Day One at the Cabin

The journey up to the cabin was long and surprisingly silent. Tom Ian was suffering from a bad hangover so slept most of the way and I was far too busy watching the amazing scenery go by to be bothered to wake him up and talk his ear off.
The drive went almost without a hitch, except for the slight traffic jam we encountered due to someone driving off of the road further up. Luckily Tom (Tom Ian's father) noticed other cars were driving around the jam and we decided to follow them. An excellent move, we skipped the traffic and drove on to Voss.
We didn't really stop in Voss, so I can't realistically strike it from my list, but we did briefly stop at the Rema1000 to stock up on supplies. Once we had them, it was back in the car and on to the cabin! Hooray!

Lists

This post shall probably not be all that interesting and for that i apologise, but my head is full of lists so i thought i would share them...


Things to do before Cabintimes:

1. wrap presents
2. clean apartment
3. finish making sweet things (nam)
4. buy veggie food
5. wash/pack warm clothes

Things i am looking forward to over the christmas break:

1. watching a ton of christmas classics
2. staying in a cabin in the mountains ( i mean fuck yeah!)
3. reading books for pleasure (thanks becky ;) and not just for school
4. seasons 3 and 4 of dexter
5. sleeping, lots and lots of sleeping! 

Things i shall miss this christmas:

1. Christmas eve drinks with the girlies (and yon)
2. Waking up waaay early on christmas morning (even before my little sister) because i am just that excited
3. Chaotic house
4. The family (obvious one)
5. Late night shopping under the christmas lights of Leicester. 

Things you should look forward to on this blog:

1. Christmas cabin blogging
2. Roll and Rock post
3. Sworn post (yep finally ticked another thing off my list)
4. a massive amount of pictures taken by me while in Norway
5. the usual general rambling (you know you love it)

so untill then i shall sign off from this fairly pointless blog post and bid you adieu

xxx 

Pepperkakehus!

I går var jeg med Jeanette.

Yesterday i finally met up with Jeanette

Etter at vi traff hverandre på nesttun, drog vi på lagunen.

After we met each other at Nesttun we caught the bus to lagunen .

Hun kjøpte julegaver til venninene sine, og jeg fikk en liten ting også.

She bought christmas gifts for her friends and i got a little something also. 

Sleep Deprived!

I am a right stresshead at the moment which means my sleeping patterns have become far too eratic. pair that with far to many drunken advantures with Nicole, Corrine, Ida and many others and i am one sleep deprived kitten!
so at the moment i am trying to riide out the sleep train in order to re set my body clock at least untill the weekend. i really need to sort my life out because i have exams coming up in less than a month and i am really not ready :(


Things i have enjoyed over the past week or so;

• halloween at hulen
• seeing shining at hulen
• moulin rouge party (essentially getting to dress up like a slut)
• making a ton of new friends 
• my new norwegian class! it is so much easier to follow

Things i am looking forward to in the coming weeks;

• lunsj at Inside with Nicole
• more hulen times
• first evening working at hulen
• adventures - fantoft stave church here we come ;)

Things i am not looking forward too;

• a 5000 word take home exam! excuse me what now!? 5000 words!? that is almost as much as my bloody dissertation!
• my bloody dissertation!
• an oral literature exam for which i have read none of the required books :(
• basically anything to do with exams!

THE THING I AM MOST EXCITED ABOUT! CHRISTMAS hells yeah! i cannot actually wait... so far it seems to be looking like it will consist of cabins! snow! gingerbread cities! amazing people!  how could it actually get better?

s'mores!

På søndag nicole og jeg var snakker om mat vi savnet fra hjemme,så vi bestemte oss å lage s’mores!

Vi dro på buttiken og kjøpte, marshmallows, sjokolade og digestives.

omnomnom!

piled up in the oven!

de var bare i ovnen i 3 minutter men vi kunne knapte vente. de var yummy!

omnomnom!

Hulen staff party and The first flakes of snø

Yesterday Nicole, Corrine and I attended our first Hulen staff party. The theme was the 1952 Oslo winter Olympics or for the slightly less adventurous just 1950’s.

People really went all out which was wonderful to see. People were dressed in snow suits, or even better in Norwegian flag thongs with mini skis on their arms! Nicole and I decided against the Olympics theme and went for the easier option.

Lefse

“Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread. Tjukklefse or tykklefse (thick lefse) is thicker and often served with coffee as a cake. Lefse is made out of potato, milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and flour, and cooked on a griddle. Special tools are available for lefse baking, including long wooden turning sticks and special rolling pins with deep grooves.
There are significant regional variations in Norway in the way lefse is made and eaten, but it generally resembles a flatbread, although in many parts of Norway, especially Valdres, it is far thinner. In central Norway, a variation called tynnlefse (thin lefse) is made, which is rolled up with butter, sugar and cinnamon (or with butter and brown sugar).”