Life as a student, day’s from my work experience school, nature, day light’s, Hallowee decoration with touch, wood assignments and All Saint’s Day more.
Picture from my life those last weeks.
It’s been essay writing, new learning 🙈🤪😅 , the hardest part of learning for me as a student I have had! But God is good! And I have good friends that are willing to help me 😊🤩.
I don’t know you guys who are following me, where you come from, what your thoughts are about Halloween or if it’s just a date?! But I know I did change my thoughts about 20 years back when I was working in a yought club in Sweden and Halloween got closer. What the yought thought about Halloween and what they thought was the truth, which it wasn’t. Because what they though was what they had learn from social media at that time and not the background. Where does the halloween fenomen comes from? And how was is it before Americans changed it? Well I asked the youth and told them to search. And learn about the orignial halloween day or weekend when that happends.
The conclution was, “Oh it isn’t from America!”. No it isn’t. So where does it comes from? Well, the tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain – marked the end of the Celtic year and the beginning of the new one – were people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts, in the 8th century. And November 1 is designated to honor saints. October 31st was known as All Hallows eve and later become Halloween. Over time Halloween evolved into a day of activities like trick.or.treating, carving jack-o-lanterns, festive gatherings, donning costumes and eating treats. October 31st is also marked as the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of the year that was often associated with human death.
So you can choose how or what you do on October 31st! I choose “Harvesting” and celebrating that the summer is over and the winter is coming. I decorate with things that is for me Autumn or connected to harvest. I have been working on farms so I have the knowledge of what we can harvest this time of the year. This year – which is the first for me – I bought a pumpkin and did a very easy carving decoration mostly for fun cause I have never done it before. I also bought a typical autumn flower Heather flower which I have outside my door on a small table. I will put up the rest of my decoration this evening and put a sign on my door tomorrow. “DO NOT RING THE DOORBELL, SCARRED CAT INSIDE & I’M OUT.” because I will be out tomorrow evening. I don’t think that will be popular…
Have a blast October 31st!
I have to get a new Passport. Meaning I need to go to Sweden! …🤪🤐 I made a call in August to book an apointment in October.
Bought 🎫tickets in September.
My ✈flight left Stavanger 09.40 am today Sunday 9th to Oslo. Can’t say I slept much during the night 🤪😴. I dislike airports! Get so stressed of the onboarding & waiting 😣. The flight was okay.
Relaxed walked I from the gate to the train stop bought the ticket for the 🚉 and had 10 min b4 the train arrived.
Hungry! When I arrived Oslo at 11.30 am. Had breakfast at 07.15 – 07.40! So…a burger helped a lot. 😊.
Bought an 24-hour ticket to get around in Oslo. Tryed than to figure out which transport to catch (metro, bus or tram). I catch a tram to a area called Solli and right now I enjoy a coffee latte (12.21-13.20 ish) in hope to stay awake. Cause right now I am tired!! From lack of a good sleep 😣😣.
Next stop is Marcus Church, to catch up with the friends I’ll stay with during my intens trip. And I am looking 4ward to visit them. And this trip to Oslo & Sweden is the first since I moved to Rogaland, Stavanger in August 2021.
Being a bonus auntie is good for both me and the parantes. I’ll get to know the kid and the parantes, close friends of mine, can have a break and be a couple. 😉
I just love the Autumn 🍂🍁 and this Autumn is new. It isn’t the same as the last. I hope been out in the garden today, taken away old dead branches. Been breathing in the lovely air, seen the lovely colours…
Watching the living water in the small stream in the bottom of our garden…
The ☀️ that came through the leafs and branches. To hear the water porling…
The wet grass after the rain, the small water drops glencing in the sun. It’s beautiful!
And our Lord made this for us! All the colours in all the different levels and lights or darker. And we are able to enjoy it.
I love the rainy days as much as the sunny days all along the Autumn.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.2019.
Two weeks ago.
2 weeks ago we had our first snow ❄️ day here in Oslo. I was happy like a child but most of my colleagues was not. They started to complain…
Everything is delayed in Oslo when the first snow ❄️ comes. It is the same shit every year.
I was waiting om “my” bus 23 for more then nine minutes, which is the normal amount off minutes om my side og Oslo to wait. Not talk about the metro 😂😂😂 which was standing still because of the snow 🤣😜😠 and signal failure at the National Theater, 3 stops closer to the city from my metro stop at Smestad.
I arrived the metro station in time. It was even three minutes left to when it was going but! the metro train did not go!! 😠😠 It was just standing there. 🤪😳
The metro driver came out of the train and told med and everyone else else that planed to catch it,
It will come a bus-instead-of-metro. (Very common in Oslo.) Go and wait on the other side. We do not know how close the bus-instead-of-metro is but it will come.
I waited.
I think I waited on this “metro-bus” for about twenty minutes before I catch a regular bus.
In the meantime I txted my co-worker about the delay traffic and that I was on my way even if that would take while.
I finally got on the bus, jumped off where the shortest walk to the School was according to google maps. Walked up-hill to work. Came forty-five minutes later then a normal day, just because of the snow. 😐
And it was not just me who where late. Almost a third of my colleagues was also late.
And most of our students because they are coming with a taxi, they where even more stuck in the traffic, poor students. 😕😕
What a day!
But it does not end there. … You see, the day after is most times even worst. The day after is everything is delay and that Day you are stuck in traffic!
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.2018.
October is the month of breeze in the morning that looks like fog and with naked trees and lonely leafs hanging there. A beautiful season just like any other season of the year. How lonely a leaf can be in the wind but still shine up a person walking past. How all those colours that still meets us in the morning on our way to work, gives me a big doze of inspiration I bring with me the whole day. How wonderful the nature looks like every Day! I just can’t get enough! I love this season. Let it never end (I know it will) but right now, no please.
How the rain when it suddenly comes «from nowhere» and wash the street and clear the air. How the chilly air in the early morning really wakes you up and realizing the winter month isn’t far away anymore. November is just a round the corner. A new season is coming. But still, to stay in the moment, BE, THINK. To reflect over the Day’s that past. What did I do? Did I enjoy the day and all the colours?
Since I started at Radisson as a trainee I have realized I appreciate nature in an other way then I have done before, a bit like in the same way as I think I did as a child. I see, I watch, I enjoy. I think of what I see, how is it possible to get so strong colours on a single leaf? Could the human person make something similar? Or is it only one who is behind all this? For me it hasn’t always been for sure. I have been far far away from God for many years and I was not as sure anymore during those years. How far away was my thinking to someone else who doesn’t believe in something “bigger” than us human? I am curious how other thinks not that I will change my way of thinking over the day but still. How many are not living there lives day out and day in without reflecting on how other people think?
How do you think about seasons in the nature?
How do you think about the life you have made?
Are you happy or just pleased?
Here I am, sitting in my favorite chair, with my legs up on the “cat tree” with the view of the colorful trees outside my window and one of the cat’s above me on the shelf. The sky that changes all the time, slowly and nice. Giving me inspiration to write again. Listen to ABBA…
The swallows are still flying around wondering when they fly south? What a beautiful Day we got! And I have to clean my house before I’ll go out… But that’s okay.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Some time has flayed since last blog post..
…In the end of September I got the opportunity to start walking beside the night-shift at the Hotel where I have my trainee-time. It was the “dream-moment” I’ve had for a long time in all kind of jobs I’ve had. In the same time everything felt a bit unreal. I mean I was happy I’ve got this opportunity! This was my thoughts: “what will I do when I am awake, will I sleep my seven hours I normally sleep, without any problem?”
And I have to say it’s been like normal time at home. I do things as anyone else it is just an other time on the day then most of my friends “daytime”. The toughest is to go from a free day to start 6.30 am and get early enough in bed to get up at 5.00 am!
I had my first night-shift the 26th of September. The most of the tasks are the same but I’ve learn some new. During the night you have to send reports to the bosses of the Hotel, and in the Hotel (the different ares like housekeeping, restaurant and reception), which you only do on the night.. An other of the tasks is to clean the barista machine and the coffee Thermoses. You check all the bookings a month ahead and cash settlement.
“..the difficult again is to get to the gym.”
So far I’ve done seven night-shifts and I’m loving it! It fits me more then anything I ever worked with. It takes time to adjust to this too, to see how much I need to sleep and what I’ll have energy to do.
The difficult again is to get in to a good rhythm to go to the gym. I have realized that I have to do the normal monthly work-out payment to be able to get my work-out I need because my work schedule isn’t even close to five days in a row. Sometimes my free-days are only the weekend other times it’s in the middle of the week, and with a normal gym-set-up you go whenever you want any time. But I go through something called “active in the daytime” only during the week 9.00 am to 14.00 pm. It just doesn’t work for me. 😥
During the last week has the Northern wind arrived to Oslo and the winter feather jacket got out of the suitcase for me and more wool cloths out of the dresser. Something I like to try to not do until the middle of October but not this year apparently.. But I rather be warm with good clothing and stay in the fashion mote.
“..alone to many hours, played less and slept more..”
In the mean time of this new experience I had bad conscience for my cat Silver. He was alone for to many hours, slept more and more, played less and less. It was time for Silver to get a play-friend. So I started my “hunt” of a new adult cat to keep him company. And the 10th of October I got a castrated female cat called Pus (which means cat here in Norway) so I started to calling her Pussi (also normal animal name here in Scandinavia). But an other day this week I received a text msg from the old owner that her name actually is Selma which is so so far away from the name I gave her. So I’ll try Selma and see if she responds. In the mean time I use her nickname.
I can’t say they were friends from the beginning. They have had there fights but now after one and a half week they do play together, have an eye on each other, don’t sleep near each other but they can sit on the desk kind of together with some distance. It took about a week for Selma to “I want to be near you, my new owner”. But since day 5 she sleep in my bed on top of my legs and not besides my legs!
/Mia-Simone.
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