Christina Swan

A few days ago I got back from a week of camping in the south of Norway. At a Christian music festival, with my youths from Tananger church and 4500 other people.

It was good! The day we arrived the rain poured down, and it kept raining and raining and raining... fortunately we put our tent up in one of the few remaining camping areas: on a mountain top... so even though we had to climb a while to get there, and go through the mud that accumulated as more and more people stepped on the rainy grass areas, we remained dry.

I made some interesting experiences that week:

1) Even though I was dreading having to camp for a whole week, I actually started to enjoy it mid-way through the week. Camping is wonderful. There is something very special about lying in a small tent when rain drops hit the shell of the tent, the birds sing in the morning, and the blueberry forest is just outside your tent opening. I ate a lot of blue berries that week.

2) I spent some time working as a journalist for the festival newspaper. That was great fun. I got to interview the famous US band "Day of Fire" (which, despite their fame, I had never heard about before), and attend a press conference with Andrae Crouch - the king of Gospel. Crouch, the man behind Gospel classics such as "Soon and very soon", "The blood that Jesus shed for me", "Jesus is the answer", etc, who's written songs that Elvis has sung, who's arranged music for Michael Jackson, Madonna and Elton John, and in films like Lion King, Free Willy etc. I told him that Ed and I are going to have one of his songs in our wedding. He asked which one and said "God bless you". What a wonderful and humble man, despite his fame and his long career as one of The world's biggest Gospel singers.

A fun week with fun people :-)

And next week I'm getting married. Eeek!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christina

I have just sent my car to the biannual EU-control... and it's not looking good :( there are quite a few things that STILL need to be fixed, grr. Since I bought it in October I've spent around 10 000 kroner (about £1000) just on fixing it. :( and that is excluding road tax, toll, insurance, etc etc etc.

Before I had a car, life was beautiful

The birds sang and prices were reasonable

I bought a red car, how exciting, eek!

But before too long it started to leak.

I tended its wounds,

I gave it a name

But it looked at me funny

"Let's play a game"

And since then it has never stopped playing with my head

From the moment I wake until it's time for bed

I miss Ed...

 

... and I wish I had a car that was working!

Oh well, on the bright side:

- the car gets me from A to B, and from B to C

- Ed is soon going to own the car as much as me... with all the problems entailed in owning that car

- better to be rich and healthy than to be poor and sick.

 

Ed's gone for a month to the UK, my family is gone for three weeks to the US and A, I am getting married in three weeks' time, and am alone... deserted... with my red car!!!

Christina

I'm predicting it. The end of the blogosphere. Facebook is the new online friends' network, and I have noticed a significant downfall in people's blogging habits lately. Anyway. That is not to say that I will stop blogging, but I think I can say with reasonable certainty that I won't blog as often as I used to anymore. There are more interesting things to do in life :-)

As a little update, though, some interesting things have happened since last time I wrote. I have finished this terms' exams! Yohoo! No more education - until I'll be taking a few courses (on teaching, and maybe also Spanish) next year. I have a new job. That means I will stop working as a youth worker in Tananger church, and start working as information manager / administration secretary for Mercy Ships in Norway. A nice office job that will hopefully reduce the evening and weeend work I've had this year.

And: I'm getting married!!! We finally decided on a date... 21st of July 2007. That's in less than two and a half months. Yikes. 

Ed and I have set up a new wedding blog. So keep checking that for updates if I'm not so good at updating this blog!

http://edandchristinaswedding.blogspot.com 

Enjoy!

Christina