Concert coming up!

My goodness!
This week had been interesting. We started our intensive week of rehearsal Sunday night, and we have our first Christmas Concert tomorrow already! Tuesday we had a pretty bad day, Dr. Clausen got PRETTY upset with us, and the rest of the faculties weren't very impressed with us either.
Yesterday we pulled it together and it was 4.5 notches better as Dr. Clausen said, hehe. After Psalm 150 my entire body was shaking, and I was gasping for air, sweat running down my back. But what a great sound! WOW!!!!! :D
Everybody was a little down after yesterdays lecture, but after that runthrough we all felt better I think. I really took in all that was happening, and I' really looking forward to the concert!!!! Mom, I know you know this, but you are truly missing out here... I'll try as much as i can to get someone to film it!

And just a little observation for those who watch that Bible TV-series that runs during Christmas, some kind of calymation or something: remember the voice that is the storyteller/the voice of God there? I think we got him here!!! So funny, the guy reading the texts from the Bible during the concert sounds JUST like him. It's GREAT!! I love it, just love it.

Today we will be shown the light/mural show they are playing during the concert, I'm looking forward to that! I took some pics the other day, and will take some more tonight! Here are some of the pics from yesterday:


Dr. Clausen (on the floor!) and Mr. Smith


Kelly and Amanda have mixed feelings about the concert! *giggle*


Opening mural (I think, hehe)


I had a fun day at school today; we danced West-African dances in World Musics!! You all know I love to dance, and this was just a fun as it sounds, hihi. A bit different than the other Farican dances I am familiar with, but still lots of fun. I got a few pics from that too of course!


I took small videoshots too, but I can't load them here. I might use YouTube if I figure out how to work that stuff though, so watch out for a link one of these days! :)
Now I need to read english. Bye!

Did someone mention food?!?

I had my suspicions, and now they definitely were confirmed:
Thanksgiving = food, eating, food and EATING!!

THURSDAY
Janice made a SUPERB dinner, and I ate quite a bit. And then she topped it off by having choclate fudge made, just for me!!!! I LOVE YOU JANICE! *giggle* Might not be too good for my health, but hey, who's counting calories, right..? Haha. Besides, we found out that if you eat smaller portions and more often instead, the calories don't really count. *lol*
Anyway, Janice had her nieses Kathy and Kathy and her son Justin over also. We had a good time, and I sang the Norwegian table prayer before dinner of course, They really liked that. And turns out that Kathy (Justin's mom) likes to make Norwegian/Scandinavian food, and she makes lefse and kromkaker and sanbakkels and looots of good stuff! Mom, you should meet this woman! Got some pics here for ya:


After dinner we played this game Joker, here we are:


I won my first game, just cause they were nice to me, but still, hehe. Fun! And then we had the famous pumpkin pie that is a must at every Thanksgiving!!




FRIDAY
The BIG shoppignday in the US, I mean HUUUUGE, the biggest the have! People sleep ouside stores to get the deals they want. This one guy was interviwed because he has been the first one outside "best buy" the last 4 years. This year he spent Thanksgiving outside there. WOW. I got myself a NICE pair of boots, and cute little camera, hihi. Here are my boots:


The rest of the day was pretty laid back, we went for a walk in the BEAUTIFUL weather, it was really nice outside, and since I forgot to take picture of the dinne yesterday, here is a picture of the leftover dinner which was the exact same thing, hehe..!




SATURDAY
I felt so bad after sitting around eating all that food, so I went for a little morningrun in the coldness. It was a few degrees below 0 celcius, and my lounges are not used to that yet, so it was a very short trip. But at least I got out a little bit! Then Janice had made pull-aparts for breakfast, oh my, they are GOOOD, hihi. Got a pic of course:


Then Lyle, Matt and Anna came to eat dinner here, we had a good time too, and dinner was FAB as usual. And I loved Lyle's beanstew or whatever it's called :)
We played another round of Joker, and then after Matt and Anna left, the rest of us played Mexican train, another pic:


It was a good day :)



SUNDAY
Today I actually joined Janice when she went to church, I thought that would be a fun experience. And it was! I even witnessed a baptism, I was right smack in front where they baptized that cute little girl (Meghan). The service was very different from how we do it back home, but Janice told me that the late Sunday service usually is a little more laid back and loose.

Then we went to Space Alien Grill & Bar, oh for FUN!!! *giggle* I took a BUNCH of pictures, here are a couple:




We had some fun, haha. Now I'll be going back to my empty appartment, do homework and then there is choir tonight. Christmas concert is coming up you know!!!

Swingdance!!

Just have to say this:
Tuesdays I was kindly enough invited to dinner across the hall to the girls living there! We were in all 8 people, a good crowd around that little table, haha. But it was very nice, I had a good time.
After dinner most of us went out to this place called Avalon downtown - it's a dancingschool where you can come every Tuesday night and just dance! The first hour they have teachers teaching some stuff, then we dance til we drop, hihi. Gonna go there a whole lot more as long as I can!! :D FUN!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D

In a coouple of hours I will be going to Janice's to ahve Thanksgiving dinner, looking forward to it! So I better go pack, see you all!

Oops!

I just realized that I didn't tell you how my concert with Vocal Jazz went!! Well, it went fine, Momoko was kind enough to tape the whole thing for me, so I got it all on tape!! :D There is also a cd with just the audio, so I'll have a better audio tape than the camera can do.

And Friday night ISO had this Showcase, and I sang "Den Fyrste Song" as act number two. Got someone to tape this one too! ;) It was a great show, lots of different stuff, dances and songs and even a chinese "ako" I think she called it, a stringinstrument that looks like they attatched two strings to a broom shaft, hihi. So fun to see and listen to though! :)



After the show Fran and Jillian and me went to hang out at Erbert's and Gerbert's, nice :)
PIC:



Last night Fran and I went out at 10.30 to look at the stars - there was supposed to be a meteorshower with it's peak at 11.15 or something. I didn't know that Fran was a Astronomy-fan until yesterday, that's awesome!!! Her father is an astronomy teacher, so she grew up with loking at stars and planets and all that cool stuff! :D That is just so cool, now I have someone to look at the stars with, hihi. It was a little cold, but I had a fantastic time! :D

Today - who knows what will happen..!

Haircut!

I've been thinking about getting a new haircut for a week or so now, and Tuesday I went for it! And here is the result:


Life is alright these days, don't have a lot going on - but after tomorrow I will have! Got our internation Festaival this week, gonna perform "Den Fyrste Song" at the Showcase :)
But gotta go, see ya!

Ridiculous!

I forgot to post this!!!

Last weekend I had more fun than I have had for quite some time!
Me and a few friends, mostly international students were going to this Mexican restaurant, "Mexican Village" or something, hehe. Anyway, Jillian said we could walk over, and we don't really have a car, so we had no choice anyway. None of them had been there before, so we didn't know exactly how far it would be.
So we start walking. And keep on walking. And walking. And walking, and walking and walking, haha, we walked probably 2 miles or so! Me being a Norwegian and all I can stand some pretty bad weather, but the wind here is fierce!!! But it wasn't all THAT bad after getting warm from walking, but the wind here gets bad...wow.
Anyway, we finally got there, and we had some VERY nice food, and got VERY full, oh my.... Not good at all, not gonna do that again until Christmas at least! I was just smiling as we went back (very nice to walk off that dinner btw) cause we looked like we were in the Arctic or something, hoods and scarfs and beanies and mittens, hair blowing everywhere, hahaha.... FUN!!!! :D

Here is a picture:

Busy, but nice!

After last week I needed a good, sufficient week - and I got a semi thing, but at least I got some stuff done, and I was more social and just had a better time than last week..! So here are some of the highlights of this week:

Monday
- Audition for the International Student Organization, I will be singing "Den fyrste song" at the festival we have next week! :) I'll probably throw in a "stev" too, we'll see.
- Went swimming with Tessa :)

Wednesday
- Handed in our 3rd Summary/Response paper in English :S

Tuesday
- Had World Musics exam, woah... gonna be interesting to get back!

Thursday
- Had a presentation of Samba in World Musics with two others in my class, we've had some fun preparing for that, oh my, haha.
- Had a nice workout :)

Friday
- Got quiz back, 19/20, was one word which I kind of knew I screed up.
- Had our first mass-rehearsal for the Christmas concert, fun! What wasn't so fun though was that one girl fainted and had a small seizure, yikes. But she was ok.
- Went to the a musical they put up here on campus - which I SO wish i could be a part of, but I missed the auditions.... Besides, I think it crashed with stuff, and I probably was better of spending my time on other stuff. Like chatting :P haha... Anyway, it was FUN!! :D


This weekend Vocal Jazz Ensemble has their first real concert, looking forward to it! Gonna make someone tape it, don't worry, hehe.
Oh, and by the way, you should all stop by Chapel Choir's new website!!
Go to
www.concordiachapelchoir.com
and see for yourself, we have video's there! :D

That's all for now, see you all later!
Adding a picture just because :)

What goes up most go down

And so it did this week.
Started with me going to bed a little too late a few days, and then I skipped the workouts a little cause I was tired, and then I skipped homework cause I was sleepy, and next thing you know I even didn't show up for one of the classes cause I was so tired.
I was almost at the point of giving up, and felt like skipping school the next day. But said to myself that if I skipped school this would become an endless evil circle, so got up and went to school. Thank goodness! Still felt a little depressed and out of focus, and almost fell asleep during yoga, but I was there and did it.

Then, Friday I hooked up with Tessa and went swimming, and that was very much needed. We made a deal about going to workouts 3 times a week together, and it's nice to have someone to go with. Makes it harder to skip them! ;) And who knows, maybe I'll drag her along into the weight room too? *hihi* :P

So far I've done quite a bit of homework today, and it feels good. Going to a concert later today, the Concordia Orchestra just came back from a tour and is holding their Homecoming concert today! :) Jenna is in the orch. and she is pretty pooped after the tour, hehe. But I'm sure it'll be good!

Here is a picture from another pullover that was made RIGHT outside our window, hihihi, we payed close attention, and the officer was kind of cute, so...hihihi. Here it is!



Today I got a lot of homewrok done, so I feel a whole lot better! I started making plans for "tomorrow", and it works like a charm :D
See ya!

*lol*

I made Maya put me in these backgrounds, hihi....... FUN! :P







More coming I think, hihi..!