Lister over ting som har vært og som skal være

Jeg har i løpet av de siste dagene (i ganske kronologisk rekkefølge):
- levert siste(?) eksamen på HiL
- sagt hadet til Charlotte
- vaska litt hybel
- spilt en tidligere uprøvd drikkelek, great success!
- vært på avslutningsfæst med klassa
- sagt hadet til altfor mange mennesker og klæmt litt på dem alle sammen
- snakka med en del folk fra klassa for første gang som jeg selvfølgelig vil savne noe fryktelig (Gisken 2009: klokka seint i går kveld)
- preika med to voksne damer utafor Paddy's, hun ene hadde en slags eksamen i dag, det gikk sikkert kjempebra!
- klart å vise tatoveringa mi selv om jeg for en gangs skyld ikke hadde på meg klesplagg med lav rygg
- møtt Tommy med skolisser som han slo folk med
- blitt forlatt av Trine
- blitt BFF med en alkoholiker som måtte låne telefonen min og hadde kjøpt bukse og servietter på salg og heldigvis har gode venner som vil støtte henne mens hun er på "alkishjem"
- slaska

I løpet av de neste dagene skal jeg:
- pakke alle tinga mine
- vaske resten av hybelen
- henge med de som er igjen
- forlate Lillehammer
- GRÅTE!!!

Takk og farvel

Jeg fikk en KJEMPEklem av Jostein i går. Jeg kommer til å savne dere alle sammen, selv de av dere jeg aldri har snakka med.

Fra en notis

Dette skreiv Mari på en Stickie Note på dataen min da vi var på tur i Florida:

solbrentheten svir som et uvær i en oterpung
-sigrun, 15/5, 22:41

Speaking words of wisdom

Sooooooooooooooo. Halloween was on Friday. There was a Halloween party at the student "bar" this Saturday. I went with my friends, dressed as someone from the 80's, in a not very thoroughly done costume. My friends were dressed as James Bond, an emo and Queen of Hearts (yes, a playing card). The latter was the best costume there, oh man! She'd talked about it quite a bit in advance, she bought it when she was in Minnesota for a school semester last year and I had huge expectations and they were totally met! It was awesome.

The evening was also very fun. I went to my emo friend a couple of hours before we went to the student pub, Bingo'n. We just chillaxed (my favorite word of the day) and yeah. Then we went to Bingo'n and it was kinda not-so-fun the first hour, the rest of our friends weren't there yet and not a lot of people in general were there. We met a random dude with a scary mask outside and it creeped me out a little bit. And some of the decorations were scary, but not as scary as expected. Thennnnnn a lot more people showed up eventually and then James Bond and Queen of Hearts came a little tipsy and the rest of the evening was hilaaaaar (my second favorite word of the day - a short version of hilarious).

Well, I gradually started to get more tipsy and we danced to crappy dance music until Bingo'n closed. I lost people and went to buy a kebab and then I found people after buying the kebab. The emo went home (hahah, not because she was emo, she was tired and it was late) and the very drunk Queen of Hearts (QoH) decided to go to another bar and James Bond and I joined her. At this point we were all kinda drunk though, but Queen of Hearts... phew. Haha, she was adorable.

The other two danced while a (cute and) very forward guy tried to hit on me. It didn't work. James Bond got a dude on the hook though, some creepy guy who followed us when we left even though we told him not to. We followed QoH home and the guy did too, I finally got him to leave when we were actually inside QoH's dorm. Bluh. And on our way there I kissed a statue, wow.

The last bus home to me had left a long time ago so I had to sleep at Bond's place and we left QoH's place, after about 100 meters we started talking to a random guy who wouldn't tell us what he's studying and we wanted to know and we stopped some other random guys to get them to try to guess what the first random guy was studying and wtf. It was bizarre. We had to pee and went back to QoH's place to borrow her toilet, and Bond had left her tequila bottle in some bushes outside Bingo'n because she couldn't bring it in there and we had to go get that too. And we hung out at QoH's place for a bit, I danced to Arctic Monkeys while Bond took pictures on QoH's Mac and then we all joined in and now she has some wicked funny pictures on it. She sent me some today and I laughed and laughed. Aw. I'm lying on the floor after dancing and QoH's is lying on the bed in the background and my leg is sticking up on the side of the picture because I wanted to be in it but I was too tired to get up and wow.

Haha, this got long and it's probably not funny to anyone but me, but I wanna remember it and it really was a hilarious evening. Bond and I bought Ben&Jerry's on our way to her place and we ate that while watching Dr. Phil the next morning. I went to bed at 7:30pm. Oh, hungoverness.

Oh and sometime before the emo went home, we shotted some tequila in the middle of the street. With the salt and the lemon and everything. And we live in Norway and it's cold. Next time I'm bringing my video camera.

Late night irritation

Wtf, Katy Perry is all the things wrong with women reasons men oppress women combined, but she sure knows how to make a catchy pop song.

My week and whatnot

Second Saturday in New York. It's going well. School started on Monday, had philosophy (exphil) Monday and Wednesday, and American Topic Thursday. Human rights starts this coming Monday. American Topics seems very interesting, the main lecturer is very cool. It's about American culture in every meaning of the word. Immigration, music, sports, everything. Exphil is kinda boring so far, but I didn't really expect otherwise. We've talked about Sokrates and Platon.

Human rights seems kinda dry too, I'm not really interested in that kind of subject. But maybe it's okay, we'll see. We have to write an expectation letter for our human rights lecturers by Monday and we've gotten two big assignments that are due March 5 and 10, in exphil and human rights. We haven't even started with the curriculum for the assignments. I feel like this was a bad idea. Coming here for school. I don't like school. I'll probably manage alright, it's just boring and I'm not really motivated.

Besides school, everything is grrrreat. The first couple of days, our school had some arrangements for us. Not the very first day, then we got to settle down a bit in our new apartment and we found a Mexican place nearby where we ate. That was last Wednesday. On Thursday we had to register at school, then we went on a bus guide. It was cold, we sat on the roof of the bus. It was very cool though. Drove downtown and uptown of Manhattan. Saw the NBC building and other important buildings and Harlem and we stopped at a New York museum, wasn't very interesting, but it was warm. Afterwards we ate hamburgers and soup. I ate soup. And theeeen we had the rest of the day off, we probably went a little shopping, I don't remember.

Or maybe that was on Friday. Whatever. We had a welcome seminar at school one day, where the head master told us useful information and whatnot.
On Saturday we had a "rebus" sorta. Ended up at Sjømannskirken where they had waffles and grøt, mmm. Then we went on a boat trip around Manhattan with a grumpy guide. We saw the Statue of Liberty up close and Jersey City, and of course Manhattan. After that we took another bus guide, during night. Another crazyass guide, aiiiiight. We stopped in Brooklyn, right by the Brooklyn bridge and saw the famous New York Skyline at night, it was beautiful. I tried to take some photos, but I'm not a very good photo taker so all the pictures came out too blurry.

I, the three girls I live with and two other girls we've befriended went to eat in Chinatown one of those days. It was okay, probably not the best restaurant there, but we got rid of our hunger.

Last Sunday we had all day off, I went shopping with two girls. We walked all the way from Central Park north to downtown. We walk a lot. It's okay.

I've bought a pair of shoes, a hoodie, two t-shirts, a top, socks and underwear. Not on the same day, but yeah. And a phone! All of us have gotten American phones 'cause they are much cheaper to use than our Norwegian ones.

On schooldays after school, we haven't really done anything special. Walked around a bit, shopped some, seen new places. We're good at making our own dinner at home, cheaper that way.

I was walking around downtown by myself one day and thought I'd stop by the library to check my e-mail, but they were just closing so I didn't. I tried to find the toilet, but that wasn't easy and some guy thought I looked lost (which was very much correct) and helped me find it. He asked if I wanted to do anything afterwards and told me he'd wait. And he did. I said I just wanted to go home, and he asked where I lived and whatnot. It was kinda creepy, but he was just being nice and helpful really. He showed me some drawings he'd made, of naked women, and he gave me his number on a queen of spades card he said he had found. Told me to call him whenever I wanted to party. I said "yeah, maybe" and he said he liked the way I said that. He walked me to Times Square, just a couple of blocks away from the library and showed me what train to take home to where he thinks I live. He told me he thought I was attractive and luckily didn't join me into the station.

I didn't go home, I went to Brooklyn. To a Target there, to find a polaroid camera. But they were sold out.

On Thursday some of the girls at school had arranged a Valentine's Party. We went, it was very nice. I had a great time. Some of us got a little too drunk. Oh well.

I have every Friday off, wooo. One of the girls I live with who takes the same courses as me and another girl who also does, and I, went shopping in Harlem yesterday. We wanted to get a little more familiar with the surroundings here. I wasn't really in a shopping mood, so I didn't buy anything, but they did. And I got to see Harlem so it was nice anyway. Afterwards we joined the "another girl" mentioned above for taco at her place with the people she lives with and the people I live with and some other girls who also goes to our school. Ack, so many people to hold track off. After dinner, we hung out a bit there, then the rest of my apartment went home. I stayed a bit longer to watch a movie, we saw Shawshank Redemption. Then I went home. These people live like four blocks away from us, so I didn't have to go far. One of the other girls who was there lives in Brooklyn, she spent an hour getting home and she had to go alone. She got home safely, it just took a while.

I wanted to go to the the Kooks concert on Tuesday, but it was sold out. All of those I hang out with have tickets for a the Roots concert in Apollo Theater. I don't want to go. That's next Friday, I think. I'll manage.

Oh, speaking of Apollo Theater. We went to their weekly Amateur Night on Wednesday, where amateurs can sing or play or dance or do whatever and the audience decide who goes on to the next round. You clap or boo. It was very cool, we'll definitely go again. One of them step danced, that was awesome, he was so good.

Today's plans are probably including school work. I don't know what else. We talked about catching a movie at a theater last night, but didn't do it, maybe we'll do it today. And I want new shoes. Yes, another pair. We'll see, no hurry.