Update..

First and foremost, we have actually seen the sun the last couple of days:D It's amazing!! Lovely. Almost forgot what it looked like:P

The first thing worth mentioning since tuesday, is a mountainhike I did on thursday. It's the first of the year in Norway, the other places I have been going to is not mountains, lust small hills:P
It was me and Sylvia that decided to go up, that means we talked about it the day before and she dragged me out on the day, since I was really up for just sitting inside that day.. But what a trip! Really nice to go upwards again. It was very hard the last 10 min, but sooo worth it.

Almost at the top, stopping for filling water in our bottles.

This is where we are heading. Not that far left..

The mountain is called Traudalsnibba, and is 1125 meters high I think, and they say you should expect to use 3 hours, but that's just bullshit. We used 2,5 hours, up AND down. And we did not go fast!

The feeling you have when you are finally at the top, is just undescribable. Love it. It was a bit cold that day, a bit windy, so we didn't stay that long at the top, but the view is stunning from up there..

At the top, pretty satisfied with ourselves:)

On friday I went to see my grandparents. A very relaxing day, and I also met one of my aunts and her family. Very nice.

Then saturday came along. I think this is the most beautiful day I have had so far during the summer. Most of the day there were not a single sky in sight, just blue,blue and a big, nice sun! It was also time for Nabolagscupen, which is a footballtournament that takes place here in summer. It's just for fun, and I had a nice time watching and at the same time soaking up the sun.
Later the same day we were some girls sitting with Synnøve before heading out. That is, it was me and Synnøve and at the beginning Gudrun, which was exchanged with Sylvia. Nice to just be the girls. There were also an amazing sunset that day! Just see:

Gudrun, me and Synnøve

And then we headed out to the local bar, and met a lot of people :) Always fun!

Ok, then I have been home for almost 2 weeks. It's both weird, awsome, sad and familiar. It's mainly just been work, work, seeing family and friends and then some work again. And all of it has been really nice. Especially coming home to my mums cooking, lovely to get some homecooked meals again.

It's very weird to have the evenings and nights all light again. I still haven't got used to that, but it's so damn light outside!! Just look here, these are taken 12 and 2am! And I'm used to it getting DARK like 7 or something.

Around 12..

And this is 2am.. Not dark at all.

I've also done some trips up to my beloved waterfall, Holvikfossen. I might have caused a helicopter search the first time (I don't think it was me now, but at least I did the first couple of days). On my way down from the waterfall, I first heard a helicopter that swirled around. A bit further down I met a woman that was heading up, and she asked me if I had seen something weird. I told her that the only weird thing I had seen was an orange tshirt lying in the middle of the path almost at the top. Other than that, nothing. She told me that somebody had been watching the top of the waterfall with a binocular, and that the person thought she had seen somebody fall off (she never saw somebody fall, but the person/persons were there, she looked away for a second and when she looked back, they were gone). Since I always sit at the top of the waterfall for a while, I asked when this was reported, and figured out that it could have been when I was there (it turned out it was reported a bit earlier, so I don't think it was me she saw). The search went on for a few hours, and then they called it off. Not a big deal, but caused a lot of fuss :D

Other than that there have been the country-festival. I worked backstage on friday, both to do my duty for the community(blablabla) and to make the festivalticket a bit cheaper! It was really fun being back there, not just because we were serving "the stars" ( I had NO idea who was singing, famous or working back there), but it was so great seing all the people outside, there were so damn many!! Heard that there were about 6000 there, and that's more then there is people in my county! Especially when Vassendgutane (famous norwegian countryband) were playing, then the crowd just went crazy! Looking forward to go to the concert with them in september :P
And then saturday came along. It was really funny, and I had a great time meeting so many people.

I guess that's the update for now. Not that much been going on. Looking forward to this weekend, then a fooballtournament is coming up. Not a serious one, just playing for fun. Thinking about making a girls team to play with the "big guys", but I guess we are too lazy to make that happen:P Don't think I even have my footballshoes anymore (I used to play when I was younger). Not that not having fooballshoes stopped me in Hong Kong..

To all my friends from HKUST, I miss you all. There are some songs that makes me disappear into memories, that reminds me so much of the good times there. It all starts to get blurry and it feels kinda like a dream. Just like I expected it to be.

Back in Norway..

Then I'm back in Norway again, and since I'm home right now, I can finally start to write in english (I was writing in norwegian before because of my parents).

Well, I have to say it's really nice to be back again, and it's AMAZING to not live in my backpack. First thing I did when I got back home, was to through all my stuff out of my backpack. Lovely.

Before I got on the bus from Bergen to Sandane, I had some really nice days staying with Selda. I was going to stay in Bergen for some days looking for an appartment, and it was also a nice opportunity to catch up with some people. I also did a lot of shopping since a lot of my clothes are on the way from Hong Kong right now. And it was, hmm.. what can I say, AWSOME to go into a shoeshop and finding shoes in my size!!!!! Also not having the people in the store yelling after you "we have big sizes maaaam"!! I can also report that I eventually found a room. For those interested (and know where it is), the street is Herman Foss gate. That means 3 min(top) walking to my department. Superb.

BUT, the most important thing: The last two weeks in Asia, which I spent in Vietnam. I have already told about Hanoi, a city which is extremely noisy. That means, I will start talking about Sapa.

This is why I'm not that fond of Hanoi, there are so damn many motorbikes!!

Sapa lies in northwest of Vietnam, and it is beautiful! I really liked it there. We arrived there the morning of.. ehm.. well, the date is not important. But we arrived in the morning of some day. We got a nice breakfast (the 2nd of the day, first one was outside the trainstation, from where we had to take a minibus to Sapa that took about 1.5 hours or something like that) before we got a room at the hotel. It was the most fancy hotelroom I had stayed in up to that point on our trip, so I was satiesfied.

View near the hotel

After some sleep and showers, it was time to visit a small village nearby, the Cat Cat village. It was a lot of downwards(which we were so lucky to walk up again afterwards), and we saw some cool local people, including these charming little kids:

The rest of the day we spent walking around in Sapa, rounding it up eating first at a market, and then dessert at the hotel. The dinner was great! Pigs getting roasted whole on the grill, some really good-tasting spears(? sticks with meat on), and some other stuff.
At the table next to us there were a bunch of vietnamese people. One of them came over and offered us some brown liquid stuff. We are polite people, so off course we accepted! We had a few toasts with them(ok, I admit, I had just one shot), and that was some pretty heavy shit!! We learned afterwards that they call it medicine.. Well, it does its work!! The table next to us got quite loud awfully soon..

Our vietnamese friend (and a german guy we got to know)

Next day, we got up around 8 and then breakfast. After this the fun started. First we drove a car for some time before it was time for us to walk. It was raining LIKE HELL, and the idea was for us to walk in the riceterrasses(or more between them), and because of the rain, it got muddy, wet, slippery and with this, extreme amount of fun :D After you got used to being wet, and after you stopped caring about your shoes being all muddy and wet, it was amazing. I think I was walking most of the time with a big smile on my face, going up and down all these muddy hills.

The view from our lunchplace.. N I C E

Our guide(16 year old, name Ke) and Michael

Eventually we came to our homestay. It had now stopped raining, so we changed before heading to a waterfall to take a swim. It was cold(the river came from the mountains), but very nice. And it made the dinner afterwards even better.

Another cute kid..

The next morning we walked to a small village nearby before heading back to the mainroad and our ride back to Sapa. Here we took a shower(best feeling in the world, showering off all the mudd and sweat) before taking the minibus to the train, which took us to Hanoi again.

Early next morning (4.30am) we arrived in Hanoi and were now trying to find the train to Haiphong. We knew that the trainstation for this train was nearby, so when all the "nice" taxidrivers and motorcycledrivers tried to tell us that the trains leaving for this city was on the other side of Hanoi, we knew they were lying to us(of course Hanoi needs 3 trainstations just to confuse). We managed to find the right one in the end, and 6am we left happily from Hanoi to Haiphong. From Haiphong we took a boat to Cat Ba Island, and this was the place I stayed the last week in Asia.

Annick, Michael and myself soon after arrival, arranged a boat for us and the norwegians, who planned to come to the island the next day. We left early next morning, an hour after the others arrived, and had two relaxing and sunny days on the boat! We didn't do much, just sunbathing, a bit of swimming, cave-exploring and some snorkeling.

Our boat... Really nice!

Michael is enjoying the water..

1,2,3 JUMP!!!!!

There wasn't much room to sleep indoor on the boat, so me, Annick and Michael decided to sleep outside on the deck. If it hadn't been for all the damn flies, this would have been a great choice, but as I said, those damn flies.. I didn't get much sleep that night, the flies just wouldn't let me do that, they really wanted to crawl on me(at least the little devils didn't sting me, like they did with some of the others), and especially around my ears. And when they finally stopped doing that, the sun came up and soon it got too hot to sleep. Since the others that slept inside got the flies as well, I shouldn't complain about it, especially since we got all the stars!! WOW. There wasn't a cloud in sight, just stars, stars, STARS! Can't think of anything more romantic, I was just in lack of the right guy there with me.

We spent the rest of the week on the beach, getting some tan and finally relaxing a bit. Dan and Cristin joined us, and along with them an irish dude and a swedish guy. We also lost Annick, and some days later Michael (I really HATE people leaving), and we had a day on motorbikes(cool, cool COOL), but that was pretty much it!

Charming as always :P

Some played football in the heat..

Cool!!

And they think the same:D

Oh, I almost forgot, I had some hours on the beach alone(the last day), and started looking more closely on my camera. I figured out I had a selftimer, so I started experimenting a bit. When Andreas and Sigrid came down some minutes later, I was sitting on my beachbed with a HUGE smile on my face. I was so happy I had found that function! They commented that I looked insane, sitting there all by myself, with the beach all to myself(vietnamese people don't go to the beach between 11 and 16,4pm in matt-time, because the stupid people don't want to get tanned) and smiling like hell. But here is one of the pictures I took:

So, then it was time for traveling home again. First part of the trip(after some more goodbyes) was from the island to Hanoi, and then from Hanoi to Bangkok by plane(now I was, for the first time on the trip, traveling alone). I stayed the night in Bangkok in a really nice guesthouse, and the next day I took another plane, this time to Macau. From Macau I took the boat to Hong Kong, where I met up with Jenny, Sigrid, Bjarte and Andreas again.

Next day it was time for massive shopping. Andreas and Bjarte had left early that morning, so it was me, Jenny and Sigrid left. It was the last day in Hong Kong, and we were all a bit nostallgic(not sure I can use that word here, but can't come up with anything better at the moment, I need sleep) for that reason. It was a saturday, so there were A LOT of people outside at this point. Awfully many sometimes.

Waiting for the bus, last time in Hong Kong..

After this shoppingday, it was time for flying HongKong-Munich-Copenhagen-Bergen. It was actually not that bad this time. We had seats together all the time, and on the flight from Hong Kong to Munich, we got 6-7 hours of sleep, believe it or not!
And then, on sunday, 1400 local time, we finally landed in Bergen. Even though people tell me it was warm, it felt like I was going out into a snowstorm(yes, I might exagerate a tiny bit right now, but just a tiny:P), but the air itself was lovely and extremely not dry! Oh, how I love the air here. And when people here tell me that it is humid outside, I often take myself wondering what they are talking about. After experiencing the Hong Kong air, nothing is humid.

Well, now I at least have written a bit about my last part of the trip. And soon there will be more, from my sommer in Norway. Hurra..