The first driving lessons!

Yesterday was my first driving lesson! I was soooooo nervous when the clock started to get closer to 14:30...! What was my instructor going to be like? Was he going to let me drive the first lesson, or would it just be theory? Would I actually be able to drive the car? Would I stall the engine? Would I crash into something? haha it sounds stupid, but I was extreamly nervous but at the same time very exited.

I did defenitely not need to worry about anything at all.. I got a great instructor from Newcastle called  Andrew.  He was awesome! Very patient and took everything step by step. Which was good, cause I've only driven once before, so I didn't really know anything about driving... But the lesson went really well! First we went to a quiet road and I learned how to start and stop and all that (only stalled the engine once...yey) and after about 45 minutes of driving in the quiet area, we moved over to the busier roads! Gosj was a bit nervous then, but everything went pretty good. Not as difficult getting used to driving on the "wrong side of the road" actually. Had another two hour lesson today. Did pretty much the same thing. just driving around practecing turning, signaling, stopping ++ I wont be getting my licence before Christmas ( don't want to rush it too much, I have plenty of time)   but hopefully some time in January I will have my licence. We'll see how my driving progresses, but so far, so good! :-)

Homework and driving lessons

Some might wonder why I don’t blog anything about school or homework.. That doesn’t mean that we don’t do anything at school and just sit around doing nothing. . Trust me, we have plenty of homework and assignments! That’s one of the reasons I pretty much only blog on weekends, cause I’m so busy during the rest of the week. A brief run-through of the subjects I’m taking this year: international English, chemistry, math, history, sociology and Spanish. We are supposed to have Norwegian as well, but so far the school hasn’t found a Norwegian teacher here in Cambridge, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens... We might have to do an intensive course when we get back to Norway... Anyways.. Homework wise I’m currently working on 3 bigger assignments at the moment; one in chemistry, one in history and one in sociology. Apart from the assignments we always have plenty of homework to do. We have the weekly chemistry rapports+ whatever our teachers decides that we have to do.. So plenty to work on, but I’m hanging in there!


Half term is coming up next week, so will have a week to relax and hopefully not think too much about school work. My mom is coming on Saturday and we are staying in Cambridge a day and then going to Brighton. On Tuesday one of my best friends from home, Tina is flying over with her parents, so I’m gonna meet her in London and we’ll hang out there for a few days (shopping, shopping ,shopping) before she has to fly home again Saturday. Can’t wait! It’ll be awesome!

Oh yes! As you read in the title, it says driving lessons, so let me tell you a bit about that.. Today I went and booked my very first driving lessons! Oh gosh, can’t believe I’m actually going to start driving! It’s quite bizarre. I still feel like a little kid, I shouldn’t drive a car! That’s what my dad and other adults do.. Not me! Oh well, guess I should start getting used to the thought that I'm growing up.. I’m really looking forward to taking driving lessons no matter how weird it might seem. The first lesson is on Thursday so until then I got a bunch of books I can start reading for my theory test. I bought this “package” at the driving school, BSM, which includes 40 hours of driving, the theory test, the practical test, a mock test, a bunch of books and DVD’s. They call it the “pass promise pack” cause the driving school pays for a new test if I don’t pass first time.. So better start reading!

Life is a rollercoaster...

-You just gotta ride it... as Ronan Keating once said..
Yesterday about half the class went to this amusement park outside of London called Thorpe park, and YES we rode it alright!

But first 16 sleepy students had to get up at 6 in the morning to sit on the bus for about two hours to get there...
The result:
                                        ZzZzZzZzZzZzZz.......

Finally we arrived at Thorpe park and the games could begin!
With rides like these we were bound to get a little dizzy that day:

I think about half the population of London decided to go there that day cause it was PACKED with people there.. The shortest amount of time we spent waiting to take one ride was about 40  minutes, while the longest one was like 2 hours... But it was sooooo worth it! The rollercoasters were absolutely mental!
I loved it!

So after 8 hours in the park, 90% of that time spent waiting in line, we finally headed home with a few prizes won and totally exhausted...



And guess what we did on the bus ride home...?

Oh yes!

Sunshine, Oreos and Dancelessons

It's the 10th of October! Can you belive it? I surely can't! The weather should be something like this by now:

      But being lucky as we are, we still have weather like this!

Today Karoline and I went to town because we were going to this dance thing. We noticed this poster hanging in the hallway at our school for the past week, where it said with big letters: Do ya feel like dancing? and they were advertising for FREE dance lessons for up to 5 hours! So we thought sure, why not! So after going to town a bit early and walking around the city center for a little while and eating lunch in the park,

                                   

                             

                                        <3 knekkebrød me brunost<3

we started walking torwards where the dance class was going to take place.. St. Pauls Church it said on the flyer we got, so when we saw this big church on the right side of the street we thought "oh here it is!"

But after about 10 minutes of walking round the church, trying to find a way in, and when we did and discovered that the church was full of priests and people in the middle of mass, we obviously were in the wrong church... And when we stopped a lady and asked, yes it was the church just on the other side of the road... doh! Anyways.. we walked over there, but were told it was posponed an hour, so nothing left to do but wait... Went to the store and bought a pack of oreo cookies and some milk! yummi! it never failes..

The hour went by and we went in to find a little room on the first floor with about 15 dodgy looking old people sitting around waiting for the lesson to start.. Some of them were even dressed up as pirates and vampires (??) I have no idea whats was up with that..It's still another 11 days until halloween. Anyways.. It took about 5 seconds before Karoline and I looked at each other and thought " Nope.. Not hanging around here for much longer." Probably not one of those modern hip-hop classes anyways, so the best thing was probably to get our bikes and go home.. And that was just what we did. Think we'll save our dance moves for another day and another place where we aren't being stared at by 50 year old pirates....
Well home we ate dinner and watched the movie "twilight" :-)
 Another exiting day in Cambs!

I <3 Fridays

Yes it is definitely the best day of the week! Not only does it mean it is the end of a long week at school, but it is the beginning of the weekend. No teachers, boring English classes or getting up at 7 in the morning. I only have Spanish on Fridays, which means that I am finished for the week at 11:30. LOVELY! And even better, today our Spanish teacher was sick so we got the day off. So I could sleep in till 10 o’clock, eat a good breakfast, and then head off to the gym. Karoline and I+ some other Norwegians usually go to the gym each Friday since we finish early and it isn't that crowded then. After working out for about an hour it’s time for some yoga! Yes, I’ve joined a yoga class.. I just happened to walk by it last week, so I decided to join in. And I love it! It’s a great way to finish up a long and stressful week at school. Ok it’s not THAT stressful as school, yet anyways.. But yoga is soo relaxing and it fits perfect inn with my Friday schedule. Get up at 7.30, go to Spanish class, then to the gym, and after that, an hour of yoga from 1-2... Perfect ending to the school week. I like how it is both relaxing at the same time as you strengthen your body. And with poses called down dog, swan dive, gorilla pose, standing tree, lotus, upper dog it’s quite fun!

Apart from my love of Fridays, I have applied for my provisional drivers licence! So I can start taking driving lessons and hopefully (crossing my fingers) getting my drivers licence before I go home for Christmas.. That leaves only 2 months of driving, so most likely that won’t be enough time, but we’ll see! Fingers crossed! Uhm.... Lets see.. what else is there? Oh yeah! Some friends and I are going to this amusement park outside of London next weekend. It’s this huge park with gigantic rollercoaster’s so that should be fun! just going for the day, but we will have about 8 hours to go on all the rides, so it should be enough.

Well...that’s all for now... and as we say in yoga class after the lesson:

Namaste!

One month!

Yesterday it was one month since 30 nervous and extremely exited students arrived in England. In one way it feels like I’ve been here for a very long time, but still the weeks have gone by really fast! We’ve had a great 30 days so far, and hopefully many more to come! Some friends and I celebrated our little “one month abroad” by eating out at this Italian restaurant called Bella Italia. They have half price on all their food on Mondays for students, so that was just perfect. And the food was great!