Solitude and peace

Time is a strange thing. It changes everything. Our preferences, our thoughts, our bodies, our feelings, our realities. They say that our taste changes every couple of years, and our body cells replace themselves at different rates. Both physically and mentally we are a different person after a while and it is a great wonder to me how people can ever be 100 per cent certain of their choices.

I'm at all certain of living in Norway for example. I do enjoy it a lot and for the time being I do want to live here. But when people ask me: ''So have you decided to live in Norway for ever? ''. I'm lost, thinking how crazy one must be to answer with any certainty this question, before I end up answering to a different question:'' I like living here! ''.

Lately I feel I am on the verge of a great change. I have been pregnant in this for some three or so years now.  I have had a denial time, a fighting time, a numbing time, or incubation period if you want, and now I'm running a calm period with the certainly of the new era right in front of me and for a change (yeah I know cheesy pun) welcoming change. I have no idea where I'll end up. Hopefully home. And that has far more to do with the state of our mind than the actual place we live.

In Praise of The Quiet Life

Emotions are pure trouble

but they lead us to make good music, lyrics, art! :)

Side effect of work in a kindergarden

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When I first heard it I found it awesome! I loved it! However, this fucking yet super cute song plays on repeat on my mind in the afternoon, evening and night hours. Without taking into account that I sing it far more often than the kids themselves in the kindergarden!!! :D  

I remember it happened once again with the little Drummer boy! The whole Christmas period I was singing para pa pa pam. 

And not to forget the other highly addictive Christmas song! 

 

GOD JUL! Merry Christmas! Καλά Χριστούγεννα!! 

The benefit of understanding the language!

Learning Norwegian, or any other language, when you absolutely need to is no fun! I actually believe the necessity of the situation hinders even the progress. Or maybe this is a bad excuse I tell to my lazy self...

In any case this is a celebration post! A post to celebrate the feel good moments of actually using and enjoying the language and all the opportunities it opens for my well being here!

Soon or later in your language learning you'll get a suggestion to read one of Erlend Loe's books.
This is a fact! 

Normally this involves the 'Naive Supert' novel but the 'Tatt av kvinnen' is a far better suggestion as it's so much less confusing and it exists in film form as well. If you're a little fan of literature then you'll soon find yourself reading a second book of his. I have read now several of his works and I absolutely love his simple style and his humor! I have found that his writing has this ideal balance of heart-aching and criticism of the things Norwegian society comes short.

This is my perspective of how to mention the issues of a specific society. Yes, you can point it out, even exaggerate and make it hilarious, produce a lot of laughter but at the same time you HAVE TO care DEEPLY for this society. Maybe this is one of the reasons, I have a problem with foreigners who point fingers, through fun blogs/ comic books ect, to how ''strange'' (clearly to them) the Norwegian ways are. It can always be, of course, that I'm too stiff  to get it but let's get back to Loe. Calling him my favourite norwegian writer would be a bit of exaggeration as I have read books of only two norwegian writers but he definitely holds this place in my heart right now, anyway!

So attending the discussion, he participated at litteraturehuset i Trondheim, was something that made me very proud of my language skills and super excited! I hardly ever get excited by meeting famous people but this time my enthusiasm was skyrocketed! & Certainly he didn't let me down!

I especially admired Loe's attitude towards the novice writer, Mímir Kristjánsson, who rather dominated the discussion leaving often the audience either laughing or impressed by all the heavy literature references he managed to include to each of his responses. :) Simon Stranger, who was the third writer in the event, spoke with modesty and clarity and I think he will be the writer I'll check next. After finishing, of course, the trilogy of Doppler!

Such a well spend Saturday afternoon!!! :D

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Yesterday I was feeling a bit lonely and sad so I decided to go out for a walk. November is not my best time. I'm feeding on sun and the shorter days have always taken a toll on me, even when I lived in Greece! Anyway fresh air helps a lot, as well as fish oil but yesterday I had already consumed my fishy pills so I was putting on my sneakers

 when the landlord's cat decided to explore my apartment.

 

After her curiosity was satisfied, it was time for some petting and playing.  :D

Having a pet is great! Having a borrowed pet is even greater!! Thanks for the visit! 

You're very welcome during all the winter months and further!!!