Merry Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

At least it is here in Norway where they celebrate Christmas on the 24th. So at the moment I am sitting in my apartment doing this...but will soon go to Peter and Hilde's house to have Christmas dinner with them and their family!! NICE! Fun thing is that tonight I will phone home and it will be Christmas there at the same time but different dates.....Not sure when I should be opening my presents though.

Here is a fuzzy photo of the Christmas tree I have in my house!! Very nice to have.

We have now had the darkest day (shortest day) and I am looking forward to growing sunlight and the very much anticipated day of first seeing the sun! I will be cheating a little because I will go to the south of Norway to see it.

It really is not as dark as some people may think....especially when the snow is here. Below are some photos taken about 11am. By 1pm it was totally dark again. Thank God for the snow which has been coming and going over the past weeks.

From our backyard



There is a Lavuu which has a fireplace inside and is great for when the skating rink is set up.

Another couple of views

Well I hope the this festive season goes well for all and we always keep in mind what we are celebrating!!

God Bless!

PS My Christmas newsletter is available to download on my main website; one change however is that my trip to Mali has had to be cancelled as it clashed too much time wise with my trip to Russia....disappointing!!

Sock eating monster

I had the proof in my hands the other day that washing machines (and I suspect dryers) do in fact eat socks. Our machine was not working and with Sigurd's help we found the culprit....a green sock. Somehow it had either squeezed its way through the tiny little holes in the drum, or slipped past the door and seal into the filter......thrilling stuff, right?!

However I properly do have better things to write about than a washing machine and a sock.

Yip! It is now officially Christmas holidays and I have quickly got into my habit of late nights and late mornings (or afternoons). But it really is depressing to wake up after the little brightness we have in the day is gone. The end is in sight though as the shortest day is coming soon so the tide of darkness will soon be turning. It has been snowing the last couple of days which is a very welcome relief to the ice of the last two weeks. BEAUTIFUL!!

It is nice to have several of the students around for a few more days, they will leave on Friday. But Olga, one of my flatmates, will be here over Christmas so that is great to have the company.

I will spend Christmas eve (which is the main Christmas meal) with a family from the base here so that will be great.

Otherwise I am happy....I will try and get some photos on here soon....as soon as I take some.

Busy Week

This is the last teaching week of the DTS now it has been very busy. We are video conferencing with another YWAM base in South Sweden and it is going well. But all the people at the base who would normally be setting all the equipment up are not here....so that leaves me, who now has learnt in a very practical way how to run "Genesis".

But....hey, I like learning new things and having challenges to work through so it is all good.

The best thing is that Tove Poulsen is our speaker here and she is a friend of mine, so that is great to have her around.

REALLY looking forward to Christmas break....but I will miss all the students and staff as they are fun to have around.

DTS 06/07

Here is the DTS......L to R Hanna (Finland), Melodie (Canada), Me (NZ), Bex (New Zealand/Aussie), Leivur (Faroe Islands), Cherob (USA), Annika (Faroe Islands).

FRONT: L-R Bea and Niko (USA/Germany), Jung Im (South Korea), Lenneke (Holland) and Sigurd (Norway)

Tis me...

Twisted my arm!!!!

OK....I am caving in to the blog world, submitting to the peer-pressure, opening myself to the public view of the viewing public......welcome to my blog.

As you know, I do already have a website and I will continue with that site, but I getting a little discouraged with lack of feedback and not knowing who was bothering to check up on me.
Thus here you can leave messages and (hopefully!!) be a little more informed about my life as I will try and update more than once a month!

Another problem was in my other site I have reached the limit of storage space (without paying more) so I will put photos here as well.

So here I go......