September is close and as the last days of August ends, summer is officially over. Hopefully we will still have a lot of wonderful days ahead of us before the depressing winter dark and the fall storms surrounds us totally.

Some trees have branches of leafs that has started changing colors already. Although Im not so happy to see summer go, I must admit that the change of colors in this wonderful time of the year is really spectacular.

Summer was great. After all my travels I was left in a moment of stillstand and I felt kinda demotivated as I had no more trips to look fwd too, no more new people to meet at camps and just work work work. Thankfully this moment of feeling not-so-happy quickly disappeared and once again I busied up with work and CS volunteer work.

8-10 of August - Birthday celebration
August started off visiting my dad and his new family to celebrate my sister Lindas 7th birthday, That was a nice relaxing weekend and now that I discovered the fantastic way of travelling with buses with included broadband... Whats the problem any more? For some things I just LOVE this country !

Brenda visiting
August 14 Brenda arrived and stayed on/off for 10 days visiting Norway.
It was great seeing her again (speaking of the same Brenda I visited in Oxford in March and work with in MDST on CS) and awesome to host her and have her company. She is a fantastic person. She did not spend all her days in Oslo but travelled around while she was here. The best way to go.

Housewarming party at Ornella and Asbjorns new house
On Aug 16 Ornella and Asbjorn threw their house warming party. Wow What a party !! Hehehe. Great food as always, great people, lots of drinks and Salsa dancing. Hehe. Its one of the best parties I attended in Norway this summer. Nothing beats Paella party in Gossau, SG, Switzerland and Midsummernight party in the park in Utrecht, Netherlands :D but this def. came close !

Dutch party at Wendys house
Brenda came back and left again and she came back after her trip to Gothenburg and the last weekend we ended up also hosting Francesco, Flavios best friend, as he was in dispear after an uncomfortable situation at his hosts place. We were invited for a Dutch party at Wendy and Gerrits place and that was a great party where everyone had to dress orange ! Hehe. Franzs was not so thrilled about dressing orange though...

My birthday party (-ies)
End of August summed up in LOADS of b-day parties, like august always do, including my own.
On aug 27 I had 9 friends over for a lovely dinner that I spent most of the day preparing for (that also included the cleaning up pre-party), my birthday I spent speaking on the phone with the_Rachel for a few hours and friday 29 Mariann came over from England and we went out for dinner at Dolly Dimples before we went home to watch movies (Secondhand Lions) and eat snacks !! Im def. not dieting as long as I am celebrating my birthday.
Saturday 30 I had 16 people over for a great party. A huge group with people from all over. It was the close CS friends party :D France, Hawaii, Singapore, Ireland, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Portugal were all represented !
All was great with dancing and music and lots of nice people in a party mood, except from the water leakage under the kitchen zink :(

Sunday 31 was for resting. Mariann left after breakfast (Around 4) and I slept most of the day after this. Weather was so demotivating, raining and heavy winds.

This time its just a short summary. Hope to do more detailed blog entries again soon :D
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