The English Version of it all

Did we misunderstand everything in Vadsø? Are we not supposed to sleep during the night but during the day? Because every night, when its passed midnight, THEN it shows up. The sun shines as never before, it blinds you in your way home, it lights up your room where you are planning to spend a few hours sleeping.. Sleeping through the midnight sun has never been a problem for me anyway, but couldnt it just shine like this during the day as well? Or shine just as much and strong and long as it does in the night. In the night, all the clouds are gone and the wind has calmed down.. I dont get it. Now you should go out, walk around the Ekkerøy peninsula as Irene and I did this afternoon. Halfway around the island, the clouds opened up and it poured down on us. Soaking wet and with blisters thanks to my sensible rubber boots I unfortunately wore, we ran down to the cafe and ate half a waffel each, as guests number 4 and 5 that day... The sun shines through the window. And I'm going to sleep, until I wake up by myself. Oh joy.

One and a half week in Vadsø has passed. So is my 23rd birthday!! Help! But you are told you are still young so I guess I dont have to worry about that for another couple of years. In Vadsø I have of course been enjoying 10 degrees celcius, the big huge grey cloud that covers the whole sky and sideways rain which is an important part of summer here. Of course, the famous fog that develops as the warm norwegian air mixes with the cold russian ocean from the East and ruins every potentially warm summer day, is also around. The result of this + a quiet and boring town = an unmotivated, dozing state, without motivation. You dont make anything of your day, it just passes without really noticing it. Before you go home in the summer you think: This summer I'm gonna be a good Norwegian, hiking in the nature and stuff, as all good Norwegians and Vadsø-people are supposed to do, they have it in their blood. But then you arrive here, and the fog takes you before you get the chance to do anything else. Sometimes the fog is so thick it comes through the key holes... If you combine all this with my strange nightshift job which results in me coming home at 8 in the morning, but not tired cause i sleep as i work (hehe), I have a whole day of the earlier mentioned dozing state ahead of me, and nothing to do until i go to work again at 10pm. But I have a lot to do. its just the dozing that ruins everything, and the grey weather. And the headwind when I dare myself to a bike ride in the morning. Men then... Mom and dad go to Oslo and the rain down there (they barely got going cause the fog was stopping all the planes), there is thunder and lightening, and the next day its 20 degrees and suddenly you are ready for anything! Something a real Finnmarkian (person from themost northern county of Norway..71 degrees North...hah) knows is to take advantage of the warm day cause they go as fast as they come!

By the way, Go GHANA against BRazil on Tuesday!!!!