Hm.

I'm typing this when drunk so don't mind my English. Remember I'm Norwegian.

I woke up today with a smile. How many times can you honestly say you did that unless it was because of a good dream? Few I imagine.
Well, I never do that. But today I did. Yeah, contradiction sure.

Why did I do that? Well, I'm leaving in 2 days and I went out today with my friends. I loved it and it was great. Fuck, I'm so drunk I can't feel my hands. I think I had more than 2/3 of a bottle with Captain Morgan and I'm not used to drinking.

That's it.

Eh?

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Headline

So my fish died a few days ago. 4 days to be exact, I found him pale, bloated and stone dead at the bottom of his tank the 8th. He had been eating less for weeks and after I changed his water, he just began hanging in the surface and hit himself and everything. I'm kinda glad he died rather than suffer for too long. Even though it was too quickly. Bettas are supposed to live for years.

Aye, Edgar was a good little fish with much more personality than I ever would imagine a stupid fish could have.

What is it with all my pets and having terrible early deaths even though I care for them as much as I can? My hamster died of a tumour the size of his entire body coming out of his side. Hmm.

In loving memory, Edgar will be missed.

So, that otta the way...

I've started planning on packing for school now. I've got most of what I need and now I just have to not forget anything. FINGERS CROSSED! That would really suck.

What else is there.. hmm. Oh yes!  My friend Stephen made himself a blog, go read that and support the newbies. :3

Woot!

Rain woke me up in the morning. Way earlier than I'm used to wake up. My mother had made me get up extra early to go shopping. It ended well though, got a few new clothes and a camera! Wooo! A Canon EOS 500D. Here are some pictures:
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Stress

Through a number of happenings, it seems that I will be going to a kind of university college in Norway called called "høgskole". It's a kind of independent institution that provides tertiary education for those that have the money and (recently added) are 18 years of age or older. The price can vary from 15 to 30 000 NOK, that's about 4833.88 USD. About half of it will be covered by the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, Norway is great that way. Wiki says that "Lånekassen's" "system is aimed at making higher education available to everyone, regardless of their place of residence within Norway, their age, sex or economic and social status." Yay!

Anyway, so I'll probably go to this place about 7km (hour by train) from Lillehammer, and about the same length the other way from Oslo. (If you zoom out and pull up north, you'll find Tromsø, my city, far up..) I'll be 615.861 miles from home.

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So I'm pretty scared going, packing my life in a suitcase and leave home and everything. I'll have to leave Edgar too and he's not even a year old. He'll probably live when I come home, betta fishes are nice like that but still. I'll miss him a lot. As well as everything else.. I can't bring my screen or my speakers so my laptop will be a pain and constantly without sound. How am I supposed to play music if I'm walking around the room? Eh, it'll sort out.

The course I wanna take is called "Photo, glass, silver and clay" and at first I thought it sounded weird and really odd - who'd put those together?? But after a little I got pretty excited about it. The class doesn't expect the student to know anything about any of it, just to show the enthusiasm and interest to learn. The downside is that I need to buy a single-lens reflex camera. I'd pick a digital of course. I've wanted to get one for a looong time, but now there's no way around.

It's almost certain that I get in, they have single rooms available and mom checked early today (they have double rooms but I really do need a single..), and if I send my ap due this weekend, I'll be there.

But! IT STARTS IN 3 WEEKS! OMG!!! And to think I didn't even consider going to a høgskole only days before that. It's all a bit big to me.

But I wanna go. It'll be my first time alone and it'll be a great and important experience for me, plus I get to work with things I love to do. I haven't worked with metals but always wanted, glass blowing WILL be interesting, I know that for sure. And I love clay and I am eager to learn more photo.

Let's see how it turns out, hm? I might create a new account on my other Gmail and start a blog purely for school that I let my family read. Don't want to let them know about this one, so that's why I won't create a third blog here.

Now if you will excuse me, I've got quivering in excitement and shivering in terror to do. Good night.