Travel blog to New Zealand

16th of October 2011

Today was my travel day. I have been on some pretty long flights in my life but this is the longest I have ever gone. New Zealand is approximately the most opposite country of Norway you can find. The time difference is 10 hours, and on top of that New Zealand is pretty far south. All in all the whole day was spent traveling, luckily I got some sleep at the plane so I’m not that bad.

17^th of October 2011

Today I arrived at my hotel in Wellington, the capitol of New Zealand. Wellington is on the southern tip of the northern island, which makes it an ideal place to visit both islands. Since I arrived about in the middle of the afternoon I did not have much time to do anything special, so I decided to go sightseeing around town. Since Wellington is considered one of the culture centers I, after going to the national museum, visited a local music bar to see if there was anything interesting. The bar itself was a nice place, and the people were nice too, but the music wasn’t the best I’ve heard. Greg and Diana (two people I met at the bar) said that the music isn’t exactly the best, but that they sometimes get in some really good people. Since I hadn’t decided what to do the next day, Greg and Diana decided to show me some places worth seeing.

18^th of October 2011

Today was mostly spent following Diana and Greg’s orders. We went sightseeing around the Northern Island, and went Hiking up into the mountains. On the way we saw some very good lookout ridges and I got to take some really nice pictures with my camera. I also sighted a Kiwi bird! Which has been one of the things I’ve been looking forward to the most. After a long day spent hiking and driving I got some well-deserved rest at the hotel before Greg and Diana dragged me out to town to go to a club.

19^th-21^st of October

I left Wellington for now to go look at some of the places were scenes from Lord of the Rings were shot. Some of these places were just extraordinary it’s not often I can set my eyes on such a sight. You could even see the resemblance from the movies. All tough I do feel a tad bit lonely.

22^rd of October

 After pretty much visiting all the natural sites during the last three days on the 22^nd I decided to go back to Wellington and spend my last day with Greg and Diana, since they had nothing to do at the time they were more than willing to take me out to Wellington to shop. After getting some souvenirs and some new clothes we decided to go out clubbing again, and meet some more of their friends. They were all really nice and we all had a great time.

23^rd of October

Today I spent the morning watching the finals in the Rugby world cup, it was a pretty heated game but New Zealand won it in the end. I just tried to follow the game, but my new made friends were ecstatic. Afterwards I had to say goodbye, I promised to keep contact with Greg and Diana and started making my way back home. I hope I can come back to New Zealand sometime.

Sjakk på PC

Artikkel utdrag:

Sjakk på PC-en har nå blitt et nytt problem for lærere i skolen. Selv om internettet er stengt på de nye skole PC-ene går det fortsatt å spille på de spillene som allerede er kommet inn via Windows 7. «Det er vanskelig å få kontakt med elevene.» Uttalte en lærer ved Trondheim Katedralskole i VG for to dager siden. Men elevene har et annet synspunkt på saken: «Når jeg spiller sjakk i noen minutter våkner jeg og blir mer fokusert, og det blir lettere å fokusere etterpå.» Så Øystein Nicolay Diserud ved Adolf Øien skole i Trondheim som en respons til dette.

Skjønnlitterær tekst:

Timen var kjedelig. Ikke bare hadde læreren den mest monotone stemmen jeg noen sinne hadde hørt. En perfekt måte å starte videregående på. Etter ti minutter klarte jeg simpelthen ikke å holde meg våken. Jeg måtte finne en type underholdning. Jeg bannet inni meg selv når jeg så at internettet var blokkert. Da begynte jeg å svipe gjennom spillene på PC-en. Det eneste som var der var sjakk. Jeg har aldri vært noen sjakkspiller men det var det eneste som kunne redde meg nå.  Starten var det kjedelig, men etter en stund begynte jeg å komme inn i flyten. Når jeg var halvveis fant jeg ut at jeg var lys våken. Endelig en redning.