A Little Lamb’s look on life (Isaiah 40:11)

Ai wish ai kud rait this hol komentry in fonetiks. Tha fonetik ælfabet iso kul! But sins ai kænt, ai kæn ræthr bathr ju with an atemt æt raiting inglish æz it saunds with letrs ju wil undrstænd =) Oukai!

Hiur ar sum mor pikchers frum mai samur.  Injoi!

(If you didn’t understand any of that, the short version is, I love writing with the phonetic alphabet, enjoy the pictures! =) )

SARDINES!

The girls all huddeled together to hide, playing sardines.  I don’t know what the Norwegian name for the game is, but it involves hiding.  One person hides and everybody else looks for them.  As soon as you find the hider you have to hide with them!  Last person to find the group of “sardines” all hiding together loses that round

We got to use the school building to play!  Turned off all the lights and rediscovered the joys of hide and seek in the dark.

Isn’t it funny how the harder you try to stop giggeling, the worse it gets!

A nice icy after all the hard hiding work!

Trying to tie Will’s shoes to the chair…  With little success…

This is from one late night of studying, before the phonetics final.  Leah and Emily sneeking around…

But I spotted them!

This is from the top of “The grouse grind,” Canadas version of a hard climb (with stairs and railing and everything )

I am trying to imagine what type of bear I would be if I were in captivity.  I think I would switch between hiding from the tourists (haha, you can’t see me, and I’m not coming ouuuut ) and posing for pictures, (this is me chewing on a log, and me growling, me cocking my head…)  Grrr…

Another thing on the top of the mountain was a skilift.  In the summer you could ride it up and down just for the veiw!

And the logging show…

Elin and the birds of prey man with his bald eagle.

Our spunky sporty and sweet landlady Grace =)

One frisbee afternoon we girls decided to toughen up!

Krista included!

I can ride up the elevator!  (Unfortunately all I have a picture of is me getting on…)

Josh is trying to teach e how to be cool…  I don’t know if it’s working…

Leah and Dave posing.  Rachael pouting.

A happy gang =)

Can you tell how effective my leaf umbrella is?

Falling off the edge of Vancouver!

Which way to the beach?  (A perfect opportunity to show off our muscles )

Tadaaaah!  (I’m as tall as Will!)

And as short as Emily!

Hug a tree this is BC (British Columbia, Canada)

Late nights of working on a Kurdish grammar sketch can do funny things to a person…

Emily, exhibiting the sentiments of the class on our Grammar book, the exciting, “Exploring Language Structure”

Moustache day!  (Leah felt a little left out )

STUDENT PARTY!!!  I’ll let the pictures do the explaining =)

And for those who are interested in video clips from this memorable night, here are some of them.  I’m sure they’re alot more fun for me to watch, there are alot of inside jokes, but still, thought I’d put the links out

1)  This was my favourite one to act in!  I was acting with Jeremy (nr.1) and Josh (nr. 2) and as you can probably see we had music and pictures from each country in the background.  Krista (the director) is normally pretty quiet and shy but boy can she act when she wants to!  It was SO FUN!  If I ever do it again I will need to seriously work on my accents!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1iJzGi2NpPQ

2)  In this one I was just the narrator (I am the first one to speak, sitting off to the right where you really can’t see anything) and most of the jokes are so “inside” that I’m afraid it won’t be half as funny for you…  But anyway, I thought you’d like to see =)  We had A LOT of fun at least!  It’s basically making brutal fun of our grammatical analysis teacher Thomas Payne.  He has a huge tendency to go off on digressions in class answering detailed off the topic questions, telling long stories about everything and nothing.  Everything makes sense to us because he is basically copycatting bits and pieces of stuff he has really said in class.  If you can hold out for the whole “lecture,” I talk more near the end.  Do I have a different accent??  Or is it just that I’m not used to hearing my own voice??  (Just curious ;P)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5vHwh6Dk8E

3)  This next one was my second favourite one to act in.  Its a pity that they didn’t get the whole thing with…  It started with a film that they had taken ahead of time with the “Indiana” spoof-guy running around looking for a “lost sound,” (Like a sound that they make in languages.)  Basically the guy is looking for a “biglutial trill,” … a stinker noise.  You hear it once if you listen through the laughter, (its a fartmachine thing.)  I am spoofing a Nazi.  Speaking nonsense German, kissing up to the boss, and limping around due to an old war injury, yeah it was extremely fun to act
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5o73I_0a8

4)  This one was how we opened the show, like a Friday night live theme, I put it in cause I have 3 seconds of fame
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fJJkEbrLNiA

5)  This one was like an informercial, another one we had LOADS of fun making.  The point is how idiotic it is to learn languages by yourself   Leah, the main girl is hilarious.  They told me to make my “puppy in distress” sound and then smile a huge cheezy smile afterwards, sooo I did.  Then again at the end to act very very cheezy.  And the texting they put on mine was their idea too, they only showed me afterwards and I got a sidestitch laughing when I saw it.  The indonesian and the finnish lady were part of our phonetics class thing.  We had to mimic what they said.  They were our inspiration=)  : (NOTE: LACA stands for Language Acquisition something or other…  A class I’ll be taking this fall…)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=69_jn8mrzoc

6)  This one was hilarious!  I wasn’t in it, but it is a “translation” of a missionary giving a sermon…  Fantastic…  Its in two parts.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=inZWkFzUY4Q
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PNAf3gZCg_M&feature=user

7) This one was from the teachers show, I guess its most funny if you speak french, I really appreciated it
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2qD1vtQ1IQI&feature=user

8)  This one is also from the teachers show, also very funny if you have time =)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T7X5ROphoRU&feature=related

CANIL LOUNGE

What do you do when you get tired of linguistics?  Well, there are actually more options than you would first think!

This is me and Elin trying to teach a group, “Hurra for deg,” the Norwegian birthday song =)

Josh trying to crush me beneath his feet…  And not succeeding!  It’ll take more than that to crush a tough cookie like me!

Emily is full

“I like sensitive guys who cry when I kick them!”

(Notice the not so innocent looking bruises on the arm…)

DAVE’S BIRTHDAY!

For Dave’s birthday all the girls dressed up as ninjas and run down the boys dorms hallway with pots and pans to inform them all, in our own special way, that there was a pancake breakfast ready for them =)

Me and Elin, (can you tell?)

Find the Rachael!

In the girls dorm preparing for attack!

And he finally opens the door…

Special pancakes for Dave!

Hug attack!

Oh yeah!

And the little ones join in

OTHER:

Getting from one place to another under camouflage.

Israeli dancing!

A weekend dinner with part of the dorm-gang.

Our grammar teacher gives the following example, “John and Mary self-burned.”

Our last night all together

Saying goodbye, drama queen Rachael at your service, (I finally found my match in the drama world!  I think Jeremy looks, if possible, even more authentic than me!…)

Well, if you have made it all the way to the bottom congratulations!  This is a tiny fraction of my summer.  It has been great =)  Hope you had some fun browsing through them too!