yea, and i forgot

Greg writes a lot on his blog and have posted pics if anyones interested http://alpinegreg.blogspot.com/

Every ending is a new beginning

I am now in Frankfurt on my way back to Norway. I was really sad to leave New Zealand and all my friends there, but I am really looking forward to see my friends and family in Norway! I have had a nice journey, except my normal messyness :) In Auckland they almost didn’t let me on the airplane because I had renewed my ticket twice, and in that process my name had ended up as Vaine, Ingaringdale, which confused the poor lady in the check in. On the plane from Auckland to Sydney I met a NZ ichocke refree on his way to Finland, lost my booking pass and luggage tickets, and discovered the wearing pink, yellow and orange toe socks with kiwis on and jandals is a great conversation starter. In Frankfurt I discovered that Qantas has lost my tent, used hour on that on got lost both on the air port and the city. And I finally got to see the Simpsons movie! I loved it! Spiderpig is great! And being in Frankfurt I take back everything I have ever said about German bread not being good!

I’ll give a short summation off my three weeks of holyday. More will come later, and so will photos! The trip started with me and Jake taking the plane to Nelson about 3 hours after our last exam. In Nelson we met Greg with a broken yellow van, spent the night getting drunk, buying firework, and managing to get Jake and Greg to be called annoying Americans (they are my favorite annoying Americans though :)

We then got the van fixed and went off to Paynes Ford, Golden Bay the next day where we met Ed, and spent a week. After Ingrid and Kristin came in the end off the week, we went back on the road and drove down to Charlston, where we climbed on the sea cliffs while 20 m high waves washed over us, and Suvi joined us. Wanaka near Queenstown was our next goal, thereafter Wye creek with beautiful climbing and perfect camping. And after Ed and Jake left us, the rest of us got a couple of days in Mt Cook area. Basically what we have done is climbing almost every day. As Lisa uses to say about me: “I don’t know anyone else who have traveled so much in NZ, and seen so little!” To my defence, I have seen a lot of nice rock :)

Quotes of the trip:
“Peer pressure always leads to good decitions”
“Friends don’t let friends climb naked alone”
“Why not? The drawers are up!” (The boys ended up climbing a 26 called why not without knowing it was a 26 just because the drawers where up :)
“It’s gneiss, but don’t take schist for granite”
“Svigermorstopp!” (The one word in norwagian all the boys knew and loved to use)

Activies on the trip except climbing:
Eating
Sleeping
Swimming
Rescuing dogs
Drinking
Mooning
Knitting (Ed, Kristin, Suvi and Ingrid, all the boys got yarn and needles!)
Croucheing (Jake, Greg and me)
Extreme knitting and croucheing (Jake and Ed like to take their new hobby and combine it with their old!)
Card playing
Driving around in Greg yellow van and a rental car

Nick names of the trip:
Jake – Ost
Greg – Shaft, John Shaft (because that’s Gregs song!)
Kristin – Little blue penguin (so Greg could meet one)
Ed – DC (down climber, since he climbed down a 23 because there was a beehive there!)
Inga – Spiderpig (I think the reason was that i actually tought the name was funny:)
Ingrid – Macademia (she is a bit nuts, and also since she got so sad when we ate all the macademia chocolate and left her the paper :)

Convection, confusion and diffusion...

Just one more little geeky poem :)
(since it is kind of amazing that someone manged to make a poem about something as incredible boring as turbulence...)

Big whirls have little whirls
that feed on their velocity
and little whirls have lesser whirls
and so on to viscosity

Lewis Rhichardson 1922

Exam time

Well people, I am now in the middle of my exam period. First one was today and the last is next Monday. This mean I have one really busy week in front of me... But as soon as i finish my last exam (12.30 mon 5th) I leave Auckland for the South Island (plane leaves 17.30 mon 5th.. i know, typical me to be to inpatient to leave time for me to actually pack and move out :) I am really looking forward for getting down to South Island though! The plan for the three weeks down there, is of course mainly to climb, and then maybe be a bit touristic if it is bad weather. It looks like we are getting a big group too, so it will be awesome!

But what this means, is that this is probably my last blog entrance before i get home. Since the internet connections at the climbing crags most likely is non existent, and i wont have anything interesting to write about, or any time to write it, before i leave Auckland.

So, to everybody at home:
Jeg kommer til Trondheim paa kvelden den 27 nov, saa dere er alle invitert paa boller og kaffe (og kanskje litt strikking eller hva line?) i mammas (hvis det er ok for mamma) leilighet paa nardo paa kvelden den 28, og jeg kommer nok til a stikke innom skolen og henge paa gode gamle Sito paa dagen (med forbehold om jetleg :) See you soon!

Kiteboarding

I just came across this nice quote about kiteboarding, while trying to concentrate studying thermo mechanics. Think it describes me and Ingrid really well! :)

what is kiteboarding?

" Careering across the open sea like a pirate and flying through the air like Superman - a real life X-Man with a kite and an attitude problem."

Flash Austin-2000 world kite-surfing champion

Back to the bay

One and a half week ago we finally went back to the bay! The one and only Wanganui bay, one of my favorite places in New Zealand. It's a place that have everything your heart desires (at least mine.. :). It have a lot of really cool sports climbs in every grades, a couple of cool trad climbs a cave you can abseil down in and climb up again (spelonking for the adventourous, like andrew!) and last but not least, tibia! which is my favourite climb, its a three piches trad climb, first a pich chimey, then a pich on the face, and a last pich where you brigde, and/or climb a nice crack. This time i climbed Tibia with Jake and Ingrid, I also climbed it last time with Owen. I actually think it was Tibia that really got me hooked on climbing!

And all this is in absolutly beutifull surrondings!

On the top of Tibia

And btw, i finally updated my gallery :)

Videos

Jake got the videos from South Island out on the web! http://yabodigg.blogspot.com/ (And they are even the right way!! :)

And I just have to mention that my lecturer thought I was a polynesian boy by from my name when he was giving back our assignments... There is a famous polynesian All Blacks wing player called Inga he told me. Maybe that would make me a great rugby player!

Mission kite surfing!

Ingrid does have kind of bad influence on me (or good as I prefer to call it, but i think uni have a different view) What happened is that we decided to learn to kite surf (why not?), which is unbelievable cool, but really expensive and time consuming… So we signed up for a three days intensive kite school. Monday till Wednesday… It is just a matter of prioritizing! (a master in engineering doesn’t demand that you work, does it?)

Well, anyway, Monday morning we took the train out to the kite school, and met our teacher Andrew and his girlfriend Manaou (or something like that). Andrew is a guy who decided to never grow up. He is spending his days chatting about his favorite subject (kiting) to nice people, and playing around with the kite on the sea just down by his house, and he get money for it! Manou I would say has done a really good deal in choice of boyfriend. She came here on a working holyday visa, and ended up staying here, living in a beautiful house by the sea, have learned to kite and are now working part time as architect and part time as kite instructor!

There where two people on the course other than me and Ingrid, two old kiwi blokes, two brothers with children our age actually. They had decided to buy their own kites, and start kite surfing, they just needed to learn how to use their brand new kites. They where actually really good! So, mum, it’s hope for you too! (can I borrow your kite then? ;)

Unfortunately, I only got one day kiting… The second day I got sick (first time in nz!) The third day I was still sick, but well enough to try, so I went out there, but the wind was to strong… Luckily Andrew is a decent guy, and give me one extra day on the water for the day I was sick, and everybody got a extra day for the day without wind. SO WE ARE GOING BACK! :D

PS: Did I mention that I love kiting? :)