Home, sweet home!!!!

Wow....... I'm HOME!!!!!!! :D
And it is truly sweeeeet... Everything is the same back home with mom and dad, and I LOVE it!!!!! Me and my sister are having a great time together, and I'm learning to live with my BF again, hehe...

AS most of you know, I went to Peru with Tessa in May, and WHAT A TRIP!!!! I love that country now, it has so much to offer!!! Such diversity, from the coast to the jungle to the mountains, the big cities and the tiny villages, WOW!
Go to www.facebook.com
and see my pictures, and you'll fall in love too...! Man, so much love and hospitality, rich in culture but poor economically/financially. Just go see my pics...! :D

Highlights from the trip:
* Mud bath in Mancora
* Inka museum in Chiclayo (where we lived with THE sweetest old couple)
* Just an absurd stay in Tarapoto
* Police-escort in Yurimagua
* Boatride from Yurimagua to Iquitos (who knew the sky had THAT many stars...?)
* Jungle stay meeting baby crocs and seeing village life
* Machu Picchu, all of it
* Tessa's diahrea :P
* My diahrea :D
* Last day in Lima when I finally dared speak more spanish to the family we stayed with, haha....

Here we are in Machu Picchu! Yes, it was steep, you can see the Inka city way behind there, hihi....


But there are SO many things that happened, small things, details, ajajaj.... Travel people, TRAVEL... For what it's worth.....


The US: I have learned SO much about myself and others, an I com back a wiser person. I miss people, I know I'll miss more, plus the teachers, but I also know I will always remember them. And thank GOD for internet! :D

What would I be in the dictionary...?

Anne Marie Erichsen -- [adjective]: Extremely extreme! 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

-[ Anne Marie Erichsen ]- Walked across Antarctica 3 times 'What will you be remembered for?' at QuizGalaxy.com

MISSING: Anne Marie Erichsen

Was last seen eating at arby's

'What will you last be seen doing?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Just a quick one

I'm in PERUUUUUUUUUUUUU, and I LOVE it!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D
Lots of pics and stuff will come up here when I get back, yaaaaayyyyy!!!!
I am doing great, Tessa is even better, and now we're going out in the jungle to find some tarantulas! :D

Sisten

I'm sorry this is in norwegian, but I really don't have the energy to translate it atm. Sorry! But it basically says "write 6 things about you, tag 6 other peoplea dn make them do the same".

Her er spillereglene til Sistern på blogg, noe nytt som er på gang, hehe.
Spillereglene: Hver spiller starter med å skrive seks rare ting om seg selv. Bloggere som blir "tatt" må skrive seks ting om seg selv i sin egen blogg, i tillegg til å angi reglene for spillet. Til slutt velger spilleren seks nye bloggere som "har den", og lister navnene deres. Etter at det er gjort, skriver han eller hun en kommentar på bloggene til hver av dem, for å la dem vite at de har blitt "tatt", og at de må lese bloggen til den som tok dem for mer informasjon.

Here are 6 about me you are DYING to know :P
1: I sing. A LOT.
2: I love HoDo (the lounge/bar at Hotel Donaldson)
3: I am married to Michelle Bar
4: I miss home a little, especially moms food
5: I can do cartwheels both ways (slå hjul)
6: I am learning spanish, my 6th language! :)

Now, Espen, you better help me out here. I mimght tag Samuel too, just because. Enjoy!

The week after tour

Boy this week has been kind of hard...! Adjusting to "real life" again after tour was something I thought I was prepared for, but then again maybe not, hehe... It's been hard getting into doing homework again, but it's getting better for sure! This is my week:

MONDAY:
- I felt sick, tired and lonely and not in the mood for school so I stayed in. We didn't have spanish either way, in conducting they watched a video I borrowed later to watch, and the teacher was still on winter time in Voice methods and missed class, so... I didn't miss out on anything!
- Helped Don with a project he is working on: getting hi mself and his family to Norway this summer! They want to live there for two weeks while his wife is doing some sort of internship or something.
- Tessa and I went to Sehla's and did homework, bumoed into Cathrine, another Norwegian on campus :) Turtoring at nine as usual, worked on my upcoming oral and written test. Yikes.

TUESDAY:
- Had the easiest oral exam ever in spanish, haha....
- Walked into a door on my way out from english, SWEET! No one was around to laugh at me, but I laughed pretty hard myself after I got over the worst shock, haha..... Didn't bruise up too bad, Just alittle green-purpleish spot and a red little line under my eyebrow.
- Had my first Social Dance class, and although it's a little slow for me, it's fun!
- Got married to Michelle Bar. *hihi*
- Picked up the cd from out Christmas Concert, I LOVE IT!!! :D :D :D
- They are arranging Concordian Idol here on campus, and I had so tign up, cme on, what do you take me for, haha.... I laughed my was through the audition, sang horrible cause I was out of breath from running, but we'll see, some of it went well, hihi.... FUN!!!

WEDNESDAY:
- My eye bruised up quite a bit more today, I find it kind of funny - after all, I've never had a black eye before!!! Haha....
- Got that spanish test from before break back, and I was right when I thought it went well: 96% and a straight A!!! :D The test that I took after class didn't go too well though I think.... Oops...
- Spent a lot of time in the music building, played my cello and reading. In between i ran an aerand with my wife Michelle, had a great burrito - both in taste and size, man that was a big burrito...! Lost a 20 too. *sob*
- Went to a LeadNow meeting even though i am not sure i will get the certificate because they had a meeting I needed while I was on tour, hmf.... It was originally set to be before, but got postponed, sigh. But we'll see.

THURSDAY:
- Worked out before school it was awesome! I love doing that, but with classes starting at 8.30 I usually need my sleep :S But we'll see when I get back on track more! :)
- Not a very exciting day, but went to the Frosh Finale at night, a showcase where Freshman audition to participate. The hosts were the best part actually, hihi, they were hillarious! Here's why:

Just one of many very funny outfits, hihihi.....!

- Tutoring again with Amazing Mike :P He was very pleased with my A! Here is a picture I took just for you guys, hehe:


- My eye looked really bad at night, so I took some Advil and iced it (with my peas, hihi) on advise from Jenna. Here is another pic:



FRIDAY:
- I love jazz.
- Not an exciting day, but went out bowling with Fran, Momoko, Jillian and a bunch of other people at night, we had a blast! And I ROCKED!!! :D Pics:





SATURDAY:
- Did some reading in my book again, I feel like I'll never get done!
- The Scandinavian Assosation devided to celebreate 17th of March instead of 17th of May because we're not here in May, so we had hot dogs and ice cream and watched "Lange flate ballær" - which I have never seen before - it was great! :D Of course we didn't have the right ice cream or the right lompe, but it worked, hihi.






- Was invited to Dixie's for dinner, they celebrated St. Patricks day this weekend apparently, hihi. Weird thing, but a good escuse to have fun as usual, hihi. Great dinner, then we went to the little girls's ice skating show after, a lot of adorable, and talented kids out there! :)




- Did some hoework before Jess, Sam, Chelsey and Katie came over to hang out, that was nice! Then more homework, woot!
- Tessa and I dragged Inger Helene along (one of the new excahnge students here, from Moelv!) and ended the evening at HoDo, after all it had been 4 weeks since I had been there! I got a bunch of "welcome back" and "how was your tour" from both guests and personell, I LOVE HoDO!!!! :D Inger Helene loved it too, I think she might be bitten by the HoDo-virus, hihi.... We met a few new people as usual, here is a selection of pictures, hihi:





SUNDAY:
- Did a LITTLE reading again, went swimming alone, went grocery shopping with Michelle and Tessa
- Was at the Chapel Choir concert (the choir I used to be in, sob) and it was great! Loved a few of the new pieces and still love the ones I did with them too. They did a cool piece of Eric Whitacre, Cloudburst - check that out!! :)


- Then I goofed around on facebook and this blog, hihi.....

Don't worry, I'll get my tour written down too, just be patient! :)

Wow, awesome....!!!!!!!!!

Well, tour is done! And I have no idea how that last week fle by! When I woke up yesterday morning after coming home, it seemed like the tour happened 3 weeks ago! This post will be extremely long, most because of pictures, but I'm gonna try to keep to a minimum, and then please go to my msn space to view the rest of my pics! I took a BUNCH (like 700) but I'll select the best ones to shoe off there, hehe. Enjoy!

Friday:
- The tour started out a little earlier than people had planned..! I were supposed to leave at 5am (yes, in the MORNING) Saturday, but there was a blizzard on the way, so we wanted to make sure we weren't stuck in Moorhead and left Friday afternoon instead. Thank goodness we already had packed our suitcases and only needed our carry-ons for the flight! But that can be bad enough for a girl, plus, a lot of people didn't get to their aerands before leaving.
I was one of the lucky ones too, I got the message at 11am Friday morning, but some didn't get the message until half an hour before we were supposed to leave, which made people a LITTLE crazy, hehe. I even had time to work out though, it was great!
We stayed at a nice hotel/motel in Roseville just outside Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Saturday:
- Woke up bright and early to get ready for our flight, I was still hyper too, hehe. Had a very "funny" breakfast, aka, I giggeled a LOT, hihi...
- On schedule leaving for the airport, got the airport, waited at the airport. This is what some people did:




Keep looking for updates here! :)

Spring is DEFINITELY arriving!!!!

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......!!!!!!!!!
That's pretty much how I feel these days. The mini tour gave me so much energy, and my body doesn't seem to want to slow down any time soon! Wuite annyoing when you need to do homework and you can't even focus for more than 5 mintues at a time - at the most!

- Well, Monday there was definitely a change in the weather - sun is melting the snow creating water puddles all over! Had a voice methods test today - which I totally had forgotten about! Oops... I studied for an hour before, and I will pass it (I hope) but the grade won't be superb! Or who knows, it might be fine, haha....
Went to Tessa in the afternoon, she had Annema-abstinences, hihi.... Stayed at hers until 4.30am to finish my paper - it took me 7 hours to write 2 pages and one paragraph. This is how my body is working these days. And no, I'm not on drugs or drinking coffee...!!!!

- Tuesday I thought I would be dead beat, but noooooooo, still the same bzzzzzzzzzz-feeling. And frankly, it's getting to the point where it very annoying, at least when I need to do homework. But at least I don't have much truoble getting up in the morning! *hihi*
Had a spanish test, which I think went alright, except the essay at the end. I started making stuff up, haha.... So we'll see! Tried doing homework, didn't work out too well for long, but got my stuff done at least. Even got time to cut Paul's hair! *proud*
Weather is getting warmer and warmer, weeeeeee, it'll probably be gone by the time we get back from tour, cause I am soon going on a tooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuur!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D

- Wednesday I woke up at 5am to pack the rest of my stuff. Weather is getting warmer and windier, not sure I like the wind too much, hehe.
Had my final presentation in Music methods for the classroom, got an A! :D Well, ok, fine, I shouldn't have problems getting an A in this class, but I'm still happy about it :)
Was invited to Jillians to have dinner with her and her mom and Fran (who made Apfelstrudel, yum!). We had a delicious tex-mex meal! Pictures here:




- Thursday I worked out in the morning, had cello whereas my teacher told me a carried myself elegantly - that totally made my day!!! - worked on an essay/analysis, had tutoring. STILL feel hyper, but can focus a little more at least, hehe. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Friday in conducting: First of of all, got an A- on conducting an arrangement of Per spelmann, hehe... TEhn Dr. Clausen said: Guess what, we're leaving this afternoon at 4pm instead of tmorrow morning at 5am!!! So I worked out (to unwind) and packed and left! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, ON A TOUUUUUUUUUUUUUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(That's all for now because of the tour, wait for update!)