Almost home

So we are packing before checking out.
I have not blogged the last two days, even thou I have had bloggable experiences.

On Friday we had dinner at this awesome sushi place called Haiku right off Strøget. It was run by Japanese people, which is rare when it comes to sushi places. And we got "omakase" (this might be me remembering wrong thou, but it was called something like that), which was basically chef's choice. We got to decide what we generally wanted, and me being absolutely addicted to maki (rolls) I got a plate full of maki.
There were all sorts of maki, including California maki with real crab, and desert maki with mango and strawberries on it. Which sounds weird, I know, but whatever was in it was neutral enough it didn't taste weird, and so tender the slice literally melted in my mouth.
Definitely a place to visit if you are ever in Copenhagen.

And then yesterday was my exam. I think I passed, not with flying colours but a pass is a pass. And I think I passed. I met this guy, also Norwegian, who we ended hanging until he had to catch his flight. He was very nice^^,

Then we went and saw "500 days of Summer", which was a cute romantic indiewood comedy.
It dared be dark and depressive.

And then we went and saw some dancers. Which was spectacularly uninteresting. Sunday is not the day for such thingsXP

And then we missed the last train home. So we walked to the metro, and took it some of the way, because they had troubles on the line. Then we stood and waited for the replacement. There was this drunk (and probably high as well) man there who had apparently been in a fight where he beat the c**p out of everyone. He was bugging the woman who was there to keep things safe.
But she took it in very good humour, we even made faces at each other when he was telling his story to this other man. Complete with waiving of every limbXP

I am gonna post this when I got home, 'cos my 24 hours of internet just ran out. So this will be posted about 8-9 this evening.=D

Denmaaku

So there's the JLPT test this Sunday, and the closest to Oslo it's held is in Copenhagen. So that is where I am today.
We arrived in Copenhagen 40 minutes early at 14:45, and got our luggage (which we had to walk through the entire airport to get toXP) and went down to the train station to catch a train. And people start asking us for help and directions straight away. We must look like we know our way around or something. It was actually a bit weird.
And then we found our hotel. And then we bought chicken and fries and bread and toppings which we put in the minibar so they wouldn't get ruined. We bought meat toppings and brie^^, And croissants and cookies^^, And then we ate chicken and fries in our room^^, Now I am taking my homework to bed and studying for my exam^^,

Grey Berlin

So I got home from Berlin on Wednesday. And I must say, it's a gray, dull city.
Now I have been to some really cool places during the last couple of years, like London, Rome, Barcelona and so on, and came out of all those places with a much better impression than of Berlin.
I hear great things about the Berlin nightlife, and a few of my classmates spent every night out, but after walking between 15 and 18 thousand steps a day, I was in no shape to party...=j
In most of the cities I've been to they have exiting buildings and things to see as you walk down the street, Berlin didn't. We did spend most of our time in the east thou, so that might have been a contributing factor to the overwhelming sense of conformity. All of the buildings looked almost the same. Tall slabs of cement with windows most of the time. Sometimes painted in bright garish colours. And do to walking so much, I never got much out of the few museums we visited, 'cos I was so tired all the time.
I did some shopping thou, bought 5 books. Die unendliche Geschichte (The neverending story), the Tintenherz triology (Inkheart), and a book I have never heard of called Faunblut (Faun's blood).
I have started a tad on the first, and I get it quite easily. Possibly because I have read it a bunch times in Norwegian. Faunblut however, was a tad advanced for me, but I am hoping it will be easier by the time I am finished with the first 4^^,
I also bought two cute tops, and new sailor shoes. Pink plaid^^,
All in all it was a okey trip, but I doubt I will be going back=j

Word of the day:
詰らない - tsumaranai - dull, uninteresting, boring, insignificant, trifling

Travel nerves

I am leaving for Berlin tomorrow.
Now I am not really a travel person. I suffer from a slight agoraphobia, and really don't really like being at places I haven't been before. It gets better the longer I stay at the unknown place, and the better I get to know it thou. Plus I don't really like flying. So I have quite a bit of travel nerves as I am sure you can imagine.

Anywho, this means that the blog will be vacant until Thursday. It also means that I will get to see the last remnants of the Berlin wall (which I am writing a paper on after the tripXD).
I plan to take lots of pictures, and I will hopefully find the Neverending Story in German. I really enjoy reading books in their original language.

At the moment I am reading a biography of Hitler. I really enjoy reading biographies. Especially about great, and gruesome, persons in history, like Hitler or Mao. I think that reading about people like that, helps us understand the reason why things happened the way it did. I believe that the best way to avoid repeating it. I will someday read a biography of Bush for this same reason. Preferably some time after he is dead, because then the biographies are more objective. (I do however wish him a long and happy retirement, I just want him to have it far away from politics.)

So wish me a good trip and a safe flight. And please hope that I will not miss the plane back, which is my biggest source of anxiety when I travel. I really fear being stuck in some foreign country. So hope for a good trip, and coming home safe^^,

Word of the day:
恐怖症 - kyoufushou - morbid fear, phobia

Travel, cold and rivals

Lets start with the rivals, shall we. At my place my Tullerusk is an indoor kitty, due to my landlord owning an outdoor doggie. He lives in a big cage at the end of the backyard. I have an agreement that I can have Rusket out on a leash when the dog is not out in his cage. I have spent the day with my Grandma today and have thus been away since eleven, while Rusket have been a very good kitty spending the entire time home alone. So when I come home and the doggiecage is vacant I treat Rusket to a few hours in the big out doors. She has been out from three hours when I hear cats hissing and Rusket scrambling get inside. So I get up to see if the dog is on it's way out, but when I get to the door (which is open, in case she wants to go in, and so that I can hear when she gets stuck, which she does frequently) Rusket is standing all submissive at the bottom of the stairs, with this huge black cat at the top of the stairs. And when I say huge I mean enormous. Now Rusket is a fairly large cat with fairly long fur, now this cat looked twice as big as Rusket, with looong well groomed fur. A beauty actually, and Rusket was trespassing on his or her turf, and she knew it. So I took her inside of course, and now she's all hot to get out again. I suspect she wants to make this her turf.^.~

Now to the travel. I got home from Barcelona last Wednesday, and of course got a great big cold the moment I get back. I guess laying in the breeze from an air condition is a bad idea^^,
Anyway, the trip was great. The concert was amazing. It was hot and I almost fainted, but I had a great time. I spent most of the time sitting on the floor fanning myself, but great music can be experienced just as well sitting as jumping.^^,
The city was great too. We spent 5 days there if you count the day we spent sitting and line in the blazing sun^^, We lived in this cute little apartment, with a sundeck and everything. I was so spent in the evening that I drop down really early every night, and thus I woke up much earlier that everybody else every morning. I spent those mornings on that sundeck, reading and drinking tea and enjoying myself.
We went to see Sagrada de Familia cathedral. It's was a construction cite, turns out that even though they started building it in 1826 it still it's still only about 50% finished. I hope I can go back some day when it's done, if it gets done in my lifetime. It's was beautiful.
We also went to this park, where they had this huge, life sized replica of a mammoth. E dubbed it Manfred, after the mammoth in Ice Age. Very fitting name.
The street next to the one where we lived was called La Rambla. It had a huge sidewalk in the middle with street salesmen all the way up and down it. They were sorta parted up in categories, with art in one end, going to restaurants, "statuepeople", flower shops, and pet stores in the other end. I am not kidding you, they sold live little critters right there on the street. Birds, fish, bunnies, chipmunks (I think), hamsters ferrets, and probably some I have forgotten. The ferret babies where so cute, I really wanted a few to take home with me, but I really do not think my "Queen" would enjoy ferret underlings XP
The "statuepeople" work differently in Spain than in Norway. For those now confused, "statuepeople" is the name I use for the people who stand in shopping streets or crowded places, absolutely still, usually on top of boxes. In Oslo when you put money on them (or rather, in the jars or boxes in front of them they move, wave of does a little trick or something. Not so in Spain. We went past this really cool girl dressed in sodabottles, and I thought she looked all spaced out, so I put some money on her, and then stared to walk away. But then she asked if I wasn't going to take a picture, and then I realized I got to take my picture with her^^, Sooo much fun^^,

So... I had a great time. It's 10 past midnight now. I think I should go to bed... I am going to visit V tomorrow, we're going to have so much fun^^,

Words of the day:
teki - enemy, rival
byounin - patient, sick person

Can I eats flower?

I'm leaving tomorrow. I have everything packed and ready. I hope. Have I mentioned I hate traveling? What if I forgot something? Well, I have my passport, my healthcard, my medicines, and money (cash, ATM card, and Mastercard, I should be covered). Everything else can be bought. Travelnerves are horrible... But I am looking forward to the concert, and once we are in the air, I will be okey. My friends will pick me up at 7 AM tomorrow, so I have to be up bright and early. I will be going to bed early today, so that I can get up that early.

My aloe vera has bloomed. I have always been impressed by my mom being able to make her aloe veras bloom, and now I have managed it myself. By neglecting it, by the look of it. It stands on the windowsill and I kinda forget it's there, I don't think I have watered it for a month. I took it down to get a good picture of it, and Tullerusk decided it was in need of some eating. I snapped this gorgeous picture of her:


Word of the day:
gaiyuu - foreign travel

The English Roses. (Or silk ones anyway)

Still packing. And I have now gotten to the toiletries, and I just had to snap a picture. A lady travels heavy, doesn't she? I am so glad I have the gigantic toiletry purse my mom made me. I was able to fit everything in, except the makeup, but them again I didn't try. Imagine trying to find a teeny little eyeshadow box at the bottom of that huge thingXP Decided I didn't care to try. Especially considering I we will try to be at the concert hall as early as possible to try to get a spot near the stage, so I will be in a hurry. We will be leaving on Friday. I can feel the travel nerves building already... I will spend tomorrow cleaning and doing the rest of the packing. In my wonderful Gothic & Lolita Bible there was a nice little recipe on how to make silk roses. My first two tries didn't turn out all that well, but the third one is purdy^^, That would be the black one in case you couldn't tell >.<>.< style="font-style: italic;">bara - rose