NORWAY!

I'm home!

It's snowing.

It's christmas.

It's holiday.

I get as many hugs and kisses as I wan't.

Life is good.

I feel like superwoman...

Today I woke up at 7 am and studied medical biology for two hours. Then I went to school to get my chemistry mark/grade in my credit book (passed chemistry yesterday- HURRAY!). Turned out our chemistry professors forgot about us, so we have to get it after christmas instead.

At 10am I did the retake on medical biology and passed two of the three parts. Last one I'll take in january together with anatomy credit, and the exam in medical biophysics.

After the credit test(s) I did some christmas shopping downtown. Actually I got presents for almost everyone. The ones left I have to buy in Norway because they don't have what I've planned to give down here.

Then Gina and I had lunch at our favourite resturant. It was really nice, despite the fact that both of us still have our sholders up under our ears. Take some time to get out of the "study-mode".

When we got home we cleaned our apartement like it has never been cleaned before. I even made a new system in our kitchen cabinets (like there ever was a system before...). And we have washed a lot of clothes as well. I even started packing for Norway. Then I took a shower (it was about time, personal hygiene has gone out the window these last few days). And now I am just sitting here in the couch, Gina sleeping beside me, doing nothing.

Actually I should get some sleep aswell. At least get some rest.

I am tired.

Jeg trenger ferie...

I dag tok jeg på meg sko og jakke, klar til å gå til skolen.

Gina spurte om jeg ville gå allerede.

Jeg tenkte meg litt om.

Så innså jeg at vi ikke begynner før klokken 10.

Det tar 5 min å sykle til dekanatet.

Jeg var klar til å sykle 50 min før.

Mens vi venter...

Skolen tar all min tid om dagen. Tar all Gina sin tid også. Derfor fikk ikke vi tent lys før i går. Litt forsinket riktignok, men like hjertelig.

Dette blir nok en uke hvor jeg skal mygle i sofaen nedgravd i bøker.

Men på lørdag, på lørdag skal jeg til Norge.

Galskapen lenge leve

The christmas light(s) has already come...

City center

A very tall angel outside the catholic church

I must say, the slovak people now how to put up christmas decorations. It's really pretty. Walking in the city center at night makes you feel like you're in some kind of winter wonderland. I feel all christmassy. And this morning when I woke up, it was actually snowing! Not a whole lot, but still, snow is snow.

Last night when I went to bed I turned of my phone so that I could sleep as long as my body felt like it should. It was awesome. Woke up at eight, but knew that I could just take the duvet over my head and sleep some more. It was oh so good. Didn't get out of bed until it was half past elleven. And now I'm waiting for Gina to wake up. She needed to get some sleep aswell. We haven't really slept a whole lot this week, reading all day and all night.

But now I feel my energy coming back. That's good.

By the way, wanna know what we did after bible study yesterday? The bible study was done at 10-1030pm, and after that we picked up Marga and Marie and we went to Tesco (shopping mall). Tesco is open 24/7 you see, and we needed some food and stuff. Didn't want to have to do it today, because we need to study today.

We were goofing around in there, just laughing and having fun while we were shopping.

We had an evening off, an it was good! Got home at about 12pm, and went to bed shortly after.

This is a good day.

And in the calendar today i got this:

there is nothing you can do

to make God love you less

there is nothing you can do

to make God love you more

God already loves you

as much as an infinite God

can possibly love

End of the week, not the end of schoolwork...

• 4.december: Credit test in slovak language
• 7. december: Seminar in biophysics
• 9. december: Credit test in latin

• 10. december: Credit test in medical biology
• 11. december: Credit test in chemistry
• 14. december: Credit test in anatomy
• 17. december: retake of credit test in medical biology
• 18. december: retake of credit test in chemistry

Flunked chemistry today.

Very annoying that you study all day and all night on the things you've been told that you should know, and it turnes out they ask you about something completely different. Makes it kind of hard to know how to prepare for the tests.

Have to put that behind me now though, at least til next week when it's retake.

This weekend I will study anatomy. Looking forward to that actually. A lot of work - memorywork- but also a lot of fun.

So now I've had four credit test and one seminar, and I still have three to go.

I'm so tired right now, you have no idea. Got all teared up skyping with my mum today, just because I was feeling really tired after studying so hard for days now. But I can't think about that at the moment, I just have to keep going strong until the 19th of december when I'm (finally) going home. Can't wait to be with Espen again, miss him so much. Think both him and I look forward to me not being so tired and in such a "study mode" all the time. Only a week away...(just have to study a bit more first....)

Gina and I are literally molding in the couch...

• 4.december: Credit test in slovak language
• 7. december: Seminar in biophysics
• 9. december: Credit test in latin

• 10. december: Credit test in medical biology
• 11. december: Credit test in chemistry
• 14. december: Credit test in anatomy

I actually think I flunked medical biology, but that's ok, because that was a really difficult test. They can't expect us to know it in such detailes when it's not an exam. At least that's what I thought. Oh well, I'll just take it again. No stress.

Update:

I did flunk it, so now the scedual look like this:

• 4.december: Credit test in slovak language
• 7. december: Seminar in biophysics
• 9. december: Credit test in latin

• 10. december: Credit test in medical biology
• 11. december: Credit test in chemistry
• 14. december: Credit test in anatomy
• 17. december: retake of credit test in medical biology

and then I can go to Norway!

Welcome to my life of having no life...

• 4.december: Credit test in slovak language
• 7. december: Seminar in biophysics
• 9. december: Credit test in latin

• 10. december: Credit test in medical biology
• 11. december: Credit test in chemistry
• 14. december: Credit test in anatomy

In 9 days, 07 hours, 25 minutes and 20 seconds I'm in Norway.

It's not hard to guess that I am looking forward to that right now...

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est...

- Yes, that is a very large amount of corn

Nå ligger Gina og jeg anføttes i sofaen og pugger latin på den åttende timen.

Med det er alt sagt.

To ganger andre søndag i advent...

Trofaste til vår tradisjon, som forøvrig er ny av året, tente Gina og jeg to lys i går. Som du kan se har vi gått til anskaffelse av en litt mer "adventete" adventstake. Det var visst litt viktig for Gina at lysene skal bli sånn "tripp, trapp, tresko" etterhvert. Vi vet å kose oss, det er sikkert og visst. Jeg fikk også leke meg litt med lysene etter tenningen, noe jeg var svært fornøyd med. Gina er så snill med meg atte.

Senere på kvelden var vi invitert til adventstund hos Marie. Så da var det kveldsmat med norsk leverpostei, kakao, melk (jeg drakk 1L melk faktisk!), og tysk hjembakst. Den tyske hjembaksten var det tyskeren vår, Marga, som stod for. Det var særdeles velsmakende.

Etterpå var det pepperkaker og lystenning. Marga hadde teksten nedskrevet slik at hun kunne henge med.

PS: Legg merke til pedagogen i meg som kommer frem. Her snakker vi tydelig tale, med energiske munnbevegelser, på høyt plan.

Noen ganger, så er livet i Slovakia slettes ikke værst. Det hjelper på med gode venner.

Neste uke reiser jeg hjem. Tenk det.

Kort og godt, julekort....

I dag var det post til meg. Ikke bare den vanlige slovakiske reklamen, eller den jevnlige dosen med tidsskriftet for den norske legeforening. Neida du, vi snakker post, skikkelig post.

Jeg åpnet alt det kjedelige først, for så å sitte igjen med to kjekke konvolutter.

Det betyr ekstra mye å få brev hjemmefra, det blir som om man sitter med et lite stykke Norge mellom hendene. Jeg kjenner at jeg jubler litt inni meg.

Innholdet i konvoluttene gjorde det enda bedre, det var nemlig julekort. Et fra min kjære venninne Ann Helen, og et fra familien Kirkeby.

Tusen takk. Det betyr mye for meg.

Fikk liksom litt ekstra 'bensin' til å klare de siste ukene med skole-stress nå.

Nå er det snart jul dere! Kan tro jeg gleder meg!

Troll og fanteri, det skal ikke mere til...

Tonje: AU!

Gina: Hva skjedde?

Tonje: Det stakk.

Gina: På foten?

Tonje:

På tåen min.

*stille*

Gina: Var det et troll?

Lost in translation nr.2

In slovak language lesson last week we were starting with a new text. And when we start with a new text we always translate it (of course). Underneath the text we have some vocabulary that will help us with the translation. One of the sentenses we had to translate was this one:

"Je tam aj rýchlovarná kanvica a hriankovač."

In the vocabulary they had translated "rýchlovarná kanvica" and "hriankovač" since these were new words for us.

Using the translation given us, the sentence will become something like this:

"There is also electric cattle (kveg) and toaster (brødrister)"

Although it would be fascinating to see some electric cattle running around, I do think they meant electric kettle (kjele).

Very special, homemade, advent calendar...

It is the first of december. And since we have a lot of studying to do, we decided that we would rather make our very own advent calender. We have devided the days in two, so that I have made all the days that are odd numbers, and Gina made the ones that are even numbers. We didn't talk about what we were writing on the different ones, so it's going to be fun to see what Gina came up with.

It will be really nice waking up every day and open one of the notes. I feel like a kid again!

Advent is a time of waiting. And as my brother wrote, this year I am not waiting for christmas in itself that much. I am waiting, and looking forward, to going home to Norway. Home to my very own 'tall, dark, and handsome". Just writing about it, I feel the butterflies going banans in my tummy. In 17 days, 7 hours, 23 min, 10 sec, I'm coming to Norway.

But first I am going to enjoy advent with my dear flatmate Gina. She is truly an angel.