The world of a Great Nation

First, let me say sorry for not updating the blog the last month (almost two). I don't really know why I haven't updated it, I just kind of forgot about it, but now I am back on track. Since the last post was posted, Vegard left me and went back to Norway (it was a tearful goodbye), and school started - it's actually mid-terms this week, how crazy is that! Some of the highlights is that I figured out how to post links in the sidebar on my blog - so I posted a link to the albums from Hawaii! I will try to upload pictures as often as possible - when I take new pictures.

Since my last post, I've also moved to a new place, much more convenient in term of school. I now live 5-10min walk to school, when I used to live 30-60min with bus from school (depending on the traffic). The downside is that it is far away from the beach - but luckily we got a pool area and a recreation deck w/BBQ area. Pictures of my new apartment and other pictures, can be found in the new album on Picasaweb (Click Here). I will stop uploading loads of pictures to my blog because it takes so much time and is the most time consuming part of doing blog posts.
My new roommate is a German/Japanese/Hispanic R&B singer. He is really cool and we are having a blast at our new place. Which always looks like on the pictures! (The area that we share are always nice and clean, when my room always is half messy...) He has a lot of family from Norway, and they live in Stavanger! (his music: www.kane-world.net)

The last two months, I have been playing soccer for Waikiki FC, and today, I played my fifth match, and I got my first goal in red. It was the winning goal making it 3-2 (we won 4-2) and 20 seconds later I dived in and saved a nice shot they had, and got it cleared out of danger, just in time. So today was by far my best match for Waikiki. And this upcoming week I will probably play with HPU's soccer team again to see what happends - I think they are recruiting, and I've been to a couple of their practices (organized by themselves w/o the coach). And I also got offered to play with Vaiete Premier (the second best team on Hawaii), which I am considering more than HPU (since playing college soccer takes to much time).

I also bought a new pair of shoes (Adidas TRX FG) so yesterday I took a shower with them to extend the leather and make it fit my foot. It didn't work too well (they were still a bit to small) so I put them in the oven on 175 fahrenheit degrees (about 65 celsius) for some time, and guess what, it worked like hell, now they fit perfectly!

The picture above, is from our Superbowl XLII (42) day at our apartment when we still needed some things to be fixed - but the TV, HD-cable, and the surround was working perfectly :) I had over (from the left on the picture): Ryen (American), Cody (American), Anders (Danish, in front), Truls (Norsk) og Patrik (Svensk). Kane, my new roommate had no interest so he didn't attend the fun!

School wise, I got 3 Mid-terms this week and 1 Mid-term next week, so this week will be pretty packed with studying instead of fun here in Hawaii, but it is school I'm here for! I also found out that I am not far enough in my education to be a part of the honor society for Psychology students; I need to be in my second Sophomore semester (which is next semester), so if I just keep up the hard work and good grades I will be a part of the national psychology fraternity; PsiChi by next year, and I am really motivated to continue to do good, so it won't be any problem!

I don't really have too much more on my mind, starting to miss my family & friends back in Norway - especially Kasper, and I feel bad that I didn't get to see Jonas that much before I left for Hawaii.

I got scheduled a skin appointment this week too for some kind of skin problems I got - I get white spots in my face (which also affects my eyebrow color - it turns white! Uhhww..), so I had to color it back to it original color... And the other day I also figured that I hate having hair here, so I decided to cut it short again, but by the next two weeks, I will probably cut it even more and re-invent the so popular army cut (super short). Because having hair is such a hazzle, and I get all those messed up farmer-tans.

Well, my first mid-term is tomorrow, so it's time for me to go to bed!

Good Night and I will try to update it as often as possible from now on - as I've said so many times before.....