14.50

It's 14.50. I also have 14 school days left at RCN - ever! And 50 days until graduation. Time flies, huh.

This means that exam studying has kicked in. First years are starting Leirskule training (see "Leirskule" for more) meaning their away most of the afternoon and second years have crawled back to their desks, the library and classrooms for reviews and intense studying. Even though we just had Easter, the usual afternoon-tiredness is kicking in and coffee seems like my best friend once again.
(I even decorated it with this lovely picture saying "I'm so tired, I just want to sleep for a couple of days" - seemed appropriate :)

In reality it isn't that bad. We are socializing a lot, every night (hint the tiredness) and enjoy every last moment in beautiful Flekke. Today I am going to take pictures for my second year corner in the yearbook. I took the one below on Saturday, but I have a slightly different idea in mine now.. You will see! Anyways, the sun is out and has been for the longest time (except for the occasional snow storm). It is also supposed to stay out for at least another week. Spring might have actually come to Flekke this year! 

As I am waiting for a letter or an e-mail to come with my financial, my book, that I ordered over a month ago, finally came today. I have promised myself not to read it before I have finished my English books for exams, but I am really excited. I don't actually like reading, but maybe I have just gotten so used to school literature being throw at me with a deadline, that I forgot what it was like to read for the literature itself. We will see how it goes. My motivation to finish my books for English is high now, because I just want to get started with "Looking for Alaska". I don't know much about it, and the reviews are mixed, so let's hope won't disappoint me. 

Happy belated Easter to everyone! 

Last, last, last.. and then?

The fourth and last term for RCN's class of 2013 is halfway over.
This means last sledding-trip, last Global Concerns day, last cultural day.. Last times of everything, and then what? It ends. Something else starts. But what?

I think most of my class, including myself, has realized that the unknown future is coming our way, meaning that we've put away excuses and blog updates in favor of tea, long walks, pool parties and RCN fun. I hope this explains my lack of updates. I'll try to make up for the lost with a picture update now:

In February, while the first years were off to ski-week, we had reading week. This is a week off to study and prepare for the following week's practice exams. This was my life. A cup of coffee and a bowl of fruit. Not to bad, huh? 

Following the tradition, we pranked the first years for their return to campus. The second years always switch around their curtains, so when they come back tired from skiing, they have to walk around from room to room and find out who has their curtains. Furthermore, Tenzin (Tibet/India) and I blew up what felt like a million balloons and put them in Maja's (Sweden) bed, and hung toilet paper in Nkanyezi's (Zimbabwe) bed. We are such sweet roommates :) 

Reading week meant quiet! Everyone was studying and having fun. Study breaks meant many walks and tea sessions like here - an early morning sunrise, Flekke style! 

Just my new wall of physics........ 

As the sun rises, it also sets - Flekke style! 

Maja's (Sweden) parents sent her a sushi kit = many room-sushi-dinners. Mhmmmm!

And then the sun came, for real! It has not rained in Flekke for what feels like forever! Though it is freezing cold and icy, because the snow that does melt freezes again over night, it is beautiful. Nothing a photo can capture. 

Since we only had one Danish birthday last term, they are all coming now. Kris (Denmark) and I have been trying to bake awesome cakes, but it has been hard to to beat the "kagemand" (cake-man) above!

 

The following birthday we failed at beating it, even with more than 50 pancakes and Nugatti (Norwegian version of Nutella) - Frida and Hannah (Denmark) beat us, baking amazing cinnamon buns. Don't worry, we're back on track now!  

Aaaaand room-pictures for the yearbook. The condoms is a long story, involving Noot's (Thailand) prank after ski-week, that I didn't explain earlier, but here is a sample photo. 

Our group of 5 (Florence, Christine, Veerle, Carlos and I) who always watch Pretty Little Liars together threw a Pretty Little Liars season finale party for ourselves.

And finally: today is Afro-Caribbean Day and I am off to the show in a minute. Here is some pictures from the Bazar. 

Take care! 

100 days of RCN

There are no words for this.
Today, we have 100 more days in the fjords of Norway, to enjoy the rain and brighten up the night.

My friend, Alonso (Peru) has made this blog and I just had to share it http://rcn100.tumblr.com/
Take a look through his experience - I think it will talk for itself.

- Mette

RCN MUN 2013

Dear readers,

As this year's RCN Model United Nations conference has officially been opened with tonight's Opening Ceremony I would kindly invite all of you to take a trip with me back to last year's conference, but also to look at the changes for this year. The travel from the delegate of the State of Palestine of to Ms. Mette Dehlbæk, chair of the DISEC committee.
Again this year MUN last for three days including today, tomorrow and Tuesday. Delegates in DISEC will be discussing, with me charing, the question of total elimination of nuclear power and so far it seems as it is going to be a fruitful debate. Delegates are as always asked to use formal language and dress accordingly to the formal dress code. Delegates not following these instructions may be excluded for the chamber for an amount of time set by the respective chairs.

.. Okay, really, it gets old. I can talk like this all day, no problem. I love dressing up and I wouldn't mind doing it every day for the rest of my life, but when I get home, back to my room and put on pj-pants and a sweat-shirt, I wanna be able to let out my thoughts and use "I" and not "the chair".

Just like with a lot of the other things I am experiencing this year, it is a totally different but just as meaningful experience to be 'on the other side'. I see the first years going through MUN with thoughts exactly like mine were a year ago, and still they don't understand that the advice we give as second years are really from experience. I guess everyone will have to learn on their own.

Here is a link to the media's blog: (yes, a gossip column from the conference) - most of it is pretty funny: http://mun2013.tumblr.com/ 

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As IAs (Internal Assessments) are thinning out (I finally finished) and mock exams are only three weeks again, the end of the term; the two years and graduation seem closer and closer. Though it seems like this winter will never end and I will never see anything but a school book again, summer is really getting closer quite rapidly and suddenly it will be May. Universities, summer jobs, drivers license and future plans are filling our senior heads, as we try to get every last squish of joy and happy memories out of this place.

Hopefully we will succeed as many items have already been checked off my bucket list. More about that in the future post :)

Happy almost last month of official winter (even though we all know about Flekke and snow in May..)