The clock is ticking!

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Not long until we`re leaving now!

Really looking forward to it! Leaving from Kristiansand 2 days before, going to Oslo to Johnny Horve, a good buddy of mine to stay there until our plane leaves for Heathrow, and will have to wait there for about 4 hours.
Then it`s off to an 11,5 hour flight to Mexico City! And when we get there we have to run like hell to get to our plane to Leon, which is just half an hours ride from Guanajuato, where we`ll be staying the next few Months!



As I`ve said a million times before..
REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT!
Whooopeeee!

The journey soon begins!

The talk is over.. Now it`s time for action!

I have been waiting a long time for this, and now it`s only 25 days until I`m leaving!

Plans have been made, and now everything is getting closer and closer to our departure date.
Reservations have been made, tickets are booked, new passports ordered and we are ready!
17. August 2007 is when I take off from Kristiansand, Norway and first fly to London, UK then off to Mexico City, Mexico and from there to Leon, which is just about 30 minutes from Guanajuato, where we`ll be living for the next few months

My friend Heidi has been studying there for a while now and has been bragging about this place a long while, and when I finally got my shit together, I had some money left..
I could use the money to buy a new flat, and be bored in Norway.. oooor.. I could just travel the world with it, and make it an adventure I`ll never forget!
Anyway.. My friend has set me and Merethe (my gf) up with an apartment there, so we have a cheap place to live, and both me and Merethe have applied to the Spanish Classes in Universidad de Guanajuato and we were both accepted! Oh joy! :D

So our plan is :

Move to Guanajuato, Mexico
Study Spanish, and maybe learn something..
Enjoy ourselves (this goes without saying)
Make lots of new friends
Check out the tourist sites, and the not so touristy sites..
(not get robbed)
Scubadive as much as possible
Meet up with some of my Norwegian friends near Cancun around Christmas for a few weeks.

Travel to Jamaica

Jah man!

Travel to Cuba
Got tips?

















Travel to Usa (maybe)




The good thing is we have at least 7.5 months before our ticket runs out, and even better, we have a good budget, so if we play our "cards" right we`ll be able to stay much longer!

So here is the million Peso question..
Do YOU know of any places we should visit while in Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba or the states?
Please, pretty please, with sugar on top..

Tell us? mail or comment! :D

We`ll be posting pictures both here and on facebook for those of you who know us! :)



Here is some information on the different places we`re going!
Will be updating this as time goes by :)

(Thank you Wikipedia)

Guanajuato was founded as a town in 1554

and received the designation as a city in 1741. It is located in one of the richest silver mining areas of Mexico, and is well known for its wealth of fine colonial era Spanish architecture.

The name "Guanajuato" comes from the Tarascan (P'urhépecha) word, "Quanax-juato", which means "place of frogs".

The city was originally built over the Guanajuato River, which flowed through tunnels underneath the city. However, after years of raising buildings to accommodate repeated flooding, in the mid-twentieth century, engineers built a dam and redirected the river into underground caverns. The tunnels were lit and paved with cobblestones for automobile traffic, and this underground road network carries the majority of cars driving through the city today. It is one of the most noticeable features of the city.

Cleanliness at Sørlandet Sykehus, Kristiansand?!

I was at my city`s hospital today, to take some blood samples..
When I had some time to spare, I went to the internet "cafè" our hospital supplies for the patients, and I was Horrified!

The Keyboard was full of filth, leftovers, hair, fat, and propably a whole lot of germs as well.
The Mouse was the same! Really filthy. And just recently the hospital has had a lot of critic because they had unsanitary conditions, making people who were`nt sick, sicker.

Why don`t they think about the one place the patients share? Sick people, using a computer, sharing it with other sick people, and then they are`nt even going to clean the filth up?

It`s incredible!

When am I going to die?

Guanajuato, Mexico?

Hey folks!
Well.. Now I have some good plans!

Since my moving to spain plan still has`nt fallen through, I figured It would be good if I knew the language and was able to communicate properly.. I was thinking about taking some spanish courses in Kristiansand, but I think it`s kinda lame to learn spanish, and hardly ever get to talk and communicate with people in the area.. So why not move to a spanish speaking country, that`s cheaper than Spain.. :D


So when a friend of mine, Heidi said I should come visit her studytown in Guanajuato, Mexico, I thought it sounded like paradise!

She explained this was a town about the same size as Kristiansand (80 000 people ca)

So now I have to wait for an operation, get well, finish work (quit), buy tickets, and pack! :p Oh.. And maybe wait for Heidi to get home from Mexico, and then tag along when she travels back! :)

I`m guessing that in the beginning of August, I will be ready! Maybe I can save up some money while I`m waiting. I`ll be staying studying Spanish, and then travel as much as possible around the country. Hopefully I`ll be there until at least June, 2008.

Looking forward to travelling, and looking forward to new experiences!
If anyone have any traveltips in Mexico please feel free to mail or comment! :)


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Long time

Hey! Long time no post! :p
The new year has gone pretty nice so far.. :)

I recently got my corsa posted in a Street Car magazine! www.gatebil.no <-- but they have no actual reports from the magazine on their website, so you`ll have to buy the magazine in the shops! No 02 - 2007, page 26! It`s kinda cool! And it helps keep the pressure on me so I can get this thing done by the summer! I hope I will make it! Other than that I hope to accomplish a few other things this year.. I`ll keep you posted as the pieces come together.. *grin* I recently took a personality test which I think fit pretty good... Try it out if you like it!

ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

ENTP

risk taker, easy going, outgoing, social, open, rule breaker, thrill seeker, life of the party, comfortable in unfamiliar situations, appreciates strangeness, disorganized, adventurous, talented at presentation, aggressive, attention seeking, experience junky, insensitive, adaptable, not easily offended, messy, carefree, dangerous, fearless, careless, emotionally stable, spontaneous, improviser, always joking, player, wild and crazy, dominant, acts without thinking, not into organized religion, pro-weed legalization

favored careers:

dictator, computer consultant, international spy, tv producer, philosopher, comedian, music performer, it consultant, figher pilot, politician, diplomat, entertainer, game designer, bar owner, freelance writer, creative director, strategist, news anchor, professional skateboarder, airline pilot, comic book artist, college professor, private detective, mechanical engineer, lecturer, ambassador, astronomer, research scientist, judge, web developer, scholar, fbi agent, cia agent, electrical engineer, assassin

disfavored careers:

personal assistant, wedding planner, travel agent, secretary, interior decorator, clerical employee, government employee, social worker, pre school teacher, copy editor, child care worker, hospitality worker, occupational therapist, home maker