Thursday, January 3

I'm home!

Aloha!

Nå har jeg kommet meg hit til Kona, etter... en del... timer på fly. (Det er altså andre dagen vår her).

Gidder ikke å skrive så mye om reisa (kanskje mer på den engelske delen?? Jeg bestemmer når jeg kommer meg dit =)), men vil gjerne skrive litt om hvordan det er her! Vi har møtt Donna og Peter Jordan igjen (dei har vært på InTouch (Grimerud) alle åra) og JoEllyn Wright (lovsangslederen første året) + ektemann (Larry) tok imot oss på flyplassen - med blomsterkranser og heile pakka!!!! :D

Etter at vi spiste middag hos Donna & Peter, blei vi kjørt dit vi skal bo (off-campus, i et lokalt nabolag), sammen med en anna familie. Skal altså dele rom med en (ei) anna Staff-Teen - Rachel. Har faktisk ikkje møtt ho enda (ho overnatta hos ei venninne som skulle reise til Brisbane for sin DTS idag, for å si 'hade!'), men foreldra e ledera for Island Breeze, og kjem fra New Zealand. (Dei e også staff på ANAG-DTSen, som oss.)

Før vi la oss til å sove, tok vi oss en tur på Wal-Mart (et stort varehus med alt mulig) og kjøpte oss slippersa (dei kalla flip-floppa slippers her :D) og litt mat (ettersom frokost on-campus e ca. kl. 6.30 AM.. Don't think we'll make it down there every morning, no :D).


Idag våkna vi ganske tidlig og kom oss ned til campus, der registreringa pågår for fullt. Vi he prata med lærerane/rektorane mine, som e norske, sjølv om all undervisning blir engelsk, og hilst på alle som e i vår stab, + litt til. Trur ej greie å huske dei fleste navna, men blir nokken som blir litt vanskelige å huske...!

Imorga begynn altså skulen min.. Bla. skal eine barnebarnet til Donna & Peter (sønnen til Vae (eller et anna navn på S - han he to mulige navn; et fordi han er en slags høvding på Samoe, slik ej he forstått det ;)) og Julie Eli), som heite.. Muno??? Ja, jeg finner det vel ut snart nok :).

Bilde kjem litt etterkvart; akkurat no sitt e her i biblioteket for å få litt stillhet, og he ikkje A/V OUT-ledninga til kameraet mitt med meg. Next time! :)

GODT NYTT ÅR ALLE SAMMEN!!

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Aloha!

Finally, I'm here in Hawaii! The temperature is about.. 27C. Which is.. Something in Fahrenheit ;).

We arrived two days ago, after having gone a fair amount of hours in an airplane. We got to sleep in SF though, which was great!
Man, am I beginning to see how people's minds are so twisted back home! Let me tell you one thing - I have to this day never met more hostile Americans than I can count on one hand. People more friendly than what's normal back home, though, 90% are!

Anyway, back to topic =). We met Donna & Peter Jordan, and Larry & JoEllyn Wright picked us (and a family consisting of three Norwegians we met on the plane 30 mins before landing, taking IBC here. Which I think stands for Introduction to Biblical Counseling.....) up at the airport. After leaving them at the King Kam (King Kamehamea, a hotel near the sea), we went to the UofN campus to have dinner at Peter & Donna's place. After picking up our rental-car, JoEllyn showed us where we are staying (off-campus, in a local Hawaiian neighbourhood) and explained us the way to Wal-Mart, where we eventually went to get some slippers and food (the breakfast is at 6:30 AM or somehting, naturally we won't be able to get down there every morning!).

She also gave us a brief tour of the campus, so I think I know where the main features are located now. (At least the Prayer Room+Library and Computer Lab (all in one building), food line, Ohana Court, rooms/apartments etc., the GO-Center and Info-centre. The DTS office I'm not sure about, even though we were there just yesterday.. Ah well :))

We are by the way sharing a house with leaders of Island Breeze (whose names I can never remember :S) and their daughter, Rachel (we're roommates). They have a (indie-)rockin' sense of humor!! :P

So anyway, school's starting tomorrow. Today we've had a long talk with my (Norwegian, although all teaching will be in English, naturally) teachers, and sorted everything out.. The school's kinda influenced by King's Kids, so the oldest ones will be in a way looking after the younger ones some times. (I don't know how to explain it better in English - all you King's Kids people - feel free to comment and correct me!! :D)

I'll throw some pictures in eventually, I'm sitting in the Library at the moment for some silence, and don't have my A/V-OUT cable with me.. I haven't taken a lot of photos, but some. :) (I'll probably post a few of them over at flickr too.)

Anyway, I guess I better get goin', it's the day before the students arrive and so I bet there's some more staffers we should meet before they come.
(Feel free to pass the address for my blog on to anyone you think might want it.. I'm not gonna be spending a loit of time on MSN due to the time difference :))

Love,
Kirsty!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ej såg ikkje at du ringte, telefonen va nede :p Ring mej en anna gang da! Ingvill :)

Anonymous said...

He ej ringt??? Etter ej for, liksom??

Anonymous said...

Ja, du hadde det :S