3rd week in Trondheim

It has been quite long. but now am back and ready to share my past week. I must say it was fairly successful though with a hiccup that did not leave me the same. however as we all know, that is part of being alive. one can definately not expect smooth ways but humps on the road which check speed and get one thinking.

sunday 12th okt
i woke up quite late yet i wanted to attend church. nevertheless i insisted on attending church, and headed out in much hurry forgeting my buscard in the process. since i wanted to attend church, i had to cough the cash for the journey to my pain oouuch. it was family sunday so it was quite short as the children attended the main service. the preacher tried to balance but mainly focused on the children. after church i headed to Lillians place ( she attends the same church and is also in laget) where there was ameeting for young adults who are btn the ages of 22-39. enjoyed the fellowship, met new people and also did games that were so much fun. meanwhile as the meeting neared the end i rembered that i did not have a bus card. i was not willing to cough more money so walked with 2 others that didnt believe in the bus theory. it took me about 50minutes to get home as we were slow...so overly it was a good day except for the news later in the evening that did not bless me.

mandag 13th okt
first day in my norskkurs. my class started at 8.45. felt that was too early because of the previous late mornings for me. ofcourse the truth is that in any job setting one would be at work by 8am but in my case i was still enjoying sleeping in-in the morning. it was not so successful as the teacher spoke lots of norsk which made it difficult. this runs for 3hours everyday.
3pm: met with my contact person who loves to teach the bible, spent time discussing how i can be part of the venture, normally i would have been excited but the news last evening didnot leave me any choice but to contemplate life and what it throws at us sometimes...so hopefully will recover fast and get going.

Tirsdag14th okt
10.30am norskkurs. this was better timing for me and enjoyed the bed longer.
5.30pm headed out to Berg where i was supposed to meet up with Håkon so we go to KRIK. we later headed there, ofcourse i didnot join in the sports bit but later was part of the meeting. well you would think that people would be so concerned to translate for you while someone else is speaking but alas no one is usually concerned. that is strange as they know i donot speak the lanuage so missed out as Håkon was translating for Landi...anyway that is something i have to get used to when we are 2 english speakers and only one person is trying to translate in small group. thankfully later on i enjoyed his services at the expense of my teammate who had people seated near her but didnot dare help...hmmm

onsdag15 okt
normal classes + bible lesson in the evening. the topic was discipleship, the speaker spoke straight to my heart and passion. i so much enjoyed the examples and bible verses he shared. this prompted me to get serious with my friend that am accountable to and share my happenings. it is important as Christians to have someone or people that we are accountable to, these will walk with us we can not manage alone. So i challenge you to pray about someone you can have as an accoutability partner(s).

torsdag16th okt
it was quite slow. left school and headed home as i didnot have a program for the evening at Berg(place where students hold their meetings(read fellowship). had people come over at home and we watched 'phantom of the opera', it was a fairly good evening but mainly glad for the rest and time to relax.

fredag17th okt
i had been looking forward to this day as Kjetil a student from laget invited me to join him for a meeting he was going to attend. he had been invited to speak by some youth in a certain place (sorry i can not remember the name of the place) so met up with him and headed out in the evening. needed to take the ferry at one point, enjoyed the meeting. and came back by boat. well its right to say that it was my highlight this week. it was quite refreshing to meet youths of about 15yrs old and laugh with them.

restuarant on the ferry

The ferry as different cars were getting on. so different from the open ferries at home, guess it because of the weather differences + cash ofcourse...

playing the bucket game-go around the bucket and avoid knocking it over, if you touch then your out.however your trying to push your neighbour to touch it

boat we used to trave back, was comfortable and it took about 30min compared to the almost 2hrs with the bus via ferry.

one of the youth at the meeting. in the bus back to town, he was headed to oslo for a meeting.