Phew, things are finally starting to settle down. It’s been a lot to do this past week as well, and I haven’t had as much free-time as I wanted too. I was looking forward to a peaceful weekend, only to be picked up by my mother last Friday, saying I needed to help renovate the living room back home. And I had kind of promised to do so, I just didn’t think it would be this soon. Now it is already Wednesday, and my scedual has been packed (and it still is) for many days now. I had to get up at 6 a.m. on Monday to go to Moss for a doctor’s appointment, and be back in Oslo before 11. Which I was, but then I had to wait for several hours before my lecture started. At this point I was dead tired, but I couldn’t really sleep either. I am still lacking sleep.

Today started off as a really, really bad day. I woke up dead tired, went to class, and then went home remembering nothing from the class I just attended. And when I got home, it didn’t get any better. Eveything went wrong, and I broke a couple of kitchen utensils, before I tore off my toe-nail in the shower. Ouch. I’ve been entertaning myself with my awesome talking teddybear Chypre, studies, fixing website stuff, talking with friends, and just small-talking with my boyfriend. He seems really busy these days, so I don’t want to bother him too much with silly stuff. Hope he’ll be able to visit soon, I need an excuse to make cakes and stuff! (Not only that, I miss him much as well. xD)

I’m also planning to excercise a bit more, so starting tomorrow, I will be the proud owner of a SiO Studentidretten membership card. One of the facilities included is full access to a swimming pool. Guess where I will be tomorrow. I am kind of looking forward to it, I love to swim. Just to lie still in the water is a fantastic feeling. My body will be happy as well I guess. xD

And oh, the studies. French is hard, but somehow I think I’ll manage. I actually understand quite a lot, even if I didn’t think I would remember it from High School. The least motivating course this semester would be the FRA1301 – French litterature. I love reading, I just hate it when they ruin books by analyzing every tiny bit of text there is. Plus, the course leader isn’t exactly the most friendly person on earth. And the final exam is oral. Hurray! FRA1103 on the other hand, is actually pretty fun. The course leader is amusing, and she’s really skilled and nice too. I think I’ll learn a lot! FRA1110 is just another of those courses I don’t really find interesting or dull, I just have to be there and pass.

My applications for already taken subjects went through, and I’ll probably spend 4 more years at UiO instead of 5! I am super-happy that things seem to have a way sorting themselves out. I had a meeting with the course supervisor and got a bunch of things off my mind really. Like what I am supposed do to with my practice period later on, my master’s degree, etc.

And I got a part-time job at a Rema 1000 located not that far from here! I am thrilled to have gotten a job here in Oslo, and I can finally earn some money again. I’ve worked at Rema before too, so that is a huge plus for me, kind of knowing what I am getting into. Had my first day there yesterday, and things went pretty good. Routines and such are a bit different from what I’m used too, but the codes and such are almost the same as before. 710, bananas!

I think I should try getting some sleep. Up early tomorrow for classes. Faito~!

I am really sorry for not posting anything in ages, it’s just that it’s been so much going on for the past few months. I really haven’t had the time to blog about anything but my trip to Japan (which I’m not really finished blogging about yet either, I think I’ll manage to get it done sometime next week). I’ve also moved to Oslo, started school at the University of Oslo, and written applications for jobs, studies and loans, which have all taken their time.

The trip to Japan was awesome. I haven’t got words to describe how awesome it really was. I’ve seen so much, I’ve experienced so much… I think it’s an experience for a lifetime, although I hope I’ll be able to visit again someday. I’m not going to write much about the trip on this blog, because it can all be seen at Nonbiri Chronicles, and images I took during the trip can be seen here.

Immediately after returning from Japan, I started to move in at my new appartment in Oslo. It’s super-cozy now, with tables, rugs, plants and flowers, and a huge shelf with figures, books and my tv. And my wonderful bed of course, very comfy. Sometimes I wish I could sleep all day, haha. Right after moving in, I started to hand in applications. One for my studies, wanting to have my previous subjects approved by the university into my grade, one for the Norwegian student loan service so I could get some money, and several for different part-time jobs around Oslo. I was actually at an interview today, I hope that goes well. And I’ve started studying French, which I’ll be doing for this and the next semester.

Right when I thought things were good and stable, the ground suddenly knocks me down again. The future looks a bit darker, and I’m worried as hell. I’m trying to hide it as best I can, I don’t think me being hysteric would help much either, haha. I’m kind of confused right now as to what I should continue doing, but I recon there’s an answer to everything. I just need to find it, it’s hiding somewhere. And it has hidden itself well.

Desucon er nå over for denne gang, og vi i crew vil takke alle våre besøkende for et fantastisk arrangement! Det var i overkant av 4000 personer som besøkte Oslo Kongressenter i løpet av helga, og det er kjempeflott at så mange av dere tok turen til årets Desucon. Årets arrangement har vært en videreføring av den gode, gamle Desucon-ånden, i tillegg til at mange nye poster og stands har dukket opp på programmet.    – desu.no

Gyaaaaaaaa~ It is over! Stuff I’ve been working on since… A long time ago, is over! I’m really tired, but surprisingly awake right now. Desucon was -the- most awesome event ever, and I am really happy to have participated as crew. It seems like the visitors are really exited about it as well, so I’m very happy to have helped out. The info crew was awesome, I am so lucky to have been a part of it. Although we tried to help everyone out (and I really hope we did help somebody), I think a few kind of hated us or thought we were incompetent. At least they were pretty mad at us for stuff we couldn’t manage to fix. It’s all part of the job though, somebody has to bring both the bad and the good news to people. But we tried our best, and I hope at least some of you felt our efforts.

Luckily, there wasn’t really many of those. Most people were utterly polite and joyful and lovable. I got to help a couple of cute cosplayers I just wanted to hug, as well as mothers and people with lost phones and bags. God, I want to do this again. <3

Stuff learned during this year’s convention

• People usually runs away before you’re done explaining the way to them. I never managed to give them a proper map before they ran off into a hurry to reach Sub.Scene. xD
• Some people are really awesome and will love you forever when you find their missing stuff. <3
• Explaining the whereabouts of stuff isn’t easy when the person never actually listen to you. I think I said “Spiseri Møller” about a hundred gazillion times, but so far it seems nobody got it right. >.<
• Some people are just plain blind.
• Awesome and huge banners usually stick out and make things visible. :’D
• Swedish people don’t really think we understand them, and thus speak English to us. They were awesome though, so they’re forgiven. <3
• Google – helping foreign guys finding out they’re in the wrong city.
• Hablablabla!?

Sorry about the smiley overload, I’m a bit too exited. This whole experience was awesome, and on top of this, I’m going to Japan in just a day!

I’m awake. At 06:45. Been awake for almost an hour, but I’ve tried sleeping or just keeping my eyes closed to get some rest. Kind of worked, until my body figured I was awake and refused to cooperate. I think it’s some kind of payback-time for sleeping a lot lately. Really nauseous, UTI hit with full force, and thus I am placed under my warm blanket awake at 06:45. Not very amused.

There’s now only 5 days until Desucon, and I’m really looking forward to it! We actually attended a radio interview yesterday evening with NRK Østlandssendingen. I’m very afraid I’ll sound like a complete moron, but that is nothing new anyway, haha. The interview was really on a whim sort of. I was sitting at home in my PJ’s when I suddenly saw they needed cosplayers for something. And then I got recruited, along with Tina, haha. xD

We talked about pretty much everthing related to cosplay; from what kind of characters we cosplay and how much money we’re spending on this (I am -so- glad my mother won’t hear it, haha), to cosplay in Norway and what our definition of cosplay is.

Now, driving from Mysen to Oslo takes approx. 1 hour. But I was stopped by the police in a speed limit control (no, I wasn’t speeding, they only checked my license). Those radars are really scary, they pop up from nowhere! Before that, quite a lot happened. I wasn’t really sure if I should go, got into a fight, and kind of decided not to go and went to bed. Then I got a call from Karoline, in which I hope I didn’t scare her with a bit of tears and drama, and decided to go anyway. Needless to say, I jumped into the car with the first costume bag I could find, as well as my sewing machine and some materials. I kind of feel sorry for the Secret Organization members here, having us invading their home when they weren’t even at home in the first place. And they even had pizza for everyone afterwards. You’re awesome, I owe you a cake again. :3

Things kind of fixed themselves later during the evening, but I still feel kind of bad for going. It was tons of fun, so I don’t regret going, but on the other hand I sort of do regret it. Complicated feelings, I’ll never understand them properly. Well, it is not the end of the world if I don’t understand them properly either. I plan to live for a long, long time.

Would you look at this. I just can’t believe it! I actually got a place to live next year. And it is no shabby place either, it is a studio flat located at Bjølsen Studentby. I am so happy right now I just want to run around in circles and scream. It feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I really wanted that flat. I’ll have my own kitchen, my own bathroom… It’s perfect! Think of all the nice cakes and stuff I’ll be able to bake. And I’ll have cable-tv this time around too. I feel so darn lucky. Now I’m positive everything will work out for me, with or without people. *happy dance*

I would love to say the night is still young, but no. It isn’t. And I really need to get some sleep. It’s been a few stressful days since I got home last Wednesday. I still have some stuff to get in place, but it’s looking way better than when I started packing out already. Today was a rather quiet day though, and I spent a lot of time just laying in the sun outside.

Haha, I just realized my feet are on the picture. Nice and sunny, isn’t it? Today was also “being a good daughter”-day. I cleaned the house and made dinner for my mother when she came home from work. Since I did most of the stuff that should be done home, we spent a while talking. Been a while since we’ve done that. She warned me, as usual, not to spend years of my life dedicated to things and person unless it is bound to last and turn into something more. And that she would kick the asses off those who’d hurt me. Ah, mothers. At least I know I’m being looked after, haha.

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Tonight is my last night in my dorm room. I’ve been living here for two years now. It feels kind of strange packing all my stuff. I must admit that I’m going to miss Trondheim a little bit. It is a really pretty city, and both navigation and public transport are pretty easy to understand once you get the hang of it. I’ll miss the extraordinary view I get from walking to school; a perfect view of Trondheimsfjorden and huge, snowcovered mountains in the background. Imagine this scenery on a sunny day with clear skies. Believe it or not, but I’ll miss speaking “trøndersk” (the Trøndelag’s dialect) with the store clerks. It is actually kind of fun, even though I don’t speak it really well, or intend to speak it at all. Sometimes I just switch without noticing. And I’ll miss my room a bit. It’s been pretty cozy in here for the past two years. I’ve kind of made it my own. Flowers, shelves, pictures… Everything’s pretty much stored in boxes right now.

So what have I actually done these past two years? “Nothing” would pretty much be an appropriate answer. The first year went by studying English. And then I met Hiep, and well… Let’s just say living in Trondheim wasn’t that much fun anymore. But I realized that a bit too late, and had to stay for another year. Which has been this one. For the past year, I’ve studied History at NTNU. It’s been exhausting. I haven’t really read as much as I should have, but seriously. It’s hard. -Really- hard. The tasks were so darn complex that I wanted to give up several times and just move home. I didn’t, however, because that would have made me an enemy of Lånekassen (Norwegian student loan service). So I finished. And it went better than I expected. One D in Modern History, which is really a really interesting, but huge, subject. I’m not exactly happy with that grade, but I don’t want to re-take it anyway. I passed. The remaining two subjects gave me two A’s, so I think that’ll make up for it a bit. The exams for this spring went pretty bad, but everything will be okay as long as I pass. Something which I don’t know yet, since the grades aren’t published until late June.

Everything’s coming along pretty nicely I think. Exams are finished, dorm room is almost cleaned out and ready for a new student, blood samples were sent to the hospital today (I’ll blog a bit about that when I get the results, no fun without them), a couple of weeks until Desucon, and 22 days to Japan. This is going to be one fantastic summer vacation.

Happy stuff! I now have 6 cardboxes, 2 bags, 1 suitcase, 1 backpack and 2 softcases with stuff between my bed and my bathroom / exit. I think I’m going to be trapped if a fire happens, haha. My closet is emptied out, my shelves are almost empty, and the storage room upstairs only contains a couple of cardboxes to clean out. My return home is getting closer by the minute! My mother, along with my grandmother, is coming up on Sunday. We’ll be going home on Wednesday. Yay!

Desucon is getting closer too. I’ve done a bit of work today, and talked pretty much with the wonderful guys of the Secret Organization. I guess we can call us Team Hello Kitty now that it’s official! (we even have the bed sheets, so it’s kind of fun). I’ve also spread some joy over at AwesomeJapan. ONLY 25 DAYS LEFT! Ohjoy. <3 The members of N.C.L. also helped me cure my boredom a bit, thanks guys! You’re always a fun bunch, can’t wait until we’ll make awesome and great cosplays together.

Look at my pretty bed~! It’s been making my mood brighter the whole day. I’m still pretty stressed out and all, and I’m as moodsick as a stupid cow, but life’s pretty good other than that! Desucon, and packing for my trip home, keeps me going. Nice to have something to do without thinking much, isn’t it?

So far, I’ve managed to pack quite a lot of books. Almost all of them. God, I need to stop buying this many. The boxes are super heavy, and I think we’re going to die carrying them downstairs. Worst part, there’s -four- of these heavy boxes. And I don’t think these will be the only ones. And of course, a hard worker needs good food! I actually made it yesterday, but I had leftovers today, so… Chili Chicken and rice. Nomnom.

My shelves seems so empty now that everything’s started to get cleaned out. My mother will arrive on either Saturday or Sunday, leaving us a couple of days packing stuff into the car and clean the dorm room. I’m going home on Wednesday. In a week. Wow, it’s so soon now that it’s actually happening. Will be so much fun! Things are starting to look good. Let’s hope they’ll only get better.

I’m having one of those wonderful days where everything goes wrong and I wish I was buried in a hole in the ground, while the world would just pass without knowing where og who I am. Now, this sounds awfully bad doesn’t it? Well, it is! Or at least I feel it is.

I am actually in quite a good mood. I mean, it is summer vacation after all! The weather is nice and all too. But there’s a couple of things dragging me down. First of all, my exam today. It went bad. And I mean really bad. I don’t know if I’ll pass, but I really hope so with. I do absolutely not want to retake it, even if it went horribly bad. Even an E will make me happy.

The second point is the worst. I got a mail from the people I have applied for a dorm with next year. The result? As of yet, I haven’t got a place to live. At least no awesome-place. Seems like there was something wrong with my application. I have, however, signed up for three more, so I am crossing my fingers. But it is kind of hard to do when you don’t know if you’ll ever have a roof over your head when school starts next autumn. It doesn’t really help that everyone seems to be on the move, either with friends or boyfriends or family or whatnot. I think they’re rather lucky. At least they know they’ll be able to find something together, instead of trying to figure out how to manage finding something private alone. I really hope I get a dorm room, since they’re pretty low cost and such. They’re tiny too, but that I don’t mind really.

I’m thinking of saying yes to moving in with a friend now. Could be fun I guess. I haven’t really seen her in ages though, so I’m not sure it’ll work out that well, haha. We’re pretty different as well, so it might not be that good of an idea. I’m sure everything will be okay somehow though, I just felt like whining a little bit. I’m pretty good at that, especially when talking to people. Although I try to be positive most of the time. At least here it won’t bother anyway except the ones reading (sorry about that). I can’t wait to crawl into my Hello Kitty-themed bed and get some sleep tonight! Looking forward to that so much right now.

Food, computer, bed. That’s a good plan.