School assignment

(My group)
We got a group assignment in on of my classes, where we had to go out to different areas in Oslo, and look for clues of God/religion in the culture/area. We took some pictures, and should than choose out some of them, and put them out on a blog. On Friday 31 of August we are going true the different blogs and having a discussion in our class.

Here is the pictures that my group choosed:

Some pictures from my aprtment in Oslo

A lovely picture of a rainbow taken from out kitchen.
Under isa picture of the kitchen

Stine was a little sceptic the first day, she had so much thing to unpack. I hade almost none:P

My bed the first three days.

Here is the start of my "Komode"

Here is my new bed and the finished "Komode"



I am going to meet a friends for an ice cream, so this time I dont have time to write much.
But hopfully I will have more time another day, maybe also a fun story from the bitg town:P

Have a nice day:)

Road Trip

Me, Stine and Nils-Ove went on a Road Trip to Kristiansund, Atlanterhavs veien, some ferries trips, Trollstigen and Valdalen.. It was a really good trip.

Kristiansund was a really nice and koselig town, it was the first time I have ever been there.

The Atlanterhavs veien was incredible, so if you have a chance to go there, you should.
It was shorter than I thougt, but it was wort to go there. And next time I want to use more time, bring the lunsj and relax




Trollstigen I have been to before, and I really like it. If you dont know about it, look at the pictures below. Incredible road up the mountain, with a incredible wiev from the top.


On Saturday I am going to move to Oslo, are going to study there the next three years.
I do not have any pictures of the apartment yet (I havent seen it my self), but I will try to put out som pictures and write about my first days in Oslo next week.

Godøya in international homepage

This is the homepage of Focus Uganda
If you look on the page you will find some picures at top of the sides, usualy of people.
But if you take a lookHere, you will se a beatiuful picture of the Island I live on, Godøya.

I left them some pictures, befdre I went back home. But do not now why they have put out that picture on homepage. But is soo cool:)

Here is a sample of the picture:



P.S
I will try to update my blog more in the days to come and be better!

A litttle update

Picture: Steinar, Suemmey, Yessenia, Rafaela, Stine

I think it is now time put out a new post on my blog, is has been over a months since the last.In the last month I have spent my time at school, Hald Internasjonale Senter. It has been a great time, where we have had the chance to do some de-briefing, been on a couple of trips, classes and done many fun activities after classes.

At Saturday I am going home for a week, we (me, per and Stine) are going to do some information work at the schools in Giske Komune, and also have a meeting at Godøy Bedhus on Wednesday. We are going to talk about some of the things we have learn the period we stayed out. So I am looking forward to that, it will be a great experience. At of course I am looking forward to meet my family, friends and to go to a football training.

After that week we have less than two weeks at Hald, in many ways it will be sad to finish. Because I have gotten so many friends, from many different countries. To live together, so closely among so many different countries and cultures, and to see that we can bee such good friends. That is an experience everyone should have tried, we have so much to learn from each other. So I hope that this is something I can bring it to my life also in the future.Here are some pictures from the last month:

Picture 1: Stine Helen
Picture 2: Leonardo, Salome, Johnson and Danijel
Picture 3: Me, Mateus and Salome
Picture 4: Per and Paulette
Picture 5: Ragnhild and Christina.

Home sweet home :)

It is good to be home, this time I will just show you some picture, no text

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Uganda and Amsterdam

It has been a strange last week, so many people to say goodbye to, people you hope to meet again, but you never know where life brings you. The last days we spend at the camp centre to FOCUS, where they organized a mission camp from Thursday to Monday.Here is a picture from the camp and one from the farewell lunch we had with out host family.I do not have so much more to write about; because I thin the impression has to sink a little bit first

.I am now sitting in the Airport in Amsterdam, we have been a little trip into the town, since we (me and Per) had to wait for 9 hours for the plan to Oslo. So we use some of the time to go to see a little bit of Amsterdam, we was planning to visit the house of Anne Frank, but when we saw the long line, we gave up:p so we just walk a little around, a beautiful town.

It is strange to think than in 8 hours, I will be home. Strange

The End is near!

Maybe some will think that this is a negative title, but I do no see it as that. An end for something means a beginning for something else. I have now been in Uganda for almost six months, will I am sitting here and writing, it is strange to think that it is not so many days left, before I am going home, that this part of my life is coming to a end.I think it will be sad to leave behind the people you have gotten to know, the people from work, the students, the children at the project and my host family. At the same time I really look forward to see my family, friends, the people at school any many others that I haven’t seen for a loooong time.
There is a time for everything, there have been a time for living in Uganda, but I feel that now the time to go home is close. Someday I hope to come back to Uganda, to visit all the people that I got to know, and that I now call friends and my African family.

I have experience many things, good and bad. Some of the things I have written about on my blog, some I have shared with my family and friends back home. Some I have shared with the people in my team. Some I still have problem sharing, because it is hard to explain the impressions. Some I have to wait to I get back home to share.

The last weeks I have meet so many people that are thanking my (and of course the rest of team Kampala), blessing me and saying many good about me as a person. Telling us that we have done so much for them and that have given them so much joy.
It is so good to hear that, it is encouraging and it helps your self esteem.But at the same time, I in a way I fell “fake” or something. It is hard to explain, but I feel that I have not done so much, to deserve so much praise. I do not feel that I have done so much. I feel that I have learned and received much more that what I have given or learn away. We have so much back home in Norway, but still I feel that people here are much more happy and grateful for the things they have. And I also think there is much to learn from how people here, share the things that they have. Most of the people here has much less things, money and food than what we have back in Norway, and still they share much more and much easier.I would love to say that I am now going to do the same, but I think that the best I can say about my self, is that I am working on it, I really want to better to give and to share what I have.

Another thing is the culture different; there are so many different things in this culture compared with the Norwegian. I think I have managed to handle the culture different in a good way. I have found out that I am proud of my Norwegian culture, in the same time I see that there are things to learn from other cultures, or at least there are things that I want to learn.Because for me, the most important thing I have learn about culture is that: Culture different does not have to bee a bad thing, as long as people respect each others culture, and that we are different. It will be much easier. And also that my culture does not have to better or worse that your culture, it is just different.

If you are still reading this post, I know that this time it maybe has become a little to long and maybe a little persona. But this is what I wanted to share today.Since I haven’t written about what I have been doing the last week, I will end with showing some pictures from my week.


I am not looking forward to the end, but to the new start. I am not going to say good bye and have a nice life, I am going to say, until next time, look after your self.I am not looking forward to leave Uganda, but to come home.I really look forward to see you all again :)

Ice cream!

Diplom is

The picture you see above, is not taken in Norway, but at the nearest supermarket to where I live in Kampala. I have lived at this place for almost five months, and been to this shop many times, especially to buy water. But it was first last week I saw the big Diplom is paining on the freezer that they have their water. I wished really that there also could be some Diplom ice cream in it, because I think Norwegian ice cream is better than the local one, or the imported one, like nestle and other brands. But no ice, only water. But I am happy with that, since water is life:p And just to find a Diplom is freezer was really fun :)

Hot weather depressions

In Norway there is a lot talk about Winter depressions, the father north you live, and the more common this is. Winter depressions are when you life in a cold and dark environment during a period of time, and this effects your mood in a negative way.But what about hot weather depressions, the last months it has been really hot here (at least for me, and much sun. This is nice and good, sun makes people happy and in a good mood. This is a fact, or? Rules are meant to be broken. Because, I really have started to miss cold weather, rain, storm and what we call really good Sunnmørs vær. Because, you sweet when you sleep, you sweet when you go to and from the office. When you come back and a really tired, and you lie down on the bed to sleep, you finds it is too hot to sleep, and you sweet. And I also wake up, early because of the heat. Hot weather depressions are hard.By the way, it is up to you as a reader to decide how serious you will take this post. Depends on how good you now me. :p Just remember If you are happy, I am happy.

Travelling

This weekend I travelled to Soroti, with four others, but this time I was the only one from Team Kampala. It is good to travel, and I have done a lot here in Uganda. Hopefully I am finished with travelling now, I just want to stay in Kampala and in Gerenge (the camp site), the last week, and enjoy the time.

Culture what?

The last weekend me, Aina, Eddie, Faith and Brian travelled north to Lira, a town around five hours from Kampala. (Per was back in Kampala and Ingrid was in Kenya).
We had their training on voluntary staff on Saturday and on Sunday we visited a CU at a University around 45 min from Lira. We had a lot of program during the weekend, so we did not have time to see so much of the town. I got to visit on of my “host brothers” at the place he works, so that was nice.

Care-Groups is something I have worked with almost every week since I came here. So maybe I should tell something about that. That is a group that should have between 3 and 12 members, so we can also say it is small groups. This groups is a part of the CU (Christian Union) at the university, and is one of the ways FOCUS works. We help the different Care-Group leaders with training and information. One of the most important ting is bible study, but also other things as training/talking about important issues like: HIV/Aids, leader training and other subjects that is important for youths.

We also have had some individual talks about reversed culture shock with a counsellor working closely with FOCUS, and tomorrow we are going to have a training all four of us. I do no think that I will have any culture shock when I go back home. We have had two counsellors working with FOCUS since we came, and both have been talking about it is a bigger shock, going back, than coming here. But as stubborn as I am, I still have a very hard time believing it, to be honest I do not see the possibility for me getting a culture shock when go home :p

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