Let it snow

So, today I woke up (extremely tired, headache and no voice - after five cups of warm milk and honey I can push out weak whimpering sounds) with the best view ever. Everything else was forgotten (until I got out of bed of course).

It's snowing


Yes, amazing. So it turns out that my 1316 CHF investment in a new board, new bindings, new pair of snowboarding pants and a season pass at the awesome mountain somewhere close to me was a success! Pretty sure you wanna see ooor?
Well you have to.



Front/upside (I dunno). Burton board and Burton bindings (they have cute little clouds on them, but I forgot to take a photo of that, and obviously I'm not gonna do it when I already loaded the photos)


Back/bottom (again, I dunno), pretty much the same as the front, just that it's girly! I finally have a ladyboard (when I snowboard I look like a man, so I need a ladyboard). And I've also named it Princess Peach (yes, after Princess Peach in Mario).


Me and my h-sister Hannah. My jacket is the Volcom jacket I bought last year, the pants are my new Volcom pants, and her jacket is her new Volcom jacket. There's no way anyone is gonna look cooler than us this winter!



And I have three more photos from Italy (taken by Claudia - my host mother)


The little person in the middle of the photo is me. First night (seeing as I'm taking photos and my batteries died the first night) And it's taken from their bedroom window. We were nicely placed to say it at least!


Pizza photo from pizza night. The photo doesn't show the actual size of the pizzas, because the grownups hadn't gotten their by then. But if you see the big white plate I'll explain that the pizza was about twice that size. Huge pretty much covers it.


On the way back we had like a trip to different cities in Tuscany. In this photo it's raining and yes I had shorts on. It was warm and not raining when we left. And don't worry, I'm Norwegian, we tan all the way through December, so I was just reaching for those last few rays of UV-light. (hehehe - I crack me up) Right here we are in Volterra, yes the city where they filmed a little bit of the second (or third or whatever) Twilight movie. Didn't change my mind, I found the town gorgeous before I knew. I actually liked it a little bit less after I found out, because then I started noticing all the Twilight stuff that was literally everywhere.

I really like Gnarls Barkley. Right now he's my It man.

Oh yeah, btw, I have a surprise for you. I might post my first videoblog soon. Exciting or what? I might do it tonight because I can't go out, there really is no reason for me to go out since I can't really talk to anyone. I can whisper. And whispering isn't always as funny. Bluh. Feel sorry for me bitteeeeee (<---for n00bs that means 'Please', but normally written min one 'e')

And check out this song. The Embed is disabled so I can't post the vid here. I love that song too.

Cheers for now

Sunny

I would also like to say that it's really cool that people comment on this (even though I already know then,hih). Every blogger (lol, feels weird calling myself a blogger) says this but blogging without comments is not motivating :-)))

Italien

Aaalright! Two days ago I came home from Italy. And wow, did I enjoy it. Italy has to be the most beautiful country in the world. At least Tuscany the most beautiful place I've seen (haven't seen the world yet).

Every year my family rent a small house at the beach (it's a hotel like business), based in San Vincenzo in Tuscany. I still got to see more than one part of the region; Pisa, Florence, Volterra and other places I can't remember the name of. But it was extremely pretty there too.

Me and my sisters on the first night. We tried a million times and this was still the closest we got to a jumping photo (without any of us looking awfully ugly - and I'm a nice person and won't post photos like that (hahah, good one)).


Everyday we chilled at the beach, swam in the ocean, hung out by the pool, played beach volleyball (or other games), ate Italian food, did nothing and went to bed with a ton of sand in our bed. We also did some shopping (I did some serious shopping) and I got to know people and at the same time got to know my sisters even better. It was an awesome week.

I mean, we really didn't do too much, so I don't have so much to tell; we spent long days in the sun, we ate lots of pizza and pasta, played a lot of poker, got to know people, got eaten alive by mosquitos (I had 34 bites on the way back). It was a relaxed vacation, and when I think of it we did pretty much the same every day.I'm uninspired to write, but I have photos to show. Perhaps a little show and tell is better (I think so). And we all know photos makes everything more fun.



This beach literally lasts forever. There's no end to it. The closest we came to an end is at the volleyball net, and that was a 15 minute walk (and you still couldn't see anything but beach) - I often preferred running or playing soccer, much more fun.


A few of thuh gaang. Good gang. Like 'em. Found out that two of the guys I got to know this week in Italy are in my English class (extreme advanced fancy schmancy English class, that is). Highly embarrassed that I didn't find that out until after spending 4-5 days with them. But they look different in shorts. That excuse works. Either way, they were very helpful, because they speak great English, and could help me every other word when I needed it.


Let me bury my toes in this sand every morning for the rest of my life, and I won't complain anymore.


More of the peepz. This was on pizza day. I'm serious, pizza day was pizza day. It's without a doubt the biggest pizza I've ever seen. Evuuuurr.


Sunny in the sun.


The look of a very typical Italian street. They all look the same, but every city has it's own special way of making them look, so they don't look like that either way.


This photo is really cool. Just imagine how cool it would be if the sun was placed right in between my legs? (hehehe, sun between Sunnys legs - gosh I'm funny)


We went to Pisa, it really leans, but apart from that (and the fact that it's beautiful architecture), there's nothing special about it.


Am I artistic or what? Yeah, I took this photo. Post card anyone?


Also, I thought I'd share with you what I've bought while I was here. I mean, blablabla yattayttayaytay it's not too interesting and very typical girl blog with "omg, I totally bought this and have to show it to you" but believe me, there are a few special someones called my parents who would like to know what I spend money on. And I haven't spent too much, no worries. I have a lot left.



This is bought in Switzerland. A dress, a bolero and an awesome swimsuit I used in Italy. A small brown bag that works with pretty much anything and a necklace that I use as a bracelet.

Three pants. One for snowboarding, one that I'm probably not gonna use (dark denim isn't really my thing, dunno why I bought it) and a pair that I like a lot already, wiuwiu! Also bought a blue pair sometime I was in Zürich, so now I don't need any more. I have abooout (this is where I use my fingers to count) 6 now. It'll do.

All the accessories I bought in Italy. Would say I'm sat for the rest of the year now, got a pretty deecent collection. Satisfied! (haha, will end up buying more though, I always do, but it's small and often cheap, so accessory is okay) Also bought two..erm, things for my wall. But I dunno if I'll give them away as a present to a certain someone or not..

Clothes for going out. I dunno. Looks alright or? I'm trying to become a lady, in some way. Here's a dress that sparkles, a top that sparkles, a kinda funky tank top in some way, would spice up anything boring. And a very girly scarf, with roses and pink. Woop wopp. A lot of black here, weird, I'm starting to wear black again.

Here we have two bags and two pairs of shoes. Yet again in black, but also very fashionable (trust me, I've read enough magazines to know). Boots and booties, check me out, wearing something other than sneakers!

A blazer (needs fixing, but was very cheap, so I don't might fixing it when it's cheap), a huuge scarf and a grey cardigan. I have pretty much the exact same in black, but it's being washed.

A cool vest (I've gotten addicted to spikes and so), another grey cardigan and a huge jacket that looks cool and makes me look fat. Woop.



Apart from that I'm currently enjoying another week of vacation before I start school again.
(I just noticed that it's easier for me to talk about my clothes and stuff than about what I did in Italy.. Priorities?)

Cheers for now

Sunny

Did you know..

.. that swiss cows have bangs? Well they do. And now it's time for another Norwegian post.

This one doesn't, but I'm too scared of the cows to go close enough to take a photo of one.

Så, no he det vore ei laang veke, mykje he skjedd og ej he rett og slett blitt veldig sliten av heile greia. Men no e alt over, og ej føle at etter en god natts søvn i natt (håpe ej) skal ej være utkvilt til mi siste veke på tyskkurs i Zürich! Bestemte mej for å skrive ditte på norsk for ej tenke at det e for det meste de nordmenn som e interessert i å vite ka som skjedde (hei mamma og pappa) og det kan bli ubehagelig for somme om ej skrive det på engelsk. E i tillegg ikkje noke alle burde få vite, he ej blitt fortalt. Det e mykje å lese, men ej sette pris på om dokke gjer det.


Skrive like greit om heile helga, for ej føle det e relevant.
Alt starta forgje helg, når vi va på AFS orientering. Helga fekk en heller dårlig start sida vi måtte gå ca 1,5 time i pøseregn fordi lederane våre (som va frå Basel og ikkje hadde peiling på kor vi skulle) tok oss først feil vei. Ej tenkte ej skulle være berre positiv og sang og tulla heile veien, ditte fann alle dei andre fint og ej følte ej gjor ei god gjerning. Derriimooot når vi kom fram, hadde ej tenkt at no skal ej ta av mej den våte buksa mi og legge mej varm under soveposen min, berre for å finne at ca alt i sekken min i tillegg til soveposen min va vått. Sei sej sjøl at når min vasstette sekk og soveposetrekk va vått va ej ikkje aleine. Ikkje like mange blide fjes lengre.

Lederane va ikkje akkurat grå i håra og veldig autoritære heller, den eldste (som vi kalte Boss, men heite Silvan) va akkurat blitt 20 og dei fire andre lederane va 18. Fire av ungdommane som va på leiren va 18, so va alle andre 17, 16 og èn 15. Det e forsovidt han dinne "historia" handla om. Ditte va en gutt frå Latvia som e i min Kanton. Sida dag 1 he ej syns han va ganske rar, men he tenkt at han berre virka rar fordi engelsken hass va dårlig. Likevel hadde han mange fakte som gjorde at ej ikkje hadde sterke ønske om å bli kjendt med han med een gang (e fullt klar over kor dårlig ej framstille mej no, som utvekslingsstudent og berre bestemme mej for å ikkje like noken, men berre vent). På leiren va der i hovudsak fem persona ej va lamme, ditte va Max frå Russland, Esteban frå Guatemala, Mustafa frå Tyrkia, Vivien frå USA og Emily frå USA som e i min Kanton (som ej trur kjem til å bli en veldig god venn av mej med tida!). Max, Esteban og Mustafa e noken veldig tullete typisk guta som lika å kalle alle for navn og gjerne litt stygge navn - men alle veit at dei meina det ikkje, for dei e alle tre veldig gode venna og det e med kvarandre dei e værst.

Everyone at the AFS orientation (except for Vivien from USA and Thereza from Czech Republic).

Sida fredagen va en liten bommert la ej mej "tidlig", altså gjekk ej opp å la mej i 1-2 tida om kvelden. Sovna tvert. Sida ej ikkje va der når det skjedde blei ej klassifisert som "ikkje direkte involvert" i dinne saken, men ej veit historia e sann, for ej fekk akkurat samme historia frå alle som hadde sett det. Slik utarta alt sej;
Fredags natta dreiv guttane å kødda rundt om kring og kasta rundt på sitrona (fordi en merkelig gutt frå Russland hadde med sej sitrona..wtf lol) og tulla slik som gutta alltid gjer. Esteban kasta en og traff dinne guten frå Latvia - Mãris - en eller anna plass på kroppen (ikkje haud eller andre spesielle plassa). Mãris tok visst ditte ganske alvorlig og kasta den tilbake og traff Esteban i skrittet - med vilje. Esteban fekk naturligvis veldig låkt og gjekk på do. Han kom opp igjen med et glas vatn og tømte litt av det i senga til Mãris. Alle guttane fann ditte veldig morsomt og lo godt av Esteban sin spøk. Mãris gjekk ut, og Esteban tok på sej regnjakke fordi han tenkte at han hadde tenkt å kaste vatn på han også, men nei. Mãris kjem inn igjen etter ei stund (lenge nok til at Esteban he tatt av sej regnjakka si) med en kjøkkenkniv. Ej fekk sjå ka kniv det va snakk om og bladet på kniven va rund 22-25 cm langt. Han stilte sej to m frå Esteban og Mustafa og sa; "Skal du komme hit eller skal ej komme til dit for å drepe dej?" (soklart på engelsk, han snakka jo ikkje norsk) Max reagerte fort og røyste sej og tok kniven frå han. Esteban og Mustafa va begge utrulig sjokka og fekk ikkje sove om kvelden. Mãris gjekk og la sej etter at Max hadde tatt kniven, helt urørt.

Neste morgen står ej opp, forkjøla og låk i haudet. Tenkte "damn, ditte blir en tung dag". Ej gjekk ned og ut for å finne kompisane mine. Dei såg unaturlig alvorlige ut og ej hørte ordet "Cuchillo" som e spansk for kniv og spurte med en gang ka dei snakka om. So fortalte dei mej alt. Ej spurte dei om dei hadde sagt i frå til lederane og dei sa nei, dei ville ikkje fortelle det til dei på leiren for dei trudde ikkje dei kunne takle situasjonen bra nok. Lederane va ekstremt kjekke, men ej va nødt å sei mej einig i ditte. Etter ej blei fortalt historia tok ej mej sjøl i å tenke på alt ej hadde hørt Mãris sei, gjere og korleis han oppførte sej. Ej blei også ekstra oppmerksom å korleis han oppførte sej heile resten ta dagen.

Litt bakgrunnsstoff; en togtur hadde Mãris i ca 30 min fortalt mej og Ayu om foredra si skillsmisse då han va 8 år og kor mykje han hata faren sin for det. Huska han sa "Hvis ej fe sjansen vil ej gjerne drepe faren min sju eller åtte ganga". Ej trudde han va ironisk - ikkje no lenger. Heile dagen gjekk han og hang på enten mej eller Max (han såg veldig opp til Max som virka som den veldig den tøffe, ej-bryr-mej-ikkje typen). Etter timesvis med ingenting å gjer på og alt for mykje Rummy speling, bestemte ej mej for å finne på noke anna. Noken av jentene sov på jenterommet, så ej gjekk inn på gutterommet. Max låg å leste og hørte på musikk, so ej berre la mej ned og chilla med musikk og gjor ingenting. Ut av ingenting kjem Mãris inn døra og sei "Fy faen, Mustafa e 'a fucking pussy'. Han e skikkelig redd for mej" So flira han - ej og Max sa ingenting. Mange sånne kommentara kom støtt og stadig, og i tillegg snakka han mykje russisk med Max. I ettertid he ej fått vite at Mãris då satt og fortalte Max om ka våpen han he tenkt å få sej ettersom han blir eldre. På laurdagskvelden skjedde det ingenting.

Søndags ettermiddag for ej til Zürich for å feire Jordan frå USA sin bursdag og når ej kom heim rundt kl 22 fortalte ej alt til søstra mi Lisa (hadde allereide fortalt alt til Hannah, men Lisa vakkje heime før ej for) sida ho en en AFS representant. Emily hadde fortalt det til verstforeldra sine og Lisa hadde fått en mail med dei, så ho visste allereide at noke hadde skjedd. Etter en haug med seine telefona til AFS fekk ej vite at dei va no underretta og skulle begynne å bearbeide saken. Mandag satt ej og Emily heile togturen åleine å snakka om det som skjedde den helga - vi kom fram til at vi syns det va bra at AFS kom til å holde oss anonyme, men den gang ei. Ca 10 min etter lunchpausa på mandag (ej va i samme klasse som Mãris) kjem ei dame - Lara - og sei til læreren min (som forresten e kjempeflink!) at ho må snakke med mej og Mãris. Ej visste med en gang ka det handla om og kjente ej blei svimmel og skjelven fordi ej blei so nervøs og ukomfortabel. Heldigvis kom Emily også, uten ho der veit ej ikkje om ej hadde klart mej. Ho gikk rett på sak, mens Mãris va der. Ej e oppdratt sopass bra at ej klarte ikkje fortelle alle dei små tinga han hadde sagt tidligare, den ekle oppførselen hass heile helga (han gjor soklart meir enn ej he fortalt). Ikkje mens han satt under 1m forann mej. Etter "møtet" prøvde ej og Emily å fortelle Lara at vi ville heller snakke med ho åleine, men ho tok ikkje hintet.

Everyone at AFS Deutschkurz in Zürich (apart from me).

På onsdag måtte ej og Emily gå til kontoret til AFS Sveits etter skule. Vi gjekk oss vill og kom halv tre, tenkte vi va for seine og hadde drete oss ut. Men det viste sej at vi ikkje skulle inn dit før kl 15 uansett. So vi fekk vatn og satt på et tak og venta, snakka tull og lo berre for å tenke på noke anna. So blei vi vist inn til et lite møterom der satt Max, Esteban, Mustafa, Mark frå Russland (men aana ikkje koffor han va der), Mãris, Mãris sin kontaktperson Nils (som forresten e kjempehyggelig), Lara frå AFS, ei eller anna dame frå AFS som e sjef eller noke, men som ikkje he lært sej å presentere sej, og en psykolog og (det ej annteke va) assistenten hass. Der snakka dei lenge rundt saken og framstilte Mãris som verdens største offer og gjekk hit og dit. Ej syns at uansett kor plaga han følte sej so kunne han bedt dei om å slutte og hvis dei ikkje gjor det kunne han gått til lederane - uansett kor lite han stolte på dei. Det e ingenting som rettferdiggjer å true noken på livet med en kniv pga en sitron og litt vatn. Ej kunne sjå at Mãris hadde grene, men personlig kjøpte ej det ikkje. For på møtet på mandagen når Lara spurte han ka han følte om dinne saken va han helt urørt. Ej og Emily derimot sa vi følte oss veldig "wierded out", "shocked" og "a bit scared" Vi fekk vite at han skulle bli sendt heim, gode nyheite (sjøl om ej lure på korleis det tok dei so lang tid å bestemme ditte, eller koffor dei i det heile tatt vurderte å ha han her. Hvis du blir tatt i å kjøre en moped blir du sendt heim på flekken, og mi meining e at ditte e mykje værre).

Ditte hørtest sikkert litt slemt ut, men etter vi va ferdig på AFS kontoret gjekk vi fem (Max, Mark, Mustafa, Esteban, Emily og ej) og ut feira litt med å ete lunch på en restaurant før vi tok toget kvar vår vei (Emily, Max og ej skulle på samme tog da) heim. So kom ej heim og måtte stotre fram heile historia på min fantastiske tysk. I går blei han satt på flyet heim, og ej føle mej bra igjen. Det va ikkje ei kjekk halv veke, men heldigvis he ej fått mange gode venna (og he to fantastiske søstre og kjekke foreldre) som ej he kunne snakka mykje med. No ser ej fram til et trygt, kjempekjekt tysktalande år i Sveits!

Mange tanka he gått til gode venna dinne veka, men ej he tatt AFS Norge sitt råd om å ikkje ta kontakt heime før etter ej he fordøyd situasjonen helt. No e den fordøyd og komt ut igjen. Hehheheh

Btw; læreren min sa til mej på fredag at komande fredag når vi skal ha ei avsluttande prøve på skulen for å sjå kor mykje framgang vi he hatt, trur ho at ej kjem til å ta B1 testen, som e den vanskeligaste. Fy kor stolt ej blei da! I tillegg leste ej om Siv Jensen i ei sveitsisk avis i dag, dei lika ikkje ho dei heller.

Cheers for now

Sunny

Trainride

Or should I say roller coaster? Because that's what these last few days has been. I want to but I can't share it with, I dunno why, what happened has just shook me a little bit too much. And I can't seem to put down my words correctly about what happened. All I know is that I was fckn creeped out. I still kinda am, but I guess we'll have to see how things sort out.

Just to clear things out; nothing "serious" has happened. No one got hurt, it was just an incident we all would like to be without and a sticky situation I don't really want to be in. I did the right thing though, and it's up to AFS Switzerland what happens next..

Apart from that I'm starting to get the hang of the German, and I can't wait until I'm starting normal school! Best part about starting proper school is that I'm only gonna be there for a week before I go to Italy! I'm going to Italy in three weeks! Can you believe it? Cause I sure as hell can't!

For you

My neighbour turkey. Freddie is my nickname for him. He doesn't like me..

Many "rockets" are always flying around here.

Heheheheh

On my way to Zürich

Train quality

Yes, this is where I live.

And this is the kind of thing I wake up to




Cheers for now
Sunny

Swiss people

Before I went to Switzerland, AFS prepared us for things such as a major culture shock, lots of confusion and a lot of shitting your pants in public (sort of speak). So far I don't feel like I've done this. Yes, I have made a fool of myself a time or two, but that's just me. I do stupid stuff all the time. There's nothing shocking about this culture, apart from the fact that it's absolutely amazing. No, now I'm lying, there's one thing that has shook me a little bit; the smoking. Normal cigarettes I did expect, but the amount of weed that young people here smoke is just.. flabbergasting. Like the first weekend when we took the night bus back there were people smoking weed in the bus. To be honest I think people can smoke as much weed as they want, but they could be considerate enough not to do it around people who don't. The smell makes me incredibly sick. Bluh. Apart from that I only find it funny that there are so many cats everywhere. They just lie in the grass here and there and do nothing. It's kinda cool.


I'm halfway in my second week of the German course. I had a good start, and then I sorta fell off the load and understood nothing for a few days. Today however; I felt good about my German. Or, not good, but decent. I was so decent that on my Reflexion (the thing our teacher makes us write every day to keep a diary of what we've learnt) my teacher wrote to me that I should write full sentences. This means she thinks I'm good enough to write full sentences! Maajor lift. Apart from that I had also done most of my homework right. It sounds stupid, but I have the need to be good at pretty much anything academic, because I'm not at all used to be the stupid kid in class; and I've felt stupid for a week. I like to be smart, it's one of the things I have. Anyways; today was a great boost and I feel very good about myself. Sooo looking forward to being able to talk enough to be understood and understand. It'll be cool, and I can make lots of friends because they don't have to worry about them sucking in English (as they all say at least twice during a conversation with me even though I understand them perfectly).


Also I'm starting to reeaaaalllyyyyy look forward to winter. I wanna snowboard so bad. I'm actually considering to buy a new snowboard while I'm here, mostly because the one I have at home is absolute shit and I want a board that matches my jacket (yes, I am that shallow sometimes).

How awesome doesn't this look?

Apart from that I'd like to tell everyone that my new mate Mac (who's real name is Simon?) is kinda gay but still fun.

Cheers for now

Sunny