Pentecost

My friend Pauli from Germany came to visit me this weekend. We had a great time, the weather was very warm (25° C) and we have undertaken a lot, f.e. Nordic Walking in the fjords of Oslo. This kind of sport was my first time and it was very funny but also a little exhausting :-)

Mother's Day

New pictures on Picassa

I've put some new pictures to my picassa gallery... -> LINK

Springtime!

Yes! Springtime is coming! This weekend it was very warm, the sun was shining, people sitting in cafes and parks. So my friends and I went to Aker Brygge (habour of Oslo), enjoying the sun, eating ice, drinking beer and drawing people. Now I have a little sunburn... ;o)

Ski jump

On last weekend I visited the ski jump world cup in Holmenkollen. The competition was at the old Holmenkollen tower before it's pulled down next month to make way for a new one. It was a interesting day, with a lot of people, the royal family and with a great view to Oslo city.

Museums

In the last time I went with a friend to some museums and art-galleries like the Munch-museum, National-museum and the gallery of Helene Knoop. The paintings there were fantastic and very inspired. So you can view paintings of Monet, van Gogh, Manet, Cézanne and famous Norwegian painters like E. Munch, Thomas Fearnley, H.F. Gude, A. Tidemand, J. Frich and P. Blake. I didn't knew that Norway had great painters. Here some paintings:

Edvard Munch: The Scream

Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude: Brudeferd i Hardanger

Peder Balke: Stetind in Fog

Thomas Fearnley: Labrofossen

Eyego.no

It's amazing! I got a fulltime job at the design-company "Eyego". So my last workday as freelancer is today. Now my new area of responsibilty is: Visual development, internet, multimedia (3D) and design (print). The employees and the chiefs are very friendly. I think that I will have a very good time there and I hope that I could help them with my know-how.

Holmenkollen

Finally it's snowing. So I took the opportunity to go to Holmenkollen. It is a hilly area in the outskirts of Oslo, only a half hour with the T-bane. Here you can do ski jumping and skiing far into the night respectively in summer you can hike through the landscape. It was very funny and I will try to come from time to time to this snow covered place.

Godt nytt år

Happy new year! Hope you have celebrated the New Year's Day great. On Christmas I was in Braunschweig for visitíng my parents and my friends. For some days I came back to Oslo with my sister and her boyfriend.The fireworks and the parties here were fantastic on New Year. Now I'm back in my everyday life. If you want see some new pictures from Oslo visit my picassa-gallery.

Merry Christmas & a happy New Year!

Julemarked

In some days we will celebrate Christmas and tomorrow is the last work day. For this reason our company arranged a christmas party today. After this I was with some friends at the Chistmas Market near the havour. It was very interesting and nice... typical Norwegian air. We have drunken lots of Norwegian glogg (...hiks...:o) because it was so cold. In the last days the temperature is sinking more and more. Now we have 16 degress below zero. The sea and rivers already freezed up...brrrrrrrr.

Move

It is done! Today I moved in my new room. That's so cool and I am happy that I settled here in Oslo better and better. In the apartment we are an international flat-sharing community: an Australian girl, a Norwegian, two Sweden girls and an Argentine. All very friendly. Tonight we will celebrate my move...yeah! :o)

Crazy weather

What a climate...we had very cold weather (-8°C) til Monday with rain, snow and wind. Now the weather changed so immediately that we had in this moment +8°C. Thats incredible and for this reason I recieved the flu...nice...very nice...grrrrrrr.

First snow

Brrrr...in the last days we had very cold weather, under 0° degree, and today it began to snow. Now we notice that the pre-Christmas period is coming. I made this picture (town hall) tonight before I went home.

Good morning squirrel!

Every morning a little squirrel search his food in front of my front door. He is so cute and so fast. Fortunately I shot some photos from him today.

What a week!

Now I lived here 2 weeks and it began to dawn on me that how the life and job works here in Norway. Every day I met new people and customers and the work by Ignitas is very varied. So I am responsible for web-, print-design and animation. (Ignitas wrote some words about my works on their website. You can read the article by clicking on the picture). Every day you learn more and if I have a question I can ask the Ignitas-team. Until now I didn't regret that I came to Oslo. The people, the landscape and the culture are very fascinating. Now I have to learn only Norwegian and searching a flat :o)

Aker Brygge

My first working week is nearly over. It was very exciting and a lot to do. Tomorrow I will inspect some flats and visit the city finally. In my today's lunchtime I made this picture. In the red house (left) you can find our office. It's beside the harbor and "Aker Brygge" a famous place here in Oslo.

Ignitas

In some minutes my first work-day here at Ignitas is over. I have my own workplace and work here as a freelancer. My first client came today and we spoke about his application. It was very cool. Now I will go home with bus. Runars house where I'm stayed in this moment is 20 km from Oslo away. Runar and his family are very friendly and amiable and I am happy to stay at first there.

Oslo

Today I came to Oslo. That is my third time that I visit this beautiful city. But the first time that I will stay for a longer time. The flight was nice and the family of my friend Gard is very sympatic. In some minutes we will visit Runar where I will stay for the first time and then we want to go to a party...yeah. That begins very good.