Spices, spices, spices!

It seems that this is going to be the year I will learn to eat spicy foods. The other night I was in the dayroom with a group of Sweden Housers and Yacine from Senegal cooked noodles for us, including her mom's home-made yellow chili spices. The taste was amazing, but the feeling it left in my red-cheeks and running nose was a little less nice. I could eat a couple of bites and then take a break, but it did seem like a good way to eat, because we didn't even manage to finish.
Now, if I thought that was about as spicy as it gets, I was very wrong, because the following day I was in my room with Kristoffer (Denmark) when my roommate Tenzin (Tibet/India) offered us a snack. It was a kind of potato chips and looked pretty delicious, but after the expression of Kristoffer's face after he tasted one, I decided to only take a very small piece and I found out why. THIS was spicy! Once again it tasted delicious, but a couple of seconds after the taste went away, my mouth literally caught on fire (I thought it did :)).

Today and tomorrow is Extended Essay (EE) writing days for us second years, so I better get back to business!
Take care.

Aaaaand action!

Wednesday afternoon, after a couple of amazing days in Copenhagen, Mia (Germany), Ibrahim (Sweden), Kristoffer (Denmark) and I headed to the ferry between Oslo and Copenhagen with all our suitcases, food, and other bags. Finally we made it to the harbor and to the bottom floor: 2 and our small cabin. We had a very nice trip, first on the deck in the sun, later around the 7 story boat!

Thursday morning we landed in Oslo and once again managed to get our luggage transported all the way to the Hostel. We Spend Thursday and Friday exploring Oslo and having our last city-fun, before Saturday's successful Nordic Peace Conference and 10 hours bus-ride back to Flekke.

We arrived in Flekke around 7:30 am Sunday morning and from there I spend all day moving in to my new room with my co-year; Tenzin, from Tibet. I move right upstairs from 103 to this years 203 and it is an amazing room so far. Sunday afternoon our first first-year roommate arrived. She is called Noot and is from Thailand. She has been at the summer course for the past month, so she knows her way around and is absolutely adorable! During Sunday and Monday, two of my Danish first years; Max and Jakob, arrived. They also seems awesome. Monday-Tuesday night we waited for the Bergen bus for hours! Lots of walking back and forth to the room, but finally around 1 am it happened and everything went crazy. I met three more first-year Danes and my two last roommates; Maja from Sweden and Nkanye from Zimbabwe. We just now showed them around campus until the rain got too hard and we headed back to our warm room, that still smell like noodles from last night. 

Tenzin gave me a package of chili for all our room noodles sessions and also predicted I'd die somewhere during my first mouthful :) I'm excited, hehe. 

On Thursday I'm gonna wake up early and eat before the sun rises and then try and fast a day with some Muslims. All this cultural sharing :) 

All I can really say is, that it has never been so amazing to come back before. I really missed this place (except for the rain). 

More updates to come during INTRO-WEEK 2012 :D