Christmas 2008

Hope everyone had an amazing Christmas. For me Christmas pretty much began the 22nd when Dale got a tree for the guys’ apartment. The tree with alternative ornaments accompanied by the other Christmas decoration is found below (Aunt Karin I promise, the Christmas penis was not my idea!)

Anyway, the four of us watched Elf (a great Christmas movie with Will Farell), while two of us continued with a bad horror movie before going to bed about 3-4 am. Already at 12ish the next door neighbor started yelling and shouting (covering pretty much all the bad words I know in Spanish and some in English). However right after going to bed he started, what I thought was, slamming things making it impossible to sleep.... After a small nap in the morning we woke up to 20-something bullet holes in the wall, including some chattered glass and wood where we were watching tv....

The 24th I worked from 9 am to 5 pm, having Christmas eve dinner (hamburger and chips) at the only open place: the Irish pub after trying to order take-away from Mr.Pizza. And as a Christmas present the Bolivian police decided to let the crazy neighbor out. He has however luckily not chosen to show his hate for gringos the last few days.

The 25th I woke up to coffee in bed followed by champagne breakfast, followed by wine, fernet and whisky, and finally a Christmas dinner which was great but a bit neglected as a consequence of the previously mentioned liquids. One of the highlights of the dinner was Swedish Mike's meatballs that started out at meatballs and ended up as meatcakes to my enjoyment.

To the left the Swedish tradition of making meatballs while on the right you find the Scottish tradition of drinking a lot of whisky....

And next: New Years!

Pictures from home

What does NOT help when you are getting a bit homesick and want to spend x-mas with your mom, dad and little brother and sister(s):


However, I did manage to change my ticket in the end so for the next holiday (Easter) I will be home!

Both me and time have been flying

Not very frequent blogg updates,I know... but time is flying in La Paz. I am living with Kass (a nice english guy working at Oliver's travels), his girlfriend and a pregnant cat (which I am uber scared is going to give birth while I am at home alone - Tone Mette if you read this give me some tips from your year long exprience of midwifing for your cats). Try to do some spanish lessons but I am soon giving up, I work pretty much five days a week and go on an occassional bike ride. The result of Friday's trip is found below. Warning: These pictures do NOT do justies for my injuries, which where located pretty much all over my body.

I am just super glad that I didn't break anything or loose my teeth (or went down the 500 m cliff not far from me). A less fortunate girl can be seen if you go to You Tube and type in "frontbreak face plant"...

So what do you do two days after being beaten up, and with a knee that is the size of a small tennis ball? Go on a new bike ride! Here is one of the pictures from me and Osmar's trip on Sunday. Great weather, amazing Bolivia, three punctures and two tired souls at the end of the day . I should say that I look cool in the picture below, but don't be fooled! I did almost sacrifice my teeth - again - while going down, or at least trying to, some stairs....

And if anyone was wondering; no I am not coming home for Christmas and it is not to easy to change my flight as first being told. So when I will be back in Norway is a mystery...