ゆりの世界

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.

After work we went to the bigger town Ålesund to have dinner and join most of our other collegues at the pub. It was quite nice. Actualy I've just got home.

It seems to be hard to find a flat in Ålesund but I'll keep trying coz that's where all the "life" is.

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.