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Kilimanjaro

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:31 GMT

Here is finally an update and pictures from Kilimanjaro! An amazing trip to the roof of Africa. We were 8 people in our group, and about 25 porters, chefs and guides. We used 4 days to reach the top and two days down.

This is our first stop on the way. The first 3 days were not very hard as we had to walk very slowly to adapt to the altitude ase we were walking.

One of our porters.

Misje and Sunniva infront of zebra rock. We had one day of aclimatizing, that day we just walk around in the area around the huts we stayed in.

A collection of the trendy clothes we rented.

Here we are almost on the top. The last and hard part started from Kibo hut at around 4703M. amsl. We started at midnight and climbed for 5,5h up the steapest hill I've ever climbed, up to Gilmans point 5681m. amsl. On the way up two in our group had to throw up, and none of us were feeling very fit. But we reached Gilmans and the sun started to rise, and we all got a new boost of energy!

Ingrid and I at Gilmans point.

Marta found her Dads hat on one of our guids. Her parents climbed Kili last year.

The last bit from Gilmans to Uhuru!

Finally Uhuru peak!

The hole group at Uhuru! The highest point in Africa 5896m. amsl. We're all very happy and as tired as we've ever been! I was told I sounded drunk from some people I met on my way up. I just remember almost falling asleap on my walking stick on my way up.

Here is the hole crew, our last day back down. Our crew looked after us in every way possible! They even gave us popcorn everyday! All in all an amazing trip everyone should try if they get the oportunity!

Mawenzi peak at sunrise above the clouds!

Time for kuku!

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:46:47 GMT

Now it's time to show you our chicken adventure! Saturday we took some of our friends to the market, and we bought two live chicken! Walked with them through town, and took the bus home to start cooking!

Me and the chicken on the dala-dala! This roosters name is Kalle!

Ingrid has got them both under control!

Me, Ingrid, Kalle and Mrs Leach!

And so it was time for Kalle to die. No doubt that Eddie has done this before. No headless chicken running around, but they were shaking and moving their feet long after he cut the head of.

And we are waiting, which is something we are spending a lot of time doing here in Tanzania. This was supposed to be our lunch, but we didn't eat untill around 5pm, so we are pretty hungry by now!

Making ugali.

Jeg har en hoene aa plukke me deg!

Sam posing with Kalle

Mwalubadu our headchef, comedian and radioreporter!
An increadbly fun and interesting day! Next time we're gonna buy a goat and have a barbeque!

Gangilonga rock!

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:22:19 GMT

This is our favourite place in Iringa! They call it the rock that speaks, and roumers has it that a german guy fell down from this rock.

We always bring our blanket and cookies! The other day we had a big adventure up here. When the rain started pouring down, we tried to hide under our blanket, two guys came and told us they knew about a cave, where we could hide from the rain. So we brought all our things and followed the two guys. The cave, we found out on our way down, was not exactly a cave, but more a big crack in the rock, that lead down to a stone we could stand on, having the big rock over us, giving a shelter from the rain. As slippery as it was, we were probably risking our lives, or atleast our legs, going down there. When we eventually got to the "cave" we were already soaking wet, and we still had to climb back up, which was a lot harder than getting down. After a long time we made it, exhausted, dity and wet!
Somehow we seem to always be getting into weired situations here.

From the rock you can see the whole town, and it's beautiful to watch the sunset from there!

What we do in our fieldwork

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:36:23 GMT

Here we are teatching an old lady to walk with a walker, after an ancle fracture.

Here I am with two of our doctors. We were just about to enter the theater to vitness a caecarean. After only around two minutes of cutting and pulling the womb open, they pulled out a babygirl 3700g.

Ingrid and her little buddy! Balloons are always popular

This is one of our 80 years old low back pain ladies. Here we're teaching her an exercise, without using words!

Physio department

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:47:32 GMT

This is our physiodepartment at the hospital. We have one physiotherapist, one ocupational therapist and one physio assistent. Two days a week, we are treating inpatients at the hospital, and three days a week we have outpatients, comming from the community around. We are also doing homevisits for some of our patients. We are enjoying our job alot. The swahili language is a challenge, but we are learning quickly, and on monday we are starting a course.

The treatment benches are not adjustable, so it's a challange finding a good working position. Very happy about our physioball!

This is our storage room for cruches and walkers. They were donated from some missionaries, and we can give them out for free when the pasient is leaving the hospital.

Bench for stroke patients, and a well used hot water bottle.

31.jan.2010

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:14:25 GMT

This is my beautiful bike with a basket! The town of Iringa is not very big, so with these two, we can easly get around! They have no gears, the breakes are not very good, the weels are kind of crooked, and riding on Tanzanias bumpy roads, it didn't take more than a few rides for three out of four screws holding the basket fall off. But we still love them!

Very happy about our bargain Sh 180000, for two!

Our home

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:49:05 GMT

This is the view from our house. Iringa is surronded by mountains, kind of like Bergen. The temperature varies from 20-30deg, and it's raining everyday. Today was the first day without rain.

This is the hotell that we have been staying at so far. Tomorrow we're moving into the house of our indian family. They have made a nice room for us. We're staying in the same street as all the judges, doctors and posh people as our Indian mom likes to put it. Before we eat our supper,(if we eat it at the family resteurant) we get a steeming hot cloth to wash our hands with, the waitor laughs at us every day as our physio hands are not made for that kind of treatment.

Der var vi igang!

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:00:39 GMT

I'm sorry that we're so late with blogging, but today we got internet, and we got our laundry back! Oh happy days! We've been in Tanzania two weeks tomorrow, and one week here in Iringa! (By the way, I promised my south african readers that I'd blogg in english so they would understand, I hope that's not a problem...)

Iringa is a really nice little quiet town. We live with an indian family, who are friends with the physiotherapist who is are supervisor. They have three doughters at the age of three, eight and fourteen. At the moment they are painting our room, so we're still staying in their hotel, which is very nice! We have found a group of friends who we play basketball with everyday.
We're working at Iringa regional hospital www.iringaregionalhospital.org. It seems to be a good hospital with many different departments. The physio department is small, but our supervisor is good, so we believe we will learn alot here.
The pictures are not really working with us here, so I'll try that later.

A day at the photographer

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:37:27 GMT

11 of June was Bjørg Maries birthday, and I wanted to do something nice for her. So I called a local photographer, and booked a day with him. Lucky for us, he was a really nice man, and since we were volunteering at a babyhome, he said that he also wanted to contribute! So we got lots of nice pictures, and only had to pay for the prints. This was right after I asked God to help me find something special to do for Bjørg Marie. Amazing how God knows our hearts and what we like. And then out of His goodness He gives us what our heart desires. Here are some of the pictures!

Bjørg Marie's sisters

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:54:50 GMT

We have been very blessed with lots of friends and family visiting us. Two of Bjørg Maries sisters have been here now. Fist a few days here in Johburg, and then all four of us whent down to Durban. From there Helga and Sofie took the buss to Port Elizabeth, and they're driving to Cape Town from there. We have had a great time together.

We celebrated Bjørg Maries birthday a little early so that Sofie and Helga could join us.

22 years old! Yeye....good luck my friend

This one joined us for lunch, he loves looking at people and he eat all of Helgas bread.

Nice to be back together. Only a month left now, and they'll see each other again.

Fun in the garden

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:28:49 GMT

I'm very happy when I get to play with water and this red dirt that my aunties hate. They say that my clothes doesn't get clean. But it's not really my problem, and auntie Aggie says that vinegar takes away all stains. I learned to stand the other day, and everyone is very very happy, I will be 2 years old in july. I don't really understand why everyone is so eager for me to walk, I'm quite happy to be carried, and I'm a very fast crawler.

We are having so much fun in our tower, we like to climb and jump and make the aunties nervous. They think we're gonna fall down one day, but we know we're big boys!

Three happy boys, who loves to get dirty.

I'm almost a year now, so I'm big enough to join the others. Ninja turtle(the one with the red hoodie above) has tought me how to make yummy cakes out of dirt. All of us boys like to eat them. Ninja is my role model. I want to do everything that he does. I learned to walk this month too, and I'm sleeping through the night, so I've got good reason to be proud!

Ninja likes to swing!

Hurra for 17 mai

Sat, 24 May 2008 13:17:38 GMT

17 mai er vi så glad i, morro vi har fra morgen til kveld

Noen som kjenner igjen denne bildeoppstillingen?

Dagens tale (Speech of the day) Fulgt av skål for kongen og presidenten(SA), Ja vi elsker og Nkosi Sikelel` iAfrika

Her trimmer vi for å bli sulten til smørgåsbordet og vaffler og pølser i brød (hotdog) og iskrem!

tog i hagen, korpset bestod av en saksofon som spilte o`when the saints. (parade)

Fine barn i bunad

Norway and South Africa united in our hearts, it's actually like one, it's a pity we're not neighbouring countries, than we could have competed against eachother in Eurovision (grandprix). It would have been a blast. La det svinge la det rokken roll!

Visits from Norway

Sat, 24 May 2008 12:54:07 GMT

In may we were so lucky that both Øyvind and Ingvild came to visit us! Øyvind was only here with us for a day, as he was in South Africa with his job.

Ingvild and I went to the cradel of human kind. Wich is 47000 hectars of land, were they supposedly have proof of evolution. "Who's your daddy?"

Spot the visitor

Dinner at the Carnivors

In the botanical garden

We went to see Chicago at the theatro. Norske jenter er tydeligvis de fineste i verden. Bare se på oss!

Britt Elises 21st

Sat, 24 May 2008 12:30:14 GMT

Britt Elise was very happy to have her 21st in South Africa, since that is a big thing here. A whole day of fun! Even got the key of life. (noe de liker å gi til de som fyller 21 her)

Evangelin and Bjørg Marie dressed me up and I had to buy sweets at clearwater mall, and then we whent for breakfast at Northgate!

After breakfast we went paintballing. The girs got protection.

Å så sinna.

war wounds

Getting ready for.....

Vange, Kate and Bjørg Marie at News Cafè

Zambia missions trip

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:16:24 GMT

The 28th of March, 17 of us left early in the morning. In five cars filled up with blankets, clothes, fuel and bibles. Our goal was to give out bibles to christians, evangelise, and do descipleship training with the local people.

Map over Zambia

Darren and Britt Elise by an elephant bajs. At around 2am we woke up by lound elephant sounds. Look how close they were to our camp... On the way there we were met by hyenas jumping around in the road (for dere som ikke vet det, så er de sjempe farlig)

The ferry over the Zambezi river to Zambia. Be aware of Crocks and hippos.

Se hvor fine vi er

"Brillana på" Our games were welcomed at the campsite.

Sugarcane

And when a hero comes along. Trevor scored many hero points on the trip!

The missionstrip were with Harvesters, a organization who work with translation of the Bible, and distribution where people can not afford or get a hold of a bible. We brought 300 english bibles, and 60 tonga bibels.

Bible distribution in one of the villages we worked in. One, two, three, Jesus!

One of our local friends, are ministring to his people. One of our goals was that they will continue evangelising after we left,

Before we left, the pastor we worked with encouraged the people to join a church. He got many new members in his church. Many people excepted Jesus as their lord when we were out and evangelised. Heia Jesus!

The Victoria falls. Amazingly stunning!

Bjørg Marie and Britt Elise, amazingly wet and stunning

Part of the amazingly stunning team!

easteregg-hunt

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:02:00 GMT

The easterweekend, we brought the kids to a park, and had a easteregghunt. We got lots of donations of eastereggs, so we're still eating marshmalloweggs. Aggie is leading the competition, she's our #1 chocolate eater.

Or maybe after this one.

His first fruitloop.

"Yes I found one!"

"I got two!"

After a long and exhausting hunt, the two siblings are fast asleep in the car.

Scandinavian sportsday

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:50:09 GMT

Dressed in red, white and blue! Ready to support my country

Lunch with the danes. (Kamuløsø...for de som har sett ut i vår hage, kan dere kanskje skjønne at dette var en morsom dag, med mye lure danskengelske aksenter)

Hal i å dra! " the trick is to tie the rope around your bum, and then use that to pull, and you must listen to the hiv og hoi" The old ladie who has been to this day every year after year, knew what she was talking about. Easy match against the danes.

Heiaheia..."If your boobs are not swinging, then you're not running fast enoug" Norwegian lady behind us. :)

Every year, the scandinavians in Gauteng, has a sportsday, to gather and have fun. The norwegian team got lots of help this year from us four, and three other girls who also happend to be here this day. You can't imagine how nationalistic you get from being out of you country. Ingrid and Marit had a good last day in south africa.

Pilanesberg

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:36:06 GMT

Ingrid and Marit came to visit:) And ofcourse we had to take them to see the wild animals! We stayed in tent, braai in the evening! And swimming and relaxing by the pool in the day. Ingrid and Marit spent on week in cape town, and one week with us. Fun fun!

Game drive early in the morning

After a litle help from our good nabour, who helped us to blow fire in the baai, we got a good meal!

Lion was the first animal we saw on our drive

Valentinesday

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:27:11 GMT

Brother and sister! Good friends, at the moment...

Coolest kids in town

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:29:59 GMT