Civilization at last!

For nearly three weeks now I have been a catsitter at my mother's about 45 minutes out of town. My mother does not have a TV. Nor does she have a computer. No microwave oven, no teflon pan (it's dangerous, you know!). My cooking is bad enough when I don't have to burn it in a really heavy, but yet just a little too small iron frying pan. Which I of course did. And the rest of the time I was bored shitless. But I did get to learn a bit of Spanish and HTML (!) and do those other things you just don't tend to when you are drowning in entertainment. In my flat I have a TV and DVD player, computer and Internet, PS2, wii, people to talk to (although the cats did make a lot of sound ...), things to see and people to do ... and tomorrow I'll be back, yaaay! The first thing I'll do iiiiiis ... go out and party with some friends, I think.

Next week will be busy with CouchSurfers every day. But I'm really looking forward to it, these people are so cool! Makes me dream of travelling all over the world ... With this terrible rain season we've been having, I'd like to go somewhere sunny, like Spain or something. Maybe I'll try to surf someone's couch for a few days :-D I always wanted to go to Barcelona. I bought a guide book a few years ago, I'd better go before it's outdated.

I should probably get back to the woods now, can't help but enjoying every minute I spend at home after work ... But this is the last night, and my poor old back is nearly crying for joy.

K.

My name's Kirsti, and I'm a Facebook addict

Like 250 000 other Norweggies I got addicted to Facebook this spring and must confess I have neglected my blog. It is sort of nice to have a blog, though (and it will persist when the Facebook hype is over, which I believe will happen soon), and today I even learnt I have a faithful reader, my dear colleague Superastrid.

The past few months have been sort of busy. The exams went quite well, work was really busy but now it's cooling off (like the hopeless summer weather in Oslo). On the Norwegian national holiday I sprained my ancle (it was swollen to an unrecognizable state and my foot nearly fell off) when I tripped on some french feet belonging to a couchsurfer during folk dancing. Then I got a terrible cold, which lasted well into June, when my flatmate Cornelia and I went to the music festival Rock im Park, where it rained all weekend and of course made the cold even worse. Then I was one week in Arendal and got two wonderful boat trips before the rain set in, I went on a business trip to Germany, the BF took off to Afghanistan, my mom went interrailing (!) and I'm stuck with her cats. I love the cats, but the commuting is really a pain. 1,5 hours a day. Next week the trains aren't going either. Yay.

I have also started to learn Spanish this summer. It's great fun, and I hope I will get to practise some when I get a little better. Hablais Español, anyone?

The climbing wall is finally in place, but I have to get some new climbing shoes before I really get started again.

What else is new? Hmm ... not much. Everyone's on great holidays, and I'm at home, working. But the BF and I are going to Dublin in September. And I'm still saving up for my next adventure.

Hasta luego!

K.