed, and shared our memories from the year. A few hours after we got there, I checked my phone, and realized I had 5 missed calls from mom. When I got a hold of her, she told me a letter came for me in the mail, from Norges Kreative Fagskole, I had applied for a spot there in the photography program, and I got in!!! Think a was in shock, because I didn't believe her, I almost started crying, I have never been so happy! In january, I applied for a foreign exchange program through Sund, with 3 months in India, and got in, so I sent an email to NKF, asking if I could postpone starting for one year, the responed and said that there was no problem, so it means that I am staying in Asker until December, then leaving for India in February, and moving to Trondheim, starting studying Next fall.

The last official day at school was may 12th, that evening we received our diplomas. We met in the dining hall at 5pm, all of us dressed in our best chlothes. Our teachers were responsible for the entertainment, and put on an opera of all things, called "Elviras death", it was hysterical, they were really good! The morning after, it was time to say goodbye to some of the people, who were leaving that day, it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, these people has been my family this year.

A lot of us chose to stay for an extra 10 days, and for this time we had nothing but social activities like fishing, sailing, climbing, visiting farms, and other things. For the very last friday night, the entire school went to Sundsand, and then to Rødbrygga, just dancing, having the time of our lives. I was going to take the train back to Oslo, along with Kristine, and we weren't leaving until Sunday night, seems like the entire Sunday was one big farewell, about every 15 minutes people were leaving.

I arrived in Oslo at 7am monday morning, were home at 9:30am and fell asleep on the sofa, waking up at 5pm. Been home for 3 weeks nowand it's only this week that I've started getting used to it. Missing the people and Inderøy like crazy, but at the same time knowing that it's not the place that makes the school, but the people, and this is not the end, rather the beginning of a lot of new friendships. The year at Sund has been the most amazing year of my entire life, and given me opportunities I didn't know existed. I will never forget this year!

As far as for the rest of the summer, I'm off to Crete on the 18th staying for 3 weeks, can't wait to go back to Paleochora again! Also going to Bergen for a week in August, along with all my best friends from Sund, will be so good to see them again! To keep the photography spirit up, I wilk try to post a picture every day, need to do things again! TTYL:-)

Song of the day: Chris Medina - What are words