PICTURES!!
HA, i bet you all didn't think i was actually going to fulfill my promise. DID YA! oh ye of little faith.
well, you're getting pictures, they're in absolutely no order & i haven't gotten to the descriptions yet...that will have to wait. i'm off to tromso in an hour. so you all back at home will have to feed off of these pictures until i return.
i forgot to say that while we were in finland i met santa! the REAL santa...or so the finnish people told me. we got a group picture taken there. hah, ah i wish i had a scanner so i could show you all my face. i look soooooo excited to be sitting next to santa.

getting ready to head off....can anyone find my bag?


annika and me


lenneke loves the camera


she also loves her new pink watch. because she loves pink.


cherob, cherob, cherob


me and jung im


cherob and me



finnish nature walk (bex's pictures)






umm, lenneke is in a cage?



be afraid...


bex and lenneke being cool on the arctic circle


IMSOCOOLIMONTHEARCTICCIRCLEIJUSTSATBYSANTA


lenneke and bex


the team on the arctic circle


...the arctic circle...


lenneke, cherob, and bex after a full day of shopping/santa visiting


they had this mirror ceiling...that we quite enjoyed


lenneke, bex and myself getting ready for a walk.


annika


they love each other


just checking to see if brown curls suited bex


we went a little crazy after being in the van together for so many hours...


just a little crazy...


the finland DTS and norway DTS UNITE

and now i just want to take this time to honor my leader, Helen Wilson. hi helen! she's fabulous. now that you all know what she looks like, you can wave at her if you pass her on the street.

I’m back! Yes, shout for joy! Ok, I’m now going to attempt to update all of you people on the last couple of weeks.

FINLAND: We drove up to Finland on October 1 (8 hr drive) what did I do in Finland? Well besides eating tons of chocolate, learning how to knit and learning a bit of Finnish ( “minä olen Melodie Kanadasta”=”I am Melodie from Canada” “siunausta”=”Bless you!” “Jeesus rakastaa sinua”=”Jesus loves you” “älä sure poika”=”don’t worry boy” “kiitos”=”thank you” and our personal favorite was “sinä olet suuri pottu”=”you are a big potato”) we joined up with another DTS in Rovaniemi for 2 weeks of lectures. I’ll be honest….it was really hard for me the first while to be out there. It’s crazy how fast and easy it is to make yourself a comfort zone! Like seriously! Well, I got shoved out of the lovely comfort zone I had made for myself during the short 3 weeks that I had been in Borgen. I love that I’m paying them to do this to me. Hehe. but I’m really glad that we spent those 2 weeks in Finland. The lectures were great, I was maybe, kind-of, just a little bit sad to leave there! Being out there really made me appreciate Borgen so much more! I love this place and these people. (of course I could never write anything bad about them…seeing as they have all found this address J ha) jk jk jk jk jk jk(who am I?? who am I??) ok, I think it’s best to move on now.

So we drove back home from Finland on October 13, arrived at the base late in the night. We couldn’t sleep in our own room, b/c other’s were sleeping in them, so I spent the night on Hanna’s floor & then early Saturday morning we drove down to Tromsø. It’s 1.5hrs south of Borgen & we spent the week-end at a conference thingy. It was a really good experience. We left back for Borgen-home Sunday evening and after that I was pretty much exhausted. I’ve been trying to catch up on my sleep this week, last night I went to bed shortly after 9pm…it was so great.

Next week we’re going to be going down to Tromsø again for a little bit. I say a little bit b/c at the moment I can’t remember how long it is. Also I’m not too sure what the internet availability will be while I’m there. Just to warn you all: you may have to go without me once again. *sigh* I know it’s hard children, but just breathe. I will be back one day.

I don’t have my pictures uploaded onto my computer yet…but hopefully by this week-end I’ll have that done. Or maybe even tonight….you’ll just have to wait and see.