Christmas

Oh dear it appears it has been over a month since my last update, what a slacker!
Here is a quick photo catch up of whats been going on...

This map was up on an airport wall believe it or not - can you tell what's missing???

This is what we look like when we go for a walk. I used to think the vests were geeky but then i started to drive here and realised how necessary they are, especially because there aren't many footpaths out where I live.

We have a small storage problem at Borgen.


It's funny how the very thing that caused the problem is the thing that can help. This was my second fall of the winter and left quite a good bruise which is still here 2 weeks later.


Our base Christmas party

Class (and teacher) graduation photo of the Basic Leadership Skill school. If you look closely you may notice that the man on the far right looks a lot like the King of Norway!

I don't know what caused these 'rainbow clouds' but they were soooo beautiful, I just stopped and stared at them for ages. People here said it is very rare and most people hadn't ever seen it before.

My Norwegian Drivers Licence!!!! Woooohoooo. Yay I got it, no more stressing about that one!

This is a photo taken on my favourite walk around here, this is as light as it gets all day and then it only lasts for 2 hours then we are back into the dark.

CHRISTMAS

I am house and cat sitting over the Christmas break. It is a very nice house...

complete with a real bed not a foam mattress like I have!

This is definitely a look and don't touch item!

Look how many keys I have, i must be real responsible!

I found a tree that had already been cut down (honestly it had) and i trimmed it up a bit and it turned out to be a great Christmas tree. The only problem was I don't have nay decorations to put on it ... but never fear my kiwi ingenuity came up with this solution...

Christmas was very quiet, just me and Katya a student from Russia. But we did find some extra people to put around the table (thanks mum). We had two Christmas dinners, one on the 24th when Katya celebrates it and one on the 25th for me.

It snowed on Christmas Eve and Christmas day which was very nice because all the other snow had melted.

Katya and I went for a walk at about 3:00pm Christmas day, look how dark it is!

I think i ate too much chocolate!

Happy new year everyone!