Monday July 21st. Switching from the train to the bus 06.10 am and it was raining 🤪 but luckily the ☀️ was up in Oslo 07.30 am.
Good morning Oslo.
07.55 am. Espressohouse.
Here am I normally have my breakfast when I travel. But they didn’t have my favourite so I have to be satisfied with just a simple espresso. And maybe that’s smart after the sandwich I had on the train… because my stomach is upset.
I have one and a half hour in total here at the train station hub until I have to catch the bus to Gothenburg at 9 am (one hour from now).
Central Station Gothenburg.
It’s warm. +27°C , 1 pm.
I will just find a place to sit and wait on my best friend from (childhood) Sweden. She arrives 1.30 pm. The breeze is nice so this will be perfect.
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Me and my best friend Annica (since 1989).
We had lunch in the city after both of us been traveling we were starving. Ate at BK (Burger King). Bought tickets and headed towards the Waterfront Cabin Hotel which is placed next to the water with a lovely view!
Our home for 4 nights. Waterfront cabins.
We have settled in and got our coffee and can now make plans for this evening and tomorrow.
After check-in and some food we headed into the city again, around6 pm, even if we to tired to do much 😆😆😅..
Got back by bus. Made dinner and after both if us got annoyed on the (a bit to small couch for two aduldt ladies above 5″9) we moved it 😆😅. The appointment we have rent for four nights is perfect for this kind of trip/Holiday. It has some challenges if you as us are tall people 😅. But for the most it works.
To be able to stay awake at least until 11 pm we found some series to watch. Then it was good night!
Today have walked around in Oslo with a new friend. She is a Couchsurfer from Ireland/Brazil and stay with me this weekend.
We have explored the park around the Castle/Palace in Oslo and here are some pictures.
Queen Sonja’s park..
Sculpture in the park ⤴️⤵️
Outside the Castle/Palace one of three path’s to catch the train to or from Oslo at The National Theater.
Me and my new friend Thaysa split our ways here. She wanted to explore more of Oslo and I went down to Aker Brygge and the Farmers market. Here are the picture of my walk alone.
Why is it so, that most people who take pictures of the nature take pictures of the green leafs during Spring and Summer and the colourful flowers in the Autumn more often then on the dying or dead leafs, flowers and fruit and berries?
What about the beauty of a dead leaf or flower? It has been alive and now it’s not anymore because of the season of the nature.
I thought I wanted to share about 2016 but then I thought “why should I?” I’ve already shared in the blogs what I have done. So I think I will share what I am looking forward this year instead.
I’m excited about what God has for me this year! I know something good will come! 😉
The year has started and I’m still at the hotel but I do more administration tasks and I love it. I didn’t think I ever would like to work more with computers but I do. In August I was so sure I would fit in the reception how wrong your body can show it is. 😁😁 haha. But I’msogladtorealisingit!
I’ve learn a lot! So now it’s time for something new. So I have applied for a trainee job in administration in a office- nothing I thought about six months ago or even two years ago. But here I am and looking forward to see where it can lead me. I’m excited to see what and where God will lead my steps! ☺
I’ll be in mycityOslothisChristmastoo but this Christmas will I both do things and afford to do things. 😍 Last year I had to stay in Oslo because I didn’t afford to go away for X-mas. I made it and survived.
I have a plan.
I will go on a daytriptoSweden and by typical Christmas food I like and grow up with, before the Christmas weekend. It will be nice to “getaway” just for a day too. I am already looking forward that and planing. Butfirst I have to finish for the Christmas Holiday in the Hotel. I have Holiday from the 18th of December until the 2nd of January. I don’t think I have had such long Holiday since school-time, ten years ago or longer! 😍
The smartphone was a early X-mas gift to myself but I will also finallyby a kitchenmachine I have been wanting for at least the last 3 years and not been able to by. Lookingforwardto be able to bakemoreagain! (Not the most expensive but it’s a start). I ordered it yesterday (the 5th of December). 😍😍
I will joinsomeChristmasparty, go to the cinema by myself or maybe with friends, watchmovies on the television, bake, live, enjoylife, relax, sewing and I have to applyforjobs… but I believe time will fly fast ☺ and I havemycat‘ssoIamnotalone 😍
It’s a bit sad in one way that I can’t celebrate Christmas with my own family (brothers and kids because of my cat’s 😯) but I’ve done it before… Iwillandhavetostayfocusedandpositive.
To you who read my post or blog, I wish you a Great time in December and in all the preparation for Christmas!
Some time has past since last blog post.. It’s been a bit like a roller coaster of things that’s I’ve done, tryed and didn’t work. Some might say I should have try it longer but I know my body and brain.
I got an opportunity in the beginning of November, I start a new work experience outside Oslo, in Drammen. I started. But I got a “bug” in my body that same night and was sick for totally seven days.. Got out of it realising that job didn’t fit me. Maybe the hard experience but I am Thankful for the opportunity I got and learned something about myself.
So here I am going back to my old work experience place and I’m pleased with it.
I have also updated myself with a new smartphone (with the opportunity to write on my phone here in wordpress). The old one started to do things I didn’t like, like turning the volume on by its self… So now I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 edge with a lot of gigabytes!
I will now be able to post blogs more often -Yay! ;;-)
I made a Birthday gift during November and send it to Sweden, to my nephew I’ll post the picture next time just because I don’t know yet if he got it. Cotton fabric letters in making and gonna be sewed on a pillowcase. This was the start.
December is here and everyone is so “in to” gifts and decoration . I have 2 cat’s at home …and that’s a challenging to decorate! But I have started ☺
High enough away for them, in the top of the window .
The Christmas church haven’t they tryed to do anything with. ☺
But the Christmas tree is very interesting! Because it’s plastic and my cat girl P-Sussi loves to chew on everything that is plastic…. she also Love to sit in a bags…
Yesterday was it the 28th of December and here in Norway that’s apart of what they call «romjula» it’s the days after Christmas and before New Years-eve. And for me have those days in the between been days of «getting out in the snow and play» or if it was a bad winter stay inside and play with puzzle since I was a child but as an adult it’s most become «the traveling back to home time» from wherever I have been for Christmas. But this Christmas and all days of December I have been in Oslo, the city I live in. Different but very okay. I have had more then just interesting days! I have had an experience I did not see would come. A positive experience!
I have had time with just myself, do just what I wanted or not wanted to do. It has been a very relaxing Christmas. And we got snow on the 27th of December – Yay!!
Yesterday was one of those slow days with a surprising cool thing. I went on Facebook just to check one thing and there one of my friends that lives in the state right now, was awake and on her way for work. And she said that the girls would be up at 5:45 am (9 hours behind us in Norway), and that she had told them that also meet her in the kitchen for early breakfast which for me meant Skype time with all three of them. Happy happy happy feeling. Most because I have not really heard much from the other two in a while. It was a good ending of Christmas for me! It is always nice to have the opportunity to catch up with friends especially over Skype when the friends does not live in the same country as I am living in!
The next thing I was doing was one of those things I have done for the last few years in the end of the old year and before the new starts, to write down Goals and Dreams for the year ahead. It is not a necessary to follow it but I am aloud do add things if I am in a situation that reminds me of a dream or goal. And one of my goals is exercising, to do it twice a week and get my body on an other level, get stronger physical and be able to stand against sickness more. And one of my dreams are to be able to travel more.
When I woke up today (not early morning) the snow was and is still here. The light from the snow is indescribable. It means so much for me to have snow during the winter, not just because I “always had it as young” no more because it lighten everything up it does get light with snow because it reflect the little daylight we have this time of the year, which is not much. And something else that reflect is our life, how we live it, how and what we show others. If you and I respect each and other and what’s going on in our life’s it will reflect to those we meet every day. It is the same with family, friends, cow-workers and people we just meet randomly in life. How do you want to your life to reflect on the ones you meet?
To respect a person for what’s going on in the persons life is so important but, yes it is a but here, but if you do not respect a person how will that person be able to respect you? I have been in a situation for some years where some of my family do not respect me in the way of the I am still single, that I have not met someone to share my life with. Those in my family “have been nagging” about “I should get married” like it is the easiest thing in the world… or “have you met someone yet?” like when is it there business? I respect them – those in my family – for what ever they do why can not they do the same for me?
This year that is nearly over… It is only two days left today. As an adult the days runs over to the next fast and if it is December today and January in two days is not the biggest different for me as it was when I was a child. It was such a bigger different then when I was a child. When did that disappeared? 2015 has been an interesting year in many ways. I have learn to be more patient in areas I did not have and I have learn new things from the course I started in sept-14 and ended this summer. I have got new friends, been there for friends that needed me in an other way then the years behind me. My faith has made me stronger. I have had fights I did not wanted but that I can see was good to have. I have learn that distance to my mom and her sickness has not made me weaker but stronger. I have learned to deal with things I did not know how to deal with it. I feel I have grown this year in knowledge, as a person, as a friend and with God in my faith.
I have had time to be creative in the way I needed to be. I have learned to sew after cloth pattern something I never done before. I have had costumers and still have two left that will slide over to the next year. And I will end this year with some sewing and be with friends. And I am looking forward for what next year has to come with! I am curious about next year!
I am thankful for this year.
I am thankful for my friends and my Church.
I am thankful for where I live and where I am gonna move.
When I was on the bus 23 to Brynseng yesterday I was started to think about “how clever was this?” It does take so much longer time to take the bus then catch the metro to Brynseng. Why did I think this was smart? Well one thing is that then I don’t need to change more then once on the other hand it takes the double amount of time..
For me, I mostly think its easier to just take as few transports as possible. But there I was on the bus…just waiting to “kill the time”. It could be smarter to just start to thinkwhat goes faster even if its more small stops & changes on the way to get from A to B.
Maybe I learn the lesson maybe I don’t… I guess I’ll just have to see next time I have to take the public transport.
The good thing about that I took the bus was I had time to write down my thoughts about this. To re-think about choices i “make & take”. It also made me see whats been going on on the structure side, the road construction, the buildings growing up in Oslo this summer which I haven’t past or knowing about.
mia-simone. svenberg 