A little update

My oh my how fast the time is flying by, and obvious I haven`t been any good on the blog updates lately. I think its cos the everyday life suddenly slapped me in the face after the semester break and it has pretty much been uni-uni-uni-uni. But I`m finally done with my BA (unless ive failed some of the units, which i really hope i didnt), only took me 5 years, haha - so bring on the world.

So what has happened since the last time? Hmm..

Well my neighbours tree fell down even if it wasnt that windy outside. I found it hilarious cos it was blocking the driveway and my neighbour looked very confused - ofc I had to go get my camera and take a few pics ;)

Me and Kristine

I had my second round of the friday night dinner. Wanted to make oven baked salmon but someone (wont mention name, but he is the aussie ^^) refused to eat fish, so I got Kristine (Girl from Stavanger in my class) to help me to make homemade meatballs the norwegian style all the way from scratch - they tasted quite good, and the others were happy, so ofc I was happy as well.
Oh and that reminds me. Siri (girl in my class from Stavanger), Tonje (Siris sister whos working in melbs) and me made potato dumplings (raspeballer) - which wasnt that successfull as they dont have half the ingredients we wanted - BUT it still tasted freakin good, and I know for sure thats the first thing my mum gotta make for me when I get home. I just changed my tickets so Im coming home on the 3rd of February btw, so its just for all of you to meet me at the airport whenever it is I`m landing :D

Soheil and Jon

Since Marie, Segolene, Sam, Pierre, Shelley and the rest of the crazy people left me after the first semester, and I was too lazy in the introduction week this semester to find new people I have been hanging out alot with the Norwegian people from my class. We are actually 9 (!!) Norwegians in my class. We have had alot of late nights at uni doing assignments, been going to the movies almost once a week, hanging at Jon and Bård`s place to make food and play wiii - Which I`m actually not that bad in :D and its really fun! Jon also makes the best homemade salsa Ive ever had, and is not a bad chef at all - so I cant complain :)

Soheil and Siri

Ollie, Apsara and me also managed to get tickets to the BEP concert which I think despite the bad critics was really good. Will.i.am put up a really good show, and I enjoyed it from the very start till the end. An American group named LMFAO was the support band and they were freakin me hilarious. After the concert we met up with a bunch of people in the city, so all in all it was a very good night :) And as Ollie and me always roll, we had pretty good spots close to the stage this time as well :D So even I without my glasses could se what was happening. hehehehe

Marielle, Kristina and Anne Lene

I also finally got the first visitors down here. Anno and co are spending 10 months in Australia backpacking and they spent a week here in melbs with me :) Since Anno also love me very much she brought me food from home, a letter from my dad and norwegian cigarettes - it felt like christmas eve!! Only bad thing was they came here before I was done with uni, so now i gotta start travelling after them afterwards unless they come back to do the Great Ocean Road with me and Anniken who is coming on hols down here in a week!!!! its gonna be legendary :D

Now that I got hols and gonna start to travel I`ll try to update my blog a bit more often, as it probably gonna happen some more exciting things now then what it has been the last months (being in the editing suits might be fun, but that not intresting to blog about i think, :P ). So cherrios my friends, missing you people back home! if i win the lottery within the next 30 days I`ll drop by in London for PKRL3 as well ;)

peace xox

Roadtrippin`Queensland! Part I

The gang wide awake after some expressos at T&T`s place before we cabbed it to the airport.
Breakfast in Cairns before we went to get the camper.. I had been shopping flags for our travels :)
Mossman Gorge - Swimming with the crocks in the middle of the rainforest!
The viewpoint in Mossman Gorge.

Breakfast at an amazing viewpoint!
My regular spot in the car.. really chilled can you say ;)

Roadtrippin`Queensland! Intro

Semesterbreak, after alot of hard studying, frustration, late evenings and alot of coffee we decided we needed a break.. Melboune was getting to cold, we needed some sun on our bodies! what happens when one columbian, one german, one dutch and one norwegian decide to go roadtrippin.. ? stay tuned ;)
fluffy, our camper for 12 days :) Tim and Ollie are the experiend ones while me and Tomas are virigns at the camping life.. (Not that our camper was bad tho.. we got a micro, waterboiler, toaster etcetc :) ) as soon as we picked her up in carins it was just to hit the roads! Tim and Ollie were the designated drivers, while me and tomas were the sleeping monsters in the back of the camper who only woke up for beer, food and toiletbreaks :P
Oh and yeah.. our plan.. 22nd of june we flew into cairns, 4th of July we flew back to melbourne from brizzy - inbetween.. hmm.. we wanted to see something :):) this region is what we had to work on.. we went from cape tribulation in the north till brisbane in the south.. all in all we drove 2400km with the camper + we had a 3 day boattrip in the whitsundays and rented a 4wd for 3 days on fraser island.

Cos we have experiences so much on this trip ill split it in to different blog posts :) i just need to get out of bed, have a nice shower, some breakfast and ill try to get on it :)

Story of the last weeks

- I been sleeping some
- Eating some
- Studying ALOT - Its trueeeee! Down here we have alot of small assignments, and this few weeks are busy
- Interviewing a weird Russian Cinematographer who have an harder accent then my dad
- I`ve been to Cirque du Solei - which were awesome!
- I`ve seen fast and the furious - ok film
- I`ve seen Xmen - wolverine - ok
- I been to the icebar! - small, cold and pretty fun.
- Studying some more
- Watching tv on Mondays only together with Marie, Ollie and sometimes Jaspi.
- Got back my first grades - and I can`t say I`m filming in HD yet :P
- Facebooking - ALOT
- Eating carrots and Holiday dip - YAY
- Been out for sparkeling with the ladies

Friday Night Dinner

Then it was my go on hosting the friday night dinner. After a few phonecalls home to my dad, I managed somehow to make something that tasted like "fårikål" - The Norwegian traditional dish - and the guys liked it - atleast they said they did ;)

Later on we had a bunch of people coming over and we played some poker. Was a fun night which went on for too long. In the end I was soooo tired that I thought I was gonna die :P Good fun, and looking forward to go to the Crown to try the cashgames there - Advice needed as I suck even more at ring games then mtts.
/gl to me

Shooting day

I`ve finally had my first production day down here - was so fun. This is the rooftop where we did the first part for the interview, we are making a documentary about Mark B who is an independant filmmaker in Melbourne and used to do alot of Guerrilla underground punk inspired films. Awesome guy, the project i like the most down here! Awesome view, remind me about the states with all the palms there!

When making a documentary about guerrilla filmmaking we ofcourse had to try some of it ourself. Soheil jumping fences were a pretty funny to watch - he need a bit more practice me thinks!

Surfs up!

The weeks down here goes sooo fast, way to fast! This week it has been alot of Uni stuff.. we have started planning 2 productions, one documentary and one short film + writing on 1 script and doing interviews with filmmakers for another unit, think thats the biggest difference from back home - you got soo many things going on at the same time.

Yet the weekend has been good. On friday I hung out at Peacock with a few peps, just chillin cos on saturday I was going surfing for my first time.. lol.. yeah you heard me - me doing something that include balance - funny! Well, me, Constantin and Tomas (Oliver and Christopher couldn`t make it hence sickness and visit from mum) we left early early to go to Torquay. Neither me or Constantin had ever done it before and wasn`t sure what to expect.. Had a lesson with 7 other peps, and went into the sea with 2 instructors and the other lot - lots of people to crash with as I had no controll on how to swing on the board what so ever.. BUT I did manage to get up a few times, it was good fun - so now I am only looking forward to easter! The boys did awesome tho!!

In the evening me, Jasper and Christopher went to central to go to the cinema - we saw Knowing - the latest Nicolas Cage film (Anitus, you can tell Wenche he lost his beard, looks not so old as last time, but he has starting to loose his touch on how to pick films) - I dont really know how to explain that film.. it started okey as an action thriller with a clairvoyant lady from the past that had predicted all major catastrophers in the world for the last 50 years which was an okey enough plot, but there were another storyline going with some alien being the one that told the lady how to predict etc - and it ended up as a bad bad bad sci-fi drama - YUCK. the last 30 mins could they absolutely dropped. My 2 cents atleast.

AND - since you guys back home put the clock 1 hour forward las weekend, and we put the clock 1 hour back this weekend it means during the next 6 months the time difference is only 8 hours!! Save it in your memory, aiit? :)
Well today I have to get some Uniwork done - then we are going bowling later - incentive - yeah :)

So hope everyone back home are okey - love you lots! x

Formula 1 - YAY + aussie footie

Finally! Been waiting for this weekend since.. hmm.. a long time :D Never been to a Formula 1 race before so quite excited! Couldn`t go on Thursday as i had way to much to do at uni, so I took friday of uni without feeling any guilty at all :) The place to be this weekend is St. Albert park - close to St. Kilda :) Friday it was practice, saturday it was quali and tomorrow its the actual race :)
Rubens Barichello (Brawn) definitely got the most sexy car - prob cos mr. brown (forgot his first name, ooops) has shit loads of money, and doesnt have the car full of sponsor stickers :)
Kimi Räikkönen :D About time he win the championship.. A girl can hope right? Just not sure enough to put money on him..
Was a f16 flying around and playing in the air.. looked so funny! left a really jealous marita on the ground atleast!!
the plane was freakin loud - much more noise then the f1 cars.. and it went really low.. so not everyone of us were that happy about it.
Bouncers that made steve look little :D
Enjoying our life out in the sun :) two of my fav peps down here! :) and really sexy green earplugs - oh yeah!

After the 2nd practice on the friday we went to see an aussie footie game! never been to one, so was a bit curious. it was the first game of the season between hawthorn and geelong - the two team who played the final last year - so a really big game. for you peps who doesnt know aussie football, aussie footie is a mixture between american footbal, football, volleyball, basket ball, rugby and prob something else. you have 18 !! players on each team - which means, and it was quite funny - there were 6 players fighting in the middle of the game, and the rest of they players just kept playing.. hahahhaha. you play 4x 30 mins and you get points whenever you kick the ball between the poles :) 6 points for the middle ones, and 1 point for the one on the side.
think i should stop now, as i dont really know the rest of the rules.. but i do know it only looked like a bunch of people running around having fun - and it was quite entertaining to watch :)

the stadium was HUGE - takes about 100k - so a few times bigger then the stadium at home ;)

geelong kicked hawthrons ass - then the hawks came back and were in the lead for 10 mins - til they were behind with almost 50 points in the 3rd quarter - then they made a siiiiick comeback and only lost with 7 points in the end :)
twilight when going to the footie game - its actually taken from inside the mcg stadium :)
def gonna go for another game :) was fun!

P-Party

Shelly and Me as Peacocks :) Saturday the people living in Peacock street invited to a housewarming which also were a dressup party. You had to dress up at something that started with a P - so fun - a bit drama - french brown out day, but all in all I think everyone loved it! I am so happy I went, almost wanted to stay in bed as we didnt get home from the beach before 8pm and I was sooo tired.
Hayley and Thomas - two of seven who live in Peacock. Thomas looked really cool as a sleezy pimp!
Lovely Sam and Tomas :)
Just checking the baby is okey with white wine :)
Tamara and Steve. I think Steve really loves to dress up as he always plays the part really good :)
What happens when prisoner meets police.. Constantin doesnt look too happy about the situation.. hehe
Tim really suits playing a play boy, he got the look, you know
Marie looked absolut awesome as a punker! Michaela were such a cute pirate!
My cute girls :) See mum, I am able to befriend girls as well. :P

Else not much has been going on this week. Uni life has started for full with so many assignments that I dont know where to start. Today I have mainly been writing assignments.. such a great was to spend a sunday eh?? But I cant really complain about my life, as I really love it! The best news of the day is that Sam wrote and email to her home University asking if she could stay one more semester, something that would be awesome :D Tomorrow I am of with Jasper to Chadston (I think its called) to do some shopping. My incentive for sitting at my desk for hours writing!