Through the bus window

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illustration, landscape, norway, winter

I live in Norway, so a simple bus trip often provides me with already perfectly composed images. naturally framed by the window. This is what happened here.

Playing with watercolors

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house, norway, snow covered house, watercolors, winter, winter in norway, winter painting

Felt the need to paint something just to relax

#Snapshots in Norway 11

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atmoshpere, autumn, bycicle, color, colorful, hamar, leaves, norway, snapshot, splitting, trees

That sweet transition between summer and autumn is by far my favorite time of the year. The colors…my God…those colors. I took a new round of pictures. The colors demanded it.

Into the sunset…

 

#Snapshots in Norway 10

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autumn, buildings, colors, fabrikk, hamar, høst, leaves, mjøsa, nature, norway, old, pretty, ringnes, vines, windows

I guess a short introduction is in order. I have long moved from Volda. Now living in a bit bigger place named Hamar, somewhere around an hour from Oslo. And autumn is knocking at the gates and I just had to catch that moment.

 

I love this sort of cult Norwegians seem to have with making their windows pretty to look at from the outside.

 

Tatiana was kind enough to let me take pics of her. Hope she doesn’t sue me for putting them out here.

 

Being slightly tempted to jump over the fence and go for a swing. Tatiana was slightly tempted to go and even out the length of the swings. Either way, I don’t think the house owner would be very pleased.

 

I simply adore nature in the autumn. Those colors…

 

Adorable little things you see on your way to school/work.

 

No idea what is going on behind that window, but I would make a drawing room in there.

 

Something divine in that lighting.

 

“Loc de stat cu capul in maini in mijlocul sufletului”

 

Heading back home. Our ears are freezing. That yellowish light is tricky. It brings but the illusion of heat.

 

Snapshots in Norway #9

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cosy, erasmus, friends, norway, photoshoots, volda

Have recently started being nostalgic about Volda. So I put together some virtual flashbacks.

My Inspiration wall.

 Getting to meet Darinka on a late movie night. Behind is not the wall of a serial killer. It was my “learning norwegian” wall.

A little piece of Porse, our dorm, on a really snowy day.

After work moment. The boots, the umbrella, the waterproof bag – my arsenal

Let’s just say Captain Morgan was at a party that night.

Andrada and me were heading for Rokken, the student club. i think…

fairytale trees

Experimenting  with the camera.

Just love clouds

Cozy time with Jade and Astrid. Movie, swimming and sauna.

Leaving Volda before Christmas. Got to the airport waaaay too early.

Sunshine at my window

Photoshoot in extreme conditions. Frosty was my middle name.

Passing some time in the studio with Darinka.

Late night poster workshop for our play “Act SEX!”

Winter nights

Snapshots in Norway #8

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amateur photography, close-ups, norge, norvegia, norway, peisaje, slotsfjellet, sommer i norge, tønsberg

Between the summer job and writing my bachelor thesis I managed to go out, take some shots and even put them up here. If there was a championship for the least persevering blogger, I’m pretty sure I would have a chance at winning. Oh well, here it goes. A little bit of my summer in Tønsberg, Norway.

Snapshot in Norway #2

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easter in norway, norvegia, norway, pictures, snapshots

I’m on the bus heading from Bergen to Volda. I had been dozing for a while now since the chairs are so comfy. I wake up just to see the bus stopped somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Apparently it was a bus stop. Through the window on my right I see a red-headed girl impatiently hiding a shy smile under the collar of her hoodie. She’s pacing around in her sporty “just got out of the house” outfit with hands in her pockets. Next thing I know a boy gets out of the bus almost running, throws his backpack on the sidewalk and just jumps into her arms. The last thing I see as we start moving is this tight hug in which colors take an impressionist look. His blonde hair, her flaming ponytail, his blue eyes, her turqoise hoodie, his green t-shirt. I’ve been here for 8 months and it’s the first time I see such a display of affection coming from Norwegians.

Snapshot in Norway #1

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couchsurfing, erasmus, exchange student, in oslo, norway

I’ve been getting questions about Norway from various people and it seems that’s the main reason people read my blog. So…I decided to start a new series of posts. Just descriptions of cool moments I have had so far, sometimes with pictures. I hope it will be some good.

*cu riscul de a parea pretentioasa, cred ca renunt sa mai scriu in romana de vreme ce mai bine de jumatate din cititori se pare ca nu sunt romani…:D

First “snapshot”

It was my second night in Oslo, I was drunk with hapiness and Hansa (Norwegian beer) and we were staying at a nice guy we met through couchsurfing.

I am somewhere on a plateau in the woods, it’s dark as hell and I can barely see Liv in front of me sitting on the bench. The only things I can distinguish are her blonde dreadlocks. Far behind her, somewhere low, there’s the water of the fjord and the entire Oslo. She’s doing the unthinkable for a Norwegian:  she is sharing her ecological wine with me (It doesn’t taste that good but I’m out of beer).  We can barely see the glasses on the cold wooden table. She talks to me about how she started working as a storyteller and we end up speaking about how generally people in the Northern regions of a country have the best kinds of swearings. Somewhere around 4 o’clock it gets way too chilly for me and my woolen dress. It may be mid august but it’s still Norway and the raindrops start falling soon. We head for S.’s place without any light but the phone display, praying we’ll still find our way through the forrest. I don’t remember how we got back.

Autumn in Volda

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autumn sunset in volda, corel painter, norge, norway, wacom tablet

Iar mă joc cu tableta…

Ten things i like about Norway (so far)

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norway, norwegians, things i like about norway, traveling impressions, volda

1. The cute neat houses which seem taken out of a movie set

2. The fact that 99.9 % of people here speak English

3. Good bread

4. The fact that they have butter that doesn’t stiffen in the fridge plus a separate type of butter for cooking

5. Everything generally seems well thought (from buses, trains and ferries to social assistance)

6. You get paid if you go to school away from home

7. Beer is welcome anytime

8. You can actually leave your door open without finding your room empty after half an hour (but we’ll come back to that later)

9. The outfits people pull off when going to a club EVEN in a village

10. The incredible views. wherever you turn your head there’s a mindblowing shape of a mountain with incredible lighting emphasising its greatness. (see facebook albums :p )

It’s not a top ten. Just random ten things that came into my mind at 2 o’clock at night. Ten things I don’t like about Norway coming up soon…