Whoa! That's a lot of pictures!

The sun is shining once again in Guanajuato!

So now we have been able to enjoy our roof some more! :)
Hopefully our high tech rain protection device that our landlord, Uncle Freddy installed will hold the rain out of our flat! :p

High tech stuff!

We are still looking for other alternatives regarding an apartment, but for now its ok while the sun is shining!

The local buses are everywhere!

A funny wall I just had to have a picture of! :)

The Mexican independence day is coming up, and those lazy Mexicans are already starting
to hang the decorations up.. I don't believe they like stressing with anything.. Always do things so they have plenty of time! :) But it`s nice! People are already starting to get into the partymood and we are looking forward to partying as crazy when the day finally arrives!

How do you get people to not touch something very lethal?
Easy! Just post a skull near the power towers, and nobody will be stupid enough to touch anything nearby.. The wires stick out like there's no tomorrow, so I try avoiding these towers as much as I can.. Damn! :p

Here you can see the result of me and Heidi eating at the restaurant.. Both of us are done eating, and you can only guess which one is mine and which is Heidi's (hint: the empty one's Heidi's! )

Me waiting for the girls.. They stop and flirt with every Mexican they can see! Hehe..
But hey.. Life is good! :D

The guy on the picture here owns half of Guanajuato, but is a man of respect! He works on "ground level" with the regular guys, carrying stuff around, doing dishes, helping out.. Even though he has enough dough to just put his feet up and enjoy himself!
I think he's a role model for all wealthy people!
Keep up the good work!

As i got tired of my "dull" hair colour, I dyed it black as the night!
The next day someone asked me if I was feeling ill, since I looked so pale.. hehe.. This only means MORE TIME ON OUR ROOF! I need to get some colour on my pale body! :D

Here we are on our night out with two of our classmates, Gene and Mike from the States! We had a great time, Gene brought his wife and Mike his family! A fun bunch!

SMILE!
These creepy narrow alleys can hide some real gems!
We went in and found a really nice restaurant hidden away here!
Nice, eh?
Here we are inside the hidden restaurant
Mike, Merethe, Daniel and part of Mike's son.
Notice the hands? hehe!
Oh! Nora, Mike's daughter took this picture! She'll be a good photographer one day! :)

This is me on one of our favorite restaurants, Cafè Santo!
Great food! Great prices! Great service! :)

Me in front of my computer..
I've spent a couple of hours in front of "my only friend" much to Merethes dislike! :p

PhunkyPhreak walking down the stairs!

These dogs bark at about everything they see.. Really nice place for them to get some air without running away.. Even though they looked like they were going to jump on a tall truck driving underneath.. VIVA MEXICO! Lazy people! :p

This is just a bragging photo so Gene can see what kind of swords, axes and knives I have back home.. :)
The rod looking thing in the middle of the two axes turn in to two swords when you "open" it :)
Sai knives, Pirate dagger, Viking axes and some more daggers :)

Rainy days in Guanajuato!

The last couple of days have been kind of slow. We are experiencing what the «hurricane» season has to offer of clouds and rain.. Hurricane Dean has passed and disappeared, but now two others are on their way to Mexico, and these guys are spreading their «love» in the form of clouds covering our beloved sun, and sudden downpours of rain.. They tend to be over in 15 – 20 minutes and it's dry again after an hour, so it's not the biggest of problems.. We are too high up in the mountains (2000m) to be affected by the stormy winds :D I don't believe global warming is the cause, but the 50 year cycle!(prove me wrong, environmentalists!

But OUR problem is that our nice roof, which we enjoy a great view from, and also spend hours tanning our white bodies on.. IS LEAKING!

We get water dripping down the roof when the heavy rain sets in, for now only by the front door, and next to our bathroom «door».. We are surviving for now, but have notified our school that we would like to see what other options there are for us.. You never know, maybe we can get something just as nice without leaking roofs?

Our beloved popcorn popping landlord, Uncle Freddy has tried patching the roof with a large commercial canvas, but this has only delayed the water some.. Lets see if he can fix it sooner or later.. (preferably sooner!) I'll take some pictures of this tomorrow, but now it's.. You guessed it.. RAINING!

While it normally doesn't rain that much here, even the locals are saying how much more rain there has been. We have had temperatures of about 15-18 celsius and have had to wear sweaters! (!!!) Not that happy about this, but hey! We are still in Mexico, while most of you guys reading this.. are NOT! Haha!

But you probably don't have the same problems we do here either..

I am beginning to eat better as my stomach is supposedly getting bigger (according to Heidi, the nutrition expert) and feeling more energetic. Woohoow! I bet you are dancing with joy right now! I am, anyways! :p

Other than that, Merethe misses a real kitchen, as we are mostly preparing our food in the microwave (I use it primarily for heating up water for my cups of noodles) But it's so cheap eating out (at restaurants, you perv!) that we do that pretty often..
A full meal with dinner and drinks usually doesn't cost more than 50-60 NOK (10 US$, or 120 Mexican Peso) And this could probably be even cheaper, if we weren't so in love with Cafe Santo..A really nice cafe! But with weird art on their walls.. :)

Just as this buttershrimp, or Shrimperfly.. :p Got any better suggestions on names?

The Spanish course is going pretty neat for me, I feel I am learning more and more Spanish, and will soon be talking like a local.. (uhm.. at least better than a tourist)

I have one hour in class a day which Merethe is not in, and here we are learning these really funny tongue twisters, so we can learn better to pronounce the different Spanish words.. Here are some of them.. We learn a new one pretty often, so I'll try to post them all here.. :)

Try saying them out loud.. Then try it again faster.. and faster..

Funneeeh!

Trabalenguas:

1.
Erre con erre cigarro
Erre con erre barril
Ràpido corren los carros
Cargados de azucar del ferrocarril

2.
Tres Tristes Tigres
Tragaban trigo en un trigal
En un trigal tragaban trigo
Tres Tristes Tigres

3. (this one I thought was harder than the others..)
El que poco coco come
poco coco compra: El que poca
capa se tapa, poca capa se compra.
Como yo poco coco como, poco
coco compro, y como poca capa metapo
poca capa me compro.

4.
Pedro Perèz pide permiso
para partir a Paris
Para ponerse peluca postiza
porque parece puerco pelado!

We also had to do a presentation of our hometowns, and this is what I managed to say about Kristiansand, Norway in Spanish!

Una presentacion de Kristiansand

Voy a hablar sobre mi ciudad, Kristiansand

Kristiansand es la capital del condado de Vest Agder, Noruega.
Por su poblacion es el sexto mayor ciudad de Noruega.
Mi ciudad esta en el sur del paìs.
La ciudad tenia una poblacion habitantes de setenta y seis mil novecientos (76 900)
Kristiansand fue fundado del rey Christian Cuarto, quien en mil seisentas cuarento y uno (1641) dijo «Aqui se erigera la ciudad!»
El Centro de Kristiansand se llama «Kvadraturen» debido la forma cuadrada de sus calles
Tienes muchos lugares interesantes, hay un festival de music famoso, el quart festival
Es una ciudad muy bonita con muchas turistas en el verano

Eso es todo!

Muchas gracias por su atencion!

Good eh?
So this is what we are learning in class..

I'll probably post some more notes on this subject later so keep on checking my blog! Maybe I can teach you people out there something as well? :)

This is it for my update for now, hope you enjoyed it!
Feel free to comment on the blog! I love feedback!

Hasta Luego!

-Daniel-

The day of the mummies!

It's been a couple of days since i last wrote something about our time in Guanajuato, so here's my update!

We are finally in class at Escuela de Idiomas, and I'm having a great time learning Spanish. I can now count to one million, know a lot of new Spanish words, and am beginning to see connections when I listen to people, so I can actually understand a lot more than before we came here.

My Spanish class!

Merethe studying hard! :p

Me hardly awake! 08:00 every morning is EARLY!

Merethe is hanging on, but having a hard time understanding it all because the tutoring is mainly in Spanish. But She'll get there! Luckily Heidi is next door if the going gets too tough and we don't have a clue! :)

Other than that we have been shopping a lot lately.. Mostly for stuff we need in our apartment, some movies, candy, sunglasses, water, water and more water (even though Merethe hardly drinks any of it! She's picky!

I bought a new keyboard, as I can't get my bluetooth one to work here.. (I hope it's not broken! )
We had to buy a couple of blankets, one for the bed and one for our bathroom! We finally have hot water! I had to go buy a huuuge gas container just for our waterheater.. Did'nt know it was as easy as just a flame that is constantly on under the watertank.. But it works! One container is enough for 5-6 months of hot water and it's cheap! 300 Peso (about 150 Nkr)

Scary alley.. Don't want to be climbing these stairs drunk! :D

Want to count the houses?

If you're not happy with my picture update, I have alot more pictures on my facebook page, contact me if you can't find me or the pics! :)

Would be cool to skate down here.. and survive! :p

Our landlord, "Uncle Freddy" is often by to check that we have everything that we need, and also to make Palomitas (Popcorn) which he sells to all the silly tourists :) We usually get some for free! (Lucky us!)

We are getting two new neighbours as well, one of them is Kike, a friend of Heidi's and the other is some guy I havent met yet who is going to use his "room" as an office.. Probably wont be seeing too much of him though..

Do not bring guns or knives to the shopping mall?!?

So far we have been shopping mostly in Guanajuato, but had to have a trip to Leon, where the real shopping is supposed to be done!
Leon is the town of the Zapaterias (shoestores)! When we arrived at the bus station after a long trip with a local singer and his untuned guitar, all I could see were one Zapateria after another, stacked! Ofcourse I did'nt get any good pictures of this, since I am a forgetful chap! :p I did get some of outside Walmart though! (WOOOW!)


The trip back was more pleasant, as we had to pay 36 peso (instead of the usual 30) and got the 1. class bus! Before we got on the bus we were given a bag with a free beverage of choice, and a packet of cookies! On the bus the aircondition was working great and the movie was excellent (even though it was in Spanish)


Oh! And today! We have been walking to the Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato, the Mummy museum! It's a long walk and up a steep hill, so we were exhausted when we got there. (Our stamina has been improving more and more since the first days, where we hardly could do anything without stopping for a quick breather..)



Anyways, the mummy museum is freaky..
Apparently the local people had/have to pay a small fee every year to keep their deceased in their final resting place, and if they can't do this the bodies are dug up, and taken to the museum where they are put on display for all to see.

We weren't allowed to take pictures inside, but it was really weird seeing all those people so well preserved (there is something about the earth and climate here that naturally mummifies the bodies, so they don't rot )

We saw everything from small children to adults, and even one corpse of a woman who supposedly had been buried alive in the 1900's! Her body looked really terrified!
I took some pictures of postcards so I have something to show you guys out there.. The museum also has the smallest mummy in existence, a very tiny one of a 5-6 month child! Disturbing to watch, but still very enchanting..

We also took a lot of pictures nearby the museum, and as you can see, the view is quite brilliant!
I recommend taking the trip just for the view if the museum sounds too freaky!
On the long walk home I found out I was going to be a real tourist, so I now have pictures of almost everything on our way back :)




Oh! I seem to have lost some weight as well since my operation! I weighed 89 kg last July, when my stomach started acting up, and now i am down to 64!! My beer belly is totally gone, and I have a flat stomach! *shocked*

Not exactly Mr. Muscle.. :P

Merethe is telling me to eat some fat food so I can get bigger again, but all I need to do now is start training! (if i can get my ass in gear! :p) Heidi keeps telling me to come train! And maybe one of these days I will! hehe.. Get some muscles instead of fat.. that should be good? :p

Great view!Something else I have noticed is that Guanajuatans have their own kind of hand brake! I'll collect some more pictures of this weird phenomenon, but here are three of them!

If you want to use any of the pictures here comercially, my permission has to be given!

More Guanajuato pictures!

It's idnight! And the oon is up!


Walmart scarystuff!
hahahaa!
Guanajuato by napkin!

There were Indians!
Mmmmh! Gooood!

Ding, Ding!
Poor lady..

Clean up? Why?