Freeloading :)

Today I decided to join Kaja at her gym in Lillestrøm, rather than go work out alone at F&S :) It was bring a friend day, so I didnt pay for anything and it was fun to see how SATS works. Kaja is all about going to different group sessions, so today I joined one as well. I can agree that you push yourself a little harder when your in a group, compared to when your working out on your own, and you know you work out right, etc - I think I want to try and join some group sessions at F&S as well. After the workout we went to Rema 1000 with Stian, and hey.. free pizza! xD
Then we went back to Oslo only to find Coca Cola was doing some event that included them giving away free cola and food also (I dont think Im ment to give up cola). Soo I guess Im a freeloader, at least today - haha :) Most interesting blog entry ever right? :P Ah well I just felt like writing something.

2011 looking good

Looking at my plans for 2011 so far makes me really happy. I really love travelling, and 2010 wasn't the best travelling year.. in 2011 I already have two trips planned in addition to the whole living in China thing :)
I have been talking to my friends from UiO about going somewhere for a while now, and yesterday we decided on London. There will be 7 of us going, and we have already ordered planetickets and booked a hostel. As we're flying with Ryanair and staying in a dorm at a hostel we didn't really pay a whole lot. Will be less than 1500 NOK for the planetickets and the hostel, so thats actually very affordable even for me while Im kind of trying to save up some money for China.
Then in May I will be going to Iceland with my family, wich will be great as well. Never been to Iceland and I would definitely love to see what its like there, their nature seems pretty unique.
And of course, I will most likely be leaving for Shanghai in july or august for my indroduction course to chinese before the real semester starts. Im still extremly happy about getting in - must have read the e-mail from school a million times :) Of course I still have to apply to Fudan, but the students BI nominates generally get accepted. Another condition is that I need 97,5 credits or I wont be able to go.. I got 75 now, and one subject is 7,5.. should be allright as long as I pass most of my finals :)
And hey, while Im already in East Asia I definitely want to go back to Japan, and I can go visit my classmates that will be going to Singapore. I want to see Seoul as well, and the list goes on and on and on - anyhow: 2011 is looking pretty good! :)

YESS! :)

I just got an e-mail from school about next year, got my first choice - Fudan University in Shanghai!! Im so happy about this, was prepared to stay in Norway and improve my grades and everything if I didn't get in. Now that I know Im actually going to study at Fudan University I want to tell you a little about the university.
Fudan is ranked the 3rd best university in China, and the best university in Shanghai. BI and Fudan have worked together for a long time. I think it is the best university for me, because Shanghai is the financial centre of China and China is likely to be the worlds greatest economy by 2030. Norway and China have been trading more and more the last few years as well and several norwegian companies have moved part of the production to Shanghai. We also export tons and tons of salmon to China, among other products. It was also the most natural choice for me, because I already took a degree at the University of Oslo in Japanese and Chinese. I hope that I can be able to work either in East Asia or with East Asia in the future, and this is definitely a great start!
On the downside, I will be living very far from home for an entire year - and I have to leave already in the beginning of august to take an introduction course to chinese. I already studied chinese for a year at the University of Oslo - but I know that I've forgotten a lot, and I need to remember it again to be able to function in Shanghai. I did live in Japan for 5 months though, and allthough I got kind of homesick towards the end it really helped when my family came to visit - and they want to visit me in Shanghai as well. Im so excited, feels like an adventure - cant belive Im actually going, as I was so sure I wouldnt get in - but I did! :D

Some pretty special guest lecturers

Today we had some pretty special guest lecturers visiting BI norwegian school of management - the prime minister Jens Stoltenberg and the finance minister Sigbjørn Johnsen. We finished the lecture in Business to Business a little sooner so we could all go listen to them.
I have never seen the auditorium so crowded before, people were sitting in the stairs and standing in the back or against the walls. I was there 30 minutes early and I barely even found a seat. The ministers mostly talked about the norwegian economy, the finance crisis, and how Norway have managed to keep the unemployment rate rather low, compared to other countries. They made some pretty good points. Among other things norwegians generally have a higher education, the women work as well as the men, we find ways to give almost everyone in the country a share of the economic growth etc. They also made it very clear that we dont depend mostly on oil, 80% of our BNP comes from the work force. We used some extra money from the oil fund to help us survive the financial crisis, and now we will use a little less to make up for it again, as the times are better.
Fun to see them in person, and hear about how they wiew the norwegian economy.

Back to Business

Its been a slack weekend, and the week before that I dont feel as if I studied enough, so this week is going to be all about school. Several of my friends at school seem to feel the same way, and the plan was to meet up at 10.00 and study together. None of us are all that good at actually getting up in the morning though.. I got there first, at 10.20, then the next guy showed up at about 13.00.. I got some studying done while waiting on the others, then when they got there I kind of had a hard time focusing and didnt get all that much done. When the guys left I decided to study a bit longer on my own in the library, and I read twice as many pages in about half the time. Guess that means I better keep studying there instead. Theres this quiet room, where Im not allowed to use my laptop or eat or anything - and it seems like the perfect place for me to study. I studied untill 18.00, so I was actually at school for quite a while today, Im proud of myself :) After school I went to my grandparents house to pick up some stuff for my parents - had a long good talk with my grandmother about basicly everything I guess, was nice. The plan was to go to the gym today as well, but when I got home I just didnt feel up to it, really tired and I have a cold as well. This means I wont be able to work out 12 times in february, as Im not home for 5 more days in february - going to Norefjell with my family. It wasnt really about the prize though, and I have done pretty good all the same, who knew I would work out 3-4 times a week for so long, haha. I will try to keep working out at least 2-3 times a week from now on, going to ski a lot this weekend so I feel that its ok to not make the 12 times in february - I will still be moving arround a lot and stuff. And studying is more important as well I guess, our first finals are actually already in april - in english and international marketing, so I better enter my studymachine mode as soon as I can :)

TV Weekend

Aight, my weekend. It was pretty nice. Saturday Nicolai and his friends had this High School Musical Marathon and they made me join as well. Cant belive we actually watched all 3 movies, damn.. and we're all in our 20s - awesome. I guess what made it fun was making fun of the movies, and we did have pizza and drinks, that always helps :) Nicolai crashed on the sofa, and then today we watched the big bang theory for about 3-4 hours - my dvd-player and my harddrive love eachother again!! :) In the evening Victoria came over, I made brownies and then we saw "Love and other drugs". I liked that movie a whole lot better than High School Musical.. wonder why, haha. Not a lot to blog about really, basicly been watching series or movies all weekend - but with friends though so at least I have been kind of social =/

The Book Lady,The Scary Seagull and Gullivers Travels

Nothing like a good, lecture-free friday :) Went to the gym pretty early to work out and learned something a little disappointing. Theres this lady at the gym that always brings a book with her and then reads it while she is spinning, and I have always thought she was so awesome because she kept spinning for ages and ages and ages.. BUT today I was at the bike next to her. As it turns out my hero is a fraud! She doesnt turn up the resistance whatsoever and she doesnt even pedal that fast =/ I guess I will have to look for a new hero at the gym, even if its still kind of funny that she reads while she works out. When I got home I decided to watch some series on the computer, then suddently I saw this huge seagull sitting on my balcony. It was actually kind of scary.. for a seagull that is, like I said it was quite big and it had these huge yellow eyes that doesnt show very well in the picture sadly. I dont get what it was doing in the middle of Frogner - dont seagulls like to stay by the water to eat fish and stuff? I decided I wanted to take a picture of it just for laughs, and I guess that kind of scared it of, both a relief and a disappointment :P But seriously look at the picture - it DOES look out of place, right? Ah well hope it found its way back to the sea.
In the evening it was time for another fieldtrip with The Shadow Project, todays movie was Gullivers Travels in 3D. I guess it had some entertainment value, but it wasnt the best movie I ever saw.. and the 3Dglasses I kept on just so I wouldnt have to see double/triple/whatever, the effects weren't anything special. The story was basicly the classical Gulliver story, but they made it more modern. Like I said it had some entertainment value and several funny little details, but all in all I dont think I would have seen it if I didnt get to go for free because of my membership thingie. Ah well, always fun to go to the movies, and I've never been to Ringen Kino before, was actually pretty nice and modern, and it wasn't too crowded either so tons of space for bags, jackets and so on :)

Easter eggs, school and the Education Fair =)

I know the easter eggs from Freia have been out in the stores for a bit already, but somehow I havent been able to find them in any of my local stores - today, however I finally got me a package at 7eleven, yaay! I know its kind of sad to blog about candy, but its not just any candy.. its the easter eggs!! They are only out in the stores during easter, or well during the commercial easter, wich is obviously a whole lot longer. They taste really really awesome, so its always great when they get to the stores. =)
But hey, I can tell you about my day as well. Was a pretty terrible day at school, as we talked about "technical budgeting" for 4 hours.. I thought I was finally done with the budgeting when I passed Finance and Economic management last semester, but I guess I was wrong. That the guy next to me, that FYI didnt even pay attention to the lecture whatsoever (!!!!!!!), understood everything in a matter of seconds didnt make things better either. Im such an idiot when it comes to calculations and stuff like that its not even funny.. but I will just have to study real hard for the final I guess, and I have learned about budgets 2 times before, so I really should be able to pass it at the very least this time arround. As it turns out its normal for 50% of the final in Practical Economics and Business Management to be about budgets, so yay.. another "kill me now" period before the finals this semester I guess. School wasn't all bad though, the Nescafe van was outside our main entrance and they gave away hot cofee for free :) After school I went to meet with Luna, and we went to the Education Fair at Oslo Spektrum. Im pretty sure I wont really apply to yet another university anytime soon, but Luna is done with her degree in Asian languages soon and she needs something smart to combine with. I told her International Marketing is a win, but she would rather study at another school rather than BI. We also went to TT and got me everything I need to make my own maki, so now Im ready to roll! ^^ Now to start on my mandatory digital test in Practical Economics and Business Management.. damn that subject is going to be such a pain :P

Risk

Today me and my friend Nicolai had planned on watching The Big Bang Theory, but somehow my DVD-player and my external hard drive dont love eachother anymore (I think its because the hard drive had an affair with my laptop) and now they refuse to work together.
We decided to play some Risk instead. It was kind of cool, though its even more fun when your 6 people playing it rather than just 2. We decided we have to plan a Risk night with some of our friends soon, we used to do that all the time last winter, but somehow it just randomly stopped. Playing Risk with Nicolai is kind of awfull, because somehow he almost always rolls a 6, and hes also really good at tactics, while Im more "OH NOOO NOT JAPAN, JAPAN IS MINE, I'LL WIN IT BACK" and then loose because I dont really think things over, haha. Also, I have now worked out 6 times in february, half my way to the Friskis & Svettis beanie - yay me! I only worked out for about half an hour today though - OD'ed on cofee yesterday so I didnt really sleep much, ah well as long as I got a sticker its all good :)

Valentines sushi

So today was Valentines day, and to most people that means being romantic, meet with that special someone, buy chocolate, and so on.
My friends and I have our own little tradition though, we meet up and make sushi.
I got to say, I like our tradition better - it takes all the pressure away, and we get to eat tons of good food. This year we went to Lunas friend, Marias place, made unlikely amounts of maki and watched asian music videos on youtube. I think Im going to buy my own thingie to roll maki on.. trimming? It wasnt as hard as I thought to roll them, and now I want to just make tons and tons of maki.. haha.

..Nikoline the workoutaholic? :S

That sounds so wrong!
But it hit me today as I was on my way out of the gym, Ive actually worked out 4 times this week.. and at least one hour each time! Kind of made me think "damn who are you and where did the old me go?".
You know that kid.. who always finished last and just never really kept up with the rest of the class on athletics test and stuff like that in high school? Im that kid.. at least I think I am, at this point who knows.. Am I becoming one of those crazy people that go to the gym every day and work out for hours and hours? Sure I want to be healthy and be happy with the way I look, but I dont want to end up as some workout fanatic.
Anyhow things are looking good for the february contest, or at least I have a plan to manage working out more than 12 times. I worked out 4 times this week, if I can do that for two more weeks thats 13 times, and if you work out more than 13 times you have a chance of winning 1000 NOK - thats not insane thats just wanting to win cash.
I must still be the good old lazy me, I just want a silly Friskis & Svettis beanie and the chance of winning money :) After the contest is over I'll probably just collapse and go back to working out 1-2 times a week. And hey in the meantime I work out enough to actually get really good results, I GUESS its a good thing - it just makes no sense that Im doing this, considering how I used to hate working out or well any physical activity at all. I even quit drinking cola (except during the weekend and other special occasions), and anyone that knows me will agree thats just.. insane!! Then again, why am I even complaining about this? If Im loosing the old cocaholic, computer game loving me to someone that likes to workout and take care of her body I guess its not really a bad thing.. is it? I dont know Im just surprised I guess.

Aaaand its winter again =/

Got to say, even if this happens every year, its really really annoying how it seems like spring is just arround the corner one day - and then the next day it starts snowing again! About a week ago my friend Kaja and I decided to drink cofee outside, because it was so nice and sunny.. and warm!
Now we're back on the wrong side of 0 degrees, and the wind makes it a million times worse. The only place thats warm in Oslo during the winter is the insanely crowded bus - today the timer went down to "now" about 3-4 times to then go back up to 5 minutes.. I would have made it home quicker if I walked. Then when the bus finally came, the crowd waiting at the bus stop was the size of 3-4 buses. We actually looked rather like a bunch of penguins standing there in the snow and the wind. And then of course when I got off the bus.. I saw another one just behind it, empty! So to everyone living in Oslo - learn from my mistake: The number 20 buses travel in packs, never get on the first one during rush hour! This also normally goes for bus number 31. Ah well people, the spring SHOULD hopefully get here for real next time, or the next time after that, or after that... you know, whenever it feels like it. Untill then, heres a song that made me at least a little happier while waiting for the bus. Hang in there, spring will get here eventually :)

Beads

Today the plan was to have Maja, Lene and Luna over for dinner or boardgames or basicly whatever. Maja read about Stian beading nintendo figures in my blog and decided she wanted to buy her own beads - we ended up going to the toy store and buy 7 colors each. We also went to Clas Olson and found matching toolboxes to keep the beads in :) Being childish is really awesome sometimes! We beaded for hours and hours, me, Maja (Lene had to leave) and Luna as well after a bit. We were pretty lazy and ordered food from spice - good food though, and came with free cutlery so why not. Maja made the figures from totoro, I tried to make a hattifnatt from Moomin and we all made tons and tons of mushrooms that looked just like the one Stian made for me, only in different colors. Amazing how much fun it is to bead stuff, havent done this since kindergarden.. untill now ^^

Its not the end of the world :)

So I guess I kind of overreacted yesterday, I was having a pretty bad day already so the news hit me harder than they normally would have. I need to remember that:

1) Noone has told me I cant go to Shanghai yet
and
2) If I cant go there its not the end of the world

If I dont get in I can either just go wherever they say I can go, wich probably wont be all bad considering all the awesome unis we can go to, or I can stay here in Norway, fix my grades and apply again next year.. either way, Ill survive.
If I was to go to say, Barcelona and not Shanghai it wouldnt be all bad. It would be a whole lot easier for my friends and family to go visit me, it would be easier for me to go home whenever I wanted and the climate is so much better.
And sure I know some chinese, but I actually studied spanish in high school as well, so learning it again wouldnt be that hard at all! And Barcelona is such a great city, I went there on vacation with my family a couple of years ago and I really loved it. Just look at this church - La Sagrada Familia, not as if Shanghai has anything like it.
The other schools I applied to in Singapore, Leeds and Mannheim are also all great schools, really I shouldnt have painted the world black yesterday.
Besides, noone even said I didnt make it, they just said it would be hard - maybe Im actually getting in, who knows. And now if I dont, at least I know that it was really hard and thats why.
And yes, sure I want to work with East Asia - but I already know japanese and some chinese, a degree in International Marketing will be a plus no matter where I go.
If I dont get to study in Shanghai I will have to deal with that when it happens, but yesterday I was forgetting it didnt happen yet. I dont know whats more important to BI when they decide who gets to go, maybe I aced the Letter of Motivation and my degree in Asian languages blew them away - maybe they decide whoever failed any subject at all wont get to go.. either way theres nothing I can do about it now. I'll try to forget all about it untill I know what happens. Will be hard, but Im going to try and think about other things, like today my friends are coming over and we're going to have a great time! :)

Bad news :(

I just got home from my lecture in International Marketing. Apparently the teacher had information about who applied to what countries next year, and he decided to share. We all thought the most popular destinations would be Singapore and New York, but as it turns out its actually Shanghai the most people applied for. Apparently it was about 50 applicants and they only have 20 or 30 spots, not sure what he said. The news hit me pretty hard, felt as if someone had punched me in the face. Now I feel as if I dont have a chance in hell of getting in where I want, and it really upsets me. I have wanted to go to China to study since before I even enrolled here at BI, as its the natural move after studying Japanese and Chinese. I want to work with East Asia, the only reason I decided to study International Marketing rather than stick with Japanese and Chinese was that I felt it would give me a better chance of finding a job. I have tried to make myself care less about what country Im going to next year, but right now China is the only place I want to go. In fact Im considering to stay in Oslo and improve my grades for a year if I dont get accepted. We also got a letter from the head of the International Marketing Programme, saying that she can contact us by phone or e-mail to talk about alternative universities. So now Im just waiting on an e-mail saying "sorry your not good enough why dont you go study some place else, like the North Pole?"
And yes, I know Im taking the news a bit too hard - might be Im just having a bad day. After all, all of the universities looks awesome.. it just doesn't feel right for me to go anywhere else. Damn I just want to know already, the worrying is making me sick.

A great weeekend - part 3

(I just got home from a really awesome weekend of hanging out with old friends. I have tons and tons of things I want to blog about, and if I put it all in one post that post would most likely take up about 3-5 pages. Thats why I decided to split it up into days- heres the post about sunday :))

Sunday was the slackest of the days really. The first time we woke up I felt like hell, but luckily we decided to sleep for a little while longer. We slept untill about 12 or 13 I think, then we basicly just talked, played videogames and ate pizza for a few hours. Today Lene joined us again as well, she was working saturday sadly. In the evening we went to the movies with The Shadow Project, that club Luna made me join a few days ago. I got to say Im glad I joined, we got to the cinema and registrered on the list, and voila - we had our tickets. Now that Im a gold member I can basicly just join all the movies for the rest of the year, as they are included. The movie we went to was Disneys new animated movie - Tangled. We got to see it in english, (the original language thank god) - but with no subtitles. The movie was pretty awesome, it was a modern version of the fairytale Rapunzel. I know its a childrens movie, but we had tons of fun with it as well - a lot of good jokes, funny characters, etc - I absolutely think it was worth seeing. My favorite character was Maximus - hes a horse that can do all sorts of things, like fence with a sword in his mule and run at the speed of light :P
After the movie, once again, we went back to Luna and Lenes place. This evening we took things a bit easier than saturday and played some Munchkin and Che Geek. At midnight Maja was 22, so we sang the birthday song for her and gave her the gift, she really liked it :)
I chickened out early and went to sleep at about 1.30 am, but apparently everyone else stayed up untill 4 AM - dont know how they do it. Today we woke up pretty early, as Luna and Maja had school. I took the subway with Luna so I could go home and finish my part of the assignment in Business to Business Marketing, then I somehow forgot the time and missed my late lecture on International Marketing - ah well I'll do better tomorrow. And that concludes the triology about my great weekend :P I had an awesome time, it was really awesome to hang out with the old gang again - I didnt realise how much I've missed them. Their all so easy to be arround, and I dont have to make any effort at all to fit in. I have to get better at staying in touch with them from now on! Now Im going to the gym, I only worked out 2 times last week, that means I should work out 4 times this week to get back on track with my stickers so I can win that cap :P

A great weeekend - part 2

(I just got home from a really awesome weekend of hanging out with old friends. I have tons and tons of things I want to blog about, and if I put it all in one post that post would most likely take up about 3-5 pages. Thats why I decided to split it up into days- heres the post about saturday :))

Saturday started with a trip to Oslo, the plan was to somehow ditch Maja and get her a birthday present. We successfully convinced her that she needed a dress for the parties we were going to in the evening, but making her go get the dress on the way down to Oslo was harder. She felt it was more convinient to get it on our way back up to Luna and Lenes, and as she was actually right it proved really hard to convince her to go get the dress before we went to Oslo so we could buy a present before she got there. Luckily Camilla and me randomly ended up walking too quickly and lost Maja and Luna, Luna called us and told us to go get Maja a game while she kept her at a different store - so we ran to Gamestop and got her the new Assasins Creed game. We also got shoes, clothes and supplies for the rest of the weekend. When we got back we barely had time to eat before we had to head out again. We went to two different parties, one with out old chinese class and one with Lunas new japanese class.
The first party was at Benedictes place and was basicly to celebrate the chinese new year. It was nice to meet everyone again, and I also made some new friends as they had invited some exchange students from China. Apparently I should go study in Beijing rather than Shanghai, but when I told them that wasnt an option they said Shanghai is nice as well. After a few hours we left for the next party, the one with Lunas japanese class.
It was fun to see how similar they actually are to the class I was a part of in 2007, same style, same japanese expressions mixed into the conversation etc etc. We stayed at the party untill about 4 AM then took the nightbus back up to Kringsjå. We stayed up and talked for at least an hour and I dont think we fell asleep untill 6-7 AM, awesome night.

A great weeekend - part 1

(I just got home from a really awesome weekend of hanging out with old friends. I have tons and tons of things I want to blog about, and if I put it all in one post that post would most likely take up about 3-5 pages. Thats why I decided to split it up into days- heres the post about friday :))

I started the day with a trip to the hairdresser, to color and cut my hair. I normally just color my own hair with some random haircolor from the store, but I decided I dont want red hair anymore and after trying to change the color myself for some time I eventually ended up going to the hairdresser. Apparently the red color from the store is really hard to get out again, so my big plan about light golden brown will have to wait for a few months. For now we did brown with light highlights and the red is all gone so Im really happy anyway. Next time we can make it a little lighter and add some more highlights :)
When I was done at the hairdresser I met up with Kaja, or actually she came there and met me because it ended up taking a bit over 2 hours because it was two different colors and a haircut. We went for cofee and then we got a few things from H&M before heading to my place. I packed all my stuff for the rest of the weekend and then we headed out to Lillestrøm where Kaja and Stian lives. Stian has the greatest hobby ever, he beads nintendo figures! He made me a toad one and a red mushroom one, both from the mario game :) If you want one too he says he can sell them so just contact me and I can contact him.
Then Kaja made us dinner and we watched Disneys Pinochio, its a really sweet movie but we kind of ruined it a bit with our comments about how we wonder why the grasshopper can breathe under water etc..
I couldnt stay that long at Kaja and Stians though as I had plans to stay with Luna and Lene at Kringsjå for the rest of the weekend. I met up with them in Oslo about 22.30 and we went up to their place together with Maja and Camilla. Then I had another dinner with them (who doesnt love having two dinners?), and we stayed up and talked for a while. Lene and I watched a lot of old pictures and movies from when we went to Japan in 2009 on vacation, really made me miss the place - I definetly have to go back there again sometime soon. If I get accepted to the uni in China it will be easy I guess, but even if I dont I just have to go back to Japan and meet up with my friends that live there and just experience all of my favorite places there again. This might be a little random, but here are the two videos from my last stay there I like the best, I hope you all think their as funny as I do. The top one is from when we met up with Koichi, a friend of my uncles, in Kyoto. When he realised Lene was filming he decided to have some wasabi (the really strong green stuff you mix in the soya when you eat sushi) and well it didnt go so well, but the movie is awesome. The second one is from our hotel in Tokyo, they had these pretty scary massage machines and of course I had to try one..

Randomness

Today was a pretty slack day for me, hardly did anything at all because I got a cold and Im growing a wisdom tooth :P
Victoria came over though (couldnt just watch tv alone all day long) and we made dinner, watched TV and talked. I also showed her Piknic.com. Piknic is a pretty awesome online free picture editor, found it on JJs Blog. First I helped Victoria her fix her profile picture on facebook, then we decided to make a friendship collage while we were at it (as the 14year old wannabes we are.. oh wait we're both in our 20s - what went wrong?). Here are the results:

















The weekend looks like it will be a lot more eventfull than today. Tomorrow Im going to the hairdresser to cut and color my hair - Im so nervous! Then Im going to Kaja and Stians place for dinner, before Im going to Lunas to stay there untill sunday I think the plan is.. Camilla is coming in from Bodø to stay there, and as Luna found a discount on camping beds at IKEA so she got plenty of sleeping space. Thats how she ended up inviting Maja and me as well. Expect a looong blog entry on monday ^^

One long day (and one long blog entry)

Today I finally managed what I've failed to accomplish the last 3 weeks, to not oversleep for english class. Yay me! :P I was pretty embarrassed to show up after not showing up all this time, but as it turned out I wasnt the only one. Two of my friends at school also showed up for the first time today, and so did some other students, so it actually wasnt too bad. As it turned out today was a pretty important day as well, as we negotiated the first of 4 cases that we can get on the final in april. We were divided into groups and given a side in a conflict between management on one side, and a delegation protecting the employees interests on the other. We were discussing wether or not to start using home offices. Then we met a group from the other side and tried to come to an agreement. At first I really didnt think I would be all that active, but when we started to negotiate I ended up talking a lot - as I just couldnt keep my opinions to myself. The other group seemed pretty annoyed with us and we even had a time-out at one point, but in the end we managed to meet mid way and come to an agreement. We would try out home offices for 3 days a week and buy a smaller office. I didnt think I would have so much fun with this, but I actually had. I guess thats a good thing considering the job I migth end up with is likely to include real negotiations. I was going to stay at school and study untill the late lecture in International Marketing - but I simply couldnt live with myself without taking a shower, so I went home to do that.
In International Marketing it was all about negotiations today as well. 15 of my classmates negotiated a case the same way we will be doing at the final, so we could all learn from their mistakes. It was kind of slack for me as I didnt volunteer for it. Guess I should have joined the discussion to practise for my final, but I just didnt feel like talking in front of the rest of the class, we're about 100 students.
After school more than anything I wanted to just go home and sleep, but my plan was to go to the gym so I did. They have a new contest now - called Målsvettet. Basicly work out 12 times in february and get a free cap. Work out more than 12 times and get the chance to win 1000 NOK (thats 126 euros). I think working towards something might be good to keep me motivated, even if what Im working towards is a cap. So I signed my name on the list, and when I was done working out I got a sticker to put next to it. Kind of felt as if I was back in Kindergarden or something, but it was actually kind of motivating as well. In order to work out 12 times in february I guess I should aim for 3 times a week, that should actually be very doable considering I live pretty close to the gym, and I guess it would probably be really good for me as well - and get me better results than just 2 times a week like I was planning on to begin with.
When I got home my friend Luna called and asked if I wanted to join a trip to the movies next sunday, I would have to join a club - but the club actually seems pretty cool so I decided to go for it. Its called TSP - The Shadow Project. The club is for going to the movies (cheaper than if you go by yourself) and also some other events called cons. Seems pretty cool and joining it and paying for one ticket to the movies is actually cheaper than a regular ticket to the movies so its a win. If anyone else want to join you can go to this site. Think thats all for now, wow that was one long entry - but to be fair it was also a really long day :)