Sweet Home Alab- eeh...Stavanger

I'm home for the summer.

I'm home for the summer.

It feels like I've left home instead, and gone to 'the place where I grew up' (once upon a time...)

Paris, I miss you!!

However, I've decided that this summer's gonna be the best one so far. Kinda hard to beat last year, with holidays in Northern Norway, Tokyo and Skjærgårds Music and Mission festival, but I'll definately try! In fact, I want to make this summer a really special HOME&WORKING summer, filled with good memories. I can't wait! Anyone wanna join making great memories?!

This is my list of things I would like to do this summer:

- bike
- read books
- make good food
- play badminton
- go to Stokkavannet (a lake nearby) swim in the middle of the night with friends
- hang out with Stine (MAJOR plan!)
- watch films
- go visit Emma & Daniel in Stockholm
- or have them come visit me instead... (pleeeeease)
- have Marie Christine & Mike from church visiting in July
- visit new church
- go 2nd hand shopping at Fretex
- have coffee at Sting
- cinema
- go to beach


hmmmm.. what else


- go to Paris for a weekend if desperate for friends & church (and Starbucks & Haagen Daaz)
- have Marta visiting from Bergen
- visit Marta in Bergen
- go camping
- barbecue
- possibly get tanned
- play volleyball
- watch BBC's Pride & Prejudice
- watch Lost: season 2 if rerun
- write emails to friends
- write blog entries daily
- post photos on blog
- WORK (yes, I haven't forgot)
- paint
- make photo albums (about 250 pictures waiting to be organized...)
- talk with friends on phone
- pick flowers
- make daisy chains if daisies
- eat ice cream
- listen to music
- listen to Joyce Meyer, Chris Caine, Brian Houston etc audio tapes
- read French books

How about that!
Now that's what I call a LIST alright.


Aaaaaah summer just became so much more appealing. Now if all my friends in Paris could be here aswell, say, if Brendan could come and do motivational speeches once in a while, and Lydia, Camille & Emma could, well, fit in my pocket or something, and Peter Wilson, Jay Cook & Francois and the rest of the band could play worship music in my livingroom, everything would be PERFECT!


I went through some papers while cleaning up in my room, and I found a note from when visiting Tor Olav in Tokyo (they tend to pop up everywhere! Tokyo inspired me a lot) . It's a quote, or a poem actually, written by the Empress Shoken, I've decided that it's gonna be the statement of this summer.


Ever downward water flows,
But mirrors lofty mountains;
How fitting that our heart also
Be humble, but reflect high aims.


(Takayama no kageo utushite yuku mizu no
Hikiki ni tsuko kokora tomogana)


I love that! Stay humble in your heart, but reflect high ideals.
(Tor Olav, you tell me if it's correct translation!) :D