Winter is Coming...
Hi everybody! It's been a long time since we posted something. But we're still here!
Time is just flying by so fast, and suddenly we're having our last lecture for this semester, and only one week left before the first exam starts. Where did the time go?
Well, this is a small review of where we have spent some of our time during the past month or two:)
Of course, much of our time has been spent at school.
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| Good humor is evolving with schoolwork... |
Stan has been having a lot of exams and have done well. He has also been having his practical periods at hospital three times a week the last month, which he is learning a lot from.
While Stans behavior has shifted towards 'sedentary', I am being brain washed with exercise physiology, psychology, physical activity and health. Let's put it this way; one of us is meeting the "Physical activity guidelines" that's needed to gain health benefits, … while others don't. Anyway, it's been really interesting learning abut training, nutrition, physical activity, health, biomechanics, sport and exercise psychology and so on, and it inspires me to be active!
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| Doing yoga at my mat at home, yey! |
The Australian animal life was something that we where a little skeptic towards in the beginning of our stay. How many poisonous spiders will nest under our bed and how many snakes will come crawling up our toilet… Well, the answer is NO ONE, and that's a little disappointing actually! The only creepy thing we've had during these four months is two cockroaches visiting our flat, and only one of them acted really nasty (poohed on the floor). So, we wanted to spend some time visiting a place where you are guarantied to see dangerous animals: A Zoo!
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| Denne strutsen hilser til deg, Una |
The Lone Pine Koala sanctuary was a very calm and nice place, and the best thing was that the kangaroos, wallabies, struts and other non- poisonous animals where walking freely among us! Meaning, you could get to know them a little better. Hehehe, meaning I could cuddle them :D
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| This was my favorite 'Blue Kangaroo" |
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| I was dancing with the Struts. |
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| A sheepdog and his hole |
Actually, we also met the big yellow Pyton on "a walk" in the fields … He wasn't moving much tough, and thank God for that. And when the carer decided that the snake had got enough stretching, he just picked him up and carried him away like a scarf…
Seeing a Koala for the first time made us laugh solo hard! It is just the strangest thing ever. It's just chillin' in the tree, and you really wonder "why has this specie survived?"
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| Koala latterkrampe... |
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| Look at this guy! |
Anyway, my favorite animal of them all were the wallabies!
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| Curious little fellow. |
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| Two curious little fellows ;) |
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| And in the end I also got to cuddle a Koala! |
Dinner party. Seeing those beautiful kangaroos 'inspired us' to have a kangaroo feast with Torbear, Ingrid and Kayleen. And they sure taste jammy!
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| Kangaroo, rum and coce. |
Scavenger Hunt
Some of the other cool things I've done this past months is all thanks to one particular event happening in march. ANSA arranges a 'Scavenger Hunt' for students every year, which basically is having teams dressed out in funny (and sometimes vulgar) costumes solving a "rebus", and of course a lot of alcohol is involved in every step of the way. Our team, "Et Lite stykke Norge" dressed up as eventyrfigurer, me being the Troll, cause I have "bustete kroellete haaar"…
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"Det var en gang... "
Can you guess the characters? |
Already at the meeting point at South Bank our team stood out from the others, that being because 1. our costumes did not reveal 80 % of our skin, and 2. we were not drunk.
But after something like 6 hours with hunting down task after task, we got the taste of victory coming our way. And when the winners were claimed many hours later to "Et Lite stykke Norge!" we just knew we had had the best secret weapon ever - not being totally slushed (dritings).
So we won! - and we won prices that got us going Skydiving and taking a Sunset cruise with a catamaran down at Gold Coast. Weheew!
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| You can tell that we have practiced the skydiving posture! |
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| *glis* |
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| Sunset cruice |
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| Sigrid and her cool sunnies |
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| Ingrid, Sigrid og Mariann. Fine jenter! |
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| Beate fra Siljan |
We also celebrated 17. Mai down here at the 17th of may ;P
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| Brunosten! |
That day was smelling patriotism a long way, I'm telling ya. But it was a beautiful day with brunost for breakfast at the girls house and then vaffler with more brunost later in the city. Some of my Aussie friends also came along to celebrate "Norway day" and one of them, Zak, liked it so much that he brought home a norwegian flag.
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| Hurra for 17. mai! |
One day me and Xander went to the Glashouse mountains north of Brisbane to climb. The Glashouse mountains consists of a flat plain, punctuated by rhyolite and trachyte volcanic plugs (the cores of extinct volcanoes that formed 27 million to 26 million years ago) (source; Wikipedia:P). And it's good for climbing! We have been climbing at Kangaroo point some evenings as well, but the quality of the climbing is not that good, so it was super nice to get out of town and do some really good routes!
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| Mount Tiborgorgan, one of the volcanic peaks in the Glashouse Mountains |
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| Nice view |
Stan got this great idea the other day. He came home with a hair cutter. "Now I don't have to spend money on going to the hairdresser!" It was a good thought! But it didn't go that well, unfortunately... and when I tried to fix it, it didn't get any better. He cut to much of around his ears, so it looked like he had 'farts striper' on each side of his head. Good that I had bought him a cap for his birthday. And that his hair still grows out again... ;)
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| Cutting in action! |
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| This is a bloody serious University! |
It's soon exam, actually only one week left to study! Stan has his last presentation exam, called "Anatomy Night" the 17th of june, and I have my last exam the 20th. So we are still studying hard and preparing for that.
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| My Aussie friends Zak and Libby studying for mid semester some months ago. |
So, while I'm writing the winter holiday is getting closer and closer. WE are so exited! Cause we are getting both our families down to visit us (and they are coming at the same time). "A Big Happy Family". And after having a road trip with our big (and hopefully) happy family down to Sydney, Stan and I are going to the Blue Mountains for two weeks to climb. SOOOO EXITTEDDDD!
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| www.googleimages.com ;) |
I have to admit one thing tough, … I get really jealous watching pictures of you guys getting into Norwegian summer holiday! Hopefully you'll have a warm and sunny summer, it have started good at least ;)
So wish you all the best summertime!
God sommer dere!
