The places I've been and the places I'll go...

For my age I guess I have been around quite a bit. I can cross of more then ten countries that I have visited, but I still feel like I have a long way to go before i can call myself a world traveller. I want to see as much of the world as i possibly can, and there are SO many places on my wishlist! I have a goal in life to visit every continent at least once, and i plan to reach that.

But you gotta start somewhere, right, and so that's what I plan to do here as well. So I'll just randomly start with one of the places I've visited, and go from there.

!Tone

Another attempt!

Once again I am making an attempt to reenter the world of bloging. I do realise I have missed it quite a bit. I never stopped writing, I have just been doing it in private and out of reach of the world to see.

This blog has gone through a bit of a layout-makeover since last. This project is still in progress, and hopefully I will end up with a layout I am perfectly happy with. Although, truth be told, the changes will probably keep coming, cause knowing myself, I need to make small changes form time to time, within all aspects of my life, to keep myself from getting stuck in one place.

This is also the reason I have come to fall in love with travelling, and the beauty of experiencing the world, which again leads me to what this blog is now going to become.

I initially meant for this blog to be a way of keeping in touch with the friends i made during my year in the US, but since I was never really good at keeping the blog updated that never really worked out.

However, I now want to turn the blog into more of a travelguide then a diary. That way I can share my experiences of places I've been, and my expectations and hopes of places I wish to go someday with whoever might be interested.

! Tone

PS: And I will be better at updates! Promise!

I'm back!

Ok. So, I'm back! I have gone a few months without bloging at all, but I decided that I kind of miss it just a little. I can't promise that I'll be great with the updates from now on, but I'll do my very best.

The problem is, though: I still don't have anything in particular to write about, so i think I'll just go along with whatever is going on at the moment and just see what comes out of that. I might even surprise myself... Who knows:)

I'm almost done with school now. For good! Or for a while that is... In about 8 months I am most likely heading to Bali, Indonesia along with a really cool girl and good friend, Silje. We are gonna study there, together with other Norwegian students, for 3 months. Looking forward to that!:)

Before that I'll be a working class hero, and I'll be located at my job in the grocerystore at the mall.

But most importantly... Like I said: I'm back at the blog! So I'll see you around (whoever you are)!

!Tone

Done

I have made a decition to end my days as a blogger. It's been fun, but as of right now I'm not doing it more that a couple of times a month and it's now just a thing I feel like I HAVE to do... In other words; I'm not really enjoying it anymore!

Therefore: Goodbye!:) Who knows... Maybe I'll be back as a bloger sometime in the future?!

! Tone

They are doing an amazing job

Plan is a charity organization, and helps people (especially children) who live in povery and/or discrimination. They work in 66 different counties, all over the world. Their slogan is ''For children, with children'' which pretty much describes their work. Every year Plan gives thousands of children the opportunity to go to school, better or establish a medical support in small communities, give people clean drinking water and so on.

Plan is also an organization that offers ''far-away-adoptions.'' This means that families here in Norway pays a certain amount of money every month to Plan, and the money is used to help a child somwhere go to school or give they whatever help they need. It's an absolutetly amazing idea, and for most people in this country (and other many other rich countries) it's such a small amount of money that we don't even notice it. And still, it's lifechanging for the child that recieves the benefits of it.

My own famliy have been doing this for a few years now. Our frist ''far-away-adoption'' was a girl from Paraguay. Her name was Alicia. We frequently recieved pictures of her, letters she wrote us, and information about her and her family and how our money helped her. Through the years our money helped her go to school for a while, and it contributed to get clean drinking water and a sewage system to her village. When she turned 18 last year she was no longer a candidate for the program, unfortunantly, so we now have a new ''far-away-adoption.'' His name is Charles. He is 6 years old and lives on the street in Uganda. We still recieve pictures and information about him on a regular basis, but we're not yey as ''close'' with hime as we were with Alicia.

Right now, Plan has a campaign going. It's about discrimination of girls and women all over the world. A part of the campaign is the ''I gave my face, and got a pink one back''-slogan. By uploading a picture of ourselves hundreds of Norwegian girls show their support of Plan, and their opposition of forced marriages and female disrcimination.

Thank you, Plan, for doing such inspiring work!

This is my pink face!

!Tone

A clear evening sky!

For the first time in months (because of clouds) there are stars on the evening sky. I absolutely love the stars. They give me some kind of calm, relaxed felling, like they'r watching over me or something. And still they are so clear and far far away. They're a mystery, but still so familiar. I would dare to claim that if the time and place is just right, stars are the most beautiful thing in the world! ...No, never mind that. I would have to say the universe as we know it.

Magdalen and I used to sit outside and watch the stars at night, when we were younger. I remember especially one time, when there were no other lights around, the ground was covered in about half a meter of snow, and the sky had norhtern lights falshing a little. We brought blankets and hot chocolat outside, and just sat there... Talked about boys, gossiping, giggeling...

When I really think about it, that's probably part of the reason why I love the stars so much. I have so many good memories that include them. I associate them with something good and safe. I could tell you about at least six or seven, right now, from the top of my head! But I won't cause I have to go to bed! Tomorrow's electionday over here, and as a first time voter, I don't wanna mess anything up because I've been blogging all night...

! Tone

A strong urge to travel

For the past year and a half (almost) I've been on the move a lot, but the last three months it's been way less. I have not been farther away from home then Bergen since I got home from the US, and I'm feeling a very strong urge to go somewhere! I have so many plans and ideas, but unfortunantly I don't have the money (or the time for that matter). My biggest wish at the moment is to go somewhere warm and sunny, which would be such a comfortable change from the grey, wet weather I'm dealing with.

I even had to buy a new pair of boots yesterday, because of all this rain!:)

But next summer... Next summer I'm getting out of here for a while! Inter Rail is the plan. For those of you who don't know what Inter Rail is, take a look here:
http://www.interrailnet.com/

My mom did this several times when she was my age, and she keeps telling me it's the most amazing way to see Europe.

I'm going with my amazing girlfriends, and since Mari and I both have other friends all over Europe, we might just stop by some:) It'll be great!

! Tone