Cought the local news saying that it's time to put on winter tires because snow is here. >_<
Sometimes you have reached a state where it seems like all the excitement is gone. It's time for change. Question is what to change? Environment? People? Or both?
From now on I'm so going hardcore for flat hunting in Ålesund. My soul need a fresh atmosphere.
Talking about the "big city", it became my sanctuary for this weekend. We even found a sushi restaurant. I decided to try something new so I picked sashimi, made on fresh fishes coz it's a sushi/fish shop.
I just had one of my worse days. Not going smootly at work. Annoyed by people and circumstances in my surrounding and the weather was horrible, rainy, windy, gloomy. I felt so down. But after talking in the phone with a dear friend of mine, you know who you are, I felt much better. Now I have the energy and resolution to drag myself out from where I am now. I'm going to that party tonight! I need to meet people. I need to change atmosphere. Better start arranging.
Today we had a teambuilding/training day. One of the task is to build the highest tower with paper in 10 min and out team won yay! =)
I received my code generator for internet bank today. I was quite surpise of it's size. I mean I signed up with Nordea and as I know, Nordea in sweden have a literarily huge code generator. Looks like this
As the weather was tremendously good yesterday we just spontaneously decided to take the ferry out and explore the islands nearby. After some "quick" research I picked out Haroya which lies a little less than one hour away by ferry and off we went. Taking the ferry from here to Haroya cost about 39nok per adult and 117nok car+driver so that makes a 2 x 156nok for the roundtrip.
I feel in contact with the world again. I feel the flexibility at work, freedom of moving around without missing a call. Yes I finally got a cellphone. This one:
I went to my bank today and got it verified. I've been working for only 2-3 weeks but yay I've already got paid! In norway you can choose to get around half of your monthly salary payed out in the middle of the month. That's because the original payday is at the absolutly last date in every month instead of on the 25th like in sweden.
I also got the first mail from sweden. I know it's sounds a bit ridiculous but I've been checking with the local post office every week and they've always said that I got nothing but today my Ny Teknik arrived, although a week late but that's good enough for me.
Whatelse? Work got intensified that's why I haven't been writing anything for the past couple days. Just did have energy to, or I rather spent my time resting or slacking more correct.
Even though I'm working in Norway, the people I mostly interact with everyday is actualy british working here - and they are quite a numbers. They too just like us love using irony and sarcasm in their jokes which I find wonderful.
I've been feeling frozen for the whole weekend. Time to take out thicker clothes coz autumn seems to arrived.
There's differences between a night out for different cultures. I didn't noticed it before but we tend to aim at pubs - tiny places with no entrance fee and no dance floor. I actually thought that they didn't have clubs with dance floors in Ålesund until we accidently crashed into one yesterday.
I need to sort some issues out so I might not be updating here for a couples days.
...that's my plans for this weekend. Tomorrow I intend to spend some time at the biggest mall in this area. If my information is correct they should have two asian food stores Yay!
After that we'll meet up with our colleges and have a hell of fun ^^
Oh yeah we are going to check a flat for rent in Ålesund too. Hopefully we can move soon, if not well we'll just continue looking.
..for my absence yesterday, here 2 pictues before I dig myself into bed.
One of the exciting part in the job of an engineer is to visit the place where the products we're manufacturing is used. Today we went on such a trip.
It was rainy and windy and really not a day for being out but the trip was worth it. There were a lot of mens (I didn't spot one single woman) working on building the ship.
I was told that there were a lot more of shipyards in this area before but now there's only a few big ones. Wonder how much a ship like this costs.
...which I'm trying my best to fill it up for the moment.
Today I went swimming in the local swimmingpool. It's been awhile but it was quite refreshing.
Anyway the thing is not what you do or where you are, it's with whom you are doing it. I think I can enjoy life here base on all the wonderful colleges I've met in this company.
It's just monday today but it seems like I won't lack any plans for this coming weekend. We are so going to have fun. ^^
To reality, to life and to fun ^^
Just woke up actualy. Haven't had enough of sleep last night so my eyes were constantly shuting down directly after dinner.
It's been a great weekend. We took the car to Ålesund and did some party with our colleges over there. Started out with a dinner and I absolutely loved the salad I took.
...and end of my first week in Norway.
It feels like the pieces is falling into place one by one so it's kind of relieving.
I took the opportunity to visit the "down town" of Brattvåg where I stay for the moment since it's impossible to find a flat in Ålesund. Runing some errands at the post office and did some groceries for the weekend. And this is what I found.
For the first time since I arrived here, it's sunny! It felt quite good to be at work today. Although I wouldn't say that the working clothes quite follow the latest trend. Below a picture taken at my workplace.
I was out in the workshop praticing today and talked to some workers. Amazingly or well quite expected, there're quite a lot swedish working here. You can't see that they are swedish since the different between swedish and a norwegian is almost none and they've adapted very well to the norwegian language.
Except the swedish, there're polish, indiens, germans, netherlands, british and quite a few more nationalities. All gathered in this small village. Well actualy, most of them live in another bigger town around here.
I'm kind of looking forward to tomorow evening. There'll be dinner and pub activities with other collegues.
It's been a long time since I had to wake up this early. However the tension and the excitement for this day made it quite easy for me to open my eyes at 7 this morning. My day actually didn't start until 9 but I need to drop by the tax office to fix some vital documents such as D-nr and Tax card.
It went quite smoothly and I didn't need to wait forever in a long queue as people has warned me about.
On the other hand, the trickiest thing is to find a decent place to live in. I'm still staying at a temporarly tiny room which feels a bit frustruating. Obviously it's high season for rent now since the students at university in Ålesund is stating their fall semester.
About the food, yes it's so much more expensive here than in sweden. We are talking about almost double the swedish prices on certain items. I'm so gonna drop weight here, good or bad.
On the plus side is of course the scenery. It's seaview everywhere, here and at my company. I would be overjoyed if I've been a fishing fanatics, which I'm not. Whatelse? This is also a hiking paradise, remind you I hate walking.
What I'm positive surprised about is the good spirit among the company people. The atmosphere is very international and I like that very much.
