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Just some pictures from my travels around in the continent of North America... As you all might know, I went to Wichita, Kansas, Kitchener, Onario, Canada and New York City on my way back from Mexico.... In Kansas Lisa, Kelli and I tagged dad car (and the rest of the family´s) because he turned 50. We also went down town with Lisa´s boyfriend Andrew and took pics by a statue down there (you can kinda see Andrew in the pic).

In Ontario, Jenn turned 19 and I also got to go and see Niagara Fall, which was actually REALLY nice.. I´m not a touristy person...

New York City was amazing, and I had 2 full days to do whatever I wanted... It was great! I went to see all the touristy things, I just didnt do them... And then I went and saw Rent- the musical, which was just as amazing as the movie! Yay for that. ...and lucky for me I was actually (without planing on it...) there for Gay Parade... Interesting....

So I´m back in good old Norway.. Been here for almost a week now. The last 4 days Ive spend at an AFS camp in Skjeberg, I spend most of the day and last night at Gardermoen Airport, sending AFS students back home... It was super sad!!! Its hard to think about the fact that they have been here for 1 year already, it feels like last week I picked them up at the airport, took them out to Skjeberg Folkehøyskole and tough them their first Norwegian words... Now their all almost fluent... Wow- time goes by fast!!! I sounds like a mother- i know- but in a way I feel like one too... It´s super hard to see them leave cause I´ve gotten to know "mine" so well... and now they´re gone!!

It´s been good seeing friends and family again, and I´ve had a lot of fun hanging out with everybody! The summers in Norway are GREAT! We´ve started a trend cutting all the boy´s hair, so on Marie and my first day back in the good old country, David was the one that had to go... we had fun while getting the job done... We´ve also been in Ankerskogen, playing Soccer. It´s something else playing soccer on grass there than on the concrete in Ensenada... Haha

.... Im in Canada!

Just so you know... I dont have pictures or anything yet- but just wanted to let you know that im alive and LOVING Canada! Im visiting my friend Jenn from my DTS and it was AMAZING to see her again, and its AMAZING being here! Jenn turned 19 yesterday (which is like turning 18 in Norway and 21 in the US), so that was great fun! Ill add some pics later...
Um, yeah, so Im going back home... On sunday... Ill be heading for New York City on friday, and then leaving to go back home to Norway sunday night.. Ill be in Hamar on monday. And then my 6 months are over... Weird.. Im not gonna lie- its super sad!! But I guess it will be good seing everybody again!

Ok, so long!

Last days in Ensenada....

Our DTS graduation was May 30th, and it was great!! We had a nice dinner, talked about outreach and our DTS and general, and just hang out... Later that night (already), people started leaving... Kelsey, Halynn, Katie, Alicia and Jaime were the first ones to go, and saturday and sunday morning the rest of the DTS followed... It was SAD. Its wierd how things come to an end, and it was super hard saying goodbye to everybody. But even though it was the worst feeling then and there, it was SO worth it!

Halynn and I
Me and my beautiful small-group leader, DTS-leader and friend Sarvia!
Work dutie group- hospitality; Erika, Me, Naara, Anais, Tamara, Ashely and Alicia
My DTS!
Me and Kelsey- we're done!!

Me and Doug, like his hair? I dyed it!
Kels and me
My drivers for outreach- Darren and Neil
The Keogh boys and me- Sam, Nate and Ben
Me, Lindsay and Kelsey!

Last time at Zo-Taza- our coffee shop downtown!

For a week, Jon Christi and I were the only DTS students left in Ensenada, except for Bec and Abi who are staying on as summer staff. While the rest of the base were in Mission Adventures Staff training, Jon and I were free to do whatever we wanted, and went Down Town and to "Little America" and just hang out. It was grand. Even though the rest of the students had left, Ensenada was still a GREAT (if not the greatest) place on earth!

Playing soccer with the mexcians after a community meeting
Jon and I used our baseleaders, Kody and Lindsay's bikes- i got to have the pink one- to go down town!

Friday the 6th Jon, Aubrey and I drove up to San Diego to drop Jon of (he was leaving early in the morning the 7th) and pick up 2 mission adventures summer staff and ANE!!! Yay! Ane came all the way from Florida to hang out with me for my last 4 days, and it was great! We went 4wheeling at the beach with Cesar and just hang around. We also went to La Buffadora again.

Cesar and Ane by the flag pole! 4 wheeling!Yeah!
It was pretty cold, but the view at La Buffadora was great!
Welcome to Mexcio, Ane!

On Tuesdy it was time to leave Ensenada, and Ane and I drove up with Ingvar and Craig who had been down speaking at the staff training. We dropped Ane of at the airport, and then Ingvar invited me back to their house to hang out before my bus left late that night. So I ended up having a great evening with Ingvar, Jessy and Kaiya, before I sat on the greyhound bus for 37 hours on my way to Wichita, KS.

5 months of my life if now over, and its nothing but super sad! God has tough me SO much, and Ive had such a good time with some AMAZING people. It was extreemly hard to leave, especially because my bestfriends Erika and Kelsey are coming down in 1 week to be Mission Adventures Staff for the summer. I'm so thankful to God for my stay in Mexico, and I'm not sure I'm ready to let go of the Mexican culture just yet...

...and we're back!!!

The trip back to Ensenada went fine... It was long- 3 full days, but we had fun! Amy and I watched LOST. And sang. Its all good. We didnt even get pulled over by the cops!!

Finally- here's some pictures from our outreach, all in like random order and stuff, but at least its something........

17. mai er jeg saa glad I, morro vi har fra morgen til kveld…

17^th of May 2008… In Tepic, Mexico… Instead of Hot dogs for dinner- we had quesadillas. Instead of diplom is – la Michuacana. Instead of a parade down town- a crappy one from the church to the icecream place. Instead of “folk i gata vaer litt gla’, bli med oss aa rop hurra!” – “happy Norway day!”. Instead of Hamar Janitsjarskole – a real live mariachi band.

…but we had a Paris weal…

It might be the fact that I had more of a 17th of May feeling on the 18th, with Rudi Myntevik's "Gud Din Skjoennhet" under lovsangen - riktig nok paa Spansk- og saann 17. mai vifte som jeg fikk kjoept i en park vi var i... haha!

Hi everybody!

Sorry for the delay in updates, outreach is going by pretty fast, and there’s a lot to do… And we don’t have wireless where we live, so it’s all about the internet cafes…

So we’re in Tepic, Nargarit. It’s a pretty small town, Mexican size, about 300 000 hab. We’ve been here for over 1 week now, and a lot of fun things have happened… We went to a village right outside the town here, and had an open air. The people there have had little or no contact with Christians before, and during the meeting 6 adults and a bunch of kids accepted Christ. Pretty cool. We’ve also been at a hospital praying for the kids there, and one of the moms accepted Christ there too. Awesome, huh?

Tym Kemp, our DTS leader, came to visit us last week. It was fun having a new person in the group, and I think he had fun as well.

Monday we went to the beach, San Blas, and had our freeday there. It was a lot of fun- Jon C though the girls how to surf, and the waves where perfect. Not too big, not too small. By the way- the Pueblo new to the beach is not any fun at all. We learned that the hard way….

The day after we arrived in Tepic, Savanna and Paloma meet up with us, and they are both going to stay with us for the rest of outreach. It’s great having the whole team together, but I guess you all can imagine it’s pretty hard for Paloma… Please continue praying for her.

During our time here, a lot of us have been sick. Mostly the cold and some have also been sick after getting a sun burn on the beach… I’m sitting here with a cold, along with 3 others… Please pray for health.

It’s just 16 days to graduation, and that is something you can notice in the team. A lot of us are getting frustrated, cause we don’t really know what God wants us to do after all of this… He has great plans, we just want to know what they are… A lot of us have been struggling with the issue that we are giving God our future, but not this moment. It’s going to be fun to see what we all end up doing…

That’s it for now folks, thanks!