This time, I will just provide some random pictures taken during my last ski trip.
Enjoy!
domingo, 17 de fevereiro de 2008
Ice snow and wind
This time, I will just provide some random pictures taken during my last ski trip.
Enjoy!
sábado, 2 de fevereiro de 2008
Good bye!
Well, my friends, it is over! I finally say that this blog is "closed". Closed for it's purpose, that was to share my experiences in Norway. Therefore, if you want to see something more, just type on the top of the window: http://rena-norway.blogspot.com
See you there and thank you for the support!
hadet bra!
See you there and thank you for the support!
hadet bra!
quarta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2008
The End
Dear friends,
The exchange experience changed. People went home, new people to meet, new experiences to be experienced, new things to discover.
I haven't been writing here for weeks and there were many things across my mind, but now is time to move. I will create another blog, with a different name and layout. A place where I hope to find more people and visitors, since I still want to share with the world my experiences around the globe!
Then, I will post the adress here, so the visitors can visit it also!
See you all, really soon!
Thank you for the support!
The exchange experience changed. People went home, new people to meet, new experiences to be experienced, new things to discover.
I haven't been writing here for weeks and there were many things across my mind, but now is time to move. I will create another blog, with a different name and layout. A place where I hope to find more people and visitors, since I still want to share with the world my experiences around the globe!
Then, I will post the adress here, so the visitors can visit it also!
See you all, really soon!
Thank you for the support!
quarta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2007
Wintersun
Hello, once again! I am sorry for being away for so long, but it was very hard for me to post something valuable here, for the last days. I was lacking of time and imagination. I hope this blog will be back on track as soon as possible.
I said previously on this blog that I hated wintersun. Maybe because in Portugal is so common to see it and for the last few years, it can be seen almost everyday, due to droughts and the lack of rain. But, after some months in Norway, I really love it!
It had been snowing for some time, here. And the days are becoming smaller and smaller. The weather has been cloudy for many many days... and I started to feel tired, to feel cranky and with a very unstable humour. I wasn't feeling happy, but depressed. When the sun comes up at 10 a.m. and goes down at 2p.m. it is horrible for me...I need light to live! IT is so odd to live when there's so few lighttime... I admire the people that actually live up north! How can they live without one single hour of sunlight, during so long?
I was asked about the cold. If I was feeling really bad, because it must be really cold, here in Norway. I answered it was just a matter of clothing, and afterwards everything was ok. The worst thing is light...Definitely! Especially for me, a person that loves outdoors, that is never at home, that enjoys walking and being outside for hours, it is impossible here. Due to cold and to darkness, since there is no time to do anything during such a short period of lighttime.
But, where there is darkness, there will be light!
Yesterday, it was a beautiful sunny day and the light reflected on the ice and snow. I saw myself, stopped in the middle of the street, looking at the sun, directly and I couldn't hide my happyness to see it again. It was something I cannot describe. I felt happy, and I presume that was due to the shiny star toucing my face!
Here was the first time, in my whole life, when I was standing under the sun and I wasn't feeling ANY warmer!
Hadet bra!=)
I said previously on this blog that I hated wintersun. Maybe because in Portugal is so common to see it and for the last few years, it can be seen almost everyday, due to droughts and the lack of rain. But, after some months in Norway, I really love it!
It had been snowing for some time, here. And the days are becoming smaller and smaller. The weather has been cloudy for many many days... and I started to feel tired, to feel cranky and with a very unstable humour. I wasn't feeling happy, but depressed. When the sun comes up at 10 a.m. and goes down at 2p.m. it is horrible for me...I need light to live! IT is so odd to live when there's so few lighttime... I admire the people that actually live up north! How can they live without one single hour of sunlight, during so long?
I was asked about the cold. If I was feeling really bad, because it must be really cold, here in Norway. I answered it was just a matter of clothing, and afterwards everything was ok. The worst thing is light...Definitely! Especially for me, a person that loves outdoors, that is never at home, that enjoys walking and being outside for hours, it is impossible here. Due to cold and to darkness, since there is no time to do anything during such a short period of lighttime.
But, where there is darkness, there will be light!
Yesterday, it was a beautiful sunny day and the light reflected on the ice and snow. I saw myself, stopped in the middle of the street, looking at the sun, directly and I couldn't hide my happyness to see it again. It was something I cannot describe. I felt happy, and I presume that was due to the shiny star toucing my face!
Here was the first time, in my whole life, when I was standing under the sun and I wasn't feeling ANY warmer!
Hadet bra!=)
terça-feira, 27 de novembro de 2007
work work work
Hello, dear friends!
Just wanted to say, that I will be off for some days... I'm filled up with work and school projects and I need to deliver them until the end of the week.
I will try to come back with nice posts as soon as possible...
Hader bra!
Just wanted to say, that I will be off for some days... I'm filled up with work and school projects and I need to deliver them until the end of the week.
I will try to come back with nice posts as soon as possible...
Hader bra!
quinta-feira, 22 de novembro de 2007
Bottle on the snow...
I would rather fly with eagles, in the snowy hills
I would rather run with wolves, between the trees
I would rather be with trees, than in the middle of noisy streets
Korpiklaani - With Trees
Today, after a brief english class, I came back home. I saw myself standing at a bridge, looking everywhere... I was looking the cars passing by, the silent darkened trees, the pale grey sky, the white snow covering the rooftops. A breathtaking landskape, for me. I was alone and feeling happy! One of those moments, due to it's simplicity, will never be forgotten.
By the time I was standing, I was listening to a song, by a band whose lyrics are nature related.
Soon it was time to leave such a simple, regular and beautiful place, and go home.
Some metres ahead, I was in shock: on the middle of the snow, pure white snow, fresh snow, new snow, there was lying a bottle of water (IMSDALL Lemon,by the way). I felt it outrageous! How could someone damage such perfect snow with trash? Who was the responsible for such a betraial on Mother Nature? I walked back, I took it in my hand until I found a bin to put it. I was so stubborn, I took it almost all the way home, because I couldn't fine public bins. But I did my share!
I must tell I felt really sad, when I realized norwegian people (not everyone, of course) threw trash into the floor, without care. Cigarettes, cans, plastic glasses, etc. I'm not saying that my country is better, because it isn't.People do that all the time in Portugal too, and that also makes me really angry! But when I think about Norway, such a civilized country, I also thought they didn't throw trash on the floor.
One day, I was walking on the woods with a friend, down south Norway, when suddenly there was this huge pile of trash. I couldn't believe that crime agains nature also takes place in Norway. I've seen it before in Portugal and Spain, but I never thought to see it here!
I have been many many times in Switzerland, and I make lots of comparisons between here and there, since they are top ranked countries in the World. And I expected Norway to be even more clean than Switzerland (which I believe it is impossible, since everything is so immaculate). It is rare to see trash on the floor and if you walk deep in the woods, you will never see trash or piles of it. People care about Nature and the Environment! They recycle, they educate their children in order to keep protecting nature! I believe it is an example to be followed by both Portuguese and Norwegian people!
I need to tell that this hurts deep inside me, because this green and white country, where the woods are huge and the forests are old and dark. Where, everyday you wake up, you can smell nature and breathe it deep and even if you're in Oslo, you can feel it! Norwegian people is not aware of how lucky they are for have such a country like that... So, I ask you: don't throw trash on the floor, especially on the untainted white snow - it is such a treasure you should keep!
Best Regards!
I would rather run with wolves, between the trees
I would rather be with trees, than in the middle of noisy streets
Korpiklaani - With Trees
Today, after a brief english class, I came back home. I saw myself standing at a bridge, looking everywhere... I was looking the cars passing by, the silent darkened trees, the pale grey sky, the white snow covering the rooftops. A breathtaking landskape, for me. I was alone and feeling happy! One of those moments, due to it's simplicity, will never be forgotten.
By the time I was standing, I was listening to a song, by a band whose lyrics are nature related.
Soon it was time to leave such a simple, regular and beautiful place, and go home.
Some metres ahead, I was in shock: on the middle of the snow, pure white snow, fresh snow, new snow, there was lying a bottle of water (IMSDALL Lemon,by the way). I felt it outrageous! How could someone damage such perfect snow with trash? Who was the responsible for such a betraial on Mother Nature? I walked back, I took it in my hand until I found a bin to put it. I was so stubborn, I took it almost all the way home, because I couldn't fine public bins. But I did my share!
I must tell I felt really sad, when I realized norwegian people (not everyone, of course) threw trash into the floor, without care. Cigarettes, cans, plastic glasses, etc. I'm not saying that my country is better, because it isn't.People do that all the time in Portugal too, and that also makes me really angry! But when I think about Norway, such a civilized country, I also thought they didn't throw trash on the floor.
One day, I was walking on the woods with a friend, down south Norway, when suddenly there was this huge pile of trash. I couldn't believe that crime agains nature also takes place in Norway. I've seen it before in Portugal and Spain, but I never thought to see it here!
I have been many many times in Switzerland, and I make lots of comparisons between here and there, since they are top ranked countries in the World. And I expected Norway to be even more clean than Switzerland (which I believe it is impossible, since everything is so immaculate). It is rare to see trash on the floor and if you walk deep in the woods, you will never see trash or piles of it. People care about Nature and the Environment! They recycle, they educate their children in order to keep protecting nature! I believe it is an example to be followed by both Portuguese and Norwegian people!
I need to tell that this hurts deep inside me, because this green and white country, where the woods are huge and the forests are old and dark. Where, everyday you wake up, you can smell nature and breathe it deep and even if you're in Oslo, you can feel it! Norwegian people is not aware of how lucky they are for have such a country like that... So, I ask you: don't throw trash on the floor, especially on the untainted white snow - it is such a treasure you should keep!
Best Regards!
quinta-feira, 15 de novembro de 2007
Over the Hills and Far Away
Over the hills and far away is a synonim to Rena.
The snow has came to stay, in this little town. I'm wearing more clothes in one day, than in a regular week. My nose gets cold 5 mins after I leave home or school. I see more snow in one day, than in years of life! That's the price you pay, when studying in Rena. The trees covered with snow, the frost on the streets, the frozen water in the roof pipes... Priceless sights, which are the most beautiful things to these dark eyes.
One of the funniest things is the way I need to walk from one place to the other! I look like a penguin! And they say there aren't penguins in North Emisphere... Of course there are: us, the foreign students! If we don't walk like that, when the road is icy, the probability to fall with your butt on the cold floor is almost 90%!!!!
I still remember, many many years ago, when I was in primary school, and my mom made me use these uncomfortable undergarments. Oh, how I hated such clothes! I could barely move and they weren't practical to play hide and seek and all the kids games...
16 years later, I find myself, remembering such clothes and wondering if they still fit me, so I can ask my mom to mail them to me! =P
The nights became long and the sun is setting during the afternoon... Daytime is just a matter of few hours and I feel sleepy at 4 p.m.
I need to say it is so odd for me to see that shining star away from me... It's just a fading light in the horizon. I hate winter sun, even back there in Portugal. I rather have cloudy weather, than the sun far away...I think the sky becomes more brighter, under the clouds, during winter.
Meanwhile, I try to survive under these extreme conditions! I wonder if when I come back homw, I will be wearing t-shirts everyday, and everyone else is wearing "thick" winter jackets!
Hadet Bra
The snow has came to stay, in this little town. I'm wearing more clothes in one day, than in a regular week. My nose gets cold 5 mins after I leave home or school. I see more snow in one day, than in years of life! That's the price you pay, when studying in Rena. The trees covered with snow, the frost on the streets, the frozen water in the roof pipes... Priceless sights, which are the most beautiful things to these dark eyes.
One of the funniest things is the way I need to walk from one place to the other! I look like a penguin! And they say there aren't penguins in North Emisphere... Of course there are: us, the foreign students! If we don't walk like that, when the road is icy, the probability to fall with your butt on the cold floor is almost 90%!!!!
I still remember, many many years ago, when I was in primary school, and my mom made me use these uncomfortable undergarments. Oh, how I hated such clothes! I could barely move and they weren't practical to play hide and seek and all the kids games...
16 years later, I find myself, remembering such clothes and wondering if they still fit me, so I can ask my mom to mail them to me! =P
The nights became long and the sun is setting during the afternoon... Daytime is just a matter of few hours and I feel sleepy at 4 p.m.
I need to say it is so odd for me to see that shining star away from me... It's just a fading light in the horizon. I hate winter sun, even back there in Portugal. I rather have cloudy weather, than the sun far away...I think the sky becomes more brighter, under the clouds, during winter.
Meanwhile, I try to survive under these extreme conditions! I wonder if when I come back homw, I will be wearing t-shirts everyday, and everyone else is wearing "thick" winter jackets!
Hadet Bra
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