Catching up to life..

Hello lovlies!

This is quite the overdue post... Summer has left us for good, and autumn is certainly starting to come. It's getting cold outside, and the leaves are all turning yellow whilst falling to the ground. I have officially taken out my winter jacket again, and it is in good use already.

So life.. Since summer vacation ended, I started a new semester at University. Time really flies! I am  now in my second year of my bachelor in History. This year though, we have to take a different subject, so we can get a wider specter of knowledge. So this year I am studying Science of Religion. It's really interesting, and so far I enjoy it. But like most subjects, it has it's dry points. Still, I am enjoying myself.

Now some of you might remember me talking about finding a new place to live, since I had to move out of my old place. And I have managed to find myself a very nice place to live. I rent through a student housing service, and am currently living in a collective with 13 other people!? so we are 14 all together. How crazy doesn't that sound? 14! I was so skeptical and worried before I moved in here. Like, what if I don't get along with anyone? Or, what is there are only annoying people living there? All sorts of different questions and worries were floating around in my head for about a month. Now I've lived here for about one and a half month, and I am really enjoying myself! The people I live with are just wonderful! I get along with everyone, and we have a lot of fun together. I get to be social everyday, and we make food together sometime. And it's so much better then I could ever have imagined it to be.

The collective I live in is a very new place. The building, which is 8 floors high, was finished this summer. So we are the first people to live here. How great isn't that? We also have a elevator in our building! I am so happy I chose to live here. Our kitchen and living area is spacious, we have two ovens and two dishwashers in the kitchen, so many people can cook at the same time. We also have a gigantic projector as a TV in the living room. The rooms are not the biggest, but they are not small either. You have enough space to function, and let me tell you the best part; I have a toilet for myself! Every room has their own, private bathroom!! Such luxury!

I think I'm gonna film a little room tour soon, so I can show what it looks like, I just need to clean it up a bit more first... x)

This was one of the best decisions I've done so far this year. I don't regret it for a minute. I am so happy. Life is smiling to me.

Now I am off to sleep, since I have an early lecture tomorrow.. Sweet dreams!
See you next time...<3

Life update: Exams... +dreaming of coffee and summer

Hi guys!

I just finished my first out of three exams today! It was about antique and middle age history, and I am so happy to be done with it. I think I at least can get a passing grade, and that is good enough for me right now. So now there is time for me to freak out about the exam that's coming up on Friday. So as the good student I pretend to be, I went back to studying after I finished the exam. Most likely gonna spend all day tomorrow as well studying. So not much to write about these days...

One thing I am really excited about though, other that no more exams, is that in two weeks time I have summer vacation! :D
So excited to go back home and see my friends again. I miss them so much. And I am in extreme need of a Therapy Coffee Date with my best friend! <3 So that is my great motivation for finishing these exams. I can already smell the coffee. And hear the birds sing, if the weather will allow sitting outside.

This has become a pathetic excuse of an update post, so now I think I better go to bed and get some sleep instead. Dream of some coffee. Maybe I'll be a bit more writable tomorrow?

Until next time.. <3

UPDATE from my life~

Holy marshmallow I am a horrible blogger...!

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Yeah... I have been really dead on the blogging front, as well as on youtube.. >< Exams just completely throw me off. The good part is that they are soon over! :D *happy dance*

The weather has become really nice lately, almost feels like spring is actually here to stay now! *knocking on wood to not tempt fate* When the sun is shining and the temperature reaches almost 10-12 degrees celcius, I get so motivated to do stuff. I even went for a hike today! It was so refreshing and relaxing to be outside, listening to the birds sing and the movement of the forest. I will try to make that a regular thing for me to do.

This increase in sun and heat will also make my outfits a tad more interesting. I won't have to jump into my big, warm sweaters and jeans all the time anymore. Believe it or not, I actually managed to wear a maxi-dress today when I went for a info-meeting at school. That made it feel like spring.

What else have I been doing lately..?

Went to an x-russ party.
An x-russ party is a party where we who have been russ in earlier years dress up in our russebukse and re-live the old memories for one day.

If you don't know what a russ is, I'll quickly explain it now: In Norway when we graduate from high school, we celebrate this for approximately half a month to a month in the last spring semester by dressing up in colorful overalls that represent how many years we are graduating from. The color depends on what kind of line you have been studying. We have three main colors that are the most common: Red, Blue and Black. There are also Green ones, but they are not a common.

• The ones with Red overalls have finished three years of general studies, which is the basic that you need to get into a university. It means they have gotten general study competence, or special since some take extra math and chemistry and such. 

• The Black or Blue ones are for them who have finished the two years of vocational studies, which are lines where you specifically study a trade such as health worker, chef or art. These lines only go for normally two years and then you go out working for two more years as an apprentice. 

• The Green overalls are for those who study agriculture and such. There are not that many schools who provide this, so they are kinda rare. 

I myself have been both a Red and a Black russ. I was first a Black russ in 2013 after finishing culinary school, but I chose not to go into apprenticeship, and instead take one extra year where I studied to get the general study competence. Which meant I got to be a Red russ in 2014. 

If you want to know more detailed stuff about this fun celebration, there is a wikipedia page about it; here. (The information there might be a little different when it comes to the representation of the colors, but that is how it used to be before. The way I've listed it here is how it was at the school I was attending. Don't know if they do it much different in other schools.)

So anyway, we get to dress up in our old overalls one day every year to party and have fun. I chose to wear my Black overall since that is the oldest one, and there are fewer people who have Black compared to Red. I think I might wear the Red one next year. It's nice to be able to wary from year to year. We first had a pre-party at a friends apartment where we started at like 10-11am in the morning. This is a day where we drink all day. Then there was a gathering at an old fortress ground, so we went there. There was so many people there. Of course the amount of Red overalls were overwhelming compared to the other colors. We spent some time there, before heading back to our friends apartment to chill and drink some more. When it got around 11pm some of us went in to town. Didn't spend too long there since it started raining. Then I went home. It was a long day, but it was so much fun. I am already looking forward to next year. The sad thing is that when so many young people gather, and people are very drunk, they make a complete mess. And this day was no exception. The local news paper had been at the fortress grounds early the next morning, and it was flowing with trash, grills, an armchair and more stuff. I do not understand how people manage to make such a mess. I at least made sure to bring back all the empty bottles and trash I had with me. It wouldn't be such a big job cleaning if everyone just took their stuff. Hopefully they got it cleaned up. 

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Otherwise I have been sitting at school or at home preparing for exams. Been reading and re-writing lecture notes. Nothing fancy going on at all. Just plain, boring me digging myself down into books. 

So I said earlier that I went for a hike today, and it really made me remember what it is I love about Norway; the nature. Spring and summer are my favorite seasons, and I dare say they are the most beautiful seasons in Norway. I am not a fan of cold weather, so it says itself that I am ecstatic when the degrees climb upwards, but there is just so much beauty in spring and summer as well. The trees grow new leaves and flowers, the birds sing and people seem generally happier. So when I went for my hike today, I took a couple of pictures of the beautiful norwegian nature that we are known for. 

Here are a couple of pictures: 

These pictures were taken on my Samsung, so they don't completely do the nature justice, but I think they do give a good idea of how beautiful it is. Next time I might bring my camera, but it's just so nice to walk around without thinking of pictures and internet, and just relax; taking it all in. But I do want to showcase the norwegian nature, so I might just do that. 

Now If you might excuse me, I need to drift off to dream land because I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning. 

Bye Bye~