Last 2 weeks

Last 2 weeks have been wonderful. Yes, some bad stuff happened, but I guess I also learned something good from that. Let's start from the beginning then (warning: this will be long one!!).

SWEDEN:
Travel to Sweden was a long one. We started early in the Saturday morning (26th July) by taking a ferry to Helsinki, spending a whole day there, mostly sleeping in the park. In the evening we took next ferry to Stockholm, my plans to enjoy the sunset in the evening didn't work. We went to sleep at 20 o'clock. Next day we met Bader family in the central station, organized ourselves to Arlanda airport to take camp bus from there and then something like 5 hours bus drive.. Which basically meant more sleeping. We missed of course the opening ceremony, but since others said it was kinda in Swedish then it doesn't matter.

Next morning I woke up in a tent with spider staring at my face. This was no good way to start a morning for me so all the next nights I decided to sleep outside, under the starry sky. And it was great. Of course a bit cold sometimes, but at least spiders nicely hidden in the grass. And what a nice way to fall asleep while staring stars at the sky...

Then came 3 days of Congress which passed really fast, the good side of it also was that we didn't have to cook during those 3 days.

Days kinda passed like this: getting up in a morning, eating, Congress or after the 3rd day just sleeping in the sun or swimming at the lake. Then starting to worry about who's gonna cook the lunch, etc After lunch some more sleeping or chatting with people, then worrying about the dinner and then evening program, sitting somewhere with you blanket and wearing as many clothes as possible or just using other people to get warm (sometimes it worked, sometimes not). Sleeping somewhere at 3 a.m, waking up at 8 a.m. It was great:)

And now some reasons why I am so thankful for being in Active:

I feel safe in Active events. I feel safe in a way that I don't feel safe in my own family and I'm really thankful for that. I don't have to be afraid of anything at all (except for spiders maybe). I know that there's no violence, no mocking each other (only in a good friendly and sometimes mean way:P), no drugs, no artificial stuff to change people into monsters. Love you guys/girls:)

The fact that Swedes most of the time forgot that not all the people speak Swedish was just a small disturbing factor, well sometimes VERY disturbing. Disturbing enough for Joakim to write a song about that:)

Of course I have to mention the nice car crash me and Thor had on our way to Oslo. We were on the crossroad trying to turn on the left, but neither of us noticed a car which came from left and it crashed into our car from aside and we ended up somewhere in a ditch. Nobody was hurt, a bit shocked but that's nothing compared to what could have happened. My sense of security is a bit damaged though. I don't really feel safe anywhere, at least not on the wheels. Today when plane was landing it lost it's balance for like 5 minutes because of the strong wind and this was also rather scary for some moments. I had feeling like everything that I have ever been afraid of is happening (car crash, plane crash whatever). At least I hope I learned something from this experience - to pay more attention on the streets and that you can never be sure of anything..

NORWAY:

Well, occupied Joakims mattrace (how's that spelled?:S) for like 5 nights or so. I didn't have plans before arriving in Oslo, my plan was called "I don't know" and that applied for everything. it still does, I think I will call my plan of life like that. "I don't know".

During the days I got pretty good idea of what Oslo was, in the evening I got to know Flight of the Conchords, ate chocolate pudding at 1 a.m, ate loots of blueberry jam (which I also took home with me) and of course, how could I forget: SPINNING with Eivind and Ida!!! Oh that was the best evening, well almost, the best about it was that I got a really really nice massage afterwards:D I met Liga and visited Juvente Norway office, which is just great. Many people working there, it's just in the city center.. Oh when comes this kind of paradise for Juvente EST? I have to say though that it was inspiring.. The whole Congress was inspiring for me and seems that for Tiina as well. We got lots of fresh ideas for Juvente EST, just really hope we have the power and energy to go through with them..

I loved this holiday. Special thanks to Joakim (for the roof and entertainment), ida (for a company), Liga (for nice discussion at Jazz bar), for Tiina (for listening to my problems) and for all the people who make Active Active for me..:)