Short Reassurance

I don’t know why I started to think about this, but I guess it was to postpone a walk to the 7th floor to do laundry… But I started to think of when did I feel bad / sad / depressed last or something along those lines. And it hit me… I don’t think I’ve ever been feeling bad / sad / depressed in my whole life for more than 1 hour, or maybe 2 hours. I really can’t think of any time I was feeling down, I pretty much feel awesome all the time.

I guess this is good stuff for you people back home as a reassurance that I’m having a good time, but on the other hand, I would probably have a good time if someone put me on the North Pole to live amongst the Polar Bears, so maybe it’s not that informative. Who cares, smile and be happy :D

Now, I have only one lecture again before final exam week, which will be pretty ok as I have two of my exams on Mondays and Tuesday. Then one exam online from Monday to Tuesday. One take home project that needs to be turned in by Wednesday and an exam on Saturday. Soon done, and life is good!

Lets end it on a fun note;

Intercultural Day of 2009

Preparation
So me, Ida Killingberg and Stine Natten were planning to perform at HPU’s 25th Annual Intercultural Day. By knowing that Stine won the national in Norwegian Folk Dance, I just went out on a limb and added us to the lineup of performers, and then Ida came along without knowing that we were performing, so we just made a mega show out of it all. It started out good, a couple of days later, me and Stine was practicing “Gangaren” and this was 4 weeks ahead of the event, so I was pretty positive about the whole thing. Then Stine went under the ground for 3,5 weeks so we didn’t practice anything until the last 3 days before the event. And at this time I had no experience whatsoever with Folk Dance.

Luckily we are back in business and are able to get together a “Gangar”, a “Reinlender” and a traditional “Polka”.

The day before the event, me & Ida went down on Kalakaua Ave. (the main street) in Waikiki and did some street performing. In about 1 hour, we made $6.50 each. YES! It was fun and it bought me a Subway the next day. Some people came up to me and told me I was lucky for having such a cute girlfriend. Ida is cute, but is luck the right word? Come on! Luck is just a term used by people who suck, who envy those who knows what they’re doing :)

The Performing part
I was planning on inviting Camilla, Sara and Heidi, but I knew they were going on a hike, and I didn’t want them to choose between the two, as the hike would be much more relevant to them as tourists here. They would get so much more out of it, plus then they got to hang out with some local people who knew their way around here on this small island.

The performing went really well – considering the little amount of time we’ve put in to it. But Stine and Ida already knew what they were doing. I lost the timing and rhythm a couple of times during the 10 minutes we danced, but luckily no-one seemed to care, or even notice. As we got #2 price after #1 China, who had a large festival kind of thing, you know the Chinese dragons and all that fantastic stuff. We didn’t deserve 2. place, and it sucks to be #2, because then you are so close to being #1!

Enjoy the pictures and video – if the video work properly.

Mads and Heidi at the Waterpark

 

Splash Bash 09 was the name of the event. Hawai’i Pacific Universities own Student government hosts this event every year, were for only $15 you get a ride, entrance, concert and dinner at the Hawaiian Waterparks which is on the westside of the Island. This is an awesome deal, so I was really looking forward to it, as I missed out on last years event.

 

Unfortunately for Camilla and Sara it was the same day as their departure, so it was only me and Heidi who went with a bunch of my friends from school. We were a whole bunch of people there. I think all together we were about 300 students. Good stuff!

So we ran around like kids at this place, trying all the ‘cool’ rides. The most fun rides were actually closed because they are rebuilding that part of the park, which sucks for us, but its all good. We still got to do the tornado, shaka and the flow rider.

Enough talk about it, enjoy the pictures & videos!

Riding the artificial wave with a bodyboard

 

One of the rides; The Tornado – I think it was called

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Camilla w/Friends

The rumors are true. Camilla is back. This time not with Jonas, her ex-boyfriend, but rather with two friends, Heidi and Sara. They are staying for three weeks this time, and when they get out of their jetlagged routines, we are going to have a blast, for sure!

So far we’ve planned to go out every night so far, but it all ended up with them falling asleep sometime between 8 and 10:30 p.m. Well it’s alright, I kind of expected it, as last time Camilla was here, she was jetlagged for about 2 weeks. Awesome stuff.

Hopefully they’ll get over it soon, so that we can do stuff in the evenings too, as that’s the time I got open. During day time I’m mostly at school, does homework, at the gym or playing soccer, so with my really tight schedule it doesn’t really fit well that they spend their afternoons/nights sleeping.

 

As a side note; I got accepted to Psi Chi; the national honor society for Psychology students. This is the first semester that I’m eligible to join, so I was excited about it. Also, we only have one game left of the season, and our last game ended in a 1-0 to us (scored by yours truly with a shot from about 20-25m, and the goalie stood chanceless; felt good; as I don’t score often!)

What else is new?
I have only two days left on the treatment for acne’s that I’ve been on for the last three months. And I guess it has been working pretty well; I’ll also put up a few pictures taken just this minute to show myself, because I love myself. Irony aside, that’s pretty much what’s new right now. We are planning on doing some hikes the upcoming week(s); so I’ll be sure to put up pictures with some text on that as well, if I am only able to get hold of the pictures!

 

Happy now, mom? :)

Well, that’s all for now; I’m going to sleep and it is way too late for me to be up now (as you can see from these brand fresh photos). The pictures was taken by Camilla and posted on facebook. I’m just the middle-man! I’m such a thief.

Cheers.

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Hola! So I updated the left panel on the blog to have my latest Twitter.com status changes. It will be helpful to see what I’m doing (all this useless stuff that is not worth blogging about); most of you probably don’t care, but if I'm good at updating it, it will tell you what I’m doing at any time.

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Today was quite a big day for Norway; the Norwegian Premier League started, and AaFK played versus Tromso. I was all hyped to get up to watch that game on TV2 Sumo and cheer loudly at 7 A.M. (in the morning). But you know what sucks? Even more than getting up at 7 AM? Getting up at 7 AM to a TV2 Sumo (web TV) that doesn’t even work. So I had to listen to the game on a webradio hosted by Sunnmørsposten (the local newspaper in Aalesund).

Luckily I also got some socializing with Silje, Julie & Tante Karianne; that was cool. They were crazy, but I already knew that, so no surprise! And they got to see me bake my soccer socks and make me some Black Mango Tea that I’m drinking in this very second, yummy!

Too bad I couldn’t see the game, because I get so motivated by watching soccer, and we are playing a game at 11 AM today, and I’m not really feeling it. I got a weak ass cold coming after driving to Waikiki yesterday on my roommates scooter. The second I got out of the garage it started to pour down. So I was so freakin’ wet, and now I’m partly sick. Damn, I don’t wanna… Hopefully the tea will help me to get better. Also, I bought Green Tea Extract the other day, maybe that’ll help aswell – who knows!

Boys Night Out

This is the night were all the men turn in to boys. I’m not talking about myself, since I perceive my self as a boy 24/7; I’m talking about most of the other guys on my soccer team. There’s a couple of young guns on our team, but the majority is 30+, and this was without a doubt men turning boys. Married, engaged or in a relationship; it didn’t matter! Tonight it we were rocking Waikiki FC style. We started out at Chris’ place, with his 5 year old son and wife. Some delicious pizza, homemade guacamole and tortillas; sweet. His son was fun, running around being all crazy, made me miss Kasper for a bit, but then again, I’m going to have fun, and I’m trying not to think of people back home, as it only decreases the mood. If you go around worrying and missing people, you are going to miss out on the good time you can have right here, right now. So we played Fifa 09, ate Pizza, smack talked and just horsed around. As it was getting late we hit town. This was the first night out for me and Andy so I had no idea what to expect, but I’ve heard some rumors of a certain “Spidermonkey Dance” that is performed by Chris; so I was looking forward to it.

We also went out in our soccer jerseys, and to all the girls that came and asked “What’s up with the jersey’s?” etc. we just told them we were a professional soccer team from Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) and we were vacating. For some weird reason everyone believed us, even though we really pushed it. People are too naive, that’s my conclusion! The only soccer jersey I had was a 1980 Ireland jersey that is way too big, so I decided to go out in an AaFK “jersey” I had, to represent. One of our the guys on my team took like 200 pictures + 20 videos, so I’m still waiting for him to get his finger out off his ass and send me those pictures, until then, all I have for pictures is this one little thingy;

Later on that night, supposedly the Spidermonkey dance and everything else also happened, I hope I’ll get my hand on the pictures, and I will post them. But the rookie, Andy, he ended up throwing up when he got home, all over his African Rug (that he had to throw away; good job buddy!) and Jaz fell asleep in his car, the guy with all the pictures was sober, so he got home safely luckily, and that’s pretty much it. And poor Christian, he had to serve us all the drinks as he was the bar-owner and had to work that night! At least I got my water fast and everyone else got free drinks so it was good for something. On our next game on Sunday we are having a BBQ afterwards, I really enjoy these guys, it is a good way to get out of this segregation that’s going on with the Scandinavian people here; to get out of that little bubble and see everything else and meet new people.

And I’m officially done with all my midterm exams and term papers now; so from now and ‘till infinity, I’m going to relax, and I know how to do that! Actually, I got one more, but it’s not that hard and I’m going to write about a movie; so it’s all good in the hood.

CIAO MUCHACHOS!