Birken og andre ting

Okay time for another update, I know I said I will write in both Norwegian and English but that takes forever, and I don't have enough time to do both in every post. So I have decided I will alternate between the two languages, and for those of you thinking "I won't be able to understand it." All you have to do is copy and past what I wrote into google translate. Yes it will not be a perfect translation but it will get my point across, and if that is still confusing just leave a comment and I will see what I can do.

Now time for the information. Not much happened the weekend after my last post except the other exchange student from Minnesota I met came over and we watched the first two Harry Potter movies because I have never watched them and he happens to be a big fan. Other than that though it was just a weekend to chill out. I got a lot of stuff done over the weekend which was nice though.

Not much haååened for the rest of the week, pretty boring especially because I am getting into a pattern now, so a lot of things are becoming routine, which means boring for the most part. Did decently well on my last couple of tests in school which was nice. For Friday me and the other exchange students had a class together with a first grade class (first high school grade, not like 7 year olds). It really wasn't very difficult and again pretty boring, but it was nice to have something different than usual.

After that it was back home to pack for the weekend, because we were heading up north because I was doing the Norwegian Birkebeiner on Saturday! So it was a pretty awesome weekend, it was definitely a hard race, and I didn't finish as quickly as I wanted to, but I can blame that on minimal training the past month or so. I still was able to finish in 4 hours and 12 minutes though, which still isn't bad for 54 kilomters with a 3.5 kg backpack and over two mountains.

We stayed with my host mother's brother and his family, it was a lot of fun to stay with them and get to know them all a little better. It was also really cool to see another part of Norway, it is really beautiful up where they are and towards Lillehammer. Definitely a really nice part of the country.

Heading back home on Sunday we stopped in Oslo to celebrate my older host brothers birthday which was earlier in the week. We went out to eat dinner at a pizza place in Oslo and went back to his apartment for dessert later on, then it was back home.

Back home which meant back to school in the morning. It really isn't so bad just hard to motivate myself knowing that it counts for nothing, but lately things have been going a little better.

Spring is starting to show itself, for example it got into the upper 50's lower 60's Fahrenheit or about 10-15 degrees Celsius. The sun has been out in abundance the last week and trees are starting to show small blossoms. It has been really nice with the added daylight, it starts getting dark around 7 now and we haven't even changed clocks forward yet!

I am really looking forward to the nice weather, being able to run and bike again and also being able to spend time outside in shorts! Over the last few days I haven't even needed to wear a coat, my sweatshirt has been plenty to keep me warm walking to and from the bus stop.

Things have been going good though and while there are some things that I am coming to miss (like driving) and other things that kind of get on my nerves here, it has been an awesome experience so far and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

It is hard to believe that it has been over 7 months already and that I only have like 3 months left, time really does go by too fast. It has also been really nice lately because I understand just about everything now and I can speak fairly well too, so I haven't been totally clueless in classes and when my friends are talking with each other which has been cool.

Anyway that is about all that has happened lately, if you have any questions just leave a comment or shoot me an email.
Thanks for reading!
Jon

Begynnelse av mars!

For dere som skal lese engelsk bare går ned i innlegge. (for those that will read it in English just scroll down in the post). Takk til alle som har stemte i min Poll, hvis ingen more skal steme jeg skal skrive på norsk og engelsk i fremtiden. (thanks for everyone that voted in my poll, if no one else is going to vote I will just say that I will write in both Norwegian and English from now on)

DET ER MARS!!!! Tid har gikk så fort, ikke så mye har skjedde siden min siste oppdatering men det føles like det har. I dette innlegg jeg skal skrive i norsk og engelsk fordi de fleste mennesker har stemte at jeg skal skrive i begge, så det skal jeg. Ok nå skal jeg skrive lit om hva er skjedde den siste en og en halv uke siden min siste innlegg.

Rett etter min siste der var ikke så mye, på tirsdag det var en vanlig skole dag unntatt i breddeidrett vi så på VM på ski! Booya! Resten av dagen var ikke så spennende men det var bra å ha lit gøy ting i skolen. Jeg glemt hvis jeg var på trening den dagen men det er ikke så viktig.

Går videre til andre ting. Det neste to dager var kjedelig, men på fredag, oh boy. Jeg hadde fagdag i fysikk som vanligvis er litt gøy, men i dag det var en tre timer prøve på starten. Så jeg er nervøse om hvordan det gikk, fordi jeg har ikke fått den tilbake. Jeg tror at det var bedre enn den siste men jeg er ikke sikkert på det.

Beste del av dagen var etter lunsj, hvor vi sett på VM stafett! (fordi der var så mye fysikk i et ski renn at vi kan lære om :D ) Neste var helgen!! Jeg elsker helgene, fordi der er tid for å slappe av og henge med venner.

Lørdag var gøy, på jeg bare sove og slappe av om morgenen og så i ettermiddag jeg gikk til en venn som er en utvekslingsstudent fra USA også.

På søndag var det mer tid for å slappe av og jeg hadde den venn fra lørdag over på søndag også for å henge ut, se på litt tv, og bare ha det gøy.

Mandag, tilbake til skole... jeg var ikke begeistret for skoleuke men etter helgen jeg var litt bedre, fordi jeg hadde tid for å bare ventilen min frustrasjoner. Ingen ting spesial på mandag, men jeg hadde helt glemte om min biologi prøve på tirsdag. AAAH!

Så mandag kveld og meste parten tirsdag jeg var så nervøse om hvordan det skulle går. Men jeg tror det var ok, fordi jeg svarte til alle på norsk. På tirsdag kveld det var trening som var klubbmesterskapet, for meg det var en 7,5 km rennet, med en 5 km rundt og en 2,5 km rundt, men på den 2,5 km løpet jeg gikk en galt vei, så til slutt jeg bare slappe av, men det første 5 km var veldig bra.

Da jeg komme hjem etter trening det var mer studering for meg fordi jeg hadde en matematikk prøve på onsdag. Yay... men det gikk mye bedre en min andre prøver for den siste par uker. På kvelden det var bare meg og en venn som er middag hos meg og bare slappe av og snakke med hver andre.

Torsdag var ikke så spesial også, bare skole med trening etter om kvelden. Etter trening jeg gikk til kino med to venner for å se filmen 127 timer. Den var en bra film men litt groteske.

Det var alt for min oppdatering, håper at dere liker å lese det! Ha det så lenge!

Well now that I did that wonderful ending I need to write it in English now.
"IT IS MARCH!!! The time has gone by so fast, not much has happened since my last update, but for some reason it feels like it has. blah blah about how I am going to write this post in both English and Norwegian. Now I am just going to write about what has happened since my last update one and a half weeks ago.

Right after my last post there wasn't much that happened, I went to school on Tuesday where nothing really special happened. Except in my sports class where we watched one of the World Championship races in my sports class! Booya!! The rest of the day wasn't so exciting, so being able to have that little bit of fun in school kind of broke things up for me. Not really sure if I went to training that night but it isn't that important.

On to other things. The next two days were pretty boring, but friday, oh boy. I had a whole day in physics for this school day called "fagdag" (or fag dag, not sure if it is one word or two), it is kind of hard to explain the whole system but if you want to know shoot me an email.

Usually with out physics fagdag it is pretty fun, but on this day we started out with a 3 hour test. I am nervous about how it went mainly because I haven't gotten it back yet. I am pretty sure it went better than the last test but I am not entirely sure.

The best part of the day was after lunch, in this period we watched the World Championship mens relay race (because there is so much physics involved with a ski race that we could learn about). Next was the weekend!!! I love the weekends because there is time to just relax and hang out with my friends.

Saturday was nice, in the morning I just slept and chilled out and later in the day I went to a friends and just hung out with him and another guy. That was about it for that. Sunday I just relaxed some more, had the friend I hung out with on Saturday over to hang out and watch the World Championship 50 km mens race with.

Monday, back to school... I was not looking forward to school, but thankfully after the weekend I was a little better because I was able to vent most of my frustration to someone, so it helped me remove some steam. However nothing special happened on Monday except for the fact that I realized I had totally spaced that I had a biology test on Tuesday, that I had not studied for at all. AAAH!

So Monday night and most of Tuesday I was so nervous about how it would go. I think it went ok though, because I answered almost everything in Norwegian. On Tuesday night there was also ski training as usual, but this time it was the club championships. For me it was a 7.5 km race with a 5 km loop and a 2.5 km loop combined. However in the 2.5 km loop I took a wrong turn, twice. So I just gave up and ski fairly slow into the finish, although I do have to say the first 5 km went really well.

When I got home from training it was more studying for my math test the following day. Yay... this test went a lot better then the others I have had in the last couple of weeks. (we are on Wednesday now, sorry if this is unorganized my English is gradually fading) I had a friend over for dinner and to just hang out afterwards, which was nice because I had been so stressed about my tests and stuff. So we just hung out, relaxed, watched some tv and just chatted for a while.

Thursday (or yesterday if you will) there was nothing special, just school with training in the evening. After training however I did go with a couple of friends to see 127 hours. It was a good movie but it was a little grotesque.

Anyway that about covers me for things, I hope you enjoy reading. See you later!
Jon

VM og andre ting

Hi everybody!!!

First I just want to say VOTE ON THE POLL! Sso far two people have voted for me to write in both English and Norwegian and only one voted for me to write in only Norwegian, but what do the rest of you have to say? Since I wrote my last post in Norwegian I consider it fair to write this one in English. There is quite a bit to tell this time because I have done quite a bit over the last week and a half ish.

Right after my last post nothing interesting happened other than me being able to use my new skis!!!!! It makes so much of a difference having skis that fit. I have used them several times now and each time I am liking them more and more.

I had a history test the week before my winter break, which I was totally not ready for. I was able to get enough studying in though to at least be able to answer a few of the questions (I think).

The next part in my week was going to watch a movie as part of the Norwegian for us exchange student. We went to see a Norwegian film called "Jeg Reiser Alene." Not a bad movie, a bit hard to understand because it was in a pretty difficult dialect but after half an hour I was able to keep up a bit better. After that those of us exchange students went to the shopping center for lunch and just chilled out for a little while.

Then my winter break started!! One week no school, just chilling out and having fun. The first weekend wasn't to much of a big deal just chilled, we went up to Oslo for some skiing and also up to a mountain for a bit (we found an area where the snow was so deep I sank to my armpits, hehe). It was so much fun up at the mountain (not sure exactly where it was, about an hour from where I live) perfect weather, nice fluffy snow and just a nice relaxing ski.

The few days following was just spent with me relaxing, catching up on sleep and doing a tiny bit of homework. After those couple of days is when the fun really started. Thursday me and my family went up to Oslo to watch the ski VM (World ski championships) which are being held in Oslo this year. We had tickets to watch the sprint race, and man was it really cool to be there.

Apart from being one of the very small number of Americans there it was a total blast. I cheered like crazy for all the Americans, and was out there with my big American flag, and when there weren't any Americans around I was cheering on the Norwegians.

It would have been so cool to see an American on the podium but to be honest it was just cool to see all of the athletes out there racing. After that it was back home and back to chilling out. However! I worked it out and I ended up going back to Oslo on Saturday and to watch the Womens 15 km Pursuit race and the mens 10 km combined race. I met up with another exchange student from the US and we both stood on the course and screamed like crazy.

After the races I went to my host brothers apartment for a little while and then went back into the city to watch the award ceremony. I got there a little late so I was in the back making it difficult to see although after about 20 minutes I had managed to shove and push my way to a point where I could see the whole stage.

After that I met up with yet another exchange student who had come done from Bergen for her winter break (Bergen's winter break is a week later than mine). Checked out most of the stuff in the Oslo sentrum with her and her host family. After wondering for a little while I headed back to my host brothers apartment for the night. Got back, we watched a movie and just chilled out. I then went to bed and man did I sleep well, one of the benefits of being on your feet and walking around all day.

Got up and it was back up to Holmenkollen for the mens 30 km pursuit race! Got there with plenty of time to spare this time because I was late on Saturday because of problems with the trains going up. Anyway, got there and found a good spot watch the whole thing, cheered on the US athletes like crazy still and was even told that I was seen on tv. After watching everyone else finish it was back into the city to look around some more, hung out with one of the exchange students ran into two others in the middle of Oslo. After chilling out some more it was back to my host brothers to pick up my stuff and eventually take the train home.

Met up with an exchange student also going back my direction, although we ended up on different parts of the train so me and another student that I ran into on the train sprinted from one part to the next at the next stop. Met with the others and headed back home, awesome winter break.

Then of course school had to start again today, so back to the normal world. Nothing to exciting happening this week except for a big physics test, so yay... Anyway that was my update, hope you enjoy reading it.

Jon

Hva skjer folkens?

Det var en veldig opptatt helgen, men ikke så mye skjedde i uke. Den startet på torsdag når jeg gikk ute for middag for bursdag feiring for to venner min, som fylte 18 år gammel. Det var veldig koselig vi spiste pizza og bare prate lit med hver andre.

Fredag på skolen det var litt kjedelig vi hadde noe presentasjon i norsk og hadde å skrive en drøftingsartikkel (det tok veldig lang tid for meg). Etter skolen jeg bare slappe av litt og på kvelden var jeg på fest til to jenter for deres 18 års feiring. Den var veldig fin fest, med masse folk, og jeg snakket mye med masse forskjellig folk om USA, hjemmested, hvordan det er for meg i Norge og mange andre ting. Det var veldig kult å snakke med forskjellig folk om så mange ting og for å treffe mer norsk folk.

Neste del av helgen var på lørdag (det var også bursdagen min!!!), familien min kom og våkne meg klokka 9 med den norsk bursdag sang og amerikansk pannekaker (left overs fra da jeg laget dem, yay for fryser). Vi spiste i rommet mitt og etter på jeg bare slappe av til etter lunsj og da vi gikk ut på ski og også stoppe på en sportsbutikk og jeg kjøpte nye ski!!! De var dyrt men jeg hadde å få dem fordi min ikke passer lenger.

Etter ski var vi tilbake hjem og slappe av litt før festen for to venner min at hadde bursdag deres på torsdag (samme at jeg spiste med på torsdag). Det var gøy men der var også litt drama, så yeah...

Og siste ting at skjedde i helgen var den Vindfjelløpet på søndag, det var en 42 km rennet og var veldig vanskelig fordi jeg hadde å bruke min rock skis (jeg glemt hva det heter på norsk). Men tiden min var under 3 timer uansett, og neste gang jeg skal bruke min nye ski. :D Det er alt for nå, tror jeg at ikke så mye skjer denne uke men vi skal se.

Ha det så lenge!
Hilsen, Jon

P.S. translate.google.com for those that don't understand Norwegian you can use google translate to figure it out, it should be understandable. What do you guys think, should I write in only Norwegian or should I write in both Norwegian and English? Leave a comment, send me an email or vote in the poll in the top right corner.

Fantastisk uke!!!

This last week has been awesome! It started out pretty boring but ended great. The fun started on Friday when I went with my sports class to Kongsberg for downhill skiing. It was a ton of fun, and for my second time downhill skiing it went pretty good. Kongsberg didn't have as many different runs as Giants Ridge but it was a whole lot longer. I had a lot of fun with everyone and got to learn some new things. After that it was off to the Kongsberg train station to wait for the train south for the AFS Camp.

I got on the train and right away ran into several people from the camp, for the most part the ride down was pretty boring except for being able to just chat with a bunch of the students. Got to the train station and waited for the last students from the south and then headed to the place where we would have the camp.

We got there and started with unloading the bus and then getting some food, followed by chilling out, talking and just relaxing. Had to be up fairly early for breakfast, after breakfast it was on to free time, hehe. Guess what we did, we built a giant snow fort! It was awesome and ended up being huge, we ate lunch and then did a short activity thing. Then it was more free time, we went for a short ski and messed around some more before dinner.

After dinner it was more chill time and we also had another short activity a little later. We also found out that there was a high chance of the northern lights for the night so we were allowed to stay up and try and catch them. So we stayed up and chilled but unfortunately no northern lights, but it was cool to just sit outside and watch the stars, there were a ton of shooting stars.

Now on to the last day, we had the boy/girl talk again, then it was on to packing and cleaning. Eventually we all had to leave :( It was an awesome weekend though and we all said bye to one of the students who chose to go back home, if you are reading you know who you are, we'll all miss you man! After the couple hour train ride home it was back home for a little bit and then off to one of my friends house to watch the Super bowl.

I found it really funny that I don't think I have ever watched the super bowl back home but watched it here in Norway, especially considering we had to stay up until 4:30 to watch the whole thing. After the weekend it was really hard to stay up, and by the time it finished we would only have an hour or so to sleep, so we decided to pull an all-nighter.

After the super bowl school on Monday was really hard but I made it through. Got home and went right to bed, and slept most of the way to morning with only an hour awake in-between. Next came another day of downhill skiing! This time with the whole school, so I got to go with all of my friends. It was a ton of fun, we got there around 10ish I think and I went straight to rent out skis for the day. Was out skiing by around 10:30-11 I think, we went on every trail and even took some paths through the woods.

We headed back at 3 and then I just chilled out, although I was pretty wiped out, so just relaxed and wrote stuff in here. Anyway the last week has been totally awesome, it has been filled with so many things and some awesome time spent with all of my friends. It is hard to believe that it has been six months already and I am really bummed that I only have 5 months left but I am determined to make the best of the time I have left.

It has also been a little hard the last little while because money has been getting a little tight because everything is so expensive, plus it doesn't help that I need to get skis which is going to cost a lot.

Anyway that is things for now, thanks for reading and sorry no Norwegian for now, I am wiped out, a little sick and ready for bed.
Hilsen
Jon

Osebergrennet!!

Okay so sticking with what I said I would do here is a short update about todays happenings, which happens to be the ski clubs very own ski race. This race was something that I have never done before, it was a sprint relay! There were two people per team and each person would do a total of four 800 meter loops, so yes there was a lot of switching. Besides being really short it was a ton of fun.

Moving on I am really looking forward to next week because 1) I am going to Konsberg skisenter (a downhill ski area about an hour away) with my sports class for fagdag next week! I am so excited especially because the only thing I need to pay for is ski rental! (money has been a wee bit tight lately). After that I am taking the train down south for our mid-year meeting with AFS, and knowing everyone from region 2 it will be a blast!

Now for the Norwegian! (those reading that speak Norwegian feel free to correct my grammar, I need it if I am ever going to get better)

Ok så å henge med det sa jeg, her er en kort oppdatering om hva skjedde i dag, hvilket var det Oseberg skirennet. Dette renn var noe at har jeg ikke gjørt før, det var en sprint stafett! Der var to mennesker per lag og hver personer hadde å gjøre fire runder med åtte hundre meter hver rund, så ja der var masse endring men det var gøy uansett, kort men gøy.

Neste uke har jeg mye å se frem til 1) jeg skal til Konsberg skisenter med breddeidrett klasse min for fagdag! Jeg er veldig spent fordi jeg må bare betale for ski utleie! (pengene har vært litt stram i det siste). 2) Neste skal jeg til sør norge (Vegårshei) for midtårsoppholde med AFS, og vite de andre med AFS region 2 det skal være veldig gøy!

Takk og hilsen
Jon

NOT AGAIN!!!

I can't believe I did it again, but in my defense December went by in a flash. It was pretty much like *zoom* and that was it. Anyway it has been a blast the last two months, Christmas was awesome and New Years was a blast.

Starting off just after my last post I went to Sandefjord for a short ski day/trip thing. It was fun, nothing really exciting though. The next morning I finally got the chance to make pancakes for my host family (thanks for the syrup mom!) It sure seemed like everyone liked them, so yeah.

The next big piece of news was a weekend trip to a ski are called Liatoppen (near Geilo). It was a lot of fun and nice to be on snow for the whole weekend, although because of lack of snow at Liatoppen we had to drive to Geilo for most of the skiing, but it was fun anyway. We stayed in a hotel and went skiing, swimming and drove up to the top of Liatoppen for dinner each night. It was a great weekend, and I did get to know some of the other guys on the team that are my age. We also played a lot of ping pong (apparently it is a tradition on the ski trips to play ping pong).

Later on in December a lot of different Christmas get together things started to happen, including a juleverksted at one of my friends house. It was a lot of fun we started off with gløgg (a warm drink that is usually served over the Christmas time), ate some risgrøt (rice porridge stuff, not sure how to describe it), made some cards and finished up with making pepperkake (pretty much gingerbread cookies).

Next part was farmors(Steinars mother) birthday, basically a time when most of the family from around the area came over to our house and celebrated. It was really cool, there were quite a few people that came over, we ate a bunch of food, and I also got to try some different Norwegian desserts which was cool. Great people, good times.

Around this time was also the final couple weeks of school. The second to last week was very hard, I had three tests a paper and a project that were all due within a couple of days. Not a very fun week, it was filled with lots of studying, stressful days and at least one totally failed test. Oh well.

The nest week (half week, we only had classes till Tuesday) was actually really nice, several of my classes were canceled and because of all the tests and stuff the week before all of my classes were really relaxed, it was nice to have that after such a rough week before.

Wednesday the last week of school was actually pretty cool, there was this whole "closing" concert and stuff. It was basically a school talent show for the last day, and just for fun me and a couple of friends wore full suits, we definitely got weird looks but it was definitely worth it. I also went to lunch with my local contact (I don't know if I mentioned this before or not but she has actually spent time in Ely!) had a great time. Everyone here is just AWESOME!!!

Next we are on to Christmas eve, here in Norway the do most of their celebrating on Christmas eve and not on Christmas day. Starting off we didn't really do much, we woke up at breakfast and such and starting around 12-1 we watched a movie called "Tre nutter til ASkepott" which is a movie that pretty much everyone watches on Christmas Eve. The really funny part is that it is a Czech/German movie with Norwegian dubbing, the best thing is that there is only one guy doing the voices, and he just uses different tones while he is talking.

The next big thing on Christmas Eve was going to church, before we went to the church we stopped at the graveyard and lit candles at Steinars dad's grave and also his grandparents grave. There were so many other people doing the same thing, when we walked out you could see all of the candles lit and lighting up the area, it is really something hard to describe.

Anyway church was good, I was actually able to understand some of what they were saying this time around. It is hard to sing though, because I always find myself trying to figure out what it is saying and end up totally off time with the words.

After church we headed home for dinner and after that it was on to the presents. One thing that is totally different was that before opening presents everyone gets together, sings and dances around the tree. It was really cool, all of the Norwegian traditions are really cool and I totally loved all of it!

Moving on we have første juledag, or Christmas day in the USA. Since we open presents and do all of the normal American Christmas stuff on første juledag it was a bit different for me, but was a lot of fun. For both første juledag and andre juledag we went and visited my host fathers family (første juledag) and my host mothers family (andre juledag). It was a lot of fun we got together ate some really good food and played some games, totally different than I am used to but totally awesome.

Nothing really interesting or fun happened until New Years. I went to a party/dinner at a friends house. We ate dinner (nachos and a really good marshmallow dessert), afterwards we just chilled out until we got to one of the most fun parts of the night. We went outside about 5 minutes before midnight and proceeded to light a bunch of sparklers and watch all of the fireworks going off in almost every direction. After that it was back inside to chill out some more and dance a little bit, it was a lot of fun, and I didn't get home until almost 3 in the morning.

School started again on the 3rd so the break seemed a lot shorter because it started the 23rd of December 23rd and ended on January 3rd, did not seem long at all. Back to school though and for the first week nothing interesting or fun really happened. I did go to another exchange students house on Friday to watch the Goonies though so that was pretty fun (believe it or not he is also from Minnesota!).

I also went over to another friends house that weekend and watched a couple of movies (the Dark Knight and A-team) on a 100 inch HD projector, with surround sound and a giant couch(can you say AWESOME)!! We also got lots of snow over the weekend but the bummer is that it was drizzling and in the mid to upper 30's (F) for like 3-4 days after.

Nothing really exciting after, school was/is good, I have had some fun stuff going on in my sports class and have gradually been speaking more and more Norwegian, and have also been understanding much more.

Last week I actually had the week off of school for an sosial aktivitets uke with AFS, which means that I spent the week working, well kind of. I spent the week at my host fathers school helping out with some of the English classes and doing some presentations on the USA. It was a lot of fun I got to talk a lot with the teachers and it was generally a great time.

Over the last two months I have done 5 races (I think, it might be 4), 10 km classic just after Christmas, which actually went pretty well. A 15km skate race (didn't go so well), sprint race (I WON, although there were only two other people in my race), a 10 km skate race (a lot better than the first skate race). Last but not least this last weekend I did a 40ish km classic race, it actually went pretty well, I finished in a little under 2 and a half hours and could definitely can harder, so things are looking good for the birkebeiner qualifying race in mid February.

That pretty much covers things! I am really going to try and update more often, most likely when something interesting, or just random little updates every couple days or something (keep in mind I am not promising but I will try). Any question about stuff that happened just leave a comment or send me a message. I also want to say thanks for all the cards and presents from everyone, sorry I haven't writing back yet, but I am trying, it has been hard to find the time to write back. Thanks for reading (maybe next time I will write it in both Norwegian and English).

Jon