17th of May

17th of may is the Norwegian national day, it's the day when we in 1814 got our own constitution! And we celebrate it with children walking in parade, marching bands playing, spring, sun (exept this year in Oslo, where it was snowing...), eating icecream and wearing our national costumes (bunad). I spent half the day studying since I have an exam on 19th... But the afternoon and evening was fun! We went to the student cabin eating a lot of food and cake, and then after that just hanging around in town.

Gudrun (in her really beutifull hardanger bunad), me (who didn't wear bunad this year :(, Mette and Line

A HUGE cake!

Line and Henrik - always cute together :) Trondheim in the background

Me and Mette tried to get on the 17th of may meating at the student community, but it was completly full, and we where the last not getting in.... But since we never really managed to descide if we wanted to go or not, we didn't really care :)

Eating icecream and whaching the river Nidelven and the Nidaros cathedral.

Bakklandet - a really nice part of Trondheim

Whatching the old city bridge and having a beer at the Good Neighbour

Product design project pics:

We actually managed to build the whole thing functioning, including, sewing, cut on the lathe (dreie), and making a convex mirror from a flat one! Proud :) And is anyone doest't really get what this is: It's a mirror to have on the backseat so the driver can see a baby in a backseat babyseat facing backwards.

Inga

There actually existe a species of trees called Inga:

Flower on an Inga tree

Rhetoric

Today I have been sitting in the sun studying for my Rhetoric exam and I have learned:

• The Gettysbury adress took Lincoln 135 sek present
• Under the election campain Douglas called Lincoln "a rawboned, shamble-gaited, bow-legged, knock kneed, pigeon-toed, slob-sided, shapeless skeleton in a very tough, very dirty, unwholesome skin" and "a long, lean, lank lantern jawed, high cheek-boned, spavined, rail-splitting stallion". If the americans where as creative today, I would have looked foreward to the election in US this fall, would have been truly entertaining! :D
• In old Rome a man who caught another man in bed with his wife was alowed to kill this man. Because seducing another mans wife was so bad, the old romans viewed this as perfectly reasonable. The wife of course had no blame whatsoever.
• Some of the old european beggar munks preached naked with their robe on the head to get the audience attention.

And the reason I take this paper is because uni demand that I have two non technical papers to get a wider perspective. I think I go jogging insted now...

Two down, three to go!

A little update on everything:

• I have now finished both my 100% project in EiT and Product design, and therefore only have three papers with exam left! :D
• After a week with two nights of working untill 2 am and 1 am I am actually looking forward for exam studying :)
• I have modernized, and have gotten a TV! For 2 Coronas and 100 NOK I got Hege and Kullis' old one :D
• It's impressive how long time just finishing reports and projects take, and how wierd humor you get from working really really long. Examples from EiT underneath
• Quote 1 that we actually wrote in our EiT prosess report: ”Vi sliter med å engasjere folk. Det gjelder å få opp øynene. Dette er ingen Kardemomme by”
• Quote 2 from EiT prosess report that was written but very soon discarded for some reason.... "På dette området kan vi nesten ikke annet enn å påstå at personlighetstesten er misvisende, eller for å si det som en metafor, hvis personlighetstesten er en bil på en vei gjennom et jorde, så i dette tilfellet så svingte veien med det gjorde ikke testen."
• I am gonna try to get some photos of our product design model, it got really cool!
• I have gotten my master project description and title now! It will be my summerjob, master project and master thesis, and the title iiiiiis........ "drumwirvl"..... Multiscale Material Modelling of Cleavage Fracture in Steel (hard to pronounce :) Gonna be interesting!

Dronningkrona

Just one last time one last day of fun before exams :)

Hedvig, Katja and me. Ready to start walking up the forest and up to the snow!
Lunch break
Group photo :)
Henrik. It's important to have the newest, most expensive and most fasionable gear :)

Anette is good!

Eeeeem...

Hedvig on top of Dronningkrona.

Tor Inge just before falling :)

And of course we got car trouble on the way home, car trips with the Ringdalen Vatne sisters are getting famous...

10mila

Every year in the end of april 3 to 4 busses with happy students leaves Trondheim early early friday morning to drive far into Sweden in many many hours just so that they can participate in the famous orienteering relay Tiomila. This year it was at Rosenberg castle just outside Stockholm, and almost 150 joined! We might not win the relay, but we do win making most fun! We have our own light boards, a tower, laudspeakers, a band (with among others accordion), bbq wagon and we march in with the band playing and singing. In other words, quite a special experience.


And as I mentioned we did not win the relay, but we did win having most teams, and we got the last place in at least the mens relay, the FysMat(physics and math enigneering) team who in total used 19:22:04, which is just impressive :) The relay is 100 km in total , obviously due to the name 10 mila (one scandinavian mile is 10 km) and it starts at 10 in the evening, which means parts of it is in the dark (for the men, women have shorter and at day). The most famous leg is the socalled long night, which is around 18 km in the middle of the night. We participate with a number serious teams, and also with teams from differents studies or different other NTNUI groups. The coolest are ISU team (International students), most of them have never run orienteering and just do it as an awsome way to experience scandinavia.

I ran on NTNUI 2, which I was quite nervous about before start, since I did not feel I had ran enough orienteering last year in NZ to get on the second team, but I managed to get trough without getting lost and in a reasonable speed, and my team ended as 117 out of 320, which I most say is not bad at all! I also desided to run the men realy, and got 6th leg on the civil engineering team 6th leg is early in the morning and I got out running around 7 am, it was a lot of fun, but I did use 2 houres...

Well, all in all this was a great weekend, orienteering is fun!

NTNUI!!!

Matilde, Sigrid and Anette in Sundsvall on the way down

On the way down we always stop in a town (this year Sundsvall) and practise marching in and playing and singing. We marched passed some elders demonstrating for lower taxes, and asked if we could perform on their stage, this was a huge sucess :)

Rosenberg castle and a lot of people whaching the relay
Marching in! :)

Thalehelg or One weekend with Thale

• Sometimes it is boring when you really want to climb and also would really like to hang out with your friends. Easy solution: just convince/force them to start climbing :) Gudrun and Thale tried for the first time this weekend. They was just told they were going climbing and had to show up and was given shoes and harnesses. But I do think they enyojed it. Hege have tried before and seems to getting hooked and is getting really good, and can now both belay and climb to the top every time! I’m proud :) Pics and more details, see Heges blogg!
• It is really fun to be drunk, cold, chynical and bitter some times. We didn't really manage the cold and bitter part though, even when we tried...
• The best time to be at uni is in the middle of the night on the way home from town because then you can play piano and sing loud in the science building and climb on the architect students art without people getting mad at you.
• Even though it sound like a good idea to take the buss nr 5 (the city buss which goes from the campus Dragvoll through the sudent villages and campus Gløshaugen and down to the town, and then continous to a mysterious place called Buenget where noone goes) all the way to the end station Buenget just to see what is there, and bring lunch and coffe on a thermos to enjoy on the bus, it might not be if you are too hangover... We had to abandon the mission with the positiv result that we could take a break and have lunch and coffe while walking home.
• We discovered Benriks "This diary will change your life". The best part was the Lifeplanner, which follows underneath :)

Thale having lunch and coffe on the way home.

Lifeplanner:
0. Make your birth unforgettable
1. Learn to babble incoherently
2. Master your bodily functions
3. Become sexually attracted to your Mummy or Daddy
4. Attempt to murder your younger siblings Sigrid might agree with this one...
5. Make your first friends
6. Make your first enemies
7. Ask adults stupid questions
8. Let TV start controlling your mind
9. Pester your parents for unaffordable consumer goods
10. Decide what you want to be when you grow up
11. Develop a crush on your teacher
12. Wrestle with your hormones
13. Go from loving to hating your parents
14. Investigate the other sex
15. Rebel against society
16. Start a band
17. Lose your virginity
18. Officially become an adult
19. Acquire a higher education
20. Find yourself I think I might still be lost...
21. Drink legally
22. Conquer the world Check!
23. Sleep around
24. Waste this year Looking forward to this one!
25. Have a quarterlife crisis
26. Start working for the man
27. Meet the love of your life
28. Get hitched
29. Get a mortgage
30. Procreate
31. Make a doomed attempt to stay in shape
32. Turn into a workaholic
33. Live the nuclear family dream
34. Write the novel that is in you
35. Scratch your seven-year itch
36. Burden your kids with unreasonable expectations
37. Have an early midlife crisis
38. Climb the career ladder
39. Deny your age
40. Grow up I love that I still have several years!!! :D
41. Begin therapy
42. Move to the suburbs
43. Join the swinging scene
44. Enjoy the finer things in life
45. Adopt a third world orphan
46. Divorce messily
47. Abandon the American Dream
48. Fight the flab
49. Be abducted by aliens
50. Become right-wing
51. Go through the menopause
52. Swim with dolphins
53. Develop an unhealthy addiction to golf
54. Join Alcoholics Anonymous
55. Put your parents in a home
56. Have plastic surgery
57. Marry off your children
58. Turn into your parents
59. Win the rat race
60. Become grumpy
61. Undergo a spiritual rebirth
62. Do prescription drugs
63. Run for office
64. See your past catch up with you
65. Retire at last
66. Go on a cruise
67. Compose your autobiography
68. Move to Florida
69. Go back to work
70. Join the elderly
71. Spoil your grandchildren
72. Record your memories while you still can
73. Count your blessings
74. Age disgracefully
75. Have a threequarterlife crisis
76. Remarry
77. Preplan your funeral
78. Reunite your rock band
79. Talk about the war
80. Risk it all
81. Fight back against ageism
82. Start a collection of something pointless
83. Disinherit your undeserving relatives
84. Discuss nothing but your diseases
85. Wander the world in search of enlightment
86. Make peace with God
87. Make peace with Satan too
88. Run for pope
89. List your regrets
90. Talk to nonhumans
91. Replace a limb
92. Frighten your great-grandchildren
93. Spread your wisdom
94. Ensure your place in history
95. Escape from your retirement home
96. Spend whatever you have left
97. Uncover the meaning of life
98. Have a near-death experience
99. Live for the moment
100.Undergo cryogenic freezing

A journey through Hell

Is not as bad as it sounds :) First some quotes:

"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" ("Abandon all hope, ye who enter here") Dante (over the gates to hell)

"Sheeps goes to heaven goats goes to Hell" Cake

"Gjeiter stanger, det er status" ("Goats butts, that gives status") Sindre (comment when me and Sigrid wanted goats on the roof on our cabin to grass there in the summer, I mean, how cool wouldn't that be?! )

Well, point is (or was or maybe should be?), in Hell there is a climbing crag, and Hell is a small town just outside Trondheim. And of course, the joke about hell and Hell just never gets old... Today I got my first, but definetly not last trip to Hell. The climbing is really cool, it is fun, hard, overhanging climbing. And also this is where some of the hardest climbs in Norway is. The only disapointing thing about Hell is that the havent used hell theme on all the names of the climbs. There is just so many possibilitys! "Highway to hell", "Hellish", "Helvis" and thats just a few that came up in the car on the way.

Eskil and Sindre admiring at some of the really hard climbs (like 9 and 10ish...) This is where the quote form Dante should be :)

Gaute at Hell home for the elderly (7-) which is a climb I have to lead clean before the summer, because Kristin climbs 7- in Hell, and then I have to too :) and Eskil leading Kaninartikler 7 (Rabbit articels. The name doesn't make sence in Norwegian either... :)