I won!

So, during freshers week we had something called “moosa dollars”, which pretty much is fake dollar bills with a picutre of a moose on them. A bunch of people had them, and you had to do something funny/weird/extraordinary for them to give you one. So during freshers week you had a chance every day to collect as many as you could, and then at the end of freshers week there would be an auction where you could bid on different things with these fake money.

At first I was kinda “neh” on the whole “collecting fake paper money”-idea, so I only had five of them. But then when I found out about all the cool stuff you could bid on, I just went “crazy norwegian”-style and tracked down as many people with moosa dollars that I could find. My best move was to sing. In norwegian. As bad as I could. The song? Itsy Bitsy Spider.

After about an hour of bad singing and a bunch of people laughing at me, Ì had over 60 moosa dollars.

This is what I won:

I’m so happy! A free trip where I can bring my sunshine and explore so much of Scotland…for free! 😀

I also won a free haircut for both me and my sunshine, and a free meal for two including red or white wine. Yay!

Pollock Halls, Edinburgh University

This is where I live! Baird House at Pollock Halls!

Everything is great! Freshers week is (finally) over. I feel too old for this. Partying seven days a week with next to no sleep what so ever, meeting a bunch of new people every day, new names, new places, new rules. I must say, I was a bit exhausted when the week was coming to an end.

Started my lectures on monday, and everything seems so… exciting! Can’t wait do dig down in my 1300-thick biology book! So far this is everything I hoped for, and even more. Hoping to get some time to talk to everyone back home this week, so people, log on to skype!

Oh, yeah, btw: I won a bunch of great stuff at the freshers auction, which I will tell you all about in another post.
Can say as much as this: a free trip costing over £230!

My first post from Edinburgh!

The first picture from Edinburgh. From the hotel we stayed in the first night.

The reception at Pollock Halls, where I live. And Arthurs Seat (the mountain) in the back!

One of the buildings at our campus.

Found these awesome duck-socks at Primark, and convinced my sunshine to buy them. They are so cute!

From Pollock Halls were I live, and to my sunshine, there is a 20 min walk through this beautiful park. Just love having him so close, it makes everything so much easier.

Everything is so great here! I love it! There hasn’t been that much time to sit on the computer, and even less time to go out and take pictures, but after this week things will calm down a bit! I can promise a bunch of amazing pictures in the near future. Almost all the buildings in Edinburgh looks like they could have been in one of the Harry Potter movies. I love that.

I will be posting some more pictures from my photoshoots earlier this summer just so the wait between posts won’t be too long.

Edinburgh, here I come

“Congratulations.
This email confirms your place at The University of Edinburgh for the Biological Sciences (Zoology).
Your course starts in September 2012.”

I have no words… Just so relieved. Finally!!!

What I feared has come upon me

A picture I took of myself when I first moved to my own apartment.
I have been holding on to this photo for almost a year now.

I feel a bit scared sharing this, but right now, almost everything is scary.
Still no yes og no from any school, in other words, still no bright future ahead of me. Not knowing if I will start my studies in Edinburgh in september, or if I will be staying in Norway doing….nothing…is so frustrating!

The blog is one month old now and last night it passed 1000 views, yay!