Teaching a kiwi to ski

My good friend Owen from NZ is now in Norway visiting, and of course he has to learn to ski! Therefor me and Kristin took him to the little cabin Rindalsløa to show him typical norway nature and tradition, and teach him a bit cross country skiing. It went very well uphill with skins, so well actually that me and Kristin descided to take him to the mountain Trollhøtta, which is quite far... What we didn't really think of is that downhill is a bit harder... So poor Owen had to try downhill cross country skiing for the first time high up in the mountain, in trerrible wind, icey snow and no groomed tracks. Impressingly enough he got down in one pice and still smiling! Rest of the weekend he got to experience real norwegian meatballs, brown cheese and the worst february winter weather in Trondheim for quite a while... (meaning only rain and ice!) Rest of his time here he is going to get the pleasure of visiting norhtern Norway! Mo i Rana and Tromsø, where it luckily is supposed to be a bit more snow.

Owen eating typical norwegian rice porrige (standard friday lunch at uni)

Of other things happening here is that I have gotten my summer kind of planed, a summer job at SINTEF and tickets to the States! And a last thing, my second assignment in product design was to redesign an existing product, and I thought I should do something funny and choose to design a pink girly ice axe :)

Finding a summer job

I am currently quite stressed out about trying to find a good summer job, preferable where I can do my project and master thesis to. The last days it has been IAESTEs job fair. This means a lot of representatives for companies, that desperatly are trying to get the students to choose their company. I have been to a couple of presentations, and talked to some people in the companies I am interested in. I must say the people are generally really nice, but the presentations are all the same. Some guy in a suit showing fancy power point presentations or videos made by some "cool" commercial agency. First of all, I can't imagine working in the oil industry or something similar to be THAT fancy, and I must admit, the suit scares me! Does it mean I have to wear a suit when I start working? I can't really pictrure me going to work in skirt and high heels... No, give me someone in Bula pants and Haddox headband on a company presentations performing a poem like this! Then I would apply strait away! :)

(The poem is actually from one of the job adds for the jobs I am applying for, and it sums up quite a lot of what would be said on job a presentation for this job :)

Bruksvallarna, Vassfjellet and some of the things in between

Last weekend was the tradisjonal cross country ski trip with the orienteering club to Bruksvallarna in Sweden. It turned out to be an eventfull weekend. The trip started with quarter of an hour of waiting in the rain and sleet for the bus, so that everybody was nice and wet when the bus came. The busdrive stared as a usuall bus drive does, with chatting, quiz and whatching the old boy band parodi movie "Get ready to be boyzvoized!". The bus followed the road against Røros, took of to the smaller road to Sweden, drove nicely on this road, untill suddenly, we wheren't on the road anymore...

Instead the bus had 3 windowes broken, some brances through the windows and the front was standing in 65 degree angle on the side of the road. The whole bus was leaning on some threes that just saved us from spinning around and landing on the roof! All in all really scary! Luckely there where no serious injuries (just a cut in a hand) since everybody where wearing safty belts. I am never going to ride bus without saftybelt after this! We got out of the bus through a window, with help from ambulance, police and firedepartment, and got another bus who drove us to Bruksvallarne. Our usual evening session was cansled though...

Our bus!!

Rest of the weekend was a bit more as expected, awsome conditions, completly exausting sessions (almost 5 hours for me and sis last day..) and a lot of swedish "små godis" (cheap candy) eaten together with nice people!

Rest of the week has been quite normal. Only thing is though that I am getting increasingly stressed out about beeing in my 4th year, and haveing to soon deside my research topic and stuff, and most of all about finding a good summer job. On tuesday I went even to a job fair of other reasons than getting free candy, pens and key ring for the first time! I think I just can't imagine that I am soon finished studying and are soon supposed to soon be grown up and responsible :) And saturday evening me and Kristin took Hege climbing for the first time in her life. She was really good! And we had Drag Wall (the uni climbing gym) almost for our self! Unusual!

Hege in Drag Wall

Today Me, Kristin, Line and Mari (a friend of Kristin) went to Vassfjellet, which is a small, but nice, ski area close to Trondheim to do some telemark skiing. This can just be described in pictures:

Kristin, Mari and Line

Me, elegant as always :)

Mari on the same jump

Line in a beutifull turn!