Teatime beautiful people

Washing clothes and preparing for Saturday while havin' a cup of tea and listening to Beautiful People (Chris Brown & Benny Benassi). I'm excited actually. It's going to be nice to see my family and friends again, hehe. Feels like it's been forever even though it's only been two weeks.
enI guess that whne you go through a big transformation in life two weeks could just as well be two years.

Hm... what else... I haven't done much since I last posted. Work's going greater each day and I love my co-workers. I have a family here :) They are so good teachers, and so are the costumers. They teach me a whole lot, even though the attitude among them might be a bit rough sometimes. But I like it.

Guh... I'm slightly tired so maybe my English isn't perfect right now :)

And I don't have anything else to write about so... bye for now!

-Vicki

Hoffmaestro & Timbuktu

After work I went straight down to Operahuset to see Hoffmaestro and Timbuktu.


It was a sunny evening and so perfect.


We all enjoyed the weather and were so excited about the show.

First on stage - Hoffmaestro! Everybody went crazy. Music was awesome, performance was awesome, crowd was awesome. I had such a good time!

After Hoffmaestro it was time for Timbuktu. He was so short in real life! He did a great performance and people were dancing like crazy. I met my boss and one of my co-workers so I spent the rest of the show together with them. It was so much fun!

Timbuktu & Hoffmaestro on stage together.

After the gig I went to my one of my brothers apartment. Spent some time there before we went out. Had a few beer and a very good time.
I am currently very sleepy. Bedtime early tonight :)

-V

Skolebrød & Street Art

THURSDAY

On Thursday I worked from 12:30 to 20. The reason was because I needed to learn how to close the shop. It was fun. I also learned to work in the TakeAway area. I'm still struggling with bread and names, but Linda (my boss) told me to print product information on every bread so today I will do my homework.
Anyway, after I left I ended up watching this (see image above). Two men were painting incredible images with grafitti spray on Karl Johan. I've seen them everyday when I've been walking from work to the busstation but this time I decided to actually stop for a few minutes and look. It was so cool! I watched one of them create a huge full moon behind New York City. Truely amazing.

I took the bus home to Majas place where I currently live. It's located a bit outside Oslo, but I realyl don't mind. It's a very quiet place. I had to stop and shoot a (bad) picture of the (so beautiful) sky.

FRIDAY

Yesterday was nice. I started work at 9:30 but since I got to ride with Maja I got into town one hour earlier than I had to. I decided to buy myself a coffee (Cappuccino á la Samson - yummy!) and sit down somewhere. It was cosy, and so needed. The caffeine did its job and it didn't take long before a new energy was spread inside my body, which - also - would be very useful during the day. I spent the hole day running back and forth with dirty dish. Jeeez! At those times you just wish people could stop eating, haha.


One of the girls at work asked me during the day if I wanted to go out with her and her friends for dinner. Yes! We ended up at a Italian restaurant called Olivia on Aker Brygge. It was so good to hang out with some people. Thank you! We had a really good time.

SATURDAY (today)

Today I'm going to see Hoffmaestro and Timbuktu life after work. That, my friends, is going to be awesome!

OK! Time to get ready for work again.


Take care all, and please, stay tuned ;)

- Vicki

Norway

Hello friends!
I'm currently located in Oslo, Norway, to start a new life, get some life- and work experience and earn some money. I tell you, it is fun fun fun! I'm working on Egertorget in the middle of Karl Johan at a company called W. B. Samson. Samson is a cafe chain in Oslo and they have about 21 stores spread all over the capital. The store at Egertorget is the biggest. It's very busy, which is understandable since Karl Johan is more or less crowded all the time.

I'm doing my 4th day today and I really enjoy working there. During these 4 days I have developed a whole lot I think. I never thought I would be standing behind a coffee machine screaming "Double cappuccino!!" so people nearly lose their hearing. But I am! Hehe
My co-workers are amazing! I like them all. The atmosphere is very positive and refreshing (maybe the coffein is partly contributory to that...) and the days just fly by!

Yesterday was awesome! I felt so elated and effective in my job, I got into a very service minded mood and gave compliments to a few costumers which seemed to brighten them up a lot. There was a woman with a very cool blue bag, waiting for the key to the WC while I ran back and forth with clean and dirty plates. After a while when I'd passed her for the fifth time I had to stop and tell her that I really liked the color on her bag. She looked so surprised and said "Really? You think so?" and I said I did. We started chatting and she told me she was on her way to Germany. I wished her a joyful trip and went back to taking care of the dirty dishes. It felt so good afterwards!
I'll continue to do those things :)

OK, time to upload some pictures.

This was two days ago. After work I met my brother Oskar and he showed me his and Kickis (his girlfriend) apartment. After a while my second brother Joel came.
Kicki, Oskar and I ended up playing TP and drink tea. It was so nice! I'm so happy to have them here as well.

This was yesterday after I left work. 7 young guys (you can't see the drummer) were playing funky monkey music and I ended up thinking about my dear uncle. They were very good!

OK, that's all for now. I have another thing to write about, but I'll do that either tonight or tomorrow.

Until then - take care all and stay tuned ;)

-Vicki

Everchanging times

I think I'm going through a period in my life which is very transforming. I've been pretty negative lately and I am very aware of it, but of some reason it's like I can't stop it. I think this is good though, because this negativity has forced me to work even more on my self esteem and accepting everything that is me (the positive as well as the negative). Interesting indeed and I think I'm doing very good. It's getting better and better each day.

I certainly do believe that trying to push away all the aspects of yourself that you don't want only makes them stick to you even harder. "You don't fight darkness with darkness, but you can turn on the lights".

I'm doing this for me, of course, but I also do it for the people around me because I know how I've hurt some of them through my toughts, words and actions. I always want to improve, and loving everything about me (in a healthy way, not an egoistic one) gives me the motivation to change for the better.

Take care all!

-V

Countdown

Wow, I haven't posted in a while. But isn't that just an amazing feeling? When time just stops? I'd like time to stop right now. It's graduation soon. On friday to be precise, and I really do have mixed feelings about it. Graduating from school - awesome! Parting from a wonderful class with amazing people - tragedy! I'll probably cry like a baby... :'(

Last friday I went to "prom" (I say "prom" because I'm not sure that The Prom is the equivalent to what the Swedish prom is). It was so much fun and everybody was incredibly beautiful in their outfits.

My class! (I stole this image from a friend, hehe)

Me and my youngest sister

There were lot of speeches both from students and teachers, but my favourite one was when a guy in my class went up on stage and told everybody that there was this certain person in the room whom he had feelings for, but instead of reading a "silly poem" he wanted to sing. So the tunes of Breaking Free (High School Musical) began playing and he started to sing along to Troy's part. At Gabriella's part another guy in my class stood up and began singing along. It all ended up in a make-out scene on stage with the two of them! We all cried in laughter! Wow! It was amazing.

Yesterday mom and Stefan had their 1st anniversary, and so my sisters and I had planned a dinner in the forest for just the two of them. It was en exciting day since we had to be very discrete. We took the car and went to where they were supposed to be to get everything done while they were getting ready. Then I drove back home and kidnapped them.
Their expressions when they got rid of their blindfolds and saw what we had done told us we had succeeded.

These two images are pretty bad since I had
to use my stoneage phone camera, hehe

-V

UPDATE!!

So I'm finally updating. After..... a few months? Yeah.

Well... the reason is that I haven't had much to write about. I think...

But actually I have! xD I've been to Thailand together with my family. It was an amazing trip full of happenings and emotions. It felt like being in a movie. Excitement, adventure, love, romance, joy, sadness, frustration, you name it. Amazing! I don't think I will ever experience something like that again.

We stayed at an incredibly nice hotel on Koh Samui called The Passage. The staff was very kind to us and really looked after us.

This is the beach at the hotel

Hm... what else?

I've been at a workshop in setting goals and how you reach them. It was very interesting! And I finally know what I want to work with after I graduate. Feel so relieved~

Otherwise nothing else is going on at the moment. In school at the moment, have nothing at all to do, so I'm just being bored. Funfun, yeah.

Ok, that's all for now.

Over and out!

-Vicki