January 27, 2009
The last couple of days...
Thursday last week I left work after lunch due to a heavy cold, and stayed home also Friday. Fianlly, the wanting for food returend again Friday evening, also letting me attend the party hosted at my flat. Resulting in a night with very light sleep (the party lasting to 8h the next morning) and several hours of cleaning on Saturday (50-60 participants is quite a handfull).
Well, "la oss ikke gråte over spilt melk", Sunday: SKIING in the Alps! A group of 9 people set out heading for Avoriaz! For pictures I will again send you to the ones taken by Kim-Eigard; see Alpetur.
Markus, one of the people I (more or less) share a flat with.
Marthe on her way up the jump.
Speaking for the 8 of us, we are still amazed over the back-flip Kim-Eigard did (wow!!), after stating to everyone that "no, I'm not a good skiier". When later asked "how do you do it", the simplest answer came; "lean back [as you can clearly see in the photo below], close your eyes and hope for the best!" (Kids: don't try this at home!)
Kim-Eigard leaning back as the start of his backflip.
Well, "la oss ikke gråte over spilt melk", Sunday: SKIING in the Alps! A group of 9 people set out heading for Avoriaz! For pictures I will again send you to the ones taken by Kim-Eigard; see Alpetur.
Markus, one of the people I (more or less) share a flat with.
Marthe on her way up the jump.Speaking for the 8 of us, we are still amazed over the back-flip Kim-Eigard did (wow!!), after stating to everyone that "no, I'm not a good skiier". When later asked "how do you do it", the simplest answer came; "lean back [as you can clearly see in the photo below], close your eyes and hope for the best!" (Kids: don't try this at home!)
Kim-Eigard leaning back as the start of his backflip.January 26, 2009
CERN
Now you're even sending me e-mails asking what it's like working at CERN. I guess the time is ready for discussing the topic of work...
First impression: Grey and falling apart like another bad neighbourhood... Waiting for the trembling sensation of actually being at a place that is considered to be the centre of physics, eating in the same restaurants previously housing several Nobel Prize winners -- Sorry, but you're going to have to wait a looooong time for any sort of trembling, except of course from the one given by the cold travelling down your spine!
I haven't taken many photos my self, but another Norwegian student (Kim-Eigard) at CERN has, and you can see them all at CERN 2009 (there are also some pictures from Geneva here).
The work: Well first I, and my now new office mate, had to wait 2 weeks for new computers and our office to be ready. If you do the calculations I haven't gotten around to do much work during the total of 3 weeks I've been here. - Except reading though! (Meaning that I'm starting to get the hang of some basics).
The view from the office I was staying in for the first 2 weeks.
First impression: Grey and falling apart like another bad neighbourhood... Waiting for the trembling sensation of actually being at a place that is considered to be the centre of physics, eating in the same restaurants previously housing several Nobel Prize winners -- Sorry, but you're going to have to wait a looooong time for any sort of trembling, except of course from the one given by the cold travelling down your spine!
I haven't taken many photos my self, but another Norwegian student (Kim-Eigard) at CERN has, and you can see them all at CERN 2009 (there are also some pictures from Geneva here).
The work: Well first I, and my now new office mate, had to wait 2 weeks for new computers and our office to be ready. If you do the calculations I haven't gotten around to do much work during the total of 3 weeks I've been here. - Except reading though! (Meaning that I'm starting to get the hang of some basics).
The view from the office I was staying in for the first 2 weeks.January 12, 2009
Ski trip to Mont Jura - Crozet
Well actually, I'll try to make a long story short;
We (me and Marthe) have no car, we don't know anyone with a car available to take us, the bus from the airport is € 55 (NOK 500) per head (round-trip), and we did not manage to assign for the CERN ski club. So we desided to rent a car, which would be only CHF 70 (NOK 450), then divided by 2, plus gas, for a total of 24 hours.
When arriving to the airport, they have no car for us, we are not on their list, and it was never reported that we were coming to get a car, etc. So we have to turn back, with the bus... And, as I have now learned the hard way, the bus routes to St. Genis is very limited. On saturdays its only every 1h 20min. Yes, during ~3 hours there will only be 2 buses.
So we can wait in the freezing cold for 1 hour for the bus or start walking, and, in both cases miss the dinner that's being prepared back in my new flat, or... we hitchhike.Both me and Marthe is sceptical about this as we have never done it before, and, well..., you never know. But since the bus transport here is the way it is, it's a rather common thing to do.
The 5th car picks us up, a french speaking guy, hardly knows a word english. Although we do manage to communicate that we would like to go skiing the day after, and he suggests the Crozet, because it's only 5 km away from where I now live.
So, safely back in my apartment, we start to discuss what to do. At the end of the great dinner my flatmates have prepeared, we end up talking to Cesar (spelt correctly?) who 1) would like to go skiing (or snowboarding in his case) and 2) have a car!
We got a lovely weather; + 7 degrees (C), no wind and sun... =D
Below are some pictures from the first ski trip this year:
The view of the Alps from Crozet (above the constant level of skyes covering Genève).
All the participants, f.l. Marthe, 3 portugese guys and Cesar (also potugese).
The 'not-so-easy-to-recognize' Anita. (Takk til mamma og pappa, lua er kjempegod!)
We (me and Marthe) have no car, we don't know anyone with a car available to take us, the bus from the airport is € 55 (NOK 500) per head (round-trip), and we did not manage to assign for the CERN ski club. So we desided to rent a car, which would be only CHF 70 (NOK 450), then divided by 2, plus gas, for a total of 24 hours.
When arriving to the airport, they have no car for us, we are not on their list, and it was never reported that we were coming to get a car, etc. So we have to turn back, with the bus... And, as I have now learned the hard way, the bus routes to St. Genis is very limited. On saturdays its only every 1h 20min. Yes, during ~3 hours there will only be 2 buses.
So we can wait in the freezing cold for 1 hour for the bus or start walking, and, in both cases miss the dinner that's being prepared back in my new flat, or... we hitchhike.Both me and Marthe is sceptical about this as we have never done it before, and, well..., you never know. But since the bus transport here is the way it is, it's a rather common thing to do.
The 5th car picks us up, a french speaking guy, hardly knows a word english. Although we do manage to communicate that we would like to go skiing the day after, and he suggests the Crozet, because it's only 5 km away from where I now live.
So, safely back in my apartment, we start to discuss what to do. At the end of the great dinner my flatmates have prepeared, we end up talking to Cesar (spelt correctly?) who 1) would like to go skiing (or snowboarding in his case) and 2) have a car!
We got a lovely weather; + 7 degrees (C), no wind and sun... =D
Below are some pictures from the first ski trip this year:
The view of the Alps from Crozet (above the constant level of skyes covering Genève).
All the participants, f.l. Marthe, 3 portugese guys and Cesar (also potugese).
The 'not-so-easy-to-recognize' Anita. (Takk til mamma og pappa, lua er kjempegod!)Finding a place to live -- part 3 of 3
Finally, I have internet up and running again, and I can let you all know about my "end-of the-rainbow" finding;
The entrance, and where I keep my clothes (please notice the nice wooden floor).
The livingroom.
The INDUCTION oven, really great!
One of the bathrooms.
The entrance, and where I keep my clothes (please notice the nice wooden floor).
The livingroom.
The INDUCTION oven, really great!
One of the bathrooms.I am unpacked and again feeling that I have a home to go to (not just a borrowed room, which is more like a hotel room). ;)
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