Jesus er Kongen min!

Den første vika etter praksisen he vør veldi bra og helga he vør spennende og det heile blei avslutta perfekt! Kan det bli bedre?

Det va kjempekjekt å sjå igjen resten ta klassa og høyre historie fra episoda og situasjona frå dei andre praksisplassane!:D Og oss he allerede hatt mimrerunda om vår egen plass:p Torsdag samla Katina nesten alle 12 som hadde vør i lag på Madserud til en fantastisk nydli middag heime me sej, va en skikkli kjekke kveld!

Som dei fleste veit fekk ej ei lita stilling ej søkte på, kvar 3. helg på Diakonhjemmet sykehus på avdeling for mage-/tarm-, blodsjukdoma og diabetes. Og sia ej hadde seinvakt laurdag og tidligvakt på søndag, va helga stort sett satt. Men ej utnytta den maks, va me Trude på fredagskvelden og såg TV og åt frukt (sunne Trude hadde ingen søtsaka, so snilde Ragnhild forbarma sej over mej og sørga for at der va et sjokoladepåskegg ej kunne få) Takk for omtanken Ragnhild:-) 
   Laurdag skulle ej på seinvakt, men ej avtalte å ta en kaffisup oppe med Stine før vakt, nakke som alltid e kosli! Sei ja-takk en anna gong me ej Stine:)
   Vakta va temmelig spennende, og en dose “ny på jobb-nerva” va nok til stede, og ej blei lettare overvelda. Men ho som ej gikk la me synest ej va flink, so det her skal nok gå bra. Blir godt når ej he komt inn i rutinene og fått jobbinga der meir inni fingrane. Veldig kjekke folk og tru ej ska få lære masse der etterkvart!
   Søndag måtte ej uvanlig tidlig opp for å rekke tidligvakta, men det viste sej å ha en fordel, va kjempedeiligt å gå ute i søndagsrolige Oslo-gate med svært lite trafikk:) Arbeidsdagen gjekk fort, litt sann i ett, og va en bra dag!
   Når dagen va ferdig rusha ej til Peppes att med Stortinget for å møte Oskar, Anne, Eirik og Erling som va her på dagstur/helgatur. Skikkli skikkli kjekt å sjå na Oskar!! Han va litt trøtte, men våkna når han hørt Onkel Per si stemme:) Dei skulle opp igjen, so det blei berre en god time la me dei, hadde so løst å bli me! Men det ekje lenge til ej kjøme heimatt til dej Oskar! Då kan oss henge og kose masse:D Anne sin mage va blitt større sia sist også:) Ekje lenge til der kjøme en liten en no! Gle mej!

Søndagen blei perfekt avslutta med ei F2-Gudstjeneste i Fagerborg. Ei herlig stund!! Dagens taler, Tone, skulle tale om Gud sin betingelseslause, uendelig store kjærlighet til mej og dej, nakke ho gjor på en veldig bra måte. Gjennom Jesus ser Gud et reint hjerte i mej, uten synd og skyld. Ej kan ikkje jere nakke for å få Gud til å elske mej meir eller mindre. Han elska mej, og ordet elske he her større kraft enn oss kan ane! 
En herlig sang oss sang på slutten:

Jesus er kongen min, Guds barn jeg er.
Jeg er hans eiendom, han har meg kjær.
Hender og føtter små, allting skal Jesus få.
Jesus er kongen min, Guds barn jeg er.

Jesus er kongen min, kjemper med meg
Mot alle fiender på livets vei.
Alltid han sterkest er, fyrsten for Herrens hær.
Jesus er kongen min, kjemper med meg.

Jesus er kongen min, ham vil jeg tro.
Hos ham i herlighet skal jeg få bo,
Dele hans rikes glans, for jeg er evig hans.
Jesus er kongen min, ham vil jeg tro.

Jesus er kongen min, si er han din?
Alle skal kjenne ham, frelseren min.
Barn ifra alle land til Jesus komme kan.
Jesus er kongen min, si er han din?

Project “kanel i svengane”

I had study day today, so I’ve been home the whole day, was supposed study, and I did, wrote 250 words on a paper I have to hand in in end of May! But I wanted to try to bake, so I disided to make cinnamon rolls, or “kanel i svengane” as we say. It started ok with melting the butter and adding it to the milk. But when I did, the butter got lumpy and impossible to work with.. The pictures will help me tell the rest of the story.


I’m ready to bake!

 
Ok, I failed at the first attempt, so I started again. Heat the milk just a little bit before adding the melted butter.

Add flour, sugar and cardamom
 

What a mess the baker is making!

  
So far, looking good! Have put cinnamon- and sugar-mix on top

Roled them together and cut them into nice pieces, man, looking even better!

The result. Not bad at all!

But, after I had added the sugar and the cinamon I had som struggle with roling the dough and to slice it into nice pieces. Picture two above might tell that. But the judge, Kay, liked them!

Thanks to Marte,
  
that stayed with me through skype, supported me and helped me to keep going when I was about to give up:) When you come to Oslo I’ll make more!

News from Oslo!

I’ve been thinking so many times that I should write a blog. And I’ve been thinking “I want to blog about this, or this”, but then I haven’t had the time! So now I’m taking some time to write!

My eight weeks in the nursing home is soon over. Four more days at work, before it’s back to school. I look forward to get back, to meet my other classmates. But it will be a little hard to leave the practice too, I’ve really liked the place I’ve been at, the people that work there is really competent in working with people and I’ve learned so much! I’ve had to face many challanges, like meeting people in a stage where they don’t understand why they can’t be at home, talk about how they’re facing the end of their lives, meeting people that are in a total different world mentally, think they’re in a bus or a plane and wants to get off, or like the frustration of beeing old, and forgetting things and don’t understands the things happening to them. One of the greatest challenges I think, is which words to choose when talking to them about things that involves life and death, and their situation, or talking to one from the patient’s family. It’s been so interresting and informative, and so fun to carry out many of the things that we practiced on each other last semestre! My next challenge now is working in a hospital. I got a job I applied for, in the hospital that is connected to the school I’m in, in the divison for gastric ulcer, diseases of the blood and diabetic. Will work Saturday and Sunday every 3rd weekend, so it won’t take all my time!

As you read in the last blog, it’s been snowing a lot here in Oslo! It has started to melt, but some days it keeps coming more snow..I’m ready for spring now!! Will post some pictures of the winter here in Oslo:)

 
The view from our doorway

 
From a walk last Saturday

 
The view from our livingroom window

Have a nice Sunday and a good week!

Time’s running too fast!

As I’ve written before I’m having a 2 month long practice-period now in a nursing home, as a part of my education. And now it’s only three weeks left!! Scary!

For two weeks ago I had a chance to go home for a long weekend. So I was home for a few days, had some relaxing and nice days. Always good to come home. It started with a beautfiul flight over some snowy moon-lighted mountains on Thursday evening. Friday afternoon I picked up Jakob at the kindegarden, and he was so suprised, because he didn’t expect me to come home:) Had a nice day together with him, Oskar and Tuva at my grandparent’s place that afternoon. In the evening me, Jakob and Tuva went home to my parent’s place, they were sleeping over. And Yvonne, a good friend of mine came over in the evening.

Saturday I went with Oskar to a swimmingpool. A boy in his class invited all the boys for swimming and MacDonald’s to celebrate his birthday. And Oskar enjoyed it so much!! Was so good to spend time with him there:)
In the evening I went to Marte’s home where me and Marte, or most Marte, made natchos and it was just finished when her parents came home. So we had a funny evening with games and Grand Prix on TV!

Sunday I just relaxed at home during the day, took a walk, it was some snow and beautiful weather that weekend, before I went to visit Oskar. That day we just relaxed inside. 
That evening I went for a meeting at Godøya, and it was so nice to get som input at a good old bedehusmøte! After the meeting I went for a coffee at a friends place, we had talked of the coffee for years, so now we did something about it:)

 

But that’s two weeks ago!! Man, time is running too fast!
This week I’ve worked many morning-shifts, so the days have just ran away. After those shifts I can’t do much, am too tired. So I mostly just crash on the couch. But today I’m off, from work a least, supposed to study at home.

Other news, the snow won’t stop coming down here in Oslo. It’s getting a little too much now I think. But it’s supposed to be cold and come more snow, so I just have to wait a little more for the spring. It’s nice too look at though. Will come with some pictures of it soon I hope.

Wish all of you a great weekend!!

Breakfast!

Since I have my weekend today and tomorrow, and going to work Saturday and Sunday, I thought I could have an extra good breakfast today:)

So I took the bacon I had left from when I made pancakes the other day,  and made one bread with BL and red bell pepper, one with brown cheese and a cup of tea! Yummy!

 

I feel this can become a very lazy day, I don’t feel like doing any reading or other school-work today.. Think I will just save my energy until I’m going to spend time with the kids at the after-school program this afternoon.

Have a good day!!

Hard start!

I’ve realized that I relaxed too much over the Christmas-break..These two weeks at school since I came back to Oslo has been soo hard!! The first week we got a lot of information, we had quite boring lessons about how to gather information, how to do the documentation-part and theories on good nursing. I should also have read many pages and done some preparation for this week. I tried my best, and did some of the tasks we were given and some of the reading. But we had some very interresting lessons too, for example about working with people that they know are dying pretty soon.

Now I’ve started my eight weeks long practice-period in a nursing-home! I had my first day at work today, and it will be eight busy weeks! I’m going to work about 30 hours a week, and in addition we have some papers that we have to hand in and curriculum to read! But I’m looking forward! Will be exciting and interresting:D

Have a good week!

2009!

To all my readers, I wish you a Happy New Year!!

2008 was a very exciting year with quite a lot of traveling, meeting people, dishwashing, holidays, moving out of home, becoming a student...!

January and half of February I worked at my nightshift-job and some Saturdays on the local supermarket. Then I finally got to go back to Uganda for allmost a month!! Wow, was so good be back, with friends, host-family, the children, the Ugandan culture and people! Hope it won't be too long before I'm back again! Just love it:D

 

After being home for 10 days in March, I went to the US! Since summer 2007 I had a feeling that God wanted me to go to Chicago to live in a community called Jesus People. So I went there, in the end of Easter which I celebrated with some relatives before going to Chicago. The time in Chicago was not too exciting, but it was exciting to go there, not knowing anyone or anything about what my task would be, just having the feeling that I should go. My task bacame to wash dishes...But I felt I was on the right place, so it was ok. I also got to see Nicholas and Sylvia, two friends of mine from Uganda, he studied on Wheaton University, in a suburb of Chicago. After those 1,5 month I went many places to visit more family and other Ugandan friends:D

Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Norfolk, Kerkhoven, Fort Wayne - cities I visited.

Had three Great months all together! Finni was in the US at the same time, so I met him a couple of times too:) For example, we celebrated 17. mai together with some of his friends!

 

 

Last summer was the best summer we've had for some years weather-wise, with many days of sun and high temperatures:D Lovely! so our local beach was packed with people.

From a volleyball-game on the beach, and Otto and Jakob, enjoying ice-cream!

 

Then the fall came, and it was time to move out of home, to Oslo, to start my nursing-studies there. The first semestre was very exciting, meeting new people, new challenges, living in a city..Many changes in life! But very good changes:) It's been nice to live closer to many friends I got at Hald and also friends from home that are studying or working here in Oslo. It's also been different to share an apartment! Me and Kay are sharing a ok place downtown, and we're very happy to get visitors! We've had quite many people spending a night or two here allready:)

 

 

In December I had the anatomy and physiology exam before I went home to celebrate Christmas. The weeks before was quite hard, a lot to read and learn! So it was SO nice to go home for Christmas, not carrying any school-books!

The Christmas-holidays was the best time at home since I came home after six months in Uganda I think. The week before Christmas I worked only one nightshift, and the other days I relaxed a lot:) I had some friends over on December 21st, to make peper-cakes, and in the evening on December 22nd, the other evenings I relaxed by my self in front of the TV or was babysitting at Maria's. Nice!

 

 

The rest of the Christmas I worked very little, and just spent time with friends and family instead. Had a really really nice time! Until December 30th, when a good friend of mine was involved in a car accident and was badly injured. Please pray for her!! She's still in the respirator, and they're not sure of how much the damages will affect her legs and back.

While I was home I was wondering why I didn't want to go back to Oslo at all, because when I was home only for a long weekend early last fall, I was kind of looking forward to go back.. I think it was because it was Christmas, and so many friends were home, and I had more time with family. I also realized that I've actually moved out of home, and two months for the summer holidays probably will be the longest time at home for many years! Maybe forever..

On Sunday I had the best ending of the holidays I could ask for. The weather was on it's best, it was cold, sunny and it was even a littlebit of snow! In early afternoon Oskar and Anne came to Vigra and I joined them for a walk, right before clouds came. It was so facinating to see the blue heaven in one end, and the dark, grey skies in the other. After the walk we went in to my grandparents to eat potetoball. You can only imagine how good that meal was!

 

 

Want to say a big THANK YOU to all my family and all my friends that made my holidays SO nice!!

 

Tomorrow the new semestre starts, will be an interresting one! Stay tuned to read about how it goes:D

Christmas holidays!

I'm done with the anatomy-exam!! What a nice phrase to write:) It's been some busy but nice days so far, Maria and Ole has been finishing their house and moved many of their stuff today, so I've been watching their kids meanwhile. And I've had fun with them!!

 

I've also worked one night, which was ok. Everything is kind of nice now, since it doesn't have anything with school to do.

Looking forward to some nice time at home with family and friends the next two weeks!

Tired..

Just wanted to share two pictures I took of my self today. I'm tired of reading. Want to go home, get away from the books.

One more day now!

5 knots and fresh coffee

This week has been one of the faster one this fall. The first time I was home since I moved to Oslo, a long weekend earlier this fall, was very nice, but in a way it was good to go back to Oslo. So when I was going home for one whole week, I thought it could be a little too long. But I tell you, it's over before I feel it even started. The days have just passed like in a blink of an eye.

I've been home to read for my exam as I wrote in the last blog. My practical exam went well, thank you for thinking of me! So now it is the anatomy and physiology-exam, with some micro biology and other things, that is up next. I will say I've been a good student this week, have gone up at 6.30am, and been reading most of the time upto 4-5pm.

But I've done other things too:)
Sunday afternoon was so nice, me and Jonas went out with his sailboat for a trip on the fjord. With 5 knots in the canvas (not sure if canvas is the right word) and with a cup of the freshly brewed coffee we had the best time:D With some spots with stars in we just sat outside and relaxed and talked.
Then it was home to try to get a nap before I went for my nightshift-job.

Oskar was also glad to have his Uncle home:) Nice to see him again, and spend some time with him! And he told me that he couldn't wait to see Aunt Ragna!! I think he's looking forward so much!

On Tuesday I went to Maria to baby sit Jakob and Tuva. While Tuva slept me and Jakob played with some of his Lego and had some cozy time reading books before he had to go to bed too. Tuva was a little scard of Uncle Per this time too, but in the evening on Sunday, after spening some time with her she found out that I was a nice Uncle after all:D

Thursday Marte invited me to her home, for dinner and games with her family. She and her brothers made the best taco ever!! After that we had gløgg and pepper-cakes while we played Rummy and Ticket To Ride:D Thank you Marte and family for a lovely evening!! And thanks to Sandra that tried to guide me on the right bus by giving me instructions on what number. But me and numbers are bad combination, so I forgot it, and had to wait for 30 minutes for the next bus.

Friday was so good too, after reading, Jonas came and picked me up and we went to Gunhild where we met some other friends. We had pizza, played games and had a very good time together!! Looking forward to see you again soon!

And now I'm back at work. It's a quiet night, so I got some time to write this blog now while I have a computer. I ordered a new one for my self, since it was too expensive to fix my old one..sad. I loved it. It will be missed, at least for a few more days.

It was fun to be back at the university college where I worked as an apprentice for two years. It's four years ago now, but many people still remembers me:) So that's nice! I think I must have been a nice computer-support-guy:)

At 10 am today I'm going back to Oslo, to have 9 more days with reading (with some time off in between) before I go home for Christmas-holidays:) Can't wait to the 17th, and still, I don't want it to come too fast!

Wish you all a nice time of Advent!

Reading and without any computer

To all my dear readers!

The last few weeks I've been without a computer and I've borrowed my roommates' to write the two last blogs. But now his computer is on service too, so today I'm in a cafè now to write just a few words. The next few weeks will be very busy, I'm having a big exam on December 17., and I will be preparing for that, so it will not be very much action at my blog meanwhile.

Please think of me and pray as I'm reading! Tomorrow is an exciting day too, I'm having a practical test!

Wish you all a really nice advent!!

Bergen!

Last weekend I wanted some relaxing days before I started to read for my exams, so I took the train to Bergen. Bergen was wet as usual, but so good to come out of Oslo. And if you didn't know, Bergen is a beautiful city!!
I crashed at Karl-Erik, Elias' and Mini's place for the days and we had some fun time, playing Ticket to Ride and Canadisk Canasta, a cardgame. Thank you guys for lending me a sofa to sleep on!
Around noon on Friday I met Stine for a cup of coffee and a chat on a cafe. Nice to see her and hear stories from her trip to Israel, and see pictures! Happy Birthday on last Sunday Stine! Man, you're getting old...but man, you stay young:)
In the evening I went to Jan and Hanna's place to hang out with them and their little girl, Live. So nice to see that little family:)

Saturday morning I met Marit, for breakfast. Allways nice to see you Marit!
In the evening me and Elias went for a birthday party to a guy I didn't know too much. But it was a fun evening, we played games, ate cake and had fun.

Sunday, around noon I met Hald-people, Kathrine, Elise, Hanne-Liv and Hanne. Nice to see you girls! Had a nice lunch in an Indian restaurant with them, and heard stories about life in Bergen, and France, where Hanne Liv had lived for some time this fall.
Before dinner we had some rounds with cardgame with the boys, well, if it's luck, I'm not lucky, do you have to be good to win, I'm not good enough...I think i lost in every game!
For dinner I went to Simen and Elisabeth, this time at Elisabeth's place. It's kind of a tradition now. This time it was just as good as last time! Thank you guys!! After dinner we played games and had a good time together.

As you can read, this weekend was Great, with a big G!

I have some trouble with my computer at the moment, so i can't put out pictures right now, I'm so sorry!

Happy days!

My last two weekends has been SO nice! The first one, was on the cabin, as you have read, and this last weekend became really nice too. Since Kay was away, I was home alone, which was nice:)

I had planned to do some studying, but when Saturday came, I used the hours before noon to just do other things, I finally sent my sister's birthday-present, did some laundry and just did other things, except reading. Then I went to watch Ragnhild and her team play a handball-game. It became a very interesting game, her team, Ullern, had the lead the whole first part of the game, but they lost the grip in the second part, and the other team became better, so just a few minutes before the end the other team scored and it was 23-23. But then, in the very last seconds, Ullern had the ball, and 15 seconds before the end they scored and won 24-23! Ragnhild was one of the two keepers, and she was very good! She even saved a penalty throw! Very good job Ragnhild:D

In the afternoon I made dinner for my self, relaxed and did some cleaning before Stine, Ragnhild and Marit came over. We had a nice evening together, we made pizza, played game and just hanged out.

Sunday I did some reading before I had to got to the airport to pick up Anne and Oskar. They were going to be in Oslo for a few days for ABR-training with Oskar. SO nice to see them!! I was together with them that evening, and I came to the hotel the next morning to help out, so Anne paid a hotel breakfast for me:) NAM! Oskar had not slept too much that night, so he slept for loong that morning, so he had just got up before I had to go to school. In the afternoon I met them and went back to the hotel with Oskar while Anne went to meet a friend. I think Oskar was a little tired to be with his mum, because he was a little grumpy all the time we went together with Anne, but when she left us, he was quiet all the way back to the hotel. We just laid in each our bed and relaxed:)

Looking forward to see you again in December Anne and Oskar!

And you know what? Yesterday I found some cheap air tickets, so I decided to go home to read at home the first week in December!:) Will be good!

Tomorrow I'm taking the train to Bergen to have some relaxing days there before four quite exciting, and a little stressful reading-weeks are coming. Please pray for me when I'm preparing for my practical exam which I will have at November 28th, and my Big theoretical exam which I will have December 17!

Another weekend, one of the rear ones

This weekend has been one of the better this fall. On Friday afternoon me, Kay, Stine, Erick and Ragnhild took the bus out of Oslo, heading for Oppdal. When we arrived Anne-Margrethe and a cousin of Eivind picked us up and took us to Eivind's parent's cabin in the middle of Trollheimen, where Eivind waited for us.

It was so good to get away from the everyday life and just have some day to relax together with good friends!! We had a good supper before we had some rounds of games.

Saturday we slept as long as we could before we had a late breakfast. While the girls relaxed inside, the boys went out to fly small model planes. The wind was too strong, so it was not very successful..

We had to go to the local store to get some food, and the weather was beautiful, so we walked, and walked.

 

But we had a nice time, throwing snow balls at the girls:)

In the afternoon and evening we just hang out in the cabin, played games relaxed, made graut for dinner and taco for supper and hanged out!

   

Sunday, before breakfast we went out to watch a flock of reindeer that Eivind discovered was eating grass not very far from the cabin. While where watching they started to walk trough the field closer to us, and they crossed the road and walked uphill and from the other side another flock came out from the threes and joined them. It was quite fascinating to watch!

 

The good nice people, together at the train station before we were leaving! THANK you friends for a fun, relaxing and nice weekend!!