Update; Rain + Makeup + Looking for Apartment

Hello everyone!

It is raining like mad outside right now. I actually kinda like rain, it's quite soothing. And it always smells really nice before/under/after the skies have emptied their watergates. It might sound weird, but apparently many people like the smell of rain. Rain is good for a lot of things; the soul, the nature and the all around wellness of the world. So many countries are in desperate need of rain and water, so I'm not going to complain about having too much of it. I guess what I'm really grumpy because of is the lack of sun and heat. Once you enter summer vacation, the body is kind of expecting summer weather. My body is craving sun and warmth, not cold and gusty..

So I am spending most of my days going once more into hibernation. Very few people are attempting to exit their houses, most people are just shutting themselves inside. I have only been going outside so that I could meet friends and catch up. Otherwise I have been entertaining myself with makeup and Midsummer Murder. Maybe the weirdest combination.

So hopefully the weather will turn around soon, before I run out of makeup or episodes to watch..

In about two weeks time I will be heading of to work at a raceway summer meet. I'll be frying burgers for a whole weekend. It shall be fun. This will be the third year I'll be working there. And I like it. I get to watch all sorts of cars racing around the tracks. So I need to stay healthy and not catch a cold before that, since I don't want to be sock while making food. Crossing fingers and tails that the weather will turn around by then.

I think I might have mentioned this in earlier posts, that I am looking for a new place to stay for next semester, and it is indeed quite stressful. I have found a pretty decent place, but I think I need to stay at that flat throughout the year. So I'm not really sure...

Other than that I am going to enjoy my long awaited vacation and spend the time to recharge my batteries.

Until next time.. <3

Video; Norway's National Day 2015

Hello everybody!

I finally finished editing and uploading the video from 17th of May. It was so much fun watching the clips again, and I really hope you will like it.

You can get to see how we celebrate our national day, so check it out.

And do subscribe to my YouTube if you wanna see more videos from Norway.

Until next time.. <3

Last Weeks in Photos

Hello everyone!

I have been seriously MIA lately...

Because of my exams I did not have time or energy to blog, and then just before my last exam my mac broke down and refused to start. Had to send it in to get it fixed. It apparently started working again, but they don't know how.. Anyway it is now working and hopefully it will keep working for a good while more. Luckily all the stuff I had on it survived, and I can now start editing my footage from our national day celebration. I actually finished exams a week ago, but I have been spending the last week taking apart and packing down my room before I headed home for vacation. I have to move to another place this fall, so now everything is now ready to be taken wherever I get a new place to stay. So now is actually the first day I have had any time to blog or do anything at all.

Here are some pictures from my last weeks;

These photos are a quick view into my month ^^
Today I drove back to my hometown together with my mom. A 6 hour long drive. So I am really ready to go to sleep now.

Until 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

17th of May; How I Celebrated Norway's National Day!

Hi everyone!

Yesterday was May 17th; Norway's national day! :D
I did not have the time to blog that day what so ever. The day was packed with fun and national pride. I had so much fun! We walked a lot, ate a lot and drank beer with great people.

The day started with a champagne breakfast together with some friends. We popped the champagne bottle, ate pavlova and watched the children's parade in Oslo and the royal family waving at the people + celebrations from all around Norway on the TV.

When we finished eating and drinking, we made our way into town to walk in the main parade together with our history student association. The parade was filled with all sorts of student associations, local associations, marching bands and other groups of people. Even the Norwegian stormtroopers group walked in the parade. It was really cool!

Stormtroopers!!

After a lot of walking, cheering and dancing in the parade, we went to take some photos with our student association. Also got to take some group photos with my friends. After the photos were taken people kinda scattered all over the place. We decided, true to tradition, to go stuff our faces with ice-cream and hot dogs. Yum!

Next up we just wandered around a little, looking at all the people and stall with food. Ended up getting myself a slice of pizza since, since for some weird reason a hot dog and ice-cream did not satisfy my hunger.

Then we watched the russetog (parade full of russ). Quite nostalgic watching them, made me miss my time as a russ. After watching them jump and dance around through the streets, we made our way over to a pub to get a beer. And after finishing one beer, we headed over to eat a pizza (everyone was quite hungry after walking a lot that day).

russ^^

When the pizza had been devoured, we headed back to the pub to grab some more beer and catch up with more people. And then we went home.

I have to say, jumping into bed was pure heaven after all that walking! Fell asleep once my head hit my pillow.

This year was my first time celebrating our national day away from home, and it was quite weird, but it was nice. Since I had my friends with me, it was all good.

Hope this was interesting for you to read, and maybe you learned something new about our celebration of the national day.

Until next time.. <3

Norway's National Day; A quick intro

Hello people of the world!

Today I thought I'd write about the big day of celebration in Norway; our national day!
Norway's national day is on the 17th of May every year. Which is like in a few days time!? So it is time to prepare for celebration. Every nation has a national day, and they are celebrated differently, and we Norwegian are no different. We take it all out. Our celebration is so full of joy and pride, and I think I can say we do celebrate it quite uniquely.

Children carrying flags and walking in parades together with marching bands. Stuffing our faces with ice-cream and hot dogs. Buildings and windows decorated with the Norwegian flag. Flags hoisted and waving in the wind at almost every house. Men and women wearing their Bunad; our national costume, or at least dressed really nicely. High school students wearing their Russebukse, which I've talked about before, running around passing out Russekort (mock business cards) to children who collect them, and they basically just run around blowing whistles and making loads of noise. Children running around with a potato on a spoon, throwing balls on cans stacked or potato sack racing. And people everywhere being happy and shining with pride for this country. This kinda sums up our national day, even though I most likely have forgotten something. I could probably sit here all night describing what goes on. But I don't have that attention span right now because I need to study for exams. But I think I will try to film as much as I can the 17th. And then you can see what it is like. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

I can not describe how much I am looking forward to this day. It is such a happy day where we celebrate our country, but also our royal family. They are very much the center of the celebration. It has been like that since we got our freedom from Sweden in 1905.

Hopefully I will get loads of great footage from the celebration. Now I need to go through my closet to find out what I will be wearing, because this might take me days to figure out...

Until next time... <3

I won a giveaway!! :D

Hi everyone!

Guess what!? I won something! :D
It's quite rare for me to win giveaways or contests that I enter, but this time I actually won!

So I entered a giveaway hosted by TokyoGirlsUpdate a while back, and a few weeks ago I got a mail saying that I won! And a couple of days ago I could go to the post office to fetch my package.

On my way to pick up the package! :D 

Now you are probably wondering what I won. I won a box of 20 Black Thunder Chocolate Bar! And I can tell you this; they are delicious! <3 I think they taste kinda like chocolate covered Oreos.

I did film a video of me opening and trying the chocolate out, so here you go. If you wanna see my reaction and my thoughts on the Black Thunder Chocolate:

Until next time... <3