Pancha Goes Norway

Friday, October 26, 2012

The wealthy country Norway or too much food to survive!

If you are a true Blogger follower you probably noticed that most of the blogs have been filled up with nature, travel, sport, living and university. I've never been such a food blogger - until now. I have to. Why? I got the impression that I recently got a new hobby - food!
People that know me would almoust certainly interrupt my speech now and say "Nooooo, not possible, Pancha and Food? Im-po-ssi-ble! She eats like a bird...tzzz."

Let me start a bit more systematically:
Thursday, 18/October:

My new neighbour but old acquaintance Devin invited us [Anne, Nina, Sabrina, Vuokko] to have a cake-dinner. It was a low-calory cake full of snikkers and cream and chocolate. Vuokko probably thought it wouldn't be enought so she made a chocolate pie on top of that. Imitating The annoying Orange we gorged ourselves with this two massive objects getting close to a sugar coma, as A. expressed it:
[Bild mit "freundlicher Genehmigung von Anne]

And with this nearly "sugar coma" we got the
"Orange-mood":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN5PoW7_kdA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVVsLRQEBQA

Friday, 19/October:

Next food-invitation called NORSEC-Dinner. The point was that everybody from our group prepared a selfmade dinner from his or her homecountry. So we got a lot to eat from austria, germany, spain, usa, ireland, japan, england, poland and lithuania! It was delicious. Oh, I forgot, Jaime forced me to prepare sth. from México cause we have a lot of germans to vary a bit. I made Quesadillas y Guacamole.

Everyone had a lot of fun and our bellies got quite full of so much tasty and yummie food.

The only thing left was smiling and a piece of Flammkuchen and Nachos!

Saturday, 20/October:
Self-made Pizza at Stian's house! The most difficult was finding the way! And btw Ole was really sick so I had to borrow another bike con duenio columbiano; los frenos no funcionaban!
There was a big bunch of norwegians, three germans and a brazilian-german! Good group, eating pizza, talking in 3 languages and at the end we watched a climbing movie, cause it was a bonding-event from our climbing group.

Sunday, 21/October:
The crazy plan of a crazy swiss girl to invite for a chocolate-fondue in the dorm. Ha! a crowd of nice people dropped in there and we all brought a lot of fruits! Swiss chocolate and fruits, what a climax!
It was so much fun and at the end of the day I rolled home!

Thursday, 25/October:
Not to forget: Yesterday we made Sushi!!!!!!

Let's rock and ROLL!

Friday, October 12, 2012

Some daily random stuff!!!

Every two or three weeks we organize a so called "International Pub". All countries are supposed to represent themselves. Last time it was the third time and my friend Yukiko from Japan made a presentation on her own 'cause she was the only one from Japan. And, how americans would say "It was awesome".

Have you ever seen such a royal McDonalds?

"Hey Pancha, say Hello to all real adults above here."

Kristiansand at night, it's so lovely! I like it so much.

When we got lost at our trip...

There are no hiking ways in Norway...

We really don't know wether there was anybody who filled up the fountain with shampoo, but it smelled very good and it was fun, ha!

Climbing session with Silje, the norwegian girl that likes Cuba!

The Domkirken in Kristiansand.

Nos fuimos al museo un domingo y habian olvidado recoger este vaso de vino.

Wir waren eines Sonntags im Museum und da hatten die doch tatsächlich vergessen das Weinglas vom Vorabend wegzuräumen.

WIR, sind übrigens wir!

L'universitaire

I would be a liar, yes, ...

... if I was pretending that staying abroad for me is always to be happy. Where shall I start?

Ich denke das größte Problem für mich ist wahrscheinlich, dass ich wieder mit einer wildgewordenen Meute Studierender abhängen muss, für die ein Auslandssemester nichts anders ist, als eine riesen große Party. Aber am schlimmsten ist wohl mein lettischer Nachbar. Seine Ohren dürften mit Beton gefüllt sein, denn sonst verstehe ich nicht wie man bei solch dünnen Wänden so laute Musik und Skypesessions abhalten kann, zu Ungunsten der kleinen deutschen Nachbarin. Bin ich wirklich schon zu alt? Es gibt aber auch Leute, die null Gespür in solcher Hinsicht für das Zusammenleben mitbringen, da ihnen alles egal zu sein scheint.

Aber von der Küche mal ganz zu schweigen. Ein paar Kostproben gefällig???

Nun, da ich es schlussendlich satt hatte, die kleine Hausfrau zu spielen, habe ich kurzerhand beschlossen, mich zu beschweren und tataa, hat SiA mir ein neues Zimmer angeboten. Nun dürfen sie sich in ihrem eigenen Dreck auch wirklich suhlen und ich mache ihnen das nicht mehr kaputt. Ich habe ihnen sogar die von mir gestiftete Bürste und Lappen weggenommen. In ein paar Wochen werde ich noch mal vorbeischauen; wird bestimmt spannend.

Nun bin ich mit einer Polin, Aleks, in einem Flat, in welchem jeder sein eigenens Zimmer hat, wir uns aber eine Küche und ein Bad teilen. Zuvor hatte ich mein eigenes Bad, was ich auch durchaus genossen habe. Dafür habe ich jetzt eins mit Fußbodenheizung. Aber die Küche ist jetzt der Traum, endlich darf ich normal kochen oder backen und es ist wieder angenehm. Have a look?

Mein neuer Schreibtisch, und keine Hochbett mehr.

Zur Tür hinausgehend kommt man direkt in die Küche, nach rechts zur Toilette.

Das ist der Blick aus meinem Fenster,
jetzt kann ich sogar ganz entfernt das Meer sehen dort hinten.

Und unsere Küche, auf jedenfall einladender als die Alte.

Jetzt müsste nur noch das Studium etwas anspruchsvoller werden.... ;)

time's running or running up the Preikestolen

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's official, 2 month in norway now and less than 2 month left.

Last weekend a big group of ESN Students made tracks to the famous Preikestolen, a hudge cliff formation that looks like a big slap. Unfortunatly it started to rain right at the moment we wanted to hike up. It was a 2 hours hike trip where you need lightness and sportiness, even more when its rainy and windy. I got totally exhausted. But maybe because I hiked up with all the sportstudents and kilimanjaroclimber??? Probably yes!

I am gonna show you what we might have seen

and what we actually have seen:

As you can see we couldn't see anything but us and a rock! A highlight to celebrate!

So the only thing I was thinking about with horror was the way down.

I couldn't even use my camera in a normal way 'cause it was raining so hard. We all got wet totally, it looked more if you had jumped into a pool... crazy!

But we made it !

The evening was one of the typical party evening all the erasmus students wants to behave like young kids.

But we stayed in a "Hotell" build at a hospital, so actually we stayed in a hospital but with rooms looking like hotel rooms. And we had breakfast together with people on crutches and newborns, that was weird.

The sunday morning after breakfast we went together to the city center of STAVANGER.

A small but very beautiful city with lots of coloured houses and in a typical fishertown - style:

Even in german and spanish they wrote.

We drank a choclate there, it was really heavy.

I loved this colourful house with all the books inside.

And even Mexico was represented in Stavanger:

Don't ask me, he is some famous norwegian. But the norwegians have a looooooooooot of famous people that the rest of the world doesn't know.

We entered a beautiful church:

In Norway you'll see always wood in churches.

First because they do have such a lot of.

Second because it is warmer in winter.

I have to admit that I prefer the south-european style how churches were built, with stones and marble.

But it has always something "cute" in these churches here in norway...

With the columbian gang! It was so windy!

We are standing in front of a plat mirror which meaning I forgot -
so now it was meaningless until we took this foto with us of it....