Jonas...

Kjære kjære Jonas
Du er så god
Alt ved deg er perfekt
Den vennligheten du møter meg med
Hvordan du alltid har tid til meg
Hvor kultivert du er
Ditt koselige og innbydende utseende
Jeg savner deg, Jonas,
har ikke vært hos deg siden i går...
Og i dag har jeg ikke tid
Men i morgen...
Kjære Jonas B. Gundersen
Du serverer helt fantastisk pizza
Og italiensk iskrem
Jeg kommer til å savne å ha en
Pizzarestaurant som deg i Nairobi
Men jeg får bare utnytte de få dagene
vi har før jeg reiser

Home sweet home

It was really good to be home with my mother and my father this weekend. But because the PC had died, I was unable to write the "I'm at home, and it feels so good" blog posting. Instead you'll get "I was at home, and it felt so good".
Friday, I was at Laget in Stavanger, Saturday, I visited Lena and Karoline in their new home on Nag, and Sunday, I visited my grandmother. Jørpeland City is always a hit! Well, it works for one day...
So, that was my weekend. Surprisingly, one of the best things at home was cooking. As you might have noticed, I'm normally flee the moment making food is mentioned. But after getting all my food served for one month here at Hald...
And Sunday evening it was time for me to go to Oslo. I took the night train. It was full, and I sat at the window. I didn't get much sleep. It's hard when you know you can't get out of your seat because the person sitting next to you is sleeping. So I spent the day in a state near a coma... We were at the NKSS office in Oslo, and then we had two hours for shopping in the city. I bought some earrings and a piece of Oreo Dream Cake. Oh, it tasted so good!! (The cake, not the earrings).
Well, that's pretty much it. And I've written my second blog posting in English. Why not?
Well, well. Now I'm in Hald again.

La la Tom Nordli!

Denne mann
Kom ikke til Brann
Men til Viking
(Var du i bollen pling?)
Jeg tror han er bra for oss
Eller - for gutta som på fotballbanen slåss
Kanskje vi likevel
Kan redde plassen i Eliten for oss selv
Jeg så Tom Nordli på Sola
Han venta på barna og kona
Da de kom fikk de en stor klem
Jeg tror ikke denne mannen er slem
Nå har jeg begått poesi
Men det er fordi jeg er så blid
3-1 til Viking i dag!
Det var meg til behag

It's getting real...

You know what?? I'm leaving in less than a month... On Monday the boss of Focus in Kenya came to Hald, and told us about what we're going to do in Kenya. And the plans had changed. Dramatically... The first two and a half months in Kenya, I'll be spending without my Norwegian team. I'm staying in a town called Eldoret. September 2nd I posted a map of Kenya on my blog. Take a look at it, and you'll find Eldoret in the west of the country. Marit will be in Nakuru, Kari-Anne will live in Kisumu and Finni is stuck in Nairobi all the time... I was EXTREMELY sceptic when I heard about this charming development. But I'm getting positive and even a little excited.
There I'm going to work in a university, and I'll be in a very large Christian Union. It has 1000 members. That's 35 times bigger than Stavanger Kristelige Studentlag, which I attended last year... I'll be working with a member of the STEM-staff. And we'll be involved in small groups, some media and drama or whatever I want to do, and we'll also be visiting the students in their rooms.
And I will have a host family. That I haven't really understood yet. But I guess that will be nice. My roomie Gillian knows them, and she says that they are good people.

Tomorrow I'm going home to Jørpeland. I'm looking forward. Now I've been away for a month. Kenya will be six months.

That's all, folks!

I promise to be positive
I promise to do my best
I promise to help the others

Hurra for Brasil!!

I dag er Brasils nasjonaldag. Og siden vi har så mange brasilianere på Hald, måtte det jo feires. Med brasiliansk mat, dans, og alle måtte gå i gule eller grønne eller blå klær. Take a look at the pictures:

Difficult

Å gjøre det jeg skal gjøre, og ikke noe helt annet, er forferdelig vanskelig...




Jeg skriver heller blog.

Jeg gleder meg sånn!!!

Det blir faktisk helt vanvittig fantastisk å reise til Kenya! Jeg gleder meg sånn at jeg ikke kan vente. Har mest lyst til å være der akkurat nå! Etter å ha fått beroligende ord og gode tips fra to gode jærkvinner som var der i fjor, har reiselysten min bare tatt seg opp. Jeg har fått konkretisert både arbeidsoppgaver og boforhold. Og jeg har forstått at det faktisk kommer til å bli et liv i Kenya. Og det livet gleder jeg meg sånn til!! Og fant ut jeg ikke kunne ha en "jeg-skal-snart-reise-til-Kenya-blogg" uten å ha med et kart, så her er det. Jeg skal befinne meg i nærheten av Nairoi de første tre månedene, og i Nairobi de tre siste månedene.