Wowzer!!

As usual it's been a long time since last post (unfortunately). But that only means there are a lot to write about, hurray. So as I still haven't split my blog in two I'll start by splitting this post in two. First I'll tell you all the stuff which have been going on lately and then the stuff which will go on soon and then I'll tell you about stuff like Windows 7 and Google Wave. So lots and lots to look forward to ;)

So, I visited Brussels two weeks ago for a so called Oxfam breakfast. For those of you who don't know Oxfam is pretty much the same as fairtrade (might even be the same thing). My job there was to walk around with a Norwegian flag and talk about Norway for those who where interested, turns out that was about zero people.. So what I ended up doing was to walk around and talk with the other exchange students which were there in the same service. Here's a picture of two of them (from Egypt and Italy if my memory doesn't fail me completely) and one of the other people there:

From Peter's universe: The Peterverse

From Peter's universe: The Peterverse

After that we went to visit mini-Europe, which is a place where they have made miniature models of famous buildings from Europe (in terms of the European union, so no Norwegian stuff). I got approximately 200 photos from there before my iPhone first ran out of storage space and then battery, after that I took some with my host fathers camera. A lot of them are to create high quality panoramas though so I'll get back to you whenever (if ever) I get that done. But here are some samples, including two photos of my host father standing in some funny suits:

I'm just wondering, if Norway was in the Union what should they make a miniature of The castle would be a good idea, but don't we have any other cool buildings? And of course we visited some of Brussels landmarks, the Atomium picturing an iron (that's at least what they say, haven't checked) molecule symboling strength between the regions of Belgium. And of course also the small peeing boy, which seems to be somewhat of a symbol of the town (for reasons yet to be known :P)

From Peter's universe: The Peterverse

And I also found a Norwegian flag! There was apparently some kind of competition where you could win a trip to a Scandinavian country or something like that.

From Peter's universe: The Peterverse

Talking about Norwegian stuff (smooth transition), tomorrow is so called Potluck, meaning that everyone are supposed to make one dish from their country and bring it for everyone to taste! Fortunately for the other I chose not to make fermented fish or fish in lye, but rather some "fiskekaker" or directly translated "fish-cakes". I just hope they'll like the Norwegian food better than my host brother, when I made "risengrynsgrøt" he went to bed hungry. But I have to say that the food here is pretty good, however they eat way too much for me :P For lunch for example it is completely normal to buy a Mitraillette, which is a baguette with a special kind of sausage in it and all buried in a pile of fries. I'll be sure to take a photo if I buy one, probably have to starve myself for a few days to be able to eat it though..

And soon it's Christmas :D That is of course after St. Nicholas, which is on Sunday, the tradition here is apparently that all the students get a cup, get out in the streets and beg for money, then goes to the supermarket and spends it all on Alcohol :P And if people don't give you money you are supposedly meant to throw eggs and flour on them.. Kind of like one-upped Halloween for older people ;) Got exams the week after though, so probably not a good idea to get too hammered. Doing math in French with a hangover just sounds like a really bad idea. But of course, Christmas here is not like Christmas at home. We're already at the fourth of December and there's no snow and it's light during the day.. I actually thought I would never say this, but I actually miss the 24 hour darkness. It's just so Christmasy :P

But as I've got to get up early tomorrow to make my fish-cakes I should probably have gone to bed a few hours ago. I'll try to write the tech stuff someday soon ;)