Sunday, July 15, 2007
this is summer
Finaly...
Time to relax, time to do nothing and time to enjoy good times with good friends=)
Sunday, July 08, 2007
understanding
They didn’t speak any English at all.My Swahili is quite limited.
But still, we managed to have a million great conversations together. It’s amazing how much people who don’t speak the same language can understand from each other as long as they just want to.
Some say that language and borders are barriers. But I can’t see that.
People miss out on so much because they are afraid. Afraid of not understanding, afraid of unexpected things and afraid that something might go wrong.
As long as people have an open mind and are willing to try to understand each other, language and borders are nothing but great possibilities!
Friday, June 29, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
the magic of books
I have many books.
And I absolutely love them.
Fantasy books, biographies, novels, dictionaries, travel books and you name it. I can never get enough.
One of the things that I love about them, is that they make me forget the things around me. They let me dive into the imagination and the memory of others and live a life that is not mine. Books are a magic way to disappear for some time. I close myself into my room with my book, I shut myself out of the real world and I hide in another one. And that is the magic of books to me. They let me be someone else for a while, someone I am not, someone I will never be, They let me do and experience things that I will never have the chance to do. But somehow, just by reading the books, I feel that I have done it after all.
It's magic...
And I absolutely love them.
Fantasy books, biographies, novels, dictionaries, travel books and you name it. I can never get enough.
One of the things that I love about them, is that they make me forget the things around me. They let me dive into the imagination and the memory of others and live a life that is not mine. Books are a magic way to disappear for some time. I close myself into my room with my book, I shut myself out of the real world and I hide in another one. And that is the magic of books to me. They let me be someone else for a while, someone I am not, someone I will never be, They let me do and experience things that I will never have the chance to do. But somehow, just by reading the books, I feel that I have done it after all.
It's magic...
Thursday, June 14, 2007
The fairytail city
I felt like I was walking around in a fairytail city with castles on every corner and princes and princesses hiding in the towers...It was amazing!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
usa vs Al-Arjan
Okay, back to some serious business
A few days back I saw the documentary "Usa vs Al-Arjan", and I couldn't believe my own eyes, or ears for that matter. An innocent man was hold prisoner for 2 and a half years without being charged of anything!! And after a 6 months long trial where he was found NOT GUILTY on every charge, he was still not released from prison. It's crazy, I don't know what to say other than that I'm shocked. I had heard it was bad, but that it was that bad!
And me who thought the Usa was a democracy, I guess I was wrong...
A few days back I saw the documentary "Usa vs Al-Arjan", and I couldn't believe my own eyes, or ears for that matter. An innocent man was hold prisoner for 2 and a half years without being charged of anything!! And after a 6 months long trial where he was found NOT GUILTY on every charge, he was still not released from prison. It's crazy, I don't know what to say other than that I'm shocked. I had heard it was bad, but that it was that bad!
And me who thought the Usa was a democracy, I guess I was wrong...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
This is how weird I am!!! hahahha
| You Are 30% Weird |
 Not enough to scare other people... But sometimes you scare yourself. |
I definitely thought I was a lot weirder than that!!
I guess I should be happy that I'm not, but I'm not. I like thinking of myself as weird, and I definitely scare myself sometimes...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
two young girls
One day I was walking around in my village in Tanzania, I saw these two young girls. They were walking in front of me, they were laughing, smiling, running back and forth. They seemed so happy, like they had nothing to worry about in the entire world.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Things I want to do befor I die...
I am a dreamer. I dream all the time and I have so many dreams that I would like for to come true. So many things I want to do before I die. So many things I need to do...
- I want to visit all the continents and more than 100 countries.
- I want to move to Latin America and learn Spanish.
- I want to work in an organisation thet makes a differens.
- I want to make a difference for someone.
- I want to see lake Victoria in Tanzania.
- I want to go on a backpacker trip in Africa.
- I want to get rich so that I can give my money for charity.
- I want to spend one week or more with the Masaai people in the Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania.
- I want to take the trans Siberian railway from Moscow and all the way to the end.
- I want to travel through India by my self.
- I want to really learn Swahili.
- I want to study so many different things.
- I want to go on a sailboat trip between the Greek islands with my friend Lene.
- I want to get a divers licence.
- I want to hire a motorcycle and drive from Mexico to Argentina in a big, old car with my good friend Eivind.
- I want to go to Australia.
- I want to go back to France and stay there a few more years.
- I want to go bunji jumping.
- I want to move to one country in West Africa with the purpose of learning how to play drums (traditional African drums)
- I want to be smart.
- I want to feel important to somebody.
Friday, April 06, 2007
summerbreeze
"Once a failure
Always a retard
Go through them books just read
I went to school with an offer from my teacher
He said, pleas don't look down on me
But I will
oh oh oh
oh
Well I don't care about you more than a decoration,
In your home
So why should you care about mine?
I've had enough of this comfort conversation
In my mind you're all retards anyhow.
If you think love will come towards you like a warm summer breeze
You've got your head among the clouds and you will never be free
You'll spend many nights alone,
Ooooh i know...
If you don't feel the way I do it don't matter
Cus, I'll never know how you feel.
But if you do then sure I'll be flattered
In my mind it's all different anyhow
I think love will come towards me like a warm summer breeze
I've got my head among the clouds and I will never be free
I'll spend many nights alone,
Ooooooh, i know
I know cus I have, and I will.
Yeah, I have , I will..."
Johnossi
Always a retard
Go through them books just read
I went to school with an offer from my teacher
He said, pleas don't look down on me
But I will
oh oh oh
oh
Well I don't care about you more than a decoration,
In your home
So why should you care about mine?
I've had enough of this comfort conversation
In my mind you're all retards anyhow.
If you think love will come towards you like a warm summer breeze
You've got your head among the clouds and you will never be free
You'll spend many nights alone,
Ooooh i know...
If you don't feel the way I do it don't matter
Cus, I'll never know how you feel.
But if you do then sure I'll be flattered
In my mind it's all different anyhow
I think love will come towards me like a warm summer breeze
I've got my head among the clouds and I will never be free
I'll spend many nights alone,
Ooooooh, i know
I know cus I have, and I will.
Yeah, I have , I will..."
Johnossi
Sunday, March 25, 2007
happy again
Yes, I'm happy again!!
I've been kind a down since I came back from Tanzania, but now, somehow, I'm acctually quite happy! I'm travelling around the country having presentations about my stay in Tanzania and I'm enjoying it!! I still miss tanzania like crazy, and I want to go back as soon as I can. But somehow, I'm happy!
I've been kind a down since I came back from Tanzania, but now, somehow, I'm acctually quite happy! I'm travelling around the country having presentations about my stay in Tanzania and I'm enjoying it!! I still miss tanzania like crazy, and I want to go back as soon as I can. But somehow, I'm happy!
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
bobbles
One of my younger brothers in Tanzania playing with soap bobles. They had never seen it before and loved it!!
WOMEN'S DAY!!!
I'm a feminist..
because women are suppressed by men all over the world.
because young girls are being circumcised.
because girls and women are still going through arranged marriages that they don't want to go through.
because I feel ugly with hair on my legs.
and because my brother doesn't.
because the Nigerians prostitutes in Oslo don't get to keep the money they earn..
because women earn less money than men.
because women so many places are still supposed to stay at home and take care of her husband and her children.
because almost every celebrity is as skinny as a stick.
because I feel that I need to be more skinny and more beautiful.
because the police tells women and girls that it is dangerous to walk home alone when it is dark outside.
because Hilary Clinton is not going to be president.
because women are sold as objects in the international sex trade.
and because it is men who are the brains behind this sex trade.
because girls are many places refused the right to go to school.
because women in Switzerland didn't get to vote before 1971.
because girls are being sexually harassed and raped every day.
and because when a woman takes it to court they ask her what she was wearing.
because women normally take their husbands last name when they get married.
because we haven't had a woman as prime minister since 1996.
because people keep telling me that the international women's day has gone out on date and that we don't need it anymore.
because women before me have fought to get to where we are today.
and because I want to continue fighting for women's rights.
because I want to feel free!
Happy women's day to all you lovely women out there!!!
because women are suppressed by men all over the world.
because young girls are being circumcised.
because girls and women are still going through arranged marriages that they don't want to go through.
because I feel ugly with hair on my legs.
and because my brother doesn't.
because the Nigerians prostitutes in Oslo don't get to keep the money they earn..
because women earn less money than men.
because women so many places are still supposed to stay at home and take care of her husband and her children.
because almost every celebrity is as skinny as a stick.
because I feel that I need to be more skinny and more beautiful.
because the police tells women and girls that it is dangerous to walk home alone when it is dark outside.
because Hilary Clinton is not going to be president.
because women are sold as objects in the international sex trade.
and because it is men who are the brains behind this sex trade.
because girls are many places refused the right to go to school.
because women in Switzerland didn't get to vote before 1971.
because girls are being sexually harassed and raped every day.
and because when a woman takes it to court they ask her what she was wearing.
because women normally take their husbands last name when they get married.
because we haven't had a woman as prime minister since 1996.
because people keep telling me that the international women's day has gone out on date and that we don't need it anymore.
because women before me have fought to get to where we are today.
and because I want to continue fighting for women's rights.
because I want to feel free!
Happy women's day to all you lovely women out there!!!
Monday, February 05, 2007
Rain
When it first starts to rain in Tanzania, it really rains!! This picture is taken outside my house in Usangi...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
lions
Befor going to The Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania, I was told that it happened that lions laied under the cars in the search of shadow. I didn't acctully believe what i was being told, but it turned out to be true...
Ofcourse it was very cool to see the lions up so close, they were 1 meter from our car!!! But they are suposed to be free and wild animals. Okey, they are free to go wherever they want to, but they are sure as not wild anymore! And I don't like it at all...These animals are so tame that they SLEEP under CARS, ther's just something wrong with that!
Sunday, January 28, 2007
I'm back again.
I'm back in Norway.
First impression is that everything is so grey and everything looks so sad, it's unpersonal and steril. And it's so quiet!!! It's a lot of people around me, but I don't think that I've experienced such a silence in 5 months..
I want to go back. Right now. I just shouldn't have left. People doesn't talk together, people sit down next to eachother without saying a word, without even smiling to eachother. I tried to smile to someone, all I got in return was a strange look from that person and he left. People are so cold. I already miss the friendliness of the tanzanians, the joy og life they show, the way they great everyone nomatter if they know them or not. They made me feel home there, they were so welcoming towards me. Here people look so angry, they dont smile, everyone is bussy with their own stuff, it doesn't seem like people care about eachother. It sounds like one of those africa klisjes, but it's true, it's so true!
I feel empty inside. I don't know if I should cry or laugh of all this. It's so far away. I've been crying for 3 days and I'm tired of crying. I don't know what to feel. Okey, it's going to be nice to see everyone again, family and friends, it's going to be very good to take a nice shower where the water comes from above and on top of that is hot, put on clean clothes, it's going to be good to not have to tuck in the mosquito net everyday and not to live with coacroaches and lizards, and it's going to be great not to eat rice and beans everyday. But then again why does all this matter when I was having such a great time, when I had people that cared about me around me, when I was so happy? Absolutely nothing!
I want to go back home to Tanzania!
First impression is that everything is so grey and everything looks so sad, it's unpersonal and steril. And it's so quiet!!! It's a lot of people around me, but I don't think that I've experienced such a silence in 5 months..
I want to go back. Right now. I just shouldn't have left. People doesn't talk together, people sit down next to eachother without saying a word, without even smiling to eachother. I tried to smile to someone, all I got in return was a strange look from that person and he left. People are so cold. I already miss the friendliness of the tanzanians, the joy og life they show, the way they great everyone nomatter if they know them or not. They made me feel home there, they were so welcoming towards me. Here people look so angry, they dont smile, everyone is bussy with their own stuff, it doesn't seem like people care about eachother. It sounds like one of those africa klisjes, but it's true, it's so true!
I feel empty inside. I don't know if I should cry or laugh of all this. It's so far away. I've been crying for 3 days and I'm tired of crying. I don't know what to feel. Okey, it's going to be nice to see everyone again, family and friends, it's going to be very good to take a nice shower where the water comes from above and on top of that is hot, put on clean clothes, it's going to be good to not have to tuck in the mosquito net everyday and not to live with coacroaches and lizards, and it's going to be great not to eat rice and beans everyday. But then again why does all this matter when I was having such a great time, when I had people that cared about me around me, when I was so happy? Absolutely nothing!
I want to go back home to Tanzania!
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