Suicide and paranoia

Psychiatry. A profession where you deal with a persons mind and psyche. It’s not just caring for a wound, a disease or something you can operate and it’s fixed. I think it’s hard! But man, it is; interresting, excitng, challenging. How to react? What is the right answer? Do I need to, or should I give an answer?

These three weeks at school we are learning about many mental sufferings, how to recognize it, how to react on it, ways of treatment, ways to help the family and many other things. And from the last week of October and for eight weeks, I’m going to be practicing in a home for older people with psychosis!

We’ve been at school for two weeks now, and it’s been nice to be back, to see classmates and to get back to everyday life here in Oslo. My room is nice, have just enough space for my self. I’m starting to get used to not having a TV and have started to listen to the radio instead:) One thing that is a little annoying about having a quite small room, is that I have to keep it in order with clothes and things all the time, and if just a few things are not in place, it looks like a mess. But I manage:)

After school today we had a workshop about different cultures. We were split into to groups/cultures. I came from a patriarchal culture, which means the man was over the women and that I had the power. We were a warm and touching culture, that talked a lot and was very social. Then groups of five went to visit the other culture, and groups came to us to visit, and if a woman tried to contact me I got mad and just went away. I was the one that had to show interest first. It was a very interresting day and we learned a lot about that we had to adapt their culture to be accepted and to be open to new things and not try to force our culture and world-view on them. And yes, the trip back to Africa and to Malawi is getting closer!! In two weeks we’ll be there:D Another blog about that next week:)

Going to bed now. Peace out from Oslo:)

Subway silence

It’s 6:45 in the morning, I’m at the subway-station waiting. It’s silent. The only sound that can be heard is when the picture on the billboard is shifting. It’s only me and a few other people there. I wonder where they are going, to work, maybe home after a party, to see someone? I don’t know. But as I had done for my self this morning, prayed about safe journey to work and a nice day and asked Jesus to be with me, I could aslo pray for these people and ask him to be with them. And I should, because it is written in Luke 10,27b,

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

And in the book “Purpose driven life”, by Rick Warren it says

“People can deny our love or reject our message, but
they are powerless against our prayers”.

Trip, wedding and seeing a sister

That’s three things in one weekend! Wow. Last weekend me and Christina jumped onto a train hading for Stavanger, an 8 hours train ride. The main goal for the weekend was to be in Prince and Vibeke’s wedding on Saturday together with Kay, Aina and Ingrid, and many more people that we didn’t know:D

We stayed at Ingrid’s home, thanks for opening your house to us! Really nice to see her and to gather team Kampala again:) On our way to church on Saturday we planned to have time to see the three swords in the mountain:) It’s for remembrance of a viking or something.. nursing-stuff has taken the place of history in my mind now.

The wedding-day was so much fun and a really beautiful day! Prince and Vibeke was shining the whole day!

 

A wonderful day!! Congratulation so much to Prince and Vibeke!

On Sunday me and Christina went downtown Stavanger to meet Ragna and Camilla before going back to Oslo:) Nice people, nice place, nice weather and ice-cream! Good luck with studies Ragna!! You can do it:D

 

Tomorrow school starts! Yaiks! Last year! Yaiks!!

U2 live in Frankfurt

This blog should actually just be blanc. It’s not possible to describe how the concert with U2 was, you had to be there. And me and a friend, Karl-Erik, we were there! What can I say? It was insanely fantastic perfect!! When they after an intro sets off with “A beautiful Day” the atmosphere at Commerzbank Stadium was lifted high up in the air:D Undescribeable!! It became a beautiful perfect day!

There it is, Commerzbank stadium! We were just approaching
Frankfurt airport, or Flügenhafen, as they say it in German. 

Karl-Erik is ready!!

 
Me too:)
At this point the support act, Kasabian had gone
off the stage and people were making it ready for U2.

 
“It’s a beautiful Day!”

 
“Sunday bloody sunday”

Towards the end some people carried lights and placed them around the scene and Bono talked about nobel peace prize winner of 1991 from Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi and the work she is doing and said we had to pray for her. Then almost all the light was dimmed down and only the lights at the stage, and one on Bono with a guitar, was on. It was quite quiet and he sang the first verse of “Amazing Grace”. It was a magic moment.

U2
Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr. and The Edge

We came on Monday afternoon and had some time to look around in Frankfurt too :) And man, it’s a nice city! Located along the shores of the river Main it has beautiful parks along the river and I really liked the old town and the city as a whole. Though our hostel was located in a quite bad area with alot of prostitues on the streets.

 Yes, it’s my tatoo!! But it’s almost gone now..

 
Real tourists:)
 
The river Main by evening and night.

The old city hall

Some tourists…:p

A perfect trip with an amazing concert. Couldn’t have been better.

Time

“There is a time for everything”, Ecc. 3,1. A month ago I met Jerry at Watoto Church and later I met Faith and Phiona. We all talked about that this was the day when the Americans left. Three weeks had gone too fast.

The last days I’ve really missed Uganda, CLD, team A, friends and family in Uganda and the US. You guys are awasome!! Wow, living life for God is amazing. So exciting, challenging, scary, joyful, hard, rarely boring! And I get to meet so many amazing and wonderful people!! Wow!

Now it’s soon time to go back to Oslo and start school again. The last three weeks have been so good. I’ve had a great time at home with family and friends and I don’t want to leave my family! They are just so wonderful:) Maybe I have to move back here some day.. But it will be nice to be back too, see friends in Oslo, be back at my job in the hospital and the after-school-program for the kids:) I’m so blessed!!

I hope you, my dear reader has had a nice summer whatever you have been doing wherever you have been:) Here’s some pictures from mine!

Eirik + Coralanne!

John and Tuva

Wedding, Janelia and Kristian:D

Smores:)

And today I actually swam in the ocean:) It was quite cold, but I managed to stay in the water for a few minutes. And I had smores in the evening. Sweet!:)

The fall semester will be interresting and exciting, I’m starting at my last year at nursing school, scary and good to soon be finished. I’m; joining the leader-team at the after-school program, going to Frankfurt for a U2-concert, going for two weddings, going to Malawi to work in a hospital for one month together with three really nice and cool girls from my class and I’m going to work in a mental institution for eight weeks! Yeah, that’s something to look forward to and to excited about!!