Hhhhhhhhh

Not much to tell for yesterday guys 8/30

We were in båtbyggd but we mostly just learned more stuff for newbs
Did some fun sharpenijg of many things though, accidentally cut myself with my newly razor edged knife

Uhhhh

Yea today was tiring and boring

About half of my friends arent here coz there on sleep away trips with classes, so no DnD stuff coz gards out at laefatten (i think thats how ya spell it, thats the place we camped at and died)

It was tiring coz we all got sick
Its like a fuckn plague ship over here guys
Or a leper colony

Were all dying

My guess its coz of the cmapijg trip where we were all wet and cold

But yea uts sokethijg like a third of us are all gross and caughikg and sneezing

Myself included

Uhhhh

Yea that was tday

Another day

Hhhh i lost my fuckn content again

FUCK

I hafta start over

Hhhhhh well okay so we picked berries just about all day
In the schools backyard
Berry picking leaves alot of time for socializing and i made a new friend
Her names ingrid with a silent d
She expressed interest in DnD
I guess everybody in the whole place knows about the whole DnD thing, it was kind of an unexpected development on all fronts i guess
But yea we ended up making a poster for kids who wanna participate and im worried that were gonna get a huge overflow of kids who wanna play and then imma be FORCED TO BE A PREMATURE DM AND IM SCARED
But yea most of the day was me ranting about all the funny stupid shit that can happen
Like you could have the edgiest, most dramatic, serious, tragic, badass character possible but stupid shit will still happen to you.

So yea

We had our first norsk klasse before kveldsmat ("evening food", the fourth meal of the day)
After that i watched that norwegian stop action movie that was on my snapchat
I forget what its called but its basically norwegian wallace and gromit, where they use non-clay props and figures.
The animation is amazing
Its got a surprisingly high framerate, its from like the 70s i guess

The other rhing we did was us gize who started the whole dnd thing went on this website to design custom figures
They uh
Theyre uh
Uhm
Pretty expensive
But we-

Hhhhh fuck
I go to answer a fucking text and the fucking app forgets all the fucking writing progress i make
God dammit

mmmmmmmmmmBUH
What was i saying?

Eh
Well i made a new DnD character
Sorta
I designed a character on the custom figurine pagenthat didnt correspond to my current DnD character
So i now have a charcter with traits but now body, and a have another character with no traits but a body
(Well id be lying if i said i didnt make up a story for him while i was makn him)
Hes this younger character
I donno maybe like something as young as sixteen or so
Hes got a pet cat that kicks ass with him
Hes an amatuer pirate
Sorta like how Luffy from One Piece starts out i guess?
Hes got really fucking long black hair
He wants to grow a beard so he can have an iconic Beard name like all good pirates, but since hes a baby he hasta do head hair
I donno the details
His family falls apart, and he steals yhe family greatsword, a bunch of his dads clothes and a coupla flintlocks from the nearby guardhouse (hus first succesful "plundering")
He actually DOES jave a patcheye but its coz he did somethn stupid when he was younger so he makes up stories about now its way cooler than it actually is.
His names Kid Capricorn
He has a real name that he doesnt tell people
So yea
Basically hes a baby greatsword pirate
I can see myself having a lot more fun with this character, and thats sayijg something coz dnd is so nuch fucking fun already
Gard and the other players and me wanna go into like
A game of pirating and backstabbing and ransacking anyway, i think its something that appeals to us all by default coz were at a school where the main trade is building VIKING LONGSHIPS.... so yea

What else was there

Oyea we went to get detergent and bar soap at the the store
Me gard and this kid frederic (actually last night i accidentally stayed up to like 130 talking to frederic, he was kinda asking me for a bunch of advice i guess... it was cool i guess, i think he actually got a lot from it once he learned i was 20. Hes only 17.)
ANYWAY
we went to the store and we got those like
Weird little disolving packages of detergent
The ones that dissolve in fluid
So we bike over to the store and grab the stuff.
Turns out it rained while we were inside, we obviously dont GAF we got rained on harder than this like two days ago
Anyway im carrying the shit in the bag on the little rack on the back of the bike im using, and the detergent packets are on top.
I go over a rut, and they jump RIGHT OUT AND LAND IN A PUDDEL CRACKING THE CONTIANER.
So we pickm all up as fast as we can buuuuuuut its really too late
Of course when the membrane of them dissolves they leak more fluid and causing a chain reaction and they all end up fusing together.......
Its a disaster lol
Thats me n gards detergent for like
Uhiuh two months or so lol
You cant pick one out without getting all the slippery detergent all over yourself

The other thing that heppend is we got a new student
Shes from canada
Shes 17
I thinkr name issssssss liv?
I donno
Shes homeschooled

Shes super fuckn skinny

She has buff forerms its weird man

Uhiuh she seems cool

Maybe we can get her to join the dnd ARMY

The last thing that happened today was POI-A, Synne, ended up with me in the basement for laundry stuff
She was down there already when i came down to take my shit out
We killed some time coz i actually hadda wait for the cycle to finish
We ended up talking about languages again, while she helped me get a 5krone coin on my st christopher chain. (I sound like a dog now lol but IDGAF)
yea so i guess we talked actually for like an hour
We hung my stuff to dry amd it turns out she draws stuff
Theres other people thag draw stuff here, but like
Shes got the most legitimate content i think of anyone ive encountered this far
She draws portraits of people on sticky notes using a pen and only one line

So i donno man
She smokes tho but
Hhhhhhhhhhhh i donnno if i care
Like cigarettes is the problem
But ive come to notice that smoking in scandinavia is really differemt from smoking in the US

But yea im keepn tabs fshure
Theres a way that she acts around me thats got my hopes up
But yea
This posts gotta wait till tomorrow (ah jeez later today actually-30/8/16)
Coz u found out i can WRITE these things in my bed but i dont have internet from here so eh

But yea see yall later

Holy hell- 3 (4 days now, sorry guys) days of cool shit

Hhhhhhh so i have a buncha pics but i dont think the internet here allows me to post pics through this app so itll still be limited to snapchat for now

Im saving just about all my snaps, so i havem all permanently, but itll be a while before i can sendm to you guys
Maybe i can emailm to my mom and leave distribution to her or sommn i donno

ANYWAY

Where to start

I know where all the exciting shit happens but i dont wanna leave anything out

Okay

So

Thursday we sailed on the longboats
Saw a buncha jellyfish
Heard a bunch more norsk (imma just use the norwegian word for "norwegian" now coz its less syllables)

It was a fun day, all the background and history and shit was in norsk so i cant fill ya on on any fun facts about the local area, but the sailing was great
Nice n windy, flattish water
Apparently its super fuckn deep too like way deeper than i expected
I forget all the bumbers tho coz it was all in meyers and just flew roght out my other ear coz i had no bearing on it but
Its deep enough to see stuff like orcas and shit
We didnt see any, i just heard about it from lars they saw one last year i guess

I wanted to help with more of the actual SAILING of the boat, but the coordination requires that commands be given clearly and concisely, and speaking english only is basically a disability at that point.

But yea so that was a good day

The EXCITEMENT started YESTERDAY

so the plan was to go on a camping trip, with coordinated transport plans split between a group of rowers, bikers, horse-followers and a van carrying all our gear.

Now the geography for this is simple but weird to explain:
Imagine a "U" shape, the emptiness inside the "U" is a gulf of water. FOSEN is on the left side of the "U", and the campsite (i forget what its called, its actually owned by the school, theres a cute littlw cabin and a norsk name meaning "sheltered from wind" which is basically a full and complete falsity, ill get to that later) is on the left side of the "U".

Now, the horse people were to load up the horses with all the general-use equipment (pots, pans, tarps, food, candy etc) and WALK to the site, the long way around, along the "U" shape. The was a wagon they could ride in but it couldnt fitm all sothey were rotating i guess.

The bikers were gonna bike themselves along the same path as the horse people, but likely arrive sooner.

The rowers, my group, werr gonna cut across the middle of the gulf, and arrive behind the bikers AND the horse people.

The other thing to know is that whatever your method of transport was, it couldnt take you all the way.

Us rowers obviously hafta stop at the other side of the water.

The bikers had to stop coz the terrain became too treacherous, and the horse people hadda drop the wagon coz the terrain, again, was to treacherous.

So seems simple enough right?

You row, horse, or bike to a checkpoint, pick up your backpack from the van, and hike the rest of the way.

So yesterday morning, we all get up and get ready to pack.
Then they call a meeting and they say
"Yea so i guess its gonna rain an assload"
And were all like
"Shit.... but eh"
So of course since were all adventure loving hardcore hikers, we get into our transport groups, equip all our raingear, and the adventure begins.

So my group, the row group, we walk down the road (like, through peoples yards and stuff, they just dont even GAF in norway its hilarious, they have a law protecting spontanious camping, it translates to like "the free mans law" or sommn, and basically allows you to camp ANYWHERE that isnt private agricultural land (so that includes peoples backyards or trainstations) for sommn like 72 hours) and we get to the coast of the little river gulf thing.
Its been raining the whole time.
Were all okay tho, were all tough, and eager to get in the boat.

Theres two boats:
One small one that ended up carrying 3, two rowers and 1 rudder person
The other, much bigger boat, carried me and 10 others, 8 rowers, a rudder person and 2 extra.
Turns out rowing is pretty fun, but itd be waaaaayyy more fun in the sun and in a boat that didnt leak.

There was enough water in the boat, i believe, that it actually was affectijg the bouyancy, and making rowing HARDER because we had to push the oar down FURTHER (right into our own knees, which there was no space for) to clear the water on the backstroke.

But yea it was fun anyway.

Once we got to tue other side we pulled the boats up on shore, and the first thing we got to hike is about a mile to the spot where the bikes, horse wagon, and all our shit is.
Since the destination was on top of a fjord, the uphill started RIGHT away. It was right in the middle of some random guys cow pasture too, so we gotta hike up and do our best to dodge as much cow shit as possible, and avoid his electric fences. Felt like i was escaping prison or sommn lol.

Still raining, and by now certain people have discovered that their raingear just has no functionality whatsoever.
Onna the US kids actually-maja, shes from pennsylvania, but youd never know coz she speaks amazing german on a regular basis- took me by huge surprise actually i was talking to her and then lars came up (hes german) and thwy started this lengthy german convo and i was like ○0○.
But yea she was soaked STRIAGHT through, and she had like all cotton and wools n shit underneath.
Took it like a boss tho, i dont think ive heard her complain about anythijg really, i think shes probly tougher than mosta the guys here.

Anyway, we areive at the checkpoint (about where this other poor kid fredrick discovered how useless HIS raingear was, he just had a t shirt and looked like he kust came out of a pool) and pick up all our shit.

Now ME, IM pretty tired by now, im having a blast, but SHIT i had no IDEA how much leg it took to row a boat, so im expecting a real short climb to the campsite with a warm fire to dry off.

I take my stuff and grab some common use equipment (the horse went ALL the way up and carried MOST of it, but there was some in the van) and maja and lars (student lars, theres two lars', until now ive only been talking about assistant lars)
Made a sash of bananas.
I have a funny pic of it but
Yknow
Itll hafta wait.

anyhoo once we were hiking i realized just how fucked my kegs were, and i had to actually force my body into the overdrive i discovered i had at early OB. BTW, im really really out of shape.
I think the hike was about as long as the hike it takes to get to hamilton falls at jamaica, but id never made that hik in pouring rain carrying a heavyass pack.
(My fault on the pack discomfort tho, i was forced to RUSH pack)

Once we got the this site, i was greeted with a gust of wind so strong it nearly blew me over- hebce my criticism of the name earlier.
That gust was a fluke tho, it was fuckn windybup there but that was the strongest gale.

There wasnt any view unfortunately, but it was actually a dope little spot. Theres this little cabin with two lofts, a sidestable, a pasture, and s really steep hill sloping off into the woods.

Still raining though.

I was in the later half of arrivals, so by the time i showed up a tarp had been erected and a fire just started.

Goddamn i sat down so hard.

My pack was fuckn soaked, but i put all my shit in a trash bag so i knew it was dry.

We all sat for about an hour, and then the rain cleared and everybody jumped at the chance to set up tents, myself included.

BY THE WAY
these fucking crazy scandinavians all have these backwards ass tents that you set up FLY first- so you set the ouside and then fill the interior?????
Sfuckn weird
THEY ALSO EAT CAKE WITH SPOONS
FUCKN PSYCHOPATHS

anyway

My tent set up

So i went to the fire and chilled

Made some more friends, forgot some more names

Cut some shit with my overly large knife (officially elected the coolest knife in the school, one girl asked me if she could use it real quick, and then revealed to me that she just wanted to use it lol)

We cooked some sausage and shit on the fire
Learned some awesome new skewer recipes-
The cool thing in norway is to do BREAD
You make dough and then you ROAST IT
Its about 30 times harder than marshmellows
Also an awesome desert-
I kinna fucked mune up, and the bananas were too raw, but you take a banana, cut an incision in the side, put chocolate in, amd leave it in the fire in a place it can be retrieved

Its dope

Started raining again

We sang some songs

Started raining heavier

The tarps that we put up caught a ton of wind
I made a joke about us boatbuilders that was unexpectedly succesful; it was that us boatbuilders build too many sails so we confused ourselves and made sails out of our tarps
Which goes back to the fact that there is little wind protection up there

Still raining
Still having fun tho

Aaaaaaannnnnd then i think we all went to sleep?
I dont remember i was so exhausted at that point

I was paranoid all night that my tent was gonna leak, but it actually did real good, i came out better than most i think
So i think i slept i just dont remember coz all i remember is checking all the corners of my tent.

Anyway

Next morning

Starts raining again, fires up

And right after breakfast-
Gård passes out
Totally unconscious, down like a stone
(This is the DnD kid, hes pretty fuckn friendly, he likes me, i think werr gonna end up good friends)
Anyway hes like totally out

Now of course were all like
YO WTF
And were taking measures for like
Hypothermia and stuff, people massaging his legs and whatnot, it puts a while buncha camp operations on halt
Still raining

Hes out for long enough that the staff decide that he needs to be AIRLIFTED

its been like an hour

He finally comes to i guess (im not exactly sure, i was packing my now soaking shit, that somehow got wet in from like transporting and whatnot i dont fuckn know)

But yea the helicopter comes across the sky, does a few fly-bys, and remember how i said it was all hilly?
They cant land, so they hafya land off over there somewhere and bring a backboard to carry him.

By now everybodys kinna back in it

So i do some sawwing and school some peeps on how to bowsaw, and the crosscut conditions are horrible up there
Well sawwing in general is ass when everythings wet

Anyway

The guys come and take gård, we have rumors of medication side affects, or smoke inhallation
(Ill hafta askm actually i still donno)
(Coming back to this qriting from yesterday, i asked him and he sighed and said he has a history? And hell tell me about it on monday?)

So now were all on our way out

We reorganized the transports, so i end up taking some genral equipment and going with the horses, walkn behindm.

Going down that hike was just as hard as going up, coz of all the rain (still raining) making it slippery and adding weight to all my stuff. I was also heavier in general coz of my pack, and my legs were angry coz i just walked up this hill the day before.

When i finally get down i drop my gear off at the van, and it finally stops raining. The kids im going to walk wirh are the ones that i havent really socialized with yet, except for this one kid bendik.

Hes cool i was talkn to hik about videogames, hes played stanley parable.
What was really cool tho is he makes elecrric guitars, and said itd be doable here, coz we have so many wood supplies.
He said its relatively straightforward, you dont have as many exact measurements and crazy details as you need with acoustic guitars, so you really hafta just make sure the neck angle and the fret spacing is right, along with like a few more specific angles for some other things. So basically we could make like- rudimentary electric guitars. Nothing SUPER PRO or nothn but the point is if i made a guitar, i think my incentive to learn to PLAY guitar would increase exponentially.

The other person i talkd to
I forgetr name and i feel bad
But basically i talked to her about like
A bunch of american stuff and the shitty state of the republican party and all that, and how trump is a joke (it was funny she treaded cautiously at that point, until i was like "yea no donald trump is an idiot" and she was like "phew"! Lol i guess she was worried i was gonna be onna those crazy hateful people)
But mostly we were talking about holloween and how my neighborhood is like huge for it, and people come from all over, and i walk on stilts... i guess holloween really isnt that big here.
Whatever
Ive gotten a few suggestions from people to be like the master of ceremonies for like a big holloween thing
I was in this grouo of people talkn about how i go up on stilts and its onna my fav things and they were all like
"You shoukd totes be like the holloween guy- we all know it hasta be an american anyway"
So i hadda back paddle coz im still a scared newbie over here
I donno maybe itll happen

BUT YEA
So it was a long walk
We dropped off the horses at the farm coz its on the way, and we took the van for the last like
Mile or whatever

And SHIT MAN

We unloaded shit from that van and we all went into different corners of the school to dry stuff it our dorms, or the drying room or whatever
And then
( i mean i sat down in the mini lobby area)
Everybody vanished
I didnt notice at first
The little crowd i was with just sat and we told riddles and shitty nationalist jokes

But then we all spread out

And i went upstairs and like 8 people were just sleeping up there
On couches, acrosss chairs

Like that hike fucked us up man

It was great

Yea so we all chilled real hard and ended up watching call of the wild

If anything else happened i forgot

But now its today

Sunday

And sunday in norway is the day where literally the entire country relaxes

Like

Here at fosen breakfast isnt served till 9

So i slept in of course, ate at like 930

Then i went outside and set up ny tent that was still fuckn soaked from yesterday

It was nice and sunny

I chilled on the balcony of my dorm for about an hour listening to music while i stared into the fjords
I was sitting on the actual wall of the balcony and singing my arcade fire songs while some kids over to my right studied boat tech terms, carted wool or read about forwign languages- arabic as a matter of fact.

Anyway i was up there long enough that this girl Sunna (POI-A) came up to me and told me it was cute that i was sitting on the wall singing to my self.
I didnt really know what to say to that....
We ended up talking about languages and their cultural influences across a few countries

After she left i went down with the other students, where Amelie (POI-B) and Maja (POI-C) were.
There were other people there
We were all just chilln hard mostly
I got into a conversation with girl reading about arabic. (yeaaaaaa i know i dont know her name it makes me feel like an idiot, i cant remember all these fuckn scandinavian peoples names- i even forget how to pronounce the ones i DO know its embarassing) we talked about calligraphy.
Amelie recognized arcade fire from my headphones actually, i guess she saw them when they were on the reflektor tour too.
Then will came over
And then assistant lars was over
Then maja got us all trying to do headstands
Then we heard funny stories from last year about lars and other guy whos name i know ive heard but have no idea how to pronounce.

Yea so after the fun in the sun i went inside with all the people im real familiar with.
This is the DnD crew, with the anime.

We started our DnD game and like
Shit
DND IS FUCKN FUN.
i had no idea what missing
Yea so we had to make backstories on the spot-
Gard is like
"Okay why are you guys on the ship?"
I dont remember the other peeps stories, but i was a stowaway, disguised as a crewmember.(actually at this moment, in the game (its stagnant, we hafta resume next weekend) i still have an imperial navy disguise with me)
Now my characters stealth level is really low unfortunately, so i was likely to get compromised soon, but before it could happen there was a mutiny on board concerning the NPCs, so a fight broke out which allowed me to blend in more.
So much funny stupid shit happens its so fantastic
Like
Member how i said i was a disguised stowaway?
Well
Turns out its a prisonship
Going to an extremely isolated island
So why id stowaway to there is anyones guess
And then it became a plague ship
So we were all kinna fucked
And then
The captain, thinking i was a crewmember, asked me to fire some of the dead plague bodies out a cannon, and me, as a completely untrained gunman, ended up blowing a hol in the side of the boat and knocking over a mast.
I woulda probly gotten thrown into the ocean, but the captain was preoccupied with the mutiny, and theres two of the other players tied to the mast that i knocked over, so theyre tryinna get free, and one ofm does but the other is stick UNDER the mast, and then the mutinisers are closing in on the kid whose stuck under the mast, so i take the helm and THROW the wheel storboard and knock everybody over, savijg his life while the other guys getm out, and then the captains confusing me for a mutiniser (so he comes to fight me and i TRY to kickm off the ship but i miss, leaving a huge opeming for him to kill me but he rolls a 1 and falls off the ship anyway
It was fucking funny man
Anyway
By some miracle we manage to killm all
And we come into port
And somehow the captain managed to hold on so he climbs on board just as we pull in
Were all about to fight him but the locals come and arrest him for pulling a plague ship into port (lol even though im the one who pulled it in)
We loot the ship and find this captive princess
About a thousand gold
And then the port people come back and ask us (me, coz the imperial uniform) what to do about the boat coz its technically my responsibility now
So
Obviously the worht is diminished coz its got a collapsed mast and a hole in the side
So me and magnus (were wizards) use mind tricks to increase their percived value (and roll for a bluff) they take the bait and offer 4000 gold for it
We take it
And we debate some more
And the guys are so stupid (there was som DM dice rolling involved in this) that they forget they paid us 4000 and offerr us 3000, so we take it again
Scamming the poor bastards out of 7000 gold for a shitty broken ass ship
So they leave and tell us we have an hour to leave the ship coz their gonna dismantle it, leaving is to figure out how to rescue this poor kid
And the key is attatched to a string
And of course were all convinced its attached to a bomb
And of course it is
So we hafta freeze the bomb to get the key and escape the boat with the girl
And we do
And right as were leaving the dismantling crew climbs aboard the ship and uh
Uhhhhh
It explodes and we kill 18 innocent people.......
Funny fucking shit happens yo

Its hilarious

I talked to gard after and he said the bomb thing wasnt even in the plan
We just went in the direction and he followed through with it and gave us a bomb to deal with

I really like that

But yea the short story is imma take up learning how to be a DM with gard

And uh

I aint gonna waste any time posting this one yallv waited long enough

First REAL day at fosen

We actually did shit in the boat house today gize

Ir was mostly just practicing basic skills like planing and axing stuff

And we hand hewed some beams too, familiar stuff from paul smiths

But yea so that was great, i got to meet kenneth bjorkl and hes a really chill dude
Hes got a subtle sense of humor that he usually only expresses in norwegian but its funny in english too

After that we ate food

U think the fun part thougg was after all the working stuff

I learned the norwegian version of BS- its like Uno so instead of progressing up the suits and being able to see the future coz youll know what the other players hafta put down, you can only know when somebodys lying if you know whats down already.
Also you have a huge chance of actually being able to put something down coz you can use the suits which your likely to have so lies are more scarce.

I also played this DEVILISH dice game where you roll 5 dice and the guy who knows "the rule" tells you a number, based on the dice. The goal is to guess the rule with just the evidence that the guy gives you thro7gh repeated tests.
Basically the scientific method except cryptic as fuck.

But yea that was today

O we also got a schedule for the WHOLE YEAR.
its all in norwegian but eh

Tonorrow were supposedly gonna take onna the already nade longboats out and sail to "get to know the boat".
Itll be identical to the one were making so itll he like
A glimpse of the final product.

Second day at fosen

Man fucking all the scandinavian students smoke

Like

All of em

Its weird

I mean obviously not all of em but its a whole bunch

As for today, a whole buncha norwegian got talked at me
We had a tour so yea
I followed the english tour but even so

The one thing that kinna struck me was we went into the boat building building, and like

Shit man

Thats some crazy stuff in there dude

They dont do exact measurements on ANYTHING

you just EYEBALL ALL OF IT

so i was in there and yknow i knew i was gonna be makn boats nstuff but until i was actually standing in there with the boat

Like

Holy hell

Im gonna be in there and im gonna KNOW WHAT IM DOING
Thats so cool

But yea after that it was pretty normal

More norwegian

Some food

We had a barbeque where i learned that theres a niche of kids here that are into board gaming and light videogaming and dnd n shit

So when i heard they wrre gonna make dnd characters i hadda get on that

So i did

I have a character named james

Hes a bald wizard who stops his sentences at random in the middlish
He also nervously fidgets and fiddles

The fun part about dnd is that now when i play it ill hafta stop my sentences in the middle

But yea we were all doing dnd stuff and then lars comes in and hes like

"Hey guys we got some weak notthern lights going on"
And just like OB everybody drops EVERYTHING and runs right outside

I tried to get a picture when they were stronger, and they did get strong like
Shit man

It was like a green white

Brighter than at OB

But like im sayn-
If its just late agmugust and we have northern lights action already?
Imagine WINTER MY GUYS

but yea its impossible to photographm

And i still aint figured out to post pics so yea

Ahhhhh the first day at fosen

Wheeeeewwwwwwee

Man

Yea like i said i slept till about three in the afternoon listening to AnCo's "Campfire Songs"

It was great

I met my roomate

His name is Cristoffer, hes danish
So he can actually sorta sympathize alittle on the language barrier ordeal, coz even though danish and borwegian are really similar, i guess their not as similar as youd think?

But yea hes real tall hes got square ass shoulders

I met a whole bunch more people thoug, i think just about everybody is here, i think Lars said 69?
Lars is a second year student from germany, learned all the norwegian he knows just from this place
Its cool his name is pronounced "laush"
Irs hard to write down, you hafta imagine the "u" and the "a" as one sound

Anyway we ate food

It was good, it was a brothy soup with meat balls and like
Some kinda beef cubes and a big skinned potato i guess that your just supposed to plop right in the  soup

We sang i think a total of 4 songs during dinner
I sang none of them of course, not knowing the lyrics OR the tune will kinda do that to you

After that though, we all danced
Yea we danced
We danced with eachother
Strangers all of us

Finn its kinda like that arabic thing, the debke or whatever except more partner based

Its to deliberately doscomfort you, and create a sense of mutual discomfort so that the only way to dance is to not care

And so i didnt care

I danced with a girl named Amelia, shes from norway i THINK

The actual dancimg bit of it starts of in a paired congo line sorta

And then you split and make a circle with an inside and an outside

And then the front of the circle goes througg the around the circle, replicating the first pairs movement

Of course you start with something simple, like holding hands

But when the repeating leader of the march is the head faculty dude (shit i forget his name) he makes everybody do some real hardcore ice breaker shit

Like we went around with arms around eachother

You gotta pinch eachothers noses

You gotta link both arms back to back and walk sideways

It was ridiculous, but fun

And it definitely does what its designed for, breaking ice that is

But yea after the whole pair thing we all got into a single file line and basically just ran around

And then they broke us into groups and we did some multilingual name games

And then multilingual pictionary

And then an assload of desert

Cakes and fruits all over the place

And then we talked into the night

And people gradually went to bed

I talked with one kid about soccer, heard my first trump joke (im sure therell be millions to come) talked eoth one guy about rugby, learned about language differences across scadinavia, learned that Fosen is actually the name of a region, learned from one kid (Bendik) that the train from oslo to trondheim SUCKED coz it was packed and him and another kid hadda get forced into paying for high class seats  coz they were the only ones availabel... yea

It was good

And now here i am writing this post

I can hear still the remnants of kids still socializing
Its 1:18 in the morning

I think staying up really late is part of norwegian culture

I should fit right in lol

Im not sure if ill be able to keep up the long winded posts, and it really sucks ass that i cant post photos coz thatd make shit a million times easier

An actual post

Okay uhhhh

Ill start with Oslo

I landed in oslo without incident, but i git confused real fast. It was okay though, the only real problem was that I asked for a new SIM card and the electronics dude said they didnt sell them at airports. I figured he was a credible source as he was the teller at like
A verizon store or whatever

But yea so i got on the plane okay, the flight was really fast and beautiful.

The norwegian sky is so much prettier than the american sky
It was like a fantasy world coming down in trondheim, with these gigantic castle-in-the-sky clouds and little drizzle areas that accidentally made rainbows once in a while

When i landed the first thing i wanted to do was try to get a SIM card again, but this time (a 711) they were fresh out of em.

So, i collected my bags and turned my attention to bus schedules.
After about fifteen minutes of stagnant confusion i just went out to the nearest bus and told the dude that in was trying to yet to RISSA, and he was like
"Ah- snakker ikke du norsk?"
N im like
"--------"
So he tells me (in english) that this is the right bus to get on, its this much kroner.
So i go

Was a beautiful ride, we drove through a steep canyon with a cascading waterfall

But then i started getting uneasu coz i didnt know which stop was mine...
But it was okay coz the driver remembered who i was and looked at me through the rear view mirror and that was enougg for me to understand. (Its really quite amazing, the amount of communication that can be succesfully made without words)

So i got off the bus

He even told me that this exact spot was where the 350 came.

And he was right- he just didnt know what time the 350 came, sooooooooooo i sat there for about an hour trying to figure out the bus schedule, and by the time it made sense to me i realized i was stuck. So i decided call fosen, and i had NO IDEA if it was gonna work because i still had an american SIM card.
And whaddya knkw? There was an answer IN ENGLISH no less.

No id transcribe the entire conversation for comedy's sake, but i was super tired and stressed and i made about six calls to Lena afterward so id be hard pressed to remember the first one.

The jist of it was i told her i missed the fosen bus, and she told me i could catch the 75 which would take me to the ferry and i could take the ferry on my own and theyed pick me up on the otherside.

So okay, that sounds like itll work, i even knew were the 75 stops i saw it earlier.
So i cross the street to where i saw the 75 with all my crap
Which is probably like 80 poundsr sommn all together
And i drop it on the sidewalk.
THE SECOND I GET THERE
a 75 pulls up on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET
And i knew i wasnt gonna be able to move my shit in tim, so i watch it, as it stays for about 30 seconds, pick up one person and leave the other way.

Once i saw it pulling away i knew it was the one i had to ride.

So im like, awright no big deal ill just walk over there and wait for the next one.

Well i looked up at the teleschedule (once i finished carting all my shit of course) and i saw no 75s on there, and this thing (it was about 8 or so at this time) told me buses were gonna arrive all the way up till like 11, and none of em were 75s.
So i slowly started making the connection- if no 75 is gonna come until at least PAST 11, and the ferry stops running at like 10:45, then im STUCK.

just as this hit me, some kid walks up and hes like
"Hey are you going to fosen?"

And in my head i say
"HOLY SHIT YOU SPEAK ENGLISH THIS IS FANTASTIC I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WE SHOULD BE BEST BUDS AND UNITE UNDER THE CAUSE OF ESCAPING TRONDHEIM MY GOOD COHORT"
but what i actuallt said was
"Hey yea i AM going to fosen."

Turns out he somehow got a list of all the students names and recognized my name on my baggage tag (i KNOW mom he got a frikkin list of the students names- he also got a fuckn PACKING LIST AND ITINERARY FOR THE FIRST WEEK. Hes a boyscout tho, so i doubt he missed anything st all)

Anyways, it soon became clear that he was just as stuck as i was.

So i called Lena again and toldr we missed the 75 but also that theres this new kid Will-
And once she realized it was the two of us she was a lot more comfortable, because i think she new what was to come.

Yea so once we found that there werent any buses for us, we had to look for hotels so i sat with all the crap we brought and Will wemt and looked for those and he talked to some taxi drivers on the way.

Will came back and told me he found a hotel, amd on our way stopped at a corner store-where i finally got a SIM card that has something like 340 MB of data on it so i donno how useful itll actually prove. We also got some snacks, they make really good rolls here in norway.

When we got to the hotel it turned out completely BOOKED.
Also, by now we also noticed that just about every single person out at this hour (i think it was approaching 11:30 maybe) was completely plastered, and there was an ASSLOAD of people out. There had been fireworks and shit, loud music was playing, people were partying on boats in the river... i donno if it was some kinda holiday, but i asked around here at fosen annnnnnnnd i guess thats just what weekends in Trondheim are like lol.

Anyway we made it back to the bus station, and on the way the taxi drivers from earlier were trying to hackle us (i think) into making themselves A KILLING by driving us to the ferry, which woulda cost us (me and will) maaaaaad money. So we passed that plan up, and continued to the bus station.

When we got to the bus station these kids (about our age) where unlocking stuff, and will asked em where THEY stayed, and they told us that they had camped up somewhere over there illegally, but "don worry nobody cars abut things like this in Norge" so we got marginally more specific directions, and we thought that was a good plan.

Once we figured out how the wierd lockers worked, we had to produce some change. We neede to lock up MOST of our shit so we didnt hafta carry it "about two and a half kilometer" to bring JUST the camping stuff. I was the one who needed the change, coz will had some, but for some reason he went off to find a change machine and i stayed with the bags. He was gone for
Well i donno how long, couldna been more than fifteen minutes or sommn-
But while he was gone, this one drunk dude- and i mean this guy was OFF his ASS like
Freal
Like it was like that youtube video of the drunk dude in texas or whatever in the corner store?
Where he cant even stand up straight?
And like falls over and shit?
Anyway this guy comes into the bus station
And hes like
Real big
He comes in and he shakes my hand, hes like
"SO WHERE ARE YOU FROM MAN- YOU DON SPEK NORSK?"
"Uh yea im from the US"
"AH THE YU ESS- I KNOW THE YU ESS....
...
...ITS SOMETHING I KNOW- I KNOW IT
....
...THE YU ESS IS IT"
"yea...."
Then he wanders around a bit, i go back to sitting on my bag
N he comes over
"THIS PLACE THESE PEOPLE-(referring i believe to the bus station) THEY DONT WANT ME TO BE HERE. YOU WANT TO BE HERE, BUT NOT HERE. "
Of course im just lost at this point, i donno how to deal with this guy.
He sits back on the bench and he takes off his shoes, he takes off his sweater... then he walks over to the back window and he tells me to come with him...
I dinno man like i said he was plastered.

About now Will comes back
And wills not really as socially resilient as me, not able to deflect weird shit as well as me i think- hes also only 18, and a rather sheltered boyscout leader, he just wants to come here to build boats and hike with some new friends, yknow just like me.

Anyway, Drunk Dude #1 over here doesnt really like Will for some reason, maybe he could tell thst he was making Will uncomfortable, yknow in the way that drunk people have that terribly scewed perceptiveness

Will gives me my change so that i can put my bags away, but before i can put it in the locker the drunk dude comes over and hes doin that alpha male lean towards thing that means "fight" and immediatly im like
SHIT
Will was the target, so i move the three of us into an open area
I was scared enough to be thinking about my knife, innaccesible as it was.
All that cane of it though was Will got pushed down (breaking his watch) and ran out the door, the drunk dude was GONNA follow him but was obviously very impeded
I tried to go over to the dude and be like
"Guy you gotta fuckn relax"
But of course he wasnt havn it
Will was yelling HELP outside, even though nobody was around, but the drunk dude ran off coz it didnt wanna get arrested or whatever

So
Rattled as we were, i paid for my locker and we went off to find the "campsite".
We didnt find it of course
We ended up "sleeping" between a dumpster and the river, with train tracks passed the dumpster.
After about 2 hours of "sleeping" which was actually us talking and getting to know eahcother, we decided itd be more fun to walk around. So we left what little stuff we brought and trapsed around trindheim at night.

We saw some more drunk people, went to the boathouse and saw some jellyfish, saw a sex shop, an antique shop...
It was fun.
We caught the sunrise from ontop of a bridge so that was probly the best part.

I think we caught all in all about 45 minutes of sleep that night

When morning rolled around we got the same rokls as the day before, and spent the rest of the day at the bus station trying our best to NOT miss the bus

I got maybe 5 more hours of sleep
Give or take
Sleeping on my luggage

But then the bus came and it was fantastic

It was cool we drove past more cliffs and then the bus went on a ferry and theb drove on past then

The bus driver knew we were going to fosen so he offered to drive us a little bit passed the actual "Rissa" stop to the road in front of fosen, which is why they call it the fosen bus.

From there i half unpacked at fosen after meeting a few people including Lena, the woman who i talked to from Trondheim.

I ended up staying up at the fire, where some great norwegian students made half assed camp food and talked in norwegian.

I was there for like 3 hours just listening to it

It was really relaxing once it got to be around 11:00

After that i went into ny dorm and slept till 3 today.

PS
I tried to upload some pictures, but it doens look like blogger wsnts to publish a post that has pictures in it
It says that "some pictures (seemingly all pictures) can not be accessed"
So i go to delete them but then i cant delete them
So i hadda copy n paste my blogs content so i could post the writing at least
So yea
Until i can figure this out itll be just writing

Second Post

Just adding a photo here i guess
Testing the waters

Norwegian money is really colorful
Its prettier than our boring grey green money in the US

FIRST POST

Mkay sooooo thisll be the first post on thw blog
Ill put my phone number on here maybe
Unless thats a bad idea i donno
I think id just rather do a mass text
I think thats a better idea

Uuuhhhhhhmmm yea so its 5:22 and my last day in the US
This is pretty weird
Uhhhguess thats it guys
For now