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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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12:23 am
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| Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
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11:42 pm - harbour day
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'that's all i can say'
no. no it is isn't.
it is not at all.
i have no more words.
current mood:  nothing
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| Saturday, April 7th, 2007
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12:20 am - one night in penzance
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puncher:trashed,
no-duty priveleges: removed
integrity: lost.
i want to kick myself for stupity at the same time i am laughing out loud in self-congratulation.
i thought i said no more drama? sober up, tashi.
current mood:  regretful
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| Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
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11:46 am - dreaming
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| Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
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9:44 pm - swimming in effluent
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woohoo! 31 degrees, headed out to the beach with katrina. must have been low tide as we had to walk more than a mile out even to get any water.
we knew it was effluent, but we had to swim :)
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| Monday, August 22nd, 2005
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10:52 am - happy birthday
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happy birthday baiba! 21 yesterday, had a great time, spent last night in a fantastic hotel in holmenkollen, free concert in town, went out on the fjord, nice food, baiba got a tattoo.. was great fun, see you again sometime and good luck at uni!
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| Saturday, August 20th, 2005
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12:51 pm - itchy feet
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so i take it back, the wood in auli is not small.
discovered a lake at sunset in the middle of the woods, and just as i decided to turn back for dark i read a sign for 'larsrud'.. now that i've seen it, that compelling urge to walk to the end of the path is calling..
nina also tells me it's jut one hour by car to sweden .: now how long is that walking?...
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| Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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10:38 am
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yippee, won 100 francs at the casino!
couldn't resist using the old 'we'll put it all on black' despite our use of conspicuous 5-franc chips while everyone else was carefully placing their 100s.
current mood:  rich
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| Sunday, August 14th, 2005
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3:59 am - die schweiz
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8½ hours travelling (had to go via london - you get what you pay for) and i'm filling up nicely on broise (rösti), swiss mustard and obviously chocolate.
celebrated auntie hedy's 80th birthday on saturday with beacoup de famille (oh, the language barrier...). still, there was plenty of time later to practise my best line in german
current mood:  sleepy
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| Friday, August 12th, 2005
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7:12 am - tsjeriåu gudbai
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leaving today! byebye kids, will miss you!
and i don't have an excuse to play on the swings anymore..
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| Thursday, August 11th, 2005
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7:55 pm - how to solve your packing problems
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hmm.. at a loss as to how to fit everything back in my suitcase, only one way presents itself .: come back. just the excuse i was looking for to justify being here next week for baiba's 21st :)
for now, edelweiss and lederhosen here we come
current mood:  excited!
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| Sunday, August 7th, 2005
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7:04 pm - flytur
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went flying over Oslo, weather wasn't great so we turned back and did some sightseeing, lots of pics of the palace and a couple of the old airport
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12:49 pm
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on further inspection of the unnavigable forest it turns out to be
a) small, and
b) navigable
damn.
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| Monday, August 1st, 2005
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10:45 pm
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happy 1st august! |
had a mini boat tour round some of the oslofjord, where were shown what is apparantly rabbit island! better known as gressholmen, where there are so many rabbits that they supposedly come up and eat your food while you're having a picnic. ah, rabbits...
anyway. save us from doing all the museums, we looked at the outside of the buildings of quite a few from the boat. i know, lazy.
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| Saturday, July 30th, 2005
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8:52 pm - ferie
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wendy kim and priya arrive!!
 had a look around the main street (karl johans gate) and the palace - where the guards move, talk and even tell people to move out of the way! what kind of a guard moves? wouldn't make it as a beefeater...
checked out the obelisk and played on the sculptures at vigalandspark. less saw holmenkollen ski-jump than just looked at it.. from vigalands park ;)
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| Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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1:46 am - you too
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inge (host-dad) and arne took me to u2 concert, valle hovin!
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| Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
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5:05 pm - discovery launched
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first manned spacefligth in two years has just launched!
new word: Oppskytingen ~ å skutte opp
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| Sunday, July 24th, 2005
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10:25 am - wandering through faerieland
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I'm wandering through faerieland. The run I decided to take through the forest has deteriorated into a walk as I start forgetting the way back out. Left, or right? I see some magic lichen lit up by sunlight and decide that despite the lack of path, I'll follow it.
I take the smaller path through some rocks, I thought I was already at the top of the hill, but this path leads upwards. I usually have directional sense but I can see now that navigation is not my strong point. Do not follow where the path my lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. That's a nice metaphor, preferable to the practical advice of stick to the path and avoid getting completely lost. Or falling off a mountain, like me and katrina nearly did in Lucerne, but that was 2003.. which is years ago... tempus fugit.
I've totally lost the path. Wandering alone in the woods doesn't seem like the best idea. if anyone chased me, i'd have a long way to run to i don't know where. but this is norway. either it's completely safe, or everyone's too drunk to bother coming up into the woods on a sunday morning.
Just as I wistfully think I'm getting accidentally-on-purpose-ly lost, crossroads. I see a blue paint mark on a tree to my left; I've arrived at a hovedway. And another to my right. They're both attractive in their own ways. I stumble upon a nugget of wisdom that I already knew: you can't go in both directions at once.
Left. I've been out for an hour and a half and drunk more than half my water bottle. I've got no food, but it'll take less time to get back and I ate five marshmallows this morning, as well as an almighty dinner yesterday. I think I'll have enough glycogen in my blood for the next few weeks. Enough sugar, fat and carbohydrate, the only substance I'm lacking is alcohol. For emergencies I have ten-kroner in each shoe, and a peice of paper and a pen. in a real emergency i expect that wouldn't get me much more than orange juice, but i could use my emergency pen to write the word 'help' on my emergency bit of paper, and wave it daintly in the air hoping a rescue pilot would spot it under the foliage.
It's nice to get out alone, I like my own company. And the trees. You can always rely on yourself. The trees, they're good for leaning against.
In my city soul is a country girl. not that i'm too keen on the idea of reaching into a cow and pulling out a bit of newborn veal wrapped in fine-grain calf-leather; but I love the forest.
Disappointingly, I see a sign. Not metaphorical this time, a wooden sign with blue paint, pointing in the opposite direction: LØYTNANSDALEN. Something about the sign tells me it's not a particularly long way.
The path is well made and well-marked. Every time I wonder where I'm going or if it's disappearing before me, another stripe of blue paint appears. Now that I know that I'm going somewhere, I'm getting bored.
I need to pee. I'm wondering how long I can hold out without a proper toilet break.
I'm in tracksuit bottoms, and realise that a mini skirt and heals are not always more silly and inconvenient than trousers and trainers as they're made out to be.
The location's pretty exposed, but no one's around and if they were, it's nothing they haven't seen before. But then right after, a man comes jogging over the path. Could it be coincidence? Of course, and this is the obvious explanation, but I'm paranoid, and I haven't gotten away with being stupid many times over by not running away at the first sign of explainable, unsuspicious, non-threatening coincidence.
So I wait, and then run in the opposite direction, getting some proper exercise now. I see an old woman walking along the path towards me. It's safe, I'm safe. So I'm bored. At least if I do get lost in here I've got a witness to say I was here, at this time on this date. If the people here are even connected to civilisation and would even watch the news anyway. But this is not Alta....
~ who? some guy died.. when was that? who? the pope? oh... no, i didn't hear. this fjord doesn't have tv... ~
Times and dates are important. People forget times, dates, days, but to me they're important, the times and dates, but especially the dates. I remember. I remember the way back now, I can see it in my head, left, follow the way round, left right etc... then there's the point where i left the path and i have to go over some magic lichen.
I'm back at the crossroads and I take the both directions I couldn't take before. this smaller path is less enticing than it was before. Løytnansdalen.
More blue paint and windey path. And more path...
Then, suddenly, houses. I'm thinking i've come to the town of Løytensdalen, and I'll have to walk back at least along the main road to get back to Auli.
And then I come up onto the road and recognise where I am. Auli bloody hovedveien.
current mood:  trippy
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| Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
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9:12 pm - the land of movies
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family dinner to celebrate, baiba also came round again, with more dvds...
seem to remember doing this a lot in alta too..
something about this country and being incredibley lazy.
can't... reach... remote.......
too.. many.. waffles.....
current mood:  met
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| Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
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3:35 pm
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yay! oh man, i'm getting old.. tonjee came round :D and we went out to oslo, but the one night i wanna actually go out it poured! after wading from the tram stop to akker brygge for something to eat, nina (host-mum) messages me to let me know there are no nightbuses tonight.. and taxi costs ~£120 to auli! :o
so, true to my new-found elderliness, we rushed to catch the last train home and fall asleep in front of dvds ...
damn, im lazy
current music: big yellow taxi ~ counting crows
current mood:  old
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