First vlog!!

Hello there!!

Finally my first vlog has been uploaded on my brand new youtube channel. I'm very excited and also a bit nervous. I'd love to know what you think of it, and if you have any tips I'd love to know! Any suggestions for future videos are also very welcome.

I hope you enjoy watching and that I might contribute to a happy day,

Love,
Mia

First impressions of Bergen

Whoa.

I am in Bergen. I am in Norway. I have actually been here for little over a week. Sorry for this extremely late update. I have been busy and especially tired (you know, new environment, lots of new people and having to speak a different language you're not used to speaking on a daily basis). But I am having a lot of fun actually!

I am working on a video of how pretty it is here, but first a little preview with some pictures:

Kinda smashed my ipod screen..

It all looks like I could be in a movie right now.. I love it so much :)

I hope you enjoyed the few pictures, and I promise promise promise I will make that video!

Have a great day,
Love,
Mia

June 2014

June has been a very busy month filled with exams and essays and in between trying to remember that I'm going to Norway in only one week. I still can't believe it. Anyway, tomorrow is my last exam and the deadline for my last essay. I hope that I'll pass both and that I can go to Bergen without any worries on my mind.

I'll be vlogging and blogging my whole trip, which will be a month. The videos will be uploaded on my youtube channel, but I will post them here as well.
    I'll leave on Sunday and take a plane to Oslo, from there I'll have an eight-hour long train ride through the mountains of Norway all the way to Bergen. For a month long we’ll all be surrounded by Norwegian culture and language, to learn and have lots of fun. I am extremely excited because Bergen is pretty beautiful if you ask me. I can’t wait to meet all these geeks from all over the world who love Norway as much as I do.

Anyway, here’s some pictures from my analogue camera:

Look, Amsterdam!:

Digital camera:

These were made with my new Olympus Trip 35 I bought on King's Day:

Right, bit of a post filled with pictures. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm going to go stress over this exam now and then pack for Bergen. I'll vlog it all so expect to see that soon!

Song of the month: Bright Whites - Kishi Bashi

I wish you the best day ever and speak to you soon!

Love,
Mia

Oslo, May 2014

First of all, I’d like to apologise again for not posting for a whole month. It saddens me greatly that I have no time to do what I like best, which is writing. I do write a lot. Mostly about the 17^th of May in 1814, or about Vikings, or about linguistics. But that doesn’t count, right?

Now I’ll write some more about Norway, but this time about something really fun. I went to Oslo! It was my first time ever in Norway, so it was very exciting. We went for five days, two of which were mainly travelling, so really three days in Oslo. We were a group of about sixteen students, all people who study a Scandinavian language. It was a nice group, sometimes we were hyperactive (table football at midnight, anyone?) and sometimes we just relaxed in our room at the hostel. Most of all we explored Oslo. We have seen lots of museums: The Munch Museum, a museum about Viking ships (very interesting, there were real ships which were found in burial mounts! And actual Viking skeletons!), Norsk Folkemuseum (lots of history) and Nationalmuseet. We’ve also had a little boat trip, we’ve been on top and in Operahuset, had a tour through Akershus Festning (wearing headphones to play the info in each room) and walked around Vigelandsparken (with lots of statues made by Vigeland). I've seen the ski jump thing from the olympics too, we went all the way up and had the most fantastic view of the Oslofjord. In the evenings, we watched Eurovision of course. We rooted for The Netherlands, who ALMOST won, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. I am quite pleased that Austria won, though.
    On Sunday, the last day, we had a nice meal out with the whole group.

It was a fantastic weekend, it was great to see that Norway was a real country and that there were real Norwegian people. The proof is real, guys. It was awesome to get to know my fellow students a bit better.    I was sad to leave, to be back in The boring Netherlands and our boring Dutch language. Luckily I’m going to Bergen in only ONE MONTH!!


Here are some of the pictures I made, I hope you enjoy them.

Arrival at the Oslo airport

Stortinget! The Norwegian parlement building

There were tulips everywhere in Oslo. No other flowers. Just tulips. Which was awesome, because they are beautiful flowers, and they had lots of different colours :) 

On top of the ski jumping thing

I hope you enjoyed this, and that you can forgive me for slacking so horribly. 

Have a fantastic day :D
Love,
Mia