This month I went on two trips: a trip to Hardangervidda and a trip to Randoya. I will tell you about these trips in another post. Crazy that this was already my last full month here!

We had some theoretical lessons (online) as preparation for our trip to Randoya. We learned about rules of the sea, sea and coastal and coastal navigation.

The two first weeks of this month were pretty chill. There were a lot of holidays. We didn’t have a lot of lectures, because the other part of the class was on their fjord to sea trip. This two weeks were filled with fun things and learning for the exam and working for my bachelor thesis. We had an fun international dinner. I made ‘snowballpudding’. Some dishes the others made were: ‘stamppot’, bruschetta, some German dessert – apple crumble cake, some pasta and some Spanish dish – spanish tortilla. When the others were earlier back than expected because of the bad weather, we had a girls night, because the boys were doing a boys night. It was a lot of fun! We also had a workshop making breadrolls by the two Danish people in our class. It was really fun and they were also really tasty! Recipe down below. The rest of the time we chilled in our hammock, made bonfires and studied for the oral theoretical exam. My exam went great! I got an A!! After our exam Elena and me went to Hardangervidda to hike there. We came back just in time for the Norwegian national holiday (17th of May). It was really cool to see that they really celebrate their holiday here, not like in Belgium, where we do not really anything. There were parades, a boat parade, a little concert, where were more international students partying than Norwegians, because of the rainy day and in the evening there was a firework, that I went to watch with two others on Holmenkollen, where you have a nice view over the whole city. My package of my boyfriend and his family also arrived this month! I was so happy with another package and more pudding and all the other things that were in there! The photos they sended, where also really cute! Another thing I did this month already was buying some more souvenirs for everyone, because it’s already almost time to go back home (CRAZY).

In the third week we had two days kayaking. I really liked kayaking and being on the water! Unfortunately we only had one day of kayaking, because Len our teacher had to go in quarantine and we also. Luckily we had the next week our theoretical lectures, which we could just do online. No worries Len tested negative! After this we went on our Randoya trip!

Last but not least it was my birthday this month! The 27th of May! In the morning my two classmates, who live with me decorated the living room and gave me some birthday presents! From Claire I got some nice food covered in chocolate and two muffins (the muffins here are 1 euro and really good!). Elena baked me a berry crumble cake, bought me a Chouffe and knitted me a headband. Thanks girls, you made my day already!! I also made ‘soesjes’ and they worked out okay, after that I thought that they were ruined! After that I spend the day with Elena, Luca and Antje on a beach  (Unneroy – an island with a lot of sheep) were we went in the water, enjoyed the nice weather, had a BBQ with hotdogs, marshmallows and beers and slept outside all together in our hammocks! The next day I woke up with in the sun in my face and a nice view onto the water from my hammock. That day Elena and me went to the zoo of Kristiansand, because we got a free ticket from our university, how nice is that!! It was a really nice zoo, where the animals had lots of space! There were even some attractions, like a bobsled.

Weather update: Most of the time good summer weather. Really nice for all the trips, activities and weekends! Rainy days on the lecture days, what a good timing is that!

COVID-19 update: The numbers went up! More restrictions! Let’s hope that I don’t have to go in quarantine if I come back, we are now in a red zone! Light panick….

Recipe breadrolls:

MAKE THE DOUGH

!experiment! Try, fail and learn

• yeast: mix with water
  • longer rise = less yeast – longer rise is preferable
• fat: melted butter, oil, cream, milk
  • egg
• flour: normal, wholegrain,…
• spice: a lot of salt!
  • sweet: sugar, honey, cinnamon, cummin
  • southern: oregano, thyme, rosemary
• seeds and grains: sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds
  • !not too much
  • fruit + vegie (pumpkin, beet, apple, carrot) – ! cook before to keep moisture in dough

BAKE

• let dough sit overnight in the fridge/outside with a wet towel on top (let it rise)
• set oven on high temperature
• make balls with it and fold the dough under itself, so you get tight surfaces (!take dough from the sides, don’t break your whole surface)
  • rest of the dough you can let rise again after you folded it                          (every 12h in fridge/every 6h outside fridge)
• put some fat on top
• put extra seeds on top
• put in oven if oven is warm and let bake until goldenbrown (around 15 min)
  • check by looking at the bottom
• ENJOY