First day

The view from my room. I have arrived in Norway!

I'm dead tired but as it doesn't really get very dark sleep will be hard to come by.

The people here are supreme. There's a few other volunteers. Larry, from the USA. Renana from Israel en Ingrid from France, and we're expecting more.

I'm getting to work tomorrow, helping to set up for a literature conference and an art exposition.

Checking out now,
- Ari

1 day

Departure: the day after tomorrow.

Nerves? Hell yes.


I mannaged to fit everything into my backpack, go figure.

Tips if anyone ever needs to pack a lot of stuff into a rucksack: What has more strength than one person? Exactly; three people!
And that is the amount of people it took to close the backpack.

(That moment when you realise you're not exactly sure if you put that one sweater in there but fear your backpack might explode if you open up the zipper...)


FAQ:

Send me a postcard!
=> Yes,  I will. To everyone of you out there that wants a postcard, give me your address and I will make sure a postcard reaches you! :)

When will you be back?
=> I'm not 100% sure yet, probably somewhere around the end of august.

What kind of weather is it "up there"?
=> Pretty much the same sh*** weather it's here right now. No, it is not snowing in Lapland right now.

Are you gonna meet santa claus?
 => You bet! And you better not pout, shout or cry and I'll tell you why.... He'll put you on the naughty list.


Checking out now. By next post, I hope to have made it to my first destination! ;)

- Ari

The blog.

Most of you probably already know that I am leaving to Scandinavia next week. This here will be my blog during my stay in Norway and Northern Sweden. That way I can take you all with me, isn’t that just exciting?! :-D

For those of you that don’t know of my exact travel plans yet:

On the 27^th of June I will be leaving to Norway to spend a month volunteering at a hotel near Kristiansand. I will mainly be helping with renovations of a part of the hotel called “the peace centre”.

After that I will be leaving to Northern Sweden to help on a Husky farm, but only after have a short layover in Stockholm.

The first month expect many posts here, the second month expect none.

The people I will be staying at do not have internet, do not have TV, and in the area they live there is no cell phone coverage. (They also don’t have hot water, hurray.)

In the month I’ll be staying in Norway of course I do hope I will improve my Norwegian. (More on the importance of travelling when you’re learning a language on my OTHER blog “ Babilon ”, do check it out!)

It is now less than a week before departure and there’s many things left to do. This being said, I probably better get to doing so.

In the meantime I advise you to listen to this little tune down here to set the mood: